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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 138. 



as the words declare ; and when the numerals are 

 selected from the last two lines, they exhibit 74, her 

 age at the time, as they also indicate ; in the following 

 manner : — 



D - - 500 I . - 1 



LL - - 100 VIXI - - 17 



II - - 2 I - - 1 



MI - - 1001 VL - -55 



LVI - . 56 — 



I - . 1 74 



1660 

 The lady who is commemorated in this Inscription 

 was the daughter of Sir Edward Seymour of Berrie 

 Castle, in Devonshire, Baronet, and wife of " the excel- 

 lently-accomplished Sir George Farewell, Knight, who 

 died May 14, 1647;" as it is recorded on his monu- 

 ment at Hill- Bishops. In the same epitaph it is stated, 

 that she was the mother of twenty children, and that 

 she died Dee. 13, 1660 ; and the inscription concludes 

 with these verses to the united memory of Sir George 

 and Lady Farewell : 



" A person graceful, learn'd, humble, and good, 

 "Well match'd with beautie, virtue, and high blood: 

 Yet, after sufferings great and long, both dead 

 To mind us where great worth is honoured." 



Collinson's Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 255. 

 The practice of making chronograms for the expres- 

 sing of dates in books, epitaphs, and especially on 

 medals, was extremely common in the sixteenth and 

 seventeenth centuries. One of the most remarkable is 

 that commemorating the death of Queen Elizabeth : — 



" My Day Is Closed In Immortality : " 

 the arithmetical formula of which is M = 1000 + 

 D = 500 + C = 100 + III = 3 = A. D. 1603. In the 

 second paper by Addison on the different species of 

 false wit ( Spectator, No. 60. ) is noticed the medal that 

 was struck of Gustavus Adolphus, with the motto: 

 « ChrlstVs DuX ergo trIVMphVs." 

 " If you take the pains," continues the author, " to 

 pick the figures out of the several words, and range 

 them in their proper order, you will find they amount 

 to MDCXVVVII, or 1627; the year in which the 

 medal was stamped." 



There is one peculiarity in the chronogram sent by 

 our correspondent, which singularly illustrates a pas- 

 sage in Shakspeare, and by which also it is most 

 amusingly illustrated. It will be observed, that the 

 Rev. G. Newton takes advantage of the double letters 

 at the end of Farewell, to express 100 : and it will be 

 remembered that « good M. Holofernes," in Love's 

 Labour's Lost, introduces the same thought into his 

 sonnet as an exquisite and far-fetched fancy : 

 " If Sore be sore, then L to Sore 



Makes Fifty Sores : Oh sore L ! 

 Of One sore I an Hundred make, 

 By adding but One more L. "] 



Sir E. K. Williams. — Will any gentleman refer 

 me to the pedigree of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edmund 

 Kenyon Williams, a distinguished Peninsular of- 

 ficer, who died about three years ago ? And also, 



where I can find or obtain such a book as the 

 History of Aherystwith, or Blaina Gwent? C. W. 

 Bradford. 



[Sir Edmund Keynton Williams, K.C.B., born 

 1779, at Mathern, county of Monmouth, died Dec. 7, 

 1849, Colonel of the 80th Regiment of Foot, was only 

 son of the Rev. Henry Williams, Vicar of Undy, county 

 of Monmouth; who was second son of Edmund Wil- 

 liams, of Incasryddit, in the parish of Bedwelty, county 

 of Monmouth ; and grandson of William Williams of 

 the same place. Where any farther account of his 

 family can be found we know not.] 



Order of the Cockle. — What sort of Order was 

 this? Was it the Order of St. Michael? It is 

 mentioned incidentally by John Knox in his 

 History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland 

 (book V.) : 



" In the end of January [1566] arrived an ambas- 

 sador from France, named Monsieur Rambullet, having 

 with him about forty horse in train, who came from 

 England. He brought with him the Order of the 

 Cockle from the King of France to the king [Lord 

 Darnley], who received the same at the mass, in the 

 chapel of the palace of Holyrood House." 



In 1548, also, the Duke of Chatelherault, and 

 the Earls of Huntly, Argyle, and Angus, had been 

 invested with the same Order (book i.). Of 

 course, Knox was always ready to ridicule such 

 " remnants of paganism and popery." E.. S. F. 



Perth. 



[The order which Dudley received was that of 

 St, Michael. There was formerly in France an order 

 " du navire et de la coquille de mer," instituted, says 

 Perrot*, by St. Louis, in 1269, in memory of a peril- 

 ous expedition which he made by sea for the succour of 

 Christians ; but adds, " il a peu survecu a son fonda- 

 teur."] 



Waller Family.— I find from Clutterbuck's Herts, 

 vol. ii. p. 476., that Sir Henry Boteler, Kt., of 

 Hatfield Woodhall, Herts, married to his first wife, 

 at Watton Woodhall, Herts, July 26, 1563, 

 Katherine, daughter of Robert Waller, of Hadley, 

 and widow of Mr. Pope. I have examined all the 

 pedigrees of the Wallers I can find to ascertain to 

 which branch of them this lady belonged. Can 

 any of your readers supply me with any particu- 

 lars of her family ? Tewabs. 



[Possibly from the Wallers of Groombridge, county 

 of Sussex. Thomas Waller, of Lansdall, in that county, 

 second son of Thomas Waller, of Groombridge, had a 

 son, Thomas, whose only daughter and heir, Catherine, 

 married Thomas Pope, of Ilenfield, county of Sussex. 

 In such cases the Christian name given by Clutterbuck 

 may be wrong. — See the Histories of Kent and Sussex 

 for the account of the Wallers.] 



* Collection Historique 

 Paris, 4to, 1820, p. 270. 



des Ordres de Cheoalerie. 



