rmed that the arms
on the seal at Sudbury are certainly those of a member of the old
Cornish house of Killigrew. These arms, impaled by those of Lower,
occur on a monument at Llandulph, near Saltash, to the memory of Sir
Nicholas Lower, and Elizabeth his wife, who died in 1638. She was a
daughter of Sir Henry Killegrewe, of London, and a near relative, I
believe, of the Master of the Revels.

While on this subject, I beg to put a query to your genealogical
readers. The double-headed eagle, the bordure bizantee, and the
demilion charged with bezants, are all evident derivations from the
armorial bearings of Richard, titular king of the Romans, Earl of
Cornwall, &c., second son of King John. The family of Killegrewe is
of venerable antiquity in Cornwall. What I wish to ascertain is, the
nature of the connection between the family and that unfortunate
"king." Was it one of consanguinity, or merely one of feudal
dependence?

MARK ANTONY LOWER.

*** See, on the origin of the arms of Richard and their derivatives,
my _Curiosities of Heraldry_, pp. 309. et seq.

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REPLIES.

SELAGO AND SAMOLUS.

In common with the mistletoe and vervain the Druids held the Selago
and Samolus as sacred plants, and never approached them but in the
most devout and reverential manner. When they were gathered for
religious purposes the greatest care was taken lest they should fall
to the earth, for it was an established principle of Druidism, that
every thing that was sacred would be profaned if allowed to touch
the ground; hence their solicitude to catch the anguinum:

"------------------When they bear
Their wond'rous egg aloof in air:
Thence before to earth it fall,
The Druid in his hallow'd pall
Receives the prize."

Pliny, in his _Natural History_ (lib. xxiv. cap. 11.)
gives a circumstantial account of the ceremonies
used by the Druids in gathering the Selago and
Samolus, and of the uses to which they were applied:--

"Similis berbae huie sabinae est Selago appellata. Legitur
sine ferro dextra manu per tunicam, qua sinistra
exuitur velut a furante, candida veste vestito, pureque
lotis nudis pedibus, saero facto priusquam legatur,
pane vinoque. Fertur in mappa nova. Hanc contra omnem
perniciem habendam prodidere Druidae Gallorum, et contra
omnia oculorum vitia fumum ejus prodesse.

"Iidem Samolum herbam nominavere nascentem in humid