do not recollect having ever seen these
expressions, until reading Parnell's _Fairy Tale_. They occur in the
following stanzas:

"But now, to please the fairy king,
Full every deal they laugh and sing,
And antic feats devise;
Some wind and tumble like an ape,
And _other-some_ transmute their shape
In Edwin's wondering eyes.

"Till one at last, that Robin hight,
Renown'd for pinching maids by night,
Has bent him up aloof;
And full against the beam he flung,
Where by the back the youth he hung
To sprawl _unneath_ the roof."

As the author professes the poem to be "in the ancient English style," are
these words veritable ancient English? If so, some correspondent of "N. &
Q." may perhaps be able to give instances of their recurrence.

ROBERT WRIGHT.

_Newx, &c._--Can any of your readers give me the _unde derivatur_ of the
word _newx_, or _noux_, or _knoux_? It is a very old word, used for the
last hundred years, as _fag_ is at our public schools, for a young cadet at
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. When I was there, some twenty-five or
twenty-seven years ago, the _noux_ was the youngest cadet of the four who
slept in one room: and a precious life of it he led. But this, I hope, is
altered now. I have often wanted to find out from whence this term is
derived, and I suppose that your paper will find some among your numerous
correspondents who will be able to enlighten me.

T. W. N.

Malta.

_"A Joabi Alloquio."_--Who can explain the following, and point out its
source? I copy from the work of a Lutheran divine, Conrad Dieteric,
_Analysis Evangeliorum_, 1631, p. 188.:

"A Joabi Alloquio,
A Thyestis Convivio,
Ab Iscariotis 'Ave,'
A Diasii 'Salve'
Ab Herodis 'Redite'
A Gallorum 'Venite.'
Libera nos Domine."

The fourth and sixth line I do not understand.

B. H. C.

_Illuminations._--When were illuminations in cities first introduced? Is
there any allusion to them in classic authors?

CAPE.

_Heraldic Queries._--Will some correspondent versed in heraldry answer me
the following questions?

1. What is the origin and meaning of women of all ranks, except the
sovereign, being now debarred from bearing their arms in shields, and
having to bear them in lozenges? Formerly, all ladies of rank bore shields
upon their seals, _e.g._ the seal of Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, who
deceased A.D. 1399; and of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and mother of
H