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NOTES. AND QUERIES. [9- s. vm. SEPT. 28, 1901.

Maverick, pastor of the emigrants, was pre- viously "a famous preacher of Exeter, and believe the only Puritan divine who was not formally deposed for his Nonconformity.

The most extensive pedigree of the Devon branch which I have seen is contained in Col. J. L. Vivian's 'Devonshire Pedigree ; and the letters to 'N. & Q.' by FKANK SCOTT HAYDON on his father's ancestry give a few more details. But I have been unable to find any information as to the junior members of the family who are named in the heraldic Visitations of Devon, as well as by Westcote, Prince, Guillim, et al., and who may have originated the families of their name living in Somerset and Dorset during the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.

I shall be very pleased to correspond hereon with any of the readers of * N. Q.' who bear our name or are interested in this family, for I am gathering materials for a history which shall remove these hypotheses, and settle also the question of the family origin, whether it came from Southern Normandy directly to the lands owned in Devonshire by the Abbey of St. Mary of Rouen, or from the manor on the " high down " in Norfolk. Morant writes in his ' History of Essex' that this manor was owned by a family named Pycot or Picott, some of whom are named in the ancient records only by their Christian names, plus " de Haydon," as were the first members of our family. But the heirs of Pycot died out circa 1300, so that if we came thence it must have been as a younger branch, and the heraldry shows no signs of relation- ship. N. W. J. HAYDON.

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LATIN MOTTO (9 th S. vii. 368). A learned friend of mine would regard "fiducia" as an ablative, and would render the sense of the words somewhat freely thus: " Science, filled with confidence, may bid defiance" i.e., may confidently bid defiance to all comers, pre- senting a sort of play on the name of the ship. He would reject the variant altogether as an error. I admit that it is strange that there should be various readings of the inscription in different parts of the ship, yet I see no reason for rejecting the variant, " Scientia fiducia plenus provocare," which might be rendered thus : "He who is filled with science may with confidence bid defiance." I offer these remarks for what they are worth, which is perhaps not much. The words are probably a quotation from some old writer on science or philosophy ; hence their elliptical and somewhat unusual form. PATRICK MAXWELL.

'SHODDY" CLOTH BINDINGS (9 th S. vi. 226). The note at the above reference impresses upon literary students examples of red tape leading to unnecessary expense on this very matter of shoddy bindings. The valuable and much handled volumes issued from H.M. Stationery Office the 'Calendars of State Papers,' for instance are bound in shoddy green cloth bindings which soon fall to pieces. These are paid for by the Treasury in the Stationery Office account. The copies for the British Museum, after a brief existence on the shelves, are protected from total destruction by being rebound in the stout red covers which last for years. These are paid for by the Treasury out of the British Museum grant. At the Record Office a similar state of affairs is seen. After a short career in green shoddy cloth the Calendars are rebound in the stout marble back covers, which are paid for by the Treasury out of the Record Office grant. Thus the Treasury pays twice for binding every volume. If they were bound in red tape at the beginning it would be cheapest in the end, for no onslaught, however violent, would make any impression. AYEAHR.

New Cross, S.E.

'PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMIC^' (9 th S. viii. 81, 191). It appears that the fifth edition of this work was issued with various title-pages. My copy is identical with that described by MR. G. H. THOMPSON, except that the ' Urn Burial ' has pp. vi (unnumbered) and 29, and that 'The Garden of Cyrus' has a separate title-page : " By Tho. Brown D. of Physick. | London, | Printed in the Year 1668"; and following this title-page are let in two plates, one illustrating the urns, the other the quincunx. The pagination is continued on from the ' Urn Burial' through 'The Garden of Cyrus 'in all pp. 70. The copy described by MR. RICHARD EDGCUMBE appears to have no ' Marginal Observations and Table Alpha- betical,' no ' Urn Burial ' or ' Garden of Cyrus,' and no portrait. A note of my own says : "In Atkinson's 'Medical Bibliography' the work is described as 'PseudodoxiaEpidemica, 5 th Edition. For the Assignees of E. Dodsley, London, 4 to, 1699,' and he adds, 'In one I possess is written, "Very scarce, only 300 printed." It contains a port*, the Urn Buryal and Garden of Cyrus.'" The portrait is by F. H. van Hove. GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

" LA-DI-DA " (9 th S. vii. 425 ; viii. 19). Not less memorable than the other examples already cited in ' N. & Q.' is the following^ from a parody of Tennyson's 'May Queen' continuation 'New Year's Eve,' entitled