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and Richard Gilbert, 7 February, 1780. I
should be grateful for particulars of their
parentage and career. G. F. R. B.
MARLOWE : DATE OF HIS BIRTH. Was Christopher Marlowe two months older or ten months younger than Shakspere ? The statement contained in all biographical sketches of Marlowe is that the register of the church of St. George the Martyr, Canterbury, says that Marlowe was christened 26 Feb- ruary, 1564. Does this mean 1563/4 or 1564/5 ? Unless the record has been corrected it clearly means the latter 1564, Old Style and consequently, contrary to all statements I have seen, Marlowe was ten months younger than Shakspere, who was christened the 26th of the previous April. Will some one who has access to it, or an official copy, give the exact record as it appears in the St. George's Church register 1 ISAAC HULL PLATT.
The Players, 16, Gramercy Park, New York.
[The 'D.N.B.' says Marlowe was baptized "26 Feb. 1563-4."]
"EN PENTENNE": ITS ORIGIN. Littre in his dictionary says very little about pentenne, proposes no etymology for it, and does not allude to its use as a nautical term. Le Journal des Ddbats of 16 March, 1804, con- tains an instance of its use :
"On a remarque, le 10 mars, h Boulogne, que chaque vaisseau de la division anglaise avait ses mats en pentenne. Ue signe de deuil a fait pr^sumer la mort du roi."
It was reproduced in the number of the same date for this year, 1904. Will some philo- logist inform the readers of 'N. & Q.' of the history of this expression ? E. S. DODGSON.
THE VAGHNATCH, OR TIGER-CLAW WEAPON. Readers of Col. Meadows Taylor's 'Tara' will remember how Sivaji killed Afzul Khan with the dagger shaped like a tiger's claw. I should like to know the fate of this particular weapon, which was long treasured at Saltara. It may be somewhere in England, because it appears to have been given to Mountstuart Elphinstone in 1826 by the Raja of Saltara (see 'Life of Elphinstone,' ii. 188). But Lady Falkland ('Chow-Chow,' ii. 34), who was at Saltara some time in the fifties, says she was shown it there. EMERITUS.
LYON FAMILY. In Welles's ' American Family Ancestry,' vol. ii., article 'The Lyon Family in America,' the statement is made, without proof cited, that the William Lyon who came to America in the Hopewell, 11 September, 1635, then described as "four- teen years of age," was William Lyon, of Heston, Middlesex, England, baptized there
23 December, 1620. Can documentary evi-
dence be found to justify this identification?
I am a descendant of William Lyon.
A. B. LYONS.
72, Brainard Street, Detroit, Mich.
TIGHERN-MAS. Near what ancient church in England was the iron crosier called the Tighern-mas found 1 I shall be glad of references to books or monographs on the subject. RED CROSS.
CATESBY FAMILY. Can anyone give par- ticulars of the James Catesby who died at Windsor about 1770-2, his age, profession, whether married, any descendants, and if a descendant of the historic Northamptonshire family ?
Did any of the Catesby family emigrate to America ?
Is it a fact that a Catesby went to an English convent for ladies in Germany ?
Had the Catesbys at any time property in Brighton, Chelsea, Bayswater 1
Can any one give the date of enlistment and discharge of Henry Catesby, who enlisted in the British army about 1840 regiment not known?
Please address replies care of Beard more & Co., 58, Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, W. JAMES CATESBY.
ARMS ON SARPI'S ' COUNCIL OF TRENT ' IN FRENCH. I have before me in three volumes, 4to, a work with the following title :
"Histoire Du Concile De Trente, Ecrite en Italien Par Fra-Paolo Sarpi, De 1'Ordre Des Servites ; Et Traduite de nouveau en Francois, Avec des Notes Critiques, Historiques et Theo- logiques, Par Pierre-Francois le Courayer, Docteur en Theologie de I'universite d Oxford, & Chanoine Regulier & ancien Bibliothecaire de 1'Abbaye de Ste Genevieve de Paris. A Amsterdam, Chez J. Wetstein et G. Smith. M.DCC.LI."
All the volumes are uniformly bound in full calf, and on the two panels of each there is stamped in gold, in excellent preservation, a coat of arms. As I could not trace any resemblance to the latter in either Burke or Debrett, I was fortunate in getting access to the following French publication :
"La Science Heroique, &c. Par Marc De Wilson, Sieur De La Colombiere, Chevalier de 1'Ordre de S. Michel, & Gentilhomme ordinaire de la Maison du Roy. Seconde Edition. Reyeue, corrig^e, & augmentee des ArmesdeplusieursillustresMaisons, A Paris, Chez Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Impri- meur du Roy, rue S. Jacques aux Cicognes. M.DC.LXIX. Avec Privilege De Sa Maieste."
On p. 329 I found an engraved shield (No. 7) answering to the arms stamped on the panels referred to (I should say in the latter the supporters are lions rampant, and the crest
