2»<> S. V. 126., May 29. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



443 



chiefly applied to crosses." (Glossary, sub voc.) 

 Guillim, I believe, confirms the account of the 

 object of such construction as given above by 

 Fuller. The reason, therefore, why although 

 " fitch " may, as a variety of an ordinary English 

 word, have a place in the dictionary, ^fc/j^ may 

 not, is, because the latter is a purely techni- 

 cal heraldic term, without the least connection 

 with the former, and with no more right to enter 

 the inventory of ordinary words than " alectry- 

 omancy " or " zumosimeter." Vide p. 47. of a 

 treatise published last year On some Deficiencies 

 in ow English Dictionaries. " Fitchy " occurs 

 in p. 17. G. C. G. 



GILBERT DE ANGULO AND NANGLE S CASTLE. 

 (2"'i S. V. 376.) 



The position assigned by G. N. to the building 

 called by him Nangle's Castle, shows that he must 

 refer to tlie Eastern Blockhouse, which stands on 

 the southern horn of West Angle Bay, at the 

 entrance of Milford Haven. This building is 

 stated by George Owen, the antiquary, in a MS. 

 account of Milford Haven, drawn up by him at 

 tlie instance of the Earl of Pembroke, temp. Eliz- 

 abeth, to have been erected in the reign of Henry 

 VIII. (Fenton's Pembrokeshire.) This, there- 

 fore, could not have been the starting-point of 

 llichard Strongbow on his Irish expedition. Angle 

 or Nangle Bay, proper, is situated within the har- 

 bour of Milford, and is thus described by Fenton 

 in his Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire : — 



" Skirting the bay of Nangfe, I come to the village of 

 that name, so called from being, as it were, in angulo, in 

 a nook. It is large, and bears evident marks of its former 

 consequence. The Sherbornes were the ancient lords of 

 the vill, whose daughter and coheiress married Robert 

 Cradock, Lord of Newton in Roos (Pemb.). His de- 

 scendant. Sir Richard Cradock, married the heiress of 

 Jestington (Pemb.), changed his name to Newton, and 

 dying Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, was buried at 

 Bristol.* Robert de Vale, Lord of Dale, where in his 

 castle he resided, had property in this village ; for in a 

 very ancient deed in my possession, he grants lands in 

 Angulo to Stephen the son of Alexander ; so that Sher- 

 borne might have succeeded hjm in the property by mar- 

 rying one of his daughters To the north of 



a little brook running behind the churchyard are the 

 remains of a considerable building with a square tower, 

 very picturesque, covered with ivy, called the Castle, said 

 to have been the principal residence of the Sherbornes, 

 lords of the place." 



This account was written fifty years ago ; and 

 as I never was at Angle in my life, I am unable 

 either to corroborate or disallow any of the fore- 



* In a MS. in Bennet Col. Librarj', Cambridge, it is 

 stated that there is a monument in Bristol Cathedral to 

 the memory of Sir Richard Newton Cradock, -who died 

 Dec. 13, 1444, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. John 

 Newton of Barscote, or Barrscourt, in Gloucestershire, a 

 descendant of the chief justice, was created a baronet, 

 Aug. 16, 1G60, but the title is now extinct. 



going statements. It would appear that the Sher- 

 bornes and their ancestors were lords of the soil 

 from a very remote period ; and it is therefore 

 extremely probable that Gilbert de Angulo was 

 one of the " adventurers, men of the first rank 

 and power in Pembrokeshire," by whose means 

 Strongbow won Waterford and Dublin ; and that 

 he was designated by the name of his birthplace, 

 and received grants of land as the reward of his 

 services. John Pavin Phillips. 



Mtpli'e^ to Miviot €L\xtxiei. 



Shelley s Marriage (2""^ S. v. 373.)— I am sur- 

 prised that your correspondent C. R. S. has made 

 no mention of the case of Westbrook v. Shelley, 

 one of the leading cases on the Patris potestas. 

 It was an application by Shelley to have his child 

 by Miss Westbrook given up to him, and by 

 Westbrook, her father, to have possession. Lord 

 Eldon heard the case in his private room, and 

 Lord Brougham was counsel for one of the par- 

 ties. The main grounds of Lord Eldon's decision 

 against Shelley were his heterodox principles on 

 marriage, as set forth in his poem of Queen Mob ; 

 and it was contended that he had recanted those 

 principles, and given the best proof of his having 

 changed them in favour of marriage by himself 

 contracting the marriage with Miss Westbrook. 

 But Lord Eldon gave the grandfather the cus- 

 tody of the child, or at least if Westbrook had 

 possession of it, Lord Eldon would not change 

 the possession. This case was a good deal cited 

 some years afterwards in the case of Duke of 

 Beaufort v. Long Wellesley, when Lord Brougham 

 and Sir William Home contended for the father's 

 right to the children in an appeal before the 

 House of Lords, but were defeated chiefly on the 

 authority of Westbrook v. Shelley. E. C. B. 



Sir Bob. Needham (2"^ S. v. 395.) — I have a 

 copy of The Case of Ferd. Smyth Stuart, fol., 

 1807, and have been turning it over to see if it 

 afforded the information required by A. B. C. It 

 is, however, meagre in details regarding his aris- 

 tocratic ancestors; but as it gives a somewhat 

 different version of his connexion with the Need- 

 hams, and points out the whereabouts of Sir Ro- 

 bert, it may be acceptable. Speaking of his father, 

 R. Wentworth Stuart, Ferdinand says : " At the 

 age of sixty-six he married Maria Julia Dalziel, 

 granddaughter of Gen. Jas. Crofts, natural son of 

 the Duke of Monmouth, by Eleanor, daughter of 

 Sir Rob. Needham of Lambeth." J. O. 



Criticism on Gray's Elegy (2"** S. iv. 35. &c.) — 

 Agreeing entirely with your correspondents who 

 claim for Professor Young the authorship of this 

 "admirable imitation of his (Dr. Johnson's) style," 

 but who have failed In adducing positive proof of 



