e Latinae Fragmenta duo_, was printed before 1425,
and the writer of the catalogue adds in his notes:

"Ipsos typos, quibus hae lamellae sunt excusae, fuisse _mobiles_, cum
nonnullae literae inversae evidenter testantur, tum omnium expertissimorum
typographorum reique typographicae peritissimorum arbitrum, qui has
lacinias contemplati sunt, unanima et constans affirmavit sententia.
Quin et _fusos_ eos esse perhibuerunt plurimi, et in his Koningius,
magno quamvis studio negaverat typorum ligneorum mobilium acerrimus
propugnator Meermannus."

From the _Navorscher_. CONSTANTEE.

_Oaken Tombs_ (Vol. vii., p. 528.; Vol. viii., p. 179.).--In the chancel of
Brancepeth Church, co. Durham, are oaken effigies of a Lord and Lady
Neville, of which the following is a description. The figure of the man is
in a coat of mail, the hands elevated with gauntlets, wearing his casque,
which rests on a bull's or buffalo's head, a collar round his neck studded
with gems, and on the breast a shield with the arms of Neville. The female
figure has a high crowned bonnet, and the mantle is drawn close over the
feet, which rest on two dogs couchant. The tomb is ornamented with small
figures of ecclesiastics at prayer, but is without inscription. Leland
(_Itin._, i. 80.) says:

"In the paroche church of Saint Brandon, at Branspeth, be dyvers tumbes
of the Nevilles. In the quire is a high tumbe, of one of them porturid
with his wife. This Neville lakkid heires male, wherapoan great
concertation rose betwixt the next heire male, and one the Gascoynes."

CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.

_Stafford Knot_ (Vol. viii., p. 220.).--It was the badge or cognisance of
the house of Stafford, Earls of Stafford.

HENRY GOUGH.

Emberton, Bucks.

_Hand in Bishop's Cannings Church_ (Vol. viii., p. 269.).--See an article
on this "Manus Meditationis," with a copy of the inscription, in the
_Ecclesiologist_, vol. v. p. 150.

HENRY GOUGH.

Emberton, Bucks.

_Arms of Richard, King of the Romans_ (Vol. viii, p.265.).--I think it
might be proved that the border refers not to Poitou (which is represented
{455} by the crowned lion), but to Cornwall, the ancient feudal arms of
which are _Sable, fifteen bezants_, referring, as it would seem, to its
metallic treasures. See an article on the numerous arms derived from those
of this Richard, in the appendix to Mr. Lower's _Curiosities of Heraldry_.

HENRY GOUGH.

Emberton, Bucks.