Sept. 5, 1776); captain in the army (? in same regiment), May 6, 1776; captain 8th Foot Nov. 5, 1776; senior captain thereof, when he left, Aug. 8, 1788; stationed in Canada in 1784. A Hamilton died at Antigua 1761 (London Mag.). One Henry Hamilton was serving in America in 1763 appointed lieutenant 15th Foot Sept. 2, 1756; captain thereof Oct. 30, 1762, till he left the army about 1775. A younger Henry Hamilton became ensign 17th Foot Sept. 9, 1777; lieutenant Sept. 18, 1780; captain July 27, 1785; senior captain in 1795, till succeeded June 23, 1796; brevet-major May 6, 1795. W. R. WILLIAMS.

MARY CLARKE OF NEW YORK: VASSALL (12 S. v. 236, 278).-Sir Gilbert Affleck, 2nd bart., of Dalham Hall, Suffolk, married at St. George's, Hanover Square, July 18, 1796, Mary, relict of Richard Vassal, Esq., of Jamaica (who died in 1795), and daughter of Thomas Clarke of New York. He died without issue in 1803, and she died in 1835. J. W. FAWCETT.

JAMES WHEATLEY, COBBLER (12 S. v. 267). -There is a biography of him in Charles Atmore's 6 Methodist Memorial,' 1801, pp. 488-491. J. W. FAWCETT. Consett, co. Durham.]

When I was house-surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1856-57 the names of the dressers for the week posted in the out-patients' room one week were Wrench, Grabham, and Slaughter; the two former were a little ominous for patients who came for tooth extraction gratis. About the same time there were three undergraduates of Christ's College, Cambridge, named Fisher, Flesher, and Fowler. In the Selby Coucher-book, vol. i., p. 207, is:- Carta Willelmi filii Ranulfi Spurneturtoys." J. T. F.

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All three of these names are nicknames and are prevalent elsewhere than Manchester. Fullolove (full of love) is known in Norfolk, and has variants in spelling; Gotobed is to be found in Nottingham and Cambridge; whilst Strongitharm is essentially Cheshire:

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Cheshire born, Cheshire bred,

Strong i' th' arm, weak i' th' yed.

This couplet," says Harrison, may really owe its origin to the fact that the name is (or was) mostly a Cheshire surname.' All three surnames appear in the current London Directory. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The name Gotobed occurs at the small town of Somersham, Hunts, and in the same place many other rare and curious names are met with, e.g., Allebone, Bodger, Butteriss, Cawcutt, Cluelow, Criswell, Goodchild, Goodyear, Goodenough, Gowler, Orbell, Patmer, Scales, See, Seekins, Setchfield, Skeels, Touch, Tweed, Wesson, and Wheaton.

Oxon, on Sept. 2, 1677, Edward, son of In the register of baptisms at Bicester, Thomas Rhubark, a stranger, was baptized. This name I have never previously heard.

Does it occur elsewhere?

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H. G. HARRISON.

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SIR WILLIAM OGLE: SARAH STEWKLEY MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. iii. 92, 421 iv. 166).-In Wotton's Baronetage' (1741) it is stated of Sarah (Stukely), the widow in 1725 of John Cobb, D.D., that "she was afterwards m. in 1726, to St. John of Farley, in Hants, Esq. and after his death to her third husband, Capt. Francis Townsend.' The only contemporary officer in the army of that name that I can find is the one given in Dalton, viii. 370, 371, as follows :"Fras. Townshend to be Ens, in the Coldstream Guards, April 28. 1725: heutenant and captain Aug. 25. 1737; wounded at Fontenoy May 11, N.S., 1745, and died the same day."

I have no doubt that this was the man, and that, as ensigns generally joined at 17 or 18 years of age, he was probably some twenty years younger that s wife. Presumably he would be son or brother to George Townshend, the owner of the lands at Donnington, co. Gloucester.

