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the family seated at Wrotham, in Kent). A: she died in 1767, aged fifty-three, Hestei Mundy is not likely to be the daughter oi Nicholas Miller, of Hide Hall, whose only son (see Clutterbuck) was born the year of his supposed sister's marriage, viz., 1729. Can any readers explain this apparent error ? and to whom did the manor of Hide descend ?

P. M.

THEATRE IN RAWSTORNE STREET, CLERKEN- WELL. At p. 40 of John Coleman's ' Memoirs of Samuel Phelps,' reference is made to a theatre in "Rawston" Street (should be " Rawstorne "), where the great actor ap- peared as a youthful amateur, when he took the part of Earl Osmond in 'The Castle Spectre.' There is no mention of this theatre in Pinks's 'History of Clerkenwell,' and Mr. James Duff Brown, who for many years filled the post of Clerkenwell Librarian, informs me that he knows nothing of the theatre above named. Can any reader help to identify the place] R. B. P.

NAVY OFFICE SEAL. I have an old silver seal with a large anchor between two smaller ones. Would this be an official seal of the old Navy Office or Navy Pay Office ?

G. R. BRIGSTOCKE.

Ryde, I.W.

ANCIENT LONDON HOUSES. Lord Macaulay, in his 'Life and Letters,' by his nephew G. O. Trevelyan, M.P., 1877, vol. i. p. 165, is recorded as saying :

" In London, what with the fire of 1666, and what with the natural progress of demolition and re- building, I doubt whether there are fifty houses that date from the Reformation."

This was in 1830-2. Are the very few that must remain to-day noted 1 and which are they] J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

JAMES II. MEDAL. I recently held in my hand an interesting medal issued by James II. after the defeat of Argyll and of Monmouth. The dissevered heads of these rebels and their headless bodies were very plainly de-

Sicted upon it. The medal bore the initials . A., and I write to ask if any of your readers can tell me who this was. I judge him to have been a foreigner from his spelling Monmouth "Monmout."

J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

SIR THOMAS CROMPTON, KNT. He was Judge of the Admiralty Court 1589-1608. His will, dated 27 January, 1607/8, is proved 1 March, 1608/9, by Dame Barbara, his relict. He was seated at Creswell, co. Stafford.

What was his parentage 1 ? He had at least two sons, Thomas and John, the former of whom was probably the Thomas Crompton, M.P. for Staffordshire in 1647.

W. D. PINK.

KENMURE PEERAGE. When did John Gordon, schoolmaster, Kirkcudbright, put in a claim for the Kenmure peerage ? He seems to be the grandson of James Gordon, the sapper and miner, who put in a claim in 1848. I foolishly omitted to date my news- paper cutting about the schoolmaster's claim. Who is he 1 J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

MAIDEN LANE, MALDEN. Out of about a hundred instances of the place-name " Maiden," including sixteen Maiden Lanes, I have particulars of all except the one men- tioned above. I was told of its existence by a lady, but did not like to inquire how long ago. I have examined the 25-inch Ordnance map of Coombe, Maiden, Merton, and Ewell, but cannot find it. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give any information ? AYEAHR.

SOUTHWOLD CHURCH: FIGURES AND EM- BLEMS. On two of the painted panels of the screen to the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, St. Edmund's Church, Southwold, are figures of angels wearing crossed stoles. One bears a shield charged with an emblem of the Trinity ; the other, supposed to represent Raphael, holds an apron or sheet in both hands, in which are small figures. On an octagonal font in Westhall Church, Suffolk, the seven sacraments are carved and painted on seven of the panels, and on one of them (I think that representing marriage) is the figure of a priest wearing a crossed stole.

Can any reader inform me if the crossed stole has any symbolical significance other than that of a sacrificial priest, and whether the stole is still worn in this manner in any part of the ceremonial of the Anglican or Roman Church ?

On the panels of the chancel screen (South- wold) are figures of the Apostles, and, accord- ng to the late Mr. E. L. Blackburne, F.S.A., n an account of the screen written in 1860, jhe Evangelists had, in addition to their dis- tinguishing emblems, the Evangelistic symbol attached as part of the ornamentation of the buttress faces which adjoin upon their figures. There are but two of the Evangelists on this screen viz., St. Matthew and St. John and the only remaining symbol on a buttress face is on that between the figures of St. Jude and St. Simon. It is undoubtedly a bird, bub whether an eagle is questionable. It bears quite as much resemblance to a cock. As it is