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Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
page 48 of 65 (73%)
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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