E. T. B. York, May 13. _Carling Sunday._--Carling Sunday, occurring nowabouts, is observed on the north coast of England by the custom of frying dry peas; and much augury attends the process, as indicated by the different effect of the bounding peas on the hot plate. Is any solution to be given? The writer has heard that the practice originated in the loss of a ship (freighted with peas) on the coast of Northumberland. Carling is the foundation beam of a ship, or the main beam on the keel. X. _Lion Rampant holding a Crozier._--I met with this crest some time since on a private seal, and should be glad to ascertain whether the device was borne by chancellors and archbishops who exercised these functions contemporaneously, the last of whom was the Archbishop of York, who was also Lord Keeper from 1621 to Nov. 1625. The motto on the seal is-- "Malentour." To this I cannot trace any meaning. Perhaps some of your heraldic antiquaries can favour me with a solution of the above device of the motto? F. E. M. _Monumental Symbolism._--On a monument dated 1600, or thereabouts, erected to a member of an ancient Roman Catholic family in Leicestershire, there are effigies of his children sculptured. Two of the sons are represented in a kneeling posture, with their hands clasped and upraised; while all the others are standing, some cased in armour, or otherwise. Can you, from knowledge of heraldry, or any other source, decide confidently what is the reason of the difference of posture, or rather what it is intended to denote? Reader. _Ptolemy's Presents to the Seventy-two._--Josephus (_Ant._ b. xii. ch. ii. sect. 15.) mentions, as among the presents bestowed by Ptolemy on the Seventy-two elders, "the furniture of the room in which they were entertained." Was this a usual custom of antiquity? H. J. _Baronette_ (Vol. ii., p. 194.).--In an extract from a statute temp. Hen. IV., it is stated that "dukes, earls, barons, and _baronettes_ might use livery of our lord the king, or his collar," &c. Query the meaning of the term _baronette_, in the reign of Henry IV.? B. DE M. _Meaning of "Hernshaw."_--_Hernshaw_ occurs in _Hamlet_, II. 2. Query, What is the derivation of it? It means, I believe, a young heron. Chaucer ("Squire's Tale," l. 90.) spells it "heronsewe." As _sewe_ signifies a dish (whence the word _sewer_, he who serves up the dinner), this word applied to _heron_ may mean one fit for eating, young and tender. J. H. C. Adelaide, South Australia. _Hogan._--