in Heraldry, little birds represented without feet, and used as a difference or mark of distinction for younger brothers, to put them in mind that they are to trust to the wings of virtue and merit, in order to raise themselves, and not to their feet, insomuch as they have little land to take their stand upon.

MARLOCK, a town of Somerseshire, in the hundred of the same name, 130 miles from London. It is in a rich level district, through which runs the river Ivel. The church is a large and elegant structure. In the market-place is a fluted column after the model of the celebrated pillar of Trajan. The population amounted in 1801 to 2102, in 1811 to 2356, in 1821 to 2560, and in 1831 to 2841.