Aids to Reflection, vol. i. pp. 176-182.—Coleridge here gives his reasons for considering language a property of the understanding; and, in p. 195., adds,—
"It is, however, by no means equally clear to me that the dog may not possess an analogon of words which I have elsewhere shown to be the proper objects of the 'faculty judging according to sense.'"
Does Coleridge mean that the inferior animals may have language?
Who, of your many able correspondents, will assist me in unravelling this complicated tissue?
C. Mansfield Ingleby.
Minor Queries.
Banning or Bayning Family.—I am desirous of knowing if there was a family of the name of Banning or Bayning seated in Ireland at the close of the sixteenth century; and whether there was any other branch in England excepting that in Essex.
K.
Ladies styled Baronets.—An ancestor of mine, Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., of Chichley Hall, Bucks, in his will, dated Nov. 26, 1635, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Dec. 9, 1635 [128 Sadler], desires "to be buried in the north part of Chichley Church, in the same vault with Dame Elizabeth Chester, Baronet, his first wife." Are there any other instances of ladies of the same rank being styled Baronet about this time? I may mention that this Lady Chester was daughter to Sir Henry Boteler, of Hatfield Woodhall, Herts, and sister to John Lord Boteler, of Bramfeld.