330 NOTES AND QUERIES. P» s. VL OCT. 27, im is said to have entered the army in 1707 ; served in the Netherlands ; been present at Dettingen ; Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, February, 1745 ; court-martialled for Preston Pans defeat (declared guiltless, and said to be worthy of praise); given a high command in Ireland ; was colonel of Cope's or Queen's Dragoons, now 7th Hussars ; marriea Jane, youngest daughter of Anthony Buncombe, sister to the first Lord Feversham. They had children ; but what became of them ? Sir John Cope was buried at St. James's, West- minster, 5 August, 1760. Was he identical with John Cope, son of Sir John Cope, of Hanwell, sixth baronet, said to have been born 1705 ; Gentleman Usher to George II.; died 1760? J. H. COPE. "GALLUSES" = BRACES.—Has this word (from gallows, something upon which to hang) altogether died out ] It was a common enough name for a pair of suspenders when I was an apprentice lad more than forty years ago. As a test I went into a hosier's snop in our High Street the other day, and asked for a pair of " galluses." The attendant evidently did not know the name, neither did any of his fellow " counter-jumpers" to whom he referred. So, evidently quite at a loss, he consulted the proprietor, who at once came and politely told me he did not keep the article in stock. Amused, I inquired if he really knew what I wanted, when he replied he assumed "goloshes," or what our American cousins generally dub " rubbers." HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. [For pa#o!»s=braces, see the 'English Dialect Diet.,' vol. ii. p. 545, and ' H.E.D.,' ».v. 6.] WILCOCKS OF KNOSSINGTON.—I beg to ask, What is the origin of this Leicestershire family ? Its connexion with Knossington seems to date from the fourteenth century, when in or about the year 1317 a William Wilcocks married Margaret, the daughter and heiress of Ralph de Nowers, of Knos- sington (Vis. co. Leicester, 1619). Am I wrong in supposing that this William was of the family of the Princes of Higher Powis 1—a son or grandson of that William ap Griffith (fourth son of Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn, Prince of the said Powis) otherwise callec " De la Pole " and also " Wilcox " ? The time in which both of these William Wilcoxes livec and the chief charge in their shields (a lion rampant) are favourable to my supposition The lion coat was evidently the paternal one of the Knossington Wilcocks family; the one, " Ermine, a fess chequy or and azure,' which its members also bore, coming from
- heir ancestress, the heiress of De Nowers.
See Burke or other armories for coats, and
- he pedigree of Cherlton, Barons Cherlton of
?owys, in Burke's 'Dormant and Extinct Peerages,' p. 115, for William ap Griffith "Wilcox.") An answer will greatly oblige. C. AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED.— " Plus apud me ratio valebit. quam vulgi opinio," quoted on the title-page of 'Poetns' by Anthony Pasquiu (1789). W. ROBERTS. This much, and this is all, we know, She is completely blest. Has done with care and sin and woe. J. G. "That dark inn the grave." W. R. Some dish more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss. This couplet is quoted in a review of 'Florilegium Anmntis," 5"1 S. xi. 459. JAMES HOOPER. ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS. (9th S. vi. 48, 117, 238.) I VENTURE to invite the attention of MR. HARBEN to an important article by Mr. James Greenstreet that appeared in the Athenaeum, for 17 July, 1886, No. 3064, under the heading of ' The Blackfriars Playhouse : its Antecedents.' This article seems to have been strangely overlooked bv London topo- graphers. Its value consists in the fact that it reproduces, verbatim et literatim, an extract from the "Chancery Proceedings, -Miscel- laneous. 3rd Series, 27th Part," containing a Bill of Complaint filed by the parishioners of St. Anne's in the Court of Chancery against the unjust and tyrannical proceedings of Sir Thomas Cawarden. The Bill gives a con- densed history of the parish from the time at which the House of the Black Friars was dis- solved, and bears out the account given by Stow, which I have quoted in a previous number (ante, p. 117), in a very satisfactory manner. To reprint Mr. Greenstreet's paper, which occupies four columns of the Athenaeum, would not be possible, having regard to the space which ' N. & Q.' has at its disposal, but for facility of reference it may be desirable to quote the paragraphs in which Mr. Greenstreet sums up the position in which the parishioners were placed prior to their submission of the Bill:— "The commissioners appointed to carry out the measure of dissolution admitted from the first the existence of a parish of St. Anne, Blaokfriars, situated within the limits of the precincts of the priory, but entirely independent of it, though practically forming an annexe. And they made
