2nd S. VII. Jdne 26. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



519 



There can be no doubt that Col. Owen Rowe, 

 the regicide, was in some way connected with the 

 same family ; as, upon his death in the Tower of 

 London in 1666, his body was removed to Hack- 

 ney, and buried in the vault of Sir Henry Rowe, 

 Lord Mayor — the uncle of the diplomatist. 



Sir Thomas's cousin, Cheyney Rowe, B.D., Fel- 

 low of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, was, I believe, a 

 divine of some repute. 



I should be glad if some of your numerous cor- 

 respondents would favour me with farther assist- 

 ance. C. J. Robinson. 



28. Gordon Street, W.C. 



P.S. I ought to mention that the arms of Prin- 

 cipal Rowe (Ar. a chevron sa. between 3 lions' 

 heads erased gu.) are totally distinct from those 

 of Sir Thomas Rowe (a chevron between 3 tre- 

 foils). 



[We have submitted the foregoing communication to 

 a literary friend who has made considerable collections 

 illustrative of the various branches of the Rowe families, 

 and have been favoured with the following interesting 

 genealogical notes. — Ed.] 



Would it not seem, from the fact that the arms 

 mentioned by C. J. R. were confirmed to Principal 

 Rowe, and not granted (see Harl. MS. 1076, fol. 

 33 b. &c.), that the connexion between him and 

 Sir Thomas Rowe's family must have been very 

 distant, if indeed it were traceable at all ? Except 

 on this supposition, could there have been a suffi- 

 cient reason for not also using the ancient Rowe 

 coat ? I have, however, always thought that 

 Principal Rowe was of the same family, though it 

 may be his connexion with it is now untraceable. 



I have thought that the John Rowe, serjeant- 

 at-law, who sqld Rowe Comb, or Rowe Place, in 

 the 23rd Henry VIII., will prove to be identical 

 with John Rowe, who composed a " disgulsyng," 

 which, when it was acted twenty years after, gave 

 such offence to Cardinal Wolsey that that minister 

 not only deprived him of his coif, but sent him 

 and others who acted in it to the Fleet. (See 

 " N. & Q.," 2""* S. ii. 337., which refers to autho- 

 rities.) 



As we are there told that only one John Roo, 

 or Roe, was called Serjeant in Henry VIII.'s 

 reign, I conclude also that it was he who married 

 Agnes, daughter and coheir of William Barnhouse, 

 of Kingston, CO. Devon (see Harl. MS. "1080, p. 

 166 b. ; 1163, p. 75 b. ; and Lysons's Magna Bri- 

 tannia, vol. vi. pt. I. pp. ccxiii. clxi.) Prince, it 

 is true, tells us that John Row, serjeant-at-law, 

 was born at Totnes, and that he was the son of 

 Sir William Row, of the same place — " a man of 

 very good rank." Jealous of the honour of his 

 county, he adds, " so that none of the descend- 

 ants hence need not to go out of this town to Kent, 

 or elsewhere, to claim kindred of any of the name, 

 which, for what I know, may prove of a less an- 



tientand honourable standing than they" (Prince's* 

 Wo7-thies of Devon, 518-9.). But the worthy 

 Prince notwithstanding, there certainly was a con- 

 nexion between the Kentish and the Devonshire 

 Rowes, which, though the above-mentioned au- 

 thorities testify, they do not agree in pointing out. 

 In Harl. MS. 1080 (166 b), the arms of Rowe, 

 viz. a chevron between 3 trefoils party per pale 

 (though without tinctures), quarters a coat azure 

 a chevron or between 3 paschal lambs couchant 

 regardant argent : which latter coat, though it 

 originally came into the family with the heiress 

 of Rurd, was chiefly used by the Devonshire 

 Rowes. 



Colonel Owen Rowe was without doubt a mem- 

 ber of the same family as Sir Thomas, the ambas- 

 sador : in all probability they were first cousins. 

 At all events, the regicide colonel was descended 

 from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London, 

 as we read in the Rev. Mark Noble's Lives of the 

 Regicides (ii. 150.), that " Owen Rowe, Esq., was 

 a younger brother, descended from Sir Thomas 

 Rowe, Knt., Lord Mayor of London in 1568. He 

 was a native of Kent ; but the head of the family 

 resided at Hackney in Middlesex." I have, how- 

 ever, never been able to obtain a more detailed 

 account of his descent from that family, though I 

 called to my aid " N. & Q.," 1" S. ix. 449. 



Tee Bee. 



P.S. Could there possibly be any connexion be- 

 tween the sale of Rowe Comb by John Rowe, ser- 

 jeant-at-law, and his softening Wolsey so far as 

 to regain his liberty from the Fleet ? 



TUTBNAG : TOOTH AND EGG. 



(2"^ S. vii. 476.) 



T. J. inquires what metal it is which bears the 

 name of tooth and egg? Tutenag is a Chinese 

 alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc, with a minute 

 portion of iron. I believe the German silver 

 manufactured into plate in this country, is com- 

 posed in different proportions of the same ma- 

 terials. J. Emerson Tennent. 



I think I can answer T. J.'s Query. Dr. John 

 Woodward, M.D., one of the lllustrissimi of 

 Gresbam College, and one of the earliest Fel- 

 lows of the Royal Society, a mineralogist and 

 geologist of great repute, whose stubborn facts, 

 founded on actual investigation on the formation 

 of the earth, shivered into atoms the fanciful hy- 

 potheses of Burnet and Whiston, says that — 



" Tutanag is the Chinese name for spelter, which we, 

 erroneously, apply to the metal of which canisters are 

 made that are brought over with the tea from China ; it 

 being a coarse pewter made with the lead carried from 

 England, and the tin got from the kingdom of Quintang." 



