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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 S.H.DKC. 23,1916.

The m:iy.leyns chain IKT.

It,. ia. a i i.olster, ;i blanket of wyt

[white ruir- 1. ;i mvei-ynge .. .. viijs.

The kechen chamber. Item, iiij battolmentes and the hanggenges* iijs.

The Imttrey.

Item, vj greyt platters, iij puter dyssliys. iiij (ieppofenchers \)rod beenge [deep porringers be- ing broad], ij yerde dyssheys, iiij savssers, ij i-li.-,\ yiiLre tly->hys f chafing - dish], a layten [latten] K-iMtii iiij bel candell-steykes.

Item, a neyllfat [oil-vat], iij greyt lommes i \-e--els], ij sester a peas [sextary = 6 gallons].

iijs.

Item, ij Mii.iyll lomes, a cobberd .. xiiijd. Item, ij puter potes. . . . . . ijs.

The kechen.

Item, a greyt leyd, ij hvndrythe and a half [2J cwt.].

Item, ij leyddes in [? iij] trappes .. xxijs.

Item, a maysfat [mash vat], a ur (?) kemnel under [smudge] yt, a trapys. . . . ys.

Item, a tornde cheyr. . vjd.

Item, ij greyt pones the wyght xviij li.

Hem, if ketteles and a medylyng pan

vis. viijd.

Item, ij greyt pottes and a smayll pot of a gaun [gallon] and a halfe, a chafurn of a gaun, the wyght Ix li.

Item, a posnet [a pot] and a dobnet, a skemmer, a mydlyng skemmer. . . . . . vjs.

Item, a greyt spyt, a small spyt, a peyr of cobberdes [cob-irons er fire-dogs], a fyer sholl, a payr of tonges, a greyt bronderd [gridiron] vjs.

Item, ij peyr of "pot-okkeys [pot-hooks], ij peyr of chaynes, a |dryppynge pan, a fryn pan, a marbull morter . . . . . . iijs. vjd.

Item, a cowll, a knedynge tob. . xijd.

For hys rayment.

Item, a mvster goun fvrd with fox thorerew

xxvd.

Item, a fylet govn forde with blak lam xxs.

Item, a nold govne of brysto frys [Bristol frieze] forde with blake lame, iij kotes. . . . vjs.

Item, a crest cap and a wod [hood] to weyr upon his sholder. iiijs.

Item, a crost shet. . . . . . vs.

Item, a dyeper towell iiij elns.. .. ijs.

M. DORMER HARRIS.

THE ROYAL ARMS : A METRICAL DESCRIPTION.

A METRICAL description of the arms of the English sovereigns from the Conquest onwards has been lately discovered in an old manuscript school-book of a lady who in the early forties of the last century attended a well-known Lancashire school kept by a family named Aston. One member of this family was Joseph Aston, who wrote the well - known ' Metrical Records of Man-

" Reserved for ij battelments over the alter, ijs." (Coppers' Company Accounts in Sharp, ' Antic], of Coventry,' 31).

Chester,' and who is also believed to have* written that metrical aid to memorizing the dates of the kings of England commencing with the lines :

William ten hundred and sixty-six Himself on England's throne did fix.

It therefore seems very probable that this metrical description of the arms of England is from the pen of the same writer. So far as is known, it has never been published, but it is too good and too quaint to be entirely lost. A few extracts will give some idea of its interest.

Students of heraldry will remember that William I. is said to have assumed the " two golden lions, or leopards," of his Norman duchy. This is referred to in the opening verse as follows :

The Norman Standard, and the Shield

That Norman William wore, Two golden leopards on a field Of Royal ruby bore.

Henry II. is considered to have added a third lion to the shield, the single golden lion passant gardant on red being also considered to be the armorial ensign of the province of Aquitaine acquired by Henry in right of his wife. This is described thus :

When Second Henry came to reign,

The first Plantagenet, The Golden Lions rose again

To flourish brighter yet, For where the Royal Banners flew

In Eleanora's train He charged, with Conquering William's two,.

A third for Aquitaine.

The Royal Ensigns, always famed,

So passed from reign to reign Until King Edward boldly claimed

The crown of Charlemagne, And Shield and Ensign marshalled hence

With England quarterly On Azure field of Gallant France

The Bourbon fleur-de-lys When Agincourt triumphantly

Did England's lion crown

With laurels, &c

The Royal Banners waving o'er

Each new-made Knight displayed The lily that the Bourbon bore

Remarshalled and arrayed.

The last two lines refer, of course, to the change in the first and fourth quarters of the shield from Azure, sem.ee de lis or, to Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.

On the succession of James I. of Scotland to the English throne the royal arms were altered to : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Grand quarters, quarterly France modern and England. Second grand quarter, Or, within a double tressure flory counterflory, a lion rampant gules for Scotland. Third grand quarter, Azure, a harp or, stringed argent.