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 iv. JULY 22. iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 75 sion of a small newly cut seal of the lion rampant, guttee de sang, with a lion crest and the address of a posting house at Itidgewell. This is the coat stated by Clntterbuck to be shown on the tomb of George Nevill. Morant also, t.v. Wethersfield, says that John Nevill of Ridgewell was of the kin of Hugh the Forester. Morant's fuller account of these Nevills is very incorrect; it was apparently copied from the rough notes in the Hurl. MS. Sir Thomas died in 1582, not in 1540, and the Thomas who died in 1602, said to be his son, was of another family. There is strong reason to doubt if the son Thomas, who was nine in 1546 at the time of the I.P.M. on his mother Maria Tey, ever attained his majority. It will be better, however, to start another note on that subject. There was a Fleetwood Nevill, clerk, of county Hunts, who was twenty-five when he took oat a marriage licence in 1690. Foster's ' Al. Oxon.' has an entry of his son Fleetwood and further particulars. He was possibly related to Isabel, daughter of Hercy Nevill, of Grove ; she married Sir Gerard Fleetwood as her third husband. The Harl. MS. and other accounts of the Hidgewell family are wrong in other ways ; the uncles of John did not die without issue male, and so clear the way for John as head of the family, and therefore heir male of the house of Nevill, according to this later pretension. I have many particulars of these and numerous other Nevill branches in Essex, taken from the Essex wills : all of these under the name of Nevill I have abstracted down to about 1650. I shall be glad to corre- spond with any one interested. It seems evident that George of Berkharap- stead claimed descent from Hugh of the Lion, and not from the Latimers. It is just possible that at a rather later date the identity of George's great-grandfather with a son of Sir Thomas (perhaps by a second wife) was dis- covered, and the other pedigree abandoned. KALPH NEVILL, F.S.A. Castle-hill, Guildford. SinceCuesans wrote, a "restoration " of the church of St. Andrew, Little Berkhampstead, haa taken place; even this ordeal nardly explains the error in date, which appears to be due to a slip on the part either of the historian or his printer. On the south side of the sanctuary floor is a large slab, from which, in September, 1904, I copied the following inscription (the lettering is well preserved) :— Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth Fleetwood widow who died the xxvi of April MDCXCIII adjacent to ye body of her vertuous husband Cromwell Fleetwood Euq who died ye 1 June MDCLXXXVIII this Elizabeth was sole daughter of George Nevill Gent and died without issue. H. P. POLLAKD. ' THE MISSAL ' (10th S. iii. 469; iv. 34).— MR. PEACOCK is doubtless quite right in thinking that Sir Walter Scott calls any service-book a missal. I cannot give a precise reference, but I can quote a parallel case. In 'The Antiquary' (fifth edition, 1818, ii. 267-70) he describes a burial: "A priest. dressed in his cope and stole recited from the breviary those solemn words which the ritual of the Catholic Church has consecrated to the rendering of dust to dust ...A loud Alleluia closed the ceremony. W. C. B. NORDEN'S ' SPECULUM BRITANNI.E ' (10th S. iii. 450 ; iv. 12).—I cannot find that Lowndes gives 1596 as the date of an edition of this book. Lowndes gives the date 1596 ( (in parentheses) to Norden's 'Preparatiue' to his 'Speculum Britannia!,' but this was a ghost - book that never had a separate existence. The Middlesex part of the 'Speculum' was first published in 1593, and the Hertfordshire part in 1598. In 1637 a second edition of both parts was published, and in 1723 a third edition, which is that described by MR. W. J. GADSDEN. To this last edition was prefixed Norden's ' Prepara- tiue to his Speculum Britannia:,' the principal part of which is the address "To all Covrteovs Gentlemen," &c.; and as this address is dated 4 November, 1596, Lowndes gave that date to the ' Preparatiue,' of which no separate copies are known to be in existence. The editor of the ,1723 reissue probably printed it from a manuscript, which is most likely no longer in existence, and the maps, &c., look as if they had been printed from the original coppers. From the descrip- tion given by MR. GADSDEN, it would appear that his copy does not contain the engraved and printed general title-pages. The arrange- ment of the book, however, varies in different copies. In Lowndes's collation the leaf headed "To the right worshipful M.William Warde Esquire," is placed at the beginning of the book, whereas in my copy it is placed at the end of the Middlesex portion, before the leaf of Nicolson's commendatory verses, and a glance will show that this is obviously