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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 43. 



Clausar. anno 7 Hen. III. (a. d. 1223) memb. 4. 

 p. 558. " de ponte de Kingeston," that Henry de 

 St. Alban, and Matthew, son of Geoifry de King- 

 ston, are directed to repair the bridge, date Wed- 

 nesday, Aug. 9, 1223 : and there is also a recur- 

 rence to the same subject, memb. 15. p. 579., dated 

 on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 1223. I would therefore 

 ask, with submission to those who may be better 

 informed, whether the bridge, though ordered to 

 be repaired by Henry III., may not have remained 

 in such a dilapidated state in the time of Edw. II., 

 that it may then have been styled " Pons fractus ? " 



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Walrond Family (Vol. ii., p. 134.). — Among my 

 very numerous Notes relating to the several ftimilies 

 of this name, I find only the following which ap- 

 pears likely to be of any interest to your corre- 

 spondent in connection with his Query. 



" Mrs. Ureth, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Walrond, 

 was married to James Huish, Esq., of Sidbury, co. 

 Devon, on the 25th July, 1684." 



But it is probable that in so numerous a family 

 there was more than one colonel at that time. 

 Your correspondent is, no doubt, aware that 

 Burke's Laiuled Gentry states the names of the 

 wife and children of Colonel Humphrey Walrond, 

 and that the monument of Humphrey Walrond, 

 Esq., who died in 1580, in the church of Ilminster, 

 CO. Somerset, exhibits his coat armour quartering 

 Polton, Fissacre, and Speke, and impaling Pop- 

 ham and another coat, viz., Per fesse indented 

 quarterly or and sable, in each quarter an an- 

 nulet counterchanged. This coat of arms I shall 

 be glad if your correspondent will enable me to 

 assign to its proper family. S. S. S. 



Armenian Language (Vol.ii., p. 136.). — Jarltz- 

 BERG may refer to two works printed at the 

 press of the Mechitai-istican Society at Venice ; 

 1. Quadro della Star ia Letter aria di Armenia, 1829; 

 and 2. Qiiadro delle Opere di Var-i Aidori anti- 

 camente tradotte in Armeno, 1825. He may also, 

 perhaps, be interested by another little work, 

 printed at the same place, 1823, entitled, A brief 

 Account of the Mechitaristican Society, founded on 

 the Island of St. Lazaro, by Alexander Goode ; 

 in which work it is stated (p. 26.) that " by Lord 

 Byron's assistance a grammar of the Armenian ai.d 

 English languages was composed by the Rev. 

 Dr. Aucher ; " and that " this reverend gentleman 

 has likewise compiled, with John Brand, Esq., of 

 the University of Cambridge, a dictionary of the 

 Armenian and English languages." 



All these works are In the writer's possession, 

 and shall be lent to Jarltzberg if he wishes to see 

 them, and is not able to find them in any library 

 near him. M. D. 



Genealogical Query (Vol. ii., p. 135.) — Sir 

 Philip Courtenay, first of Powderham Castle, fifth 



son of Hugh, the second of that name, Earl of 

 Devon, by Margaret de Bohun, grand-daughter of 

 King Edward I., married Anne, daughter of Sir 

 Thomas Wake of Bisworth, co. Northampton, son 

 of Hugh, younger son of Baldwin Lord Wake, 

 and had issue three sons and two daughters, of 

 which Margaret was married to Sir Robert Carey, 

 of Cockington, Knt. See Cleaveland's History of 

 the Family of Courtenay, pp. 265. 270. S. S. S. 



Richard Baxter's Descendants (Vol. 11 , p. 89.). 

 — Your correspondent W. H. B., who wishes for 

 information resspecting the descendants of the cele- 

 brated Richard Baxter, describes him to have been 

 a Northamptonshire man ; now this (supposing 

 the Nonconformist divine of that name is meant) 

 Is a mistake, for he was, according to his own ac- 

 count, a Shropshire man. In a narrative of the 

 most memorable passages of his life and times, 

 by himself, and published soon after his death 

 under the title of ReliquicB Baxtei-iana, 1696, he 

 says, — 



" My father's name was Richard (the son of Richard) 

 Baxter ; his habitation and estate at a village called 

 Eaton Constantine, a mile from the Wrekin Hill, and 

 above half a mile from Severn River, and five miles 

 from Shrewsbury in Shropshire. A village most 

 pleasantly and healthfully situate. My mother's name 

 was Beatrice, the daughter of Richard Adeney of Row- 

 ton, a village near High Encall, the Lord Newport's 

 seat, in the same county. There I was born, a. d. 1(515, 

 on the 12th of November, being the Lord's Day, in 

 the morning, at the time of divine worship, and bap- 

 tized at High Encall the 19th day following: and 

 there I lived from my parents with my grandfather till 

 I was near ten years of age, and then was taken home." 



He was married on Sept. 10, 1662, to a Miss 

 Charlton. They had no children. The only de- 

 scendant of Richard Baxter known to his bio- 

 graphers, was his nephew, William Baxter, a 

 person of considerable attainments as a scholar 

 and an antiquary. He was born in Shropshire 

 in 1650. He published several work.s, and kept 

 an academy for some years at Tottenham Cross, 

 Middlesex, which be gave up on being chosen 

 master of Mercer's School, London, where he con- 

 tinued for twenty years, and resigned a short time 

 before his death, which took place in 1723. 



Baxter makes mention, at the close of his own 

 Life and Times, of one Richard Baxter, a Sab- 

 batarian Anabaptist, and says of him, " that he was 

 sent to gaol for refusing the oath of allegiance, 

 and it went for current that it was I." 



H. M. Bealbt. 



North Briston. 



Duresme and Dunelm (Vol. ii., p. 108.). — Three 

 successive bishops, Morton, Cosin, and Crewe, took 

 the signature of Duresme after their Christian 

 names. Three successive bishops, Barrington, 



