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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. X Nov. 17. 'CO. 



" up no swannes." Among tlie Loseley MSS. 

 (preserved in the muniment room at Loseley 

 House, in Surrey) is an original roll of swan- 

 marks, showing the beaks of the swans to have 

 been notched with stars, chevrons, crosses, the 

 initials of the owners' names, or other devices. 

 Thus in the above lloU are given the marks used 

 for the swans of Lord William Howard, Lord 

 Buckhurst, Sir Henry Weston, Francis Carew, 

 Esq., William More, Esq., and other principal 

 persons resident in Surrey ; likewise the marks of 

 the Dyers' and Vintners' Companies, who to this 

 day, I believe, keep swans upon the Thames. 

 A. A. does not give the date of his extract from 

 the Egerton MS., but I suspect it to have been 

 later than 1570. Edwaed E. Rimbault. 



Bishop Aylmer (2'>'' S. x. 287.)— Bishop Ayl- 

 raer was born at Aylmer or Elmer Hall, now a 

 farm-house at a short distance to east of the 

 church, in the parish of Tilney St. Laurence, Nor- 

 folk, between King's Lynn and Wisbeach. The 

 present house appears to bo a portion of the old 

 one, but has been modernised, although there are 

 some ancient fragments about it. I have all the 

 entries relating to the family which are in the 

 registers of Tilney All Saints and Tilney St. 

 Laurence, and shall be happy to supply them if 

 required ; but they do not begin eai-lier than 1696. 

 In [Chambers's] Hid. of Norfolk, 1829 (vol. i. p. 

 492.), he is called brother to Sir Robert Aylmer, 

 Knt. C. R. Manning. 



Diss Eectory, Norfolk. 



The Battle of Bauge (2"^ S. x. 288.) — In 

 answer to Eric, I think there can be no doubt 

 that the date given by Hume is correct : for it is 

 clear that the battle was fought while Henry V. was 

 in England with his newly-married queen, before 

 he went to France for the third and last time in 

 June, 1421. The time is very precisely fixed by 

 Dugdale, who, in his Bai-onage (vol. ii. p. 197.), 

 tells us that Thomas, Duke of Clarence, was slain 

 upon Saturday, Easter Eve, 9 Hen. V. Easter 

 Day, 9 Hen. V., was the 23rd of March, 1421. 

 Easter Eve would thus be the 22nd, the day men- 

 tioned by Eric. Rapin speaks of the battle as 

 being on the 3rd of April. Probably he miscal- 

 culated the falling of Easter. 



There seems to be so little uncertainty about 

 the year In which the event occurred, that it is 

 not easy to account for the mistake of Sir James 

 Mackintosh, — unless it be that he supposed that 

 preceding writers on assigning the battle to the 

 22nd of March, 1421, reckoned according to the 

 old legal year, beginning wich the 25th of March, 

 and that (acting upon this supposition) he added 

 on a year, thinking by this means to make the 

 time fall in with the modern mode of computation. 



With respect to the Scottish knight, it is cer- 

 tainly singular that the three writers referred to 



by Eric — all three Scotchmen — should each of 

 them have given him a different name. I find 

 that Rapin, quoting a Scotch authority (Bucha- 

 nan), joins with Sir James Mackintosh in calling 

 him Sir John Swinton. Piukerton, in his History 

 of Scotland, quoting another Scotch authority, 

 Bowar, the enlarger and continuator of Fordon, 

 joins with Sir Walter Scott in calling him Sir 

 William. Thus far, the only conclusion I can 

 come to is, that Hume's Sir Allaii is left in a 

 minority. Turning to English antiquaries, I find 

 that Sandford, in his Genealogical History (p. 310.), 

 quoting Weever, calls him John Swinton. The 

 show of authorities is thus in favour oi John. But 

 as I think there is some sense in the French way 

 of requiring an absolute majority, I look upon the 

 name of the Scot as still an open question. 



Meletes. 



Charter of Charles II. (2"^ S. x. 287.) — In 



Bryan Edwards's History of theWest Indies (vol. i. 



p. 172., 2nd edit., published by J. Stockdale, 



London, in 1794), there is a copy of 



" A Proclamacon for the Encouraging of Planters in 

 liis Majesty's Island of Jamaica, in the West Indies. 

 13 Car. II." 



IIerus Frater. 



Jonathan Gouldsmith, M.D. (2"^ S, x. 305.), 

 was born in Cheshire, and educated at Brasenose 

 College, Oxford ; as a member of which betook the 

 two degrees in Arts ; A.B. 1715; A.M. 1718 ; and 

 then, accumulating those in physic, proceeded 

 M.D. 11th June, 1724. Admitted a candidate of 

 the College of Physicians of London, 25th June, 

 1725, anj^ a Fellow, 25th June, 1726, he delivered 

 the Gulstonian Lectures in 1728 ; was one of the 

 Censors of the College in 1729, and died at his 

 residence, Norfolk Street, Strand, 12th April, 

 1732. W. Munk, M.D. 



Finsbury Place. 



Maurice Greene, Mus. Doc, his Family (2""* 

 S. x. 234.) — In Hawkins's History of Music (vol. 

 V. 406.) will be found some account of another 

 branch of the family, namely : 



" Sergeant Greene, who was a single man, and left a 

 natural son John, who was bred to the Bar, and for some 

 years Steward of the Manor of Haclcney : the Sergeant 

 devised to him b}' his will an estate ia' Essex of about 

 700/. a year, called Bois Hall." 



This person died about the year 1750, having 

 left by his will to Dr. Greene the whole of his 

 estate. P* P- 



Armorial Queries (2'"! S. x. 38. 139. 277.) — 

 From the information given by C. J., in his se- 

 cond communication, I am led to infer that the 

 coat in question assigned to Cooke is that of Da- 

 venport : for, on consulting the pedigree of Mose- 

 ley of Rolleston, co. Stafford, it will be found that 

 Francis, fifth son of Oswald Mosley (or Moseley) 

 of Amcoats, mar. " Catharine, daughter of Daveu- 



