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light, Penthia, or Astrophel are anywhere now popular names for this pretty little flower ? I cannot but think its association with the friend- ship of Spenser and Sir P. Sidney far more in- teresting than the foolish German legend generally appended to it.

I may mention that one species (M. versicolor) exhibits an instance of red, blue, and yellow flowers growing simultaneously on the same plant (Withering's Botany and Phillips' Flora Historica, in roc.)- EDEN WARWICK.

Latin Poem ly a Rugbcean.

" Non tadet teneros barbara virga nates."

This pentameter is the concluding line of a Latin poem which was written by a Rugbzean, about the beginning of the present century ; and placed on the door of his tutor's room, just before be left the school. Who was the author of it ? and what is the remainder of the poem ? CID.

Armorial. I have a plaster cast of a coat of arms, found amongst ruins at Waterford, which are : 1st and 3rd, a lion rampant ; 2nd and 4th, two bendlets : crest, the Papal tiara and keys.

Whose arms were they ? H. BASCHET.

Waterford.

Longest Siege on Record. The following pas- sage I met with the other day :

" Herodotus reports (lib. ii. cap. 157), fhat Psamme- ticus, king of Egypt, besieged this city (Azotus) twenty- nine years, which, if true, is the longest siege which any city or fortress ever endured." From Dr. Adam Clarke's Commentary, New Test., vol. i. p. 771.

Is this the longest siege on record ? or, is there any siege at all equalling it in duration ?

A. A. F. VlGILANS.

Heraldic Query. I would be much obliged to any of your heraldic correspondents who would identify the following arms for me : they are re- quired for genealogical purposes ? Quarterly of six ; first, argent three bulls' heads couped sable ; second, argent a chevron between three ravens close sable, impaling ermine three bars nebulee sable ; third, sable two bars dancettees ermine ; fourth, checquy, argent and gules ; fifth, sable a chcveron ermine between three bulls' heads ca- boshed argent, impaling argent on a fess engrailed vert, three escalops argent ; sixth, gules, a lion rampant or, and a border engrailed of the last.

FRANCIS ROBERT DAVIES.

Quotation wanted: "In peace of mind," Sfc. Can you or any of your correspondents tell me where the following lines come from ? " In peace of mind, by course of duty run,

God nothing wills nor suffers to be done

l>ut what thou would'st thyself; could'st thou but see

Through all the events of life as well as He."

QUAESTOR.

Gainsborough's Portrait of Abell. Can any of your readers enlighten me as to the locality of Gainsborough's whole-length portrait of Abell the musician ? EDMUND S. FULCHEB.

Sudbury.

Archbishops' .Degrees. Will any of your cor- respondents favour me with an answer to the following questions : "1. At what period did archbishops assume the prerogative of granting degrees ? 2. Whajfc degrees are so granted ? and by whom, and upon what grounds, was the prero- gative conferred ? 3. Is any register accessible of degrees so conferred ? and what examinations or testimonials are required ? 4. What fees, if any, are charged, and to whom are they paid?" W. P.

Papier-Mache Houses. Some time during the course of last year, a notice appeared in the news- papers of some portable houses (constructed either of papier-mache or a substance similar to it) being shipped, I think for Australia. Can you refer me to the notice, or inform me by whom they were constructed ?* R. W. HACK WOOD.

Tyttery and Tyzach Families. Can any cor- respondent inform me what were the arms borne by the families of Tyttery and Tyzack. They were French Protestant refugees, who, towards the end of the sixteenth century, settled in Staf- fordshire and Worcestershire, and first introduced the broad glass manufacture into England. An- other family named Henzey also accompanied them to England, and bore as a motto, " Seigneur, je te pris garde ma vie," which motto, a work called The Book of Family Mottos, published by Wash- borne, asserts to have been used by Tyzack. Is this true ? Mr. J. Henzey Pidcock, who repre- sents one branch of this family, now uses this motto; and the "three acorns slipped" of the Henzies are also borne by him, incorporated with a "pied cock " (/) for his family coat. CID.

Helmet above Crest. As a practice seems to be gaining ground for which I can find, in my small way, no sort of authority, perhaps some of your correspondents well versed in heraldry will be good enough either to place their peremp- tory veto upon it, or to point out any ground on which it is defensible, I mean the practice of placing the crest under the helmet of a knight. If this be an innovation, the sooner it is exposed and put an end to the better. I had imagined that as the real crest was always borne upon the top of the real helmet, so the heraldic crest ought always to be placed upon the top of the heraldic helmet ; but perhaps I may be in this matter

IGNORANTISSIMUS.

Thomas and James Hooper. Can any of your correspondents furnish any information respect-

[* Information respecting these houses may be obtained of C. F. Bielefeld, 15. Wellington Street (North), Strand.]