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 428 vi. DEC. i, woo. NOTES AND QUERIES. " 1613, W. Browne, ' Brit. Past,,' i. v. 382: "Th sacred Trine did bring Us out of bonds, from blood Bonnering.' " "1627, Bp. Halj, 'Holy Panegyr.,' 482: 'No Bon nermg or butchering of Gods saints.'" Finally, the late Canon Bardsley in hi English Surnames' gives "Bonner" unde Nicknames ' as the equivalent of Debonaii lion-ccnir, Goodhart, Gentle. A. R. BAYLEY. WE must request correspondents desiring infer niation on family matters of only private interes to amx their names and addresses to their queries in order that the answers may be addressed to then direct. MULLEN. —This word appears in many o the glossaries of Midland and Southern dia lects in the sense of the headgear of a horse the bridle of a cart-horse. I cannot find the word in any dictionary, nor any instance o: its occurring in literature, nor its etymology Information on any of these points woulc greatly oblige. A. L. MAYHEW. " MUNSIE."—This word is said to be apolied t° the knave in a pack of cards in BanSshire and Aberdeenshire. Is the word known in this sense in any other part of Scotland ? In- formation copied from Jamieson not required What is the etymology of munsie t „, , A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. PASSAGES IN BULWER LYTTON.—I should be obliged to you if you could tell me through N. & O. where in Bulwer Lytton's writings are to be found "A thousand workmen toiled to build Versailles" and "leaped like a roe- buck from the plain." S. SKULLS FOUND IN VICTORIA STREET WEST- MINSTER,-! have been informed by Prof. Cross (of phrenological fame) that the work- men, while digging the trench for the tele- phone wires in this street, opposite his premises, a few weeks ago, turned up several skulls and some bones. He says that the skulls show signs by fractures. &c., that death had been evidently caused by foul means Can any reader of ?N. & Q.' throw light upon the matter? SILAS T. HOWE (of Chicago). Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue, W.C. AUTHOR WANTED.-Can any one give name ot author (or occasion for writing) of " Les Vrais Quakers, ou les Exhortations, Ha- rangues, et Predictions a un Mediant ±rere,specialement au sujet de ses Maximes sur le Luxe," die., " A Londres, M.D.C c LXX " ? To this is added "Extrait d'un Discours, ou le Parallele a Londres," same date and also with pagination continuing, but beginning a sepa- rate sheet " Correspondence entre un Oncle et son Neveu, ou Pieces Critiques, Morales et Philosophiques. A Londres (et se vend) a Bruxelles, chez Antoine D'ours, Imprimeur- Libraire. M.D.C.C.LXX." The Society of Friends has just purchased a copy. It does not seem to be in the British Museum. NORMAN PENNEY. Friends' Central Offices, Bishopsgate, E.C. ARMORIAL. — I have an oval silver and tortoiseshell family snuff-box, with arms engraved on lid as follows: Party per pale, charged with embattled chevron gules, between three Cornish choughs or moorcocks argent, impaling a lion rampant azure in chief or. As I have not been able to discover any particulars of them, I shall feel greatly obliged if some reader of ' N. & Q.' can throw light on them and the significance of the upper part of the impaled arms being displayed in chief. They will, no doubt, be found in the Visitation of Essex prior to 1800. The name on the box is Henry Goody, Romfoi'd, Essex. HENRY GOODY. Colchester. SOURCE OF SONG WANTED.— Vly life is full of thee; each bird that wingeth Across my vision bears my love to thee; ^o sight of beauty but thy presence bringeth, I seek thee as the streamlet seeks the sea. Though sundered far, there is no separation Between my heart and thine; though ocean roll, Though even death should intervene to part us, We have a trysting-place where soul meets soul. WEEKES & Co. 14, Hanover Street, Regent Street, W. DAVISON, co. CUMBERLAND. — Wanted a >edigree of Davison of Carlisle. I have those rom Northumberland. E. E. COPE. THE MARBLE ARCH.—Now that this well- cnown London landmark is, as said by some, ibout to disappear, it would be interesting to enow whether there is any truth in the oft- epeated statement that the cost of its erec- ion was defrayed out of a sum of money paid o George IV. by the French Government in •ecompense for the confiscation of the old English College at Douai during the French [evolution. This is certainly very commonly elieved by London Catholics, and I heard it isserted frequently when I was at Douai orae twenty years since. Can any reader of N. & Q.' throw any light on this report? .n old London priest to whom I put the uestion has assured me that the arch was