them without reproch_."

The episcopal bench, in particular, are very generally faulty in this
respect, and, for the greater part, content themselves (if not by birth
entitled to bear arms) by assuming the coat of some old-established family
of the same, or _nearly the same_, name. In the case of temporal peerages,
which are not seldom, thanks to the ancient constitution of England,
renovated from the middle and lower classes, the practice is more in
accordance with the precepts of _The Blazon of Gentrie_; but I believe
there is at least _one instance_, that of a lawyer of the greatest
eminence, who was last year advanced to a peerage, and to the highest rank
in his profession, who has assumed both arms and supporters without the
fiat of the College of Arms. The "novi homines" of a former age set a
better example to those of the present day, and were not ashamed to go
honestly to the proper office and take out their patent of arms, thus
"founding a family" who have a _right_ to the ensigns of honour which they
assume.

SPES.

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MORLEE AND LOVEL.

The following document, in connexion with the trial between Morlee and
Lovell, in the Court of Chivalry, will probably interest your heraldic
readers.

L. B. LARKING.

Ceste indentur tesmoyne q' mos^r Joh[=n] de Cobeh[=m] s^r de Cobeh[=m]
ad baille [p=] assent de les sires de Morlee et Louel dys lib' de bone
moneye amest' Joh[=n] Barnet, cest assau' cent south p^r le un [p=]tye
et cent south p^r lautre [p=]tye acause q' mesme le dit mestre Joh[=n]
et mest' Will[=m] Dawode et mest' Will[=m] Sondeye serrount assessours
sur la matire pendaunt [p=]entre les deux syngn' susdite p^r leur armes
en le Court de Chiualerie. En tesmoynaunce de quel payment a ycestes
endentur lez [p=]tyes susditez entrechaungeablement ount mys lours
sceals.

Don a Loundres le xx iu^r de Feu'er lan du rengne le Roy Richard
secounde quinzisme.

[In dorso.]

Lendentur de x li paye a mest' Joh[=n] Barnet p^r Morlee et Louel.

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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.

_Shakspeare Emendations._--As this is the age of Shakspeare emendations, I
beg to propose the following for the consideration of the numerous readers
of "N. & Q." I am the more emboldened to do so, as I find several marginal
corrections made from time to time are verified by the manuscript
corrections in MR. COL