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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



411 



too hastily identified the effigies with the actor 

 and sufferer in the murder ; and that the notion 

 that the effigies were originally " represented as 

 unarmed " is mistaken. J. G. N. 



Sir Peter Gleane (2 nd S. viii. 187. 218.; ix. 

 51.) — As Wotton's account of this family differs 

 in many respects from the particulars already 

 given, I have thought it may prove acceptable to 

 your correspondents Messrs. Cooper. The crest 

 given is also different (described by Burke a 

 Saracen's head), and is no doubt that of Shelton, 

 confirming the marriage of Sir Peter Gleane of 

 Norwich with the heiress of that name, and not 

 with Suckling as stated. The reference given by 

 X. Y. (p. 51.) also corroborates this assumption. 

 Wotton says, under " Glean of Hardvvick, Nor- 

 folk " : — 



" Peter Glean of the city of Norwich, Merchant .... 

 was knighted by K. James I., and Mayor of the said city 

 in the year 1615. He married , daughter and co- 

 heir of John Shelton, of Hardwick, Esq., by which mar- 

 riage he became possessed of a very considerable estate 

 there. He had issue Peter, who married Jane, daughter 



of Crow of the city of Norfolk, Gent., but died in 



his father's lifetime, and left issue Peter, who succeeded 

 his grandfather in the Hardwick estate, and was created 

 Baronet 17 Car. II. He represented the city of Norwicli 

 in Parliament, temp. Car. II., and the co. of Norfolk in 

 1678. He bad two sons, 1. Sir Thomas, who succeeded 

 him and ruined the estate by his extravagance; and 2. 

 Sir I'eter, successor to his brother, a 1'roctor in the Court 

 of Canterbury, who married first a daughter of Dr. Peters 

 of Canterbury, and had two sons and two daughters. His 

 second wife was the relict of Mr. Manger, by whom he 

 had no issue. Sir Peter Glean, his son, the present 

 Baronet is as yet (1727) unmarried." 



" Arms. — Ermine, on a chief, sable, three lions ram- 

 pant, argent. 



" Crest.— On a wreath, the bust of a man full-faced, 

 proper, wreathed about the temples . . ." 



Henry W. S. Taylor. 



Portswood Park. 



[We have frequently requested our correspondents to 

 give the date of the edition of any work quoted. The 

 foregoing article shows the importance of this rule. Mr. 

 Taylor has clearly quoted the first edition of Wotton's 

 Baronetage, 1727. In the second edition, 1741, this ac- 

 count of Gleane differs very materially ; but in the third 

 edition, 1771, edited by Kimber and Johnson, it is omitted 

 altogether ' — Ed. ] 



MarIa or Maria (2 nd S. ix. 122.)— The Syriac 

 word is pronounced Mar-yam, consequently the i 

 should be short, if we adhere to the ancient pro- 

 nunciation. 



Sedulius appears to be the first who used this 

 word with both long and short i. 



" Angelus intactaj cecinit properata Maria;,'' 

 and 



"Quia fuit ille nitor Marias, cum Christus ab alvo." 

 (Jrudus, Boinvilliers, p. 480. 



Labbe says that it should be accented on the 

 second syllable, in which he is correct, if accent 

 be merely the elevation of tone, as from d to e in 



music ; but if he means that it should be length- 

 ened, as Walker supposes, he is wrong. The 

 error in pronouncing the i long, seems to have 

 come from the Greek Mapia, by not distinguishing 

 it from the name of the Virgin, Mapiap, and by' 

 supposing the i to be long because it has the 

 Greek accent. The pronunciation of the Latin 

 church, which makes the i long, though fashion- 

 able now, is not the ancient one. This practice 

 may have been adopted to distinguish the Virgin's 

 name from the feminine of Marius. The period 

 of such change is the era of Attila, Genseric, and 

 Odoacer. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Institution by Bishop Bedell (2 nd S. ix. 326.) 

 — The parish inquired about is very probably 

 that now known as Denn, a vicarage near Cavan. 



King James I. granted ninety acres of land 

 arising from the polls of Dromhurke and Aghow- 

 hahie, in or near Tonagh, to the incumbent of 

 Denn, by articles of instruction dated 3rd of 

 February, 1623. 



If B. A. B. would give the name of the person 

 inducted, farther information respecting him might 

 be attainable.* John Ribton Garstin. 



Clifton of Leighton Bromswold (2 nd S. ix. 

 364.) — Under the descent of Clifton of Clifton, 

 Notts, given by Wotton in his Baronetage, I find 

 the following : — • 



" ' Descended from Alvaredus de Clifton, Knt., Warden 

 of Nottingham Castle soon after the Conquest, surnamed 

 from the manor of Clifton.' After twelve descents of 

 knights of the Shire for Notts, Derby, and York and other 



honours, we come to ' Sir Gervase one of the 



Knights of the Bath at the creation of Henry Duke of 

 York, 10 Hen. 7. He had issue Robert and Gervase, 

 father to the Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromswnld, 6 Jac. 

 1.' This title still survives in the family of Bligh (Irish), 

 Earl of Darnley, who have a seat in the English House 

 of Peers as Lord Clifton of the above creation. ' John, 

 1st Earl, married Aug. 24, 1713, Lady Theodosia Hyde 

 (then), only daughter and heir of Edward Earl of Claren- 

 don Baroness of Clifton in her own right, as 



appears by the resolution of the House of Lords in 1673, 

 which Barony is in the co. of Nottingham, and has 

 been the inheritance of a family of that name for above 

 600 years ; of which was Sir Jervis (Gervas) Clifton, Kt., 

 who in 1608, the 6th James 1st, was summoned to par- 

 liament by the title of Baron Clifton of Leighton Broms- 

 wold. He had a daughter named Catharine, who was his 

 sole heir, and she being married to Esme Steuart, Baron 

 of Aubigny, the said Esme on the 7th Jan. 1619, 17 

 Jac. I., was created Baron Clifton and Earl of March 



he dying without issue male, Catharine 



his daughter became his heir, and was Baroness of 

 Clifton. She married Henry Lord Ibrican, eldest son to 

 Henry, 7th Earl of Thomond .... and by him had a 

 daughter of her name, who became the wife of Edward 

 Earl of Clarendon, and by him had (besides a son and 

 daughter tbat died unmarried) the Lady Theodosia above- 

 mentioned who dying on 30th July, 1722, the 



[* The party inducted was (most probably) Alexander 

 Clogy, the author of the MS. Life of Bishop Bedell, whence 

 the extract in question was made. — Ed.] 



