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 98. IX. APRIL 26, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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And elsewhere he says :

" The Wykehams, an Oxfordshire family whose remotest ancestor is supposed to have lived in the time of King John, are found bearing the present arms of New College with red chevronels, and the great Bishop of Winchester, whether his connexion with the family is clearly to be shown or not, adopted them, with the black ordinaries as a dis- tinction, both for his College of St. Mary the Virgin of Winchester in Oxford, and for his College of St. Mary the Virgin in Winchester."

The great building bishop is supposed to have been the son of a carpenter, one John Longe, and some Heralds have asserted "that in these arms we have the chevronels used in their primitive form as rafters or braces to indicate a mighty builder"; but the above quotation is sufficient to rebut this pleasing fiction.

With regard to the paternal arms of Bishop Waynflete who, like Wykeham, as was indeed usual with ecclesiastics, took his surname from the place of his birth Mr. H. A. Wilson, in his recent (1899) * History of Magdalen,' contends that " the earliest representations of the coat [e.g., that on Waynflete's episcopal seal, and that on the seal of his College] show the rhombi in the ' lozenge,' not in the ' fusil ' form, having their horizontal diameter about equal to their sides. But this use of the arms appears to have had no sanction by way of grant or confirmation till 1574, when Richard Lee, Portcullis, describes himself as having 'rati- fied, confirmed, and recorded ' in his ' Visitacion made of the Universitie' a coat which he declares to be ' thauncient Armes belonginge ' to the College.

Lee's drawing and attestation are preserved in

the College of Arms : the field, in this drawing, is manifestly lozengy, and the lilies on the chief are argent, stalked and seeded or. This last feature (probably a slight variation from Waynflete's arms, intentionally made by Portcullis in ' confirming ' a coat used without authority) appears in one or two representations not only of the College arms, but of the arms of the Founder (distinguished by the presence of the Garter, or of a mitre) in the glass of the Hall windows."

Mr. W. H. St. John Hope gives the first shield of King's College, Cambridge, the sister of Eton, from the seal made in 1443, and still in use, as Sable, a mitre pierced by a crozier(sic, pastoral staff?), for St. Nicholas, between two lily flowers proper, for Our Lady ; a chief per pale azure, with a fleur-de- lis of France, and gules a lion of England.

The present arms, granted in 1449, are Sable, three roses argent ; the chief as before.

A. R. BAYLEY.

" ENDORSEMENT " : " DORSO - VENTRALITY " (9 th S. ix. 64, 212)." It is not essential to the validity of an endorsement that it should be on the back of a bill or note ; it may equally well be on the face " 4 Byles on Bills,' p. 176

(16th edition, 1899), citing R. v. Bigg in 1717, where the head-note (1 Str. 18) is, "The writing cross the face of a bank-note is properly called an indorsement." In old cases even signatures on the face of a negotiable instrument are (I think) some- times so called. Another decision to the same effect as that cited is in ex parte Yates (2 De G. and J. at 192) in 1857. And so Judge Willis ('Negotiable Securities,' 1896, lecture v., first paragraph) :

"I am bound to tell you that an acceptance may be as well on the back as on the face of the bill, and that which people call an endorsement may be on the face of the instrument. Still I myself have never seen a bill of exchange in which the accept- ance was not on the face of it ; I have never seen an endorsement which was not on the back."

HERMAN COHEN.

GREEK EPIGRAM (9 th S. ix. 147, 273). MR. STRONG'S, MR. WAINE WRIGHT'S, and MR. AXON'S replies (not mine) are, of course, correct. Of the Ep. v. 95, imitated by Swift, the follow- ing anonymous translation, which appeared in the London Magazine, February, 1734, is included in Dr. Wellesley's 'Anthologia Polyglotta':

Cyprus must now two Venuses adore, Ten are the Muses, and the Graces four. So charming Flavia's wit, so sweet her face, She 's a new Muse, a Venus and a Grace.

This version, by Prof. Goldwin Smith, of the Ep. of Callimachus (v. 146) is given in the same collection :

The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more ; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair : were she Away the Graces would no Graces be.

Dr. Burges has another by F. H. M. :

Four are the Graces. With the three of old Be Berenice's heavenly form enrolled, Breathing forth odours. They no more would be Graces themselves without her company.

J. MAC-CARTHY.

SIR WALTER SCOTT (9 tb S. iii. 346, 434; iv. 31, 134). The play upon the words O-KOTOS and CTKOTIO. in the epigram on Scott occurs also in the following elegiac distich on Buchanan by Johannes Lundorpius. I copy it from an edition of Buchanan s ' Poemata, 1 published at Amsterdam in 1687. It is to be found near the beginning of the book among other "virorum doctorum de Buchanano testimonia " : Kai>, BuKai/ai/e, trarpts SKOTOJ aroi, Kav ovo[A.ay

2v 2/COTOS, OV 0-KOTOS ?, aAAtt Oa>S SfCOTlTfS.

Possibly Lundorp wrote e?s.

EDWARD BENSLY. The University, Adelaide, South Australia.