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sister of Nicholas Wadham, who founded the college which bears his name. 

 Nicholas Martyn was Sheriff of Dorset in 1581 and died in 1595; his "brass" in 

 Puddletown Church has been illustrated by Mr. W. de C. Prideaux in the Club's 

 "Proceedings " (Vol. XXIII.), andin Vol. XX. Mr. A. C. de Lafontaine, the present 

 owner of Athelhampton, has described the old home of the family. Tradition 

 has associated this Elizabethan 'squire with an epitaph said to have been on his 

 tomb, but which cannot now be found, as I am informed by the Rev. A. L. 

 Helps, vicar of Puddletown. It ran : "Nicholas ye first, Martyn ye last, Good- 

 night, Nicholas," and has been quoted by many writers. Who was the author 

 of this epigrammatic inscription which is so strangely at variance with the facts 

 of the family history? The Christian name of "Nicholas" recurs frequently 

 among his forefathers, while it is quite clear that this Martyn was, happily, far 

 from being the last of the race in the male line, inasmuch as the grandsons of his 

 brother Thomas duly established their pedigree at the Visitation of 1623. The 

 latter deed, dated 23 October, 11 James I. (1613), is signed in the fine hand- 

 writing of Anne Floyer, of St. Gabriel's, who was the youngest surviving 

 daughter of Nicholas Martyn and the widow of Anthony Floyer, who had died in 

 1608. This lady grants by the deed a lease of one-fourth of the lands in the 

 Manor of Wanstrow, which her father had granted by the earlier instrument of 

 1570 ; this fourth part she had inherited under his will, together with one-quarter 

 of Athelhampton House. 



A EELIC OF THE WALBONDS. Mr. STMONDS next exhibited a piece of oak 

 panelling bearing the arms of the Devonshire family of Walrond, impaling those 

 perhaps of Pole in the same county. (The crescent of cadency on the dexter side 

 showed that the bearer of the coat was a second son or the descendant of a 

 second son.) The panel was obtained at Lyrae, but nothing could be learnt 

 about its history. It had been dated approximately at the South Kensington 

 Museum as belonging to the first half of the 18th Century. The Walronds, 

 whose name was originally spelt " Walerand," were also connected with Dorset. 

 Two members of the family, Roger and Humphrey, were escheators for this 

 county in the reigns of Philip and Mary and Elizabeth. At about the same 

 period Roger and Humphrey Walrond owned the Manor of Swanage, and 

 possibly lived there during their terms of office under the Crown. 



Captain ACLAND said he knew the family of Walrond intimately. Round the 

 fine Elizabethan dining-room of the main house of the family at Bradford, near 

 Tiverton, there stretched heraldic panels illustrating the history of the family for 

 hundreds of years, and every panel was of the same description as that exhibited. 

 Captain ELWES stated that the original Walrond was huntsman to William the 

 Conqueror, and in Domesday was described as " Waleranus Venator." He 

 suggested that the name might originally have been a corruption of Valerianus. 



A TRILINGUAL PSALTER. Canon RAVENHILL exhibited a beautifully bound 

 and exquisitely printed copy of " Psalterium Trilingue," the three tongues being 

 Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. It was printed at Basle in 1548. The Psalter was 

 much admired, especially as a fine specimen of the 16th century typography. 



