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 52 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. JULY n, 1020. it generally happens that eight days are granted for that purpose. When the criminal is seized within the jurisdiction of the town, the prosecu- tion is tried, and the burghers pronounce their sentence, in the town-hall ; and in this case there is no appeal. But, when he is taken within the district of the bailiff, they assemble in his house ; and an appeal lies from their determination to Berne. I have been the more particular in my enquiries concerning the mode of this criminal process, from the strong resemblance it bears in many respects to our trial by juries." It should DO noted that Mr. Cox, when he wrote this, in August, or September, 1776, was in Lausanne ; all the information in the book being sent in the form of letters to a gentleman friend. Mr. Cox dedicates the book to the Countess of Pembroke and Mont- gomery, and states that : " The following letters relating to Switzerland, naturally claim your Ladyship's protection ; for they were written while I had the honour of accompanying Lord Herbert upon his travels." The dedication is dated "Vienna, June 26, 1778." It is evident from the " Advertise- ment," which is inserted before the Table of Contents, that Mr. Cox derived much help from Captin Floyd, who is stated to have kept a "very accurate journal" during "their joint tour." HERBERT SOUTHAM. SPOONERISMS (12 S. vii. 6, 35). Spooner- isms are older than is commonly thought, and once they were known by another name. I quote the following passage from Baron Nicholson's ' ^Antohioaraphy of a Fast Man (1863) : "I mean a great pink stocking of that day, Fanny King, or as Bill Leach, in the interesting language called Marouski, termed her Kanny Fing." Perhaps one of your readers can explain why the interesting language was called Marouski ? CHARLES WHIBLEY. SABINE (12 S. vii. 8). Burton is indebted for his story to Georg Sabinus (1508-1560), the first Rector (1544) of the newly-founded University of Konigsberg, and son-in-law, in his earlier and unhappy marriage, of Melanchthon. He is best known as a Latin poet. The book from which Burton has borrowed is ' Fabularum Ovidii Interpretatio, Ethica, Physica, et Historica.' The contents were delivered at lectures at Konigsberg. The dedication is dated 1554. One edition was printed by the Cambridge University printer, Thomas Thomas, in 1584. The story given by Burton is taken from the iote on the first fable (Orpheus' s descent to- Hades) in the tenth book of the ' Meta- morphoses,' Sabinus's work dealing with
 * he whole of that poem,*not Book X. only.

A comparison shews that Burton's- quotations are not quite verbatim. EDWARD BENSLY. The "writer named Sabirie " wasGeorgius- Sabinus, a German poet and politician, who died in 156T at Frankfurt. He wrote 'Fabularum Ovidii Interpretatio,' published, at Wittenberg in 1559, at Cambridge in 1584, at Leipzig in 1606, and perhaps at other dates. There is a Life of him, and, Zedler in his ' Universal Lexicon ' devotes two columns to him. FAMA. HERALDIC DOGS (12 S. vii. 6) I was at Braunfels in 1880 and 1884. If MR. LIDDELL. went on the " Jagd " he would have had the services of two or three English or Irish setters, which of course are not in question,. and of the ordinary German ' Jagdhund,' a short-haired, square -headed, long-tailed dog standing as high as a big retriever, and of a wonderful dark liver colour, or heraldically speaking " gules." Indeed this breed is, I take it, the " talbot " of the College of Arms. At the same time, Prince Albrecht of Solms- Braunfels had in his well-known kennels for- prize St. Bernards several specimens of the ' Great Danes ' or ' Danische Dogge ' cropped- eared, brindled fawn, and slate-coloured,, taller and stronger than the largest St. Bernard or mastiff, and when " gorged " with their wide spiked collars heraldic enough for anything. There were also some " griffons " (I fancy originally a Belgian breed) almost as big and longer-coated. I once had some photographs and it is just possible that ' Nola ' might obtain others or information from " Der Ober. Forsteiy. Braunfels," if one still exists. PERCY HULBURD. Nonnington, GrafEham, nr. Petworth. HERALDRY OF FISHES (12 S. vii. 29). The book mentioned by MR. GILBERT C ANN AN, which has a real existence, although his fictitious cataloguer 's unable to quote the .title correctly, is this: * Heraldry of Fish, Notices of the principal families bearing fish in their arms,' By Thomas Moule, published by John Van Voorst, in 1842. There is a life of the author (1784-1851) in the D.N.B. He is there said to have "formed a similar collection on the heraldry