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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 109. 



307. The British Sidanen. — Under this title 

 (the proper spelling in which should be Sina or 

 Seuenu') an article appears in Vol. iv., p. 120., 

 comprising a i)ortion of the genealogy of the Welsh 

 princess, in which three of her sons are mentioned, 

 viz., Owen, Llewellyn, and David. But there was 

 a, fourth son, Roderic, who settled in England, and 

 appears to have been residing there for some time, 

 when the fatal rupture occurred between tiie two 

 countries. It would appear that descendants of his 

 have lived, and are living in our own times; among 

 them, the late Dr. John Mawer, of Middleton 

 Tyos, whose remarkable epitaph was given in a 

 former number of " Notes and Queries." My 

 first inquiry is, Is there known to exist any gene- 

 alogy assuming to extend between the Rev. and 

 learned gentleman just named and Prince Roderic? 

 I am told there was one published in the British 

 Peerage for 1706, at whicli time John Mawer 

 would be tlu'ee years of age ; is such the fact ? 

 I wish also to ask, wliether Prince Owen was in 

 existence at the time of the deaths of Llewellyn 

 and David — whether in A\'^ales or England? and 

 whetlier lie was the ancestor of Owen Tudor, the 

 proud father of Henry VII. ; and, if not, who ivas 

 Oiven Tudor's ancestor? Amanuensis. 



308. Jeiiing-s or Jennin<rs. — Was the hite Mr. 

 Jenings of Acton Hall, Suffolk, descended from 

 the family of Jenings, formerly of Silsden, Skipton 

 in Craven, and afterwards of Ripon, Yorkshire ; 

 and if so, where ean information as to the pedigree 

 be obtained? A. B. C. 



Brighton. 



309. Caleva Atrehatum, Site of. — ]\Iay not the site 

 of Caleva Atrebatuni have been at Caversham, on 

 the nortii of the Tliames, near Reading ? 



The distance of Caleva from Londinium was 

 forty-four Roman miles, making forty English; 

 and from Venta Belgarum, thirty-six Roman or 

 thirty-three English mili^s. 



Caleva, according to Ptolemy's map, was on the 

 nortli of the Thames ; a portion of the present 

 Oxfordshire being in the country assigned by the 

 same geograplier to the Atrebates. G. J. 



310. Abigail. — Whence, or when, originated the 

 application of Abigail, as applied to a lady's maid? 

 It is used by Dean Swift in this sense; but in a 

 way that shows that it was no new phrase in those 

 days. J. S. Waeden. 



Baliea. 



311. Efi/mology of Dnrden. — Jacob, iu his Law 

 Diciionary, giving Cow el as his authority (who, 

 however, advances no further elucidation), derives 

 this word from dur-den, a coppice in a valley. 

 Does tlie word dtir signify wood, or, if the Britisli 

 dior, is it not water? F. R. R. 



312. Connecticut Halfpenny. — I have a half- 

 penny, apparently American, bearing on the ob- 



verse, a head to the right, and " Auctori Connect. ; " 

 and on the reverse, " Inde." for independence, and 

 "Lib." for liberty; date in the exerg., 1781 or 

 1787 ; and between " Inde." and " Lib." live stars. 

 Can any of your correspondents tell me if my 

 explanation of the reverse is the correct one ? and 

 also who was the " Auctori Connect.,^' or founder 

 of the state of Connecticut? J. N. C. 



King's Lynn. 



Arms displayed on Spi'cad Eagle. — For what 

 reason are the arms of Methwen (and some others, 

 I believe) placed on the breast of a two-headed 

 eagle displayed sable ? H. N. E. 



[When armorial ensigns are borne upon the breast 

 of an eagle, the general inference is that the bearers 

 thereof are Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, it 

 being the practice in Germany for Counts of the Em- 

 pire so to display the eagle. 



There are some cases in which especial grants have 

 been made to Englishmen so to do, as in the case of 

 the family of Methicen; and persons liaving received the 

 royal licence in England to accept the dignity of 

 Count of the Empire, so carry their arms, as iu the 

 cases of Earl Cowper, Lord Arundel of Wardour, 

 St. Paul, &c.] 



St. Beiino. — Where can I obtain any inform- 

 ation respecting St. Beuno, to whom I find several 

 churches dedicated in Wales ? J. D. D. 



[In Rees's Essay on the ll'e'ah Saints, p. 268., and 

 Williams's Ecclesiastical Antiquities nf tlie Cymry, p. 137. 

 The college of Beuno is now called Clynog Vawr. 

 See albo Tlit Cambro- Briton, vol. iii. p. 14.] 



Li.its of Knights Bachelor. — What publication 

 contains a list of the hnights bachelor made by 

 George I. and George II. (1714—1760)? With 

 regard to the subsequent reign I have found the 

 Calendar of Knights, by Francis Townsend, 

 London, 1828, very accurate and perfect. 



N". 



[There is not any continuous list of Knights Bachelors 

 in any ))ublislicd works since Phlipot's Cntalogjte, 1660, 

 until Townsend's Calendar, which commences in 1760. 

 The knights made by Kings George I. and II. will be 

 fonnd only in some of the genealogical publications of 

 the day, such as the British Compendium, published at 

 intervals between 1720 and 1769; Chamberlayne's State 

 of Great Britain; or Heylin's He/p to English History, 

 or Phillipps's List of Kohitity, and similar works. 



Mr. Townsend contemplated the publication of a 

 list, and left an imperfuct BIS., which passed into the 

 liands of Sir Thomas Plullipps, who printed it ; but 

 though privately circulated, it was never published. 

 See iNIoule's Bihliotheca Heraldica for various works 

 of the character referred to.] 



Walker. — An American lady lecturing on 

 Bloomerism last week was much puzzled by the 



