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recorded in the register of Salisbury Cathe- dral in April, 1611 : he probably died young.

Laurence Hyde (the second son of Sir Nicholas Hyde) of Hinton Daubeney was also born in 1611, and could not possibly foe a son of his cousin Nicholas : he is men- tioned as a son of Sir Nicholas Hyde in the Visitation of Wilts in 1623: see 'Flight of the King,' p. 166, and pedigree in the Appendix. The paragraph on p. 166 should read :

" From there he rode over to consult with a friend living in Hampshire, Mr. Laurence Hyde, the second son of Sir Nicholas Hyde, and, first cousin to Mr. Laurence Hyde of Heale, Mrs. Hyde's husband, '>

not, as there stated, " and a brother-in-law to Mrs. Hyde of Heale." J. J. H.

Salisbury.

WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. Among recent obituary notices has appeared the following :

" Ainsworth. On the 21st Nov., 1908, at Winter- bourne, Bristol, Fanny, eldest and only surviving daughter of the late William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., aged 81."

William Bates, in the ' Maclise Portrait Gallery,' says of Ainsworth in his later days that, " in the retirement befitting his advancing years, he resided with his eldest daughter Fanny, at Hurstpierpoint." The novelist died at Reigate in January, 1882, in his 77th year, and this recent severance of one of the few remaining links with his literary generation is perhaps worth a note.

W. B. H.

THE GUARD ALOFT. I can remember when a railway carriage had a seat and a footboard at either end of the roof for the convenience of the guard of a train, who was expected to keep a look-out alfresco ; but I never saw a man at that bad eminence, nor knew until a day or two ago that he wore a kind of mask to protect his eyes, and must have looked like a highway robber. An ex-vanman of the N.E.R. has lately shown a large dark eye-mask which belonged to his father, who was a railway guard, at the time when those officials had to ride on the top of the carriages, and wore masks in order to protect their eyes from ashes and sparks from the engine. ST. SWITHIN.

" SANGUIS MARTYRUM, SEMEN ECCLESIJE."

(See 6 S. ii. 445, 493, 524.) This appears in its present English form before 1655. In a letter written by the Catholic martyr John Ingram in 1594 (printed Cath. Rec. Soc. v. 283) we find: "St. Augustine saith,

' Sanguis martyrum, the blood of martyrs, is the seed of the Church.' ' What St. Augustine says (Serm. xxii. cap. iv., Migne's ed., vol. v. p. 151) is : " Sparsum est semen sanguinis, surrexit seges Ecclesise."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

SIR JOHN MASON. In the article on Sir John Mason in the ' D.N.B.' it is stated that Margaret Hill married Sir John Cheke, and that Mary Hill married Francis Spel- man ; but under Sir John Cheke it is said that Cheke married Mary Hill. Which is correct ? Margaret and Mary Hill were daughters of Lady Mason by her first marriage to Richard Hill, Sergeant of the Wine-Cellar to Henry VIII.

According to Hasted's ' History of Kent,' Wrotham Manor was granted to Sir John Mason, who parted with it to Robert Byng, whose first wife was Frances, dauhgter of Richard Hill. Was this another step- daughter of Sir John Mason ?

Hasted, fol. ed., vol. ii. p. 585, writing of an estate in the parish of Bredgar, states that it was at one time in the possession of the family of Isley, one of whom left issue five daughters : 1. Mary, married to Francis Spelman ; 2. Frances, to William Boys ; 3. Elizabeth, to Anthony Mason ; 4. Anne, to George Delves ; 5. Jane, to Frances Haute.

The wife of Sir John Mason was a daughter of Sir Thomas Isley, and granddaughter of Sir Richard Guldeford. Sir John died without issue, and his heir, as stated in ' D.N.B.,' was his nephew Anthony Wykes, grandson of Sir John's mother by a second marriage. Anthony assumed the name of Mason ; did he marry one of the above five daughters of Isley, and was she a niece of Lady Mason ? If so, there is a double reason for Anthony being the heir.

In the British Museum there are some MS. notes by Dr. Richards of Reading, Berks, Add. 28,660-77. At p. 404 there is the following entry :

" Sutton Courtney was held by Sir John Mason and Elizabeth his wife ; reversion came to Anthony Weekes, alias Mason, Esq re, afterwards to Elizabeth, widow of Anthony Mason."

On referring to 8 S. vii. 326, I see that there is a probability of the article in the ' D.N.B.' being revised, and the whole subject reinvestigated. In connexion with Little's statement as to Sir John's low origin, which is said to be inconsistent with the quarterings borne by Sir John, namely, Langston and Radley, I note that in the pedigree of Thomas Pigot, who was Sheriff