embracing and bearing up a banner of gold charged with the royal arms;
the sinister, another banner azure, charged with the cross of St.
Andrew, argent. Queen Elizabeth had used as supporters, dexter, a lion
rampant gardant, crowned; and sinister, a dragon rampant, both or. She
also used a lion ramp. gardant crowned, and a greyhound, both or. James
adopted as supporters, dexter, a lion ramp. gardant, {222} crowned with
the imperial crown, or; sinister, an unicorn argent, armed, crined,
unguled, gorged with a coronet composed of crosses patées, and
fleurs-de-lis, a chain affixed thereto passing between its forelegs, and
reflexed over the back, all or. These have been used as the royal
supporters ever since their first adoption, with but one exception, and
that is in the seal of the Exchequer, time of Charles I., where the
supporters are an antelope and stag, both ducally collared and chained.

E.K.


_The Frog and the Crow of Ennow_.--In answer to M. (Vol. ii., p. 136.),
I send you the edition of "the frog and the crow" which I have been
familiar with since childhood. I can give you no history of it, save
that it is tolerably well known in Lancashire, and that the _point_
consists in giving a scream over the last "oh!" which invariably, if
well done, elicits a start even in those who are familiar with the
rhyme, and know what to expect.

_The Frog and the Crow_.

"There was a jolly fat frog lived in the river Swimmo,
And there was a comely black crow lived on the
river Brimmo;