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appeared on the portraits (? minatures), are, briefly: Argent, three trefoils vert; on a chief gules, a leopard passant or. Motto: "Die quid invides coelo." (See Rietstap's 'Armorial.')
Can the later history or present location of these interesting heirlooms be traced?
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.
John Frederick Sith, Novelist (see 9 S. v. 377, 459; vi. 14, 74—11 S. vii. 221,
276, 297, 375; viii. 121, 142; x. 102, 144, 183, 223, 262, 292, 301).—Can any readers
help to compile a complete list of the writings (both in separate form and in periodicals) of John Frederick Smith, who "had a thousand readers where Dickens had ten or Thackeray one"? I am familiar with the contributions to 'N. & Q.' by Mr. Ralph Thomas, cited above, also with the obituary notices (in 1890) in The Athenæum and The Quarterly Review, and with the notices in Boase's 'Modern English Biography,' and in Allibone (ii. 2140; Suppt. 1360); but no comprehensive list is known to me. The British Museum representation of this author is meagre. P. J. Anderson.
University Library, Aberdeen.
H. CROUCH, ARTIST. Can any reader refer me to an account of H. Crouch, a water- colour painter in the first half of last cen- tury? He does not appear in the ' D.N.B.' or in Boase's ' Modern English Biography,' or in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters.' P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen. SCOTCH COFFEE-HOUSES AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Is there anywhere any list of Glasgow or Scotch Coffee-houses, Taverns and Inns in the eighteenth century such as the London lists contributed by MR. J. P. DE CASTRO? GERARD BLACK.
- THE NORMAN PEOPLE.' I have the
second edition of this work, published in 1874 by Henry S. King and Co., 65, Cornhill, and 12, Paternoster Row, London. The volume is dedicated " To the memory of Percy, Viscount Strangford." Charmed, in the first instance, with the Introduction of 130 pages, upon testing the accuracy of the contents I found the author to be a greater offender than those whom he censured. While the book will always be useful every statement requires verifica- tion. Who was the author? Is there any clue to his identity in the first edition? Could he have been Plantagenet Harrison? So important a writer must surely have been well known to his contemporaries. I have asked some historians who date back to the eighties of last century, but they do not know. It would be of considerable interest to genealogists of the present day to see biographies of the author of the above work and also of Plantagenet Harrison. CLARISTTAN. ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES. This Order is to-day one of the largest and most influential fraternal societies in England. It is claimed to be of great antiquity and it would be interesting to know when, where and by whom it was founded, and the origin of its name. Early references to the Order or any of its members would also be interesting. ROBERT GOWER. BERNARD DE GORDON. Has any part of the ' Lilium ' of this famous old Monopellier writer on medicine been translated into English? J. M. BULLOCH. THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI'S * RECOLLEC- TIONS OF LORD BYRON.' Is it known if these were actually the composition of the Countess Guiccioli, or, as a reading of them seems to indicate, were they a compilation by another hand of material supplied by the Countess and gatherings from other sources? E. NICHOLAS HILLIARD (see ante, p. 168). A portrait of young Francis Bacon at 18, painted by Nicholas Hilliard, was in the possession of John Adair Hawkins, Esq., in 1828. Can anyone tell me where it hangs now? ALICIA AMY LEITH. 10, Clorane Gardens, Hampstead. WHITE HORSE ORNAMENT IN FANLIGHTS. I shall be much obliged if someone can tell me the meaning of having a model of a white horse put in a fanlight over a hall door. One sees them usually in small houses in side streets or in suburbs of medium-sized towns. M. A. P. " BERWICK." A designation well re- cognized in cattle markets and by dealers for an extra large pig over a certain weight. How did this use of the word originate? Upton. R. B.
