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 212 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. SEPT. 10,1921. AZTEC CALENDAR. In the National Museum of Mexico there is a large cylindrical i stone, 1 1ft. Sin. in diameter and 24 tons in weight, bearing on its upper surface an | elaborate Aztec calendar. A photograph ! of it is given in W. W. Blake's ' Antiquities of Mexico' (New York, 1891), and also a! reproduction in M. B. Cotsworth's ' Rational | Almanack ' (York). I possess what appears | to be a smaller copy of the above calendar 1 in the shape of a flat disc of extremely hard flinty stone, 7|in. diameter and Jin. thick. It is worn smooth in one part as though by j many years' handling. Its production 1 would be an extremely laborious under- ! taking, and it has every appearance of , being genuine. Can any reader inform me , if such calendars are known to exist and if they are common ? ARTHUR BOWES. Newton-le- Willows. CHURCH or ST. MARY, LITTLE OAKLEY, j ESSEX. In the stonework of the west window are two shields of arms, viz., on the north side that of John de Vere, who owned the land about 1400, and on the south j side the arms of Woodthrope : Arg. a ! bend between six cross-crosslets fitchee az. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly ex- plain how the latter shield would be likely to have been placed opposite to that of the Earl of Oxford, seeing that the land was the j property of the earldom ? Several genera- tions of the Woodthorpe family lived at! Little Oakley Hall from about 1720, but ! the shield of arms referred to dates from! a far earlier period. G. W. YOUNGER. 2, Mecklenburgh Square, W.C. 1. MERMANNUS : PALMA. Can anyone give me some information about the following : 1. Thomas Mermannus, serenissimi Ducis, Bavariae Consiliarius et Medicus, etc. For- ' trait in line by M. Wening. 2. Georgius Palma, Novibergensis Patriae Medicus Ordin : per annos 23. Nat. 1543. Denat 1591. Portrait, an early mezzotint signed G. fen (?) Any biographical notes about the above will be much appreciated. D. A. H. MOSES. MORDEN FAMILY. Can I be referred to a good pedigree of the family of Sir John Morden, or Mordaunt, the founder of Morden College, Blackheath ? Did Sir John leave descendants ? H. M. MORDEN. Chilmington Green, Great Chart, Ashford. NORRIS AND EYRE FAMILIES. Richard Norris (1670-1730), Mayor of Liverpool 1700, and ultimately of Speke Hall, Co. Lanes, is given no wife in the pedigrees. In the -' Diary ' of Nicholas Blundell of Crosby (pub. 1895)), p. 12, he records that on May 8, 1703, " I met Mr. Richard Norris in the Mall," and on the following day,. " I made my first visit to Mrs. Norris my cozen ; she is, I think, sister to Coz. H. Eyre." The mother of Nicholas Blundell was Mary, daughter of Rowland Eyre of Hassop, Co. Derby. It looks as if Richard Norris had married a Miss Eyre, unless " Mrs. Norris " was the wife of another Norris. I should be glad of any information. I have not seen a good pedigree of Eyre of Hassop at this date. . R. S. B. CHESHIRE CHEESE SONG. Timbs, in his ' Things Not Generally Known,' states re Cheshire cheese : The pride of its people in the superiority of its cheese may be gathered from a provincial song, published with the music about 1746, during the Spanish war, in the reign of George II. What is the name or title of this song ? R. HEDGER WALLACE. " MIXED TRAIN." (12 S. ix. 190.) IN ' The Grand Junction Railway Com- panion,' by Arthur Freeling, Liverpool,. 1837, p. 14, is the following : The First-class Trains only take up and set down passengers at the six principal Stations, which are distinguished in the Table by being printed in roman characters. The Mixed Trains will also take up and set down Passengers to or from any part of the Grand Junc- tion Raihcay, at all the usual stopping places on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. An allowance is included in the above Table of five minutes for all the Trains at the principal Stations, and of three minutes for the Mixed Trains, at the intermediate stopping places. The First Class Trains will consist of coaches carrying six inside, and of mails carrying four in- side, one compartment of which is convertible into a bed-carriage, if required. The Mixed Train will consist of both First and Second Class coaches, the latter affording complete protection from the weather, and differing only from the First Class in having no lining, cushions, or divisions of the compartments. Both kinds have seats on the roof, for the accommodation of those who prefer riding outside. This information, not given consecutively.