"The Hortus Siccus here alluded to was sold at the Rev. Mr. Hodgkinson's sale at Sarsden, to Mrs. De Salis, wife of Dr. De Salis." Is there any pedigree of the family? In a letter of Jno. Ray's to Mr. Aubrey is the following: "I am glad that Mr. Bobart hath been so diligent in observing and making a collection of insects." Is there any collection extant? "He may give me much assistance in my intended Synopsis of our English Animals, and contribute much to the perfecting of it." Did he do so? Is the print of old Jacob Bobart, by W. Richardson, _valuable_? Where can I pick up a print of him by Loggan del., Burghers sculp.? There is a portrait of Jacob Bobart the younger in _Oxford Almanack_ for 1719; can I procure it? H. T. BOBART. * * * * * HERALDIC QUERIES. (Vol. vii., p. 571.) CEYREP is informed, 1st, That a shield in the form of a lozenge was appropriated exclusively to females, both spinsters and widows, in order to distinguish the sex of the bearer of a coat of arms. It is of doubtful origin, though supposed, from the form, to symbolise the spindle with yarn wound round it; of good authority, and not of very modern date. Many instances may be seen in Fuller, in the coats of arms appended to the dedications of the various chapters of his _Church History_. In sect. ii. book vi. p. 282. ed. 1655, he has separated the coats of man and wife, and placed them side by side; that of the latter upon a lozenge-shaped shield--Party per pale arg. and gules, two eagles displayed, counterchanged. 2ndly, No one has a right to inscribe a motto upon a garter or riband, except those dignified with one of the various orders of knighthood. For any other person to do so, is a silly assumption. The motto should be upon a scroll, either over the crest, or beneath the shield. 3rdly, I cannot find that it was ever the custom in this country for ecclesiastics to bear their paternal coat on an oval or circular shield. Forbidden, as they were, by the first council of {38} Mascon, Bingham, vi. 421., in the Excerptions of Ecgbright, A.D. 740, Item 154., and the Constitutions of Othobon, A.D. 1268, can. 4., to bear arms for the purposes of warfare, it is a question whether any below the episcopal order ought, in strict right, to display any armorial ensigns at all. Archbishops and bishops bear the arms of their sees impaled (as of their spouse) with their own paternal coats; the latter probably only in right of their baronies. It is worthy of remark that, since the Reformation, and consequent marriage of bishops, there has been no official decision as to the bearing the arms of their wives, nor has any precedence been granted to the latter. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. * * * * * DOOR-HEAD INSCRIPTIONS. (Vol. vii., pp. 23. 190. 585.) A few years ago I copied the following inscription from over the door of the residence of a parish priest at Cologne: