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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io-s. vn. JUNE 8, 1907.

ceding day, in the 81st year of her age, Mrs. Eliza- beth Best, widow and relict of the Rev. Edward Best, clerk, heretofore Vicar of Wednesbury, mother of Edward Best, clerk, the present Vicar of Wednesbury and Minister of Bilston. She was the daughter of John Jevon, heretofore of Tipton in the County of Stafford, gent., by Mary his wife, the daughter of John Harris, heretofore of Brad- ford in the County of Worcester, gent. She was interred on the 12th inst. near the remains of her late husband in a vault in the South Chancel of Wednesbury Church. Her said late husband was the son of the Rev. Edward Best, clerk, hereto- fore Rector of Elmley Lovett in the County of Worcester, and descended by a regular and con- tinued succession of Clergymen from the Right Revd. John Best, who was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle upon the restoration of the Protestant Religion in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth."

Edward Best, the husband of Elizabeth Jevon, was buried 12 Dec., 1718. He was the son of Edward Best, rector of Elmley Lovett, who died 17 March, 1707 ; and grandson of Edward Best, rector of Elmley Lovett, who was born circa 1580, and died 26 Jan., 1662, aged eighty-two. The pedi- gree of this family is given in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, New Series, vol. iv. p. 234.

I should be glad to know how this Edward Best (1580 to 1662) was related to Bishop John Best of Carlisle (who died in 1570). If he were really a descendant of the Bishop, as stated in the register of Bilston, he must have been his grandson.

The Bilston registers during the Rev. Richard Ames's incumbency are full of most interesting entries, such as the one given above, and deserve to be printed by the Parish Register Society or the Staffordshire Parish Register Society.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. . Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

ISLES FAMILY. I shall be obliged for anything you can tell me of the family name of Isles. It is apparently a Scotch name of French derivation.

F. G. MCGREGOR. Brisbane.

CLEMENT CROOLE was admitted to West- minster School in October, 1721, aged fifteen. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me particulars of his parentage and career ?

G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM CULLING was at Westminster School in 1732. Any particulars of his parentage and career are desired.

G. F. R. B.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S DIARY. In a letter dated 16 Oct., 1580, written to King

Philip of Spain by Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish representative in London, it is stated that " he [Drake] has given the Queen a diary of everything that happened during the three years he was away," &c.

I am anxious to find the whereabouts of

the diary mentioned in this extract, and

trust some of the readers of * N. & Q.' may

be able to help me. The diary is a narration

f Drake's voyage round the world in 1577-9.

Inquiry at the Public Record Office has elicited the reply that " no diary of Drake is known to exist there." A similar re- sponse comes from Windsor.

Is anything known as to what has become of the royal archives possessed by Queen Elizabeth ? WALTER C. BROWN.

144, Goodrich Road, S.E.

LEWIS ORMSBY, OF WHETHAM'S REGI- MENT. Lewis Ormsby, lieutenant-colonel of Whetham's Regiment (12th Foot), died 31 Aug., 1734. By his will, dated 27 June, 1734, he left 1,OOOZ. to Lord Forbes and made him his executor. He mentions his mother, Eleanor Spence, widow ; his half- brother and sisters, Ralph Spence, Sidney Leason, Mary Crane, Eleanor Fury, Hannah Hamilton, and Anne Crane ; and his cousin german Lieut. Robert Browne, of co. Sligo. The 14th Lord Forbes was buried Aug. 8, 1734, aged thirteen. Any further informa- tion about Col. Ormsby would greatly oblige me. H. L. O.

JUplhs.

PAPAL STYLES : " PATER PATRUM."

(10 S. vii. 368.)

THE MISSES MALLESON AND TUKER in their ' Handbook to Christian and Eccle- siastical Rome,' part iv., write at p. 334 :

" The title Pope was used in early times for all bishops; it means 'Father.' About 510 Ennodius of Ticinum employs it to denote the Bishop of Rome exclusively; but it is from the seventh century that it became custoniary, and Gregory VII. (1073-1089) made it the lawful and exclusive title.*

" The abbreviation P.P. Rom., Papa Rom se, Pope of Rome, belongs to the ninth century, when the word Papa was still not exclusively confined to the one Bishop.

" Tertullian (220), in his indignant remonstrance about the remitting power, ironically refers to Callistus by the title given to the Roman Emperors as high priests, and calls the Pope ' The Pontifex

"In a catacomb epitaph we have ; Sub Liberia Papa ; his successor Damasus is referred to as Sub Damaso episcopo" ' *"->.