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streets upon poles, and made to kiss each other. Shakespeare ( ' 2 Henry VI.,' IV. vii. ), following Hall, mistakes William for Sir James Cromer or Crowmer. James Fiennes, Lord Say and Sele, himself married Emoline Cromer. The notorious Cade was slain (' 2 Henry VI.,' IV. x.) by Alexander Iden, " esquire of Kent," who not only succeeded Crowmer as Sheriff of Kent, but also married his widow Lord Say's daughter.

In Tunstall Church, Kent, is an inscription to Margaret, daughter of Sir James Crowmer, wife of John Rycyls, h. of the manor of Eslyngham, 1496 (see Rev. H. Haines's ' Monumental Brasses,' 1861, ii. 106, 109, 213). Sir James Crowmer was knighted by Edward IV. on the field of Tewkesbury after the battle, 4 May, 1471.

Robert Crowmer was deputy for the Earl of Oxford in Norfolk and Suffolk. On 1 2 July 1495, he writes to Sir John Paston, thanking him for his timely aid to the town of Yar- mouth on the dispersion of Warbeck's fleet after the attempt at Deal (see ' The Paston Letters,' ed. Dr. James Gairdner, 1897, iii. 10, 379, 387).

Sir Henry Isley of Sundrish, Sheriff of Kent 1543 and 1552, executed at Maidstone, 1554, for Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion, married Cicely, daughter of Sir William Cromer of Tunstall, Kent, Sheriff of the county 1504 and 1510.

Stephen Ellis of Kennington, gent., married Grace, 3rd dau. and coheiress of John, second son of Sir James Cromer of Tunstall, Kt.

A chevron engrailed between three birds, a crescent for difference, are the arms of Cromer.

In Thomas Wall's * Book of Crests ' (The Ancestor, xii. 64, 71) are given : " Cromer of Yarmouth, who beryth to his crest a crowe sable in a wreth silver and geules manteled b. doubled ar.," and, among those knighted by Henry VIII., " Cromer beryth to his crest a tygre regardant bacward in a loking-glas silver betwene his hynder legges in a wr. ar. s.s. ar." This beast should, according to the Bestiaries, be a tigress.

' The Genealogist's Guide ' (G. W. Marshall) for 1893 refers under Cromer to Hasted's ' Kent,' ii. 575, and Berry's ' Sussex Genea- logies,' 318 ; and under Crowmer to * Biblio- theca Topographica Britannica,' i. pt. i. 22. A. R. BAYLEY.

In 'Some Account of the Citizens of London and their Rulers,' by B. B. Orridge, F.G S 1867, pp. 218 and 219, note, we find : "From Hertfordshire. M.P. for London. Ancestor of Sir James Cromar of Tunstall, Kent,

Oldcastle's Rebellion." Tunstall (Mid-Kent) Church was the burial-place of the Cromars, on the windows of which are various coats of arms of the family and its alliances. Among the monuments are those of Sir James Cromar, Cromer, or Crowmer, Kt., his lady, and four daughters.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MR. WHISTLER, will find several references to members of the Watts family in my ' Sussex Marriage Licences Lewes Arch- deaconry,' published as vols. i. and vi. of the Sussex Record Society's publications.

E. H. W. DUNKIN, F.S.A. The Heath, Fairlight.

HOPPNER AND SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND'S DAUGHTERS (10 S. x. 168). The ladies in this picture are Amelia (or Emily) and Marianne, daughters of Sir Thomas Frank- land, 6th Baronet of Thirkelby, Yorks. They are the granddaughters of Admiral Sir Thomas- Frankland not the daughters, as they have hitherto been (erroneously) described.

W. ROBERTS.

CLERICAL INTERMENTS (10 S. x. 148). Samuel Freeman, Dean of Peterborough, was buried at Ecton in Northamptonshire. A description of his monument, with the epitaph, is given in Bridges, ii. 145.

W. D. SWEETING.

Wallington.

"VERGEL" (10 S. x. 169). There seems no doubt that the Spanish term for orchard corresponds to the Provenal vergie, the French vergier or verger, the Italian verziere* But I believe that this group of terms came not from the Latin viridarium, meaning pro- bably a greenery, a pleasure garden, but from virga, through the French verge, a rod, and vergee, a rood ; and that verger was originally the Northern French term for the rood of land round the boor's house, usually planted with fruit-trees. The term probably spread from the northern orchard-country south- wards.

In a great part of -Normandy and in the Channel Islands the vergee, equal to about half a statute acre, or about a Cheshire rood,, is the unit of land measure. In the Channel Islands one vergee of land practically that on which the house stands is the preciput of the eldest son in the division of inheritance. In Normandy the steading usually stands in a square apple-yard enclosed by a hedge of trees, generally closely planted poplars. This is the verger, often of about a vergee in extent. Both these terms were Englished into " yard." Our yard of land was a rood