Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 131, May 1, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Macfarlane of that Ilk._--Who is the present heir-male of this family?
The latest account of it that I have been able to discover is contained
in Douglas's _Baronage of Scotland_ (1798).
E. N.
_Armorial Bearings._--In the _Court Manual of Dignity and Precedence_ it
is stated, that in the year 1798, when the subject of armorial bearings
was before Parliament, 9458 families in England, and 4000 in Scotland,
were _proved_ entitled to arms. Are any of the relative parliamentary
papers still in existence, and where are they to be found? I have been
unable to discover them in Hansard.
E. N.
_Scologlandis and Scologi._--In the _Collections of the Shires of
Aberdeen and Banff_, published by the Spalding Club, and under the
heading "Ellon," p. 310., there is given an
"Inquisicio facta super terris Ecclesie de Ellon. A.D. 1387,"
in which occur several times the two words _Scologlandis_ and _Scologi_.
Neither of these words are found in Ducange; the nearest approach to
either being _Scolanda_, which is considered to be equivalent to _Scrut
landa_, namely, lands the revenue of which is to be applied to the
providing of church vestments. I should be much obliged by any of your
correspondents favouring me with their opinion as to the meaning of
_Scologlandis_ and _Scologi_, which are used in the "Inquisicio" as
follows:
"... Qui jurati deposuerunt quod terre Ecclesiastice de Ellon que
dicuntur le _Scologlandis_....
"... Item quod heres cujuslibet _Scologi_ defuncti intrare
consuevit hereditatem suam."
G. J. R. G.
_Ednowain ap Bradwen._--Can any of the readers of "N. & Q." give me
information respecting this person, or the family descended from him,
which is supposed to have lived in North Wales during the reign of Henry
VII.? His armorial badge is figured in p. 250. of Enderbie's _Cambria
Triumphans_, and is described as _Gules, three snakes braced, Arg._
There is an ancient font in our church, which, when restored to it in
the year 1841, after having been put to vile uses for many years, did
bear this badge, _but it does not bear it now_. The gentleman who
undertook the direction of the repair of the sculpture on the font, not
having been inspired by the Professor of History at Oxford with a due
reverence for antiquities, ordered Samuel Davies, a stone-mason (who is
still living in this town), to make the three snakes as much like one
dragon as he could. This he attempted to do by chiselling away the head
of one snake, inlaying in its place the head of a dragon; and making the
other heads and tails into legs with claws. The result of these
operations has been a dragon of a _very_ singular appearance. There is a
portcullis with chains sculptured on one of the eight sides of the font;
and it has been conjectured that the motive to the conversion of the
_three snakes, braced_, into a dragon, was to make it appear probable
that the font had been presented to the church by Henry VII.
AP JOHN.
Wrexham.
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