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in 7 th S. iv. 147, arid to a reply of HERMEN- TRUDE'S, p. 255 of the same volume ? I am tinder the impression that there was some remark on it in an earlier series ; but I am unable just now to put my finger on the spot.

ST. SWITHIN.

SHELLEY FAMILY (10 th S. xii. 426). Mr. WAINEWRIGHT may be glad to know that the Thomas Shelley whom he mentions as a son of Sir William Shelley (' D.N.B.,' lii. 41 ) is also mentioned in the Shelley pedigree printed in Dallaway and Cartwright's 'Sussex,' II. ii. 77. He is there described as of "Maple Durham," and as the husband of " Mary, dau. of Sir R. Copley, of Gatton." See also Berry's 'Sussex Genealogies,' 63, 296. No issue is assigned to him by Dallaway and Cartwright; but according to Lord Burgh- ley's notes (' St. P. Dom. Eliz .,' clxxxv. 46) he was father of Henry Shelley, who died in 1585, leaving an infant son Thomas, and he probably had other issue, for Anthony fehelley and John Shelley, who were elected Winchester scholars, the one in 1563 and the other in 1566, came, according to the college register,, from Mapledurham in the diocese of Winchester. I suppose that Maple- derham, which lies about two miles south- west of Petersfield, Hants, is the place referred to. This place was "the paternal seat and for some time the residence of" Edward Gibbon, the historian (Mudie's 4 Hampshire,' ii. 77). That there were Shelleys living there in Elizabethan times is proved by the confession of Ed ward Jones, who, with his master's son Chidiock Tich- "borne and other persons, headed by Anthony Babington, was convicted of treason in September, 1586 (' Fourth Rep. of Dep. Keeper of Public Records,' App. ii. 276 ; ' D.N.B.,' ii. -308 ; Ivi. 374). It appears from this confes- sion (' St. P. Dom. Eliz.,' cxc 50) that Jones -at one time went with a Mrs. Shelley " unto lier house named Maplederham neare unto Petersfield," where mass was said daily by one Wrenche (who died circa 1584) and was Attended by various priests and other persons named in the confession. It also appears that Mrs. Shelley's husband had been a prisoner in the White Lion prison in South- wark, and that he was a brother of John Shelley, servant to Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague (' D.N.B.,' vii. 40). John Shelley and his wife used to attend the mass. The prisoners "pro causis ecclesiasticis " at the White Lion in March and April, 1584, included a Henry Shelley ('St. P. Dom. Eliz.,' clxix. 30 ; clxx. 13). He was probably the Henry Shelley mentioned in Lord Burgh- ley's notes (supra} as dying in 1585, and the

husband of the Mrs. Shelley who took Jones with her to Maplederham.

One sometimes meets with references to Shelleys of Maple Durham, Oxon. For in- stance, in Berry's ' Hants Genealogies,' p. 31, and G. E. C.'s ' Baronetage,' i. 161, Sir Ben- jamin Tichborne, the first baronet (who seems to be identical with Benjamin Tichb9rne, a Winchester scholar elected in 1552), is said to have married, as his first wife, a daughter of Shelley, of Maple Durham, Oxon. Were there really Shelleys there as well as at Maplederham, Hants ? H. C.

INSCRIPTIONS AT OROTAVA, TENERIFE (10 th S. i. 361, 455). The undermentioned inscrip- tion was accidentally omitted from my list :

48a. Col. J. H. E. Owen, Royal Marine Artillery, ob. suddenly at Tenerife, 30 Dec., 1897, a. 56. G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

LAS PALMAS INSCRIPTIONS (10 th S. i. 483). I should like to make the following correc- tions in my list of inscriptions in the English Cemetery :

3. Hos. Turnbull should be T. Hos. Turn- bull.

13. C. Herringham was born 13 (not 12) Aug.

18. Arrowe House, with the e.

40. " Nee" appears in my notes as a Chris- tian name, though it may be a sculptor's error for nfa.

66. Madera is correct without the i. It is Spanish, not Portuguese.

88. " A. 20 " should be inserted.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

MR. JANES OF ABERDEENSHIRE (9 th S. xi. 148; 10 th S. ii. 54). The appended extract is from a MS. in this library, 'Collections regarding Marischal College,' by William Knight, Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1823-44 :

" In a letter to him [William Adam] Blackwell mentions sketches of alterations drawn by ' a young man John Jeans, who seems to have no ill turn for such matters.' Jeans, according to this letter, was the inventor of the screw stair. He afterwards built the beautiful little bridge over the Denburn in the line of the Windmillbrae. But there was then no employment for such a person as he in Aberdeen. Being of an ingenious and active turn, he became an enthusiast for mineralogy, and travelled over the greater part of the Mainland and the Highlands, collecting till he became eminent as a dealer, repairing annually to London, and being the first finder of numerous Scottish substances. He lived to old age, dying about 1804, aged about eighty. He is mentioned by Johnson ('Tour to the Hebrides'), who met him in Skye. From his portrait he seems to have been a spare man of genteel and keen aspect. A son succeeded him in the business of collecting and polishing,