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a Narrative of Facts relating to the late
Commotions and Rising of the Weavers in
the County of Gloucester,' 1757, and Exell's
Brief History of the Weavers of the County
of Gloucester,' 1838. The latter cites the
principal points of the laws passed temp.
Elizabeth. G. P. L.
I should advise your correspondent to consult ' Wool Trade in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century' (Traill's * Social England, ii., 1897), and ' Uses of Wool in Ancient Times' (Burnley's 'Wool and Wool Comb- ing,' 1889). EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.
71, Brecknock Road.
[W. C. B. also refers to 'The Cely Papers.']
CAWOOD FAMILY (10 th S. ii. 205). It may interest your correspondent to know that there is a very flourishing branch of the Cawood family in South Africa. Among the British settlers of 1820 was David Cawood. He came from Up wood Farm, and Cawood's Mill, near Keighley, in Yorkshire, and settled near Orahamstown, in the eastern province of Cape Colony. He was married, and brought with him six sons and three daughters, xvhose descendants now number upwards of four hundred persons. The most distinguished of his sons were Samuel and Joseph, who subsequently became members of the Legis- lative Council, which carries with it the title of " Honourable." But the brothers had been renowned for their courage and daring many years before. In 1830 William, James, Joseph, and Samuel Cawood went through Kafirland to Natal on a trading expedition. It was a perilous undertaking, for the tyrant Dingaan was then in full power, and showed little mercy to those who ventured within his dominions. They stayed ten days at the chiefs kraal, but when they left he treacher- ously sent an impi to overtake and kill them. Fortunately they took the route along the beach, while the impi took the inland route, and, as heavy rains had obliterated their spoor, the bold youths escaped, and were spared to take a leading part in the future history of the colony.
I have before me "the ensigns armorial of the Hon. Joseph Cawood, Esq., M.L.C., Cape of Good Hope," which are blazoned thus : Party per chevron embattled sable and argent, three stags' heads caboshed, counter- changed, for Cawood ; for difference, a border party per fesse charged with an orle of trefoils slipped, all counter-changed ; and for cadetship a fleur-de-lis sable on the apex of the chevron. Crest, on a wreath of his colours a stag's head caboshed ppr., charged with a fleur-de-lis sable. Motto, "Suaviter."
There is a life of John Cawood, Queen's
Printer temp. Philip and Mary, in the ' Dic-
tionary of National Biography.'
J. A. HEWITT, D.C.L.,
Canon of Grahamstown. Rectory, Cradock, South Africa.
In the biography in the'D.N.B.,' ix. 379, of John Cawood, the Queen's Printer, an account is given of his children by his first
wife Joane , including their son John
Cawood, B.C.L., the Wykehamist, who is said to have died of the plague in London in 1570. See Kirby's 'Winchester Scholars' and Foster's 'Alumni Oxoni- enses.' I should be grateful for infor- mation concerning the precise date and place of this son's burial. According to the
- D.N.B. ' the names of the printer's second
and third wives are not known. Was either of them "Agnes Keame, widow, of St. Cle- ment Danes," for his marriage with whom "John Cawood, of St. Faith's," obtained a general licence from the Bishop of London, 21 June, 1569 (Harl. Soc. Publ., xxv. 42)? ^
H. C.
It may be of interest to record the following sketch pedigree, viz., David, died 1348 ; John, died 1390 ; John, died 1402-3 ; Peter, died 1435 ; John, living 1427, apparently died v.p. Margaret, his heir, married Richard of Aclam, near Cleveland, 1475. Here John, son of David, is the grantee of 1336 at Stirling, in favour of his son John and the wife, named Margaret de Hathersege. But these Cawoods are mixed up with the Cecils, for we have a David Cecil of Cawood ; and there was a Sisley family at Fountains about 1400, the abbey being closely identified with Cawood. Further, the Cawoods at Stirling collide with the Sitsylt legend of Stirling. It is easy to postulate a theory by which Cecil, quasi- Cawood, was supplanted by Sitsylt to frame a pedigree.
These Cawoods were foresters, or keepers of the local woodland, for several generations ; but there are two places so named the principal one in Yorkshire, as above, the other in Lancashire.
John, the Queen's Printer, left a son named William, who was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1592, also in 1599.
A. HALL.
Rob. Cawood, Clerk of the Pipe in the King's Exchequer, was buried in the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, 1466 (Stow, 'Survey of London '). R. J. FYNMORE.
Allen (' Hist, of London,' iii. 65) says : "Henry VI. in the 24th of his reign, 1445, gave a, icence to Dame Joan Astley, sometime his nurse
