I am glad to be able to inform ANGLO-SCOTUS that, although I fear there is no photograph of them, a careful drawing of these arms, to the accuracy of which I can testify, has been taken by Mr. H. C. Pidgeon, and will be soon accessible to the public. At a recent meeting of the Archæo logical Association, Mr. Pidgeon read a very interesting paper on the Dunbar arms, and exhibited two drawings which he had taken-one of the arms, and another of the picturesque fragment of the castle which contained the arms. The paper, with engravings of the drawings, will appear in the next number of the Journal of the Association. There are good drawings of the ruins of Dunbar Castle in Grose's Antiquities of Scotland in Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities, and in his Provincial Antiquities. The engraving, p. 147, vol. ii. of the last work, is the best I have seen of Dunbar Castle. It is from a drawing by Turner. I have not met with any engraving of the arms. These works exhibit the state of the ruins before part of them was removed to make way for the entrance to the new harbour. In Scotland Delineated the drawing of Dunbar Castle shows the ruins as they appeared after the opening of the new harbour, and before the recent catastrophe. About eighteen months ago it was suggested to the authorities to make a few repairs, which might have saved the part which fell recently, and to get a photograph of the arms; but nothing was done. An "Old Mortality" Society for the preservation of relics seems much wanted.

As the two last-named works, in their accounts of the arms at Dunbar Castle, differ from each other as well as from the view I took in "N. & Q." of November 13, it may be well to enter a little further into the subject. Sir W. Scott, in the Provincial Antiquities, says that they were the arms of Alexander Duke of Albany (son of James II.), who was created Earl of March and had Dunbar Castle for a time. But this is scarcely

possible. In erecting his armorial bearings, Albany would never leave out those of his own family-the royal family; and the arms of Scotland were not among those on Dunbar Castle. Further, we know that Albany did place Scotland in the first quarter of his shield; the other th being Dunbar, Man, and Annandale, as in the three shields recently destroyed. His arms are described in Mr. Laing's Catalogue of Scottish Seals, and engraved in Mr. Seton's work on Scottish Heraldry, and are also on a stone in Trinity Church, Edinburgh. From the statements of Pennant and Grose, as well as from inquiries made at Dunbar, it may be considered certain that, within the last hundred years, there have been no shields on Dunbar Castle, save the three above-mentioned-Dunbar, Annandale, Man.

In Scotland Delineated the arms are said to be those of George, eleventh Earl of Dunbar, meaning thereby the second George, grandson of Agnes Randolph. He became earl on the death of his father, George, tenth earl, in 1420; and he was the last of this famous old line, being dispossessed of title and estates in 1434-5 by James I. Eleven years before he became earl, in 1409, on the restoration of his father, George, tenth earl, to his Scottish rights, the lordship of Annandale was not given back to him, but was transferred to the Earl of Douglas, and this powerful baron and his successors assumed the title of Lord of Annandale, and quartered the saltire and chief in their arms, as may be seen in Mr. Laing's valuable work referred to above. It may therefore be assumed, unless there be some positive proof to the contrary, that, after 1409, the Dunbars would not venture to quarter Annandale in their arms in defiance at once of the Regent and the most powerful of the Scottish nobles. Altogether it seems most probable that the Danbar arms were erected by the "illustrious traitor," as he has been termed

George the tenth earl, as he was the first of the family who could claim Dunbar, Annandale, and Man in his own right. He came to the earldom in 1369. From 1400 to 1409 he was in rebellion against Scotland; with the Percies, thrashing the Scotch at Homildon, and with his relative Henry IV., thrashing the Percies at Shrewsbury; and as, on his return to Scotland, Annandale was withheld from him, 1369-1400 seems the probable period of the erection of these arms. H. R.

THE STUARTS AND FREEMASONRY.

(4th S. iii. 532; iv. 20, 136, 536.) Agreeing with MR. PINKERTON as to the numerous literary and historical forgeries to be found in the ordinary books on Freemasonry, I would suggest to him that it does not necessarily follow that the body of Freemasons is to be charged with the authorship of these lies, but rather to be set down

"I am sure you'll allow that our list is complete,
And that many new features abound in our sheet;
And (although some are strange) that you'll freely
admit

To rank with their rum predecessors they're fit;
And that our friend Corkscrew (and few are so clever)
Can draw with as racy a spirit as ever:
Yes, at Phiz-ical fun he a dab may be reckon'd,
And be christen'd with justice 'Lavater the Second.'
Of his talents perhaps you may judge of the stretches,
From his Parish, as well as his Corporate Sketches,
And how well he can trace, with discernment acute,
From the General down to the rustic Recruit.
Such merit as his it is needless to push-
Good wine, we well know, never wanted a bush;
His high reputation we are sure he'll sustain,
And we hope he'll delight you again and again.
But we must not forget his high talented brothers-
Namely, Seymour and Chatfield, and Alken and
others,

Who have furnished (and smartly the thing has been done)

Many high-season'd dishes of frolic and fun."

