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stamps of its own, whereas San Marino has issued some money, has its own postal arrangements, and its own postage stamps. It has an order called " The Equestrian Order of Civil and Military Merit of San Marino," founded in 1859. See ' The Republic of San Marino,' translated by W. W. Tucker, Patrician of the Republic, Cambridge (U.S. America), 2nd ed., 1880, n. 167 (a translation of ' Saint-Marin : ses Institutions, son Histoire,' par le Comte C. de Bruc, Charge d' Affaires de la Republique de St. Marin a Paris, 1876). See also ' San- Marino la Plus Ancienne des Republiques Modernes,' par Paul de Cazeneuve, Paris, 1887, p. 105.

San Marino has its representatives in many countries, e.g., in France, at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, &c. On the rccasion of the coronation of King Edward VII. the Captains Regent of the Republic of San Marino, which was repre- sented at the ceremonies by a special envoy, offered to his Majesty the Grand Cross of the San Marino Order, which was graciously accepted, and acknowledged in an autograph letter couched in the most friendly terms. See The Times and The Standard of Sept. 6, 1902.

The Standard, of the above date records that on Sept. 4, 1902, the day of the National Fete of San Marino, an enthusiastic reception was given there to the Chevalier (now Commendatore) Arthur Serena, Consul General of the Republic in London, on which occasion our National Anthem was played, amid great cheering.

I visited San Marino, a most interesting republic, in 1914. Andorra I have not seen. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

' THE BLAZON OF GENTRIE ' (12 S. i. 127). A full account of this Elizabethan heraldic treatise, compiled by John Feme, gentleman, and printed in London by John Windet for Andrew Maunsell, 1586, appears in Thomas Moule's 'Bibliotheca Heraldica ' (1822), pp. 31-3. It is dedicated to (inter alios] " the honourable Assembly es of the limes of Court, especially the Society of the Inner Temple," Feme being, like myself, a member of that Inn.

He was subsequently knighted (temp. James I.), and died in 1610, leaving several sons, of whom the youngest, Henry, became Bishop of Chester in 1661.

I would also refer your correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1.792, pp. 417-18, and to Wood's ' Athen.,' i. 365. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

The date of this work is 1586, and the author Sir John Feme. (See p. 391 of my ' Index to B.P.C., 1897-1906,' for a number of copies sold in the open market during that period.) Feme was knighted in 1604, among the favoured followers of King James. He was Keeper of the Signet in Scotland, and died about 1610.

WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

The book to which YGREC refers is :

" The | Blazon of | G.entrie : | .Deuided into- two parts. | The first named | The Glorie of Generositie. | The second, | Lacyes Nobilitie. | Comprehending discourses of | Armes and of Gentry. | Wherein is treated of the beginning, | parts, and degrees of Gentlenesse, with [ her lawes : Of the Bearing, and Blazon of | Cote- Armors : Of the I^awes of Armes, | and of Combats.

instruction of all I Gentlemen bearers of Armes, whome | and none other this worke | concernetb..
 * Compiled by lohn Feme | Gentleman, for the

Toby Cooke. | 1586."
 * At London, | Printed by John Windet, for \

An account of this book and of the- author, who was knighted in 1603 or 1604, will be found in Moule's ' Bibliotheca Heraldica,' p. 31. See also the ' D.N.B.'

J. P. R.

This book was published by J. Windet in 1586. It was written by John Feme, a student of the Inner Temple. He was knighted in 1604, and was afterwards M.P. for Boroughbridge. There is an account of him in the ' Dictionary of National Bio- graphy.' H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

"DOMUS CRUCIATA" (12 S. i. 127). Was- not this a hospital, or almshouse, for the- i reception of poor members of the militant orders ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

' THE DECAMEBONE ' (12 S. i. 126). I am unable to consult the reprint of the 1620 version in the " Tudor Translations " (London, 1909, ed. by Charles Whibley, with intro- duction by Edward Hutton), which probably gives details as to the source of the sub- stituted novella, iii. 10. In his ' Giovanni Boccaccio : a Biographical Study ' (London, 1910), Mr. Hutton merely says (p. 315) that " a harmless Scandinavian tale " has taken.

the place of the original.

H. O.

The story substituted by the anonymous, author of the first English translation of Boccaccio's ' Decamerone ' (1620) for the indecent tale of the tenth of the third day is certainty not by Boccaccio. I do not,, however, know from what source it i& derived. A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey.