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 9«. s. iv. DEC. 9,-99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 485 fifth son, Earl of Leicester 1564-88, adopted the second crest and second badge. His sister Mary, wife of Sir Henry Sidney, would have no right to use the crests, but may have employed the badge (No. 1) to show to which family she appertained. JOHN RADCLIFFB. BENJAMIN HEATH, OF EXETER (9th S. iv. 379).—Benjamin Heath (of whom I possess a portrait) became Town Clerk of Exeter on 23 March, 1752, and died 13 September, 1766. His brother John was elected to the same post eight days later. Afterwards he became Recorder of Exeter (on 25 September, 1779), and less than a year later (8 July, 1780) a Judge of the Common Pleas. Ob. 16 January, 1816, cet. eighty-three. In the great hall of our old Guildhall here (built 1466) there is a fine life-sized painting of the former gentleman, with a record appended immediately underneath as follows:— "The Portrait of Benjamin Heath, LL.D. In virtue of a resolution of the Mayor and Chamber, 22 Sept', 1766. This able lawyer was the Town Clerk of Exeter for 14 years, ana was Uncle to the late Judge Heath. Died 13 Sept', 1766, cet. 63. Painted by R. E. Pyne." In the Act Book of the Chamber, No. 12, fol. 291, occurs the following :— "22 Sept', 1766.—Resolved unanimously that a full-length portrait of Benjamin Heath, Esq., late Town Clerk of this city, from an original painting, be copied by Mr. Pyne and fixed in a conspicuous part of the Guildhall to perpetuate his memory and testify the obligations of this body to the un- wearied exertion of his great abilities in that office." This portrait was engraved in mezzotint by J. Dixon. The artist Mr. Pyne (in other records rendered Pine) was a native of London. According to one writer he died 1790, cet. forty -eight; another authority (Naylor) gives the date as 1795 and the age sixty-five. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. A catalogue of the library of the Rev. Benjamin Heath, D.D., dated London, 1810, is in the library of the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, E.G., and may be of assistance to your correspondent. Much information respecting Dr. Heath will also be found in ' N. <fe Q.,' 2nd S. viii. 400. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. The following may intimate that Samuel Baker had the books catalogued in the manner mentioned either through ignorance or to increase the monetary value of the stock. Allibone, Halkett and Laing, March- mont, Lowndes, Watt, and Crabb give Ben- jamin as the author of 'A Revisal of Shake- speare's Text,' 1765, and do not assign the authorship of the latter to him. Allibone Watt, Lowndes (under Mob'), Cotton'seditions of the Bible, 1852, state that his brother Thomas wrote a version of the Book of Job, 1756. The 'General Catalogue of Books, 1700-79,' gives no author for the first men tioned and only Heath to the second. JOHN RADCLIFFE. " INDE-BAUDIAS " (9th S. iv. 147, 216). —Is it not possible that the element "baudias " or "baunias" may be simply a corruption of "banian " or "banya," a name which, though properly belonging only to a particular merchant caste, was formerly used generally by European writers and applied by them to the Hindus of Western India ? E. M. MACPHAIL. Madras. "BARD WIF," Ac. (9th S. iv. 247, 316).— 2. " Ane burd of belt" is probably the border or edging of the belt. See ' H.E.D.,' s.v. Board.' Q. V. THE ANTIQUITIES OF EAST LONDON (9th S. iv. 145, 215, 315, 38(i).—I am afraid I cannot tell MR. HEBB much about the house in Bromley he mentions. When I was a boy this house was occupied by Mr. Coney, a patent still manufacturer. Mr. Cofley had children, and possibly some of them could be found by applying to Messrs. John Dore <fe Co., High Street, Bromley, who, I see by the ' London Directory,' are successors to Messrs. Eneas Coffey & Sons. O. S. T. " FETCH " (9th S. iv. 418).—This word is pro- Dably related to the Danish vette and the [celandic vcettr, meaning a wight, an elf, a supernatural being. The superstition of the "fetch" is not peculiarly Iiish, though the powerful novel of the "O'Hara Family" is rounded on the superstition as it prevails in Ireland. The "fetch" is supposed to appear just when the person whose "counterfeit presentment" it is happens to be at the point of death. The Scottish " wraith " is practically identical with the "fetch." The English words "fetch-candle" and "fetch- light " may be compared with the Danish vettelyi and the Norwegian I'etttlgos. The fetch myth existed in England so far back at least as the eleventh century—probably much earlier. Tylor, in his ' Primitive Culture." refers to the incident of the Earl of Cornwall having met the fetch of William Rufus. It may be fanciful to connect the word "fetch" with "fetish" but the two words are somewhat similar, both in form and