"I wait but for my guidon: to the field," &c.? Mr. Malone, in his note on this passage, comes very near the above reading, but does not quite hit it. Dr. Johnson seems at a loss to know the meaning at all. A guidon is well known to be a small banner: it is so called even now in some of our cavalry regiments.

C. H. would like to know if this is the first time this reading has been thought of, and, if not, where it was first published? Also, if any reading can be suggested as more likely to give the author's meaning? C. H.

Queries.

MONUMENT OF RICHARD STRONGBOW.

Will you have the kindness to insert, in "N. & Q.," the following extract taken from Thomas Cromwell's Excursions through Ireland, vol. i.:

"In the nave (Christ's Cathedral, Dublin) are several monuments, one of which, bearing figures said to represent Richard Strongbow and his wife Eva, has the following inscription:

"THIS: AVNCYENT. MONVMENT: OF: RYCHARD: STRANG❤ BOWE CALLED COMES: STRANGVLENSIS LORD: OF: CHEPSTO: AND OGNY: THE FIRST AND PRYNCIPALL:

moon.

MONVMENT WAS BROKEN BY THE FALL OF THE: ROFF AND BODYE OF CHRISTES: CHURCHE: IN: ANo:

"According to act of parliament passed in the fourteenth year of his Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord 1751, the Old Style ceases here and the New takes place, and consequently the next day, which in

the Old account would have been the 3rd, is now to be called the 14th; so that all the intermediate nominal days from the 2nd to the 14th are omitted, or rather annihilated, this year, and the month contains no more than nineteen days, as the title at the head expresses. "The New Style begins

THE: RIGHT; HONORABLE: SR: HENRI: SYDNEY: KNYGHT: OF THE NOBLE ORDER LE PRESIDENT OF WAILES: LE: DEPUTY: OF IRELAND: 1570.'

"But doubts have been entertained whether the illustrious chieftain was actually buried in this cathedral, and, if he were, whether this has been correctly stated to be his monument. Leland mentions an epitaph, Hic jacet Ricus Strongbow,' &c., as occurring on the walls of the chapter-house in Gloucester Cathedral: but the testimony of Giraldus Cambrensis, a cotemporary historian, who expressly states that his obsequies were celebrated in ecclesiâ Sanctæ Trinitatis,' we think, should prevent further question as to the place of his interment. As to the identity of the monument, Sir Richard Hoare remarks that though the generality of authors seem to think that Strongbow was buried in Christ's Church, still some doubt may be entertained knight bears on his shield the following arms. : viz. if this effigy has been rightly attributed to him.

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Argent, on a chief azure, three crosses crosslets fitchée of the field." On referring to Enderbie, and also to an ancient manuscript by George Owen, I find that the arms of this chieftain were, Or, three chevrons gules, a crescent for difference." How then can this be the effigy of Strongbow?'"

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It is well known that he was surnamed Strongbow on account of his strength and skill in archery; and it is even said that his arms were so long that he could touch his knees, when in an erect position, with the palms of his hands. He married the daughter of Dermot MacMurchad, King of Leinster, and had issue a daughter. His father was Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke and Lord of Striguil, in 1139, who was nephew of Walter Fitz-Richard de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, the founder of Tintern Abbey.

The accounts of Richard Strongbow's burialplace being so conflicting, I was induced to send this Query, hoping that some of your correspondents will unravel the mystery. MARQUE.

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crowned, "Alfonsus Dei Gracie Regis." cross in a bordure of four arches, "Alfonsus Dei Gr.+Cruxatus?" The legend on either side is rather perplexing and worthy of note, as well as the repetition of the name, which is unusual. It was found on the northern shore of Mount's Bay, after a severe gale which displaced the shingle; is in a fine state of preservation; and, from the form of the letters, apparently of the fourteenth century. This would give it to Alphonso IV.; and the reverse may have reference to the assistance he rendered Alphonso XI. of Spain against the Moors. But this is mere conjecture, as I have not been able to meet with any work on Portuguese coins.

