the lines--

"Marriage is such a rabble rout,
That those that are out, would fain get in;
And those that are in, would fain get out:"

quoted from Chaucer. I have heard these lines quoted as being from
_Hudibras_: as I cannot trace them in my editions of Chaucer of Butler,
perhaps some of your readers can tell me where I can find them?

S. WMSON.

_Arms of Robert Nelson._--Can any of the numerous readers and
correspondents of "NOTES AND QUERIES" describe the _armorial bearings_ of
_Robert Nelson, Esq._, the author of the _Companion for the Festivals and
Fasts of the Church of England_? He was buried in the burying-ground in
Lamb's Conduit Fields, January, 1714.

G. F.

_Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York._--Query, whereabouts in the county of York
is this place? I believe that one of the above is the way of spelling, but
at any rate they have the same sound.

J. N. C.

_Moore's Almanack._--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the
history of _Moore's Almanack_?

What is the date of its first appearance? Was Francis Moore a real
personage, or merely a myth?

H. P. W.

Temple.

_Archbishop Loftus._--I shall be deeply obliged to any of your
correspondents who will inform me whether, and _where_, any diary or
private memoranda are known to exist of Adam Loftus, who was Archbishop of
Dublin nearly forty years, from 1567 to 1605, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
and the first Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. He was an ancestor of the
Viscount Loftus, and of the Marquess of Ely.

HENRY COTTON.

Thurles, Ireland, March 20.

_Matrix of Monastic Seal._--A brass matrix has fallen into my hands of a
period certainly not much anterior to the Revolution. Device, the Virgin
and Child, their heads surrounded with nimbi; the former holds in her right
hand three lilies, the latter a globe and cross. The legend is:

"* SIG[=IL] . MON . [=B] . [=M] . DE . PRATO . ALIAS . DE . BONO . NVNCIO."

In the field, a shield charged with three lions passant. Can any
correspondent aid me in assigning it rightly? There was an Abbey of St.
Mary de Pratis at Leicester (Vide _Gent. Mag._, vol. xciii. p. 9.); and
there is a church dedicated to "St. Mary in the Marsh at Norwich." In a
recent advertisement I find a notice of Scipio Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and
Prato, so that the appellation is not very uncommon.

E. S. TAYLOR.

_Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon._--What edition of the Peschito-Syriac
version of the Old and New