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acquired the barony of Kilburnie (see Vol. v., 

 p. 464.), took place in the reifin of James III. 

 (See British Compendium, or Rtuliments of Honour, 

 vol. ii. p. 282.) In the same volume the arms of 

 their lineal descendant, Patrick Viscount Garnock, 

 are given thus : 



" Quart. 1st and 4th gu. a fess ermine for Crawford, 

 2nd and 3rd az. a chevron between three crosses patees 

 or. Motto, ' Sine labe nota.' " 



The same arms appear on the book-plates of the 

 late Sir Robert Crawford of Jordan Hill, Bart. 



In this coat, to whom do the quarterings 2nd 

 and 3rd belong ? Are they the arms of Barclay ? 



The same motto, and a similar coat, are borne 

 by some of the Irish branches of the Crawford 

 family, except that instead of crosses pattees ap- 

 pear three mullets. 



Can this be a mistake for the crosses ? or is this 

 quartering a distinct one; and, if so, of what 

 family ? 



Can you also inform me how, if the rule of 

 heraldry be strictly adhered to, that no man may 

 quarter the coat of another family, unless intro- 

 duced by the marriage of his lineal ancestor with 

 an heiress, some families are said to be entitled to 

 many, sometimes more than a hundred, quarter- 

 ings, as the conditions of the rule are satisfied but 

 seldom, even in the oldest families ? P. le B. 



Sandred Groat. — I should much like' to know 

 what is a " Sandred Groat," about the time of 

 Cromwell ? John Nurse Chadwick. 



Wife of Stanislaus Augustus II. of Poland. — 

 What was the name of the wife of Stanislaus 

 Poniatowski, crowned Stanislaus Augustus II., on 

 the 25th November, 1764, the last King of Poland 

 and Elector of Saxony ; and where can any ac- 

 count of her be found ? W. E. 



Legend of King Alfred. — Is there, among the 

 English legends, one about King Alfred the 

 Great, and the knight William of Albonack, with 

 his daughters? And if so, where is it to be 

 found ? It is said to exist in some work printed 

 in the beginning of the sixteenth century. Pos- 

 sibly some of the readers of " N. & Q." may be 

 able to answer the question. J. A. 



Plunkett's " Light to the Blind." — In that very 

 inaccurate work Whitelaw and Walsh's History of 

 Dublin, vol. i. p. 222., the authors refer to " Plun- 

 kett's Light to the Blind, whereby he may see the 

 Dethronement of James II., King of England, with 

 a brief Narrative of his War in Ireland, a manu- 

 script, in 2 vols. 4to." Perhaps some of your 

 readers can tell where this manuscript is preserved, 

 as it is not known to any literary antiquary here. 



J. J. G. 



Dublin. 



Portraits of Lady Jane Grey. — Can any reader 

 of " N. & Q." state where a portrait of Lady Jane 

 Grey, once in the possession of the late Mr. Har- 

 rington, of Breaston, Derbyshire, can now be 

 found ? It is supposed to have been identical with 

 tliat in the Derby Exhibition of 1841. Neither 

 (if they are indeed dilferent portraits) has been 

 engraved. Dibdin had the beautiful original by 

 Lucas de Heere (now at Althorpe), engraved for 

 his Decameron ; and Nichols, in his Leicestershire, 

 gives a copy from Vertue's very ugly portrait. 

 Lodge engraved an original in the possession of 

 Lord Stamford. But all these are so utterly in- 

 ferior to the portrait exhibited at Derby, which 

 was an undoubted original, that I am anxious, if 

 possible, to obtain permission to engrave it for a 

 New History of Leicestershire. The Harrington 

 portrait came into the hands of Mr. Harrington 

 from the Misses Grey of Risley. T. R. Potxeb. 



Wymeswold. 



Junius: Letter LVI. (Vol. iii., p. 188.). — Vaero 

 quotes from this letter : — "Is the union of Blifil 

 and Black George no longer a romance?" and 

 asks, " What part of that story is here referred 

 to?" 



As his question has not yet been answered in 

 " N. & Q.," I presume that my attempt to find the 

 incident in Tom Jones is not the (mly unsuccessful 

 one that has been made, and I wish to suggest that 

 it may possibly be found in a work alluded to by 

 Dunlop in his History of Fiction, vol. iii. p. 378.: 

 London, 1814. 



He concludes the short account he gives of 

 Fielding with these words : 



" In fact, in a miserable continuation which has been 

 written of the History of Tom Jones, the wrong-headed 

 author (of whom Blifil was the favourite) has made 

 his hero bring an action against Tom after the death of 

 Mr. AUworthy, and oust him from his uncle's pro- 

 perty." 



Can any of your readers supply the exact title 

 of this " miserable continuation," and the name of 

 its " wrong-headed author " ? The very insignifi- 

 cance of the book may have prevented it from be- 

 coming common ; and if some collector of cata- 

 logues could prove that it once formed part of the 

 library of any one of the many repided authors of 

 The Letters, would not the fact add some slight 

 weight to any evidence that may have been col- 

 lected respecting that particular person ? 



C. FOEBES* 

 Temple. 



Hob, Meaning of. — I shall be obliged if any 

 one will furnish the meaning of the word Hob., 

 when used as the name, or part of the name, of a 

 place. There is, or was, Hobmoor Lane, near 

 York ; Hobgreen, near Ripon ; Hobendrid, Salop ; 

 Hoblench, Worcestershire; Hob- Cross Hill, Don- 



