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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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