Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 | Page 7

person is admitted to have been eminently beautiful, whatever
disputes may exist as to his character and conduct?
2. Can reference be made to the date of his birth, or, in other words, to
his age when he was killed at Killycrankie, on the 27th of July, 1689.
All the biographies which I have seem are silent upon the point.
W.L.M.
_Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a
reply of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read:
"I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at length
found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum Elegantiorum
of Luckius_," &c.
I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an
obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the
knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the
Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von
Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? The print is said to bear the date 1513.
I have it, but have failed to discover any date at all.
H.J.H.
Sheffield.
_Blackguard._--When did this word Come into use, and from what?
Beaumont and Fletcher, in the _Elder Brother_, use it thus:--
"It is a Faith That we will die in, since from the blackguard To the grim
sir in office, there are few Hold other tenets."
Thomas Hobbes, in his _Microcosmus_, says,--
"Since my lady's decay I am degraded from a cook and I fear the devil
himself will entertain me but for one of his _blackguard_, and he shall
be sure to have his roast burnt."

JARLTZBERG.
_Meaning of "Pension."_--The following announcement appeared
lately in the London newspapers:--
"GRAY'S INN.--At a Pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn,
holden this day, Henry Wm. Vincent, Esq., her Majesty's
Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer, was called to the degree of
Barrister at Law." {135}
I have inquired of one of the oldest benchers of Gray's Inn, now
resident in the city from which I write, for an explanation of the origin
or meaning of the phrase "pension," neither of which was he acquainted
with; informing me at the same time that the Query had often been a
subject discussed among the learned on the dais, but that no definite
solution had been elicited.
Had the celebrated etymologist and antiquary, Mr. Ritson, formerly a
member of the Society, been living, he might have solved the difficulty.
But I have little doubt that there are many of the erudite, and, I am
delighted to find, willing readers of your valuable publication who will
be able to furnish a solution.
J.M.G.
Worcester.
_Stars and Stripes of the American Arms._--What is the origin of the
American arms, viz. stars and stripes?
JARLTZBERG.
_Passages from Shakspeare._--May I beg for an interpretation of the
two following passages from Shakspeare:--
"_Isab._ Else let my brother die, If not a feodary, but only he, Owe, and
succeed thy weakness."
_Measure for Measure,_ Act ii. Sc. 4.

"_Imogen._ Some jay of Italy, Whose mother was her painting, hath
betrayed him."
_Cymbeline_, Act iii. Sc. 4.
TREBOR.
King's College, London.
_Nursery Rhyme._--What is the date of the nursery rhyme:--
"Come when you're called, Do what you're bid, Shut the door after you,
Never be chid?"--Ed. 1754.
In Howell's Letters (book i. sect. v. letter 18. p. 211. ed. 1754) I find--
He will come when you call him, go when you bid him, and shut the
door after him.
J.E.B. MAYOR.
_"George" worn by Charles I._--I should be glad if any of your
correspondents could give me information as to who is the present
possessor of the "George" worn by Charles I. It was, I believe, in the
possession of the late Marquis Wellesley, but since his death it has
been lost sight of. Such a relic must be interesting to either antiquaries
or royalists.
SPERANS.
_Family of Manning of Norfolk._--Can any of your readers supply me
with an extract from, or the name of a work on heraldry or genealogy,
containing an account of the family of Manning of Norfolk. Such a
work was seen by a relative of mine about fifty years since. It related
that a Count Manning, of Manning in Saxony, having been banished
from thence, became king in Friesland, and that his descendants came
over to England, and settled in Kent and Norfolk. Pedigrees of the
Kentish branch exist: but that of Norfolk was distinct. Guillim refers to
some of the name in Friesland.

T.S. LAWRENCE.
_Salingen a Sword Cutler._--A sword in my possession, with inlaid
basket guard, perhaps of the early part of the seventeenth century, is
inscribed on the blade "Salingen me fecit." If this is the name of a
sword cutler, who was he, and when