Burke, in the Encyclopedia of Heraldry, gives a different coat as borne by Oldham of Hatherleigh in the co. of Devon.
J. D.
Arms at Bristol (Vol. vii., p. 67.).—It may afford a clue to E. D. to be informed that coats of arms bearing a chevron charged with three bucks' heads caboshed were used by the families of Cervington or Servington, and Parry.
J. D.
The Cross and the Crucifix (Vol. v., pp. 39. 85.).—Under this title I find two articles; and, as it is an interesting subject, I should like to send a quotation which I copied some time since from the Octavius of Minucius Felix, A.D. 210 (Adam. Clarke):
"Cruces etiam nec colimus nec optamus. Vos plane qui ligneos deos consecratis, cruces ligneas, ut deorum vestrorum partes, forsitan adoratis. Nam et signa ipsa, et cantabra, et vexilla castrorum, quid aliud quam inauratæ cruces sunt et ornatæ? Tropæa vestra victricia non tantum simplicis crucis faciem, verum et affixi hominis imitantur. Signum sane crucis naturaliter visimus in navi, cum velis tumentibus vehitur, cum expansis palmulis labitur," &c.
Similar sentiments, in almost the same words, are expressed by Tertullian, Apologet., sect. 16.; and Ad Nationes, sect. 12. See also Justin Martyr, Apol. lib. i. sect. 72. The quotation from M. Felix is from the Leipsic edit., 1847, pp. 41, 42.
B. H. C.
Sir Kenelm Digby (Vol. vii., p. 85.).—I am not at all convinced of the accuracy of the statement made by your correspondent Vandyke, "that Sir Kenelm Digby is (Vandyke believes always) represented with a sunflower by his side." There are various prints of Sir Kenelm Digby at the British Museum, which I have very recently examined, and I can find but one which bears the device alluded to and which is placed, not "by the side of Sir Kenelm Digby," but with other allegorical symbols, at the bottom of the print. Nor do the Private Memoirs (first published in 1827 by the late Sir Harris Nicolas) contain anything to throw light on the supposed adoption of this emblem by Sir Kenelm Digby.
P. C. S. S.