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disgraceful), I gave up my property in England for the advantage ot my children, and to satisfy certain pecuniary demands upon it retiring to a small estate in this Kingdom [Ireland] which devolved to me on the death of my mother (p. 56).

His residence was known as Owna (Oona) Lodge, and was situate about five miles from Dungannon, Aughnacloy, and Charle- mont respectively. He refers to his children .as " the grandchildren of the gallant Lord " (p. 31), and to Sir John Stewart, High Sheriff of co. Tyrone in 1808, as "my Right Honourable relation."

Evidently, Wilson suffered much at the hands of what he terms " this infernal faction of Orangemen" (p. 44).

A. ALBERT CAMPBELL. 4 Waring Street, Belfast.

I should have said that Richard Wilson flourished at the end of the eighteenth century, not at the beginning. MB. ALFRED B. BEAVEN'S interesting communication makes it doubtful whether John Taylor's Richard Wilson was the magistrate for Tyrone. It seems more probable that he was Lord Eldon's secretary.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

SHAKESPEARE'S FALCON CREST (12 S. i. 429, 493). It is highly probable that the armorials of their neighbours the Quineys influenced the Shakespeares in their applica- tion for a grant.

The arms of the ancient Quineys, or Coyneys, originally of Weston Coyney in the county of Stafford, were : Or, on a bend sable three trefoils slipped argent ; the trefoil was known in the vernacular as key-grass from its trefoliated semblance to the mystic key handle, and evidently an allusion to the euphony Keeyney or Kayney.

The crest was that of "an arm, vested or, holding a falchion embrued with blood," so that there was a further suggestion of keenness available.

That this sanguinary crest of the Quineys was occurrent in Shakespeare's mind is shown toy such references as :

Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood.

Richard III.'

With purple falchion painted to the hilt In blood of those that had encountered him.

4 3 Henry VI.'

We see the Bard's shield with its golden field, sable bend, spear, and falcon crest ; now both the word " falchion " and "falcon" are derived from the Latin ^' falx," a reaping-hook, the bird's beak being of this shape.

The falcon is rarely depicted correctly (as an "the margent"); the wings should be

ALFRED RODWAY.

! shown to depict a movement well known to j Elizabethan heralds and termed "a shake."

Birmingham.

MR. BAYLEY, in saying, at the latter reference, that Tennyson makes the falcon masculine, forgets ' Merlin and Vivien,' 1L 121-33. The same poet describes Lady Psyche in ' The Princess,' ii, as " falcon- eyed." H. K. ST. J. S.

There are instructive remarks on Shake- speare's heraldic aspirations in Sir Sidney Lee's ' Life ' (first edition, pp. 2, 10 n., 188- 193). It seems to me that there is not much reason to doubt that the poet and his family bore the arms customarily attri- buted to him, " Non Sans Droict."

ST. SWITHIN.

" CONSUMPTION " AND " LETHARGY " : THEIR MEANING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. i. 489). In William Salmon's ' Practice of Physick ' (1707) four species of consumption are described. The first is that "which is called in Latin, Atrophia, and Con- sumptio ; in English, a Consumption, Pining, or

Wasting of the whole Body which is without

any Ulceration of the Lungs " ;

the second

" is called in Latin, Phthisic, ami Vlceratio ve' Vlcus Pulmonix, An Ulcer of the Lung* ; by reason of which the whole Body wasts also and consumes ";

the third

"is called in Latin, Hectica...dn Hectick ormelting Consumption, which by a continual preternatura heat, melts away, as it were, and so consumes the whole Body " ;

" is called in Latin, Conttimptio Symptomatica, ft symptomatical Consumption, or that which pro- ceeds from some other Disease."

Of lethargy he says :

" In Latin, Lethargia Plinio, and Lethargvs Celto : and in English, the Lethargy. It is called by some Veternuv, and by others Sopor Gravi* ; it, is a drousie Disease, which causes the principal Facii; ties to cease, but more especially the Memory, with a necessity of Sleeping, and a continued lingring Fever, so that there seems to be a perfect Oblivion, and sometimes therewith a kind of Delirium."

C. C. B.

WELLINGTON AT BRIGHTON AND ROTTIN<.- DEAN (12 S. i. 389, 476, 517). MR. D.v\ KY'S statement is very entertaining and in- structive, because it explains the origin of the fiction that the first Duke of \\Mlm-tnn was educated at Brighton. MR. DAVEY says :

" Directly after Wellington's death, H. M. Wag- ner, the Vicar of Brighton, called a public meeting