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 296 NOTES AND QUERIES. . ix OCT. 8, mi. the Italian whose epithet of Placentinus shows that he came from the city of Pia- cenza and the Le Plaisant who latinized his name as Placentius. EDWARD BENSLY. THE INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM (12 S. ix. 250). An answer to PEREGRINUS'S questions will be found in the Preface and in Leo. XIII. 's Constitution, Officiorum ac munerum, which form pp. xi.-xxiii. and 3-17 respectively of the latest edition (Rome, 1917) of the Index. To advert for a moment to a subject discussed in these columns not long ago, this Preface, in the clarity and felicity of its style, is an admirable example of the adaptability of the Latin tongue to modern international use (cf. especially pp. xvii.-xx., where the writer grapples successfully with the task of explaining the principles on which the typographical arrangements of the Index itself are based). C. S. B. B. CAMPBELL SHIELD OF ARMS (12 S. ix. Ill, 176, 214). I am obliged for replies to my query re the above, but that from MR. WALTER E. GAWTHORPE alone solves the problem as to the second quartering, for which I am indebted to him. It is un- doubtedly Eraser, and is described by him correctly. Evidently, what I took to be roses are cinque - foils, or Jrazes, and as the second Christian name of the former owner of the shield was Eraser, no doubt he possessed a claim to this quartering. The fourth' quartering appears to be Hutchinson, as stated by MRS. E. E. COPE, as on reference to Burke's ' Armory ' I find that family bears eight and nine cross-crosslets indiscriminately. D. K. T. BOOKPLATE: CHARLES Fox (12 S. ix. 231). The motto Nee elatus, nee dejecttis, is that used by the Fox family of Fox Hall, Co. Longford. The bookplate in question is probably that of Charles Fox of Ready, Co. Armagh, who was at one time M.P. for Co. Longford. He was born 1791 and died 1862. Charles Fox was a member of the Fox Hall family, and had a brother Richard, who was born 1795 and died 1864. (See Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1894 ed., vol. i., p. 704). Apparently there was no relationship between the Fox Hall family and that to which the Whig statesman belonged. ROBERT GOWER. AMERICAN EDITION OF GRAY'S ' ELEGY y ! (12 S. viii. 509; ix. 176). A yet earlier, and probably the first, American edition is in the Library of Congress : The Grave. A poem. By Robert Blair. . . . The 7th ed. To which is added, An Elegy written in a Country Churchyard. By Mr. Gray. Boston, Reprinted by J. Boyles, for J. F. Condy, 1772. 45 p. M. RAY SANBORN. Yale University Library. TREWTHE FAMILY (12 S. ix. 170, 215, 238). My query arose from having seen in the churchyard at Eling, Hants, a fine old tomb bearing the name Trewthe and j a sculptured shield : On a bend three fleurs- j de-lis. This does not accord with the I Trethewey family. The arms suggest a South Welsh family. It is the arms which puzzle me. E. E. COPE. NEW YEAR CARDS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. ix. 207). The Baron Desclos and the Vicomte de Sebire were courtiers of Louis XV., and were much esteemed by the ""blue-stocking " ladies of the period. Their pretty verses will be found scattered in many forgotten French miscellanies of the eighteenth century. ANDREW DE TERNANT. i SIR THOMAS MILLER OF CHICHESTER (12 S. ix. 92, 173, 217, 255). My information about the Comber family was drawn, not from the inaccurate Berry, whose Sussex genealogies I have not seen, but from Dallaway, who says (Part III. 54) that the Combers of Chichester belonged to Sherman- bury and bore the same arms. MR. JOHN COMBER, who is presumably the author of i the article on the Combers in Sussex Archceol. Collections, xlix., to which he refers, quotes this, and in his pedigree shows William the blacksmith as doubtfully (with a dotted line) brother of John of Sherman- bury, who had the grant of arms in 1571. I should have verified this reference before sending my note on p. 217. But if Dalla- way' s statement be true, John, the sheriff, was actually the last Comber of Sherman- bury, since he lived till 1684, while William, father of the four daughters (of whom Ann, wife of Edward Bray of Shere, does not appear in the pedigree, so has presumably been traced since), died in 1625. But my hope was to elicit information as to the family of Hannah (d. 1706), wife of Sir Thos. Miller, 1st Bart, ; also date of grant of arms to him or his father Mark. UVEDALE LAMBERT.