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NOTES AND QUERIES, [is a.m. APRIL 14,1917.

" Whining fool ! " rapped out Carlyle. To a similar question about Carlyle, on a subsequent occasion, Newman calmly re- joined : " The man insulted me ! " The above are the exact words as told me by Martineau in 1861. V.H.LL.I.C.I.V.

" SMALL BOOKS ON GREAT SUBJECTS " (12 S. iii. 169). After careful investigation I find that the following works might be added to those already mentioned as being the work of Miss Cornwallis :

5. Brief View of Greek Philosophy to Pericles. 18*4.

6. Brief View of Greek Philosophy, Socrates to Christ. 1844.

7- Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century. 1844.

8. An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors adapted to 1845. 1845.

10. On the Principles of Criminal Law. 1846.

14. On the State of Man before the Promulgation of Christianity. 1848.

E. E. BARKER.

HERALDIC QUERY : PURPLE IN HERALDRY (12 S. iii. 211). Woodward, in a communica- tion to ' N. & Q.' more than fifty years ago (3 S. i. 471), discussing the arms of Leon, maintains that purple was not formerly recognized as an heraldic tincture. But it is found anyhow as early as 1311, in the coat of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, whose arms the Roll of Caerlaverock blazons as " un lion rampant porprin " (on a field or). Purple, though rare, is by no means unknown in the heraldry of to-day. The very ancient family of Burton of Longner (Salop) bears a cross on a field per pale azure and purple ; and the same is borne by Sir Francis Denys- Burton, Bart., of Pollacton. co. Carlow.

D. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR.

Fort Augustus.

In 1421 the Garter plate of Sir William Arundel, K.G., was set up in St. George's Chapel. His arms as there displayed are in the first and fourth quarters, Gules, a lion rampant or ; and in the second and third, Purpure, fretty or, for Maltravers. But elsewhere the golden fret of Maltravers appears on a sable field.

A. R. BAYLEY.

Though uncommon in heraldry, the tincture of purple hardly seems to deserve the epithet of very rare. A hasty search discloses the following coats with a purple field, and there must be many others in which it is the colour of one of the charges : Sir Randolph Otby of Lincolnshire (Glover's ' Ordinary ' ) ; Lyons ; Pashley of Kent (Glover) ; Wimbishe of Nocton, co. Lincoln ;

Lamorat ; Mallory of Northamptonshire j Tidmarsh ; Fitz-Raynold of Lancashire j Archby ; Dodscombe of Devonshire ; Arch- ever of Scotland (Papworth, p. 376) ; Bightine ; Pierse ; Cruell ; Ossam ; Fersux (Withie's ' Additions to Glover,' Papworth, p. 430) ; Berewe(do.) ; Farnden of Sedlescomb,. Sussex ; Gardner of London ; Sr. de Bawde (Glover) ; Skipton ; Sir Randolph Fitz-Rauf (Boroughbridge Roll) ; Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1245 (Papworth, p. 618) ; Isack ; Burton of Shropshire ; Hertham of Northumberland ; Shanke fof Rollesby, Norfolk ; Rushe of Suffolk \. Manley*; Edy (Glover) ; Batvil ; Bonbrut.

The augmentation (standard of the Sultan of Mysore) granted to Marquis Wellesley in 1790 has a purple field. The arms of MacMore (registered in Ulster's Office) are Arg., a lion ramp. purp. Where no authority is given, the arms will be fovind blazoned in Burke' s ' Armory.'

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

HERALDIC QUERY: SALAMANDER (12 S. iii. 108, 192, 214). The trade-badges so largely used by printers, particularly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, cannot be called heraldic, but they were very often emblematic, and frequently, as in the many varieties of the Plantin compasses with the motto Lahore et constantia, very beautifully executed. I have noticed the salamander as the badge of Philippus Albertus, who in 1622 printed a ' Lexicon Juridicum ' (an index of civil and canon law), " Coloniae Allobrogum " (Geneva). The badge is a crowned lizard in the midst of flames. There is no motto.

In George Wither' s ' Collection of Em- blemes, Ancient and Moderne,' London,. 1635, fol., written to illustrate Crispin Pass's plates, p. 30 has as its subject the sala- mander. The animal, very little like a lizard, crowned, is leaping in the fire. On its left is a ship in a storm at sea, on its right a smiling landscape. The subject of the emblem is given above :

Afflictions Fire consumeth Sinne, But Vertue taketh Life therein.

In the circle round the picture is the motto :

NVDRISCO IL BUONO ET SPENGO IL BEO*

This book is rare enough to justify the quotation of the opening lines of Wither's explanation :

Francis I. when Comte d'AngoulSme, dated 1512 (Mrs. Bury Palliser's ' Historic Devices, Badges, and War-Cries,' 1870, p. 115).
 * This is a variant of the motto on a medal of