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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. iv. DEO. so, 1911.
THOMAS Go WEB TEMP. HENRY V. In
Burke's * Peerage and Baronetage,' under
- Sutherland,' it is stated that Sir Thomas
Gower of Sittenham, co. York (an ancestor of the Dukes of Sutherland), had a son Sir Thomas Gower, who served in the wars of France under Henry V. and married Joan, a lady who was born at Alenon in France.
In the Collection Clairambault (R. clxiv. p. 4881) at the Bibliotheque Rationale, Paris, I have found the following entry : Gower (Thomas).
iScuyer naguere lieutenant du due de Bedford a Alencon. Sceau rond, de 38 mill, lilcu ecartele ; au 1 et 4, une fasce d'hermines accom- pagnee de six croisettes recroisetees au pied fiche, trois en chief et trois en pointe ; au 2 et 3, un chevron accompagn6 de 3 feuilles ; penche, timbre" a d'un heaume cime d'une hure, support^ par 2 lions a tete humaine et a longues oreilles. Dans le champ des noauds de cordeliere. En haut la devise, Fences y devant. Thomas Gower.
Gages de la Garnison de Cherbourg 13 Juillet,
In another entry he is referred to as " Lieu- tenant du comte de Sommerset a Cherbourg."
In Burke's * General Armory ' the arms on the first and fourth divisions of the shield referred to above are stated to be those of Gower of Worcestershire, ' Glover's Ordinary ' being given as the authority.
Unfortunately, I have no copy of the last- mentioned work, and I shall be very glad if any correspondent can give me particulars of any members of the Worcester.shire family who used the arms, and can explain why a member of the Yorkshire family (whose arms were quite different) used them.
To what family do the arms on the second and fourth divisions of the shield belong ? R. VAUGHAN GOWER.
Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.
DARK SATURDAY, 25 FEB., 1597. (See ante, p. 454.) Will some one kindly give any astronomical fact which would explain the cause of the name ?
J. P. STILWELL.
OXFORD DEGREES AND ORDINATION.
I find no mention in the catalogue of Oxford graduates of the names of John Romley and John Whitelamb (or White Lamb), curates of Samuel Wesley at Epworth. I always understood that they were at Lincoln College, the latter being a pupil of John Wesley there. Was it usual in the eigh- teenth century for men to be ordained after a year or two at the University ? Sir A. Conan Doyle in his novel ' Dorothy Forster ' describes Robert Patten, author of the
' History of the Rising of 1715,' as M.A. ;
but he was certainly not a graduate, nor,
if my memory serves me, does he appear
in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses ' as having
even matriculated. E. L. H. TEW.
BEATJPRE BELL died on the road to Bath in August, 1745 (see ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' iv. 153). I should be glad to know the exact date of his death and the place of his burial.
G. F. R. B.
HENRY CARD. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' ix. 36, gives no parentage, but he is described in ' Alum. Oxon.' as the son of John Card of Egham, Berks, gent. I should be glad to ascertain his mother's name, and to obtain further particulars of his father.
G. F. R, B.
GEORGE GRIFFITH, BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. When and whom did he marry ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxiii. 231-3, states that he left six children, but says nothing about their mother. G. F. R. B.
JOHN HINDLE. When did he die in 1796, and where was he buried ? When did he graduate Mus. Bac. ? He is not credited with the degree in ' Alumni Oxoni- enses,' but the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxvi. 443, states that, according to the title-pages of his works, he did so graduate.
G. F, R. B.
ANCIENT TERMS. In a list of articles belonging to a knight temp. Edw. II., I find terms which I cannot trace in any dictionary to which I have access. I have italicized the words in the following list. Will some one be so kind as to interpret ?
Satun chevantel (also chevarntel).
Freyns doryes vends.
1 peire de covertures de feer.
ij heaulmes dont lun est susoires (also susorres).
Piesces de reyes de fil por trappes.
1 peire de skinebans (also slcynebalds) .
1 peire des bolges noires (also boulges and boulgys).
1 banger de reie.
1 sele por somer (pro soutar').
Un macewel penduz de une cheyne de feer.
xxix de ivastours e iij vires (for cross-bows apparently).
C. SWYNNERTON.
ARNO'S GROVE. Was this estate (see ante, p. 376) named after an Arnold (a one- time owner, perhaps), as suggested by MR. SNELL ? It was certainly styled Arnold's Grove in 1806 (Hughson's ' London,' vol. vi. p. 398) ; but in Brewer's ' Survey of London and Middlesex ' (1816) it is called Arno's Grove, the present title. So far as I can trace, it was Sir John Weld who
