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478 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL JUNE 11,1921. d. of Thomas Blount, son (recte brother ?) I of Walter Lord Mount joy." The Shrop- j shire Visitation makes Anne the grand- 1 daughter of Thomas Blount. I am inclined j to think that an extra generation may ! have crept into the Shropshire pedigree, j and that Thomas Blount really had twoi sons and three daughters who are there given as his grand-children. They are | Robert and William, who both d.s.p. ; j Anne, wife of William Marbury ; Margaret, | wife of John Bowntaine (Bownfame ?) ; j and Elizabeth, wife of William Hansacre (Hansard ?). I gather from other sources (including 10 S. vii. 263) that Halley and Hawley are the same name. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. SIB "THOMAS CROOK, BART. (12 S. viii. | 432). According to G.E.C.'s " Complete Baronetage," Sir Thomas Crooke was a son of Thomas Crooke, S.T.D., " Minister of the Word of God in the Society of Gray's Inn." In his will dated Feb. 17, 1629/30, he mentions three brothers I and various other relatives. He was sue- j ceeded in the baronetcy by his second son! Samuel, who d.s.p. about March, 1665/6. j The arms on his seal, a fess engrailed between three eagles displayed, appear to be different from those used by the Crook family of Lancashire. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. FORDRATJGHT OR FORDRAFT (12 S. viii. 450). This word is certainly common in Warwickshire, but is generally spelt " for- drough." There was a Fordrough Street in | the centre of Birmingham until about a quarter of a century ago, when it was de- ! molished by the Midland Railway igoods | depot. I have always understood the derivation to be forth-draught, that is, the way by | Which farm produce was drawn out. Hence, j instead of being a way which leads nowhere, | it is really the way out into the world and leads everywhere. I should suppose it I would be quite exceptional for a fordroiigh to exist between two farms. HOWARD S. PEARSON. As Howard was the family name, William Parish's ' Dictionary of the Sussex Dia- Howard, Viscount Stafford, could not use lect ' gives " Fordrough, (East Sussex) a the Stafford coat of arms, the red chevron, cattle path to water : a grass ride." ; A branch of the Stafford family owned ALFRED LLOYD. property at Bradfield, Berkshire, and pos- Bognor. i sibly the remains of an old building still to VISCOUNT STAFFORD, 1680 (12S. viii. 409, 454). At the second reference M. E. W. says that he probably never had a country house of his own ; but he certainly had one jure uxoris after 1640, viz., Stafford Castle, and from his mother Alethea he inherited Stafford Manor in the county of Salop. M. E. W. also says, " His three sur- viving children were Henry, John, and Francis," but in addition to Isabella and Anastasia mentioned by MR. TOLLEMACHE, he left three other daughters, (1) Alethea, an Augustinian Canoness Regular at Paris, who died in 1684 ; (2) Ursula, an Augus- tinian Canoness Regular at Louvain, who died Sept. 14, 1720 ; and (3) Mary, a nun of the Order of St. Dominic at Brussels, who died in 1717. MR. TOLLEMACHE says that John " left issue two sons and a daughter." As a matter of fact, by his first wife he left issue two sons and three daughters, and by his second wife he had a son and a daughter, but whether they survived him does not appear. Professor Bensly says : " He married Mary, daughter of Henry, fifth and last Baron Stafford." He should have said sister, not daughter. See the Stafford pedigree annexed to Dom Adam Hamilton's " Chronicle of St. Monica's, Louvain," vol. ii. William Stafford -Ho ward, the second Earl, bore as arms or, a cheveron gules. See Collins's ' Peerage. 4 JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. I should be glad to correct a stupid slip of mine at the latter reference, where I described Viscount Stafford's wife as the daughter, instead cf the sister, of Henry V. and last Baron Stafford. The authorities before me were quite clear on this point. But there is a curious discrepancy in their statements with respect to the lady's father. In Doyle's ' Official Baronage ' he is described as Edward, 20th Baron Stafford, while the ' D.N.B.' calls him the Hon. Edward Stafford. How is this difference to be explained ? EDWARD BENSLY.