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Gentleman's Magazine 1795 p.1077
Dec. 30.
Mr. URBAN, I CANNOT help regretting that your excellent
correspondent W.M. p.985, has not expressed himself more
clearly, by his pencil I mean, respecting the lynxes on
the shoulder of two of the Dacre bears. I will allow the
editors of the new History of Cumberland to see any thing
any where; but, as I cannot see with their eyes, I do not
see in W.M.'s drawings any thing like the lynxes, or the paw
cast behind one of the bears to rid himself thereof. The
bear may have been the badge or cognizance of the Dacre
family as successors to that of D'Estrivers: whether the
ragged staff was connected with the bear in this
instance as with the family of the
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