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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-»-i S. X. Sept. 15. ' 



must, I should think, exist of a family the ladies 

 of which made such alliances, though I have not 

 hitherto succeeded in finding any. . R. W. 



Temple. 



Fabian Phillips, Esq., of the Inner Temple. 

 — Is anything; known of this gentleman, who is 

 cited by Mr. Hargrave Jennings (2°'* S. x. 165.) 

 on the authority of Aubrey, as the assertor of the 

 clairvoyance of King Charles I. ? As the name is 

 an uncommon one, I think that he may be iden- 

 tified with an individual bearing the same Chris- 

 tian appellation, who was a descendant of 0\ven 

 Phillipps, youngest son of Sir Thomas Phillipps 

 of Cilsant, in Carmarthenshire, and afterwards of 

 Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire. Maud, a daughter 

 of the aforesaid Owen Phillipps, is mentioned in 

 the family pedigree as having married John Lloyd 

 and Griffith Lewis at once. Fabian Phillips was 

 third son of John Bowen Phillipps, who was 

 second son of Thomas Phillipps, Esq., of Cilsant. 

 A daughter of this Fabian is also recorded in the 

 family history as having disgraced herself by mar- 

 rying a tailor. The descendants of Fabian Phil- 

 lips are exceedingly numerous. 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



" Le Bureau d'Esprit." — 



" Le Bureau d'Esprit, Com^die en Cinque Actes et en 

 Prose. P. M. L. C. R. G. A. 



' Time makes more converts than reason.' 

 ' Te Terns fait plus de Pros^lites que la raison.' 

 Seconde Edition, revue, corrig^e et augmente'e, h. Londres, 

 1777." 



The above is the title-page of a satire against 

 Voltaire and his worshippers. It is bitter and 

 clever, and must have been much noticed in its 

 time, though I never heard of it till a few days 

 ago. Among the characters I can trace Dalem- 

 bert. La Harpe, Marmontel, and I think Con- 

 dorcet. Any information as to the author, or 

 books wherein more may be learned about it, will 

 much oblige Fitzhopkins. 



Richard Woodward, Bishop of Cloyne. — 

 What were the arms borne by Richard Wood- 

 ward, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland ? and what 

 was the Christian name of his daughter, who was 

 the wife of another bishop or archbishop ? Im- 

 mediate information will oblige Henry Barker. 



Yepsond, Derivation of. — This word occurs 

 on p. 32. of Tusser Redivivus, being notes on Tus- 

 ser's poem on Five Hundred Points of Husbandry, 

 and bearing date 1 744. The passage is in a note 

 upon wild oats : -^ 



" Mr. Atwell, in his Surveying, says he took up whole 

 t/epsonds (that is as much as" both hands would hold at a 

 time), and carry'd them home; one would think they 

 were of the Devil's own sowing, the ancient Fizania." 



The word is not in Nares ; but Halliwell has 



" Yepsintle. Two handfuls. Lane." This must 

 be a diminutive form. But what is the deri- 

 vation ? Dbfnibl, 



John a Lasco : Cranmer. — In Deering's Not- 

 tinghamia Vetus et Nova, 1751, p. 312., is the fol- 

 lowing : — 



" Perambulatio de Shirwood facta nono die Septembris 



Anno Hen. VIH. xxxv. p Johannem Laskow 



regardatores dicte forreste de Sherwood," &c. 



In Procter's Book of Common Prayer, ed. 3., 

 p. 48., mention is made of John a Lasco's friendly 

 intercourse with Cranmer, and it is there stated 

 that " his first visit to England was in September, 

 1548, when he resided six months with Cranmer." 



In Massingberd's English Reformation, ed. 3., 

 p. 535., apropos of Cranmer's guilt or innocence 

 in acquiring church lands, quotation is made from 

 Thoroton, p. 140., to the efiect that the Arch- 

 bishop got two rectories with their advowsons in 

 Notts (his own county), formerly belonging to 

 Welbeck, on the 20th March in the 1st year of 

 Edward VI., that is in 1547. 



As the perambulation was made in 1544, there 

 remain two questions, 1°. When did John a Lasco 

 first come over ? 2°, Can John Laskow be shown 

 to be a distinct person? or, without supposing 

 corruption or mis-spelling, was there any Not- 

 tinghamshire or English family of that name ? 



S. F. Creswell. 



The School, Tonbridge, Kent. 



P.S. Thoroton, p. 320., under Norman ton, has, 

 " Not long since Mr. William Loscoe had interest 

 here and at Farnesfield." (Date of Thoroton, 

 1677.) 



Alphabet of Arms. — I shall be extremely 

 obliged by being informed how much of the fol- 

 lowing work was published, and, if more than I 

 possess, where I might see a copy of it : it was 

 printed in 1782, and sold at one shilling each 

 number. [ have the engraved title-page and 

 twelve folio plates, each containing forty-eight 

 coats. The title runs thus : A New and Correct 

 Collection of Arms, Crests, ijC, Alphabetically 

 displayed, with the Blazonry annexed to each 

 Coat, by Philip Bryan, Engraver. 



JpHN TUCKETT. 



Family of Cary, Co. Devon. — Can any of 

 your correspondents assist me in identifying a 

 William Cary, Gent., whose daughter, Mary, mar- 

 ried William Helyar*, D.D., and died 6] July, 

 1607? She is buried with her husband in Exe- 

 ter Cathedral, where her monument attests the 

 marriage. 



The eldest son of this union was Henry Helyar 



* Dr. Helvar was a divine of some eminence. He was 

 Archdeacon of Barnstaple, Canon of Chester and Exeter, 

 Treasurer of Chelsea College, and one of Queen Eliza- 

 "beth's Chaplains. He died at a great age in 1645, 



