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in doubt, in reading an achievement of arms as to whether it belongs to a man or to a woman, or to a single or married one. The allowance of such a case as put by W. G. D. F. would, it seems to me, raise such a difficulty ; so, for that reason the common-sense one given by Guillim it should not be allowed.

I feel considerable difficulty in subscribing to the somewhat sentimental and, in these days of women's rights and ^Married Women's Property Acts, rather fantastical opinion enunciated by Nisbet, especially where he indicates that upon a widow proving "vicious or unchaste " she should lose this privilege.

When one is away, as I am, from one's books and authorities, it is by no means so easy as it may appear at first sight to answer such a question as that propounded by your corre- spondent, and one's knowledge of the general principles of the science of heraldry is apt to become blunted by a continuous existence away from them. I should therefore much welcome a modern treatise on the law and practice of arms, such a one as the late Dr. Woodward would have given us himself had he been spared. Can any of your corre- spondents tell me what has become of the material which he had collected and to which he alludes in the introduction to the late edition (1896) of his ' Heraldry : British and Foreign,' or whether any attempt has been made to utilize it ? J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Antigua, W.I.

BEASLEY, BEESLEY, BESLEY, BESLEIGH (9 th S. x. 67). This is not uncommon as a surname in North Lancashire: "William de Beseley " occurs at Hambleton in 1332. As a place- name it may be found on the map about six miles north of Preston, east of the point where the railway to Lancaster crosses the high road. J. B.

A similar question appeared in ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. xii. 408, to which no reply has been given. EVERARD HOME GOLEM AN.

71, Brecknock Road.

' SERGEANT BELL AND HIS RAREE-SHOW ' (9 th S. x. 126). There can be no connexion between Dickens and tbe book bearing the above title. It was written by George Mog- ridge for the Messrs. Tegg, and appears in the list of his published works as ' The Show- man ; or, Serjeant Bell and his Rareeshow,' at the end of the ' Memoir of " Old Humphrey."' It was as "Peter Parley" that Mr. Mogridge wrote for fh'e Messrs. Tegg, but he was far better known as " Old Humphrey " in his voluminous works pub- lished by the Religious Tract Society. He is

buried on the north side of All Saints' Church- yard, Hastings, and his tombstone bears the following inscription :

To the memory

of

George Mogridge, Esq.,

of Kingsland, London,

better known in numerous works as

"Old Humphrey."

In his writings

he sought the honour of God

and the highest happiness of mankind.

In his life he adorned the doctrines of the Gospel.

. In his death

he rejoiced in the hope of the glory of God

through the merits of Jesus Christ

his Saviour.

Cheerful he pass'd his days below,

Though thorny paths his feet had trod ; For he had found in every woe

The mingled mercies oi his God ; And they sustain'd him in his fears, In youth, in manhood, and in years.

Old Humphrey.

He died at Hastings, November 2nd, 1854, agfed 67 years.

The Committee of the Religious Tract Society

have caused this stone to be erected

to mark their high estimate

of his character and work.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

ClMEX LECTULARIUS (2 nd S. V. 87 ; ix. 369,

453, 500 ; x. 38, 98).

"Tertio quis cito surgit corporaliter propter inquietationem sicut ptz de multis delicatis ho'ibus : qui si inquiete'tur a pulicibus/ mox surgunt & lume' q'runt ut lectum purge't." ' Sermons of Frater Gulielmus Pepin, S.T.P.,' fo. iii. Parisiis, 1537.

The sermons were preached in 1520, at which time, 'it would seem, robust persons paid no attention to these insects.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

BOUNDARY STONES IN OPEN FIELDS (9 th S. iv. 476, 542 ; v. 297, 441 ; vi. 10, 92). In the immediate neighbourhood of Cape Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, where I was in 1884, I saw a number of stones set on edge em- bedded in the ground. I traced them for some short distance, and was told that in some parts they could be traced for miles. They were used by the Maories to mark the boundaries of the tribal lands. These stones were smooth, water- worn. H. G. ELL.

Christchurch, New Zealand.

"BABIES IN THE EYES" (9 th S. ix. 405, 516 ; x> 56). I owe MR. BOLLAND an apology for unwittingly placing an interpretation upon his remarks which, when they are read more