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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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These notes have been of great advantage to the writer of the following stones, and will probably at some future time be laid before the public as a col- lection of experiments upon a subject which has been hitherto treated theoretically.

Can any one inform me whether this register was ever published, or whether the original is still in existence ?

LIESE M, SHEERING. Willesden,

" TRES TOIS D'OR." In the Daily News of 27 December, 1898, the admirable Paris corre- spondent of that paper says that u in the dock Madame Paulmier," who shot and nearly killed a journalist, but was acquitted of the crime, " was pronounced * tres tois d'or,' the slang word that has replaced ' chic.' " As many other readers may, like me, be ignorant of the history and origin of this new expres- sion, it would be kind of some up-to-date Frenchman to explain it in 'N. & Q.' It seems that " chic," like " damns," has had its day. JULIAN MARSHALL.

BINGHAM ARMORIAL. Was this family name derived from the village of Bingham in Dorset ? Was the falcon crest anciently asso- ciated with that of Butler, which is iden- tical ? And had the Bingham shield, viz., Azure, a bend or between two bendlets or, a common origin with that of Le Grosveneur (Grosvenor), Azure, a bend orl The Norman Le Bouteilliers bore Azure, six chevronels or. The chevron is only another form of the bend. T. W. C.

DEVICE AND MOTTO. Around a cask, flaming at the top, the inscription VANGVT NI BESSES. This occurs in a carefully engraved title-page, Rome, 1568. Can an explanation be given ? RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

GODFREY Box AND THE SLITTING MILL. In Howe's 1631 edition of Stow's 'Annals' it is stated that

"the cutting of yron barres in a mill for the ready use of smiths to make long rods and all sorts of nayles was brought first into England in the year 1590 by Godfrey Box, of the Province of Liege ; who set up the first mill for that purpose neere ]3artforc in Kent."

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' furnish me with some confirmation of this statement, or with any information regarding Godfrey Box ' Most of the foreigners who came to Englanc in the reign of Elizabeth to establish new industries were more or less under Govern ment protection, and their names occur fre quently in the State Papers, Lansdowne or Hatfield MSS. But the only mention of a

Godfrey Box that I can find is in the 'Arch, Cantiana,' vol. xx., in a list of Kentish administrations taken from the Act Books of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. From this it appears that Godfrey Box, of Dartford, died in 1604, leaving two daughters. I may say that Bevis Bulmer obtained a patent for a slitting mill in 1588. RHYS JENKINS.

11, Staple Inn.

DAMAGE TO BRIDGE. The following warn- ing is to be seen affixed to the railings of a small bridge carrying the high road from Whetstone to Totteriage (Herts) over a small stream. The punishment seems to be so much out of proportion to the offence that I should like to Know if there was any special reason for its severity :

Notice. Middlesex to wit.

Any person wilfully injuring any part of this county bridge will be guilty of felony, and upon con- viction be liable to be kept in penal servitude for life.

the

By the Court. 24th and 25th Vic. cap. 97. RICH'D NICHOLSON.

WM. H. PEET.

"DiES GRETA NOTANDUS." The quotation is common, and the signification obvious ; but where is the first known instance of its use to be found 1 N. M. & A.

[Persius, v. 108, has the line- Ilia prius creta, mox hsec carbone notasti.]

THE SISTER CHURCHES. Where on the east coast were these] I wish to ascertain the place where a ship was wrecked in the fif- teenth century. The ship belonged to John Stamford, of Thornham, in Norfolk, and was " bryngyng seacole from Newcastell." At the time of the wreck the "ship was aventred iii inyle from the lond the Syster Churchis." A. R. MALDEN.

Salisbury.

[You know, it is to be supposed, that the Reculvers are called the Sisters.]

Miss SIBLEY. Mrs. Rathborne informs me that she is editing some letters written by Lady Jane Coke, sister of the Duke of Wharton, to an ancestress of hers, about the year 1750, and that these contain an account of Mr. Rivett's (my great-grandfather's) elec- tion for Derby, whilst mention is made of his marriage with the " celebrated Miss Sibley." My correspondent inquires whether it can be explained how Miss Sibley was celebrated, and adds that " two authorities mention the circumstance without explanation." _

My great-grandmother, Anna Maria Sibley was, according to Burke, the daughter of the