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To Autie of Snape for iiii or Loades of Rishes

for y e Almes houses. . . . xiiii" viii d

Delivod at y e comandment of m r bailiffs to y e

Earle of "Leicesters menne .. .. xx s

To thorns Lovenes for his yeres wagis ended

at michelmes 1578. . . . . . v 11

To y e comissioners for wearinge of cappes xiii* iiii (1 To thorns Duxe for ii monies . . . . ii d

To y e widdowe gardners ma for v monies. . v d To thorns Lovenes for waxe for y tonne seale

and for a bagge to putt in y e waights. . vii d To Eves for Ringinge the viii a clocke Bell. . viii 3 For viii C oysters for m r Regnoulds iii s iiii d

more for freshe fishe for him. . ii s ii d

To peerce for Ellis. . . . . . . . xx d

for Crabbes. . . . . . . . . . vi d

To Brimble for oysters for my L. . vi 8 viii d To m r Foxe for pewetts sent to y e m r of the

requests. . . . . . . . . . v s

To Dennis browne for ii days dredginge. . ii s

(many entries for dredging).

for m 1 ' perimans meate when he Dregged for

oysters. . . . . . . . . . iiiii

To Dennis browne and drane for gatheringe of

Lngge. . . . . . . . . . viii d

To father Leche on his Death bedde. . xii d To prophetts wifH for washinge the painters

wiff.es geare whe" she wa.s deade . . . . xii (l

Item p (l to m r wentworthes man for ingrosinge

of y e articles betwone the Coasto and great

vermouth. . . . . . .... v s

for Ridinge to London to y Counseill to mete

w th m r gunvile about y" sute of the Coaste

to m 1 ' Foxe. . . . . . . . xx*

for riding to Southolde about y e busines of y

Coast to m r Foxe. . . . . . . . ii*

pi to w" 1 Smithe th* he Laide oute at London

firste to y" Clarke of the Counsaile . . xvi s viii' 1 more to y u writer of thorder betwene y Coaste

and vermouth. . . . . . . . x s

more to one th r caried y same to my L of Huns- den to have his hande to the same. . . . xii' 1

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. ARTHUR T. WlNN. (To be continued.)

BURIAL OF REMAINS OF SCROLLS OF THE LAW. The following excerpt from The Jewish G Karelian of the 10th inst. describes a service and ceremonial internment of sufficiently rare occurrence to justify preservation in these pages :

" On Sunday, Sept. 5, the funeral of the remains of the Scrolls of the Law, which were burnt in the recent fire at the above Synagogue, took place at the Federation Cemetery, Edmonton, At 3 P.M. a Memorial Service was held in the Artillery Lane Synagogue which was crowded. The specially constructed marble coffin, con- taining the remains of the Sefarim was placed before the Ark, and the Rev. J. Domovitcb, the Rabbi of the Synagogue, first made a Hesped. 1he whole congregation being moved to tears. Then Day an A. Chaikin ascended the pulpit and delivered a stirring and touching oration, after which the coffin was borne outside are! placod in a conveyance, a large number of the members follow- ing to the cemetery." ALECK ABBAHAMS.

THE SHIP ON THE ARMS OF PARIS.

WITH the recent publication of a fine double- page photograph of central Paris, taken front the air in The Illustrated London News allusion was incidentally made to the* curious fact that the ship which is blazoned on the arms of Paris, and is displayed everywhere on the municipal structures- of the French capital, was originally adopted owing to the shape of the island in the river,, on which the city first sprang up, and which to-day is as ship-shape as ever, with Lemot's famous bronze equestrian statue of. Henri Quatre appropriately gracing the' prow.

By the courtesy of M. Knecht, the- archivist of the French Embassy in London, I have been favoured with the expression, of his opinion that the theory of the origin. of the ship on the city arms of Paris is quite- true, but that it is not generally known by whom and when the shape of the island city was first noticed, and when the ship was so- incorporated in the arms. He states, how- ever, that it is very old, and the ship already appeared on the seal of Paris in the year 1200. I have also received the following: letter :

Republ que Francaise, _

Conseil Municipal de Paris,.

Cabinet du President.

Monsieur, Paris, le 25 Aowt, 1920.

J'ai 1'honneur de vous accuser reception d'e- votre lettre du 23 Aout, 1920, par laquelle vous- me demandez un certain nombre de renseigne- ments relatifs aux armoiries de la Ville de Paris.

II semble qu' Etienne Pasquier (' Recherches de la France ' in fol. Paris, 1619, Appendice II.,. No. 5) ait et le premier a attribuer a la forme de 1'Ile de la Cit6 la presence d'un bateau dans les armes de la Ville.

Cette opinion, defendue par Andr Favyn, par Marc de Vulson dans sa " Science heroique,"" par le Pere Menestrier et par Sauval .dans ses- Antiquites de Paris, a et reprise par Victor Hugo dans Notre-Dame de Paris.

On en peut lire une refutation qui parait decisive dans 1'etude du Service historique de la. Ville sur les Armoiries de Paris. Le meme ouvrage conclut que le navire, piece principale des armoiries, a pour origine le bateau qui, de tout temps, servit d'embelme aux MereatoreS' Aquae Parisius et fut probablement aussi celui des Nautae Parisiaci de 1'epoque gallo-romaine.

Le sceau le plus ancien que Ton poss&de aujourd'hui remonte a 1'an 1200.

Veuillez agreer, Monsieur, 1'expression de mes- sentiments les plus distingues.

Le President du Conseil Municipal,

,T. LE CORBEILLE.

P.S. Le volume auquel il est fait allusion dans- cette lettre est intitule : ' Les Armoiries de la- Ville de Paris,' par le Comte de Coetlogon,,