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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 12G. 



numerous, viz. Howard Percy, and Brydges Chandos, 

 Duke of Buckingham, &c. J 



Family of Grey. — Thomas, second Marquess 

 of Dorset, had four sons ; Henry, Thomas, Leo- 

 nard, and John. Henry was created Duke of 

 Suffolk, and was with his two brothers, Thomas 

 and Leonard, beheaded in 1555, for taking part in 

 Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. John was ancestor 

 of the Earl of Stamford. The Queries I wish to 

 make are, were Thomas and Leonard, or either of 

 them, married ? If they were, what were the 

 names of their wives, and did they leave issue ? 

 And most particularly did Thomas ? C. de D. 



[Thomas, the second brother of the Marquess of 

 Dorset, married and left a daughter and heir, Mar- 

 garet, wife of John Ashley, Esq., Master of the Jewels 

 ti Queen Elizabeth, and she left issue. Edward, the 

 third son, died s. p. Some pedigrees call Edward 

 Leonard, but upon what authority does not appear.] 



Coinage of Richai'd III. — Is the mint mark of 

 the cross to be found on any of the coins of 

 Richard HI. struck at London ? I am aware 

 that it is to be found on pieces from the country 

 mints ; but on metropolitan coins his heraldic 

 cognizance (the boar's head) is the more usual, if 

 not the only mark impresseil. 



Richard F. Littledale. 



Dublin. 



[We are not aware that the cross occurs as a mint 

 mark on the coins of Richard I H., either of the London 

 or provincial mints. If our correspondent has a coin 

 of Richard III., with the plain cross on the reverse for 

 M . M., the probability is that it is struck from the die 

 of a reverse of Edward IV., on whose coins it does 

 occur.] 



Edioard Bagnhaw. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me whether Sir Edward Bag- 

 shaw, of Finglas, near Dublin, who settled in Ire- 

 land about the commencement of the seventeenth 

 century, left other children besides two daughters ; 

 one of whom married William, eldest son of Sir 

 William Ryves, and by him had issue Bagshaw, 

 William, Thomas, and Francis Ryves, together 

 with a daughter married to a Captain Burrowes ? 

 I also wish to ascertain whether Castle Bagshaw, 

 CO. Cavan, the seat of the late Sir William Bur- 

 Toughs, derives its name from this branch of the 

 family of Bagshaw. Any information, genealogical 

 or historical, concerning the above Sir Edward 

 Bagshaw, would be acceptable. W. B. 



• Cambridge. 



[This statement does not appear quite correct. 

 Thomas Ryves, the second son of William, is said to 

 have married .Jane, daughter of Captain Burrows. 

 See Hutchins's Dorset, vol. iii. p. 366., ped. of i?y»es.] 



Couched, to couch. — What Is the earliest ex- 

 ample of the use of this word in the sense of " to 

 embody," thus : " he couched his thoughts in ex- 



cellent language ? " Johnson cites Dryden and 

 Atterbury as authorities for the word, which, me 

 judice, ought to be banished from the English 

 dictionary, since we have several older and more 

 expressive terms of synonymous import. 



Makk Antony Loweb. 

 [In Baret's Alvearie (1580) we find the meanings 

 of the woid couch, " The knitting and couching of 

 wordes in talke — Sermonis compositio. — Quintil. To 

 joine and couch — componere et coagmentare verba. 

 — Cic." In Cotgrave, " mettre par escrit " is ex- 

 plained, to " couch in writing: " and in Pnillips' World 

 of Words, couch is defined "to comprehend, or com- 

 prise."' These are somewhat analogous uses of the 

 word.] 



Marriage of Mrs. Claypole. — What was the 

 date of the marriage of Oliver Cromwell's daughter 

 with Mr. Claypole ? Any one giving a Note in 

 reply to this Query, will much oblige B. N. 



[Noble, vol. ii. p. .'575., says that Claypole « in 1645-6 

 was married to Mary, the second and most favoured 

 daughter of Oliver Cromwell, then of Ely in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, Esquire."] 



Mcplteif. 



OBIOINAIi tETTEB OF GENERAL JAMES WOLFE. 



(Vol. v., pp. 34. 136. 185.) 



I beg to renew my acknowledgments to the 

 various gentlemen who have afforded additional 

 information respecting this brave man. So little 

 has been recorded of his personal history, that 

 every item which can be gleaned is valuable. It 

 is certainly strange that no proper memoir of one 

 so distinguished in arms as Wolfe has yet been 

 written. His career, though short, was brilliant 

 and embraces a period of time, as well as events, 

 which would render a sketch of his life, by a com- 

 petent writer, singularly interesting. Materials 

 do not seem wanting ; the detached pieces of in- 

 formation, and references to sources where more 

 may be obtained, which have already appeared in 

 " N. & Q." since I ventured to start the subject 

 in October last, indicate, that Avith a Utile industry 

 and research in proper quarters, Wolfe's history 

 can yet be written to advantage. England's young 

 hero has, in this respect, been too much neglected. 

 Surely this national reproach will not be allowed 

 to continue. 



In the Genllemaris Magazine for January last, 

 there is a very interesting letter from AYolfe to a 

 young officer on the subject of military studies, 

 supplied from the rich MS. stores of Mr. Robert 

 Cole. I am enabled to contribute the fragment 

 of another letter from Wolfe, also to a very young 

 officer, pointing out how he ought to conduct 

 himself on entering the army. This fragment was 

 discovered within these few weeks, in the same old 



