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the manor belonged to the hospital of the Savoy. 
T also learn from the same authority that Nicholas 
Rawson had a son Walter, on whose death his 
daughter Anne became not his sole heiress, but 
one of three coheiresses; her sisters Margaret and 
Philippa sharing the inheritance with her. 
Christopher Rawson, second son of Richard 
® Rawson, was also a citizen and mercer of London, 
and merchant of the Staple of Calais. He pos- 
sessed Old Wool Quay in Petty Wales (Lower 
Thames Street), by devise of his mother Isabella. 
He died 1518, and was buried at Allhallows Bark- 
ing, London, where there is a brass remaining 
with his effigy, inscribed to his memory, and that 
of his two wives, Margaret, and Agnes daughter 
of William Buke. 
Richard Rawson, fourth son of Richard, the 
alderman and _ sheriff, became Prebendary of 
Durnsford in Salisbury {Cathedral, D.D., Arch- 
deacon of Essex 1502, Rector of St. Olave’s, Hart 
Street, 1510, resigned 1518, Canon of Windsor 
1521, and died 1543. 
Queries. —1. From the similarity of the arms 
of Sheriff Rawson to those of the Rawsons of 
Friston, and the allusions in his and his brother’s 
wills to that place and neighbourhood, I conclude 
them to have been scions of that family. Can any 
of your readers say how they were connected ? 
2. Is Averey the familiar name or substitute 
for Alured ? and is Alured Rawson, mentioned by 
Morant, the same as Avery Rawson, eldest son of 
the sheriff and Isabella Trafford ? 
3. Where was Dr. Richard Rawson, the Arch- 
deacon of Essex and Dean of Windsor, buried ? 
4, Can any of your correspondents favour me 
with any information respecting the Traffords of 
Essex ? I find a family of that name at Waltham- 
stow in Lysons’s Environs, but at a much later 
period, and they appear to have belonged to Lin- 
colnshire. 
Do any of the families of Rawsons in York- 
shire or Lancashire claim through the Rawsons of 
London and Essex ? or are there any other fami- 
lies, besides the noble families of Stanhopes, who 
are known to be descended through female 
branches ? 
Any other information on the subjects em- 
braced by the foregoing notes will be esteemed a 
favour by G. R. C. 
MARK OF DIFFERENCE, 
Can any of your readers kindly inform me of 
the mark of distinction for a tenth son? I do not 
think any published work gives beyond the ninth 
son or branch of a family. 
Also I wish to ascertain what would be the 
mark of difference for the following junior branch. 
Abel Smith died in 1720, leaving three sons, 
John, George, and James. John died in 1774, 
having survived an only son, and on his death 
George, the second brother, beeame the repre- 
sentative of the family. Query, would James, 
the third brother, retain the mullet, or assume the 
crescent as his difference? Iam anxious to as- 
certain this point, and in what manner it would 
affect his youngest son. This James died seven 
years prior to his brother George, who died in 
1796, leaving an only daughter. On the death of 
George Smith, William, the fourth, but eventual 
eldest surviving son of James, became the repre- 
sentatives of his family. Now what difference 
would be assigned to his youngest and only sur- 
viving broth® Charles Smith, the siath son by 
birth of James? Would Charles bear the fleur- 
de-lys, the difference of a sixth son, upon his 
father’s mullet or crescent ? or would he bear a 
crescent charged with a second one, as showing 
him to be the second (surviving) son of a second 
house ? 
I assume that William Smith having succeeded 
to the representation of the family on his uncle 
George's death, this event would not entitle his 
brother Charles to remove their father’s difference 
from his coat, that father being but a second 
branch at the time of his death. Both William 
and Charles became heads of two distinct branches. 
P.C.S. B. 
SHingr Queries. 
Tyreonnel hunting at Combmartin.—Can any of 
your readers furnish an answer to the accompany- 
ing Query, which appeared a short time ago in the 
Illustrated London News ? 
« At Combmartin, on the north coast of Devon, it was 
customary, a few years ago, for a large party of the 
townspeople to proceed, one day in the summer, to a 
certain spot in a wood above the town, to search for the 
Earl of Tyrconneil. He, being discovered (in the form of 
one of the inhabitants who had purposely conveyed him- 
self thither), was seated on a donkey, and brought in 
(drunken) triumph to the old market-house, where cer- 
tain Bacchanalian ceremonies concluded the evening. 
The custom was abolished a few years ago, in conse- 
quence of the melancholy death of the then (assumed) 
Karl, who, having partaken too largely of the refresh- 
ment supplied him, rolled over some stone steps and lost 
his life.” 
Hy BPP. 
“ To be, and not to seem,” §c.—Who is the 
author, and who the subject of the following : 
« Yo be, and not to seem, is this man’s maxim; 
His mind reposes on its proper wisdom, 
And wants no other praise,” . 
Easpy. 
Buchanan's “ Jeptha.’ —There is a translation 
of Buchanan’s Jeptha, by W. Tait, published at 
Edinburgh in 1750, Is anything known of the 
translator ? oe (Cl) 
