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charged with three fleurs-de-lys or ; sinister, a 

 dragon gules, collared and chained or, the collar 

 charged with three fleurs-de-lys, az. 



Henry Fitzjamcs : the royal arms with a baton 

 sinister az. charged with three fleurs-de-lys. Crest, 

 on a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, a sea-horse 

 argent, gorged with a collar, azure, charged with 

 three fleurs-de-lys, or. 



But by a subsequent warrant the colour of the 

 sea-horse was altered to " proper." Sandford 

 gives as his authority MSS. by E. Marsh in Coll. 

 Ann. W. K. R. Bedford. 



Sutton Coldfield. 



Burke's Oeneral Armoury, I860, gives 



" Fitz James' (as borne by James Fitz James, Duke of 

 Berwick, the celebrated Marshal of France, the natural 

 son of King Jas. II.) The royal arras of France and Eng- 

 land, quarterly, with Scotland and Ireland, all within a 

 bordure compony g«. and az., the gu. charged with lion 

 of England, and' the az. Avith fleur-de-lvs of France." 



R. J. F. 



Leighton Family (2"<i S. x. 108.) — A family 

 of that surname is living at Thornes, nenr Wake- 

 field. One of the family, Reuben or Joseph, is 

 the landlord of the village inn there, which when 

 I was a boy had the portrait of a bishop for its 

 sign. I passed it the other day, but the sign had 

 been repainted, and the old bishop obliterated, 

 the name only being left. J. Eastwood, 



Picture of " Protector Somerset," or of 

 THE Lord Admiral Seymour? (2"'' S, x, 110.) 

 — The verses upon the picture probably show 

 that "the portrait is not that of the Protector, but 

 of his brother the Lord Admiral. Their features 

 were different, and are easily distinguished. But 

 it is not the first time that their portraits have been 

 mistaken . In the GentlemavLS Magazine for January 

 1805 appeared without a name an engraving from 

 a picture in the possession of Charles B. Robinson, 

 Esq., of Hill Ridware, near Lichfield. In March 

 following, p. 220., this was assigned to the Duke 

 of Somerset ; and in August, p. 697., to the Earl 

 of Lennox, father of Henry Lord Darnley the 

 husband of Mary Queen of Scots. It is, however, 

 really a portrait of Thomas Lord Seymour of 

 Sudeley, the Lord High Admiral, as will be seen 

 on comparison with Lodge's Illustrious Portraits 

 and other engravings ; and from the lines denoted 

 on the print as being inscribed in the background 

 (but of which no copy is given), I have little 

 doubt it was a duplicate of the picture described 

 by Mb, Allen, with the sonnet composed by Sir 

 John Harington, if not the same picture removed 

 from Hill Ridware to Hodnet. • 



John Gough Nichols. 



Sir John Gayer (2°<i S. x. 128,) — Sir John 

 Gayer (or Gayre), citizen and fishmonger of Lon- 

 don, was Prime- warden of that Company in 1638 ; 

 and, having served the ofliice of Sheriff" of London 



and Middlesex in 1635, he became Lord Mavor in 

 1646-7, 



During his Mayoralty, King Charles I, having 

 been brought to Hampton Court, and the army 

 being in the immediate neighbourhood of London, 

 the Parliament, overawed by military influence, 

 determined to proceed against those who had 

 taken an active part in opposition to the growino^ 

 power of the army ; and Serjt, Glyn, the Re- 

 corder of London, was deprived of his office ; Sir 

 John Gayer, Lord Mayor of London, with four 

 aldermen — Adams, Langham, Culham, and Bunce 

 — were impeached and committed to the Tower ; 

 and the Earls of Lincoln, Suffolk, and Middlesex, 

 with Lords Willoughby of Parhara, Berkley, Huns- 

 don, and Maynard, and Sir Jno. Maynard, were 

 also impeached of treason. 



The Lord Mayor and Aldermen were charged 

 with the riotous conduct of the young men and 

 apprentices of London, who, on the 26th July, 

 came and petitioned Parliament in a tumultuous 

 manner, and compelled both Houses to grant their 

 desires. 



I do not know if Sir John Gayer continued a 

 prisoner until May in the following year ; but on 

 the 23rd of that month the citizens of London 

 petitioned Parliament for the release of the im- 

 prisoned citizens, who, Sir Richard Baker says, 

 were Aldermen Langham and Bunce, and Serjt. 

 Glyn, the Recorder; to which the Commons readily 

 consented, " for they became very well inclined 

 to make peace with the King now they were freed 

 from the insolency of the army by their distance 

 from them." 



The arms of Sir John Gayer were : Ermine, a 

 fleur-de-lis and a chief sable. Probably he was* 

 buried at St. Catherine Cree church, but I have 

 not Strype's edition of Stow, nor Maitland, at hand 

 to refer to. 



In 1696, a Sir John Gayer was General of the 

 East India Company's affiiirs at Bombay. 



Robert Gayer, whose will is dated 15th January, 

 1648, was also a Fishmonger and a benefactor to 

 the poor of that Company. He was probably a 

 brother or near connexion of Sir John's, 



I find also, in Lysons's Environs of London (vol. 

 iv. p. 94.), that Elizabeth, wife of Robert Gayer, 

 Esq, (son of Sir Robert Gayer, Knt.), was buried 

 in the churchyard of Barking, Essex, in 1742. 



Geo. R. Corner. 



Ride v. Drive (2"* S. x. 59.) — Many thanks 

 to your correspondent AV. C. for reminding me 

 that many expressions to be found in our Autho- 

 rised Version of the Bible are now vulgarisms. 

 These, however, are, I believe, for the most part 

 such as sound to modern ears indelicate. The 

 word " wench," which he quotes, and which, ac- 

 cording to Cruden's Concordance, occurs but once 

 (2 Sam, xvii. 17,), is an instance in point. This 

 word, which is still used in its original sense of 



