April 15. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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(ancestor of the Cavers family), old enough to 

 bear his father's banner in the battle ; on this, 

 however, I lay little stress, as Froissart distinctly 

 assigns that honourable post to another person, 

 David Campbell, who was slain by the side of his 

 lord. 



Mr. Tytler is also evidently wrong in placing, on 

 the authority of Macpherson's Notes on Winton, 

 this battle on the 5th of August, 1388. Froissart 

 gives the date as the 19th of August, and as the 

 moon was full on the 18th, the combatants would 

 have bright moonlight all night, which agrees with 

 all the narratives ; on the 5th they would have 

 little moonlight, and would have lost it soon. 



Though not very germane to the matter, ex- 

 cept as being a point of chronology, I may add 

 here that the remarkable solar eclipse, long re- 

 membered in Scotland by the name of the " Dark 

 Hour," did not occur, as stated by Mr. Tytler, 

 on 17th June, 1432, but on the same month and 

 day of the following year. J. S. Warden. 



DE BEAUVOIR PEDIGREE. 



I have in my possession a curious ancient pedi- 

 gree of De Beauvoir and Harryes, headed thus : 



" The name De Beauvoir is from in the king- 

 dom of England ; came into England with y e Con- 

 quest of the Norman Duke, from whom is descended 

 all that are now in England, they bearing for their 

 coate armour the first, Azure, a chevron or, between 

 three cinquefeuilles argent, by the name of De Beau- 

 voir. The second he beareth the guelles a chevron 

 between three hayeres heads erased, by the name of 

 Harreys. The third (or) a lyon rampant azure, by 

 the name of Throlpe. The fourth, Argent, a fess be- 

 tween three cressentes azure, by the name of ... . 

 within a mantle doubled guelles on two helmetes and 

 torseyes proper and the first a demy-dragon, adorned 

 properly guelles and argent, vert, by the foresaid name 

 De Beauvoir; on the second a harye sitting argent 

 between two bushes vert." 



The pedigree begins with " Sir Robert Beau- 

 voir, Lord Beauvoir, Lord Baron of Beaver 

 Castle, Knt. ; " and the maternal line with " Sir 

 Robert Harryes of Maiden in Essex, Knt., came 

 into England with the Saxons." 



In the tenth descent the sole heiress is repre- 

 sented as marrying "Robert, Lord Bellmoint," 

 ■whose sole daughter married " John, Lord Man- 

 ners/father of Edmund Manners, first Earl of 

 Rutland, from whom is descended Roger, Earl of 

 Rutland, now living." 



The pedigree ends with the nineteenth de- 

 scendant, Henry de Beauvoir, of the Isle of 

 Guernsey, who married the daughter of Peter 

 Harreys of the Isle of Guernsey. 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." inform me whe- 

 ther descendants of that marriage are still to be 

 found, and where ? 



There are points in the pedigree, as genealogists 

 will see, totally discrepant from the Peerages. 



Thomas Russell Pottee. 

 Wymeswold. 



Elinor UlucxicsS. 



Dog-whippers : Frankincense. — Can any reader 

 throw light upon the following entries in the 

 churchwardens' account-book for the parish of 

 Forest Hill, near Oxford ? 



"1694. P a to Tho. Mills for whipping dogs out of 

 church, 1 shilling. 



" 1702. P d for frankincense for the church, 6 pence." 



The only passage which occurs to me as at all 

 bearing upon so late a use of incense in parish 

 churches in this country, is the following extract 

 from Herbert : 



" The country parson hath a care that his church be 

 swept and kept clean ; and at great festivals, strewed 

 and stuck with boughs, and perfumed with incense." 



This hardly brings the custom later than 1630. 



As regards the former entry, I am told by a 

 friend that the office of dog-whipper existed about 

 fifty years ago for the church of Heversham in 

 Westmoreland. C. F. W. 



Achievement in Yorksliire — Lipyeatt Family.— 

 Found and noted in a Yorkshire church tower, an 

 atchievement painted apparently about forty or 

 fifty years ago, of which no account can be given 

 by the sexton or parish clerk. Query, to what 

 names do the bearings belong ? viz. Vert, on a 

 fess or, between three bezants, three lions passant 

 azure. Impaling : Vert, three swans in tri, sta- 

 tant, wings erect, argent. Crest, a lion passant 

 azure, langued gules. The swans have head, neck, 

 and body like swans, but their legs appear to have 

 been borrowed from the stork. It is suspected 

 that the dexter coat belongs to one of the Wilt- 

 shire Lipyeatts. 



Is there any pedigree of the Lipyeatt family, 

 who were burghers of wealth and consideration 

 in the town of Marlborough, from the middle of 

 the seventeenth century down to the latter part of 

 the eighteenth ? Patonce. 



" Waestart" — A common expression of sorrow 

 or condolence among the lower classes in the 

 manufacturing district around Leeds, in York- 

 shire. Whence does it arise ? Is it an abbrevi- 

 ation of " Woe to my heart," " Woe is me " ? 



J. L. S., Sen. 



Rebellion of 1715. — Has any report been pub- 

 lished of the trial of the prisoners taken at Pres- 

 ton ? Mr. Baron Bury, Mr. Justice Eyre, and 

 Mr. Baron Montague opened the Commission at 

 Liverpool. The trials began on January 20, 1716, 

 and lasted till February 8. Thomas Baker. 