In the foregoing correspondence I do not remember seeing any reference to the following man: Sir Peter Mews, M.P. for Christchurch 1710 till he died Mar. 19, 1726; knighted July 13, 1712; Chancellor of Winchester diocese 1698 till death; seated at Hinton Admiral, Hants. He matriculated from St. John's College, Oxford, May 31, 1688, aged 15; B.C.L. All Souls' College 1695, as son of John Mews of London, (son of Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester 1684 to 1706). See Foster's 'Alumni Oxon.' and Chester's Westminster Abbey Registers,' p. 44. Samuel Mews, Prebendary of Winchester, died June 19, 1706, æt. 75.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

CHAIR C. 1786: INFORMATION WANTED (12 S. vi. 12).-I should say from MR. HATTON's description of the conveyance recently presented to the Pump Room at Bath that it is in all respects identical with a machine constructed circa 1809 by a ear penter named John Betcher at Brighton and patronized extensively by the Prince of Wales and his noble companions. It is very fully described in Mr. John Ackerson Erridge's History of Brighton' and quoted at length by Cuthbert Bede at 3 S. iv. 346 in connexion with the genesis of the word 'fly" as a four-wheeled conveyance. These quasi-sedan chairs were called fly by nights." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

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JENNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 149, 245).—In support of my conjecture as to the paternity of Thomas Jenner, D.D., President of Magdalen College, Oxford, I may say that in his will he mentions his nephew Vincent Jenner; the latter administered to his. father Josiah's effects, 1750. The President also mentions his niece Elizabeth, wife of Henry Jordan, who was a sister of Vincent's. Again, Foster's Alumni' I find has "Josi' in inverted commas, as if uncertain. The list of Josiah and Hester Jenner's children given by me at 12 S. v. 149 probably is from Standish, at all events the Viear of Standish vouches for the entry as to baptism of Thomas Jenner, son of Josiah and Hester,. his wife, Dec. 26, 1687..

R.. J. FYNMORE..

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SHIELD OF FLANDERS (12 S. v. 238, 323) — This gyronny coat may be traced best by beginning with Papworth, who, on p. 685. quotes Sandford's Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England.' While hardly to be called evidence, it seems Sandford het a measure of instillation for what he said. What he does say (1707 ed. Stebbing, p. 2) is that on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth in Henry VII.'s Chape at Westminster are certain attributed arms "for the Conqueror impaled with those of Queen Maud of Flanders his wife, viz.: Gyronny of 8 or and az. an inescutcheon gu." He adds that these arms are attributed "to the foresters and first earls of Flanders "-doubtless rather hypothetical personages-"to the time of Robert the Frison," and for this he gives as his authority Olivarius Vredius in Sigilla Com. Flandriæ, p. 6." On turning to Vredius (Bruges, 1639) it is at once apparent that this reference is entirely misleading At the page cited, Vredius says, indeed, that Robert Friso used a lion seal ("leonis typo

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simpressum"), but from his account of Friso's predecessors it is manifest that, when the counts used seals at all, they used King Philip's seal, of which Vredius quotes sundry

instances.

Sandford further says (ibid., p. 16) that Wm., Earl of Flanders, son of Robert of Normandy, is reported to have borne this gyronny coat; but again there is no evidence, and Sandford himself says further that, as a matter of tradition, this coat was abandoned by this William when, after slaying a Moslem king of Albania, he took his arms. Perhaps the fact that this Moslem bore the black lion

rampant in a gold field is in need of some support. Finally Sandford gives a figure (ibid., p. 519) of Queen Elizabeth's tomb aforesaid, where this gyronny coat is impaled in the middle shield over the head of the queen's recumbent effigy.

There thus seems to be no reason whatever for dragging in Vredius: what basis there might be for the tale about William, Earl of Flanders, does not appear; that the coat is in any sense genuine seems highly doubtful. I certainly should not have alluded to the coat at all if I had first looked up the reference to Vredius, although I knew the arms were on Queen Elizabeth's tomb. H. I. HALL.

