Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_History of Brittany._--I shall feel obliged to any one who can refer me
to a good history or histories of Brittany; more especially to those
which relate to the genealogies and heraldry of the Breton families, or
which contain pedigrees.
T. H. KERSLEY, B.A.
_Serjeants' Rings._--T. P. would be obliged to any of your antiquarian
readers who could inform him, through the medium of your paper, whether
the custom of serjeants-at-law presenting rings with mottoes, on taking
the coif, prevailed so long back as A.D. 1670-80, and, if so, whether
there are any records, or other sources, from which he could ascertain
the motto used by an individual who was admitted to that degree about
that period?
_The Duchess of Cleveland's Cow-pox._--In Baron's _Life of Jenner_, Vol.
i. p. 123., there occurs the following note, extracted from one of Dr.
Jenner's note-books of 1799:
"I know of no direct allusion to the disease in any ancient
author, yet the following seems not very distantly to bear upon
it. When the Duchess of Cleveland was taunted by her companions,
Moll Davis (Lady Mary Davis) and others, that she might soon have
to deplore the loss of that beauty which was then her boast, the
small-pox at that time raging in London, she made a reply to this
effect,--that she had no fear about the matter, for she had had a
disorder which would prevent her from ever catching the small-pox.
This was lately communicated by a gentleman in this county, but
unfortunately he could not recollect from what author he gained
his intelligence."
Can any reader of "N. & Q." supply this missing authority for a fact
which is very important in the history of medicine--if true?
ONETWOTHREE.
_Arms of Manchester._--What are the arms of Manchester? and are they of
ancient usage? or only assigned to the town since its incorporation? and
if the latter, whence did the bearings originate?
H. H. H. V.
_Heraldical MSS. of Sir Henry St. George Garter._--What has become of
these valuable MSS.? and if the place of their deposit is known, can
access be obtained to them for literary purposes? They were, as Noble
relates, originally sold into the Egmont family, and descended to John
James, the third Earl; but some time after his death, about the year
1831, all the personal property of the family was disposed of; the
effects at Enmore Castle were sold by auction on the spot; and the
writer of this well remembers seeing the old family pictures preparing
for the same fate in a sales-room in Conduit Street, he thinks of Mr.
Abbots. Mr. Braithwaite, of Great Russell Street, was the auctioneer
employed at Enmore, and an inquiry was made of him at the time relative
to these MSS., and the answer was, that they also were destined to the
hammer. A catalogue also was promised whenever it should come out. The
writer was subsequently informed that the MSS. were withdrawn, and he
could never learn what became of them.
M----N.
Minor Queries Answered.
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