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of the Court of Great Britain,' 1742 ("Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster Row "), may be of interest to E. G. C. :

" The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.

J'This honourable Baud was first instituted by King Henry VII. for the greater Splendor of his Court, being design'd as a Guard for his Person, for which Reason they have their Posts of waiting assign'd them in the Presence-Chamber.

"Their principal Duty is, to attend the King to and from the Chapel, whom they receive either in the Presence-Chamber, or sometimes at. the Dooi of the Privy-Lodgings, lining each Side of the Room in ranks, with their Battle-Axes, which is their ancient Arms. They are in Number Forty, and by their original Institution are obliged to keep three double Horses, or Servants, who are, as well as themselves, to have proper Arms, and so are properly a Troop of Guards, and as such have been nmster'd by their own Officers : But this last part of their Duty has been frequently dispens'd withal, during the King's Pleasure.

"They wait half at a Time Quarterly; but on Christmas - Day, Easter, Whitsunday, All Saints, St. George's Feast, the Coronation Days, and on other extraordinary Days, they are obliged all to give personal Attendance, under Penalty of the

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confers the Honour of Knighthood, on two such Gentlemen as the Captain presents ; which Office hath never been given to any Person under the Degree of a Nobleman, unless a Knight of the Garter, which of late Years hath never happen'd." A list of the officers and members of the ' Band," with their salaries, follows. Lord Allen Bathurst, afterwards Earl Bathurst, became Captain in 17-42, in place of the Duke of Bolton. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Information as to the guard of battle-axes attached to the Irish Viceregal Court will be found in ' Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, mainly of the Seventeenth Century,' by C. Litton Falkiner (London, 1904), pp. 85-7. A plate in Walker's Hiber- nian Magazine for November, 1787, to which Mr. Falkiuer refers, shows their uniform in the eighteenth century.

F. ELRINGTON BALL.

Dublin.

SIR JAMES COTTER (10 th S. iii. 167, 212). The following entry concerning the above is written in the ancient " Denny " or Tralee Church Bible, a black-letter Bible of 1640, which escaped all the storms of war and rebellion which swept Kerry in the seven- teenth century :

" Y2 d of September, 1691, the Mansion House or Lastel of iraly, the seat of that worthy constant, and loyall gentleman, Edward Denny ksq., was burnte by Colonel Rutte, by order of Sir James Cotter, who was then Governor of the County of Kerrye, after he had received a good sum

from Madam Denny to save it, and engaged his Hand and Faith to the performance therof, but he not like a gentleman broke his engagement.

"The Destroyer is destroyed and we are pre- served, so they that sow in Tears shall reape in Joye. William Stamford [Vicar]."

"This Bible was preserved by the care of William Stamford all the tyme of the War, more especially when this Town was burnte in August and September, 1691. Given under my hand this 10 th of October 1691. Tralye, Co. Kerrye."

Sir James Cotter was included in the Articles of the Treaty of Limerick, but the two captains who had actually burnt Tralee Castle were ordered by Ginkel to be hung. Their lives were spared, however, at the intercession of Edward Denny.

(Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.

St. Stephen's, Dublin.

ST. AYLOTT (10 th S. iii. 247). A similar inquiry respecting the same "moated house" near Saffron Walden appeared in ' N. &, Q.' ten years ago (8 th S. v. 488), to which no reply has been given. I cannot find the name in any of the lists of saints to which I have referred. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

HERALDIC (10 th S. ii. 408 ; iii. 33, 94, 154). [t is possible that Crawe is the modern transcriber's error. A fourteenth-century 10 s sometimes hardly distinguishable from bb. The copyist may have learnt the distinction n his work on the 334 pages that separate /he two instances. Q. V.

VADSTENA CHURCH, NORWAY (10 th S. iii. 246). MR. PICKFORD means to say that Queen Philippaof Sweden was great-granddaughter, not granddaughter, to Queen Philippa of "ngland. W. T.

WAR MEDALS (10 th S. iii. 247). There is an jxcellent book on English war medals, in two olumes, by Capt. A. E. Whitaker, of Bab- vorth Hall, Retford, Notts. But as it was H'inted only for private circulation, it cannot )e obtained through the booksellers.

A. A. KIDSON.

JACOBEAN HOUSES IN FLEET STREET (10 th S. ii. 206, 250). Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, was built by Alderman Harmer. The pro- perty was left by him to his daughter, who married a Mr. Umfreville. I have a vague ecollection.that the mantelpiece mentioned vas pointed out to me by a member of the amily. Ingress Abbey was sold by the

mfrevilles about two years ago. If ray Memory is not at fault, I was told that part f the abbey was constructed with the stone rom old London Bridge.

Would COL. PRIDEAUX care to be put into