Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"You scarce could see the grass for flowers."
_Alfred Tennyson._
A SUBSCRIBER.
Query 2. Is not the Latin song Catullus XLV. (edit. Doering), where we find
(v. 8.):
"Amor, _sinistram_ ut ante,
_Dextram sternuit approbationem?_"
P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.
_Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head_ (Vol. v., pp. 175. 235. 305.).--I am
surprised that the twice-repeated Query of your correspondent L. G. T. of
Lichfield yet remains unanswered. "The cavern" he refers to is that called
Llech, and concerning which he has fallen into several errors. The cavern,
so far from having been lately discovered, has been known for generations
past, and is yearly visited by hundreds of strangers. If the entrance has
been made as private and inaccessible as possible, there is nobody to blame
but nature and time; for the ancient approach was from the summit of the
cliff by means of a flight of stone and grass steps, of which traces still
remain connected with an old stone wall. The cave is easily descried from
the sea-shore below, whence it can be reached by the aid of a common
ladder. The shape is not heptagonal, as stated by L. G. T.; but is
semi-octagonal, terminated in front by two square columns of freestone. The
front and seats are in perfect preservation; but of the stone table, which
many years ago occupied the centre, the pedestal only remains. The font, or
rather stone basin, is supplied by a spring of most delicious water, which,
at certain seasons, flows in copious quantities into an artificial bath
excavated in the rock below. It is said that the cave was fitted up as a
grotto, or pleasure-house, by some ancestors of the Mostyn family; and this
is all that is known about it. I have measured the principal dimensions,
and find the quantities given by L. G. T. sufficiently accurate.
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
_Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--No pedigree of this
prelate's family is known to have been referred to by any of the Devonshire
historians. The arms used by the bishop, and still remaining in several
churches of the diocese, were: Sable, a chevron or, between three owls
proper; on a chief of the second as many roses gules.
Burke, in the _Encyclopedia of Heraldry_, gives a different coat as borne
by Oldham of Hatherleigh in the co. of Devon.
J. D.
_Arms at Bristol_ (Vol. vii., p. 67.).--It may afford a clue to E. D. to be
informed that coats of arms bearing a chevron charged with three bucks'
heads caboshed were used by the families of Cervington or Servington, and
Parry.
J. D.
_The Cross and the Crucifix_ (Vol. v., pp. 39. 85.).--Under this title I
find two articles; and, as it is an interesting subject, I should like to
send a quotation which I copied some time since from the _Octavius_ of
Minucius Felix, A.D. 210 (Adam. Clarke):
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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