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 io s. XL MAY 15, i909.j NOTES AND QUERIES.

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the early or genealogical portion of it is in roman capitals not the whole, as Capt. Lawrence-Archer shows it ; nor are Mrs. Lenaghan and Mr. Oliver right in giving it entirely in small roman or lower-case letters.

Ax EPITAPH VPOX TH[E]

[N]oBLE & MVCH LAMENTED GEX T SIR

THO WARNER K T LIEVTENANT

GENERALL OF Y K CARIBEE

IELAND & GOVER R OF Y E

IELAXD OF S T CHRIST"

WHO DEPARTED THIS

LIFE THE 10 OF

MARCH 1648.

First Read then weepe when thou art hereby

taught,

That Warner lyes interred here, one that bought With losse of Noble bloud, the Illustrious Name Of A Com'ander, Greate in Acts of Fame, Trayu'd from his youth in Armes, his Courage bold Attempted braue'Exploites, and Vncontrold By fortunes fiercest frownes, hee still gaue forth Large Narratiues of Military worth, [WJritten with his swords poynt but what is man fin] the midst of his glory and who can [Seculre this life A moment, since that hee [Both] by Sea and Land, so long kept free [A]t mortal stroakes at length did yeeld [Grjace to Conqueringe Death the field. [?] tine Coronat.

The penultimate word of this inscription is (to my mind) clearly not " fini." The line is evidently incomplete, the stone having been more broken in the left-hand bottom corner than anywhere else, though I do not think that there could have been room for these two words to have formed the conclu- sion of an hexameter verse.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Antigua, W.I.

SIB THOMAS WABNEB OF ANTIGUA (10 S. xL 108, 195). MB. R. GOBDON-SMITH is inaccurate in styling Sir Thomas Warner Governor of Antigua. He was the first English Governor of St. Kitts (St. Chris- topher), and colonizer of the Leeward and many West Indian islands, and held a patent as Governor from Charles I. in 1629, by whom he was knighted. He died in 1648, and was buried at Old Road in St. Kitts (see reply above). He was married three times, and his son Col. Philip Warner (by his second wife) was Governor of Antigua from 1672 to 1675. The family of Warner now, I believe, extinct in St. Kitts and Antigua is still represented in Trinidad.

In the Appendix to vol. ii. of 'Antigua and the Antiguans,' by Mrs. Lenaghan, but published anonymously in 1844 a work now long out of print and scarce is to be found a genealogy of the Warner family. In a note to this genealogy Mrs. Lenaghan

relates the story of the ring which is stated to have been given by Queen Elizabeth to- her favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and which, so unfortunately for him, was retained by the Countess of Nottingham. Mrs. Lenaghan shows how it came by descent from Sir Thomas Warner (to whom it had been given by Charles I.) into the possession of Charles Warner, Esq., Solicitor-General of Trinidad, at the time of the publication of her book.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

GRINDLETON (10 S. xi. 67). Can fitting in Grenhilington be a corruption of Old Norse hjalli (akin to O.N. httla), a shelf or ledge in a mountain side ? Does this describe the locality ? The difference between the modern and the old charter name shows the futility of attempting to solve the derivation of place-names solely from their modern forms. At the same time we find that charters frequently give the current polite name, while the then current and the present folk-name agree with the oldest form on record, e.g., Stenness (Orkney), which for a time appeared in charters as Stenhouse.

A. W. JOHNSTON. 59, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.

Your correspondent's diffidence as to -ing in his last paragraph might have been set at rest by a thought of our homely word " king," A.-S. cyn-ing. H. P. L.

NANCY DAY, LADY FENHOTTLET (10 S. x. 406). The following extract from The Town and Country Magazine, ii. 570, will supple- ment my previous note about this lady :

" Nancy was born in Devonshire, near Plymouth, of parents, whose honesty did them more honour than their pedigree. As she had no prospect beyond the rank of servitude, she contented herself with the situation which fortune seemed to have allotted her. But in this she was mistaken : lord Edge be had frequently noticed her, in riding by her father's hovel, and felt as frequently a strong penchant for her. When she was about eighteen, he found means to have a conference with her, in which her pride and ambition were so elated, that she eloped from her father, and took up her abode at Mount Edgecumbe. His lordship behaved in a generous manner to her, as well as to her relations, placing her father in a very considerable farm, and providing for her brothers in the navy. She lived with him till his death .... his lordship never entertained any suspicions of her conduct ; and having borne him two daughters, he left her a very handsome settlement, and a good fortune to each of the young ladies.

" Miss Day now repaired to the Metropolis, where she constantly resided : she had presently many suitors, and among the rest Peter Fenh 1> Esq" ; then an E n of the yeomen of the guards. She was advised by many of her friends