_Lee Trianons_.--I have always understood that these gardens, &c., took
their name from the village of Trianon, the site of which they occupy, and
which village Louis XIV. purchased from the monks of St. Geneviève.

AREDJID KOOEZ.


_Pimlico_ (Vol. i. p. 383. and 474.).--Would it not be worth the while of
some of your ingenious correspondents to inquire whether the following
extract may not give a clue to the origin of this word?

In an enumeration of "strange birds" to be found in Barbadoes, there is
mention of "the Egge Bird, the Cahow, the Tropick Bird, _the Pemlico which
presageth storms_." America painted to the life. (_The True History of the
Spaniards' Proceedings in America_, by Ferdinando Gorges, Esq., Lond. 4to.
1659.)

BR.


_The Arms of Godin_.--My attention has been drawn to a Query from Mr.
KERSLEY, in page 439. of Vol. i., relative to the arms of Godin. I have
seen these arms blazoned variously. Mr. Godin Shiffner bears them quarterly
with his own coat of Shiffner, and blazons them thus:--_Party per fess,
azure and gules, a barr or; in chief, a dexter and sinister hand grasping a
cup, all proper_.

I am inclined to think this is an innovation upon the original arms, as I
have them painted on an old piece of china _azure, a cup or_. They are here