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 12 s. ix. OCT. 29, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 353 some practical end. Such an end has been indicated above ; it is, to all appearance, the end in view that stimulates modern inquiry ; but, if this end is to be efficiently served, the use of arms must be governed by rules very different from those laid down by Sir William Dugdale. There must be many readers of * N. & Q.' to whom a clear pronouncement on this subject would be of immediate value and importance. It ought, perhaps, to be added that, ac- cording to Sir William : 1. Only one man in a generation is en- titled to the use of any particular coat of arms. 2. That all claim to them, even when drastically differenced, lapses after a few junior descents. 3. That, if the senior line ends in an heiress, her husband acquires the sole right to use her father's arms. F. L. WOOD. THE TRAVELS OF EPHRAIM CHAMBERS, F.R.S. (see 12 S. L 462). At the above reference appeared a letter written by Ephraim Chambers, F.R.S., to Thomas Longman, being part of a collection of MSS. letters, &c., illustrating the history of Canonbury Tower, where the writer died the following year. The letter, dated " July ye 26, N.S., 1739 " after giving a long account of Chambers's impressions of Bordeaux and its vicinity, goes on, " I Propose to set out to-morrow for Rochel(le), and Nantes, in my way to Paris." Is anything known of other MS. letters of Chambers describing his travels between Bordeaux, Rochelle and Paris ? J. R. H. ' THE DEATH-BOAT OF HELIGOLAND.'- As Heligoland is now a prominent topic, I wonder if any reader could tell me who, and what, is referred to in Campbell's poem ' The Death-boat of Heligoland,' ending But I blot not my page with their name. R. K. HODGSON. RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. While visiting recently the Abbey of Fontevrault, now a prison, where lie the tombs of our Plan- tagenet kings Richard I. and Henry II., I was surprised to find that considerable doubt existed as to where Richard Coeur de Lion was actually buried. He died at Chalus ; and in 1910 a grave supposed to Contain his remains (except his heart, which is at Rouen) was found in the church, together with two others,*those of Henry II. and Eleanor of Guyenne. Can anyone kindly enlighten me on this point, and also as to which castle it was in which the King was imprisoned when he heard Blondel singing ? A certain amount of confusion seems to have been made through the similarity exist- ing between the castle of Chinon in Touraine and that of Chillon. The former was a Plantagenet possession, while the latter, an equally ancient edifice, is on the borders of Lake Leman. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. [See also Notices to Correspondents, p. 360]. AMERICAN HUMORISTS : CAPTAIN G. H. DERBY was author in the year 1865 of a humorous book which he dedicated to General McClellan " his friend and class- mate." There are numerous full-page comic illustrations by the author, but it seems strange that he was permitted to give a caricature portrait of Washington which forms the frontispiece. I cannot find the author's name in the only American biblio- graphy I know. He was contemporary with Artemus Ward. What is known of him ? X. T. R. TITLE OF ANNO QUINTO EDWARDI III. In Pickering's ' Statutes at Large,' vol. i., the portion of this statute distinguished as Cap. X. is headed " The punishment of a juror that is ambidexter, and taketh money." The ' N.E.D.' speaks of the use of this word for the offence specified as being the earliest use of the word in English legal phraseology. The word "ambidexter." does not, how- ever, appear in the text either in the Norman- French version or in the English, and I find that the copy of the Act in the Statutes of the Realm has no title to the separate capital X. Of what date and of what authority and by whom inserted were the titles to this and the other chapters of the ' Statutes at Large ' ? W. S. B. H. SIR TANFIELD LEMAN, BART., author of ' Some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Dr. Richard Mead' (1755), appears to have been the only son of Philip Leman, of Snow Hill, Holborn, apothecary. Who was his mother ? Did he practise as a medical man in London, and what were his qualifications ? When and whom did he marry ? He died in Southwark, May 4, 1762. G. F. R. B.