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 Diwm Notes and Queries. 255 Honourable Lord Viscount Courtenay ; ** ** Extempore lines on a late alarming accident at Powderham Castle,*' and a sonnet to Sir Hyde Parker, under whom he served. Halloran appears to have left the Royal Navy in 1784, and settled at Alphington, where he kept a school. A. J. Davy. 205. Monumental Inscription to an Exbtsr Man. — In the Rev. E. W. Badger's Monumental Brasses of Warwick- shirey in Astley Church he notes : — " At the west end of the nave, over a pew, is a mutilated plate with an inscription in black letter which reads as follows : — * .... charite pray for ye sowlle of JoWn Crugge som .... Exest* gentUma' and Barbara his wif whiche JoVn Crug . . . . n ye Countie of Midd ye xviii day of december AWo d*ni m* if xxxiv . . ^fy^ ^^ign of Kyng H$my ye Eight xxv^ and ye said Barbara died • . - o,y of . . . • An^* d*ni m' rf, , , , o" whose sowUe Jh*u have m. . . •' It is evident the husband died first, and the blank spaces were left, in order that the date of the wife's death might be filled in when it occurred." In Izacke's City of Exeter^ 1681, we find a William Crudgey Receiver f 1501, and William Crudge^ Mayor y 1505, and again in 15x1, '* Upon the death of William Wilsford^ late Mayor^ who deceased 29 Januariiy William Crudg was elected Mayor to supply that office for the residue of the year," and in I5i5> apparently the aforesaid Willtam Crudg^ was again elected Mayor y and the same dignity once more conferred on him in 1 51 8. By this it would appear they were a family of influence in the City, and probably wool merchants, or clothiers. Is anything further known of them ? In the Armory of the Western Counties there are four entries under this name : (i) Crudge, Argent^ a bend azure^ between thru greyhounds sable, upon the bend. . . ; (2) Crugge, Argmtf on a bend, b. three (birds), or between two greyhounds current saUe; (3) Crudg, Argent, on a bend azure, between two greyhounds courant in bend sable,, three larks, or. (Harl. MS. X538) ; (4) Crudge, Argent, on a bend azure, between two grey- hounds in bend sable, three birds or. (Harl. MS., 5861 pt. 2) W.H.H.R.
 * In the Guildhall in Exon, three trefoils slipped or on the bend.*'