3. No proof whatever is given of the Chief Baron's death in 40 Edward
III.

I will not trouble you with other grounds of identification which occur
to me: but as an answer to my question might "make these odds all even,"
I sent the "Query" to the "Lost and Found Office" you have established,
in the hope that some stray "Note," as yet unappropriated, may assist in
solving the difficulty.

EDWARD FOSS.

November 5. 1849.

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THE THISTLE OF SCOTLAND.

Mr. Editor,--May I ask if any of your contibutors could inform me in an
early number, when and on what occasion the Thistle was adopted as the
emblem of the Scottish nation? I have looked into many historians, but
as yet found nothing definite enough.

R. L.

Paisley, Oct. 29. 1849.

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CAPTURE OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH.