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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. JULY s, 100* with William the Conqueror and settled in Lincolnshire. Small streams are still known as becks in that county. What are the full armorial bearings of the Pinchbeck family 1 The fifth quartering of Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury (Arg., a •chevron between three chess rooks ermines), is mostly given as Walcot of Walcot, co. Lincoln, but sometimes as Pinchbeck. Are both arms alike ? If so, why ? In 3"' S. xi. 307 there is mentioned a deed •which is signed by Robert Pynchbek, sub- prior of Spalding, and is dated 31 July, 1534. W. H. PINCHBECK. [" Adam and Eve and pinch "em" was familiar to London schooboys forty years ago.] An inquiry was made at 8th S. i. 493, under William Hebb, as to the birth, baptism, and parentage of William Hebb, who married, 7 July, 1767, at St. Martin's Church, Charing Cross, Martha, daughter of Christopher Pinchbeck, the inventor of the material known as pinchbeck ; but I do not remember that any reply was made to this inquiry. William Hebb was father of Christopher Henry Hebb, surgeon, twice Mayor of Wor- cester, who died in 1861, and whose name appears in the ' D.N.B.' JOHN HEBB. ' THE MISSAL ' (10th S. iii. 469).—Before the days of liturgiology any illuminated MS. service-book was called a " missal." hence the term "missal-painting." In January, 1818, my grandfather, William Fowler, the engraver, had some dealings with Mr. Joseph Sams, the well-known collector and bookseller at Darlington, and was " Cr by Missal, 15/." This 'Missal' was a beautiful Flemish MS. Horse; but we always used to call it ' The Missal' until w.e knew better. A fine illumi- nated MS. York Breviary in Bishop Cosin's library at Durham was lettered ' Missale Roraanum' early in the last century. This error has now been corrected. But it figures as ' Missale Komanum' in ' Catalog! Veteres,' Surtees Soc. (1838), p. 136. J. T. F. Durham. This is no doubt a mistake. It is very unlikely that a lady in any period of the Middle Ages would use a missal in her private devotions, even if she were a Latin scholar, which is in itself not improbable. The artist, however, is to be excused for the error into which he has fallen. The general public know very little about the service-books of the Catholic Church. It ia not so very long ago that every Latin book of prayers, especially if it contained iljuminations, was called a missal. I think Sir Walter Scott fell into this error more than once; but it is so common that it would never have occurred to me to make a record thereof. A similar mistake has occurred about the chasuble, which has often been spoken of as a cope. EDWARD PEACOCK. Is there any reason why a young lady in fourteenth-century attire should not read a missal under a tree, especially when her maker designed her for the sole purpose of doing it? ST. SWITHIN. The Funk & Wagnalls Company's' Standard Dictionary,' 1900, gives as a secondary mean- ing of missal, '' an illuminated black-letter manuscript book of early date resembling the old mass-books." It is to be hoped this Americanism will not obtain a footing here. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. PARSLOE'S HALL, ESSEX (10th S. iii. 430,490). —Allow me, the prese_nt owner of Parsloea, absolutely to contradict certain statements made by W. I. R. V. The fine old oak Jacobean fpanelling is all in absolutely per- fect order, though the house is not I may here state it is my intention to put the house in order at the earliest date possible, and that it will be inhabited. I beg also to contradict the statement that it has had no tenant since 1855. It was tenanted down to December, 1895. The last tenant was my aunt, the late Hon. Mrs. W. W. C. Talbot, widow of the late Hon. and Rev. William Whitworth Chetwynd Talbot, rector of Hatfield, Herts, brother of Henry, seventeenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. All the fine family pictures mentioned by ME. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL are still in my family. EVELYN JOHN FANSHAWE. 132, Ebury Street, S.W. The monograph mentioned by MR. EDWARD SMITH was prepared by Mr. E. J. Sage, of Stoke Newington, in conjunction with the late Mr. Harrison,* Windsor (Herald), and originally appeared in my friend Dr. J. J. Howard's Misc. Gen. et Her. Although never completed in MS., it was separately reprinted privately by Mr. J. G. Fanshawe in quarto form, with illustrations of some family por- traits added, under the title of ' JNotes, Genealogical and Historical, on the Fanshawe Family,' 5 parts, 1868-72. W. I. R. V. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS (10th S. iii. 467; iv. 10). —To the works mentioned in my former reply I may add the ' Miscellany' of the (orig.) Spalding Club, 1852, which gives wife, the Lady Fanshawe who wrote the ' Memoir*.'
 * Harrison was the maiden name of Sir Richard's