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St. Thomas, with date or approximate date, and particulars of any special local reason for the dedication (such as a reported notable miracle) or of any connexion with special vows or pilgrimages to the shrine of St. Thomas.

Note of any wells or " waterings " of St. Thomas, and of cures or special properties attributed to the water, will also be greatly appreciated. H. SNOWDEN WARD.

Hadlow, Kent.

BRADLEY, co. SOUTHAMPTON : CLARK FAMILY. In the ' Calendar of State Papers,' 23 January, 1630, there is a letter of Sir H. Wallop to the Council relating endeavours made by himself and his under-sheriff to remove Ths. Taylor out of the manor house of Bradley, and to give possession to Sir Kenelm Digby as his Majesty's farmer thereof. Resistance was made with fire- arms ; sheriff's party answered with ordnance, but were ultimately obliged to retreat. The old manor house of Bradley, a parish near Preston Candover, co. Southampton, has marks in ancient beams of the roof said to have been made by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers in the Civil War, but no proof of this has ever been found.

Again, a family of the name of Clark, in this and adjacent places, are stated to have descended from the second wife of Richard Cromwell.

Are both or either of these legends by mutual confusion mixed up with the trouble at Bradley in 1630 ? If so, Cromwell's army must give way to the officers of the Star Chamber.

Bradley is a commonplace name in Hants, but the above is the only parish of this name. VICAR.

HUNTINGTON : COURTENEY : HONE. In his

'Visitation of Devonshire' (p. 247) Col. Vivian records that John Courteney, of Ottery St. Mary, son of Sir William Courteney, of Powderham, married Thomasine, daughter and heir of Nicholas Huntington.

In Carewe's ' Scroll of Armes ' (published in connexion with the Devon Notes and Queries) occurs the following :

" Er., bet. 2 bendlettes, 3 water bougets in bend. Huntington. This coate standethe impaled w th Job. Courtney in Awtree Church on a pillar in brass."

In the will of Robert Hone, of Ottery St. Mary, 13 October, 1540, we read :

" I forgive all debts due to me by reason my wife was ex'rix to John Huntisdon."

In connexion with this will on 31 Jan., 1581, a commission was granted to Roger Courtney,

next of kin of said deceased, to administer goods not fully administered by Joan the relict ; and this, although one or more of Hone's daughters still lived. It seems pro- bable from other references in the above- mentioned will that Joan was the widow of John Huntisdon or Huntington (perhaps of Honiton) when she married Robert Hone.

I should be glad of any information con- cerning these Huntingtons, or anything throwing light on thekinshipof the Courtneys and Hones. It is by the way, but there is some reason to believe that there is a mistake in the Courteney pedigree in inserting a John Courteney between John, who married Thomasine, and Roger. This Roger was very poor at the time of his death, and had had two children, William, and Thomasine, who married Thomas Prust. I should like to trace this latter William Courteney. Con- sidering how many Courteneys there were of importance prior to the eighteenth century, there are very few wills of the family pre- served in the courts where they would natu- rally be sought. (Mrs.) ROSE-TROUP.

Beaumont, Ottery St. Mary.

BRISTOW ON EUGENE ARAM. Among the authorities given for the life of Eugene Aram by Dr. Garnett, in the 'D.N.B.,' is " Bris tow's contemporary account, Knares- boro', best ed., Richmond, 1832." I possess a copy of this best edition, wherein the editor (p. 47, note) complains that the original compiler suppressed Aram's second confession, " with no friendly intention." Can any particulars be found about the original com- piler, Bristow, or the editor of the Richmond edition of 1832 1 Has the " second confession " been published ] JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

OUR OLDEST MILITARY OFFICER. Can any correspondent inform me which British military officer now living was the earliest to receive his commission ? DUNHEVED.

"HUMANUM EST ERRARE." Is the SOUrCO

of this quotation known ] Terence has " Censen' me hominem esse ? ^ Erravi." Thucydides has dvflpcoTri'vcos a/*apraveiv, and there is a similar expression in the ' Cyro- psedia,' which seems to show that the idea was a commonplace from very early times ; but the earliest occurrence of the phrase itself (though in another language) that is known to me is in the letters of Severus of Antioch (early sixth century), who has "it is human to sin,'' which, through the ambiguity of d/iapraveiv, is the same thing, and I should be glad to know whether this