_Three Fleurs-de-Lys_ (Vol. ix., p. 35.).--In reply to the Query of DEVONIENSIS, I would say that many families of his own county bore fleurs-de-lys in their coat armour, in the forms of _two and one_, and _on a bend_; also that the heraldic writers, Robson and Burke, assign a coat to the family of Baker charged with three fleurs-de-lys on a fesse. The Devon family of Velland bore, Sable, a fesse argent, in chief three fleurs-de-lys of the last, but whether these bearings were ever placed fesse-wise, or, as your querist terms it, in a horizontal line, I am not sure. J. D. S. If DEVONIENSIS will look at the arms of Magdalen College, Oxford, he will there find the three fleurs-de-lys in a line in the upper part of the shield. A. B. Athenæum. _Portrait of Plowden_ (Vol. ix., p. 56.).--A portrait of Plowden (said to have been taken from his monument in the Temple Church) is prefixed to the English edition of his _Reports_, published in 1761. J. G. Exon. _St. Stephen's Day and Mr. Riley's "Hoveden"_ (Vol. viii., p. 637.).--The statement of this feast being observed prior to Christmas must have {114} arisen from the translator not being conversant with the technical terms of the _Ecclesiastical Calendar_, in which, as the greater festivals are celebrated with Octaves, other feasts falling during the Octave are said to be under (_infrà_) the greater solemnity. Thus, if MR. WARDEN will consult the _Ordo Recitandi Officii Divini_ for 1834, he will see that next Sunday, the 8th inst., stands "Dom inf. Oct.," _i.e._ of the Epiphany, and that the same occurs on other days during the year. May I point out an erratum in a Query inserted some time since (not yet replied to), regarding a small castle near Kingsgate, Thanet, the name of which is printed Aix Ruochim; it should be Arx Ruochim. A. O. H. Blackheath. _Death Warnings in Ancient Families_ (Vol. ix., p. 55.).--A brief notice of these occurrences, with references to works where farther details may be met with, would form a very remarkable record of events which tend to support one's belief in the truth of the remark of Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy." A drummer is stated to be heard in C---- Castle, the residence of the Earl and Countess of A., "going about the house playing his drum, whenever there is a death impending in the family." This warning is asserted to have been given shortly before the decease of the Earl's first wife, and preceded the death of the next Countess about five or six months. Mrs. Crowe, in her _Night Side of Nature_, observes hereupon: "I have heard that a paper was found in her (the Countess's) desk after her death, declaring her conviction that the drum was for her."