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It is perhaps of interest to add that the phrase "patchwork poets," followed by the quotation from Horace's 'Ars Poetica,' 11. 15, 16, occurs in the Guardian, No. 149, of 1 Sep- tember, 1713. The essay is ascribed to John Gay, the poet; see 'The British Essayists,' vol. xvi. p. xxii, vol. xviii. p. vi. H. C.

" OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS " (10 th S. i. 246, 311, 392). The second line of the saying used by children in Yorkshire, when running out of doors to catch some of the first flakes of snow beginning to fall, as quoted by MR. ADDY at the last reference, viz., " Hally, Hally Blaster," simply means alabaster, in allusion to the whiteness of the snow, and, in my opinion, has nothing to do with " the German Holle," nor with "Blaster, the spirit of the air." An old woman residing some twenty or thirty miles from London, in Kent, known to our family many years ago, was accustomed to speak of " alabaster " as " hally blaster," and of anything covered with enamel as " animalled all over." W. I. R. V.

FETTIPLACE (10 th S. i. 329, 396, 473). There are some beautiful monuments and crosses to the Fettiplace family in the parish church of Swinbrook, Oxfordshire. I saw them some years ago, and was much struck by them. Six members of the family are represented in effigy, each resting on a marble shelf in a recumbent posture, leaning on his elbow. They are :

1. Sir Alexander Fettiplace, who died 10 September, 1504.

2. William Fettiplace, died 1562.

3. Sir Edmund Fettiplace, died 1613, who caused this portion of the tomb (or perhaps the whole or it, leaving blank shelves for his successors) to be built. The occupants of the remaining shelves Ihavenoted as Sir Edmund, Sir John, and an untitled member of the family. Of the last three figures one is in a costume of the time of the Commonwealth, and the others wear large Ramilies perukes. The Sir John is probably the first Baronet of Childrey and Swinbrook, created "in con- sideration of services and sufferings for King Charles I," 30 March, 1661.

In addition to this fine tomb there are in the church two interesting brasses relating to the same family. One has a knight and two ladies, with four female children facing each other below the principal figures. The coats of arms on this brass are all blank except one which bears the Fettiplace cognizance, Gules, two chevronels argent. The other and earlier brass is very interesting ; it has a knight in chain hauberk and greaves of plate, his head resting on a fine helmet with

crest. He is clad in a surcoat or tabard, the two chevronels of the arms on the breast and on the two wings over the shoulders. Below is the following distich : " of y r charitie pray for y e soule of Antonne Fettiplace Esquire which decessed the xxm day of December in y e yeare of our Lord god MCCCCC. on whose soule Thee have mercy A[men]." Besides the Fettiplace arms on this brass, there is another coat bearing Quarterly, 1 and 4, two ribbons ; 2 and 3, a fret, a chief charged with three roses. Hung up on one of the walls of the church is a fine shield in an elaborate scroll border, bearing Barry of six, on a chief three stars, impaling the arms of Fettiplace. The peculiarity of this coat is that it is elaborately stitched in gold, though no other tinctures are now visible. The arms may possibly be those of some husband of a Fettiplace lady. There is a good deal of heraldry on the monument itself, consisting of the arms of the various wives of the persons represented ; but from considerations of space I forbear to mention them. The last holder of the baronetcy was Sir George Fettiplace, who was buried at Swinbrook 21 April, 1743, when the title became extinct. The family left from time to time large endowments to the parish, which are still, I am informed, in active operation, and form a temptation to people to reside in the parish. The last baronet is said to have had an estate worth 5,000. a year, and to have left 100,000^. in money. Of his five sisters Diana married Robert Bushel, of Cleve Fryer, co. Worcester, and was mother of Charles Bushel, who in 1743 inherited the estate of Childrey and took the name of Fettiplace, and died 17 October, 1764, leaving two sons who both died s.p., when the estates passed to his grandson, Richard Gorges, who also took the name of Fettiplace, but died s.p. 21 May, 1806, in his forty-eighth year, the estates passing to his seven sisters.

J. B. P.

May I be allowed very gratefully to thank the correspondents who, at the last reference, have supplied me with the answer to my query ? Had I looked for Bray, I should, of course, have found where Ock wells Manor was. MR. FYNMORE says : " The house, it is believed, was erected by a Norreys in the reign of Henry VI." I am now able to add the following, which I have culled from the ' National Gazetteer,' under ' Bray ' :

"In this parish is the curious old manor house of Ockholt, or Ock wells, built by John Norreys in the latter half of the fifteenth century, and long the seat of his descendants."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.