July 27. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I have inquired of one of the oldest benchers of 

 Gray's Inn, now resident in the city from which I 

 ■write, for an explanation of the origin or meaning 

 of the phrase " pension," neither of which was he 

 acquainted with ; inlorniing me at tlie same time 

 that the Query had often been a subject discussed 

 among the leanied on the dais, but that no definite 

 solution had been elicited. 



Had the celebrated etymologist and antiquary, 

 Mr. Ritson, formerly a member of the Society, been 

 living, he might have solved the difficulty. But 

 I have little doubt that there are many of the 

 erudite, and, I am delighted to find, willing readers 

 of your valuable publication who will be able to 

 furnish a solution. J. M. G. 



Worcester. 



Sta/'S and Stripes of the American Arms. — What 

 is the origin of the American arms, viz. stars and 

 stripes ? Jarlxzberg. 



Passages from Shakspeare. — INIay I beg for an 

 interpretation of the two ibllowing passages from 

 Shakspeare : — 



" hab. Else let my brother die, 



If not a feodary, but only he, 

 Owe, and succeed thy weakness." 



Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 4. 

 " Imogen. Some jay of Italy, 



Whose mother was her painting, hath betrayed him." 

 Cyiubdine, Act iii. Sc. 4. 



Kit»g's College, London. Trebor. 



Nursery lihyme. — What is the date of the nur- 

 sery rhyme — 



" Come when you're called. 

 Do what you're bid, 

 Shut the door after you. 



Never be chid ? " — Ed. 1 754. 



In Howell's Letters (book i. sect. v. letter 18. 

 p. 211. ed. 1754) I find — 



" He will come when you call him, go when you bid 

 him, and shut the door after him." 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



" George" worn by Charles I. — I shoidd be glad 

 if any of your correspondents could give me infor- 

 mation as to who is the present possessor of the 

 "George" worn by Cliarles I. It was, I believe, 

 in the possession of the late Marquis Wellesley, 

 but since his death it ha.s been lost sight of. Such 

 a relic must be interesting to cither antiquaries or 

 royalists. Si'urans. 



Family of Manning of Norfolk. — Can any of 

 your reailers supply me witli an e.\tract from, or 

 the natne of a woi-k on heraldry or genealogy, 

 containing an ai'C(mnt of the fumWy ui' Alanning of 

 Norfolk. Sue!) a work was seen by a relative of 

 niitie about fifty years since. It related that a 

 Count Manning, of Manning ia Saxony, having 



been banished from thence, became king in Fries- 

 land, and that his descendants came over to Eng- 

 land, and settled in Kent and Noifolk. Pedigrees 

 of the Kentish branch exist : but that of Norfolk 

 was distinct. Guillim refers to some of the name 

 in Friesland. T. S. Lawrence. 



Salingen a Sword Cutler. — A sword in my pos- 

 session, with inlaid basket guard, perhaps of the 1 

 early part of the seventeenth century, is inscribed 

 on the blade " Salingen me fecit." If this is the 

 name of a sword cutler, who was he, and when and 

 where did he live ? T. S. Lawrence. 



Billingsgate. — May I again solicit a reference to 

 any eai-ly drawing of Belins gate? That of 1543 

 kindly referred to by C. S. was already in my pos- 

 session. I am also obliged to Vox for his Note. 



W.W. 



" Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke." — Can 

 you inform me of the author's name who says, — 

 " They speak tlie tongue that Shakspeare spoke, 

 The faith and morals hold that Mdton lic>ld," &e. ? 



and was it applied to the early settlers of New 

 England ? X. 



Genealogical Queries. — Can any of your genea- 

 logical readers oblige me with replies to the fol- 

 lowing Queries ? 



1. To what ilimily do the following arms belong ? 

 They are given in Blomfield's Norfolk (ix. 413.) as 

 impaled with the coat of AVilliam Donne, Esq., of 

 Letheringsett, Norfolk, on his tomb in the church 

 there. He died in 1684. 



On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, 

 between as many crescents. 

 Not having seen the stone, 1 cannot say whether 

 Blomfield has blazoned it correctly ; but it seems 

 possible he may have meant to say, — 



On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, 

 as many lioncels rampant. 



2. Which Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, 

 was the father of Margaret Courtenay, who, in the 

 fifteenth century, married Sir Robert Carey, Knt.? 

 and who was her mother ? 



3. Where can I find a pedigree of the family of 

 Robertson of Mai?-toum, said to be descended from 

 John, second sou of Alexander Robertson, of 

 Slrowan, by his second wife. Lady Elizabeth 

 Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Athol, brother 

 of King James II.? which John is omitted in the 

 pedigree of the Strowan family, in Barkcs Landed 

 Gentry. ' C. R. U. 



Parson, the Staffordshire Giant. — Harwood, in 

 a note to his edition of Erdeswick's Staffordshire, 

 p. 289., says, — 



" Tliis place [Wcstbromwich] gave birth to UVIiam 

 Parsons, [query Walter,] the gigantic porter of King 



