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11 MANTLE -MAKER'S TWIST " (12 S. iv. 272). This expression, though now less fre- quently heard than formerly, is, to my knowledge, still used (though generally in a humorous sense) by old-fashioned people. I invariably hear it spoken of as the " mantua- maker's twist," a proof of its bygorife origin. Eighty or a hundred years ago tea was an expensive luxury, though much appreciated as a beverage by seamstresses, mantua- makers, and other sedentary workwomen, who drank tea at frequent intervals during each day. When the brew became weaker, it was a general custom not to make fresh tea, but to pour more water upon the tea- leaves, and not to " stir " the infusion, but, under the impression that greater strength was effected by the process, to take the teapot in both hands and give it several rapid twirls before decanting the brew.

F. A. RUSSELL.

116 Arran Road, S.E.O.

HUTCHINSON, RECTOR OP CHURCH LAW- FORD (12 S. iv. 242). In Miller's 'The Parishes of the Diocese of Worcester,' i. 378, the initial of his Christian name appears as " R." JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itehingfcon, Warwickshire.

HERALDIC : AZURE, A LION RAMPANT GUARD ANT (12 S. iv. 245). These are the arms of Gerard. The various branches of this family bear Az., a lion rampant erm., though the lion is not in every case " guardant." Thus Berry in his ' Encyclo- paedia Heraldica ' gives the arms of Gerard (Tuer and Bryn, Lancashire, and Etwall, Derbyshire) as Az., a lion rampant erm., crowned or ; and so also the arms of Gerard of Bromley, Staffordshire. But the present Lord Gerard (of Bryn) bears Arg., a saltier gu., though the lion rampant erm., crowned or, reappears in his crest. N. E. TOKE.

Az., a lion rampant ermine, crowned or, is assigned by Papworth to Fitz-Gerard, co. Lane. ; Gerard, Bromley, co. Staff, and Etwall, co. Derby ; and Peach or Pechey, Kent ; and Az., a lion rampant guardant ermine, to Gerard. Is there no crest on the hatchment ? The Barons Gerard bear for crest a lion rampant ermine, crowned or. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

HERALDIC : SABLE, ON A CHEVRON AR- GENT (12 S. iv. 219). Papworth's ' Ordinary of British Armorials ' assjgns this coat to " King, London ; granted by Camclen. King, Towcester, co. Northampton : Lox- wood House, and Midhurst, Sussex." The

grant (Harl. MSS. 6095, fo. 7, and 1422, 'o. 36b) included a crest, a hand (cubit arm rect) grasping a (broken) spear.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN. Wai sail.

HERALDIC : CAPTOR AND HIS CAPTIVE'S: ARMS (12 S. iv. 188, 251). Two instances
 * rom the sixteenth century are given by

Mr. W. Paley Baildon in the course of his articles on ' Heralds' College and Prescrip- tion ' in The Ancestor (ix. 221-2).

1. George Bullock, "late Mr. Gonner over the company e of the Ordinarye Gon- ners " of Berwick-on-Tweed, by his will dated June 13, 1568, granted to his son-in- law Rowland Johnson, gentleman, " an armes [blazoned in full], whiche armes was wonne by the sayde George Bullocke xxviij" yeres sence, of a Scottishe gentil,- man, one of the house of Cockburne. ' This leaves it doubtful whether the Scot was captured or slain.

2. Tong in his ' Visitation of Lancashire,' 1532-9, records that

" Master Asheton at the Scottysh felde tooke a prysoner, whose name was Sir John Forman,. Serjeant Porter to the Scottysh King ; and also he tooke Alexander Bunne, Sheriff of Aberdyne : which two prisoners he delivered to my Lord of Xorfolke that now ys, to know how he shall bear ther armes."

Probably Mr. George Bullock had no arms of his own, so no difficulty would arise in his case ; but as Mr. Asheton was " the head of an ancient Lancashire house," the question of combining his captives' arms with his own would present an in- teresting problem, and it is unfortunate that we do not know the result.

Sir Henry Newbolt alludes to the practice in his novel ' The New June.' When John Marland tells the Holand boys that his shield bears the arms of Mells, but that his own name is Marland, young Edmund says to his puzzled brother : " Can't you see he killed Mells in a fight, and took his coat ? " Which, Marland explains, was not the case (pp. 41-2). G. H. WHITE.

23 Weighton Road, Anerley.

In spite of D. L. G.'s assertion that no- instance of the assumption of a captive's arms by his captor is known, there is some heraldic evidence in support of the custom. The Kynastons of Hordley bore the arms of Audley in the first quarter of their coat ; and the" traditional explanation of this anomaly is that the right to bear them was granted to their ancestor Sir Roger, when knighted by Edward IV., because he had