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on the tomb of Oliver King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and carved in several places on the ceiling, have for supporters the red dragon ot Cadwallader and the greyhound of the house of York (and of the Beauforts), but that he used in some instances two grey- hounds, as seen in the Bishop's Palace, Exon and from a quaint account of the pageantries in London on the occasion of Prince Arthur's marriage he quotes a description of a castle erected on Cornhill " replete with the armo- rial devices of this monarch," wherein "the white dragon and red dragon" are particu- larized. The first specimen of Henry VIII 's arms (from an illuminated book of his own) shows the same supporters as his father's. Ihese, we are told, he continued for a time but afterward used the lion of England for the dexter and the red dragon for the sinister as in St. George's Chapel (1528) and as on a stone compartment at Caerhays in co. Corn- wall. Echard (1718), Berry, Burke, and others agree in giving Henry VII. the" dragon and the greyhound, and in not giving him a lion; but in Clarke's 'Heraldry ' and in Dr. Wood- ward s the lion (dexter) and dragon (sinister) are assigned to him, as well as to his suc- cessors. Can any reader supply a contem- porary example of this or good authority for the assertion? As to any distinctive cha- racteristics, Echard gives to Henry VIII uncrowned lion " and to Edward VI

after the word beata. Many long years ago James Howell, best known by his 'Epistolje Ho-Llianse, attempted a similar feat and tailed, but, by substituting Spanish for AtaUaa, he evidently believed he had suc- ceeded, as we may gather from his own words in his 'Instructions for Forreine Travell ' London, 1642 (Arber's reprint, p. 39). He says :

" The Spanish is nought else but mere Latine, take a few Morisco words away, which are easily distinguished by their gutturall pronunciation, and these excepted, it approacheth nearer and resem- bleth the Latine more than the Italian, her eldest Daughter, for I have beaten my braines to make one Sentence good Italian and congruous Latin, but could never do it; but in Spanish it is very feasable, as for Example, in this Stanza, Infausta Grecia, tu paris Gentes, Lubricas, sodomiticas, dolosas, Machinando fraudes cautelosas, Ruinando animas innocentes, etc., which is Latin good enough, .and yet is it vulgar Spanish, intelligible by every Plebeian."

crowned lion," and Berry gives to Ed- ward VI. "the lion with the addition of a crown "; yet in every illustration in Wille- mont ( of Henry VIII. 's arms, as of his suc- cessor s, whenever the lion occurs he is shown crowned. He is, moreover, uniformly repre- sented in full face (guardant), but I note that in the arms of Edward IV. and Edward V., who used for dexter supporter the "white lion of Mortimer," he is uncrowned and in profile* and I should fancy, therefore, that the hon at North Wyke, being the same, was a survival of the earlier type with which the craftsmen had become familiarized.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

LINGUISTIC CURIOSITIES (9 th S. x. 245). The Latin-Italian lines sent by PROF. STRONG, who has omitted the author's name, will be found of great interest to every reader possessing even a moderate acquaintance with the two languages. Parenthetically, I may observe that a comma has been left- out

wr-? the engravings of royal arms heading Sir Winston Churchill's ' Lives of the Rings of Eng- land I find that those of Edward IV., Edward VT, a?xL m ha i rd IIL show a lion exactly similar to that ot the Tudors, guardant and crowned. Is this an inaccuracy?

Had he been abte to compare .them, the honest writer would not have been slow in confessing that his lines were not, in any point of view, a patch on those quoted by the learned professor. JOHN T. CURRY.

I must demur to the comments of PROP. STRONG on the Gothic-Latin distich quoted. Scapia cannot mean sheep, there being in Gothic no word cognate with Eng. sheep, lamb being used instead. According to 1 Gotische Sprachdenkmaler' (Dr. Jantzen), No. 79 of the " Sammlung Goschen," the first line may be written

Inter hails Goticum, skapei jam matjan jad drigkan. Here skapei=Ger. schajfe, and jam and jad by assimilation jah + m and jah + d. The translation would then run : During the Gothic "Hail! bring forth both meat and drink," no one dares, &c. The lines appear to be from an epigram of the Latin antho- logy, ed. Riese ('De Conviviis Barbaris').

H. P. L.

RELIQUARY FOUND AT ANSTEY, HERTS (9 th S. x. 227). From the elongated ampulla, or guttus, to the seventeenth-century medi- cine phial is a far cry. But I found the latter in excavations in Charing Cross Road, when that street was built, in company with green-glazed drinking vessels of the Stuart period, and I am afraid that the mediaeval medicine phial often has the honour unduly thrust upon it of being a lachrymatory or tear-bottle, although its iridescence is often unimpeachable. I obtained a beautiful little small-necked, swollen-bodied bottle of the most exquisite light blue and pearl iridescence,