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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. APK. ie, 1910.
(1902), vol. i. p. 219. The charges on the
shield are spoken of as a fly, a flea, a magpie,
and a flitch of bacon. These objects must
be interpreted thus : the fly will drink with
any one, the flea will suck our blood, the
magpie will chatter with all of us, and a
flitch of bacon is good for nothing without
hanging. K. P. D. E.
The coat of arms of Sir John Presbyter,
- ' printed in the year 1658. Folio, containing
one page, ?i is fully described in ' Harleian Miscellany/ vol. vi. p. 524.
'A copy of this curious old print which I bought some years ago measures 15^ in. by 10| in., and bears at the foot of the
- ' Atchieument n the legend ' ' Printed on the
Reuer Theames 1683. ll There is, I imagine, little reason to doubt that it was actually turned out from a press set up on the ice in that year of the Great Frost.
CHARLES GILLMAN.
Church Fields, Salisbury.
It should be possible to collect a number of specimens of this kind of sarcastic heraldry. On 1 2 April, 1 7 1 1 , the Rev. Henry Welstead, Rector of Brettenham in Suffolk, preached a witty, but violent sermon against 4 The Modern Moderation/ in which he said ;
" Galvin begat Presbytery, and Presbytery begat Separation, and Separation begat Inde- pendency, and Independency begat Quakerism, and Quakerism begat Scepticism, and Scepticism begat Atheism, and Atheism begat Moderation. .... Besides, the Coat of Arms it gives does but too plainly declare what Family 'tis of ; which is, a Conventicle rampant, and a Church couchant, Honesty passant, and Knavery triumphant, in a Field argent, having for Supporters a Cuckow and a Batt, the Crest only being changed from a Windmill to a Wethercock."
This very curious sermon was printed in 1714, and copies of it are rare.
The mock coat of arms cited by H. I. B. occurs, with slight variations, in 'Reliquise Hearnianae,' vol. iii. pp. 6-7, ed. 1869.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.
CONGDON'S ' PLYMOUTH TELEGRAPH ' (11 S. i. 188). I find in an old repertory of facts relating to Devon and Cornwall that in 1808 The Plymouth and Dock Telegraph and Chronicle began its existence. It con- tinued under that name for some ten years or so, and was in existence in 1850 under the title of Devonport Telegraph and Plymouth Chronicle. W. S. B. H.
The late Mr. H. Whitfield, in his ' Ply- mouth and Devonport in Times of Peace and War,' says that the Amethyst frigate
was wrecked under Mount Batten in
February, 1811, when many lives were lost.
Mr. Whitfield also states that The Plymouth
and Dock Telegraph ; or, Naval and Com-
mercial Register, was published in 1808. It
was printed by L. Congdon at 52, Fore
Street, Dock (Devonport), and sold at 6|d.
per copy. A. J. DAVY.
Torquay.
" GUFF u : ITS ETYMOLOGY (11 S. i. 126). A good instance of the mutation of th into / is to be met with in Russian, in which language the Greek Theodore and Theodorina become Feodore and Feodorowna.
MR. JAMES PLATT'S name will be much missed by readers of ' N. & Q.'
N. W. HILL.
New York.
'PROMETHEUS THE FIREGIVER ' (11 S. i. 247) This work, published in 1877, was criticized in The Contemporary Review for March, 1878. At the close of a rather scathing notice the reviewer asks, "is it by Alderman Cotton ? " I have no data sufficient to enable me to answer the question. There is, perhaps, a faint probability that Alderman Cotton was the author. A merchant and iron master, he was senior Conservative M.P. for the City of London at the time the book appeared. He was the author of ' Imagination,' a poem, and sundry contributions to periodical literature. On the strength of the hint in The Contemporary, I would venture to suggest that he may also have been the author of ' Prometheus the Firegiver.*
W. SCOTT.
THE CRADLE OF HENRY OF MONMOUTH : BALL FAMILY (11 S. i. 183, 253). The Rev. Peregrine Ball was instituted to the vicarage of Newland, co. Gloucester, on 20 Feb., 1745, the Bishop of Llandaff being patron. According to Foster, Peregrine matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, 13 Oct., 1733, aged seventeen, and was son of James of Treleck, co. Monmouth, cler.
James Ball was instituted to the vicarage of Treleck cum Penalt, 9 June, 1707, on the presentation of the Queen. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, 17 Dec., 1700, ag.d fifteen, son of " J." of Mon- mouth town, pleb. On 13 March, 1753, Peregrine Ball apparently succeeded his father at Treleck, as I have a note of his institution to this living on that date, patron the King. I should be glad to know who " J. n Ball of Monmouth town was, also hi" descent.
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