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 278 NOTES AND QUERIES. tias.ix. OCT. 1,1021. a face as if nothing had happened. . . . These boys wore a badge on the shoulder, of which they were very proud ; though in the streets it must have helped to confound them with charity boys (ibid., p. 59). G. H. WHITE. 23, Weighton Road, Anerley. WELSH RABBIT (12 S. ix. 110, 148, 198). A nursery rhyme comes into my mind which j may perhaps be acceptably quoted in this j connexion. It relates to an ancient time j but may not be very antiquated in spite of that : When Arthur first in court began To wear long hanging sleeves, He entertained three serving-men, And all of them were thieves. The first he was an Irishman, The second was a Scot. The third, he was a Welshman, And all were knaves, I wot. The Irishman loved usquebaugh, The Scot loved ale called bluecap (?) The Welshman, he loved toasted cheese, And made his mouth like a mousetrap. The Irishman was drowned in usquebaugh, The Scot was drowned in ale, The W*elshman he near swallowed a mouse, But he pulled it out by the tail. ST. SWITHIX. HERALDRY (12 S. ix. 192, 233). I venture to think that MRS. COPE'S reply to MR. UDAL'S observations will enhance the in- terest created by her projected work. There must be a very large number of coats of arms in use which are not recorded in any one volume, but of which it may be desirable to identify the users, whether they have used them by right of registra- | tion at the College of Arms or not. A man who has succeeded to a house which had been peaceably possessed by his pro- genitors for several generations would consider, in the event of his title being challenged, that the onus probandi liy upon the challenger. So with arms, many a man is content to go on bearing those which his great-grandfather bore, without testing the latter' s right to bear them. Why should he ? If he thought of the matter at all, he would assume that his forefathers knew what they were about when they put arms on their seals or plate or ex libris. And if his right were challenged, he would stick to his belief in what his forefathers believed regarding their origin, until some one could prove it to be mistaken. A. T. M. JOSEPH ELSHALFOON, A PRINCE OF MOUNT LYBANUS (12 S. ix. 201). "John Peter, Patriarch of Antioch and of All the Eastern Countries," who dated his certifi- cate from " the Residence of our See, at Kannubyn," was clearly the Maronite Patriarch, whose official residence is the Monastery of the Mother of God at Kanobin (Coenobiuin), though in summer he usually lives at Bdimen or Raifum and in winter at Bkerkeh in the district of Kesrawan, near Beirut. The difficulty is that, accord- ing to the ' Catholic Encyclopedia,' the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1809 to 1823 was Joseph Dolci. Who was John Peter ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. THOMAS STUKELEY (12 S. ix. 191, 235, 255). MR. HAYTHORNE will find some additional particulars about this man in the paper entitled ' The Irish Expedition of 1579,' by the Rev. J. H. Pollen, S.J., in The Month for January, 1903. MR. SYKES says " he was knighted in 1571 "; but by whom ? and when ? Father Pollen writes : " Mr. Simpson ex- patiates on Stukeley's receiving at Philip's hands the knighthood of the Order of Calatrava on January 22, 1571 (' School of Shakspere,' i., p. 78 ; ' D.N.B.,' Ixv., p. 125, gives Jan. 21), but no- authority is quoted. King Philip, on the contrary (Jan. 31), calls him 'Knight of England' (Galba, c. 1, fol. 5), and Stukeley had styled himself illustris eques in the previous September (' Varia Politicorum,' xcix. 165)." It is certain that Queen Elizabeth did not give him knighthood. He was not a knight when he set sail from Waterford, April 17, 1570, and landed at Vivero in Galicia on the following 24th, and after this latter date he remained in Spain till June, 1571. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. ANGER, AUNGIER, ANGIER (12 S. ix. 170, 215). There was a John Angier, a Non- conformist minister, who was born in 1605. In 1630 he was pastor of Ringley, and two years later became pastor of Denton. He was imprisoned for opposition to the Com- monwealth, and escaped persecution under the Act of Uniformity. He died in 1677. A narrative, dealing partly with his birth and education, was published in 1 685 for Tho. Parkhurst, and if your corre- spondent will write to me I will give him particulars as to where he may obtain the book. R. D. WHITTENBURY-KAYE. Newchurch, Culcheth, near Warrington.