"It has been a subject of surprise that Sir Richard Pole, of whom, or of whose family, little was known, should have married Margaret Countess of Salisbury, the last descendant of the Plantagenets. One of these pedigrees proves that Sir Richard Pole was nearly related to the king, which accounts for the fact."

Sir Harris Nicolas further remarks, that where, in another page of the same manuscript, the arms of Sir Geoffrey Pole (for he was, it seems, a knight) ought to have been inserted, the shield is left blank; and that the coat which is engraved on the garter-plate of Sir Richard Pole at Windsor, being Party per pale argent and sable, a saltire engrailed counterchanged, appears as if it may have been formed upon the saltire of the Nevilles, in allusion to the great inheritance of his wife, the Lady Margaret of Clarence.

J. G. N.

Sir Gammer Vangs (Vol. ii., pp. 89. 280. 396.).

—I have just found some account of this absurd story in Swift's Correspondence, Scott's edition, vol. xvi. p. 306. It seems to have been printed in a pamphlet, a copy of which was sent to the Dean by his friend Mr. Ludlow (Sept. 10, 1718), under the name of Sir Politic Would-be, who gives it sportively (as I always thought it really had) a political meaning, and there seems to have been some allusion in it to the Dean himself. The pamphlet may, perhaps, be found in some of the Irish libraries.

C.

Delighted, Meaning of (Vol. ii., pp. 113. 329.).

—A discussion was, some time ago, carried on in the pages of "N. & Q." relative to the signification of the word delighted as used by Shakspeare. The same word occurs in a sense very different from that which it now bears in the "Epistle Dedicatory" (dated 1667) to The City and Country Purchaser and Builder, by Stephen Primatt. The book is dedicated to Sir Orlando Bridgman and "the rest of the Justices and Barons appointed——for Determination of Differences touching Houses burnt down or demolished by reason of the late Fire in London," and the following is the passage alluded to:

"The truely merited reputation by your Honours equal ballancing the Scales of Justice, hath, and is the daily cause of so many Petitioners to you for the same, especially in the late wisely-erected Court of Judicature; wherein your Honours, by your quick and delighted equitable dispatch of such differences as have come before you, hath sufficiently testified your undoubted loyalty to our Sovereign Lord the King, and amity to his people," &c.

R. C. H.