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 10*8. HI. MAY 6, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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What were his name and college ? In what honour school did he read 1 Is he still alive ?

W. H. DIXSON. 13, Crick Road, Oxford.

THE BRENT AS AN ANCIENT WATERWAY. Is there any evidence of the use of the river Brent as a waterway by which farm produce and hogs were conveyed to the monks or prebendaries of St. Paul's? The difficulty of transit by road in very early times might make the river the better means if it was deep enough to carry the craft.

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP.

6, Beechfield Road, Catford.

NORMAN INSCRIPTIONS IN YORKSHIRE. Can any one supply me with probable date of, or any information as to, the following old French inscription on Harpham Church, Yorks ?-

Dieu Temple y aide et garde du royne.

(" Que le Dieu du Temple y aide et le garde de la rouille.")

This inscription is cut over the chancel door at Harpham, and has also been in- correctly copied on Nafferton Church (" adie " appearing for aide). No one seems to know of any parallel or of any history of the two inscriptions.

There is also a brass in Brandsburton Church bearing the following legend, date 1634 :

Will Darell jadis p'sone de 1'eglise d'Halsham

gist ici. Dieu d' salme eit m'cy.

(" Will Darell, formerly parson of the church of Halsham, lies here. May God have mercy on his soul!") "Salme" should possibly read " sanme," for modern son dine.

G. H. CLARKE. 232, Springbank, Hull.

HEMMING=STEVENS. William Hemming was born in England about 1758, and arrived in America about 1774. He married, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Miss Sisson Stevens, who was born in that county. Can any one tell me anything of the ancestors of either of these ancestors of mine?

(Mrs.) EVELYN HEMMING LAMB.

2159, Centre Street, Berkeley, California.

JOHN CHATTOCK. I understand that a John Chattock, of Castle Bromwich, War- wickshire, was a groom of the bedchamber to Henry VIII. His portrait is, or was, in the possession of the Earls of Bradford, and hung in the great hall at Castle Bromwich Hall. Can any reader of 4 N. & Q.' give me information as regards this, and also say to

whom he was married ] His wife's name was Anne. A. J. C. GUIMARAENS.

FANSHAWE : BOSWELL : YOUNG. 1. Evelyn in his 'Diary' refers to Sir Richard Fanshawe as his cousin. Can any one tell me how he was so ? Neither the Evelyn nor the Fanshawe pedigrees throw any light on this. The second Viscount Fanshawe married as his second wife the widowed daughter of Sir John Evelyn, of Dean, Wilts, cousin of the diarist ; but this was not till the year before Sir Richard's death in 1666.

2. Lady Fanshawe, in a list of her children, refers to a cousin Boswell as godfather of one. I cannot trace this connexion through either Fanshawe or Harrison pedigree, and should be grateful for information regard- ing it.

3. I should be grateful for any information regarding the Young family to which the " cousin Young " of Lady Fanshawe's memoirs belonged. She was daughter of Henry Fan- shawe, of Dore, brother of Margaret Fan- shawe, the wife of Sir John Harrison and mother of Lady Fanshawe, and therefore first cousin of Lady Fanshawe.

H. C. FANSHAWE. 107, Jermyn Street.

DIVING-BELL. (10 th S. iii. 247.)

THE diving-bell was in use in America and the West Indies long before 1665. Under date 30 March, 1643, John Winthrop, then Governor of Massachusetts, wrote :

"The Trial, Mr. Coy tmore master, arrived, and a week after one of the ketches. He sailed first to Fayal, where he found an extraordinary good market for his pipe staves and fish. He took wine and sugar, <fcc., and sailed thence to Christophers in the West Indies, where he put off some of his wine for cotton and tobacco, &c., and for iron, which the islanders had saved of the ships which were there cast away. He obtained license, also, of the governour. Sir Thomas Warner, to take up what ordnance, anchors, c., he could, and was to have the one half ; and by the help of a diving tub he took up 50 guns, and anchors, and cables, which he brought home, and some gold and silver also, which he got by trade." 'History of New England,' 1853, ii. 114.

Another case of the use of the "diving tub," still earlier, and of which we have more interesting details, occurred in Boston, New England. On 27 July, 1640, Winthrop wrote :

" Being the second day of the week, the Mary Rose, a ship of Bristol, of about 200 tons, her