2. What is to be understood by the word "FERT," which is repeated three times on the edge of the larger Sardinian silver coins? I am aware that it has been read 66 Fortitudo Ejus Rempublicam tenet;" but this appears rather forced, as there is never any mark of separation between the letters. 3. The meaning of the word Bilaeum on the following piece of money, which is diamond-shaped, and about the size of a sixpence. Ob. "Post Tenebras Lux," 1517. Rev. "Iv. Bilaeum Argentoratense, 1617." At the sale of Mr. Moule's coins in June last, it was inadvertently classed, probably from its bearing the well-known motto of Geneva, with the coins of Switzerland; but it evidently belongs to Strasburg (Argentoratum). The motto and date on the obverse refer to the theses enunciated in that year by Luther against the sale of Indulgences; Strasburg, by commemorating on its coins the centenary of that event, wishing to express its attachment to the principles of the Reformation. Quære, Does Bilaeum mean Billon, which is pronounced by the French trisyllabically Bi-leon? Ducange probably gives the word: but I have not the Glossarium by me to refer to. The "Iv." may stand for four groschen.

4. I should be glad to gain some information respecting a medal which has in the field a church with a crocketted spire surmounted by a cock rising from a massive tower, and over, I presume, its eastern end an elevated cross. Legend: "Stet Protectore Jehova." Rev. The symbolic serpent, typical of eternity, held at equal distances by three hands with ruffles turned back, inclosed in an outer circle. Legend: "Love as Brethren." I should assign this to the middle of the seventeenth century, but am desirous to know on what occasion it was struck.

JOHN J. A. BOASE.

P.S.-I should like to call attention again to the inquiry by J. N. C. in Vol. iv., p. 40. W. T., in

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Vol. iv., p. 142., suggested that Ackey Trade means weight is used of 20 grains Troy, called Ackey, the African gold-dust trade, for which it seems a If we accept this as the true solution, the “ awkwardly prefixed to Ackey Trade must have reference to some higher denomination of coin: but I have only met with the piece described by struck? A note to this, seeing the date is so J. N. C. Quære, Where and for whom were they recent as 1818, may reasonably be expected. Such coins could scarcely be current in any of our authorities; and an inquiry at the Mint would possessions without the cognisance of the proper probably be successful. Quære also, has the term dently native) of the English fortified settlement Ackey any connexion with Accra, the name (evisituated nearly in the centre of the Gold Coast? Alverton Vean, Penzance.

ANTI-JACOBIN SONG.

"As I was a-walking through fair London city,
I saw an old woman sit spinning of time!
I thought her invention was wondrously pretty.
The thread that she spun was so excellent fine!
Her hair it was like the blossoms of May,

Her countenance also most fair to behold! And as she keeps spinning and merrily singing, Great news to the Tories, I have to unfold. The Pope

And on with the rabble came old father Petre, With his bald shining pate, close at his back, They talked about things, of subjects and kings, As if all their vain glory was mounted on wings.”

The above song is traditionary in Suffolk in the families of the old Covenanters, among whom a branch of that from which Oliver Cromwell took his wife may be numbered. I should be glad, through the medium of "N. & Q," to have the missing words supplied. The air is still imprinted on my memory as it was reported to have been sung more than a century ago by a very aged man with fair complexion, and long white hair flowing down to his shoulders; his voice, though very feeble, was clear; and it was not without trouble that he performed the trills and shakes requisite for the due performance of the air. At the end of each verse, he cast a timid glance around and cried, "Silence, gentlemen! silence, gentlemen!” as if he had been accustomed to some demonstration of approbation or reproof, though none whatever had ever been offered at the period referred to. B- -R. Greenwich.

WINHALL MONUMENT AND QUARTERING OF ARMS.

