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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. FEB. 9, 1007.

point out that the change of v into n occurs in a sreat number of Latin and Greek words, asm nesos, island ; Nereids, water divinities ; nato, to swim; unda, wave; Neptunus, lord of the water.

It appears, therefore, that the early British names Mona, Menevia, Novantes, Nith Neath, Xeathey, &c., are all from the root'vad or vat, and signify water ; and it would seem that they were brought into Britain by the settlers from Belgic Gaul, for one of the varieties still survives in Belgium in the name Dinant. J. PARRY.

(To be continued.)

THE GAGES OF BENTLEY, FRAM-

FIELD, SUSSEX.

JAMES GAGE, of Bentley, was one of the sons (probably the second son) of Sir John Gage, K.G.

One James Gage married Anne, aged 36 in 1555, daughter and coheir of Dorothy, wife of Sir Henry Owen, and sister and coheir of Thomas, Lord De la Warre (Cart- wricrht's ' Sussex,' ii. 29). I believe this to have been James Gage of Bentley, and the lady to have been his second wife. He seems to have married as his first wife Jane, daughter of James Delves, of Bent- ley, Sussex, and widow of John Bellingham, of Erington, Sussex (Nichols's * Leicester- shire,' iii. 149; Gage's ' Hengrave,' 231). He died 12 Jan., 1572/3, leaving one Uryth or Urth his widow, and four sons : (1) Ed- ward, (2) John, (3) James, (4) Robert (Sussex Rec. Soc., iii. 8).

Edward, his heir, married Margaret, daughter of John (not William) Shelley, of Michelgrove (cf. 10 S. iv. 56). There is an odd divergence in the published accounts of their monument in Framfield Church, and perhaps some Sussex reader of ' N. & Q-' will give a full description of it. According to the Rev. H. R. Hoare (Sussex Arch. Coll., iv. 296-7), " behind him are three sons, behind her five daughters, above are their names." On the other hand, the Rev. E. Turner says (ibid., xxiii. 159) that the brass has " the figures of a man and a woman and of their six children upon it " ; and that the first half of the inscription runs :

"Here lyeth the body of Edward Gage, Esq r, and Margaret his wife (daughter of Sir [-s/c] John Shelley, of Michelgrove), who had three sons and seven daughters, and died Anno D'ni 1595." The three sons and one of the daughters appear to have predeceased their father. The six surviving daughters, together with their mother, are given in the pedigree in

Harl. Soc. Publ., liii. 9, to their father's cousin John, eldest son of Sir Edward Gage, K.B., of Firle ; and in Gage's ' Hengrave ' (p. 237) and in Burke's ' Peerage ' their mother is represented as wife of the said Sir Edward's fifth son Edward, and mother of his children John and Elizabeth. Brother Foley (' Records S.J.,' v. 78) supposes the tomb to be that of Edward Gage of Firle !

Of the six surviving daughters, (1) Mary married John Crispe, of Ore, Sussex. (2) Dorothy, whose name also occurs as Ruth, married Thomas Alcock (whom Berry,. ' Sussex Genealogies,' 294, calls Alwick)* of Rampton, Cambs, who in April, 1593, had been about 32 weeks in the Marshalsea for recusancy (Strype, ' Ann.,' iv. 258). (3) Margaret married George Smyth, of the Bishopric of Durham. (4) Mildred married Augustine Belson, of Stokenchurch, Oxon,. a recusant (' Cal. S. P. Dom., 1598-1601, '*" p. 524), and surviving him died in 1624, aged 49, and was buried at Clapham, Sussex (Cartwright, ' Sussex,' ii. 85). (5) Philippa married Andrew Bendlowes, of Essex, also a recusant (' Cal. S. P.,' loc. cit.}. (6) Eliza- beth married Anthony Skinner, of Rowing- ton, Warwickshire, who received licence to go beyond the seas with his family on 12 Aug 1606 (' Cal. S. P. Dom. Add., 1580-1625 ' p. 486).

In 1576 Edward Gage was a magistrate of Sussex suspected of Popery (Strype, ' Ann.,' II. ii. 22). He appeared before the Council 11 Aug., 1580, in accordance with some previous judgment, and on the 13th was committed to the Marshalsea (' P. C. A.,' N.S., xii. 150, 153). As one of the executors of the Earl of Southampton's will he was liberated on bail for a short time 20 June, 1581, and his leave of absence was repeatedly extended (ibid., xiii. 93, 296, 376). He went back to the Marshalsea after June, 1582, and was there on the following 23rd of March' In September, 1586, he was at liberty, and entertained on the 8th a seminary priest, Nicholas Smith, afterwards a Jesuit, who- at this time was residing with Lady Copley at Galton.* The priest was arrested the next day, through the instrumentality of the apostate Anthony Tyrrell, and com- mitted to the Clink on 1 1 September, where he still was in the following July. Edward Gage followed him to the Clink on the 14th,

'"'See Foley, 'Records S. J.,' vol. vii. pp. 719, 1451. He was nephew of one Smythe. M.D., who is probably the Richard Smith, M.D.Oxon of Munk's 'R. Coll. of Phys.,' vol. i. p. 07. This Dr Smith was also uncle to the Bishop of Chalcedori ('D.N.B.,' liii. 102).