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Carey about 1590 (she was born in 1564). I have not by me the exact date of the marriage. A later Sir Edward Hoby (1634- 1675) married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Styles of Little Missenden. He married but once. CHARLES HOBY.

SCOTTISH HERALDRY : WORKMAN'S ' BOOK OF ARMS.' Nisbet, in the preface to his ' System of Heraldry,' written in 1722, refers to certain manuscripts and books of blazons of which he made use. Among these was Workman's * Book of Arms,' which he describes as follows :

'* James Workman's Illuminated Book of Arms, who was herald in the reign of King James VI., which book I frequently refer to by these letters {W. MS.)> which book I had from the ingenious Mr. Henry Fraser, Ross Herald."

Has this work of James Workman been published, and if so, when and by whom ? JOHN G. EWING. 373 Field Av., Detroit, Mich., U.S.A.

EMPLOYMENT OF WILD ANIMALS

IN WARFARE. <11 S. xii. 140, 186, 209, 463 ; 12 S. i. 74, 94.)

IN Hai ton's ' Histoire orientale ou des Tartares' which was originally composed in 1307 according to Michaud, ' Biographic Tiniverselle ancienne et moderne,' Paris, 1857, torn, xviii. p. 612, and retranslated into French in Bergeron's ' Voyages faits prin- cipalement en Asie dans les XII., XIII., XIV., et XV. Siecles,' a la Haye, 1735, col. 71 we read thus :

"Les peuples de Hotchtay pourroient bien entrer par le chemin nomine" Lederbent, dans le pai's de Carbanda, pendant six mois I'anne'e seulement, a savoir pendant 1'hiver; mais Car- banda fait faire de certains fosse's et retranchemens dans un endroit nomine" Ciba : ou il tient, surtout pendant 1'hiver, un bon nombre de combatans, pour les garder, et en d^fendre 1'entree aux Ennemis. Les peuples de Hotchtay ont plusieurs fois tent6 de passer secretement par ce chemin ; mais toujours mutilement. Car dans une certaine plaine, nomm^e Monza, il yaen hiver de certains oiseaux grands comme des phaisans, qui ont un fort beau plumage, efc sont nomme's Seyserach. Quand il vient quelques Strangers dans cette plaine, d'abord, ils s en volent, et passent dessus les

retranchemens ce qui sert d'avertissement aux

troupes pr6pos6s, pour garder ces retranchemens, que TEnnemi aproche, et les fait tenir sur leurs gardes."

It is needless to cite in this connexion the geese that warned the Romans of the am- buscade of the Gauls. Equally familiar to

the Japanese is the following story, which I here translate somewhat abridged from Tachibana no Narisne's ' Kokon Chomon Shu,' finished in 1254, part xii. :

" The illustrious commander Minamoto no Yoshiie (1042-1108), after his triumph over Abe no Sadatau, with whom he had waged a war for twelve consecutive years, visited Prince Udji and recounted to him his own exploits. The very renowned savant Ooe no Masafuaa (1041-1111), after listening to his narrative, soliloquized that he was a very sagacious soldier, yet ignorant of the art of the general. One of Yoshiie's servants happened to overhear this, and reported it to him on his exit. Contrarily to the servant's expectation, he took the remark perfectly well, solicited Masafusa to become his instructor, and assiduously applied himself to the study of strategy. Years after, when he was attacking the fortress of Kanazawa, one day he happened to see a flying group of wild geese lower near a paddy-field's surface, but turned away in confusion all of a sudden. This sight at once put him in mind of a theorem Masafusa had taught him : * Over the site of an ambuscade, wild geese would fly in disorder.' He ordered his army to surround the place, and surprised three hundred enemies to rout, which brought about his victory. Later on, he used to speak thankfully, ' I should have been certainly lost, had I not received the lesson from Masafusa.' "

Haiton's work quoted above, col. 29, contains this legend :

'II arriva un certain jour, que Changius [Genghis], se trouvant avec un tres petit nombre des siens, alia au devant de ses Ennemis, qui

dtoient supe"rieurs de beaucoup Les Tartares

voiant leur Empereur couch parmi les morts,

n'eurent plus d'esp^rance, et prirent la fuite

Changius se releva et se mit a courre, et se cache dans quelques buissons, pour e"chapper k une morte certaine. Les ennemis etant revenusde leur pour- suite dans leur camp, et cherchant ceux qui e"toient caches, et depouillans les morts ; il arriva qu'un certain oiseau, nomme' par plusieurs Bubo, vint se reposer sur le buisson, ou toit cach6 le grand Jham. Ceux voians cet oiseau perche" sur ce Duisson jugerent qu'il n'y avoit personne, et le laisserent ; conjecturant que s'il y avoit eu la quel-

qu'un, cet oiseau ne s'y seroit pas repos6 et cet

oiseau, qui apres Dieu avoit e"te cause de la delivrance de leur Empereur, a 6te" depuis en si grande vne>ation parmi eux, que ceux, qui pouvent avoir de la plume de cet loiseau, s'est un fort heureux ; et la portent avec beaucoup de reverence sur leur tete."

In his ' The Province of Shantung,' in The China Review, vol. iii. No. 6, p. 368, 1876, A. Fauvel says :

One day, says the legend, the miraculous son of the goddess Fegula, the founder of the Manchu dynasty, was fighting against the Chinese, and being defeated and his army destroyed, he sat down on the battlefield waiting for death. His mother sent a magpie, which perched on his head. The enemy took him for the trunk of an old tree, and so he was saved. In recognition of this service the Manchurian dynasty protects the magpies by severe laws."
 * ' The magpies are much protected by the Tartars.