9 Neeld Parade, Wembley Hill.

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"Les armes des anchiens contes de flandres

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fut gyronné d'or et d'asur, de dyx pièces, à l'escu de gueulle parmy.. L'Anchienne Noblesse de la....Contée de flandres,' written about 1557 by Corneille Gailliard, King of Arms of the Emperor Charles V. Published in 1866 by Jean van Malderghem (Brussels, Vanderauwera), together with, and under the title of, the same author's Blason des Armes.'

So far as I know, this is the first occurrence of this entirely imaginary coat of arms. The lion of Flanders appears in 1170 on the al of Philip, Count of Flanders, which was, deed, for a long time considered the oldest al showing an armorial shield. Baugy sur Clarens.

D. L. GALBREATH.

which, though unsigned, was afterwards so incorporated in Hamilton's George Cruikshank, Artist and Humorist,' published in pamphlet form in 1878, as to leave no doubt as to the authorship of the earlier paper. On Feb. 28, 1873, Hamilton had read a paper on the Life, Works, and Genius of George Cruikshank' before the Society of Literary Twaddlers, of which he was secretary, which was probably that published a few days or weeks after, under a slightly different name (Pro and Con, passim). W. B. H.

METHOD OF REMEMBERING FIGURES (12 S. bet was very similar to others which had vi. 39).-Stokes's mnemonical figure alphaappeared at various times after Winckelmann's in 1684. It was as follows: 1 was represented by t or d; 2 by n; 3 by m; 4 by r ; 5 by 1; 6 by j ; sh or zh ; 7 by k, q or g (hard); 8 by f or v; 9 by p or b; 0 by 8, or c (soft).

In a series

I possess several of his privately issued lessons as well as several books published by him between 1866 and 1877. of articles which I wrote for Pitman's Journal reference will be found in the issues of June 22, Aug. 3, 10, and 24, 1918, to various features of Stokes's system. ARTHUR BOWES.

Newton-le-Willows, Lancs.

My father, T. H. Baker, who died in 1914 has often told me of his going to the London Polytechnic to hear Mr. Stokes's lecture, I think in 1873; anyway amongst his books I have a small handbook Stokes on

Memory, 4th edn., 1873 (published by Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Buildings) in which the whole system is explained at

length.

FRANCES E. BAKER.

91 Brown Street, Salisbury.

William Stokes wrote several small books on mnemonics. One Memory' was published by Houlston & Wright, 65 Paternoster Row in 1866–67. The Pictorial Multiplication Table' is the work MAJOR PELHAM BURN has in his mind. THOS. WHITE.

Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

No doubt the Mr. Stokes of MAJOR PELHAM BURN'S query is the William Stokes who published a volume entitled

Stokes on Memory,' my copy of which is the "Seventh edition, revised and enlarged, with engravings," dated on its title-page 1866. He issued also a series of separate little pamphlets (enclosed loose in a case giving the leading dates," with " mnemonical key" to each), on 'Battles,' 'Roman History,' Grecian History,' 'Distances

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and Diameters of the Planets,' and other subjects, including Miscellaneous Dates.' Other works by Mr. Stokes advertised in his 'Memory' volume are: The Divine Origin of Mnemonics,' The Pictorial Multiplication Table,' 'The Syllable-ized Pictorial Alphabet,' Rapid Plan of teaching Reading without Spelling,' The Historical Chronometer, with Revolving Centre and Selections of Important Facts and Dates,' The Mnemonical Globe-most Remarkable Aid in teaching Geography,' and a large number (36) of separate lectures all connected with mnemonics. In the Memory volume Mr. Stokes says that he “ was identified with the Royal Colosseum from June, 1861, till 1863." He is, however, probably best known as having for many years lectured on mnemonics at the old Regent Street Polytechnic. F. J. HYTCH. Frankfort Lodge, Park Road, Crouch End, N.8.

