Leeds.
Three Fleurs-de-Lis (Vol. ix., p. 35.).—I have by me a MS. Biographical History of the English Episcopate, complete from the foundation of every See, with the armorial bearings of the several bishops: the whole I have collected from the best sources. I find among these, in the arms of Trilleck of Hereford, three fleurs-de-lis in chief; Stillingfleet of Worcester, Coverdale of Exeter, North of Winchester, three fleurs-de-lis, two in chief and one in base; Stretton of Lichfield, three fleurs-de-lis in bend.
Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.
Sir John Egles, who was knighted by King James II. in the last year of his reign, and was Lord Mayor of London in 1688, bore: Argent, a fess engrailed, and in chief three fleurs-de-lis sable.
The family of France, now represented by James France, Esq., of Bostock Hall, co. Cheshire, bear: Argent, on a mount in base a hurst proper, a chief wavy azure, charged with the three fleurs-de-lis or. (The last are probably armes parlantes.)
Halford of Wistow bears: Argent, a greyhound passant sable, on a chief azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
Lewis Evans.
Devoniensis is informed, that the family of Saunders bear the following coat of arms: viz. Argent, three fleurs-de-lis sable, on a chief of the second three fleurs-de-lis of the first. Also, that the families of Chesterfield, Warwyke, Kempton, &c., bear: Three fleurs-de-lis in a line (horizontal) in the upper part of the shield. See Glovers' Ordinary, augmented and improved in Berry's Encyclopædia Heraldica, vol. i.
H. C. C.
Newspaper Folk Lore (Vol. ix., p. 29.).—Although (apparently unknown to Londoner) the correspondent of The Times, under "Naval Intelligence," in December last, with his usual accuracy, glanced at the "snake lore" merely to laugh at the fable, I have written to a gallant cousin of mine, now serving as a naval officer at Portsmouth, and subjoin his reply to my letter; it will, I think, amply suffice to disabuse a Londoner's, or his friend's, mind of any impression of credence to be attached to it, as regards the snake: