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NOTES : The Royal Arms : a Suggested Change, 435 Barnard Flower, the King's Glazier, 436 English Army List of 1740, 438 Richard Edwards's Correspondence, 439 Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays : Suggested Textual Emendations, 441 Riccio's Murder A Waterloo Roll ol Honour, 442' Polydoron ' Sprotborough Church : Quaint Carving on Pulpit Merchants' Marks in London A Sixteenth-Century Recipe for Jelly Peter the Great in Galloway, 443 ' Politicanting " : " Politicanter" "Tanks": Origin of the Name Lights called "Prater nalia," 444.

QUERIES : Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Paris T. L. Peacock and Chertsey Arresting a Corpse, 444 Glasgow Booksellers Tankard with Medals Buttons James Bulteel Sir Gilbert Proteus Anthony Sorel : Anna Quartermaine, 445 Signboards Importation of Stained Glass Jewess and her Hair Treacle Bible Collections of Animals : Carving Terms " Rattle "Marriott Family "Felons and Fugitive Goods" Marten Family, 446 "Whites" Lucas Cornelisz Jos. Girdlestone 'Smith Street Gazette 'Zionist Movement T. Ribright, Optician, 447 Barbara Villiers First Coach in Dublin- Lady Mary Grey C. Ryckwaerts Penny of 1864 Queen of Bavaria, 448 Dr. Bateson on Colenso Justiss Family Kenrick Prescot, D.D. St. Peter's Finger -Lutetian Society Grolier Society Women ordained to the Priest- hood K.^.B. : its Three Crowns Sir Joseph Copley Heart Attacks Discoveries in Coins, 449 Authors of Quotations Wanted, 450.

REPLIES -.Letters from H.M.S. Bacchante. 450 'Lady's Magazine,' 453 Artists in India Magic Squares in India Greystoke Pedigree Ruisshe Hassell Warden Pies Mews Family, 454" All round the Wrekin "West : De Morgan Scottish Cake-Dish Banbury Lords Lieu- tenant, 455 Travellers in the Netherlands ' Ring, a ring of Roses' American Dollar, 456 J. Phillip, R. A. Vaughn and Welch Liverpool to Worcester, 457 " Unberufen " Play Wanted, 458 Tally Sticks E. J. Cobbett Two Charades Alphabet in the Christian Church Blooms- bury, 459 Metal-tipped Staff Foreign Graves of Authors Carvings of St. Patrick Bible : Words in Capital Letters, 460 W. Hetherington " Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre' 1 "Boniface" Bristol Channel Frozen Over, 461 Arms Wanted "Act of Parliament Clock "Climbing Boys Christ's "Seven Eyes" "Buss" Aeroplane Rushbrooke Hall Authors Wanted, 462.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Life of Sir Charles W- Dilke' ' The Oxford Dictionary.'

Notices to Correspondents.

JElofcs.

THE ROYAL ARMS : A SUGGESTED CHANGE.

I HAVE recently noted in the press a sug- gestion that the fact of His Majesty having now discarded the evidence of his largely Germanic ancestry by taking the family nanae of Windsor the House of Windsor a most happy inspiration from an entirely English source might be made the occasion of an alteration in the royal arms, so as to afford greater recognition of the claim of our " Overseas Dominions " to a share in our national insignia. In other words, as Mr. F. Faithfull Begg puts it in The Morn-

ing Post of July 21, " for the three lions of England which are repeated in the fourth quarter of the shield there might be sub- stituted a double-headed lion passant guardant the heads severally crowned one for India, and one for the Overseas Dominions."

I may point out that this suggestion of a change in the royal arms is not a new one, and has already been made by a very well- known writer on heraldry, the late Rev. Charles Bout ell, M.A., who suggested (' Heraldry, Historical and Popular,' 1864, p. 300) that a ship, " as the cognizance of the British Colonial Empire," should take the place of the repeated lions. This sug- gestion, though coming from a high au- thority, does not seem to have been accept- able to the powers that be, and I think it is not difficult, perhaps, to see why.

As Mr. Begg truly says, " The royal arms of Great Britain have always repre- sented, more or less closely, the historical changes of the kingdom." The last of these changes was on the advent of our late most gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, who, strongly German as she showed herself to be, removed from the royal arms the insignia of the House of Hanover, which her predecessors of that line had brought into the national arms; and from that time they have remained as they are now : 1 and 4, England; 2, Scotland; 3, Ireland.

Presumably, at that time, when the fourth quarter went, so to speak, a-begging, neither India nor what we now call the " Colonies " were considered of sufficient political importance to be represented; and so the first quarter that of England was repeated, according to correct heraldic usage. As they became an ever-growing and more important part of the British Empire, Boutell realized that fact, and suggested the alteration as above stated. But he did not then, I take it, propose to include India, and, I venture to think, rightly; for India is not a homogeneous whole to be represented by one cognizance. Besides, would it be acceptable to the loyal and feudatory princes, who are allowed practical sovereignty in their particular districts, and who might regard any such mblem as a symbol of conquest in its fullest sense?

With regard to the inclusion of .the ' Colonies " in a distinctive and separate quarter in our royal coat of arms, would it

n be acceptable to them]? Is not each member of them Englishman, Scotsman, or Irishman entitled to look upon the