ii s. iv. DEC. 23, MIL] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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Orders granted by Samuel Peploe, Bishop of
Chester, in 1732, to the Rev. Norman Smith,
to which a large oval episcopal seal is
appended, stamped wafer-wise, with shield
displaying the arms of the See of Chester
impaling, Ermine, a chevron between three
martlets, for Peploe, signed by the bishop.
I have also a licence to the Rev. John Smith
to the curacy of Warmingham in 1749, with a
similar, though smaller seal of arms wafered
over and similarly signed. It will be seen
that the arms used are quite different from
those imputed to him. In the Oxford
Matriculation Register he is described as
son of Palmore Peploe of Dawley Parva,
Salop, " Pleb." I should be glad to have
corroborative evidence with regard to the
services rendered by his " singular loyalty "
at the battle of Preston, of which place I find
he was Vicar in 1715. G. B. M.
THOMAS CROMWELL. In The Gentleman's Magazine for 1752 I find the following in the obituary : " The Lady of Thos. Crom- well, Esq., great-grandson to the Protector, at their seat in Essex." Who was this Thos. Cromwell ? did he leave issue ? and what was the name of his seat ? He could not have been Thomas Cromwell who died in Bridgwater Square in 1748. Is there an index published to the obituaries of The Gentleman's Magazine later than 1780 ?
(Miss) E. F. WILLIAMS.
10, Black Friars, Chester.
DR. RICHARD RUSSELL, who was known as " the Father of Modern Brighton," died 5 July, 1771. I should be glad to obtain particulars of his parentage and the date of his birth. Mr. Lewis Melville, in his book on 'Brighton' (1909), says that Russell was the son of a London bookseller, and that he was born in 1687. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xlix. 470, does not give any information on these points. G. F. R. B.
[Erredge's ' History of Brighthelmston,' 1862, gives the following particulars (p. 220) :
" Dr. Russell died in 1759, aged 72, and was interred in the family vault at South Mailing on the 25th of December. He was the son of Mr. Nathaniel Russell, a surgeon and apothecary of Lewes, and clandestinely married the only daughter of Mr. William Kempe of South Mai- ling."]
GRANDFATHER CLOCKS IN FRANCE. A correspondent in a recent issue of Country Life, in giving an account of a Welsh centenarian, states that at Bredgarn Farm, near Fishguard, there is a grandfather's clock with a bullet-hole in the case. When the French landing took place in Wales in
1797, the soldiers invaded the farm, and
one of them, hearing the loud tick of the
clock, took it to be a noise of a man con-
cealed in the case, and calling out "The
enemy," he fired his musket, and made the
hole to which the correspondent refers.
Can any of your readers testify as to the
probability of this tale, and say if grandfather
clocks were then so rare in France that a
soldier would be ignorant as to the noise
of the tick ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.
T. MARTIN, MINIATURE PAINTER. Can any reader give me information as to T. Martin, who appears to have worked about 1845 ? He painted portraits in Hereford- shire and Worcestershire, and seems to have worked at Burslem, possibly on china. John Martin, the painter, is stated to have worked on china, but in his early years ; he died in 1854. W. H. QUARRELL.
I. (OR J.) SUASSO DE LIMA. I should be glad of some biographical details. He was a South African man of letters, and died in Cape Town(?) about the middle of the nineteenth century. He was probably a native of Holland and a member of a Sephardi Jewish family.
ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
118, Sutherland Avenue, W.
- MAYFAIR.' Who wrote ' Mayfair, in
Four Cantos,' published by W. H. Ains- worth, Old Bond Street, 1827 ?
F. JESSEL.
BALZAC. In what books will be found
passages comparing this author with Shake-
speare ?
MEMOR.
PHILIP SAVAGE was Chancellor of Ire-
land and died 1717. Who were his parents ?
He married Mary . What was her
parentage ? W. ROBERTS CROW.
CAVERSHAM : CHAPEL OF ST. ANNE. Where was this chapel ?
The church and chapel of Blessed Mary formed part of the original endowment of Notley Abbey. The chapel on " the great bridge " went with the manor, and is entered with it in the Inquis. Post Mortem of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 8 Edward II. ; also in the Inquis. Post Mortem of Constance, late wife of Lord le Despencer, deceased, 4 Henry V. (' Cal. Inquis. Post Mortem,' iv. 25b). In neither case is the dedication of this chapel given in the ' Calendar.'
In the 'Cal. Inquis. Post Mortem, 50 Edward III. second numbers, is the entry