Among the unnamed artists who contributed to this sheet must certainly be reckoned Kenny Meadows, as among the new phizzes furnished by this modern Lavater we recognise the first draughts of several that appeared later among the Heads of the People.'

SERIES V. Here "Jim Crow" makes his first appearance in the "Gallery," and ushers in the inimitable" Corporation Worthies of Kenny Meadows. Here, too, many sketches signed "J. L." give promise of the future excellence to be associated with the name of Leech, and are probably the earlier productions of that great artist's graphic pencil. The date of this sheet is May, 1837, and one of the sketches, entitled "What we are to come to; or, a Look into Futurity," is worth a passing notice. Here the foreground is occupied by a crowded assemblage of steam-carriages, steam-cabs, and steam-velocipedes; the waterways are traversed by steam-vessels, and the air is crowded by passenger-balloons, which are drawn along by steamers on land or water below. Beneath are the verses:

"Farewell to old travelling, and hail to the time

When cattle and drags will be quite superseded; And intellect's march, with a progress sublime, Shall still hasten forward, by nothing impeded. Of steam folks will then know the wonderful power, Applied in a manner ne'er thought of before; And travelling with ease fifty miles in an hour, May wonder their ancestors ever went slower."

SERIES VI. I must only say of this that it contains some most graphic heads. "The Gentleman that knows what Life is " is a fine specimen of flash rascality, and the one "Wot knows a 'Leetle,' and arn't to be had at any price," has an insolent leer on his broad vulgar face that is worth anything.

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SERIES VII. Here a bland accoucheur, in lation black, advancing with a baby in long clothes, symbolises the "triumphant delivery of the Seventh Bantling." At the corner of many of the sketches the well-known device of a leech in a bottle leaves no doubt as to their origin. Here too, possibly by the same facile pencil, though in no stray corner is the medicinal worm seen to wriggle, is a remarkable series of fourteen sketches, entitled "Ups and Downs of Life; or, Vicissitudes of a Swell," in which the career of the hero is traced from the "Farewell Spread" in the college-rooms, through many a scene of folly, vice, and extravagance, to the "Closing Scene" in the wards of a hospital. The verses by which this series is illustrated are worthy of their subject.

SERIES VIII. First and foremost here, a merry personage, ushering in a lad of similar type, asks "Here's my Eighth-will you stand for him?" Not I, for he's the worst of the family, and his elder brothers have run away with all the talent, and wit, and fun. This is a very poor sheet, and occasions no regret that it is the last: The fourth page is occupied by a series of "Twelfth Night Characters," destitute of point and humour, and with this the set concludes.

I may add that I have another "part 8," published by "William Caffyn, 31, Oxford Street, Mile End," containing a selection from several of the parts as originally issued. This was published at a penny, and must not be confounded with the earlier series.

I have also a few numbers of "Cleave's Gallery of Comicalities," a reproduction of the "Engravings that originally appeared in Cleave's Penny Gazette of Variety and Amusement." These designs are coarser in sentiment and inferior in execution, and bear, for the most part, the initials "C. J. G."

As I have spoken above of the small knowledge we possess of Robert, or more properly J. R. Cruikshank-the elder brother and former coadjutor of the more celebrated and still living George-I may add that he died of bronchitis, March 13, 1856, in the sixty-sixth year of his age; and that a kindly tribute to his character and genius, from the pen of his old friend Mr. George Daniel of Islington, will be found in that gentleman's little volume entitled Love's Last Labour not Lost, 12mo, London (Pickering), 1863, p. 173. WILLIAM BATES.

Birmingham.

GESENIUS AT OXFORD (4th S. iv. 478.) — Will any one inform me of the title of the Hebrew apocryphal work and its general contents which Gesenius is said to have come to Oxford to copy? Also where St. Paul alludes to it? L. R. J.

