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i s. ix. SEPT. 24, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 255 Pennant says of his visit to " the venerable EvanLlwyd," who lived near Lake Cwmby- chan, that " he welcomed us with ale and potent beer to wash down the Coch yr Wden or hung goat, and the cheese compounded of the milk of cow and sheep. . . . The family lay in their whole store of winter pro- visions, being inaccessible a great part of the season, by reason of snow (' Tour in Wales,' vol. ii.). JOSEPH C. BRIDGE. Chester. QUOTATIONS ON CHEESE (12 S. ix. 188, 235). Perhaps I may be allowed to add two sayings taken from my ' Cheshire Proverbs and other Sayings and Rhymes relating to the City and County of Chester.' 1. " Cheat and the cheese will show." That is, if too much cream has been extracted or the cows poorly fed. 2. " Cheese and money should always sleep together one night." Said by farmers, who, when the cheese was weighed and sold, demanded payment in gold before the cheese was sent away. These are the only sayings connected with cheese which, so far as I know, are current in the county. One would expect many more in a cheese county like Cheshire. JOSEPH C. BRIDGE. Chester. SIR THOMAS MILLER OF CHICHESTER (12 S. ix. 92, 173, 217). I should like to draw attention to one or two errors in MR. LAMBERT'S reply under this heading at the last reference, which, as far as concerns the Comber family, appears to be based on their pedigree in Berry's ' Sussex Genealogies,' perhaps the most inaccurate of all that appear in that work. Mary Comber, wife of Mark Miller, and, mother of Sir Thomas Miller the first Baronet, was not, heraldically speaking, heiress of her brother John, the High Sheriff. She had two other brothers : ( 1 ) Thomas of Chichester, who left two daughters and co-heiresses, Katherine, wife of William Madgwick of Southwark and Mary, wife of John Peck of London, both of whom had issue ; and (2) Richard, also of Chichester, who had two surviving sons and a daughter, Mary, wife of Henry Goldham (or Golding). It is clear, therefore, that the Millers are not entitled to quarter the arms of Comber. John Comber of Donington, the High Sheriff, had no connexion, supported- by evidence, with the Combers of Sherman- bury. He was son of John Comber of Chichester, Mayor in 1605 (by Anne, dau. of John Farington), and grandson of William Comber of Chichester, blacksmith, whose will, dated Dec. 7, 1592, was proved at Chichester. The last of the Combers of Shermanbury, son of John, who had the grant of arms in 1571, was William Comber, Esq., who died in 1625 and had, by Martha Brockhull, his wife, four daughters and co-heiresses : Elizabeth, wife of John Gratwicke, who succeeded to Shermanbury; Elinor, wife of William Heath of Piddinghoe; Mary, who married, first, George Elliott, and, second, John Hosmer; and Anne, wife of Edward Bray, Esq., of Shere. Anyone interested in the family will find most of the evidence for the foregoing in a paper printed by the Sussex Archaeological Society in vol. xlix. of their Collections. JOHN COMBER. STUKELEY (12 S. ix. 191). MR. HAY- THORNE will find all that is known about Sir Thos. Stucley or Stukeley (a well-known personage: see the 'D.N.B.'), whose first wife was Anne, granddaughter and heiress of Alderman Sir Thos. Curtis, afterwards Lord Mayor of London, set forth at length in that delightful book ' The School of Shak- spere ' (2vols., Chatto and Windus, London, 1878), by Richard Simpson. ROBERT DUNLOP. CHEESE SAINT (12 S. ix. 130, 239). Some information on this subject may be found in L. Eckenstein's ' Woman under Monasti- cism,' p. 26 et seq. M. H. DODDS. NAMING OP PUBLIC ROOMS IN INNS (12 S. ix. 189, 231). A present-day example is the Savoy Hotel, Strand, where the rooms are named after the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The last scene of F. Anstey's play, ' The Brass Bottle,' is laid in the " Pinafore " room. M. H. DODDS. DE BRUS TOMB AT HARTLEPOOL (12 S. ix. 30, 78, 178, 214). I can now name the supposed De Brus shield, for I am con- vinced it is Welles : Lozengy lion rampant double-tail ; in chief 2 annulets interlaced. A % Lincolnshire family. Date of tomb, sixteenth or seventeenth century probably. E. *E. COPE. Finchampton Place, Berks.