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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The following families are reputed to be of 

 Saxon origin : — 



Ardenof Loitffcrof t — Ermine a fess checquy or and 

 azure. 



Barrington of Barrington. — Argent three chevronels 

 gules a label of as many points azure. 



Bechfordof Fonthill. — VQV^dilQ gules and azure on a 

 chevron argent between three martlets or an eagle dis- 

 played sable. 



Boothby of Broadhw Ash. — Argent on a canton sable 

 a lion's paw erased in bend oi\ 



Bracebridge of Atherstone. — Vaire argent and sable, a 

 fess gules. 



Brougham of Brougham. — Gules a chevron between 

 three luces hauriant argent. 



Carew of Carew. — Or three lions passant sable. 



Cluddie of Orkton. — Ermine a fret sable. 



Compton of Compton Wynyates. — Sable a lion passant 

 gardant or between three esquires' helmets, two and one, 

 argent. 



Curwen of Workington. — Argent fretty gules a chief 

 azure. 



Bering of Surrenden Bering. — Or a saltire sable. 



Fairfax of Benton. — Argent three bars gemelles gules, 

 surmounted by a lion rampant sable. 



Fetherstonhavgh of Fetherstonhaugh. — Gules on a chev- 

 ron between three ostrich feathers argent a pellet. 



Fitzwilliam of Milton. — Lozenges argent and gules. 



Gerard of Bryn. — Argent a saltire gules. 



Gower of Sittenham. — Barry of eight argent and gules, 

 over all a cross patonce sable. 



Hampden of Long Hampden. — Argent a saltire be- 

 tween three eagles displaj'ed azure. 



Herrick of Beau-3Ianor. — Argent a fess vaire or and 

 gules. 



Kingscote of Kingseote. — Argent nine escallops sable, 

 on a canton gules a star or. 



Lumley of Lumley. — Argent a fess gules between three 

 parrots vert, collared of the second. 



NevUle of Ruby. — Gules a saltire argent. 



Pennyman of Ormsby. — Gules a chevron ermine be- 

 tween three half spears broken staves or headed argent. 



lioddam of Roddam. — Gules on a bend ermine three 

 cinquefoils sable. 



Salwey of Moor Parh. — Sable a saltire engrailed or. 



Temple of Stoice.— Argent two bars sable each charged 

 with three martlets or. 



Thorold of Marston. — Sable three goats salient argent. 



Thursby of Abington. — Argent a chevron between 

 three lions rampant sable. 



Tollemache of Helmingham. — Argent a fret sable. 



Weld ofLulworth. — Azure a fess nebule between three 

 crescents ermine. 



Windsor, Barnes Windsor. — Gules a saltire argent 

 between twelve cross crosslets or. 



Wyndham, Earls of Egremont.' — Azure a chevron be- 

 tween three lions heads erased or. 



In addition to these many other English fami- 

 lies might doubtless be found of Saxon origin : 

 those also of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are 

 very numerous. 



With regard to the second part of H. C. C.'s 

 question, I find in Noble's Life of Cromwelly vol. 

 ii. p. 62. : — 



" Sir Reginald (Barington) .... changed the armorial 

 bearings of his famih', which were a raven proper upon a 

 field argent, in the attitude and act of croaking, to ar- 

 gent," &c. [as given above]. 



Viscount Palmerston, the representative of the 



family of Temple of Stowe, quarters the arms of 

 his ancestor Leofric, Earl of Mercia (or, an eagle 

 displayed sable), with the modern bearings of his 

 family. 



The arms of Beckford and Bering, as here 

 given, are without the augmentations. 



Charles S. S. 



ISiti^Mti t0 Miixax ^xxttiti. 



Etymology of Mushroom (!'' S. v. 598.) — Turn- 

 ing accidentally to p. 598. of " N. & Q.," I find 

 an attempt to give the derivation of this word. 

 Your correspondent S. S. S. supposes the word to 

 be of Welsh origin. I think that he is in error, 

 and that the word is French. 



Mousseron is a species of mushroom found in 

 moss, as the word implies. It is of a dark yel- 

 lowish brown, and of a very irregular form. It is 

 eatable, but not a great delicacy. I have never 

 heard the word used except by peasants living in 

 the neighbourhood of forests, where this mush- 

 room grows freely in its season. 



The mushroom best known to us is the cham- 

 pignon., which, as the word implies, grows com- 

 monly in the open fields. W. Falconek. 



Bushey, Herts. 



Scotch Marriages (2°^ S. vii. 67.) — In reply to 

 Wm. Denton I may observe that there are two 

 sorts of Scotch marriages, regular and irregular. 

 The former are preceded by publication of banns 

 in the parish kirh (not episcopal church) of the 

 place where one of the parties has previously re- 

 sided, and the marriage is afterwards registered in 

 such kirk. In such case a certificate of registry 

 may be obtained by application to the parish clerk 

 of such kirk, of course on payment of a small fee. 

 I am not aware of any general register of Scotch 

 marriages. I presume Wm. Denton alludes to a 

 regular marriage. 



As to the irregular marriages they may be con- 

 tracted, as is well known, without any formalities, 

 — simply by the couple acknowledging themselves 

 as man and wife before any witnesses, or by living 

 together as man and wife permanently. Such mar- 

 riages exclude the idea of any registration at all. 

 But " the Blacksmith " at Gretna, and other per- 

 sonages on the border, who were accustomed to 

 assist runaway couples in perpetrating irregular 

 matches, merely by witnessing them (all the rest 

 was fudge) were accustomed to enter their names 

 in a book. 



The excellent statute lately passed requiring a 

 certain length of residence in Scotland previous to 

 marriages of the latter class, has now made them 

 a matter of past history. M. H. R. 



If the marriage referred to by Mr. Denton was 

 not clandestine or irregular, he will in all proba- 

 bility find it recorded in the Session Register of 