A BUNDLE OF OLD NEWSPAPERS: MIST THE PUBLISHER (4th S. v. i.)—I am glad to see your new volume open with the above, and do not designate DR. RIMBAULT a poacher on my manor. Nor do I wish to alarm you, Mr. Editor, when I say that if I had time I could send you from my collections an article per week for many years to come, made up of similarly interesting extracts from the old newspapers.

I write to correct what is little more than a slip of DR. RIMBAULT'S pen. Mr. Mist did not in February 1721 "suffer for conscience' sake."

A very large proportion of the subjects of the Elector Palatine were Protestants, but he had himself recently become a Roman Catholic; and, like a new convert, especially of that period, his zeal made him a persecutor. This is not the place to enlarge upon the extent of that persecution, but much more may be inferred from the two facts, that he prohibited them from using their Protestant catechism, and closed their usual places of public worship. After much suffering they appealed to the Emperor, and King George I., as Elector of Hanover, used his influence in their favour, and was greatly instrumental in procuring a restoration of their religious freedom.

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Mist was a Protestant, but so much in the of the Jacobites as to publish a paragraph full of sneers, insinuations, and treasonable reflections on the King's conduct in this matter. Some particulars of his offence, trial, and punishment may be found in my Life of Daniel Defoe, pp. 336-7,

and also 347-8. PP.

DR. RIMBAULT refers to the exploits and execution of two notorious highwaymen, Thomas Cross and William Spiggott, and that the former is "said to have been a hardened reprobate." I do not doubt this, but if he will turn to the second volume of my work (pp. 325-6) he will find that the sight of the " press" induced Cross to plead, while Spiggott

"Undress'd himself, lay down, and extended his arms and legs, which were accordingly ty'd to staples driven into great planks of wood, in a cellar under Newgate; then a board was laid upon his breast, and eight half hundred weights were lay'd upon it, which he endur'd for the space of an hour, wanting seven minutes."

I think he proved himself the more "hardened reprobate" of the two.

W. LEE.

errors.

A FEW WORDS TO A "LOVER OF CORRECT TEXTS" (4th S. iv. 530.)-If my friendly censor had ever heard of the late Professor Scholefield's correspondence on his perversely blundered edition of Leighton's Prælectiones, he would have been less dogmatic as to what belongs to an editor wicked enough to hope that he may personally exand what to his printer of inattention; and I am perience the disadvantage of labouring on "Correct Texts" with only a provincial press available, a proof-reader scarcely elementarily educated, even in English, and a single pair of eyes to oversee all details. The simple matter-of-fact in regard to the Latin verses in Joseph Fletcher is that, spite of a second and third revise, the sheet might have been surmised in the light of our containing them was printed off uncorrected. This LOVER OF CORRECT TEXTS' own reference to my brief errata-list. He turns to it, and with interAmongst the errata not a single mistake in the jection-sign and all the rest of it exclaims:Latin is corrected!"-keeping out of sight the fact that the errata-list belongs exclusively to the text, and not to my memorial-introduction. From the special pains taken with the proofs of it, I flattered myself it would come out clear, having reiterated assurances of correction. But after all, our LOVER OF CORRECT TEXTS magnifies his discoveries ludicrously. He has come on "four annoyed me when I saw it as much as it could He names one, postem for postera, which But what of the other three? They eligiacum for elegiacum; and line 12, swave for are these line 4th, obitnm for obitum; same line, suave,- -the first a perpetually occurring confusion of u and n, the two latter simply a different orthography, agreeably to the dim old crabbed MS. as furnished to me by its custodier (Rev. Silas Cross, M.A.). Besides these—and in proof that a LOVER OF CORRECT TEXTS is not infallible-I was annoyed to find lave for labe, and pneumati for pneumate-both overlooked by our LOVER! I shall gladly receive, from friends interested in my Worthies, any corrections noted by them. But Shakespeare, Camden, and other Societies and having collated kindred volumes issued by the individuals, I challenge comparison; and for one error in my texts, I shall adduce ten in books bearing the foremost names. From my Sibbes and Brooks-with their thousands of classical and patristic_quotations and references-to my last issued, Sir John Beaumont, I have passed under my eye some 18,000 pages; and I leave them with confidence to all impartial judges. Moreover, by new arrangements in regard to printers, I indulge the Pleasures of Hope that my anxious attention and unremunerated toil won't be exposed to the too deftly put animadversions of a LOVER OF CORRECT TEXTS-with whom I range myself. ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

any one.

St. George's, Blackburn.

