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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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reader who cares to consult my edition o
certain ' Chaucerian Pieces ' will find, on reflec
tion, that Thynne must have known perfectly
well that many of the pieces in his volume
were not Chaucer's. If not, why did he men
tion some of these authors by name 1
WALTER W. SKEAT.
The line which puzzles ME. EASTON present, an example of hysteron proteron, a figure employed here by Henryson in aid of rime perhaps also of alliteration. Morning is a spac of time between night and midday. Reac mentally, " In ane mornyng, betuix nicht anc midday," and the obscurity vanishes.
F. ADAMS.
106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AND THE BURNING BUSH (8 th S. xii. 148, 237, 433, 511; 9 th S. i 174). The two following extracts may prove interesting and illustrative of this subject. The former is from the ' Ecclesiastical History of Scotland,' by George Grub, LL.D.:
"The regent [i.e., the Earl of Arran] sent the fiery cross through the kingdom, and advanced against the English with a numerous army, accompanied by a body of priests and monks who marched under a white banner bearing an emble- matic figure of the afflicted Church. They met at Pinkie on the 9th of September [1547], and the Scots were defeated with great slaughter." Vol. ii. chap. xxx. p. 30.
The other extract is from ' The Monastery,' and is a comment upon it :
"The Catholic clergy were deeply interested in that national quarrel, the principal object of which was to prevent the union of the infant Queen Mary with the son of the heretical Henry VIII. The monks had called out their vassals under an experi- enced leader. Many of themselves had taken arms, and marched to the field, under a banner repre- senting a female, supposed to personify the Scottish Church, kneeling in the attitude of prayer with the legend AfflictttapOMat ne dbliviacar is." Chap, ii.
The author observes in the next paragraph that in the "dolorous slaughter of Pinkie, among ten thousand men of low and high degree, Simon Glendinning, of the Tower of Glendearg, bit the dust."
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
EYRE FAMILY AND ST. JOHN'S WOOD (8 th S. xi. 383, 435 ; xii. 75, 461). W. I. R. V. may be interested in knowing that a branch of the family of Eyre, bearing arms somewhat dif- ferent from those he mentions in his foot-note on p. 462, were living in Dorset in the seven- teenth century.
I have in my possession a halfpenny token, which in the last edition of Boyne's ' Seven- teenth Century Tokens,' vol. i. p. 178 (No. 66),
is described as follows : "(Obverse) DORCHESTER
1667 = SIMON EYRE. (Reverse) three quatre-
foil leaves and a boot, filling the field."
The following is the note I there made on the subject :
" The device on the reverse is no doubt intended for a representation of the armorial bearings of a branch of the family of Eyre, for which see Edmondson's ' Complete Body of Heraldry,' ed. 1780."
Simon Eyre, son of Rob. Eyre, of Osming- ton, yeoman, was apprenticed apothecary, 1659.
Hutchins (' History of Dorset,' ii. 397) says that some years ago there was picked up in the school garden of Holy Trinity, Dorches- ter, a signet ring with " Simon Eyre " on it, and round it " Dorchester 1657."
J. S. UDAL.
GALE (5 th S. ii. 368). Free-miner is said to be a man who has worked a year and a day underground within the Forest of Dean, and is then entitled to take up certain land, which is locally termed a gale. Is this so, and is it generally recognized ? H. MORPHYN.
THROUGH-STONE (8 th S. xii. 487; 9 th S. i. 9, 210). In the discussion about this term it is surprising that one obvious possibility as to derivation has not been mooted, so far as I have seen. In Scottish (or is it "Scotch"?) dykes that is, dry stone walls there are two or more courses of bond stones, reaching right through the dyke from face to face. Now there is but one local name for such a stone, and that is " through-stone." H. J. MOULE.
Dorchester.
HERALDRY (9 th S. i. 188). The baronets of England and Ireland by their patents are to " bear, either in a canton in their coat of arms, or in an escutcheon, at their pleasure, the arms of Ulster, to wit, a hand gules or a . aloody hand in a field argent." The distinc- tion is purely armorial, and the option of rearing the arms of Ulster on a canton or upon an escutcheon in the coat of arms was given only in reference to the possible de- scription of heraldic charges which might ender the one mode of displaying the added Dearing more convenient than the other. Chat this is the true construction of the ordinance is evident from the practice, which las always obtained, of placing the Ulster rms either in canton or in an escutcheon on u chief, or in the body of the coat of arms C. G. Young, York Herald, on Baronets). JOHN RADCLIFFE.
THE NAME " HAMISH " (9 th S. i. 386, 437). "he responsibility of having introduced this
