body of the above nobleman from that dread field of slaughter to his mansion in Walmgate in the above city, and of his interment, which doubtless was a strictly private one? Again, does any record exist of the latter event in any book of early registers belonging to the above church? Doubtless many readers of "N. & Q." will be able to answer these three Queries.
Piersebridge, Darlington.
"When we survey," &c.—Where are the following lines to be found?
"When we survey yon circling orbs on high,
Say, do they only grace the spangled sky?
Have they no influence, no function given
To execute the awful will of Heaven?
Is there no sympathy pervading all
Between the planets and this earthly ball?
No tactile intercourse from pole to pole,
Between the ambient and the human soul?
No link extended through the vast profound,
Combining all above, below, around?"
Turnbull's Continuation of Robertson.—Some years ago, a continuation of Robertson's work on Scottish Peerages was announced by Mr. Turnbull, Advocate of Edinburgh.—I shall be glad to be informed whether it as published; and by whom or where.
An Heraldic Query.—Will any one of your contributors from Lancashire or Cheshire, who may have access to ancient ordinaries of arms, whether in print or in manuscript, favour me by saying whether he has ever met with the following coat: Per pale, argent and sable, a fess embattled, between three falcons counterchanged, belled or? It has been attributed to the family of Thompson of Lancashire, by Captain Booth of Stockport, and an heraldic writer named Saunders; but what authority attaches to either I am not aware. Is it mentioned in Corry's Lancashire?
Osborn filius Herfasti.
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