April 24. 1852.] 



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Some seven or eight years ago I visited the field 

 of Naseby, and whilst there I met by accident 

 with the aged clergyman of Naseby. Our con- 

 versation naturally referred to the historical inci- 

 dent that had given so much interest to the spot ; 

 and finally we spoke of this very subject. I re- 

 member his telling me that he had collected some 

 very important memoranda relative to this matter, 

 I think he said, " which proved the arrival of his 

 remains at Huntingdon, on their road elsewhere.'^ 



Has this subject been properly investigated ? 

 and has any research been made which has led to 

 a satisfactory decision of the question ? A. B. 



Islington. 



Knollys Family. — Qu^rens would be glad to 

 know whether any of the Knollys family, claimants 

 of the earldom of Banbury, married either an 

 Elheridge or a Blackwell ? 



Also, especially, who were the wives of Major- 

 General William Knollys, calling himself eiiihth 

 Earl of Banbury, and of his father, Thomas Woods 

 Knollys, calling himself seventh earl. 



[Thos. Woods Knollys, called Earl of Banbiry 

 (father of the last claimant to the Earldom of Banbury ), 

 married Mary, daugliter of William Porter of Win- 

 chester, attorney-at-Iaw ; lie died the 18th March, 

 1798; and she, 23rd March, 1798. 



Their eldest son, William Knollys, called in his 

 father's lifetime Viscount Wallingford, and afterwards 



Earl of Banbury, married , daughter of Ebenezer 



BlackwelL] 



Emblematical Halfpenny. — I enclose a rude 

 drawing of a halfpenny, and should be glad to be 

 favoured with a more detailed account of its em- 

 blematical import than I at present possess. It is 

 thus described in Conder's Provincial Coins, Ips- 

 wich, 1798, p. 213. : 



" A square of daggers, the word * fire' at each corner, 

 a foot in the middle, under it the word 'honor ;' over 

 it ' France,' and the word 'throne' bottom upwards; 

 on one side 'glory' defaced, on the other 'religion' 

 divided. ' A Map of France,' 1794." 



On reverse, in a radiation, " May Great Britain 

 ever remain the reverse," encircled with an open 

 wreath of oak. Engrailed. 



Petropromontobien sis. 



[The types here described appear to explain them- 

 selves. That of the obverse is clearly emblematical of 

 the then state of France, with France surrounded by 

 fire and sword, honour trodden under foot, the throne 

 overturned, religion shattered, and glory defaced ; while 

 the reverse expresses a very natural wish.] 



National Proverbs. — Will any of your corre- 

 spondents refer me to any collections of proverbs 

 of different nations, or to writers who may have 



given lists of those of any particular people, either 

 ancient or modern ? Sigma. 



[To answer our correspondent fully would fill an 

 entire Number of " N. & Q." We had thought of 

 giving him a list of the best collections of the proverbs 

 of different nations, as Le Roux de Lincy's Livre des 

 Proverbes Frangais ; Korte's Die Sprichworter und 

 Sprichwortlichen Redensarten der Deutschen ; but we 

 shall be doing him better service by referring him to 

 two books, in which we think he will find all the in- 

 formation of which he is in search; viz., I. Nopitsch, 

 Literatur der Sprichworter ; and 2. Duplessis, Biblio- 

 graphie Pareiniologique. Etudes Bibliographiques et Lit- 

 ter aires sur les Outrages, Fragmens d' Ouvrages et Opus- 

 cules specialement consacres aux Proverbes dans toutes les 

 langues.J 



Heraldic Query. — An armiger had two wives, 

 and issue by both : by the first, sons ; by the 

 second, who was an heiress, daughters only. Have 

 the descendants of the second marriage right to 

 quarter the ancestor's arms, male issue of the first 

 marriage still surviving ? It would seem that 

 they have, as otherwise the arms of the heiress' 

 family cannot be transmitted to her posterity, nor 

 the heraldic representation carried on. G. A. C. 



[The daughter of armiger by his second wife 

 would of course quarter her mother's arms with those 

 of her father. In case of the daughter marrying and 

 having issue, such issue, to show that the grandmother 

 was an heiress, would, with their paternal crest, quar- 

 ter those of the grandmother, placing the arms of 

 armiger on a canton.] 



Chantrey's Marble Children. — I have just had 

 placed before me a memorandum to the effect that 

 " there is at Leyden the perfect and undoubted 

 original of Chantrey's celebrated figures of the 

 children at Lichfield." The reference is to Poyn- 

 der's Literary Extracts, Second Series, p. 63. As 

 I have not seen the book, and have no access to it, 

 will some correspondent of " N. & Q." inform me 

 whether the foregoing passage contains the whole 

 of Poynder's statement ; or otherwise afford any 

 information relative to its origin ? I need scarcely 

 add, that the reputation of the great English 

 sculptor is nowise involved in the issue of the 

 question. D. 



[We subjoin the whole of Mr. Poynder's article, 

 which is signed " Miscellaneous : " — " There is at 

 Leyden the perfect and undoubted original of Chan- 

 trey's celebrated figures of the children at Lichfield ; 

 and on a friend of the writer mentioning the circum- 

 stance to that artist, he did not deny the fact. The 

 figures form the foreground of a celebrated painting in ■ 

 the Town-hall, commemorating the heroic conduct of 

 a former defender of that city, when it was reduced by 

 famine to the greatest extremities. On this occasion 

 the citizens are represented as earnestly importuning 

 the governor to surrender, and representing their de- 

 plorable condition from the effects of the siege. Many 

 dying figures are introduced into the painting, and 



