, as they do to our more sober
English judgment; but making every allowance on this score, I confess I was
not a little startled to find such a term as _magnifique_, even in its most
moderate acceptation, applied to our efforts in that branch of art.
_Magnifique_, in truth, must be our school, when the French can condescend
to speak of it in such language!

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

"_A Feather in your Cap._"--My good friend Dr. Wolff mentioned in
conversation a circumstance (also stated, I fancy, in his _Journey to
Bokhara_) which seemed to afford a solution of the common expression,
"That's a feather in your cap." I begged he would give it me in writing,
and he has done so. "The Kaffr Seeyah Poosh (meaning the infidels in black
clothing) living around Cabul upon the height of the mountains of the
Himalaya, who worship a god called Dagon and Imra, are great enemies of the
Muhamedans; and for each Muhamedan they kill, they wear a feather in their
heads. The same is done among the Abyssinians and Turcomans."

Has the feather head-dress of the American Indian, and the eagle's feather
in the bonnet of the Highlander, any connexion with keeping a score of the
deaths of the enemies or game they have killed?

ALFRED GATTY.

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Queries.

DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE: LICENCES TO CRENELLATE.

Previous to the publication of the second volume of the _Domestic
Architecture of the Middle Ages_, you were kind enough to insert some
Queries for me respecting existing remains of houses of the fourteenth
century, which elicited some useful Notes, partly through your columns and
partly from private friends who were thus reminded of my wants. I am now
preparing for the press the third and concluding volume of that work,
comprising the period from the reign of Richard II. to that of Henry VIII.
inclusive. I shall be glad of information of any houses of that period
remaining in a tolerably perfect state, in addition to those mentioned in
the _Glossary of Architecture_. I have reason to believe that there are
many; and one class, the halls of the different guilds, seem to have been
generally overlooked.

With the kind assistance of Mr. Duffus Hardy, I have obtained a complete
list of the licences to crenellate contained in the Patent Rolls, and some
other records preserved in the Tower. Most of these have the name of the
county annexed; but there are a few, of which I add a list, in which no