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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Aug. 4. 1855. 



infliction ; and once particularly demands respect for the 

 patience with which he endured the loss of his little 

 fortune. His patron might, indeed, enjoin him to sup- 

 press his bounty ; but, if he suffered nothing, he should 

 not have complained." 



On this foolish, captious comment, Mr. Cun- 

 ningham very properly shows that Dryden lost by 

 the Revolution more than lOOl. a year ; and that 

 Prior refers only to the emoluments of which Lord 

 Dorset, as Chamberlain, was obliged to deprive 

 him. But more than this was required ; for, if 

 Lord Dorset did enjoin Dryden " to suppress his 

 bounty," Dryden disobeyed his lordship's orders 

 in the very sentence from which Johnson quoted 

 the mention of the loss of his little fortune (Ded. 

 of Juvenal) ; and Dryden, with a wife to maintain, 

 and three children to support, or help to support, 

 as appears from the letter to his son Charles 

 (p. 390.), and the anecdote of the watch (p. 336), 

 might acknowledge Dorset's personal liberality, 

 and yet complain that his age was reduced to 

 want. Johnson him«elf, without either wife or 

 children, did not find a pension of 300/. a year 

 equal to his real or imaginary wants. D. J. 



AEMORIAL BEARINGS OP CLERE FAMILY. 



In the chancel of this church is the brass of 

 Sir Robert Clere, who died 1529. Each word of 

 the inscription, which is in the Tudor character, 

 is separated from the next by a small shield bear- 

 ing arms ; some of which are of the numerous 

 alliances of the Cleres, while others I can find no 

 connexion for at all. I shall enumerate them in 

 the order in which they occur, giving the names 

 of those mentioned in their pedigree, and of which 

 there is no doubt. (Some of them are repeated 

 once or more.) 



1st, 16 th, and 18 th. A hawk or raven displayed. 

 Query Fastolf of Suffolk ? 



2nd. Three spear-heads (or reed-bunches ?) 

 Query Reedham ? 



3rd and 21st. Snecke. Gu., a fess or in chief, 

 a label of three ermines. 



4th and 8th. Rees. Gu., a chevron ermine be- 

 tween three fleurs-de-lys or. 



5th and 19th. Boleyn. Three bulls' heads 

 couped, but wanting the chevron. 



6th. Hopton. Arg., a chevron az. in chief, a 

 label ermines. 



7th and 22nd. Westlesse. Arg., a chevron 

 sable, between three cross crosslets fitche, and 

 five billets of the last. 



9th. Quarterly. A bend . . ., and fretty . . . 

 impaling a saltire engrailed. Query this last 

 Kerdestone ? 



10th. Two chevrdns reversed. A crescent for 

 difference. Query Newton ? 



No. 301.] 



11th. Wichingham. Ermine, on a chief sable, 

 three crosses pattee or. 



12th. Martel. Gu., three hammers or. 



13th. Three chevronels. Query Clare ? 



14th. Udale, Owydal"^ or Dovedale. Arg., a 

 cross moline gu. 



15th. A cross engrailed. Query Ufford ? 



16th. On a chevron, three estoiles. 



17th. Three roses or quatrefoils. 



20th. On a bend three mascles. Query Car- 

 leton ? 



23rd. A cross, in dexter chief a dagger. Query 

 City of London ? 



24th. Molyns. Paly wavy of six or and gu. 



I can find nothing to enable me to assign, with 

 any probability, Nos. 9. 15. 16. 17. and 20. And 

 for the assignation of Nos. 1. 2. 10. and 13. I 

 have only the following slight grounds : 



1. A hawk displayed sable is assigned, in Daw- 

 son Turner's History of Suffolk, to Fastolf of 

 Suffolk. Some connexion with the Cleres is not 

 improbable, but I find no account of it. 



2. Reedham. Az., three reed-bunches or, im- 

 pales Caston on one of the painted windows 

 formerly in Paston Hall. Sir William de Reedham 

 married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert de 

 Caston ; and his daughter and heiress Margaret 

 marf-ied John Berney of Wichingham. A John 

 de Berney married Joan, daughter of Barthol. de 

 Wichingham, by whom came the estate in that 

 parish. His son John lived at Wichingham, and 

 was M.P. for Norfolk in the 2nd and 22nd of 

 Edward III., with Robert Clere, Esq. Sir Wil- 

 liam de Clere, the rebuilder of Ormesby Church, 

 married Dionysia, daughter of Sir William Wich- 

 ingham, in 1351. 



is this sufficient to account for the arms of 

 Reedham on the tomb of one of his descendants ? 



10. Newton. Blomfield's Hist, of Norfolk, s. v. 

 " East Tuddenham," says Robert Newton, gent., 



of , Warwickshire, conveyed part of this 



manor to Sir John Clere of Ormesby, and the 

 other part having also come to the Cleres, the 

 whole was sold by Sir Edward Clere, in Ed- 

 ward VI.'s time. 



13. Clare. The manor of Stratton Strawless 

 belonged to Richard Fitzgilbert, Earl of Clare, 

 and was considered part of the " Honour of Clare." 

 A trial respecting it took place in Sir Edward 

 Clere's time, in which he was concerned. Will 

 any correspondent kindly give me his help ia 

 assigning Nos. 9. 15. 16. 17. and 20. ; and finding 

 the reason why the other bearings have place 

 among the matches of the Cleres, as they were a 

 most important family in the county ? 



E. S. Tatloe. 

 Ormesby St. Margaret. 



