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are informed that Thomas married Alice, coheiress of Roger Lychfeld. This Thomas died 1559, and his heirs alienated the pro- perty to Richard Fogge, eldest son of George Fogge of Brabourne.

A Thomas Cockes was one of the com- missioners at the building of Sandgate Castle, 1539-40, the other being Reginald Scott, Esq. George Fogge was in 1545 Deputy of the Castle. R. J. FYNMOBE. Sandgate.

ABBOTSLEY, ST. NEOTS, HUNTS (10 S. iii. 29). Here is a list of the incumbents of Abbotsley (St. Margaret) from 1225 to 1901 in the Transactions of the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society, 1907, vol. ii. part ii. pp. 158-60, contributed by the Rev. W. M. Noble, editor of the Society. HERBERT E. NORRIS.

Cirencester.

JOHN OF GATJNT'S ARMS (10 S. x. 9). 1. Privy seal before the marriage with Con- stance of Castile (1371) :

"A shield of arms, couch e", quarterly, 1 and 4, France ; 2 and 3, England : over all in chief a label of three points ermine. Crest on a helmet and short mantling diapered, on a chapeau a lion statant guardant, crowned, charged on the neck with a label of three points ermine, the tail hang- ing down. Supporters, two falcons, each standing on a padlock and essaying to open the same : the background replenished with sprigs of foliage : within a carved Gothic quatrefoil, ornamented along the inner edge with small quatrefoils : sur- rounded with the legend : ' S : p'uat : joh'is : ducis : Lancastr' : comit : richemond' : derb : line : leyc : senescalle : angl.' "

2. From 1371 to 1388 the Duke bore on his privy seal the royal arms of Castile and Leon quarterly, impaling the royal arms of France and England quarterly, with a difference. They are described :

"Armorial bearings not on a shield. Per pale dexter, quarterly, 1 and 4, Castile ; 2 and 3, Leon sinister, quarterly, 1 and 4, France (ancient) ; 2 and 3, England, with a label of three points ermine The first and fourth quarters of each impalemen raised, and the second and third countersunk within a carved border ornamented with cinque

3. After 1388 the Duke continued t bear the royal arms of Castile and Leon impaling those of France and England but he moved the Spanish quarterings iron dexter to sinister.

4. The Great Seal of Castile and Leon. Unlike the other monarchs of Europe, th Kings of Castile and Leon did not use th ordinary wax seals ; instruments issuin from their chanceries, like those of the Papac

nd Empire, bore a metal " bulla." But ohn of Gaunt impressed wax with a silver eal in the manner common to the other oyal chanceries.

5. The Great Seal of the County Palatine fter February, 1377. The arms of the-: )uchy of Lancaster were :

" Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or ; I label of three (sometimes of five) points azure, larged with fleurs-de-lis of the second."

ee Mr. S. Armitage-Smith's ' John of 2aunt ' (1904), pp. 456-8.

A. R. BAYLEY.

The marriage of this John of Gaunt with! Constance, a natural daughter of Peter lie Cruel, King of Castile and Leon, gave- im, on the death of his father-in-law, a- laim to the throne of Castile and Leon ; nd although his claim was not successful,. "Ii .e adopted as his arms, on a castle or a shield rgent, charged with a lion rampant gules, j he arms of Leon, still an important division >f Spain. And in the cloisters at Canterbury nay be seen a boss exhibiting the above- leraldic charges in reference to this claim. /Vould not his cadency mark be the usual ne appertaining to a fourth son, i.e., a nartlet, or swallow without beak or feet ? '

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

[The attention of U. V. W. is directed to MR. SAYLEY'S reply above.]

' OLD MOTHER HUBBABD ' : ITS AUTHOR 10 S. x. 27). There have been several nquiries regarding this nursery rime in j xi. 234; 7 S. x. 187, 354; xi. 312, 417; S. ii. 107 ; but nothing very satisfactory las been elicited. The first stanza is un- doubtedly traditional ; Miss Martin may have written some of the others, but I am disposed to think that her share in the work was confined to making sketches for the- illustrations. Mr. John Pollexfen Bastard was M.P. for Devonshire from 1784 to his death on 4 April, 1816, and was perhaps- the best-known Devonian of his time. There is a memoir of him in the ' D.N.B.* He married on 2 July, 1809, Judith Anne, third daughter of Sir Henry Martin, first j baronet of Lockynge, co. Berks, and sister i of the celebrated admiral Sir Thomas Byam ; Martin, G.C.B. Mrs. Bastard survived her I husband more than thirty years, dying in| 1848. Sarah Catherine Martin was the-i second daughter of Sir Henry, and it is I this lady who illustrated the poem, which < is believed to have been a political squib,. ; though nobody knows against whom it-j was directed. She died unmarried in 1826,
 * N. & Q.' ; see 2 S. ix. 244 ; 6 S. x. 468 ;.