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 9"1 S. IV. Oct. 7, '99.] 293 NOTES AND QUERIES. always supposed it to be a standard weight, indicating what a good half-guinea ought to weigh. It would no doubt have been very useful to have a set of such weights, in the deplorable condition of the currency of the last century, and particularly in the case of the "Portugal pieces," which were made current by proclamation in 1739. S. G. Hamilton. Iioos and Cromwell Families (9th S. iv. 229). —Will the name Trusbut throw any light on the ownership of the third shield ? The ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' xi. 704, has : " The water budget or bucket is an early charge identified with the names Ros and Rose. Ros however, got it from the Trusbuts of Belvoir, who possibly bore it as lords of Watre in Holdemess." Arthur May all. The Bottle at Ship Launches (9th S. iv. 228). — For the customs observed at the christening of new vessels, see ' N. & Q.' 9th S. i. 269, 317, 373. Everaed Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Daniel's 'Sonnets to Delia' (9th S. iv. 101, 170, 209).—I would venture to suggest that the process of painting on floods is analogous to that of writing in water. The poet has already compared his verse to a river, and he here indicates that to pour his lamentations upon its stream is as useless as to pour paint upon floods. " Cry to the air " is an obvious refer- ence to the echo. If " pant" be preferred, the imagery will be that of a spent swimmer panting for breath. In a subsequent sonnet the poet compares himself to " Leander striving in these waves." Alfred E. Thiselton. Artists' Mistakes (9th S. iv. 164, 237).—A record of the mistakes made by artists and book illustrators would fill many volumes. No doubt most readers of 'N. & Q.' could supply a number of instances. A rather amusing blunder is made in the edition of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' published in "Bohn's Novelists' Library," and now bearing the imprint of Messrs. George Bell & Sons; the copy in ray possession has the date 1891. The reprint in the "Novelists' Library" must have gone through many editions; it is therefore strange that the error was not observed and rectified. In chap. i. Mrs. Stowe introduces Harry, the child of Eliza, a beautiful quadroon, and George Harris, a bright and talented young mulatto. Harry is described in the texr as "a remarkably beautiful and engaging quadroon boy, between four and five years of age." The artist in the accompanying illustration, 'Eliza's Child dancing to amuse Mr. Haley,' depicts Harry as perfectly black. This error is absurd enough; but it is the more ludicrous because Harry appears in other illustrations, but is always portrayed with a fair face. F. A. Russell. At the end of December, 1875, or begin- ning of January, 1876, the Illustrated London News contained a picture showing the Prince of Wales knighting Mr. W. H. Gregory, Governor of Ceylon, the Prince being repre- sented holding the sword in his left hancf Donald Ferguson. Croydon. Blunders by artists are not so unusual as Mr. Coleman seems to think. A curious one occurred in Tenniel's leading cartoon in Punch —one week in February, 1876—when that gifted draughtsman drew a crocodile, in whose open mouth may be seen a tongue, although, I take it, that animal possesses no such member. I could quote a score of such like mistakes in our illustrated weeklies and monthlies. Harry Hems. Fair Park, Exeter. Welsh Surnames (9th S. iv. 107, 216).—On this topic some interesting matter may be found from the pen of the late Mr. Askew Roberts, of Oswestry (first editor of Byegones), in an article on 'The Aps and Verchs of Welsh Pedigrees,' contributed by him in 1878 to the now very scarce first volume of the Cheshire Sheaf, edited by ray late father and your former contributor, Mr. Thomas Hughes, F.S.A. T. Cann Hughes, M.A. Lancaster. 'Nooks and Corners of Westminster Abbey ' (9th S. iii. 268).—At the above reference a query was raised as to a book being pub- lished under the above title. I have been on the look-out for it ever since, and all I can find is that an article with the exact title as given was published in the Christinas number of the English Illustrat-ed Magazine for the year 1890, from the pen of the present Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Farrar), at that time Archdeacon of Westminster and rector of St. Margaret's, the illustrations being by Herbert Railton. W. E. Harland-Oxley. 14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W. Earls of St. Pol (9th S. iv. 169).—In Anquetil's ' History of France,' vol. iv. p. 234, I find the following :— " Le due de Bedford avait perdu sa femme, sceur du due de Bourgogne, et venait de former de nou- veaux nceuds avec Jacqueline de Luxembourg, niece du comte de Ligny, et soeur du fameux comte de Saint-Pol, depuis connetable de France."