Durham Sword that killed the Dragon (Vol. iii., p. 425.).
—For details of the tradition, and an engraving of the sword, see Surtees' History of Durham, vol. iii. pp. 243, 244.
W. C. TREVELYAN.
Malentour (Vol. iii., p. 449.)
—Your correspondent F. E. M. will find the word Malentour, or Malæntour, given in Edmondson's Complete Body of Heraldry as the motto of the family of Patten alias Wansfleet (sic) of Newington, Middlesex: it is said to be borne on a scroll over the crest, which is a Tower in flames.
In the "Book of Mottoes" the motto ascribed to the name of Patten is Mal au Tour, and the double meaning is suggested, "Misfortune to the Tower," and "Unskilled in artifice."
The arms that accompany it in Edmondson are nearly the same as those of William Pattyn alias Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor temp. Hen. VI.—the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford.
F. C. M.
The Bellman and his History (Vol. iii., pp. 324. 377.).
—Since my former communication on this subject I have been referred to the cut of the Bellman and his Dog in Collier's Roxburghe Ballads, p. 59., taken from the first edition of Dekker's Belman of London, printed in 1608.