116. "Fœda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis" (Vol. iii., p. 494.).
—Will any of your readers who may be metrical scholars, inform me whether there is any classical example of such an accent and cæsura as in this verse of Vida?
C. B.
117. Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto.
—The Cornish arms are a field sable with fifteen bezants, not balls as they are commonly called, 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. in pale or. These arms were borne by Condurus, the last Earl of Cornwall of British blood, in the time of William I., and were so borne until Richard, Earl of Cornwall, on being created Earl of Poictou, took the arms of such. According to the custom of the French, these were a rampant lion gules crowned or, in a field argent; but to show forth Cornwall, he threw the fifteen bezants into a bordour sable, round the bearing of the Earl of Poictou; but the Cornish arms, those of Condurus, are unaltered, though the coins are often mistaken for balls, and painted on a field coloured to the painter's fancy. Can you tell me when the Cornish motto "one and all" was adopted, and why?
S. H. (2)
118. Gloucester saved from the King's Mines.
—In Sir Kenelm Digby's Treatise of Bodies, ch. xxviii. sec. 4., is this passage:
"The trampling of men and horses in a quiet night, will be heard some miles off.... Most of all if one set a drum smooth upon the ground, and lay one's ear to the upper edge of it," &c.
On which the copy in my possession (ed. 1669) has the following marginal note in a cotemporary hand: