BUILDING USE BUILDING USE TO ALL UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES LIBRARY JANUARY-DECEMBER, 1919. UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY (LIMITED), 118425 passant guardant, the heads severally NOTES:- The Royal Arms: a Suggested Change, 1- and their Letters in 1758-Sir Thomas Browne: Tom Brown, 6-St. Trunnion: his Identity-" Dinkum Shop" -The Judges' Level-Rutter Family Name, 7-Markshall and Fuller Family-Elsinore-Empson E. Middleton, 8. QUERIES Querelle n'Allemand"-Scottish Chiefs Duel with Norman Macleod, 9- Penrhyn Devil as a unity." Mr. Begg's letter drew forth no reply; and I, thinking that the daily press was not Oath of Fealty: Edward III.-Col. A. R. Macdonel's quite the vehicle for a discussion upon such a technical subject, subsequently raised the whole question in N. & Q' as above Flagship: its Chaplain-'Anthologia Græca: Epictetus stated, and, for the reasons there given, Maw Family, 10 Index Ecclesiasticus, 1550-1800-St. I opposed Mr. Begg's suggestion. There Bees Alumni-Disraeli on Gladstone-Niccolò da Uzzano also the matter ended without further dis-Joseph Clover of Norwich -"Daverdy": Pipchinesque"-George Powell, the Dramatist-Earl of Beacons- cussion. field: the first Lord Lytton: Martin Tupper, 11-Burrell, Centenarian-Austrian Money coined at the London Mint-Napoleon and Lord John Russell-Baptiste Mau- " Paten or Local Historian and Actor-Egioke Family-Orlingbury Family, 14- Graves planted with Flowers - Authors REPLIES:- Sir Walter Raleigh, East Londoner, 15 Henry I.: a Gloucester Charter, 18-War Slang: Regi 66 At the end of July last, however, Mr. Faithfull Begg returned to the subject, and in the same journal; but instead of a single charge he now advocated two emblems, one-an elephant-representing India, in the fourth quarter of the royal arms, and the other, on an inescutcheon, a sun in splendour, arising from the sea. the rays to represent the several Dominions and Crown Colonies." Again, in The Morning Post this time, I combated the idea, and for the same reason. This resulted in a somewhat lengthy discussion. Realizing as I do that the daily press is of too ephemeral a character for the discussion of such a Biajer"-Leap Year: Lady's Offer of Marriage, 24-subject, to which no proper index or reBoys born in May-White Horse of Kent: Landscape ference could eventually be found, I thought "Hell for leather," 25-Epitaph to a Slave-Heraldic: that I might again venture to address Captor and his Captives' Arms-Le Cateau: Cambrai-readers in N. & Q.,' the natural medium, Authors Wanted, 25. I think, for heraldic subjects open to public discussion. mental Nicknames, 18-Lines under a Crucifix, 19 Heater-shaped "-Ancient Order of Foresters: Blue Eye White Horses - Hotel Bristol Malbrook '- -Ismenia NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Shakespeare's Workmanship'- Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. THE ROYAL ARMS: A SUGGESTED CHANGE. To the number of 'N. & Q.' for October, 1917 (12 S. iii. 435), I sent a somewhat lengthy note on the above subject. This was preceded by a suggestion made by Mr. Faithfull Begg in The Morning Post in July, 1917, that the change of the family name of our Royal House to that of Windsor might be fittingly marked by substituting for the reduplicated three lions of England in the fourth quarter of the royal arms I do not propose to do more now than to allude very generally to the arguments against the proposed change which I made at the above reference, as they are accessible to all readers, beyond stating that I see no reason to alter them owing to the discussion which has since taken place in The Morning Post; for I hold still that any representation of India in the royal arms is unsuitable for the reasons there given, and of our Overseas Dominions unnecessary, on ground that they are already sufficiently and, heraldically, correctly represented therein. the More interest appears now to be taken in the suggestion that I made that, if it was thought advisable by the proper authorities to make any alteration at all in the royal arms, the Principality of Wales might be given the honour of representation in the fourth quarter in lieu of the present reduplicated three English lions; thus com V.137 |