MARY KENDAL should read Bishop Mant's "Happiness of the Blest," and
should also consult some clergyman for advice. Her questions are not
suitable to our columns, which are not intended for controversy.
APPLE BLOSSOM.--If you be a steady quiet girl, we should advise you to
choose the Civil Service.
HERALDRY.--The crest is a dragon's or wyvern's head, erased. The dragon
is very common in heraldry. It is supposed to have been brought into
England by the Teutonic knights, who have migrated here. It did not
originate in England.
BESSIE.--St. Hilda founded her double house for nuns and monks at
Streoneshalk in 657 A.D. In 867 the Danes burnt her abbey, and changed
the name to Whitby, or Priest-by (white, or priest's house). The abbey
was refounded, for monks only, under the Benedictine rule, in 1073, by
William de Percy. The nuns in Scott's "Marmion" are mythical ones. The
Ammonites of the Scar are said to be headless snakes turned into a coat
of stone by St. Hilda's prayers.
IVY.--The Lord Chancellor's office is at the House of Lords. There is a
private secretary, a permanent secretary, and a secretary of commissions
and of presentations. Letters should be addressed as above.
MARGUERITE.--1. The name "Epipsychidion," given by Shelley to a poem, is
a diminutive for "Epipsyche," "on the soul.
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