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■ NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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dent Bradshaw having, in his will, recognised 

 Milton as a kinsman, and bequeathed to him a 

 legacy of lOZ. The register of the marriage would 

 of course satisfactorily clear up the point. 



Cranston. 



" Conqueror of the Gentlemen^ of the Loiige 

 Bohe.'" — An old document lately in my possession 



commenced thus : 



« 9th Jan. 1652. 

 " These presents shall warrant whom it may concern, 

 that I, Thomas EUyott, Esq., and member of Jesus Christ, 

 and a free-born son of the English nation, and a free son 

 of the same Commonwealth, and Esquire at Arms, and 

 Conqueror of the Gentlemen of the Longe Robe," &c. 



Can any of your readers inform me what is meant 

 by the latter description, " Conqueror of the Gen- 

 tlemen of the Longe Eobe ? " T. S. N. 



Escutcheons. — The following passage occurs in 

 a letter of 1747. The writer is giving as executor 

 an account of the funeral of an old lady, which he 

 had been desirous to ai-range with all due regard 

 to her rank, but with no needless ostentation. 

 He says : 



" There were no escutcheons, believing they would be 

 expensive and not very necessary, and they may be made 

 for those of the family who have a mind at any time." 



As these were neither for the front of the house, 

 the pall, nor the church, what could the family 

 want to have them made for ? Anon. 



Count Neiberg, 8pc. — A descendant of Sir R. 

 Walpole's has a portrait, which has come to him 

 from that family, with the following MS. on a 

 piece of paper attached to it : 



" Count Neiberg (by Wootton) when he ac- 

 companied the Duke of Lorraine, afterwards 

 Emperor of Germany, to England and Sir Robert 

 Walpole's at Houghton, where that great trans- 

 action was planned and settled," 



Can any of your correspondents throw light upon 

 the transaction here referred to ? W. C. 



Druidism, Bardism. — I should be very greatly 

 obliged to any of your correspondents who would 

 direct me to some indubitably ancient source of the 

 Bardic System, as unfolded by Edward Williams 

 at the end of his volume of Poems, and Dr. Owen 

 Pughe (who relied upon Williams for his inform- 

 ation) in the introduction to his translation of ZZy- 

 warch Hen. Especially do I desire to know the 

 real origin of the very curious scheme of trans- 

 migrations which constitutes the moral portion of 

 that system. The lolo MSS., published by the 

 Welsh MSS, Society, does not contain any suffi- 

 cient evidence of the system as delivered by those 

 writers ; nor have I found any in Mr. Aneurin 

 Owen's edition of the Laws of Wales, or in any 

 accessible works of bards. B. B. Woodward. 



Bungay, Suffolk. 



Saint Tellant. — Who was Saint Tellant ? One 

 of the bells in the Church of Rhosilli, in Gower, 

 Glamorganshire, has the following legend without 

 date : "Sancta Tellant, ora pro nobis." The name 

 would hardly appear to be a Welsh one, neither 

 should we expect to find a dedication to a Welsh 

 saint (bearing so recent an appearance as does 

 this legend) in a Flemish colony where the Welsh 

 language is unknown. The following tradition, 

 however, current in the village, may perhaps throw 

 a light on the subject. It was stated that the 

 two bells were taken " once upon a time" from a 

 Spanish wreck [the coast bore in former days as 

 fearful a reputation for wreckers, as it still does 

 for wrecks], and placed in the church tower, 

 where, " for many hundred years," they were 

 sounded by striking with hammers, by which 

 means the one in question was broken within the 

 memory of an old carpenter of ninety years of 

 age ; who, thereupon, assisted in hanging the other 

 lest it should share a similar fate. Is it not pos- 

 sible that an examination of the sister bell might 

 give some farther information ? Ski-ehccb. 



Acton Family of Shropshire. — Thomas Acton, 

 second son of Sir Edward Acton, first baronet, 

 married Mabel Stonor, daughter of Clement 

 Stonor. He left at his decease in 1677 two sons, 

 Thomas and Clement. Did they leave male issue ? 

 Had either of them a son John, who died in 1774, 

 aged eighty-two ? 



Could this John belong to Robert Acton of 

 Stepney, fifth son of Sir Walter Acton, second 

 baronet, who in the published pedigree is said to 

 have married and left issue ? 



Could he be John of Clapham, M.A. (see pub- 

 lished pedigree,) and great-grandson of Sir Walter 

 Acton, second bart., through his second son 

 Walter ? The John Acton in question was of the 

 Actons in Shropshire ; he was a medical man. 

 In the Register of Burials he is called " Doctor." 

 He married into one of the most ancient families 

 among the landed gentry, and died in 1774, aged 

 eighty-two, leaving one child, a daughter. 



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Picture by Crevelli Veneziano. — Can any one 

 explain the meaning of the shocking picture men- 

 tioned in the following quotation from Webb's 

 Continental Ecclesiology : 



" In the Zambeccari Gallery I cannot help noticing an 

 appallingly profane picture by Crevelli Veneziano, in 

 which are represented the blessed Virgin Mary and our 

 blessed Lord both in forma diabolica ! I could get no 

 explanation of this horrible idea." 



K. P. D. E. 



" Seasonable Considerations upon the Com 

 Trade." — Who was the author of an octavo 

 pamphlet of sixty-seven pages, entitled Seasonable 

 Considerations upon the Corn Trade . . . with a 

 short Appendix, Sfc. ; H. Cook, Royal Exchange, 



