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NOTES: Armorial Insignia of Illustrious Byzantine Families, 525- Exercise-Books of King Edward VI., 527 Erroneous Punctuation, Ib. Spranger Barry, &c., 528 Early English and German Drama, 529- Petty WalesFounder of Lincoln College-Sir Francis Wortley: Unpublished Letter-"As sick as a Cat"- Varnhagen von Ense, and his "Fête at Prince Schwarzenberg's," at Paris, 1810 Old Horse-mounting Block at Tottenham-Oxford and Cambridge Bishops - Vandalism: Crid Tudno, 529. QUERIES:-Alphabet Rhymes-Cartulary of the Départe. ment du Nord, France-Critics' Family Likeness - Deed of John de Mowbray Faust and Nostradamus Military Plant: Garnet Hand - Thomas Raworth School Magazines - Sealing without Signing-St. Stephen Slyces- - A Tragedy of Tremierre: Barneveldt Wickham's Will, 531.

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REPLIES:- Cross-Legged Effigies and the Crusaders, 535
-Modern Invention of the Sanscrit Alphabet, 536 - Burns
Queries, Ib. - St. Woollos, Newport, 538-Shorthand for
Literary Purposes, 539-William Tans'ur, 540- Cadivor
ab Dinawal-Albert Smith - The Right to expect an
Answer to a Letter Bell-ringing, &c. Passage in the
Arcadia".
"-Samuel Purchas, M.A.-Carey's Descrip-
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Welsh- Parish Registers "The Karamanian Exile".
The Virgin Queen - Godfrey Family Father Mathew
Rhyming Latin Inscription Sound of the Battle of
Waterloo Skelp Hannibal's Passage of the Alps -
Madame de Pompadour, &c., 540.
Notes on Books, &c.

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Notes.

ARMORIAL INSIGNIA OF ILLUSTRIOUS

BYZANTINE FAMILIES.

I cannot refrain from thinking that a great number of the readers of "N. & Q." will feel gratified in perusing the following list of the armorial insignia of many of the imperial, royal, grandducal, and other illustrious families of the Lower Empire whose names are very familiar to the reader of its long annals, in nearly every page of which they are continually met.

The escutcheons, a description of which I give now, were finely illuminated in gold, silver, and colours, by various heraldists, during the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries of the Christian era, on a beautiful vellum roll, measuring 51 +46 in., now in my possession. RHODOCANAKIS.

PHOCAS.-Argent, four fusils conjoined in pale gules.
DUCAS.-Azure, charged with a cross argent, dividing
the field into four quarters.
SCLEROS.-Gules, semée of bees volant or.
LACAPENOS.-Azure, semée of mullets argent.
COMNENOS.-Or, three bells sable, two and one.*

* Alexius Comnenus, eldest son of Manuel, and grandson of Andronicus I., Emperor of Constantinople, on founding in 1204 the empire of Trebizond, assumed the insignia of the city of Trebizond, which were 66 Barry of seven, argent and sable," as the arms of his kingdom, and these continued to be borne by his successors to the empire until its fall in 1462. The sons,

BOTANIATES.-Gules, three pallets argent.
ARGYROS. Or, a cross azure, between four mullets of the
first.
EUPHORBENOS.-Vert, a lion passant argent, langued

gules.

KORESSIOS.-Sable, an eagle with two heads displayed, armed and membered or, langued gules, having an imperial crown placed above it in the shield, and holding in each of its claws a sword in pale argent. CARANTINOS.-Argent, three mullets sable, two and one. CATACALON.-Gules, semée of gryphons segreant argent. DALASSINOS.-Gules, charged with a cross or between four moons of the last, of which the two in sinister are increscent, and the two in dexter decrescent. TORNICES.-Argent, an eagle with two heads displayed, armed and membered gules, having a three-pointed diadem above it in the shield of the last. TARONITES.-Argent, charged with a cross sable, between four spear-heads in pale, of the second. TARCHANIOTES.-Azure, three mullets or, two and one. ANGELOS.-Gules, four fusils in cross or, each fusil charged with an angel vested and winged argent, tuniced azure, holding in the dexter hand a sword in bend of the third.

BRYENNIOS.-Sable, three lions rampant guardant crowned or, two, face to face, and one.

MELISSINOS.-Gules, six bees volant or, one, two, two, and one, surrounding an inescutcheon charged with the Comnenian insignia, "Or, three bells sable, two and one."

CAMATIROS.-Or, semée of mullets gules.
BRANAS.-Barry of eight, argent and purpure, with France
Ancient Azure, semée of fleurs-de-lys or," in pretence.*
GAVRAS.-Gules, four fusils or, in fesse across the shield.
CONTOSTEPHANOS.-Argent, a castle triple towered sable,
ajourés of the first.

PALEOLOGOS.-Gules, a cross or, between four letters B, of the last.†

daughters, brothers, and sisters of the emperors, as a distinction from the members of the other branches of the Comnenian family, placed in pretence, upon their own paternal shield-which was, "Or, three bells sable, two and one"-the arms of the empire of Trebizond.

* On account of the marriage in A.D. 1205 of Theodorus Branas with Agnes, daughter of Louis VII. of France, sister of Philip Augustus, and widow of Alexius II. and Andronicus I. Comnenus, Emperors of the Byzantine empire.

Before the elevation in 1260 of Michael Palæologus to the imperial throne, the heraldic insignia of his family were, "Gules, charged with a cross or, dividing the field into four quarters." On assuming the purple he charged each of the quarters with a letter B, meaning by them the words Βασιλεὺς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων ="King of Kings reigning over Kings."

It is known that the members of the different Byzantine families who from time to time rose to the imperial rank at Constantinople, all, as a matter of course, assumed for their armorial insignia those of the empire, which were "Gules, an eagle with two heads displayed, crowned, armed and membered or." Michael Palæologus and his successors to the Roman throne followed the example of their predecessors, while the other non-reigning members of his family continued to retain the Palæologian arms proper, as described above, with the exception of the heir-apparent, who placed upon the centre of the cross an escutcheon of pretence charged with the insignia of the empire, and ensigned with the imperial crown. I think it unnecessary to mention that the various provinces, islands, and very often cities of the Byzantine