12 S. IX. AUG. 6, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Ill SIXTEENTH-CENTURY EWE'S MILK CHEESE IN ESSEX. In Norden's ' Description of Essex ' (1594) there is the following pass- age : Nere the Thames mowth, below Beamflete, are certaine ilandes, called Canuey Islandes, low Merishe grounds, and for that the passage ouer the creeks is vnfitt for cattle, it is onlie conuerted to the feeding of ews, which men milke, and thereof make cheese (suche as it is), and of the curdes of the whey they make butter once in the yeare, wch serveth the clothier. Was this sheep's milk cheese known by any distinctive name ? R. HEDGER WALLACE. ARMS ON SEAL. I have a seal on which is the following blazoning as far as I am able to make out : Quarterly 1st and 4th : Paly of six arg. and az., within a bordure of the first, semee de lys, on a chief gu. a lion passant arg. (?). 2nd and 3rd : Azure, a lioncel (?) arg., on a chief or, three crosses patee. Crest Swan's head, erased at neck, ducally gorged. I shall be obliged if any of your heraldic correspondents can inform me to whom the above arms belong or have belonged. F. R. J. CAMPBELL SHIELD OF ARMS. I have a shield, emblazoned on vellum, of four quar- terings, with mantling or and sable and an esquire's helmet, the first and fourth quar- terings being Campbell and Lorn quarterly ; the second quartering appears to be on an argent shield, another shield azure with 3 (?) heraldic roses ; and the fourth quartering is per pale gules and azure 9 crosses croslet, and over all a lion rampant argent. Over the shield is the crest, a lion's head regardant, and over the crest the motto, "I bear in mind." On a scroll beneath the shield is the motto Ex seipsa renascens. To what families do the arms on the second and third quarterings belong, and the motto beneath the shield ? D. K. T. " FLOREAT ETON A ! " Many of your readers may be able to recall during the first Boer War the affair at Laing's Nek (Jan., 1881), in which two of our young officers, with the battle-cry of " Floreat Etona ! " led a charge that proved fatal to both. Some of those who see these lines may be able and willing to"do me the great kindness of telling me the names of the officers in question, as well as the whereabouts and date of some Cornhill Magazine lines in which Matthew Arnold, under the above heading, commemorated the incident. H. T. S. ESCOTT. 33, Saekville Road, Hove. A. BRYANT. Biographical details are desired of the above person, who published a county map of Hertford in the early part of ! the nineteenth century. The title page is worded : County Map of Hertford | by | (from actual survey) | A. Bryant | In the Years 1820 and 1821 | Inscribed by Per- ' mission | to the | Most Noble the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. | Lord Lieutenant | and i to the | Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of the County. | London | Published by A. Bryant, ! 27, Gt. Ormond Street | April 10, 1822.
- Was he, in any way, related to John Briant,
j the noted Herts bellfounder, who lived for ! many years at Hertford and died at St. ! Albans on Friday, Feb. 27, 1829, and was interred in All Saints' churchyard, Hertford ? L. H. CHAMBERS. Bedford. TITLE OF BOOK WANTED. Can any reader kindly supply the correct title of a book entitled, I think, ' The Merry Order of St. Bridget ' by a Margaret Ashton or Aston or some similar name. I can find no trace of it in the B.M. catalogue. It } was published about 1891 for private cir- | culatioiL INQUIRER. BOOKS WANTED : -Please refer me to books in English on Germany, Italy, Russia, | Austria, and Hungary similar to Lowell, ' Government of England ' ; Bryce, ' The American Commonwealth ' ; Bodley, ' France.' ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. HAYWARD'S LIFE OF HENRY IV. What I copies extant of Sir J. Hayward's ' Life and | Raigne of King Henry IV," published by John Wolfe, 1599 ? LESLIE B. TAYLOR. Bournbrook. THOMAS DICKSON, M.D. I should be glad to have particulars of the ancestry and descendants (if any) of Thomas Dickson, M.D., physician to the London Hospital in 1760. I understand he resided at Dyers Court, Aldermanbury JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.