There is a monument in Winchester Cathedral about which I should be glad to receive some in

formation. It is the figure of a knight in ring mail. It has ailettes, rarely found on stone effigies they are lateral and plain. The surcoat is long in front as well as behind, and entirely hides the knees. The general style of the figure would accord with the latter part of Edward I.'s reign. The shield, however, says Edward III.; for on it are arnis quartered, which does not occur, I believe, before this reign. Milner (vol. ii. p. 75.) gives the arms, and adds a few words about the knight.

"Two bulls passant, gorged with collars and bells,

quarterly with three garbs, for the princely family of De Foix, of which was Captal de la Buch (Bouch Piers de Greilly), Knight of the Garter of the first creation by Edward III. Hic jacet Willielmus comes de Insula Vana, alias Wineall.

"The parish lies upon the river (near Winchester), and may have been formerly insulated."

"Earl of Winnall" (Verger's account). "Wynhale" is the name of the place in the Records. It is now called Winnall. John de Foix, son of the Capitan de la Busche, was, according to Dugdale (Nicolas negat), created Earl of Kendal c. 1449. Can tradition, out of this, have created an Earl of Winnall? The knight was probably Dominus de Wynhale.

The Earl of Pembroke, who died 22 Edward III., bore Hastings and Valences quarterly.

Is there an earlier well-authenticated instance of arms borne quarterly? Yorke (Union of Honour, p. 319.) so represents the arms of Hugh Despenser, Earl of Winchester (who was beheaded 1326); and Mr. Dillwyn (Archæological Journal, vol. iii. p. 277.) found at Meath encaustic tiles with armorial bearings; among these Despenser quarterly. Neath was part of the possessions of Gilbert Earl of Gloucester, whose sister and coheir was married to Hugh Despenser the younger, who was executed 1326. The arms on the tile may be his son's, who married a Montacute, and their arms are on another. This son, Hugh the third, died in 1348.

According to Yorke, the De Foix arms were cows, not bulls, as Milner calls them. Perhaps arms were quartered earlier on the Continent than in England.

Minor Queries.

F. L.

English Nobleman in the Service of Henri Quatre. - A French MS. of 1653, which as authority quotes another MS. journal, a writer of the time of Henry IV. of France, and resident at Dieppe, says that "M. de Vardes left Dieppe the 1st August, 1589, to join the king (Henry IV.). He took with him a young English lord, whose train consisted of seven horses very magnificently equipped, and of several men so well armed that every one admired the followers of that stranger."

Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." inform me who this lord was, and whether the Mémoires of the time mention any one who took service with Henry IV. in 1589? E. N. W. Southwark.

"The Shift Shifted."- On the 10th of December, 1716, Isaac Dalton being convicted a second time for publishing The Shift Shifted, was sentenced to stand in the pillory in Newgate Street, fined twenty marks, and to be imprisoned a year after his first imprisonment expired. Any one of your subscribers who can state the nature of this publication will oblige your constant reader

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W. D. HAGGARD.

The Chaunting of Jurors. It appears by a petition which was presented to the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, in the year 1669, by John Voyle, a poore distressed Englishman" from Pembrokeshire, stating that he "beinge a young slipp, parted from his friends in England and came to Dublin, where he met with a Captain George Pardon, who took him to the county of Clare, and bound him apprentice to a ship carpenter; that a difference arose between the captain and the carpenter, and the captain sent the petitioner to gaol, who had no friends to bail him; that he was accused of perjury by the captain, indicted, found guilty, fined 207., and committed to the county gaol, where he has remained in irons, living upon the charity of good people since the 9th of January, 1667." It further appears by a certificate of several justices of the peace, that the petitioner traversed the indictment at the quarter sessions, and was found guilty upon the evidence"of one that tooke his oath to give evidence for the King, but said nothing materiall in the least to prove the same, but yet the jury found him guilty, at which the Bench admireing called them to goe back and chaunt further on it, and since there was no evidence, to make a return suitable, but they refused." May I take leave to ask, Is it meant by the word "channt" that the jury should further deliberate, and has the word been used in England in that sense? J. F. F.

Dublin.

