ind S. No 37., Sept. 13. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



211 



eacb of the lower quarters. Query, who is the 

 Duchess de Fitz-James ? or rather, who was the 

 Duke of that title, and by what right did he bear 

 the arms of the United Kingdom ? I suspect 

 that he was a descendant of the Pretender, and 

 shall be glad to know through what line. 



Mark Antony Lower. 

 Lewes. 



Frysley, Halsende, SheyUje. — Where are these 

 places, which are mentioned in a MS. relating to 

 Staffordshire of the sixteenth century, in con- 

 junction with Moseley, Staffordshire, and Cos- 

 sington (Leicestershire ?) ? R. 



Macclesfield. 



Sidney Mountagu. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." inform me who Sidney Mountagu was ? 

 I have a MS. in my possession written by him 

 entitled " Valida Consolatio." A dedicatory letter 

 accompanies it, addressed to his mother, who it 

 appears was blind. The date, Hemington \° Jan- 

 iiar. 1613 may serve as a clue. Ch. Hopper. 



Illustrations of the Simplon. — In 1823 I saw a 

 work illustrative of the road over the Simplon. 

 Will some one of the readers of " N. & Q." give 

 me the author's name ? H. J. 



Arms of the Family of Gelsthrop. — The arms 

 of this family are wanted to complete a genealo- 

 gical shield. In the pedigree of the Pendocks of 

 Tollerton Manor, co. Notts, Richard Pendock, 

 born in 1593, and who died Nov. 1645, is stated 

 to have married Elizabeth (Anne),- daughter of 

 William Gelsthrop of Whatton, Notts, and Fish- 

 lake, Yorkshire. I have searched both Berry's 

 and Burke's Dictionary of Arms in vain for the 

 name. T. B. 



dMtnor <!k\xtxxti tut'tib '^wi^txi. 



Bishops of Galloway. — Can you inform me 

 whether there ever were Bishops of Galloway 

 (Scotland) ? and if so, when the last one lived, 

 and if there is any book in which I should find an 

 account of them ? M. E. M. K. 



[According to Bede, the Southern Picts were converted 

 by the preaching of St. Ninian, a native of North Wales, 

 who was consecrated Bishop of Whitherne, or Candida 

 Casa, in Galloway, about the middle of the fifth century. 

 Ussher supposes that his diocese extended from the 

 modern Glasgow to Stanmore Cross, on the borders of 

 Westmoreland. The church of Whitherne became a se- 

 minary of apostolic men and many eminent saints. Bede 

 places one Octa as the successor of St. Ninian ; and Pec- 

 telm was bishop when Bede concluded his history, 

 A.D. 731. Malmsbury adds Frethwald, Pectwine, Ethel- 

 brith, and Radvulf, as his successors; Florence of Wor- 

 cester further adds Heathored. John Gordon, conse- 

 crated Feb. 4, 1688, was the last bishop. Since the Re- 

 volution this see has been annexed to Glasgow. See 



Keith's Catalogue of Scottish Bishops, by Dr. Russel, edit. 

 1824, pp. 271 — 283., for some notices of the bishops.] 



Hon. Thomas Penn. — Where shall I find an 

 account of the sons of William Penn ? I have a 

 letter signed " Tho. Penn," and dated " London, 

 Nov. 8, 1766." It is addressed to «' Sir William 

 Johnson, Bart., at Johnson Hall, New York," 

 and is endorsed thus, " From the honble. Thos. 

 Penn, Esq. ; " to which is added, in another hand, 

 " Son of W*" Penn, proprietor of Penns*." It is 

 stated in the Penny Cyclopaedia that 



" Penn left children by both of his wives, and to them 

 he bequeathed his property in Great Britain and America. 

 The government and quit-rents of Pennsylvania devolved 

 to the sui-viving sons of the second family, with the title 

 of Proprietaries, and by them were sold to the state of 

 Pennsylvania, after the American Revolution, for 

 130,000/." 



The writer of the letter appears to have held 

 office under the British government. He says : 



" I was on fryday at the Board of Trade, where the 

 Lords seemed very desirous to finish your aifair, about the 

 Land, but could not do it for want of the draft of it. . . 

 . . I found the Lords ready to grant any quantity to 

 one hundred thousand acres, if your purchase was for so 

 much," &c. 



The Sir W. Johnson to whom the letter was ad- 

 dressed was the king's " general agent for Indian 

 affairs." Vox. 



[The writer of this letter was the Hon, Thomas Penn, 

 second son of the celebrated William Penn, founder of the 

 State of Pennsylvania, by his second wife. Thomas was 

 born March 8, 1701-2, and had the principal direction of 

 the affairs of Pennsj'lvania for half a century. In 1760 

 he purchased Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. He 

 married Juliana Fermor, fourth daughter of Thomas, first 

 Earl of Pomfret. Both Thomas Penn and his j'ounger 

 brother Richard returned to the communion of the Church 

 of England. The Hon. Thomas Penn, Lord Proprietary 

 of Pennsylvania, as he was entitled, died in 1775, and 

 was interred in the family vault at Stoke Poges. Consult 

 Granville Penn's Memorials of Sir William Penn, vol. ii. 

 p. 673., and Lipscomb's History of Bucks, vol. ir. p. 555.] 



Importance of Ballads. — 



" Give me the ballads of a people, and I will write their 

 true history." — " Give me the making of a people's bal- 

 lads, and I care not who makes their laws." 



Whose sayings are these ? A. A. D. 



[The latter saying occurs in the Political Works of 

 Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Edinb. 1749, p. 266. He 

 says, " I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christo- 

 pher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were per- 

 mitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who 

 should make the laws of a nation." See " N. & Q." 1'* 

 S. i. 124. 153.] 



N. Byfield. — I have a small volume, title-page 

 wanting, with the name of N. Byfield on the pre- 

 face. The work treats of various scriptural 

 doctrines, and such, so says the author, " which 

 are fundamentall and absolutely necessary to be 

 knowne of as many as are to be saued." Query, 



