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 392 NOTES AND QUERIES. p» s. vi. NOV. 17. woo. sort of metallic rattle used by the priests of Isis in religious festivals. The meaning appears to me that Sir Walter revived the old legendary poetry. If there is a mistake in transcribing and we substitute sistrp for istro, the difficulty vanishes. The sistrum seems to have been peculiar to the Egyptians. " Regina " is, of course, Cleopatra. Q. T. SHERBORN. Twickenham. [But sixtro does not scan, and we can hardly believe that the line is not a hexameter. The general sense is clear; not so the suitability of svtirum in the connexion.] LOCARD AND THE HEART OF ROBERT BRUCE (9th S. vi. 186, 258).—There is that concerning the name Locard before 1330 which satisfac- torily disposes of the fable of its origin. It is a curious coincidence, however, that the first record of it should be in association with the Bruce family. In the year 1166 Simon Locard witnessed at Loehmaben a charter by King William the Lion of Scot- land granting to Robert de Brus and his heirs the lands of Annandale. It is again met with in 1278, when Lokard is men- tioned as one of the seven coparceners, mostly Scottish, in the harony of Levington, in Cumberland. The seat of those early Locards is clearly established through a charter dated Loehmaben, 15 February, 1307, by which Sir Humphrey de Bohun, Ear of Hereford and Essex, Lord of Annandale, gave his re- tainer Sir Bartholomew Denefaud 40 marks land in Annandale, viz., Hotone (Button' and Lokardebi (Lockerby=dwelling-place oi Locard). WALTER M. GRAHAM EASTON. The name Lockheart is merely a variety oi a name variously spelt Locard, Lokhert, Lockard, <fec. The tradition of the change oi spelling by Sir Simon Locard from his having carried back the heart of the Bruce from Spain is a fancy, probably of comparatively recent date, as Sir Simon, in a deed in 1339 has his name spelt Loccard. A Simon Locarc appears in Scotland in 1166, and the same form of the name in Ireland in 1201, when Jordan Locard has livery of the lands o Oabert Locard, his father (Oblata Rolls). J. G. WALLACE-.TAMES. Haddington. OCTOPUS FIGURED ON POTTERY (9th S. vi 309). — The octopus figures largely in th Far East, and such a design as is here defined was printed in the Animal World vol. ii. p. 156, July, 1871. I had previously drawn the attention of Victor Hugo to thi subject in connexion with his ' Toilers of thi Sea,' and I have his autograph letter in acknowledgment, dated from the Channel 'slands when there in exile. The octopus may represent the Typhon, or preferably Dython, of legend. A. HALL, SOURCE OF QUOTATION (9th S. vi. 329).— The lines on the daisy are the fabrication of "ound in Oakley's ' Catholic Florist,' p. 36. H. N. E. [Answered also by C. C. B.] CAPT. JAMES WALLER HEWITT (8th S. v. 208). —The Gentleman's Magazine for 1844, p. 88, rives the following marriage : "23 Jan., 1844. At Kennington, John Waller Hewett, Esq., of Fareham, Hants, to Elizabeth-Catherine, [loyal Art." Another account describes the bridegroom as late Lieut. 1st Foot. But John Waller Hewett is probably a mistake for James Waller Hewett (or Hewitt). Old Army Lists mention only the latter. He was in the 1st Foot (Royal Scots): Second Lieut., 9 May, 1811 ; Lieut., 7 July, 1813 ; placed on half-pay, 24 January, 1818 ; died in 1868. I should be much obliged for any further information about the above marriage. Please reply direct. CHARLES PARTRIDGE, Jun. Stowmarket, Suffolk. A JEU D'ESPRIT (9th S. v. 167).—The ingenious parody of the methods of the higher criticism of the Hexateuch as to which I inquired is, I find, entitled ' Romans Dissected : a Critical Analysis of the Epistle to the Romans,' by E. D. McRealshara, and is published by T. <fe T. Clark. What is the real name of the author ? Q. V. OLD WOODEN CHEST (9th S. v. 88, 196, 275, 405).—At Betchworth Church, in Surrey—a spacious atone building, mainly Early English, but with Saxon, Norman, Decorated, and Per- pendicular features—a very remarkable iron- bound old chest exists. It is about seven feet three inches long, and is hewn out of the trunk of an oak tree. HARRY HEMS. HUISH (9th S. v. 475 ; vi. 95, 154,231, 297).— It is evident that MR. REICHEL has not seen ray reply to CANON TAYLOR, ante, p. 231. If he will kindly read it he will find most of his remarks on the Devonshire Huishes already answered, and I have only to repeat that they were manors named from their owners ; whereas the only two parishes in England called Huish, viz., Episcopi and Champflower, are manifestly water-bounded. I have maintained them to be Celtic names, and the manner in which a later distinctive
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