Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 | Page 8

and where did he live?
T.S. LAWRENCE.
_Billingsgate._--May I again solicit a reference to any early drawing of
Belins gate? That of 1543 kindly referred by C.S. was already in my
possession. I am also obliged to Vox for his Note.
W.W.
_"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke."_--Can you inform me of
the author's name who says,--
"They speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke, The faith and morals
hold that Milton held," &c.?
and was it applied to the early settlers of New England?
X.
_Genealogical Queries._--Can any of your genealogical readers oblige
me with replies to the following Queries?
1. To what family do the following arms belong? They are given in
Blomfield's Norfolk (ix. 413.) as impaled with the coat of William
Donne, Esq., of Letheringsett, Norfolk, on his tomb in the church there.
He died in 1684.
On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many
crescents.
Not having seen the stone, I cannot say whether Blomfield has
blazoned it correctly; but it seems possible he may have meant to say,--

On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels
rampant.
2. Which Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, was the father of
Margaret Courtenay, who, in the fifteenth century, married Sir Robert
Carey, Knt.? and who was her mother?
3. Where can I find a pedigree of the family of Robertson of
_Muirtown_, said to be descended from _John_, second son of
Alexander Robertson, of _Strowan_, by his second wife, Lady
Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Athol, brother of King
James II.? which John is omitted in the pedigree of the Strowan family,
in Burke's Landed Gentry.
C.R.M.
_Parson, the Staffordshire Giant._--Harwood, in a note to his edition of
Erdeswick's _Staffordshire_, p. 289., says,--
"This place [Westbromwich] gave birth to William Parsons, [query
Walter,] the gigantic porter of King {136} James I., _whose picture
was at Whitehall_; and a bas-relief of him, with Jeffry Hudson the
dwarf, was fixed in the front of a house near the end of a bagnio court,
Newgate-street, probably as a sign."
Plot, in his _Natural History of Staffordshire_, gives some instances of
the great strength of Parsons.
I shall feel much obliged if you or your readers will inform me, 1.
Whether there is any mention of Parsons in contemporary, or other
works? 2. Whether the portrait is in existence? if so, where? Has it been
engraved?
C.H.B.
Westbromwich.
_Unicorn in the Royal Arms._--When and why was the fabulous

animal called the unicorn first used as a supporter for the royal arms of
England?
E.C.
_The Frog and the Crow of Ennow._--I should be glad to get an answer
to the following Query from some one of your readers:--I remember
some few old lines of a song I used to hear sung many years ago, and
wish to learn anything as regards its date, authorship,--indeed, any
particulars, and where I shall be likely to find it at length. What I
remember is,--
"There was a little frog, lived in the river swim-o, And there was an old
crow lived in the wood of Ennow, Come on shore, come on shore, said
the crow to the frog again-o; Thank you, sir, thank you, sir, said the
frog to the crow of Ennow,
...
But there is sweet music under yonder green willow, And there are the
dancers, the dancers, in yellow."
M.
"_She ne'er with treacherous Kiss_."--Can any of your readers inform
me where the following lines are to be found?
"She ne'er with treacherous kiss her Saviour stung, Nor e'er denied Him
with unholy tongue; She, when Apostles shrank, could danger brave--
Last at His cross, and earliest at His grave!"
C.A.H.
"_Incidit in Scyllam_" (Vol. ii., p. 85.).--
"Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim; Sie morbum fugiens,
incidit in medicos."
Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line,

appendant and appurtenant to the first? I think it was Lord Grenville
who quoted them as found somewhere together.
FORTUNATUS DWARRIS.
_Nicholas Brigham's Works._--Nicholas Brigham, who erected the
costly tomb in Poets' Corner to the memory of Geoffrey Chaucer
(which it is now proposed to repair by a subscription of five shillings
from the admirers of the poet), is said to have written, besides certain
miscellaneous poems, _Memoirs by way of Diary_, in twelve Books;
and a treatise De Venationibus Rerum Memorabilium. Can any of the
readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" state whether any of these, the
titles of which are certainly calculated to excite our curiosity, are
known to be in existence, and, if so, where? It is presumed that they
have never been printed.
PHILO-CHAUCER.
_Ciric-Sceat, or Church-scot._--Can any of your readers explain the
following passage from Canute's Letter to the Archbishops, &c. of
England, A.D. 1031. (_Wilkins Conc._ t. i. p. 298):--