2"< S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



467 



iul. 50.), wbose son Jobn was created Bart. (11 

 James IL, 16-21) of Headley Hall, York, who, 

 marrying a coheiress of the Beviles of Chesterton, 

 and acquiring by her Waresley Hall, Hunts, set- 

 tled at that place. But, as regards the other sons, 

 they are incorrect ; for, says Collins, and the rest 

 copying successively perpetuate the mistake, from 

 the three last sons, viz. Salomon, Thomas, Wil- 

 liam, sprung the families of Hewett of Pishiobury, 

 of Shire-oaks, and of Stretton ; whereas the wills 

 all negative this supposition. 



They are all derived from the same family be- 

 fore-mentioned, but they did not absolutely spring 

 from the three youngest sons of William of Killa- 

 march and London. 



The Hewetts of Stretton, Leicester (for pedi- 

 gree to the present day see Burke's Peerage and 

 Baronetage), sprung from {vide will of Sir William, 

 "maior," 1566), William, son of Thomas, which 

 Thomas (will, 1575) was brother of Sir William, 

 who bequeaths to his nephew William, son of 

 Thomas, his parsonage, &c. at Dunston-Basset, 

 Leicester (he was afterwards of Stretton) ; and 

 this Thomas bequeaths by will, 1575, his manor or 

 grange called Shire-oaks, Notts or York (on the 

 border), to his son Henry, which Henry, by the 

 way, according to the Visitations, married his dis- 

 tant cousin, Mary (1), daughter of William Hewett 

 ofKillaraarch and London. The other daughter 

 (2) married William Ferrers or Ferris, son of 

 Roger Ferrers of Tedmington, co. Gloucester, 

 Esq. J. F. N. H. 



OXFOKD POETS : BUBB, STDBB, &C. 



(2°* S. vi. 246.) 



Bishop Percy gives this distich in his Reliques, 

 vol. iii. p. 291., 1st ed. 1765 ; but for Cobb, the 

 third name as given by Me. Elmes, he reads 

 Grubb. 



" These," he says, " were Bub Dodington (the late 

 Lord Melcombe), Dr. Stubbes, our poet Grubb, Mr. Crabb, 

 Dr. Trapp the Poetry Professor, Dr. Edw. Youiiff, the 

 author of Night-Thoughts, Walter Carey, Tho. Tickel, 

 Esq., and Dr. Evans the Epigrammatist." 



He ascribes the distich to " a celebrated wit," 

 who is described in a footnote as " the author of 

 Psyche in Dodsleys MisccL, vol. iii." In Dods- 

 ley's Collection of Poems, 1775, vol. iii. p. 23., I 

 find Psyche; or, (he Great Metamorphosis; but 

 without author's name.* 



Of John Grubb, whose humorous Second Part 

 to " St. George for England" Percy admits into 

 his collection (3rd Ser. Book iii.. No. 13., ed. 

 1765, or No. 15, ed. 1794) the following par- 

 ticulars are given in 4th ed. 1794. Born at 



[* Ptyclte is attributed to Dr. Gloster Ridley in Dods- 

 ley'g Collectiun nj Poems, ed. 1782, vol. iii. p. 24.— Ed.] 



Acton Burnel, Salop, 1645 ; son of John Grubb, 

 of that place ; of Christ Church, Oxford ; B.A., 

 28 June, 1671; M.A., 28 June, 1675; Head 

 Master of the Grammar-school at Christ Church, 

 and afterwards of that at Gloucester; ob. at 

 Gloucester, April 2, 1697, atat. 51 ; buried in the 

 church of St. Mary de Crypt in that city, where 

 is his epitaph, in Latin, which is given. 



The above song, first jjrinted in Oxford, under 

 the title of The British Heroes, 1688, is com- 

 posed of successive stanzas written for the an- 

 nual festival (on St. George's Day) of a club in 

 Oxford, whose members were all to be named 

 George ; but which relaxed this rule in favour of 

 John Grubb, on condition of his producing an 

 annual poem in praise of their patron saint. 

 Query, — Was this the club alluded to, as being 

 " fresh in every one's memory," in the Sj)ectator, 

 No. 9. ? Ache. 



3Kcj)Ii£^ t0 ;^inoir catieitEg. 



Ancient Seals (2°^ S. vi. 287.) — I have long 

 had impressions of the two seals mentioned by 

 J. C. J., and regret to say I have hitherto failed 

 to discover to whom they originally belonged. As 

 far back as the year 1842, they were in the pos- 

 session of a dealer in curiosities at Sevenoaks in 

 Kent, where I saw them and had impressions 

 given me. 



1. The figure on this seal is no doubt intended 

 to represent an ecclesiastic, but it is difficult to 

 say what he holds in his hands, unless it is a 

 censer. The first (or rather the second) word of 

 the inscription is probably Cap. and not Car., and 

 may stand for Capiteliani. The seal is most 

 likely foreign, but I may mention that the only 

 place in England I can find bearing any similitude 

 to that on the seal is Patney, Wilts, a manor 

 once held by AVinchester monastery. 



2. This seal having a pastoral staff passed 

 through a mitre between two keys adorned on 

 one side and a sword paleways on the other, may 

 have been the small official seal of a bishop in 

 the thirteenth or fourteenth century, judging the 

 date from the pointed mitre. Excepting the 

 word Sigillum, which can be distinguished in a 

 strong light, the inscription is too indistinct to 

 decipher. I think I once saw a MS. in the British 

 Museum (probably among the Harl. MSS.) giving 

 the arms in trick of various abbots and bishops. 

 J. C. J. may perhaps feel inclined to make search. 

 The old dealer in curiosities at Sevenoaks had 

 also a circular seal about an inch and a half 

 in diameter, matrix brass, bearing the arms of 

 Sackville impaling Cranfield, surmounted by an 

 earl's coronet. This seal must have belonged to 

 Richard, 5 th Earl of Dorset, who married Frances, 

 daughter of Lionel Cranfield, first Earl of Mid- 

 dlesex, Lord Treasurer of England, so created in 



