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in the coronet of a marquis, are more like
trefoils than the strawberry leaves of the
centre and corners.
The * Almanach ' contains the names of sixty dukes of the day, not including royal dukes, or " Brevet " dukes, of whom there are twenty-five on the list ; but I have not been able, even with the assistance of De Genouillac's ' French Heraldry,' to identify these arms. J. H. RIVETT-CABNAC.
Schloss Rothberg, Switzerland.
1 EPITAPH IN OWEN MSS. On p. 40 of MS. 20 in the Manchester Free Reference Library is a copy of an inscription on a tombstone in Weaverham Churchyard :
Here lyeth the Body of Richa rd Osely son of Vicker Osely Deceseed the 2 nd of Decem ber A.D. 1639
- EKV/MVOCAT
ETASAN&ELV
KDESf) I1C
SoPH/ASfSfNC TVS- V/SERIS
/LLYM
How are the gaps to be filled in ? I have examined the stone, which is less legible than it was when Owen examined it years ago. F. LONG.
CHABLES PABNELL : WAS HE OF JEWISH DESCENT? I am constrained to ask thii question in ' N. & Q.' because a contribute: to these columns (7 S. xii. 433) tells u that Parnell's mother declared : " My son is descended from the line of a tribe o Judah, from Jews who took refuge in Spain I doubt it very much, although nothing would please me more than to have it con
rmed. It would add to the chain of cir-
umstantial evidence whereby I sought in
hese columns to establish the Hebraic
onsanguinity of the immortal Elia.
M. L. R. BBESLAB. Percy House, South Hackney.
[MR. A. R. MADDISON stated at 7 S. xi. 152 that 5. S. Parnell was descended from Edward I. through everal channels.]
ROBEBT HEACOCK OB HICCOCKS or DHESTEB. Robert Heacock or Hiccocks of l.aneshorn (?) in the parish of Woodchurch,
- o. Chester, born 1625, niarried secondly
lizabeth, dau. of Elias Foster of Newchurch, gent., and relict of William Gamull, of Crab- lall, gent., in the same county, by whom he lad issue George Hicocke and Mary Hicocke.
Can any correspondent of ' N". & Q.' tell lie the name of his first wife ? By her had issue (1) Thomas, baptized 10 Aug., 1649 ; (2) Richard, baptized 30 Sept., 1651 ; and (3) Elizabeth, baptized 21 Jan., 1654. He died 14 Dec., 1690, and was interred in Woodchurch. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.
Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.
" FLASH or LIGHTNING," A LIQUOR. In TJie Sporting Magazine for 1801 (vol. xvii. p. 34) " that fashionable liquor called ' flashes
lightning ' " is mentioned. If the meaning of the phrase has come down to our day, I should be grateful if some one would interpret it. K. P. D. E.
["Flash of lightning" is defined in Farmer and Henley's ' Slang and its Analogues,' vol. iii., as a glass of gin, a dram of neat spirit. The earliest reference is 1789. Among the illustrative quotations is the following from Lytton's ' Paul Clifford ' (1830): " The thunders of eloquence being hushed, flashes of lightning, or, as the vulgar say, ' glasses of gin,' gleamed about."]
CHESTEBTON AND HANLEY, STAFFS. Can any of your readers oblige me with information relative to the manors of Ches- terton and Hanley, Staffs, with list of owners, &c. ? R. SIMMS.
Newcastle-under-Lyme.
GLENDONWYN OF GLENDONWYN. Can any of your readers oblige me with accounts of the origin and history (further than that given in the Douglas ' Baronage ') of the above once great race in Southern Scotland ? G. T. CLINDENING.
Sixth Avenue, East Adelaide, South Australia.
KINGSLEY'S ' LOBBAINE, LOBBAINE. LOB- BEE.' Whence did Charles Kingsley get the idea of this poem ? What is the meaning of the title, and also the refrain, " Barum, Barum, Baree " ? H. C. L. M.
