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arms. The coat quoted by your correspond- ent was that of Llewellyn ap Griffith, Prince of North Wales, afterwards assumed by Owen Glendower. The red dragon is taken from a standard Per fesse argent arid vert, a dragon passant gules, but this was not a coat of arms. The red dragon on a mount vert is a badge, and as such (and as the badge of Wales) forms a part of the present complete royal achieve-

'). It was first borne by Henry VII., the white and green of the stan- dard being the livery colours of the house of Tudor. It is sometimes referred to as the dragon of Cadwallader. The red dragon of Wales is the only royal badge which is not surmounted by a royal crown. The reason, of course, is that Wales is only a principality and not a kingdom. A curious side of the agitation for " the arms of Wales " to have a place upon the royal shield is the fact that if effect is to be given to the wishes of Wales it will be first necessary to grant arms for Wales. A. C. FOX-DAVIES.

"COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS" (9 th S. iv. 534 ; v. 46, 195). Care w, the historian of Cornwall, writing circa 1590, used this phrase in elaborate fashion in describing Mount Edgcumbe :

" If comparisons were as lawfull in the making as they prooue odious in the matching, I would presume to ranke it for health, pleasure, and com- modities, with any subject's house of [its owner's] degree in England."

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

"A brief comparison betwixt the bishops of our time, and the bishops of the primitive church. Chap, viii.

"I know that comparisons be odious, neither \vould 1 use them at this time, but that I am there- unto (as it were) compelled by the uncharitable dealing of T. C." Abp. Whitgift's * Defence of the Answer to the Admonition,' 1574 (Parker Society's Whitgift, vol. ii. p. 434).

J. P. OWEN.

NEHEMIAH WELLINGTON (9 th S. v. 187). He was a distinguished Puritan, born 1598, died 1658, author of 'Historical Notes and Meditations, 1583-1649,' and * Wallington's Journals, 1630.' The first-named work was published 1869, in 2 vols., edited by Miss R Webb, with the title 'Historical Notices oi Events occurring chiefly in the Reign oJ Charles I.' See '"Diet. Nat. Biog.'

HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

An inquiry appeared in 'N. & Q.,' l sfc S. v 489, for the 'Journal' of Mr. Nehemiah Walling ton, written in the year 1630. By

a reply (p. 569) the volume was in the Dossession of MR. J. GODWIN, of 28, Upper jrower Street. Is this the MS. published 3y Bentley in 2 vols., 1869? It was reviewed n 4 th S. v. 189, and was said to have been edited by a Miss Webb.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

ARMS ON THE BAR GATE OF SOUTHAMP- TON (9 th S. v. 89). MR. A. F. CURWEN will ind an interesting account of the above in

B. W. Greenfield's 'The Heraldry and Ex- terior Decorations of the Bar Gate, South- ampton,' 8vo. 1875. Doubtless it may be seen in the British Museum. VICAR.

SIR CHARLES CARTERET (9 th S. v. 187). This gentleman was of ancient descent from bbe Channel Islands, and son of Sir Philip

arteret ; both were baronets, but their title died out in 1715. They were also nearly related to another Sir Philip, who married Pepys's "Lady Jemima," from which union descended the Earls of Granville, extinct in 1776, and the Barons of Carteret, extinct also in 1776. They were represented later by the Thynne family, Marquesses of Bath, and by Scott of Scott's Hall. The details might fill thirty-two pages of ' N. & Q.' A. H.

A COINCIDENCE IN REGARD TO THE WASH- INGTON FAMILY (9 th S. i. 467 ; ii. 98, 472). This subject is exhaustively treated by Prof.

C. A. L. Totten, formerly of Yale College, but now of New Haven, Conn.. U.S., in his work on ' The Great Seal of the United States,' vol. i. pp. 32-37. The book, in two volumes, was published in America, but may be bought of Messrs. R. Banks & Son, 5, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, E.C. JOHN P. STILWELL.

MOGUL CARDS (6 th S. xi. 428, 472). In J. T. Atkyns's 'Reports of Cases argued and de- termined in the High Court of Chancery, in the Time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke,' will be found (ii. 484) the case of Blanchard v. Hill, 18 Dec., 1742 :

" A motion was made on behalf of the plaintiff for an injunction to restrain the defendant from making use of the Great Mogul as a stamp upon his cards, to the prejudice of the plaintiff, upon a suggestion that the plaintiff had the sole right to this stamp.

The plaintiff alleged, that he had invented the

mark, and it was approved and allowed of to him by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Company of makers of playing cards of the city of London.

This allegation is recorded in ' Reg. Lib.,' a. 1742, fol. 28. This register will probably be found at the Public Record Office, and there should be some evidence in the MSS. of