I have given the title-pages in full, omitting a Latin motto which adorns the title-page of the M.A. of Exeter College.
Q.D.
Periwinkle--a Mocking Emblem.
Can any of your readers, learned in the language of flowers, inform me why, when Sir W. Fraser (the last of Wallace's adherents) was led in triumph through the streets of London, with his legs tied under his horse's belly--"a garland of Periwinkle was in mockery placed upon his head?" See Tytler's History of Scotland, cap. 3.
MELANION.
Wives of Ecclesiastics.
Sir,--In looking over some ancient charters a few days ago, I met with one dated 22 Edw. III, by which "Willielmus de Bolton clericus et Goditha uxor ejus," release a claim to certain lands. If William de Bolton was an ecclesiastic, as I suppose, how is it that his wife is openly mentioned?
I shall be must obliged to any of your readers for an explanation.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Whelps.