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 9*s. vi. JULY H, ISM.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 27 from time to time from Ireland, were some of the best troops in the French army, and it has been computed that between the years 1691 and 1745 no leas than 450,000 Irishmen died in the service of France! By the departure of these voluntary exiles Ireland lost the l>est of her children ! " Ahno*t the whole of the Roman Catholic Nobility ami gentry were to be found among*! the officer* of the Irixh Army ; and the rank and file were largely made up of the. yoimyer *otix, brother*, and tenantry of thf. officer*. Forfeiture of estates was the penalty for treason ; but here it was the penalty for being worsted in a stand-up fight. The Irish had adhered to the king dejure, and had never owned allegiance to the king de facto. "Precluded from all hope of distinction in their own country, the Irish Roman Catholics took service abroad, and rose to the highest ]x>sitions in the civil, military, and diplomatic services at Paris, Rome, Vienna, and Madrid. [The italics are mine.] We "11 root usurpation Entirely from the nation, And cause the restoration Of James, our lawful king." HENRY GERALD HOPE. Clapham, S.W. •units. WE must request correspondents desiring infor mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. ARMS AND QUARTERINOS IN THE WARWICK- SHIRE VISITATION OF 1619.—I should be most grateful for any information on the points raised below. I have, of course, with refer- ence to arms in the ' Warwickshire Visitation of 1619' (Harleian Society, vol. xii.), consulted Papworth's 'Armorial,' Burke's 'Armory,'and Dugdale's 'Warwickshire,' but so far as I know they give no help. P. 14. Barry of ten argent and gules within a bordure azure charged with eight martlets or. — Quartered by Griffith, and apparently brought in by Somervill. P. 18. Azure, a cross-crosslet or, a label of three points argent.—Quartered by Holte of Aston, anc attributed to Grimsard or Grimsarwe, which I take to be the same as Grimshaw. But l,cannot fine such arms attributed elsewhere to any family o Grimshawe or any such name; and the pedigree shows that the Hultes were not descended from the Urimsarils mentioned in it. P. 18. Argent, four bars engrailed, and a canton gules.—Quartered by Holte of Aston, and at tribute* to the name of Maidenhache. It is possible thaf the Grimsards weru descended from Thomas di Maidenhache, and that the Holtes, probably ir error, assumed the quartet-ings of both. P. '-"-' Gules, two lions passant argent, debrnisec byabend; followed by two lions passant.—These two coats are quartered by " Richard Carles alias Charles of Stratford (upon Avon)." Fetherstoc suggests that they are for Strange and Camvile bat I cannot imagine how Richard Carles came t uarter them. His arms are attributed by Pap- worth to Norfolk and London families named Charles. P. 28. Argent, a bend gules within a bordure hecky argent and azure.—Quartered by Grevill of dilcott. P. 37 a fess, and in chief three escallops able. — Quartered by Langley of Knolton (? in Lent). P. 52. Argent, on a bend sable three crosses moline of the field.—Quartered by Charnells, and uggested to be for Chernock, but no such match hown in the pedigree. P. 54. Sable, threelionscrowned, passant guardant, n pale argent. — Displayed on an escutcheon of >retence by Mountford of Kingshurst, but for what reason and for whose arms intended I cannot magine. P. 72. Ermine, on a bend engrailed azure three nnquefoils or.—Quartered by Arden of Park Hall. and said to be for "Fishyer," but I know of no uch family, and the coat appears to be that of Jeaufov or Cokesey. P. 100. (1) Gules, a lion rampant ermine, followed >y (2) Gules, a fess or, between six martlets argent.— Quartered in this order by Burdett of Arrow, (1) >eing said to be for Bruin, and (2) another coat of Burdett. But on p. 26. where Burdett and quarter- ngs are quartered by Conway, (2) is said to be for Bruin, and it is followed by Azure, a lion rampant argent, gutti1 de sang, which is said to be for Bereffora, hut is suspiciously like a mistaken version of (1). P. 120. Quarterly of four: (1) Argent, two bars izure, and in chief three hurts: (2) Azure, a fess or, 1>H wcrn three crescents argent; (3) Barry wavy, over all a bond ; (4) A lion rampant.—The first coat is said to be for Poynton ; but if the accompanying pedigree has anv relation to the arms drawn, the first coat should be Wittlebury, which should quarter Poynton. I know nothing of either family or of the other two quarterings. W. F. C. (To be continued.) "LiNNARD-FEEL."—In Dean Burgon's 'MS. Glossary of Bedfordshire Words' I find that "the sensation of faintness which attends a cold perspiration is called 'a linnard-feel.'" Is this terra still heard in Bedfordshire or in the neighbouring counties? Any informa- tion on this point will be acceptable. A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY, died 1874 at the age of ninety-six. Can any one give me the name and address of his representative? A memoir, by his daughter, appeared in 1877 ; but Messrs. Blackwood, who published it, tell me that they do not now know even if Miss Schetky is still living. J. K. LAUOHTON. King's College, London. BOOKS ON VENEZUELA. — The Consul- General for Venezuela to Great Britain wishes to know where in London several manuscript books are, written by General