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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. NOV. 27, 1920.

HEBALDS' FUNEBALS. Can any one give me a reference in any book to the pro- cedure, ceremonial and expense of a herald's funeral ? Who supplied the achievements for the church where the funeral was held ? To whom and how was the application for the funeral made ?

FBANCIS H. CBIPPS-DAY.

38 York Terrace, N.W.I.

ENIGMA WANTED. Can some kind con- tributor supply me with the remainder of the enigma beginning ;

Come and commiserate

One who was blind, Helpless and desolate

Void of a mind ? I can only recall two other isolated lines ;

A King's lovely daughter

Watched by my bad,

and

Wore a crown for a king. But had none of my own.

I have lost the copy of this enigma that I once possessed many years ago.

KATHLEEN A. N. WARD. Cairnbinn, Whitehouse, co. Antrim.

AIB-GUNS. Who invented them ? On Jan. 10, 1707, De Blainville ('Travels,' vol. i. p. 388), writing at Basle, says :

" They make a great Noise here about a hellish Invention of a Gunsmith, who invented Wind- Guns and Pistols. Some of them contain Air enough to make ten successive Explosions, or may be discharged at once, and thus kill many People in an Instant. This Invention may be truly called Diabolical, and the Use of it ought to be forbid on Pain of Death, nothing being more abominable than an Art of murdering People in a clandestine, silent Manner, which can neither be foreseen, pre- vented or guarded against."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

LAMPEN MAYBANK was admitted to W T est- minster School in 1723, aged 6. Particulars of his parentage and career are desired.

G. F. R. B.

VIOLINS. Is the tone of an old violin necessarily better than a modern one ? If so what are the reasons ?

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

"BOTH": "EACH." Is it possible to account for the current aversion to use the word each, and to substitute a constructior inelegant and often inaccurate with both t So far as I can see, this aversion is growing perhaps Dr. Bridges can adduce some homo phony thereby avoided.

An instance will be found in Proceedings f the Classical Association, April 1920 vol. xvii., page 48).

The Association entrusts its ' Journals

Board ' with the duty of publishing The

Classical Review and The Classical Quarterly:

our numbers of each are now issued during

each year.

In the Board's report, after a reference

the need of continuous economy, occurs he statement :

"The Board has decided to increase the numbe r if pages in both journals for the current year by bout one sheet."

This decision would be literally fulfilled by }he addition of fourteen pages to the total Tiass of the whole of the numbers issued.

One imagines that what was meant was
 * ' to increase the number of pages in each issue of

each journal by about one sheet."

Why not have said so ? Q. V.

DANIEL DUNNIGAN. Who and what was this person ? T. KNOTT.

Shortly Bridge, Durham.

" CRASPESIORTJM. " In the report of a lecture at Falmouth, in 1856, the author, Jonathan Couch, gives the following quota- tion from

1 A Lettei from the famous antiquarian herald Anstis to his patron the Bishop of Exeter '. . . ."I met with an Inspeximus of a Grant made by Henry the third wherein is granted to the Bishop of Exon and his successors for ever Omnes decimas Craspesiorum, within Cornwall and Devon."

This grant he also says " is confirmed to them by Edward the 2nd."

What fish were meant by the term "Craspesiorum"? W. S. B. H.

THE ICE- WORM. In Sou they 's ' Common- Place Book,' London, Reeves & Turner, 1876, 4th ser., p. 467, it is noted that

"Erasmus (Adagio,, 361) says he had seen the Ice- worm in the Alps."

As the cited work is inaccessible here,

1 should be extremely grateful to anybody who would kindly produce the original passage in extenso.

In the same book of Southey, 2nd ser., p. 593, Evlia Effendi is quoted thus ;

" [Description of the Zuland or Ice Worm]. This is a worm which is found in the middle of ice and snow, as old as the creation. It is difficult to be found. It has forty feet, and forty black spots on its back, with two red eyes like rubies, all ice, without tongue, its interior filled with an icy fluid. Its size like cucumbers which are sold at Laungabestaun for the seed, sometimes larger,