94
NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. xn. AUG. 7, 1915.
5. No coat of arms.
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF ELEZEBETH SHOLL
WIFE OF WTLLIAM [sic] SHOLL BRITISH FACTOR MARINE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER THE 23D. 1774. AGED 35 YEARS.
6 and 7. Two broken gravestones of large size and very heavy, of a curious dark-blue colour, decorated with well- executed coats of arms. 1. On the husband's stone is represented a coat of arms : party per pale, semee of trefoils, a lion rampant ; a cross saltire indented between four eagles dis- played ; surmounted by a knight's helm, with the crest, a demi-lion rampant holding a trefoil. 2 , On the lady's stone is the same
coat of arms reversed, and surmounted by a
coronet of nine pearls.
1.
Aleppo
lyes
- hn Lvett I ****
of London |
at
very
tender regard | **** beloved wife | ****tion n
his will | ****e same place | ****i n g in their lives
| ****hght not be divided | ****er 16th 1730 I
- years | ****hn and Francis | ****lotta his
wife j **** stone | **** the deceas'd | **** re-
spective tombs |
- ppo
ther
ish merchant I
- of Charlotta Levett. I ****
- hant of Aleppo | **** Peter
2. Here lyes
John Levett. |
Armond de Peleran | **** French Nation at Aleppo | **** his wife | **** and j **** towards her.
FACTORS MARINE (CONSULAR AGENTS OF THE LEVANT COMPANY), ALEXANDRETTA.
Martin Loe
Thomas Jenkins
John Wilson ...
John Purnell ...
Charles Usgate
William Scholl
C. D. Hays ...
Will. Beaver Neale
Barnaby Murphy
Lewis John Barbar
Arthur Raby . . .
E. Grabscheid
E. Franck
A. Catoni
1647-1677
1685
1706-1712 1727- -
1766
1770-1782 183 -1847 1847-1853 1853-1856 1856-1859 1859-1863 1863-1871 1871-1877 1877-1900
Tomb inscription.
D'Arvieux, 'Memoires,' vi. 521.
Cert, as V.C. 3 May, 1706, P.R.O. and tomb.
Cert, as V.C. 29 Nov., 1727, P.R.O.
Documents, P.R.O.*
,, ,, and tomb of wife.
Foreign Office List.
The presence of English tombs in the I No. 1.
ancient trade centres of the Levant is an
evidence of the extensive operations of the
once nourishing Levant Company. Many
of these interesting memorials have, perhaps,
still to be discovered, but many are possibly
only preserved in the journals and notes
made by European travellers in former No. 2.
times. Such, for instance, are those noted
in Turnfort's ' Voyage du Levant ' of 1717,
as existing at Angora :
- Charles Usgate gives an inventory, on occupy-
ing the Consulary House as Pro- Vice-Consul, of the brass locks and keys, weights, and a flagstaff and flags, belonging to the Right Worshipful Company, dated 15 Dec., 1766. Cyprus.
HIO IACET IXTERRATVS
D. IOAXXES ROOS
SCOTVS QVI OBIIT IX AX
GORA DIE 22 IVXII ANNO
DOMINI M. DC.LXVIII
JETATTS SVJE XXXV
AXXORVM HO DIE MIHI. CRAS TIBI.
HIC IACET
SAMVEL FARRINGTOX ANGLVS ACIDWALLI FARRIXGTON MERCA TORIS LOXDIXEXSIS FILIVS OBDORMIVIT IX CHRISTO AXXO
JETATIS XXIII SALVTIS MDCLX.
GEO. JEFFERY, F.S.A.
BOMBAY GENTLEMEN OF 1792 : WILLIAMSES OF EARLY BOSTON, MASS.
THE subjoined bit of the past should, perhaps,
prove of interest to present-day East-Indian
commercial or antiquarian circles; if so, it
would please me much to see collected and
preserved whatever may be known to those
circles concerning any of the characters
named on the list at the end of this paper.
The Capt. Robert Williams (1753-1834) therein noted, long a respected merchant and shipowner at Boston, the capital of
Massach usetts, was fourth or fifth in line
of descent from another Robert Williams
(1640 ?-95), in all likelihood of actual Welsh
nativity, this earlier namesake being cer-
tainly active in the beginning of the Bos-
toman colonial coast settlements, when being
able to read and write with ease and
" Magistrate Robert Williams " affected
both marked the one so endowed as a high-
toned " ristocrat." No one but Hawthorne,
