nt of it? The diagram by Mr.
Little in the _Illustrated London News_ does not seem to explain the
matter very fully.

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_Nelson and Wellington._--The following statement has been going the
round of the American newspapers since the death of the Duke of
Wellington. Is it true?--"Lord Nelson was the eighteenth in descent from
King Edward I., and {331} the Duke of Wellington was descended from the
same monarch."

UNEDA.

_Are White Cats deaf?_--White cats are reputed to be "hard of hearing."
I have known many instances, and in all stupidity seemed to accompany
the deafness. Can any instances be given of white cats possessing the
function of hearing in anything like perfection?

SHIRLEY HIBBERD.

_Arms in Dugdale's "Warwickshire," &c._--In Dugdale's _Warwickshire_
(1656), p. 733. fig. 21., is a coat of arms from the Prior's Lodgings at
Maxstoke, viz. Or, fretty of ten pieces sa. with a canton gu. And in
Shaw's _Hist. of Staffordshire_, vol. i. p. *210., is the notice of a
similar coat from Armitage Church, near Rugeley, extracted out of
_Church Notes_, by Wyrley the herald, taken about 1597: viz. "Rugeley as
before, impaling O. fretty of ... S. with a canton G. Query if ..."

Dugdale gives another coat, p. 111. fig. 12., from the windows of
Trinity Church, Coventry; viz. Arg. on a chev. sa. three _stars_ of the
first. There is a mitre over this coat.

Can any of the correspondents of "N. & Q." assign the family names to
these arms? Does the mitre necessarily imply a bishop or mitred abbot;
and, if not, does it belong to John de Ruggeley, who was Abbot of
Merevale (not far from Coventry) temp. Hen. VI., one branch of whose
family bore--Arg. on a chev. sa. three _mullets_ of the first. I may
observe that this John was perhaps otherwise connected with Coventry;
for Edith, widow of Nicholas de Ruggeley, his brother, left a legacy,
says Dugd., p. 129., to an anchorite mured up at Stivichall Church, a
member of St. Michael's Church, Coventry.

The same coat (_i. e._ with the mullets) is assigned by Dugd., p. 661.
fig. 12., to the name of Knell.

J. W. S. R.

_Tombstone in Churchyard._--Does any one know of a legible inscription
older than 1601?

A. C.

_Argot and Slang._--I shall be much obliged by learning from any
correspondent the etymons of _argot_ (French) and _slang_, as applied to
language; and when did the latter term first come into use?

THOS. LAWRENCE.

Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

_Priest