Notes and Queries, No. 179. Saturday, April 2, 1853. | Page 7

he pursues.'"
These lines are from "Constancy to an ideal Object;" but in the usual
editions of Coleridge's Poems, the last two lines are printed thus:
"The enamour'd rustic worships its fair hues, Nor knows he makes the
shadow he pursues." Coleridge's Poetical Works, vol. ii. p. 91., 1840.
Query: Which reading is the correct one? Coleridge refers to the
Manchester Philosophical Transactions for a description of this
phenomenon; but, as the earlier volumes of these are scarce, perhaps
some of your correspondents would copy the description from the
volume which contains it, or furnish one from some authentic source.
J. M. B.
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MINOR QUERIES.
Cann Family.--Can any of your correspondents enlighten me as to the
origin of this family name; and if of foreign extraction, as I suspect, in
what county of England they first settled? There is a village in

Dorsetshire called Cann St. Rumbold. Possibly this may afford some
clue. Burke informs us that William Cann, Esq., was Mayor of Bristol
in 1648, and that his son, Sir Robert Cann, also Mayor, and afterwards
M.P. for that city, was knighted by Charles II. in 1662, and created a
Baronet, September 13th in the same year. The title became extinct in
1765, by the death of Sir Robert Cann, the sixth Baronet. The first
Baronet had several brothers, some of whom most probably left issue,
as I find a respectable family of that name now, and for many years
past, located in Devonshire; but I am not aware if they are descended
from the same stock.
DOMINI-CANN.
Canada.
Landholders in Lonsdale South of the Sands.--In his History of
Lancashire, Baines states (vol. i. chap. iv.) that a return of the principal
landholders in Lonsdale South of the Sands, in the time of James I., has
been kept; but he does not state where the return is registered, nor
whether it was in a private or public form. In fact, it is impossible to
make any reference to the return, from the brief mention made of it by
Baines.
Perhaps some one of your Lancashire correspondents may be
acquainted with the sources of the learned historian's information. If so,
it would much oblige your correspondent to be directed to them, as also
to any of the Lancashire genealogical authorities referring to the district
of Lonsdale South of the Sands.
OBSERVER.
Rotation of the Earth.--Has the experiment which about two years ago
was much talked of, for demonstrating the rotation of the earth by
means of a pendulum, been satisfactorily carried out and proved? And
if so, where is the best place for finding an account of it? The diagram
by Mr. Little in the Illustrated London News does not seem to explain
the matter very fully.

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Nelson and Wellington.--The following statement has been going the
round of the American newspapers since the death of the Duke of
Wellington. Is it true?--"Lord Nelson was the eighteenth in descent
from King Edward I., and {331} the Duke of Wellington was
descended from the same monarch."
UNEDA.
Are White Cats deaf?--White cats are reputed to be "hard of hearing." I
have known many instances, and in all stupidity seemed to accompany
the deafness. Can any instances be given of white cats possessing the
function of hearing in anything like perfection?
SHIRLEY HIBBERD.
Arms in Dugdale's "Warwickshire," &c.--In Dugdale's Warwickshire
(1656), p. 733. fig. 21., is a coat of arms from the Prior's Lodgings at
Maxstoke, viz. Or, fretty of ten pieces sa. with a canton gu. And in
Shaw's Hist. of Staffordshire, vol. i. p. *210., is the notice of a similar
coat from Armitage Church, near Rugeley, extracted out of Church
Notes, by Wyrley the herald, taken about 1597: viz. "Rugeley as before,
impaling O. fretty of ... S. with a canton G. Query if ..."
Dugdale gives another coat, p. 111. fig. 12., from the windows of
Trinity Church, Coventry; viz. Arg. on a chev. sa. three stars of the first.
There is a mitre over this coat.
Can any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." assign the family names to
these arms? Does the mitre necessarily imply a bishop or mitred abbot;
and, if not, does it belong to John de Ruggeley, who was Abbot of
Merevale (not far from Coventry) temp. Hen. VI., one branch of whose
family bore--Arg. on a chev. sa. three mullets of the first. I may observe
that this John was perhaps otherwise connected with Coventry; for
Edith, widow of Nicholas de Ruggeley, his brother, left a legacy, says
Dugd., p. 129., to an anchorite mured up at Stivichall Church, a
member of St. Michael's Church, Coventry.

The same coat (i. e. with the mullets) is assigned by Dugd., p. 661. fig.
12., to the name of Knell.
J. W.