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 12 8. V. JAN., 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, JANUARY, 1919.

C O N T E N T S. No. 88.

NOTES: The Royal Arms: a Suggested Change, 1 Samuel Owen, Uncle of August Strindberg, 3 Shake- speariana, 4 -British Navy, 1587-1919 Prisoners of War and their Letters in 1753 Sir Thomas Browne : Tom Brown, 6 -St. Trunnion: his Identity " Diukum Whop" The Judges' Level Rutter Family Name, 7 Markshall and Fuller Family Elsinore Empson E. Middleton, 8. QUERIES : " Qusrel : e o'Allemand ' ' Scottish Chiefs- Oath of Fealty: Edward III. Col. A. R. Macdoneh's Duel with Norman Macleod, 9 Penrhyn Devil as a Knocker Homes of Foulshotlaw : Janet Diclrson Kinghorn of Fireburnmill The Constant Reformation, Flagship : its Chaplain 'Anthologia Graeca' : Epictetus Maw Family, 10 ' Index Ecclesiasticus, 1550-1800' St. Bees Alumni Disraeli on Gladstone Niccolb da Uzzano Joseph Clover of Norwich " Daverdy ": " Pipchin- esque" George Powell, the Dramatist Earl of Beacons- field : the first Lord Lytton : Martin Tapper, 11 Burrell, CenteuHrian Austrian Money coined at the London Mint Napoleon and Lord John Russell "Baptiste Man- tuani Carmelite" Hon. Lieut. George Stewart Edmund Clerke, Clerk of the Privy Seal, 12 Lakes Pascholler and Calendari, near Thusis Neate Newman Paten or Salver ? Stags and Eglantine : Elizabethan Court Story, 13" Go to Exeter " : Murder Trial ' The Newcomes' Crow-Fig Priuientius's ' Psychomachia' A. B. Wright, Local Historian and Actor Egioke Family Orlingbury Fami'y, 14 Graves planted with Flowers Authors Waiiteil, 15.

REPLIES :- Sir Walter Raleigh, East Londoner, 15 Henry I.: a Gloucester Charter, Itf War Slang: Regi- mental Wicknames, 18 Lines under a Crucifix, 19 Dessin's Hotel, Calais, 20 Sol as a Woman's Name in England Richard I. in Captivity Craggs and Nicholson Families, 21 Aristotle on the Greek Temperament " Heater-shaped "Ancient Order of Foresters : Blue Eye Merchant Marks and Ancieat Finger-Rings, 22 Rev. Sir Robert Peat, 23 -The Pope's Crosier Icke Family " Biajer" Leap Year: Lady's Offer of Marriage, 24 Boys born in May White Horse of Kent: Landscape White Horses Hotel Bristol ' Malbrook ' Ismenia "Hell for leather," 2^ Epitaph to a Slave Heraldic : Captor and his Captives' Arms Le Cateau : Cambrai Authors Wanted, 2*5.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Shakespeare's Workmanship' ' Bibliography of Works by Officers and Men of the Royal Artillery.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

OBITUARY :-J. S. Shedlock.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE ROYAL ARMS: A SUGGESTED CHANGE.

To the number of ' N. & Q.' for October 1917 (12 S. iii. 435), I sent a somewhat lengthy note on the above subject. This was preceded by a suggestion made by Mr Faithfull Begg in The looming Post in July 1917, that the change of the family name of our Royal House to that of Windsor might be fittingly marked by substituting for the reduplicated three lions of Englanc in the fourth quarter of the royal arms

ome charge representing India and our

Overseas Dominions. He suggested for

hat purpose " a double - headed lion

passant guardant, the heads severally

crowned, one for India and one for the

Overseas Dominions, thus indicating dis-

inct individual sovereignty with absolute

unity."

Mr. Begg's letter drew forth no reply ; and I, thinking that the daily press was not quite the vehicle for a discussion upon such technical subject, subsequently raised he whole question in ' N. & Q .' as above stated, and, for the reasons there given, [ opposed Mr. Begg's suggestion. There also the matter ended without further dis- cussion.

At the end of July last, however, Mr. Faithfull Begg returned to the subject, and in the same journal ; but instead of a single charge he now advocated two em- blems, one an elephant representing India, in the fourth quarter of the royal arms, and the other, on an inescutcheon,

a sun in splendour, arising from the sea, the rays to represent the several Dominions and Crown Colonies." Again, in The Morn- ing Post this time, I combated the idea, and for the same reason. This resulted in a somewhat lengthy discussion. Realizing as I do that the daily press is of too ephemeral a character for the discussion of such a subject, to which no proper index or re- ference could eventually be found, I thought that I might again venture to address readers in ' N. & Q.,' the natural medium, I think, for heraldic subjects open to public discussion.

I do not propose to do more now than to allude very generally to the arguments against the proposed change which I made at the above reference, as they are accessible to all readers, beyond stating that I see no reason to alter them owing to the discussion which has since taken place in The Morning Post ; for I hold still that any representation of India in the royal arms is unsuitable for the reasons there given, and of our Over- seas Dominions unnecessary, on the ground that they are already sufficiently and, heraldically, correctly represented therein.

More interest appears now to be taken in the suggestion that I made that, if it was thought advisable by the proper authorities to make any alteration at all in the royal arms, the Principality of Wales might be given the honour of representation in the fourth quarter in lieu of the present re- duplicated three English lions ; thus com-