_Ladies' Arms borne in a Lozenge_ (Vol. viii., pp. 37. 83. 277. 329.).--The difference between the fusil and the lozenge is well known to all heralds, though coach-painters and silversmiths do not {653} always sufficiently describe it. If BROCTUNA, however, be a _practical_ herald, he must often have experienced the difficulty of placing impalements or quarterings correctly, even on a lozenge. On the long and narrow fusil it would be impossible. When the fusil, instead of being a mere heraldic bearing, has to be used as the shape of a shield for the actual use of the painter or engraver, it must of necessity be widened into the lozenge; and as the latter is probably only the same distaff with little more wool upon it, there seems no objection to the arrangement. BROCTUNA is too good an antiquary not to know on recollection that the "vyings of widows" had little to do with funeral arrangements in those days. Procrustes, the herald, came down at all great funerals, and regulated everything with just so much pomp, and no more, as the precise rank of the deceased entitled him to. P. P. had not the smallest intention of giving BROCTUNA offence by pointing out what seems a fatal objection to his theory. Hugh Clark, a well-known modern writer upon Heraldry, gives the following definition of the word lozenge: "Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, resembling a pane of glass in old casements: some suppose it a physical composition given for colds, and was invented to reward eminent physicians." Plutarch says, in the _Life of Theseus_, that at Megara, an ancient town of Greece, the tombstones, under which the bodies of the Amazons lay, were shaped after that form, which some conjecture to be the cause why ladies have their arms on lozenges. RUBY. _The Crescent_ (Vol. viii., p. 319.).--Be so good as to insert in "N. & Q.," for the information of J. W. THOMAS, that the Iceni (a people of England, whose territory consisted of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, &c.) struck coins both in gold and silver; having on their reverses crescents placed back to back generally, except where a rude profile is on a few of them. Two of the gold coins have fallen into my possession; one of which, found at Oxnead in this county, I supplied to the British Museum some years since. Twelve of the silver coins are figured on a plate in Part LVII. of the _Numismatic Chronicle_. MR. THOMAS observing (at p. 321.) he has no work on numismatics, induces me to make this communication to him through your very useful and instructive publication. GODDARD JOHNSON. Norfolk.