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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s.m. OCT., 1017:

SIGNBOARDS AND SHOP DEVICES. I should be most grateful if one of your readers could inform me whether a book has been published dealing with ancient signboards or shop devices (such, locally, as we used to see swinging in Lombard Street).

MACDONALD GILI,.

1 Hare Court, Temple, E.G.

[Perhaps Larwood and Hotten's ' Signboards : their History ' (Chatto & Windus), and F. G. Hilton Price's ' Signs of Old Lombard Street ' (Leadenhall Press, 1902) may be of service to our correspondent.]

STAINED GLASS : ITS IMPORTATION FOR- BIDDEN. In 1483 the importation into England of " painted glasses " (i.e., stained- glass windows) was forbidden by Act of Parliament. Was this prohibition ever re- pealed ? If so, in what year ?

JOHN D. LE COUTEUR.

Winchester.

JEWESS AND HER HAIR. Sir T. G. Jack- son, the eminent architect, contributes to The Times of Sept. 7 a description of a visit to Salonika seven years ago. In this he says :

"The Jewesses were generally fine women, dressed in splendid gaberdines, with their hair in a tail down the back, which was concealed in a flat case like a broad ribbon of green silk, em- broidered with a square of gold at the end. No one, we \vere told, must see the end of a Jewess's hair."

What is the origin of this restriction con- cerning the hair of a Jewess ? And is it confined to the town and district of Salonika?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

TREACLE BIBLE. Can any of your readers give me the following information about the so-called " Treacle Bible " ?

1. Date of publication.

2. By whom translated.

3. How many copies are known to be in existence, and in whose possession.

4. Particulars of any sales in recent years, and the prices at which the specimens of this edition changed hands.

^The probability of an amateur collector of moderate wealth being able to acquire a copy at the present day.

I should be very grateful for the above information, not as a collector, but as a writer of fiction anxious to be correct in these details. Please replj r direct.

E. M. GATE. Hollyfield Avenue, Friern Barnet Road, N.ll.

[Information about various " Treacle " Bibles will be found at 6 S. i. 308 ; viii. 446.]

COLLECTIONS OF ANIMALS OR BIRDS r CARVING TERMS. 1. Where can I find the correct terms for collections of animals,, birds, &c. ? One knows of a " sounder o pig," a " wi&p of snipe," &c., but where is there a complete list ?

2. Harrison. Ainsworth in ' The Tower of London ' gives special names for the carving of birds, animals, and fish at table, viz., to unlace a rabbit, &c. Where does one find a complete list of these terms ? M.D. (2).

[Several lists of names for groups of birds, &c., will be found at 6 S. xii. 525 ; 8 S. viii. 191. At the former reference is also a long list of ' Terms for Carving and Sewing,' quoted from Randle Holme's ' Academy of Armory and Blazon,' 1688.]

"RATTLE." In Mr. Gerard's book, which has been appearing in serial form, the word " rattle " occurs, seemingly as a synonym for " disconcert " : " Count Montgelas seemed rather rattled " at Mr. Gerard's refusal to sign a document as a condition to receiving his passports. The word in this connexion is strange to English ears, and is not quoted in our dictionaries. Is it an Americanism ? And if so, is it an obsolete English word ? The word arrests attention as being somewhat expressive, and a good substitute for its long-winded and exotic equivalent now in vogue.

E. L. P.

[Mr. R. H. Thornton in his ' American Glossary " has " Rattled, flurried, confused/' His first quotation is from 1869 : " I think he was slightly rattled by the formidable appearance of an escort, from J. Ross Browne's ' Apache Country/]

MARRIOTT FAMILY. Have any books been, published about the Marriott family ?

L. MARRIOTT WULCKO. Goodmayes, Essex.

" FELONS AND FUGITIVE GOODS." In a-, lease and release of the manors of Penistoru and Hoy land Swaine, co. York, dated 1 James II., the general words following the parcels include " waifes, estraies, fellons, and fugitive goods."

What are we to understand by " fellon& and fugitive goods " ?

T. WALTER HALL.

Sheffield.

MARTEN AND MARTIN FAMILIES or SUSSEX. I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q. 1 will forward me any details or pedigrees respecting the Marten and Martin families of Sussex. Please reply direct.

A. E. MARTEN.

North Dene, Filey, Yorks.