THE MOORES OF MILTON PLACE, EGHAM, SURREY (12 S. v. 284; vi. 15).--I am much indebted to H. C. for correcting the mistakes in my note and also for the additional in

formation furnished.

The arms of the family engraved on some church plate at Egham are: On a fess between three moorcocks as many mullets.

Alas for my little pedigree! A further search shows that the Adrian who died in 1655 could not have been the son of the Adrian who died in 1672, for the latter had only a daughter Grizella, aged 6 in 1632.

Nor can I fit in the Thomas, son of Adrian, who matriculated from C.C.C., Oxon, in 1674. The writer in the D.N.B.' is inclined to identify him with Sir Thomas Moore the playwright, who died in 1735. Apparently there was another branch of the family about who had a fancy for the name of Adrian.

On going through the diary again I find a note that indicates that they were a Dorset family and were seated there 2 Hen. VI.,

1423.

The diary bears out the correction by H. C. respecting Chilcomb, which is not mentioned after 1601.

Frome, Somerset.

FREDERIC TURNER.

'TOM JONES' (12 S. v. 268, 303, 327; | vi. 23). Although the replies have now somewhat diverged from the original question, it may be worth noting that the investigations of Mr. J. J. Hammond of Salisbury and of Canon Mayo of Gillingham, Dorset, establish that John, grandfather of Henry Fielding, was successively Prebendary of Yatesbury, Oct. 13, 1677, of Beaminster

Prima, Feb. 23, 1678, and of Gillingham Major, Jan. 24, 1682, and that he signed the Subscription Book on his collation to Beaminster Prima as Fielding, but on collation to Gillingham Major as Feilding.

His son Edmund, on the one hand-who, by the way, was never possessed of means wherewith to be extravagant-always signed as Feilding, while his grandson Henry, on the other hand, invariably signed Fielding. This is clearly shown by original photographs in my possession from deeds executed both by father and son.

J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

1 Essex Court, Temple, E.C.4.

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LEWKNOR FAMILY (12 S. v. 201; vi. 44).— In The Family of Moore,' by the Countess of Drogheda (Dublin, 1906), I find :

"Walter Moore of Benenden, d. 1504 (will at Canterbury), married Alice, dau. of Edward Lewknor of Kingston Bewsis, Sussex, Esq., and Ellenor his wife, dau. of John Pagenham.' In the Lewknor pedigree in Sussex Archæological Collections,' iii. 90-102, I find no marriage with any Pagenham, and the only Moore-Lewknor marriage is Joane, youngest sister of the first Edward Lewknor of Kingston-Bowey, married Thomas Moore as her first husband. Perhaps MR. WAINEWRIGHT Could throw some light on these discrepancies.

Walter Moore's grandfather was Thomas, and he married Agnes Austen. Walter's eldest son was Thomas (will 1519), and the name of his wife appears to be unknown. A. M. B. IRWIN.

49 Ailesbury Road, Dublin.

A CURIOUS CHRISTIAN EPITAPH (12 S. v. 314). The Basilla therein mentioned is probably St. Basilla of whom nothing is known except the fact of her martyrdom. teriorum' in the Vatican mentions "ComiThe fourth-century Index XVI. Cœmiterium Basillæ ad S. Hermen Via Salaria," while other MSS. of this Index in the Biblioteca Chigiana and the Biblioteca Laurenziana have " Comiterium Basille ad S. Hermetem Via Salaria Vetere." The fourth-century Depositio Martyrum' of the Philocalian Calendar has "X. Kal. Oct. Basillæ, Salaria Vetere, Diocletiano VIIII. et Maximiano VIII. Cons.," i.e., Sept. 22, 304.

The Martyrologium Hieronymianum,' the date of which has been fixed as not earlier than 592 or later than 600, under the date June 11 mentions the anniversary of St. Basilla at Rome on the Via Salaria. The sixth-century Index Oleorum' at Monza also mentions Sea Basilla" under Via