2-1 S. VI. 155., Dec. 18. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Cromwell at the Isle of Rhe, — At page 218. of 

 a Handhook of French Literature, published in 

 1854 by Chambers of Edinburgh, written by a 

 lady named Foster, the following passage oc- 

 curs : — 



" Madame de Sevigne was daughter' 'of the Baron 

 Chantal, a noble of the old feudal times, who fell, it is 

 said, by the hand of Cromwell himself while defending 

 the island of Rhe against the English in 1028." 



The foregoing extract was furnished to me by 



a friend, and as I believe it is not generally 



thought that Cromwell bad ever been engaged in 



war previous to the Civil Wars, perhaps some 



' correspondent can throw light on this subject. 



S. N. R. 

 Figures de la Bible. — Who was the engraver of 

 the woodcuts in the following ? — 



" Figures de la Bible. Illustree par Huictains Fran9ois, 

 &c. A' Lj-on, par Guillaume Roville. 1564. 12nio." 



It contains over 300 cuts illustrating the Old 

 Testament, in the style of Bernard, and is dedi- 

 cated to Catherine de Medici. My copy is bound 

 in beautifully gilt tooled calf, and lettered on the 

 sides thus : — 



B " Radulphus Lawsonus Anglus ex comitatu Dunelmensi, 

 ' ' Anno 1568." 



A device consisting of a heart pierced by two I 

 arrows, and surmounted by a coronet, is on the I 

 centre of each board. Who was this personage ? 



J. D. C. i 



Grixsel Baillie. — In Lady Murray's Memoir of ; 

 her mother, Lady Grissel Baillie, she says, " I have ' 

 now a book of songs of her writinsi when in Hol- 

 land ; many of them interrupted, half-writ, and 

 some broke off in the middle of a sentence," &c. 

 Can anyone tell if this book is still in existence, 

 and if so, in whose hands does it remain ? I would 

 reckon it a precious boon to see those songs, and 

 I dare say every admirer of Lady Grissel would 

 be delighted to possess a copy of them. 



Mentanthes. 



Pennanf s Irish Tour. — The whereabouts of this 

 interesting MS. has been recently sought in "N. 

 & Q." Perhaps it may still be reposited amongst 

 the Pennant MSS., the property of Lord Feilding 

 at Downing in Huntshire. The Cambrian Arch- 

 aeological Society held its 12th Annual Meeting at 

 Khyl in July last, and amongst the objects visited 

 by the excursionists were " the great treasures of 

 the Pennant library at Downing, containing all 

 the [that] celebrated antiquary's MS. collections." 

 {Gent. Mug. Oct. 1858, p. 387.) Perhaps some 

 North Wales antiquary will, of his charity, teU 

 us Irishmen what Pennant has said about us. 



James Graves, 



Kilkenny. 



Lakin's Gate. — Why did the gate at the Flemish 

 Farm, Windsor, receive the name of " Lakin's 

 Gftte ? " Observer. 



Heraldic Query May I ask for help towards 



the solution of the following ? I am not much of 

 an Armorist {&s Nashe terms it), but from the 

 Inquisitiones post Mortem and other printed pub- 

 lic records I have traced a family (whose name 

 first occurs in the Roll of Battle Abbey, temp. 

 Will. I.) from the reign of Hen. III. to the middle 

 of the reign of Edw. III. as holding a certain 

 manor, whose history I am curious about ; the 

 arms of the family are also given in those records, 

 but it is not advisable to give the exact blazon 

 now. After that time the name disappears, the 

 manor passing to a family and name totally dif- 

 ferent from, and not connected in any way with 

 the former, nor can I trace it any lower down. In 

 1660, however, the selfsame arms, differing only in 

 the tinctures of the field, viz. or and vert in 

 place of argent and gules, the charges remaining 

 the same, were granted by Garter to a family 

 which can be proved to have held lands within the 

 said manor ever since 1 Edw. IV., and has lately 

 become possessed of the manor itself, and whose 

 name differs from the name of the older family by 

 little more than the omission of one letter, and 

 that not an initial letter. There is no published 

 evidence of any connexion between the two fami- 

 lies ; indeed, a local antiquary to whom I men- 

 tioned my conjecture that they might be one and 

 the same scouted the idea ; and Sir B. Burke 

 assigns quite a different (though clearly a conjec- 

 tural) origin to the latter family : still I cannot 

 help thinking that if I could discover on what 

 grounds the grant of arms in 1660 was made, it 

 might lead to something which would establish the 

 connexion. My Query then is — Am I justified 

 from the premises in my conjecture, and what is 

 the readiest, and of course least expensive, way of 

 finding out the particulars of the grant above- 

 mentioned ? One is afraid of encountering the 

 fees of an unknown Office for a mere matter of 

 curiosity. J. Eastwood. 



Stewheley Street. — Where did Stewkeley Street 

 formerly stand, and when was it pulled down ? 

 The name is very finely cut in marble, Stewke- 

 ley 's Street, 1668. I have consulted many old 

 plans, etc., Roque's List of Streets, 1747, and 

 Lockie's Topography of London, without success. 



Alpha. 



Correspondence of the Right Hon. Charles Yorke 

 {Lord Morden). — I understand that there exists 

 a privately printed volume of some of the Letters 

 of C. Y. Should this meet the eye of anyone pos- 

 sessed of a copy, the loan of it, in aid of a Me- 

 moir I am preparing of the late Bishop Hurd, 

 would greatly oblige me. F. Kilvert. 



Claverton Lodge, Bath. 



Christmas. — What is the period of Christmas ? 

 When does the season of Christmas begin ? When 

 does it terminate ? ^« 



