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Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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M. R. _The Royal Arms from William the Conqueror (?) to the time of Henry
II. were two lions passant gardant; but Henry II., on his marriage with
Eleanor, added her arms, a lion passant gardant, to his own; making the
three lions, which have continued to the present day to be the insignia of
England. See Parker's_ Glossary of Heraldry.
CHARLES H. MARKHAM. _The figures on the chemist's bottles are the signs
denoting the seven planets, which the alchemist formerly employed in common
with the astrologer. See a curious article entitled_ Astrology and Alchemy
_in the_ Quarterly Review, Vol. xxi. pp. 180. _et seq._
VARRO _is right in his conjecture; and thanked for his kindness and good
wishes. Will he not unmask?_
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_Errata._--No. 69. p. 152. col. 2. l. 6., for "_paternoster_, i.e." read
"_paternostree_"; and in some copies of No. 63, in the last stanza of the
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