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 258 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9» s. vi. SEPT. 29, im LOCAHD AND THE HEART OF ROBERT BRUCE (9th S. vi. 186).—In connexion with this sub- ject it may not be amiss to refer to 'The Heart of the Bruce,' one of W. Edmon- stoune Ay toun's ballads in ' The Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers,' a volume of delightful verse which is not now so well known as it ought to be, or as it was fifty years ago. ASTARTE. ORIGIN OF MARYLAND (9th S. vi. 87,173).— The name of Maryland has no reference to Marie, Mere de Dieu, but was named by Charles I. after his queen Henrietta Maria. Leonard Calvert, son of the first Lord Balti- more, and first Governor, paid his respects to the former by naming what was then a trading station, called Yowaccomoco or Yao- comico, St. Mary, because of its charming and eligible situation. The charter reads :— " We [King Charles] erect and incorporate the same into a province, and nominate the same Mary- land, by which name We will that it shall from henceforth be called." In the original Latin of the charter it is called Terra Marias. A. B. Irvington, N.Y. THE TAAFE FAMILY (9th S. vi. 189).—Many articles have appeared in the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Series of 'N. & Q.' respecting this family. In 4th S. ix. 102 and 5th S. ii. 425 correspondents stated that the ' Memoirs of the Taaffe Family ' were privately printed at Vienna in 1856. 2nd S. x. 136 men- tions 'Illustrations of King James's Irish Army List, 1689-90,' by John D'Alton, of Dublin, wherein a memoir of the Taafe family extending over six pages will be found. This work may be of assistance to MR. HOPE. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 1 beg that I may be permitted to mention that 1 am much indebted to a learned corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' for a very kind and valuable communication on this subject, and especially with regard to Lieut-Col. Taaffe, of King James's Irish army, and his son Major Peter Taaffe (from whom I am descended), of Viscount Dillon's regiment of the Irish Brigade in the service of France. Until enlightened by MR. HERBERT B. CLAY- TON! was under the impression that Viscount Taaffe's 'Memoirs of the Taaffe Family' (1284- 1836), Vienna, 1856, were published^ in the German, and not in the English language. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same voice is in my ears That in my youth I heard. HENRY GERALD HOPE. Clapham, S.W. HERALDIC (9th S. vi. 211).—The coat is given by Papworth in its proper place, p. 947. An impaled coat if on a lozenge must be that of a widow. RICHARD R. HOLMES. Koyal Library. PAGINATION (9th S. vi. 147).—I have always been in favour of counting from the first page of the first sheet—I should now say whether there is any print on it or not. It is most necessary to number every page or else to put some ornament on it. In the ' Biblio- theca Collectanea' the late Mr. George Boase neither marked nor paged certain leaves which he enumerates as "blank columns" in his collation, p. vii. Being blank pages, the binder cut them all out. My copy I had of the author from time to time as printed, and when bound I took care these pages were not destroyed. It is probably the only perfect copy there is. I have looked at one of Mr. F. A. Crisp's works, 'List of Parish Registers,' 1899. I rather surprised after the praise given irpns full it to find it full of unnecessary marks of punctuation. For example, lines that have no continuation do not require a full stop to show that a word is finished. The address on an envelope, the word "contents," and the running headings require none. Moreover, the printing is much disfigured by great heavy black type, such as I com- mented on in 9th S. iv. 146, which gives enormous and unnecessary prominence to many words. The italics used throughout are not required for emphasis, and are therefore waste. But Mr. Crisp is not satisfied with italics, he puts black lines under them—in the marginal notes too, the most prominent position they could have. I observe also that letters after names, as M.A., F.S.A., are printed in the usual large type, and are more prominent than the names themselves. I notice two good points: Mr. Crisp has not punctuated the pagination nor the lists of proper names. It has been suggested to me by people who will not take the trouble to understand anything that I want to do away with punctuation, italics, black type, Ac., so it is necessary for me to explain that what I want is printing to be done in the most legible manner simply. I contend that the more a page is encumbered with black and with varieties of type the less legible it is and less pleasing in its appearance. RALPH THOMAS. "ALAMAINS" (9th S. vi. 129, 212).—"Ala- mains" in the phrase quoted at the first reference has nothing to do with Germans.