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_Emiott Arms._--What are the arms of the family of Emiott of Kent?

E. H. Y.

_Well Chapels._--Will any of your learned readers be kind enough to direct me to the best sources of information on this subject?

H. G. T.

_Davy Jones's Locker._--If a sailor is killed in a sea-skirmish, or falls overboard and is drowned, or any other fatality occurs which necessitates the consignment of his remains to the "great deep," his surviving messmates speak of him as one who has been sent to "Davy Jones's Locker." Who was the important individual whose name has become so powerful a myth? And what occasioned the identification of the ocean itself with the locker of this mysterious Davy Jones?

HENRY CAMPKIN.

_AEsopus Epulans._--I shall be much obliged by information respecting the authorship and history of this work, printed at Vienna, 1749, 4to.

N. B.

_Written Sermons._--Information is requested as to when the custom of preaching from written sermons was first introduced, and the circumstances which gave rise to it.

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Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851Chapter M: A. Lower

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