road, bitterly did the veteran curse the folly that had enticed him into the land of bogs and "Papistrie." Troublous therefore as the times were, the tramp of an approaching steed sent a thrill of pleasure through the heart of the Puritan. The rider soon joined him, and as he seemed peaceably disposed, they entered into conversation; and the stranger soon became acquainted with the old soldier's errand, and the disappointment he had experienced. Artfully taking advantage of the occasion, the stranger, who professed an acquaintance with the country, used every means to aggravate the disgust of his fellow-traveller, till the heart of the Cromwellian, already half overcome by fatigue and hunger, sank within him; and at last he agreed that the land should be transferred to the stranger for a butt of Claret and the horse on which he rode. As soon as this important matter was settled, the stranger conducted his new friend to a house of entertainment in a neighbouring hamlet, whose ruins are still called the Claret House of K——. A plentiful, though coarse, entertainment soon smoked on the board; and as the eye of the Puritan wandered over the "creature comforts," his heart rose, and he forgot his disappointment and his fatigue. It is even said that he dispensed with nearly ten of the twenty minutes which he usually bestowed on the benediction;

but be this as it may, ere he retired to his couch—"vino ciboque gravatus"—the articles were signed, and the courteous stranger became possessed of one of the finest estates in the county!

Francis Robert Davies.

CANTING ARMS.

In the introduction to a work entitled A Collection of Coats of Arms borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Gloucester, London, J. Good, 159. New Bond Street, 1792, and which I believe was written by Sir George Nayler, it is asserted that—

"Armes parlantes, or canting arms, were not common till the commencement of the seventeenth century, when they prevailed under the auspices of King James."

Now doubtless they were more common in the seventeenth century, but I am of opinion that there are many instances of them centuries previous to the reign of King James; as, for example, in a roll of arms of the time of Edward II. (A.D. 1308-14), published by Sir Harris Nicolas from a manuscript in the British Museum, there are the following:

"Sire Peres Corbet, d'or, à un corbyn de sable.

Sire Johan le Fauconer, d'argent, à iii faucouns de goules.

Sire Johan Heroun, d'azure, à iii herouns d'argent.

Sire Richard de Cokfeld, d'azure, à une crois e iiii coks d'or.

Sire Richard de Barlingham, de goules, à iii ours (bears) d'argent.

Sire Johan de Swyneford, d'argent, à un cheveroun de sable, à iii testes de cenglers (swines' heads) d'or."

Sire Ammon de Lucy bore three luces; Sire William Bernak a fers between three barnacles, &c. There are many other examples in the same work, but as I think I have made my communication quite long enough, I forbear giving them.

Cid.

Minor Notes.

Selleridge.—The story of the author who was charged by his publisher for selleridge, and thought it for selling his books, whereas it was storing them in a cellar, is given by Thomas Moore in his Diary, lately published, upon the authority of Coleridge. It is to be found, much better told, in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.

Uneda.

Philadelphia.

Tombs of Bishops.—The following bishops, whose bodies were interred elsewhere, had or have tombs in the several cathedrals in which their hearts were buried:—William de Longchamp, William de Kilkenny, Cardinal Louis de Luxembourg, at Ely; Peter de Aquâ Blancâ, at Aquablanca, in Savoy; Thomas Cantilupe, at Ashridge, Bucks (Hereford); Ethelmar (Winton), at Winchester; Thomas Savage (York), at Macclesfield; Robert Stichelles (Durham), at Durham.

Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.

Durham.

Lines on visiting the Portico of Beau Nash's Palace, Bath.—