Feb. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Vineyai'd ; or the Kirk Sessions confounded, a 

 comedy: Edinburgh, 1771. Malvina, a, tragedy: 

 printed at Glasgow, 1786. The Duke of Roch- 

 ford, a Tragedy from the Posthumous works of a 

 Lady of Quality : performed at Edinburgh, 1799. 

 Can any of your Newcastle correspondents give 

 me any account of T. Houston, author of The 

 Term-Day ; or the Unjust Steward, a comedy : 

 printed at Newcastle, 1803 ? R. J. 



First Book prirded in Neio England. — At the 

 sale of the residue of Mr. Pickering's books at 

 Sotheby's Rooms on the 12 th ult., a lot (531) 

 was sold, comprising various editions of the Psalms 

 betwixt the years 1630 and 1675; it was pur- 

 chased by Mr. Stevens, the American agent, who 

 stated that one of the versions, dated 1646, was 

 the first book printed in New England. Any 

 bibliographical information respecting this volume, 

 and its claims to priority, will oblige. 



C. J. Francis. 



Islington. 



" The ivoodville sung," ^c. — 



" The woodville sung, and would not cease, 

 (Sitting upon the spray) ; 

 So loud he waken'd Robin Hood, 

 In the greenwood where he lay." 



It is desired to know whence the above is a 

 quotation, and also what bird is intended by the 

 "woodville?" E. A. B. 



F.S.A. Question. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents state if there be any, and what, legal rights 

 with reference to the assumption by individuals, 

 members or fellows of any societies, chartered or 

 otherwise, to affix this or that series of letters to 

 their names ; or any and what legal remedies for 

 wrongful assumption ? I apprehend that there is 

 no legal remedy ; and that the assumption at all, 

 except where the authority is specially granted 

 by charter, is a mere matter of taste or custom. 

 How far a bye-law could give such authority, is 

 aoother question. Nemo. 



" William and Margaret." — This beautiful 

 ballad has been set to music no less beautiful than 

 itself. But who is the composer? It opens in 

 the key of D minor, but the key changes with every 

 verse. It is not to be found in the list of Purcell's 

 works. I hope Dr. Rimbault, or some of your 

 musical correspondents, can answer my question. 



Hermes. 



Armorial. — To what families do the following 

 arms belong ? 



1. Azure, a griffin rampant or. 



2. Argent, a chevron gules between three bugle- 

 horns sable. 



The tinctures may not be quite correctly given 

 on the plate from which the above are copied. 



P. P— M. 



Arms of Ilsley. — On the floor of the chancel of 

 the parish church of Yoxall, co. Staffiard, is a stone 

 slab, with a Latin inscription, commemorating 

 Thomas Swinnerton of High- Wall-Hill, in the 

 parish of Yoxall, gentleman, second son of Thomas 

 Swinnerton of Butterton, co. Stafford, who died 

 3rd July, 1713 ; and above the inscription is 

 carved the arms of Swinnerton, a cross fleuree, 

 over all a bendlet, impaling a chevron between 

 three birds, or martlets. 



This Thomas Swinnerton married Sarah, second 

 daughter and coheiress of Thomas Ilsley, of High- 

 Wall-Hill; and the adjoining stone records her 

 death on I2th August, 1717, and styles her "wife 

 and relict of Thomas Swinnerton, Gentleman." 



What is the blazon of the lady's arms ? 



Shaw, in his History of Staffordshire, vol. i. 

 p. 101., describes the birds as "Cornish choughs." 

 The arms of Ilsley are generally given as. Or, 

 two bars gemelles sable, in chief three pellets. 



D. W. B. 



iHtiiar ^Mtxiti fiit'tib %.\i^txi. 



Joyce Family. — Could any of your correspon- 

 dents, who have access to a copy of Nichols's 

 Leicestershire, inform me whether, in that work, 

 there is any account of the family of Joyce, at 

 Blackfordby in the hundred of West Goscote ? 

 Also, could any one give me any particulars con- 

 cerning William Joyce, mentioned in Pepys's 

 Diary, as to the place of his birth, &c. M. (1) 



[In Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. ii. pp. 63, 64., 

 edit. 1804, under Blackfordby, appears the following : — 

 " Mr. John Joyce, who owned an estate at Blac:kfordby, 

 very pleasantly situated on an eminence, well wooded, 

 and excellent land both for tillage, sheep, and dairy, died 

 more than twenty years since, leaving four sons, William, 

 Nicholas, John, and Henry. The eldest, William, an 

 attorney, died a few years after his father ; when the 

 estate came to Nicholas, the present possessor, who now 

 lives at Billesdon, and was an apothecary there. John, 

 the third son, Avho was likewise an apothecary at Coles- 

 hill, on the death of William, relinquishing business, came 

 to reside at Blackfordby, and farmed the estate, which he 

 rented of his elder brother Nicholas. This John died very 

 lately, and has left a family, among whom is a son, also 

 named John. Henry, the fourth brother, lives unmarried 

 at Ashby. In the chapel yard, at the east end of the 

 chapel, is an old altar tomb of stone, for William Joyce, 

 gent., who died 1706, aged 51 ; and Sarah his wife, who 

 died 1731, aged 67. There are several head-stones for 

 their descendants, who have long inhabited the house 

 opposite." This William Joyce does not appear to be the 

 same person who is noticed in the Diary as Pepys's cousin, 

 whose wife's name was Kate, " a comely fat woman." 

 Anthony Joyce kept the Three Stags at Holborn Conduit, 

 as we learn from a token issued by him, and described by 

 Akerman, p. 105.] 



The Irish Palatines. — Can you tell me where 

 to look for a satisfactory account of the Palatines 

 in Ireland ? I am aware of what is said of them 



