[282] Notes and Queries, No. 236, May 6, 1854.
[283] Letter of Memorial to King Charles II. from Sir John Hinton, physician in ordinary to His Majesty, 1679. Ellis, Orig. Letters, 3d series, vol. iii. p. 307.
[284] The Three Blackbirds, Choughs, Crows, Ravens, &c., may allude to Charles, James, and Rupert.
[285] Coryatt’s Crudities, vol. i. p. 39. In the East the same fable is current as to the paternal affection of young storks; their name in Hebrew is chesadao, which implies mercy or pity.
[286] “Armory of Byrdes, Imprynted at Londõ by John Wyght dwellĩg Poules Church yarde at the sygne of the Rose.” A poem of the time of Henry VIII., attributed to Skelton, the poet laureate.
[287] Bourne’s Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1725, p. 65.
[288] Aubrey’s Remains of Gentilisme and Judaism.—Lansdown MSS.
[289] On the obverse:—
“When the cock began to crow
St Peter began to cry.”
Reverse:—