2"^ S. No 39., Sept. 27. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



249 



Heraldry. — What means exist for ascertalninnf 

 fo what family a particular coat of arms belongs ? 

 T am aware that the family and county being 

 known, Burke's Armoury, or any other similar 

 work, will enable me to find the arms, if the 

 family be entitled to bear them. But I want to 

 know how to perform the reverse operation, i. e. 

 the arms only being known, to ascertain the 

 fiimily or families by whom they were borne — an 

 application of heraldry very useful for the topo- 

 graphical Iiistoi-ian. R. 



Macclesfield. 



Heraldic. — If In 1600 a grant was made of a 

 coat of arms to John Jones and his descendants, 

 and on the grant were included also the descen- 

 dants male of the grandchildren, grandfather, &c., 

 with those of the collaterals, could a person de- 

 scended from the same branch as John Jones, but 

 very distantly related to him, legally use the same 

 crest, &c. ? O'Malley. 



Hogarth's Ci'est. — '^Vhat is the meaning of the 

 device Hogarth, the caricaturist, placed upon the 

 panels of his chariot? The following is as good a 

 description of It as can be given without an en- 

 graving. On a shield azure the letters c. y. in 

 cliief, and p. b. u. s. in base ; and for crest a py- 

 ramid or cone encircled with wavy lines on a 

 wreath. Probably these wavy lines were intended 

 to Illustrate his theory of the Une of beauty. 



C. J. Douglas. 



Brad.<ihaws of UArcy Leven. — Can any of 

 your correspondents furnish Information as to the 

 Bradshaws of D'Arcy Leven, In Lancashire (a 

 branch, I believe, of the Bradshaws of Bradshaw, 

 In the same county), more especially as to the 

 iaiuily of James Bradshaw, who lived about the 

 close of the seventeenth century ? AVhat are the 

 armorial bearings of the family ? E. C. B. 



Master Masons of Antwerp. — Having met with 

 the following paragraph In an interesting volume 

 recently published, called Flemish Interiors, I 

 should be glad if any of your readers could say 

 whether the practice to which It refers is confined 

 to the masons of Antwerp. 



" A curious and, I believe, peculiar custom still exists 

 at Antwerp among the guild of masons. Henri Con- 

 science, the great Belgian writer, who was perambulating 

 the town with me, informed me as we passed their hall, 

 that whenever a new master-mason was to be elected, it 

 was necessary that, previously to being initiated into his 

 somewhat important position, he should prove himself 

 worthy of the dignity about to be conferred on him, bj- 

 pulling down and rebuilding with his own hands the 

 facade of one portion of the building, which has conse- 

 quently been re-erected innumerable times, though the 

 remainder of the edifice is sufReiently venerable. If the 

 candidate shrunk from tliis trial, there was no alternative 

 but to yield his claim." — Flemish Interiors. 



An Obijfellow. 



Kemeys Family. -— G. S. S. wishes to Inquire if 

 any Irish correspondent of " N. & Q." can Inform 

 him who was the first of the ancient Welsh family 

 of Kemeys that settled In the Queen's County, 

 and founded the very respectable house of Kemmis 

 there ? Was the first Kemmis a follower of Crom- 

 well ? 



King's School, Chester. — I am desirous to 

 make known, through the medium of " N. & Q.," 

 that I am collecting materials for a history of this 

 scliool, and that I shall be happy to receive com- 

 munications from all who may be able and willing 

 to assist me In my labours. The field is, in every 

 respect, an unploughed one ; hence the greater 

 necessity for intelligent labourers to aid me in the 

 task. Old "King's Boys," whether educated on 

 " the foundation " or as private pupils, are Invited 

 to contribute their quota of Information, especially 

 anecdotes of the school or Its more distinguished 

 scholars, at their earliest convenience, to 



T. Hughes. 



4. Paradise Row, Chester. 



Brewer s Will. — I have seen somewhere or 

 other that in a brewer's will It was directed that 

 his heirs should always keep a cask of ale and 

 drinking vessel on the public road, for the free 

 use of all travellers. Can you tell me whether 

 this bequest Is attended to, and whei'e the ale is ? 



HUMILIS. 



Family of Brydges. — Can any of your readers 

 give me any information respecting the family of 

 Brydges, more particularly of that branch of the 

 family settled In Gloucestershire and Hereford- 

 shire ? Who are, or were, the descendants of 

 Anthony, third son, and also of the younger sons, 

 of John Brydges, 1st Lord Chandos ? After 

 which of the family are Brydges and Chandos 

 Streets, Covent Garden, and Chandos Street, 

 Cavendish Square, named ? Any information 

 will be thankfully received. R. C. 



Judge Jessopp. — Can any of the readers of 

 " N. & Q." inform me if there was a judge of the 

 King's Bench or Common Pleas of this name, 

 about the middle of the last century ? or how I 

 should be able to ascertain the fact, and obtain 

 particulars of his history and family ? I believe 

 he was a Derbyshire man. J. B. 



Cavendish Club. 



Dr. Bloxam ? — A book is before me entitled 

 " A Collection of Receipts in Physic, being the Practice 

 of the late eminent Dr. Bloxam : containing a Complete 

 Body cf Prescriptions answering to every Disease, with 

 some in Surgery. To which are added by the Editor a 

 General Account of the Operations of all Kinds of Medi- 

 cines : also Occasional Remarks, Directions, and Cautions, 

 suited to the different stages of Distempers, in order to 

 render this Work particularly usetul in Families. The 

 Second Edition. London. 'Svo. Printed for Lockyer 

 Davis at Lord Bacon's Head, near Salisbury Court, Fleet 

 Street, mdccliv," 



