Can any of your readers supply particulars of, or references to, other similar portraitures, especially of any still in existence?
J. P.
Heraldic.—Can any of your heraldic correspondents inform me to what families the following coat of arms belongs:—Gules, a fess sanguine between three trefoils slipped proper? There is in this the not very frequent occurrence of a coloured charge upon a coloured field. The only similar instance I now remember is Denham, Suffolk: Gules, a cross vert.
Loccan.
Dedication of Kemerton Church.—The church at Kemerton, Gloucestershire, was, until a few years ago, marked by the authorities with a blank, just as the church of Middleton ("N. & Q.," Vol. v., p. 372.); but it has now been discovered, it would appear, to have been dedicated to St. Nicholas. How, or where?
I. R. R.
Consolato del Mare.—The maritime code of the Venetians derived from Barcelona, observed also by the Genoese and Pisans, was called "Consolato del Mare," A.D. 1200. Why was it so called?
R. H. G.
Consonants in Welsh.—It has often been asserted that the Welsh language is remarkable for the number of its consonants. Can any of your readers acquainted with that language inform me whether there is a larger proportion of consonants in Welsh than in English? Messrs. Chambers, in a recent number of their Repository, say: