_Queen's Messengers._--In answer to the query of your correspondent
"J.U.G.G.," in No. 12., p. 186., I beg to call his attention to the
authority quoted in the passage respecting the "Knightes caligate of
Armes," to which he alludes, in Mr. C. Knight's _London_. He will find
that he is referred to Legh's _Accedens of Armory_, and Upton, _De
Studio Militari_. The latter wrote in the early part of the fifteenth
century. We are at present, I believe, without earlier information on
such subjects.
Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer's error
in my query in the same number, where "trepon" appears instead of
"jupon"? It may save a query as to what I could mean by the former.
J.R. PLANCHE.
_May-day._--In reply to MELANION (No. 12. p. 187.), I would observe that
in a collection of _Vues des Villes de Londres_, &c., published by
Pierre Vander at Leyden (without date, but about the time of William
III., or early in Anne's reign), there is a representation of "_La
Laitiere de May a Londres_," with an enormous head-dress of silver
dishes, tankards, and cups, intermixed with flowers. There is no
letter-press explanation; but it is evident that the practice of the
milk-maids, in carrying their mail-pails balanced on their heads,
suggested the idea of carrying this more precious burthen in _gala_ on
May-day.
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