at-Law of Ockenden
House, Cuckfield" (_Sussex Archaeological Collections_, vol. iii.
p. 131.).

E. M.

Hastings.

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_Heraldic Query._--Names of the families bearing the following coats of
arms are requested:

1. Ermine, on a chief sable, two griffins segreant combatant argent.
_Crest_, a demylyon affrontee or.

2. Azure, a bend or, between three spear-heads argent. _Crest_, an armed
arm, embowed, grasping a broken spear.

3. Barry of six or and sable (with quarterings). _Crest_, on coil of rope a
dog sable collared argent.

E. D.

_Christmas Ballad._--Perhaps some of your correspondents may be able to
throw some light upon the following verses, which are sung by the waits at
Christmas in the neighbourhood of Falmouth:

"Twelve is twelve as goes to hell,
Eleven is eleven as goes to heaven,
Ten is the Ten Commandments,
Nine is nine so bright to shine,
Eight is the gable angels,
Seven is the seven stars of the sky,
And six is the six bold waiters,
Five is the flamboys under the bough,
And four is the Gospel preachers;
Three of them is thrivers (shrivers?),
Two of them is lilywhite babes, and clothed all in green oh!
And One is One, and all alone, and ever more shall be so."

That the first line alludes to the fate of the twelfth apostle is evident.
The meaning of the second, third, sixth, ninth, and last lines, is also
apparent. The others I am quite at a loss to explain.

C. M. G.

_Hay-bread Recipe._--The Query of your correspondent G. D. (Vol. ix.,
p. 148.) has reminded me of a question which I wish to ask. By what
chemical process may hay be converted into bread?

E. W. J.

_Te Deum._--We read frequently of this hymn being sung in the Russian
Church after victories. Can any of your correspondents inform me in what
language it is used in the Eastern Churches? It is, I believe, generally
admitted that it was originally composed in Latin for the use of the
Western Church; but if the Emperor Nicholas, in his famous manifesto (vide
Vol. viii., pp. 585. 655.), quotes from this hymn and not from the Psalms,
the one being quite as likely as the other, it would almost appear that the
Latin version is the one with which he is the most familiar.

HONORE DE MAREVILLE.

Guernsey.

_Mary Queen of Scots at Auchincas._--Auchincas is an interesting ruin on
the bank of the Evan in Dumfriesshire, the residence of Randolph, Earl of
Murray, Regent of Scotland in 1329. I hav