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firmly united, and afterwards availed themselves of obtaining the sanction and ceremony of the kirk ; so powerful becomes the force of habit in a nation. Gr. N.

Banns of Marriage (2 nd S. i. 201.) On look- ing again at the Marriage Act, I observe that Sundays are alone specified. It would not, there- fore, be legal to publish them now on holidays; but in other respects the old rubric is untouched.

Y. B. N. J.

Patrick Ker (2 nd S. i. 33.) I have been trying to look up Patrick Ker, but have not hitherto been successful. I think, however, he must be identical with the author of a little volume in my library, entitled :

" The Map of Man's Misery : or the Poor Man's Pocket Book ; being a perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Medita- tions : or a Compleat Directory for one Endless Week."

In which the seven days are made to answer to the four periods of man's life, with Death, Judg- ment, and Eternity ; these furnishing the author with headings for his seasons and earnest medita- tions. The bordered frontispiece represents a triangle within a circle, typical of the Trinity and Eternity, with enigmatical lines ; an Epistle Dedi- catory " to the fit. H. Rachel, Lady Russell," signed P. Ker, follows ; and the book closes with a poem, entitled " The Glass of Vain Glory, or a View of Man's Vanity." London. 12mo. J. Lawrence. 1690. In " N. & Q." (1 st S. xi. 225.), I brought this Map of Man's Misery to notice, and in support of my belief tnat the author was a Scot can only repeat, that when he would illustrate his subject by temporal examples, they are gene- rally Scottish manifestations of God's judgments, and I think it will turn out that P. Ker was an Episcopalian, who, like many more of the prelatic party, found his native country too hot for him at the period when Presbyterianism had reached its greatest height and compelled the rabbled curates to seek refuge in the South. J. O.

Gainsborough the Painter (2 nd S. x. 200.) MR. FULCHER (who, it may be observed, is not a bookseller) is much indebted to J. S. for his kind offer of the loan of Thicknesse's Sketch of the Life and Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough; but as lie possesses a copy, he has no occasion to avail him- self of the kindness of J. S. Who Thicknesse was, how he became acquainted with Gains- borough, and what reliance is to be placed on his statements, MR. FULCHER hopes shortly to show.

Sudbury.

PaulJoncs (2 nd S. i. 199.) MR. HOLMES must be commended in his intention to do an act of justice to the character of Jones. He seems to think that his penitential letter to Lady Selkirk was good evidence that he had no control over

the men under his charge, and hints that the pro- perty abstracted was in part returned with the letter. This act may be taken for what it is worth, and as MR. HOLMES refers to it with doubt, it may gratify him to know that, having purchased the plunder from the crew, the whole ,was trans* mitted after the lapse of some years, viz. in 1783, " precisely in the same state in which it had been carried off, to all appearance never having been unpacked, the very tea-leaves remaining in the teapot as they were left after breakfast on the day of capture."

MR. HOLMES will perhaps remember the severe rebuke these " piratical proceedings " drew forth from Dr. Franklin, the American representative in Paris. CHARLES REED.

Paternoster Row.

Sons Right to the Mother's Arms (I 8t S. ix. 398.) In your 1 st S. ix. 398. is a Query by me to the following effect : Whether the descendants of "A." who (having no arms of his own) married the heiress and sole representative of a family bearing arms, might bear the arms and quarter- ings of the family whose heiress " A." married. This was answered by several correspondents, whose opinions inclined to the negative. Since sending this Query I have met with the following :

" A gentlewoman borne, wedded to* one, hauying no cote armour, they hauying issue a sonne, which is termed in the lawe of armes, her sonne : The same sonne I say, maye beare her cote armour, durynge his life, with a dif- ference cynquefoyle, by the curtesy of armes, and this is called a lased cote armour." Legh's Accedens of Armory, ed. 1563. fol. 98.

Can any instance of arms thus borne be ad- duced? CID.

P.S. Apropos to Legh, what is the meaning of the cut at the end of the Accedens ? On the top of a spire is a bear statant, muzzled and chained, on a helmet calmly surveying three nondescripts, which appear somewhat like paws, and seem to be falling upon the head of a savage-looking gentle- man, who with his dexter hand supports a shield of arms (query whose ?), whilst his sinister tightly grasps a book ?

Use of the Verb "To care" (2 nd S. i. 242.) The word care in the sentence quoted from Pope, evidently means like, or ivish : " I shouldn't like to have an old post pulled up which I had recollected since a boy." Exactly in the same sense was it commonly used by writers of that time; as, for instance, by Sterne, who says: "No man cares (that is, likes) to have his virtues the sport of contingencies." F. C. H.

Clint (1 st S. xii. 406.; 2 nd S. i. 139.203.) This assuredly is the Dan. and Norweg. Klint, en, pi. er, a cliff, as Stevns Klint on the sea-shore of Zealand, and Speil Klint on that of the neighbour- ing island of Moen. It is a term commonly used,