FAMILIES OF Strelley and VaVASOUR (4th S. iv. 363, 550.)—I can throw no light upon the intermarriages of these families, but I know that the family of Strelley, though now decayed, was, in bygone times, a wealthy and influential one in the county of Derby. When curate of the parish of Heanor, some seven-and-twenty years ago, the descendants of this ancient house were living in a park-like place, I presume their ancient seat (the name of which I forget) in the hamlet of Codnor, in very reduced, if not indigent, circumstances. The house itself was occupied only by female members of the family, while the male representative, Dr. Strelley, a most singular and eccentric character, lived in a dovecote adjoining, quite alone, with the exception of several sharp dogs, which he kept as guardians of his solitude, and was never backward in letting them loose upon any who ventured to intrude upon it. He was a veritable hermit, affected the most grotesque of customs, and would hold intercourse with none but the few poor colliers and stockingweavers whom he attended medically, and from whom he picked up a scanty pittance-the sole means of his subsistence. I never knew him, and am ashamed to say, was afraid to beat up his quarters. The ill fame of his companions was too much for my courage.

Shipley is another hamlet in the same parish, and it is not impossible that the Strelleys might have migrated from one to the other. I have often, since leaving the neighbourhood, thought of this family, and should greatly like to know if any remnant of it be still left, or whether it has altogether passed away. I feel sure that if this notice should come under the eye of any one competent to give such information, I may safely calculate upon receiving it.

EDMUND TEW, M.A.

Patching Rectory, Arundel. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARCHERY (4th S. iv. 330.)— As an addition to MR. BATES's list, permit me to mention

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"A Short Treatise on Archery, being a Compilation of sound, practical, and established Rules for that interest

ing, healthy, and amusing Art. 180, pp. 42. London, 1832. Sold at Bragg's Archery Warehouse, 36, High

Holborn.

I am glad to find that he takes an interest in this most attractive periodical; from which, if he gather half the amusement and instruction which his father has gathered, he will be amply repaid for its perusal. EDMUND TEW, M.A.

"STILL WATERS RUN DEEP 22

542.)-This proverb, in the original, is connected (4th S. iv. 138, timidum vehementius latrare quam mordere " with another already "made a note of "-" Canem and certainly ought to be rendered as W. C. J. gives it. The truth inculcated is, that reticence tion of genuine courage and prudence in action. as against demonstrativeness is the best indicaQuintus Curtius quotes them both as current among the Bactrians, and adds-“Quæ inserui ut traderetur "I have recorded these proverbs that qualiscumque inter barbaros potuit esse prudentia, it might be seen how much sagacity is to be found even amongst barbarians. EDMUND TEW,

M.A.

MONUMENTAL BRASS (4th S. iv. 514.)—The arms described by your correspondent MR. DurFIELD appear to me to possibly represent those of the Warner family of Packenhull, co. Gloucester, which are- Or, a chev. between 3 boars' heads couped sable. I do not know what the crest is. The impaled coat might be the Vaus family or the Erpingham, as I think the following coat is ascribed to Sir Thomas Erpingham, K.B. (A.D. 1425):-Vert, an inescutcheon within an orle of martlets arg.; and another coat, Argent, within an orle of martlets, an inescutcheon gu., is ascribed to Sir William Vaus. D. C. E.

South Bersted, Bognor.

NATURE PAINTING ON STONES, ETC. (4th S. iv. 514.)—There is a very curious book entitled"Considérations philosophiques de la Gradation naturelle des Formes de l'être, ou les Essais de la Nature qui apprend à faire l'Homme." Par J. B. Robinet, 8vo, à Paris, 1768.

Here we have many chapters descriptive of stones bearing resemblance to various parts of the human body. Such are Lithocardites, Priapolites, Colites, Phalloids, &c. Chapter xxiv. p. 35, is headed-"Des Figures humaines empreintes sur des Agathes et autres Pierres," in which mention is made of portraits of negroes found upon agates, and of a precious stone on which appeared un portrait noir dans la manière de Rembrant, où l'on voit très-distinctement le nez, la bouche, l'oeil, le front, le menton, les cheveux, et la draperie."

I would also refer MR. HODGKIN to an interesting repertory of curiosities

"Museum Wormianum, seu Historia Rerum Rariorum, tam Naturalium quam Artificialium, tam Domesticarum quam Exoticarum, quæ Hafnia Danorum in Edibus Authoris servantur. Adornata ab Olao Worm. Med. Doct." &c., folio, Amstel. apud Elzevirios, 1655.

Here sectio i. (De Fossilibus, &c.) and sectio ii. (De Lapidibus, &c.) may be consulted-especially