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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JAN. is, me.

AUTHOR WANTED. In 1860, at Aldershot, in a book from Mudie's, I read the following in a poem attributed to Cardinal Wiseman. Being asked about the duration of the world, Time makes answer.

Then asked I, " What of Rome? Shall she abide? " Time stepped aside, And in his place Eternity replied. Never since have I been able to trace the poem. I should feel obliged for a reference.

V. D. G.

W YVILL OF CONSTABLE BURTON. In Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' under ,Wyvill of Constable Burton, it is stated that Sir Marmaduke Asty W yvill, 7th Baronet, of Constable Burton,' who died in 1744, was " succeeded in his estates by his brother-in- law and cousin Rev. Marmaduke Wyvill, Rector of Black Notley, Essex."

I am anxious to discover how the Rev. Marmaduke Wyvill was related to his brother-in-law otherwise than by marriage.

P. D. M.

HERALDRY. Could any correspondent kindly give me the name of the family 1 bearing the following coat of arms, -viz. : Argent, on a fesse sable, between three roses proper, a mullet or ?

It is on a picture of a clergyman which appears, from the costume, to have been painted in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.

W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

" BILLYCOCK." Can any reader say what sorb of hat this word properly describes ? Is it a round, smooth, hard, cloth " pot " hat, or a soft cloth hat of the nature of a wide- awake or even Australian ? Is there any truth in the suggestion that it takes its name from a spirited inventor whose Christian name was William and surname Cock ?

DE MINIMIS.

[See the authorities cited at 10 S. vi. 40 ; ix. 27, 93.]

PECULIAR COURT OF SNAITH : MARRIAGE LICENCES. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me where marriage licences issued by the Peculiar Court of Snaith are to be found and consulted, for the years 1810 to 1820 ? A selection was published in a book by a Canon Robinson, and some more, from records at York, in the Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Society's Journal; but, I believe, nothing of the years I wish to see.

W. CLEMENT KENDALL.

2/ Cable Street, Lancaster.

PAPAL INSIGNIA. Can any of your readers inform me in what publication or elsewhere I can see plates of the insignia used by the Popes, particularly the insignia of Pope Nicholas V. suitable for reproducing on the frame of his portrait ?

ALAN E. CLAPPERTON.

91 West Regent Street, Glasgow.

BAPTISM, 1644. I should be glad to learn the particulars of the ceremony of baptism as performed in 1644, and referred to in the parish register of Maresfield, Sussex, of that year : " Baptized L T rsula Morgan ; the first child baptized after the new fashion."

LEO C.

HISTORY OF COMMERCE. (US. xii. 442, 507.)

J'AI jete un coup d'oeil sur les chroniques, et, naturellement, trouve pas mal de documents sur la question, mais je me suis, ensuite, apergu que tous ceux qui presentaient un reel interet etaient cites ou par Hallam ' Middle Ages ' ou par Macpherson, ou par Cunningham. Peut-etre votre correspon- dant n'aura-t-il pas songe a consulter ' Feudal England,' ou Ton trouve, p. 467, un renseignement sur le commerce des peaux de martres entre 1'Irlande et Rouen ; ' Norman Conquest,' qui fait allusion, v. 864, a un marche au vin a Londres, commun aux Fran9ais et aux gens de Cologne ; enfin Jusserand, ' English Wayfaring Life,' qui (p. 235) cite les matieres exportees: laine, etain, charbon, beurre, fromage.

Je me reprocherais d'allonger encore cette liste, mais je resumerais volontiers quelques passages des chroniques qui ont un rap- port avec les circonstances actuelles. Les premiers ont trait a des facons de blocus tentes au XIII e siecle contre 1'Angleterre ; 1'autre, que je n'ai pas vu citer, au traitement particulier que Ton reservait parfois, vers cette epoque, aux marchands etrangers devenus indesirables. Voici ce qui se rapporte a la premiere question : je traduis et resume.

A.D. 1263. Plus terribles que Charybde et Scylla eux-m ernes, les hommes des Cinq Ports ont pille les navires qu'ils rencontraient, et assassine leurs equipages. Les represailles ne se font pas attendre, et 1'Angleterre, jusque la plus fourni^ de marchandises que nul autre pays au monde, se yoit tout a coup dans la detresse. Les vins, vendus