Remarkable Voyage. In Fournier's Hydrography, book iv. chap. v., edit. 1643, is the following passage:

"Nous scavons que les Anglois ont fait plus de 800 lieues sans voir terre dans une chaloupe pour traverser des Isles Bermude en Ireland, par une mer des plus faschieuses que soient au monde, que si une chaloupe de 3 tonneau a peu tenir des hommes et de vivres suffi. sants pour un tel traiet: pourquoi les anciens n'aurontils peu faire le mesme," &c.

Is there any mention of any such voyage being performed, and, if so, what was the date, by whom, and on what account was it undertaken?

Oblations.-In Herrick's Fairy Land (Clarke's edit., London, 1844, vol. ii. p. 73.) occur the following lines:

"They have their book of homilies;
And other scriptures, that design
A short but righteous discipline.
The bason stands the board upon
To take the free oblation;

A little pindust which they hold

More precious than we prize our gold.
Which charity they give to many
Poor of the parish, if there's any."

The use of the word "oblation," for alms offered for the poor, is curious. Does it occur in this sense in other writers of the seventeenth century? W. E.

Eiebreis. Sandys (Travels, pp. 67, 68.) says: "Into the same hue do they dy their eiebreis and eye-browes," &c.

Eiebreis appears to mean eyelashes. Is the word found in any dictionary, and what is its derivation? In Halliwell I find " eye-brekes eyelids," North. Also "eye-breen eyebrows," Lanc. INTEGER.

Huguenots in Ireland.—I am very anxious to obtain information relative to the settlement of Huguenots in different parts of Ireland. Can any of your numerous correspondents direct me to MSS. or printed works which furnish materials in extenso, or incidental, and which throw light on this eventful movement? CLERICUS (D.)

The Duchesse de Chevreuse swimming across the Thames. Allow me to inquire if any reader of "N. & Q." can refer me to some account of this feat, performed by the Duchess of Chevreuse, and celebrated by Sir John Mennis in his Musarum Delicia, Lond. 1656, pages 49 and 50. Her hus

band, the Duke of Chevreuse, was ambassador extraordinary from Louis XIII., to be present at the solemnisation of the marriage of Charles I. with Henrietta Maria, on May 13, 1625; and he was elected K.G. July 4, and installed Dec. 13, 1625. The Duchess was a great favourite with Charles* was inaugurated K.G. in 1638, and the Charles I.'s queen, and was present when Prince queen and the duchess were the only persons allowed to be seated while the election of the young prince was proceeding. (Parentalia of Sir C. Wren.) She had while in France rendered herself obnoxious to the hatred of Richelieu, and the sanguinary cardinal had despatched his guards to arrest her, when, finding herself very closely pursued, she crossed the river Somme à la nage, and escaped to Calais and England: but what induced her to swim across the Thames does not appear. She was very beautiful, and was a woman of most licentious gallantry. Her greatest favourite in England was the first Duke of Buckingham (the favourite of James I.), who was assassinated by Felton in 1628. Much may be seen concerning this lady in Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz, Mémoires de Guy Joli et Mme. la Duchesse de Nemours, Finetti Philoxenis, &c.

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The Duke of Chevreuse died in 1657; the Duchess in 1679, aged seventy-nine years. Richmond, Surrey.

Cawarden Family.-I should feel greatly obliged to any of your readers who would refer me to pedigrees (MS. or printed) of the Cawarden or Carwardine family of Herefordshire. C. K. P. Newport, Essex.

The Dutch East-India Company.-The common source of information on the early voyages of the Dutch East-India Company is the work entitled Recueil des voiages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrès de la compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas, which was edited by Constantin de Renneville, and printed at Amsterdam in 1702, 1725, &c.

On an examination of the Begin ende voortgangh van de vereenhigde Nederlantsche geoctroyeer de Oost-Indische Compagnie, 1646, oblong folio, two volumes, it proves to be the original of the French work- —a circumstance which seems to have escaped all our bibliographers.

* Charles II., then eight years old.