If this be correct, Apodliktes (p. 42.) must be mistaken in attributing so recent an origin to the cockade as the date of the Hanoverian succession. The truth is, that from the earliest period of heraldic institutions, colours have been used to symbolise parties. The mode of wearing them may have varied; and whether wrought in silk, or more economically represented in the stamped leather cockade of our private soldier, is little to the purpose. It will, however, hardly be contended that our present fashion at all resembles "la crête du coq."
F. S. Q.
"The ribband worn in the hat" was styled "a favour" previous to the Scotch Covenanters' nick-naming it a cockade. Allow me to correct Apodliktes (p. 42.): "The black favour being the Hanoverian badge, the white favour that of the Stuarts." The knots or bunches of ribbons given as favours at marriages, &c., were not invariably worn in the hat as a cockade is, but it was sometimes (see Hudibras, Pt. i. canto ii. line 524.)
"Wore in their hats like wedding garters."
There is a note on this line in my edition, which is the same as J. B. Colman refers to for the note on the Frozen Horn (p. 91.).
Blowen.
Rudbeck's Atlantica—Grenville copy—Tomus I Sine Anno. 1675. 1679. (Vol. iii., p. 26.).—Has any one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitled "Ad Bibliopegos?"—Not one of them.
(Neither has the king's (George III.) copy, nor the Sloane copy, both in the Museum.)
Has the copy with the date 1679, "Testimonia" at the end?—The Testimonia are placed after the Dedication, before the text (they are inlaid). They occupy fifteen pages.
Have they a separate Title and a separate sheet of Errata?—Neither the one nor the other.