Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 | Page 8

the numerous readers and
correspondents of "NOTES AND QUERIES" describe the armorial
bearings of Robert Nelson, Esq., the author of the Companion for the
Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England? He was buried in the
burying-ground in Lamb's Conduit Fields, January, 1714.
G. F.
Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York.--Query, whereabouts in the county of
York is this place? I believe that one of the above is the way of spelling,
but at any rate they have the same sound.
J. N. C.
Moore's Almanack.--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to
the history of Moore's Almanack?
What is the date of its first appearance? Was Francis Moore a real
personage, or merely a myth?
H. P. W.
Temple.
Archbishop Loftus.--I shall be deeply obliged to any of your
correspondents who will inform me whether, and where, any diary or
private memoranda are known to exist of Adam Loftus, who was
Archbishop of Dublin nearly forty years, from 1567 to 1605, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, and the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
He was an ancestor of the Viscount Loftus, and of the Marquess of Ely.
HENRY COTTON.

Thurles, Ireland, March 20.
Matrix of Monastic Seal.--A brass matrix has fallen into my hands of a
period certainly not much anterior to the Revolution. Device, the Virgin
and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her
right hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross. The legend is:
"* SIG[=IL] . MON . [=B] . [=M] . DE . PRATO . ALIAS . DE .
BONO . NVNCIO."
In the field, a shield charged with three lions passant. Can any
correspondent aid me in assigning it rightly? There was an Abbey of St.
Mary de Pratis at Leicester (Vide Gent. Mag., vol. xciii. p. 9.); and
there is a church dedicated to "St. Mary in the Marsh at Norwich." In a
recent advertisement I find a notice of Scipio Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia
and Prato, so that the appellation is not very uncommon.
E. S. TAYLOR.
Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon.--What edition of the Peschito-Syriac
version of the Old and New Testaments, respectively, is considered the
best? Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value and accuracy?
T. TN.
Villiers Duke of Buckingham.--There is a tradition in Portsmouth, that
in the evening preceding his assassination, Villiers Duke of
Buckingham killed a sailor. Is there any authority for this?
E. D.
Porci solidi-pedes.--Can any of your readers inform me if any pigs with
single hoofs are in existence in any county in England? They are
mentioned in a letter from Sir Thomas Browne to Dugdale the
antiquary.
J. S. P. (a Subscriber).
The Heywood Family.--I am anxious to know if Thomas Heywood, the

dramatist, was in any way related to Nathaniel Heywood or Oliver
Heywood, the celebrated Nonconformist ministers in the seventeenth
century? Could any of your correspondents give me information on this
point?
H. A. B.
Trin. Coll. Camb.
Was Charles II. ever in Wales?--There is a tradition amongst the
inhabitants of Glamorganshire, that, after his defeat at the battle of
Worcester, Charles come to Wales and staid a night at a place called
Llancaiach Vawr, in the parish of Gelligaer. The place then belonged to
a Colonel Pritchard, an officer in the Parliamentary army; and the story
relates that he made himself known to his host, and threw himself upon
his generosity for safety. The colonel assented to his staying for {264}
one night only, but went away himself, afraid, as the story goes, that
the Parliament should come to know he had succoured Charles. I know
that Llancaiach was a place of considerable note long after that, and
that an old farmer used to say he had heard tile story from his father.
The historians, I believe, are all silent as to his having fled to Wales
between the time of his defeat at Worcester and the time he left the
country.
DAVYDD GAM.
[Some accounts state that Charles I. was entertained by Colonel
Prichard, when that monarch, travelling through Wales, lost his way
between Tredegar and Brecknock. (See Lewis's Topographical
Dictionary of Wales, art. "Gellygaer.")]
Dog's Head in the Pot.--"Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Haberdasher of
London, by will, dated 3d Sept. 1563, gave 13s. 4d. annually to the
highways between Barkway and Dogshed-in-the-Pot, otherwise called
Horemayd."
The Dogshed-in-the-Pot here mentioned was, as I infer, a public-house
in the parish of Great or Little Hormead in Hertfordshire, by the side of

the road from Barkway to London. In Akerman's Tradesmen's Tokens
current in London I find one (numbered 1442) of the
"Dogg's-Head-in-the-Potte" in Old Street, having the device of a dog
eating out of a pot; and the token of Oliver Wallis, in Red Cross Street
(No. 1610., A.D. 1667), has the device of a dog