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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"^ s. X. Oct. 27. '60. 



earlier part of his pedigree to Coll. of Arms, Vin- 

 cent MS. 121. 



Burke's Heraldic Hhistrations (pi. 134.) gives a 

 pedigree of this family, which, like Dallaway's, 

 begins with William Henshaw of Worth. From 

 this I find that he was buried with a herald's 

 funeral, and that his ancestors were of Cheshire ; 

 and at St. Silvester's church, in the city of Ches- 

 ter (where is it now ?), in many places, the arms 

 of his ancestors remain. 



In White Rennet's account I read : " The 

 Bishop married one of the family of the Rays of 

 Kawmars " (spelt by Burke Rawmere). This was 

 Jane, daughter of John May. She died in 1639, 

 at which time the Bishop was rector of East- 

 Lavant. 



Dallaway makes no mentioh of any monument 

 to the Bishop. 



From his wife's Mr. Bedford, in the Blazon of 

 the Episcopacy, gives his arms : Quarterly, first 

 and fourth A., a chev. S. between three mallards 

 proper : second and third. A., a cross between 

 four fleurs-de-lys S. 



Burke gives : A., a chev. S. between three 

 heronshaw, S. And I have somewhere seen them 

 described as moorhens. Which is right ? 



Will any correspondent help me to trace the 

 connexion between the good Bishop's family and 

 its parent stem, the Henshaws of Henshaw ? 



There are pedigrees of the Bishop's branch in 

 the Harl. MSS., but I fear they will not give 

 much help ; and not being in town, I cannot refer 

 to them. 



Those of the Cheshire branch in Harl. MSS. 

 1424. 1505. and 1535., I have referred to. (In 

 one of them the name is written " Saxonice Old- 

 haugh.") See also Ormerod's History of Cheshire, 

 vol. iii. p. 362. 



Burke and Ormerod make both families extinct 

 in male line. Is this the case ? The name is, I 

 believe, still common in Cheshire.' 



What is the meaning of the name ? and what is 

 a heron-haw (haw old word for black ?) ? 



G. W. M. 



JOHN A LASCO. 

 (2°'^ S. X. 210.) 



The answers to Mr. Cbeswell's questions may 

 be given without hesitation. John a Lasco, the 

 Reformer, did not come to England before Sept. 

 1548 (Zurich Letters, iii. 187.) ; and John Las- 

 kow, warder of Sherwood Forest in 35 Hen. VIII. 

 (1543), was certainly a distinct person. The 

 Reformer was a nobleman of high rank in Poland ; 

 the Laskows, or Lascoes, according to Mr. Cbes- 

 WELi^'s own showing, were men of Nottingham- 

 shire. 



I happen, however, to have met with a remark- 

 able passage in a news-letter of the reign of Eliza- 



beth: in which the descent of Albertus Laski, 

 a Polish nobleman then visiting England, is traced 

 to the Laskies or Lacies of England. It is as fol- 

 lows : — 



"There is arrived here a nobleman of great calling and 

 value out of Polonia, only of alFection and duty to see 

 and reverence her Majestic; who is greatly honoured by 

 her said Majestie and council for the singular perfection 

 both of body and mind in the said nobleman ; beside that' 

 he is of great quality and state. His name is Albertns 

 Laskye, count palatine of Sidriack in Polonia, and lord 

 of many other great signories in that kingdom. He de- 

 rives himself lineally from th^ great Laskie of England, 

 sometime earl of Lincoln, Ulster, and made lord of Pom- 

 fret, Blackburnshire, and Halton in the time of King 

 Henry the Third. Whereof ye may hear more here- 

 after." 



The news-letter has no date, and I have not 

 ascertained when it was written. .The other sub- 

 jects that it mentions are : 1 . Mounsieur being 

 still at Dunkirk, having recovered from his late 

 sickness, but not restored to his sovereignty of the 

 Low Countries as y«t ; 2. The Prince of Parma 

 gathering his forces at Tournay ; whilst part of 

 his army is marched towards Cologne to assist the 

 new-elected Bishop of Liege ; 3. Duke Casimir 

 made General by the Princes of Germany, to op- 

 pose the said Bishop of Liege ; 4. Don Anthony 

 at Dieppe, with small hope to recover his king- 

 dom by help of the French ; and some other 

 matters. The above will abundantly settle its 

 date on comparison with continental history, and 

 I am inclined to think that few news-letters of so 

 early a date have been preserved. On this ques- 

 tion also information will oblige me. 



John Gough Nichols. 



ST. THOMAS CANTELUPE. 



(2"^ S. ix. 77. 151. 171. ; x. 254.) 



Snugly nestled in a pretty little valley, about 

 four miles from High Wycombe, lies Hambleden, 

 the birth-place of one among the worthiest of 

 England's Lord High Chancellors — St. Thomas 

 Cantelupe ; and its goodly parish-church to this 

 day keeps two memorials of that holy man — the 

 font in which he was baptized, and a doorway 

 whose threshold he. must have often trodden. 

 The font yet stands in its right place at the 

 lowermost west end, and is of the Anglo-Norman 

 period, round, deep, and ornamented with the 

 interlacing strap-moulding ; and its details show 

 that it must have been put up at least full fifty 

 years before the saint was born : some kind hand 

 has lately freed it from all the coats of white- 

 wash with which it had so often been besmeared. 

 In the west wall of the north cross-isle may be 

 seen a low, broad-browed, round-headed door- 

 way, now blocked up, which looks as if it had been 

 anxiously preserved out of fondness for some 



