"There are some very copious early English vocabularies lying in manuscript in the Cathedral libraries of Durham, Winchester, and Canterbury; in the British Museum, King's College, and other depositories, deserving collection."
Will any of your learned readers inform me of the dates of the MSS. referred to, and by whom the collections were made? I would recommend them to the notice of the Camden Society.
Fra. Mewburn.
Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster.—What crest did this family bear, and when did the family become extinct?
J. B.
A marvellous Combat of Birds.—In the Phœnix Britannicus, by J. Morgan, London, 4to., p. 250.[[2]], there is an account of—
"The wonderful battle of stares (or starlings), fought at Cork on Saturday 12th, and Monday 14th, October, 1621."
And this narration relates, that on the Sunday, October 13, the intervening day, the starlings absented themselves to fight at Woolwich, in Kent!!
Without vouching for the fact, or calling in question the prowess of this "Irish Brigade," I leave it to be confirmed or refuted by any reader of the "N. & Q."—comme bon lui semblera.
Σ.