Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
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and bells. May not these figures be the private mark of the artist?
S.S.S. _The Wickliffite Version of the Scriptures._--I have in my possession a very fair MS. of Wickliff's translation of the New Testament; and should the editors of the Wickliffite Versions like to see my MS., and let me know to whom I may send it, I shall be happy to lend it them. DANIEL ROCK. Buckland, Faringdon. _Hever_ (pp. 269. 342.).--In confirmation of the meaning assigned to this word, there is an estate near Westerham, in Kent, called "Hever's-wood." S.S.S. _Steward Family_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--Though not an answer to his question, "O.C." may like to be informed that the arms of the impalement in the drawing which he describes are (according to Izacke's _Exeter_) those which were borne by Ralph Taxall, Sheriff of Devon, in 1519. Pole calls him Texshall. Modern heralds give the coat to Pecksall of Westminster. If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the coat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in saltier, between four owls. S.S.S. |
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