_Hats worn by Females._--Were not the hats worn by the _females_, as
represented on the Myddelton Brass, peculiar to Wales? An engraving is
given in Pennant's _Tour_, 2 vols., where also may be seen the hat worn
by Sir John Wynne, about 1500, apparently similar to that on the Bacon
Monument, and to that worn by Bankes. A MS. copy of a similar one (made
in 1635, and then called "very auntient") may be seen in the Harleian
MS. No. 1971. (_Rosindale Pedigree_), though apparently not older than
Elizabeth's time. With a coat of arms it was "wrought in backside
work"--the meaning of which is doubtful. What is that of the motto,
"Oderpi du pariver?"

A.C.


_Feltham's Works, Queries respecting._--

"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them _like_ a merlin
after Michaelmas in the field with crows."--_A Brief Character
of the Low Countries_, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661.

What is the meaning of this proverb?

As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that
monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says,
page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--

"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being
compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."

Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen