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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 211. 



both meet together at the same hour, say eleven 

 o'clock, the one will reckon 11 a.m., the other 



11 P.M. ESTE. 



Calves'' Head Cliib (Vol. viii., p. 315). — In 

 Hone's Every Day Book, vol. ii. pp. 158, 159, 160., 

 some more information is given on the interesting- 

 event referred to in the Note made by Mr. E. G. 

 Ballard. A print is given of the scene ; and the 

 obnoxious to.asts are also quoted ; they are : " The 

 pious memory of Oliver Cromwell ;" "Damn — n 

 to the race of the Stuarts ; " " The glorious year 

 1648 ; " " The man in the mask," &c. The print 

 is dated 1734, which proves that the meeting at 

 which the disturbance arose was not the first 

 which had taken place. S. A. S. 



Bridgewater. 



Heraldic Query (Vol. viii., p. 219.). — Although 

 A. was killed in open rebellion, I think his ar- 

 morial bearings were not forfeited unless he was 

 subsequently attainted by act of parliament ; and 

 even in that case it is possible that the act con- 

 tained a provision that the penalty should not ex- 

 tend to the prejudice of any other person than 

 the offender. Assuming that A. was not attainted, 

 or that the consequences of his attainder were thus 

 restricted to himself, or that his attainder has 

 been reversed, it is clear that his lawful posterity 

 are still entitled to his arms, notwithstanding the 

 acceptance by his grandson C. of a new grant, 

 which obviously could no more affect the title to 

 the ancient arms than the creation of a modern 

 barony can destroy the right of its recipient to an 

 older one. The descendants of C. being thus en- 

 titled to both coats, could, I imagine, without diffi- 

 culty obtain a recognition of their right; and I 

 think they might either use the ancient arms 

 alone, or the ancient and the modern arms quar- 

 terly, precedence being given to the former. The 

 proper course would be to seek the licence of the 

 crown for the resumption of the ancient surname, 

 as well as of the arms. Such permission would, I 

 apprehend, be now conceded, even though it should 

 appear that the arms were really forfeited. 



Henry Gough. 



Emberton, Bucks. 



The Temple Lands in Scotland (Vol. viii., 

 p. 317.). — These lands, or a portion of them, 

 were acquired, and afterwards transferred by sale, 

 to Mr. Gracie, by James Maidment, Esq., the 

 eminent Scottish antiquary, who, in 1828-29, 

 privately printed — 



" Templaria: Papers Relative to the History, Pri- 

 vileges, and Possessions of the Scottish Knights Tem- 

 plars, and their Successors, ihe Knigbts of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, with Notes," &c. 



This will no doubt contain all that your cor- 

 respondent Abredonensis could desire upon the 



subject, provided he can obtain it : for the work, 

 professing to be printed by the author for presents, 

 is confined to twenty-five copies, and must there- 

 fore be rare. In 1831 was published by Ste- 

 venson, Edinburgh, an Historical Account of Lin- 

 litJigoivsJdre, by the late John Penney.* This 

 is edited by Mr. iMaidment, and contains a chapter 

 entitled an "Account of the Transmission of the 

 United Estates of the Templars and Hospitallers, 

 after the dissolution of the Order in the reign of 

 Queen IMary ; " and although the object of the 

 editor is to notice th'e charters connected with 

 Linlithgowshire, the book contains a sketch of the 

 general history of the lands in question, abridged 

 from the Templaria. J. O. 



Sir John Vanhrugh (Vol. viii., p. Qi5. &c.). — In 

 An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Matthew 

 Henry, published in the year 1716, his biographer 

 having related that he was chosen a minister of a 

 congregation of Dissenters in the city of Chester, 

 and that he went there to reside on the first day 

 of June, 1687, goes on to state (p. 75.) : 



" That city was then very happy in several worthy 

 gentlemen that liad habitations there ; they were not 

 altogether strangers to Mr. Henry before he came to 

 live among them, but now they came to be his very 

 intimate acquaintance ; some of these, as Alderman 

 Mainwaring and Mr. Vanl)rugh, father to Sir John 

 Vanbrugh, were in communion wltli the Church of 

 Enghmd, but they heard Mr. Ileniy on the week-day 

 lectures, and always treated him witii great and serious 

 respect." 



This evidence serves to show that a Mr. Van- 

 brugh, who was living in Chester in 1687, was the 

 father of Sir John Vanbrugh. I have been told 

 that in former times there was a sugar-bakery at 

 Chester. Did the father of Sir John Vanbrugh 

 carry on that business at Chester during any 

 period of his residence there ? N. W. S. 



Sir Arthur Aston (Vol. viii., p. 126.). — In re- 

 ference to the Query of your correspondent 

 CiiARTHAM, I take leave to refer him to Playfair's 

 Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 257., where a pedigree of that 

 ancient family is inserted. In p. 261. is a note, by 

 which it appears that the said Sir Arthur Aston 

 had a daughter Elizabeth, born in Russia, and 

 married to James Thompson of Joyce Grove in 

 Berkshire. 



In addition thereto, I recollect seeing the copy 

 of a deed of sale, dated April, 1637, by which it 

 appears that Nicholas Hercy, of Nettlebed, in co. 

 Oxon., sold to James Thompson of Wallingford, 

 in CO. Berkshire, "Joys Gi'ove," in Nettlebed 

 aforesaid ; and there is uniied with the same James 

 Thompson, apparently as a trustee, " George Tat- 

 tersall the younger, of Fiuchampstead, in said co. 

 of Berkshire." 



* Query the late George Chalmers. 



