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 12 s. ix. DEC. 24, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 501 LONDON, DECEMBER 24, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 193. NOTES : Canada's Coat of Arms, 501 English Army Slang as used in the Great War, 502 Principal London Coffee- houses, Taverns and Inns of the Eighteenth Century, 504 George Etherege, 506 " Fire " as a Disyllabic " Pecks of Mutton " The AJUIS of Leeds Monumental Inscription at Arras, 507. QUERIES : Armes et Ecussons anglais a la Cathe"drale de Bayonne Day of the Week of Christ's Birth The Fifth Petition of the Lord's Prayer, 508 The Candlemas Eevels at the Inns of Court St. Peter the Proud, London " Sapiens dominabitur astris " The Lithuanian Bison : a Dying Race, 509 Clockmakers Captain Robert Poole, Navigator William Spry of Exeter Clerical Index Society -' Lavengro ' ' God bless the Prince of Wales,' 510 " Hunger Stone " in the Rhine A Missing Church Brief The Gender of " Ship " Patrick Anderson George Gerard Johnson Thomas Gregory Johnston Thomas Edwards, LL.D., 511. REPLIES : Surnames as Christian Names. 511 Five Odd Queries, 512 Vice- Admiral Sir Christopher Mings Gen- tleman Ushers of the Black Rod Captain Peregrine Bertie, R.N., 513 Richard Coeur de Lion The House of Har- court, 514 Dickens : Page-headings, 515 Quotations on Cheese Jonas Coaker " the Dartmoor Poet " Riddle : " The letter H," 516 Principal London Coffee -houses in the Eighteentr Century Lancashire Settlers in America- Col. Chester's Extracts from Parish Registers Seventeenth- century Military Service: Drax Family British Settlers in America The Brewers' Company, 517 Verlaine at Stickney " Lady Madge Plunket " Culcheth Hall, 518 Whittenbury Family Pinchbeck Mulberries R. Carte Robert Henry Newell Authors wanteu, 519 NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The New English Dictionary The Wheatley MS.' Notices to Correspondents JJote*. CANADA'S COAT OF ARMS. I CERTAINLY think that ' N. & Q.,' our fore- most journal in all that appertains to heraldry, should take note and record that, as we learn from a paragraph under the above heading in The Morning Post of Nov. 23, the King, on a request of the Canadian Governor-General in Council re- specting armorial bearings for the Dominion, has by Royal Proclamation granted the following arms to that Dominion. The Proclamation is in the following terms : The Arms or Ensigns Armorial of the Dominion of Canada shall be tierced in fesse, the first and second divisions containing the quarterly coat following, namely : 1st, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, 2nd, Or a lion rampant within a double treasure flory-counter-flory gules, 3rd, Azure a harp or stringed argent, 4th, Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, and the third division Argent three maple leaves conjoined on one stem proper. And upon a Royal helmet mantled argent doubled gules the Crest, that is to say, On a wreath of the colours argent and gules a lion passant guardant or im- perially crowned proper and holding in the dexter paw a maple leaf gules. And for Supporters, On the dexter a lion rampant or holding a lance argent, point or, flying therefrom to the dexter the Union Flag, and on the sinister a unicorn argent, armed, crined and unguled or, gorged with a coronet com- posed of crosses-patee and fleurs-de-lis, a chain affixed thereto reflexed of the last, and holding a like lance flying therefrom to the sinister a banner azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis, or ; the whole ensigned with the Imperial Crown proper and below the shield upon a wreath composed of roses, thistles, shamrocks and lilies a scroll azure inscribed with the motto : "A mari usque ad mare." This may have come, perhaps, as a sur- prise to many of us who w^ere under the im- pression that Canada, like so many other British colonies, had already been the re- cipient of armorial bearings from the British Crown. But, apparently, such is not the case. Armorial insignia, however, of some episcopal sees in the older portion of the Dominion (Lower Canada) seem to have been in existence for some time, though in none of their arms not even in those of Quebec can I see any trace of French origin. This we may learn from a reference to the chapter on the Arms of Colonial Sees in Dr. Woodward's well-known work, * Ec- clesiastical Heraldry' (1894, Part II., chap, ii., p. 229-51). Some of these are, no doubt, the subject of regular grants from the Heralds' College ; whilst others, if we may judge from certain examples afforded of " heraldic impropriety," are more prob- ably matters of assumption only a remark that may not infrequently, I think, be applied to colonial heraldry. It will be noted that on this occasion the King has thought fit to dispense with the more usual course of procedure in con- ferring these honours namely, through the intervention of the College of Arms but has conferred it directly by Royal Proclama- tion, which is, of course, quite within the royal prerogative. I think it may be not altogether without interest if I attempt the analysis of what these armorial bearings and their meaning consist. First, it will be noticed that the arrangement of the shield is unusual in English heraldry " tierced in fess," that is, an equal tripartite division of the shield horizontally though comparatively common in - some foreign countries. A precedent,