a scale, every different inquirer adopting a peculiar notation, which
is a study in itself, and which, after all, is unsatisfactory. I should
feel obliged by any reference to what has been done in this matter.

E. C.

_Seven Oaks and Nine Elms._--Can any reader of "N. & Q." inform me whether
there is any old custom or superstition connected with Seven Oaks and Nine
Elms, even to be traced as far back as the time of the Druids?

In some old grounds in Warwickshire there is a circle of nine old
elm-trees; and, besides the well-known Nine Elms at Vauxhall, and Seven
Oaks in Kent, there are several other places of the same names in England.

J. S. A.

Old Broad Street.

_Murder of Monaldeschi._--I will thank any of your correspondents who can
give me an account of the murder of Monaldeschi, equerry to Christina,
Queen of Sweden.

In the 2nd volume of Miss Pardoe's _Louis XIV_. (p. 177.), Christina is
stated to have visited the Court of France, and housed at Fontainebleau,
where she had not long been an inmate ere the tragedy of Monaldeschi took
place and in a letter to Mazarin she says, "Those who acquainted you with
the details regarding Monaldeschi were very ill-informed."

T. C. T.

_Governor Dameram._--I should be glad of any particulars respecting the
above, who was Governor of Canada (I think) about the commencement of the
present century. He had previously been the head of the commissariat
department in the continental expeditions.

TEE BEE.

_Ancient Arms of the See of York._--Can any correspondent enlighten me as
to the period, and why, the present arms were substituted for the ancient
bearings of York? The modern coat is, Gu. two keys in saltire arg., in
chief an imperial crown proper. The ancient coat was blazoned, Az. an
episcopal staff in pale or, and ensigned with a cross patee arg.,
surmounted by a pall of the last, edged and fringed of the second, charged
with six crosses formee fitchee sa., and differed only from that of
Canterbury in the number of crosses formee fitchee with which the pall was
charged.

TEE BEE.

_Hupfeld._--Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." tell me where I can see
Hupfeld, _Von der Natur und den Arten der Sprachlaute_, which is quoted by
several German authors? It appeared in Jahn's _Jahrb. der Philol. und
Paed._, 1829. If no correspondent can refer me to any place where the paper
can be seen in London, perhaps they can direct me to some account of its
substance in some