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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn JUNE 29, 1907.

The accounts there given by various con- tributors differed materially. There is a pedigree in the recently issued Harleian Society's ' Visitations of Sussex,' pp. 29, 30 ; but this is apparently printed from the Harleian MS. 1562.

Ralph, Lord Camoys (son of Thomas, Lord Camoys, who died in 1371), married a daughter of Hugh le Despencer, Earl of Winchester. Of which Hugh le Despencer ?

Thomas, Lord Camoys, K.G., who died in 1421, married two wives: (1) Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Louches, and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Mortimer, third Earl of March, and widow of Henry Percy, " Hotspur." Which of these wives was the mother of his children ? Authorities differ ; the ' Vis. Sussex ' states that Elizabeth Louches was their mother, and does not even mention the second wife ; whilst Joseph Foster (' Our Noble and Gentle Families of Royal Descent,' Wolseley pedigree) and other writers make Elizabeth Mortimer (Percy) to be their mother.

How many children had Thomas, Lord Camoys, K.G. (died 1421) ? Two are generally given: (1) Sir Richard Camoys, who died in his father's lifetime, leaving by his wife Joan Poynings two daughters and eventual coheirs ; and (2) Alice, wife of Sir Leonard Hastings (who died in 1455).

Sir Leonard Hastings and Alice Camoys were the parents of Sir William de Hastings who was created in 1461 Lord Hastings of Ashby de la Zouch.

I am anxious to know what children, if any, Elizabeth Percy (Hotspur's widow) had by her second husband, Thomas, Lord Camoys, K.G., W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A.

Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

Sin JOHN HARINGTON : BARON FRECH- VILE. According to Dugdale's ' Visitation of Derbyshire,' 1662-3, Sarah, daughter and heiress of Sir John Harington, married John Frechvile, afterwards Baron Frechvile of Stavele^. I should be glad to know if this was the Sir John Harington who translated the * Orlando Furioso.' If not, who was he ?

S. O. ADDY. ,$

"AWAITFUL." Does this word, in the sense of waiting, in expectation of, exist in the English language ? I recently saw it printed in a London journal noted for editorial accuracy. But I have searched for it in many dictionaries without success.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

"SALUTATION" TAVERN,

BILLINGSGATE.

(10S. vii. 429.)

THE sign, if not the tavern, must, I think, have disappeared somewhere between 1742 and 1803. In the former year

"The Creditors of William Gillett, late of the Salutation Tavern, Billingsgate, are desir'd to meet at the said House on ^Vedriesday next, the 7th instant, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, on special Affairs relating to the said Bankruptcy. Note. The Assignees are desir'd to attend." DaUy Advertiser, 5 April, 1742.

In an otherwise exactly similar announce- ment of 15 Feb. in the same year the creditors " are desir'd to meet at Four in the After- noon." But in a list of the principal hotels, offee-houses, taverns, inns, &c., in London, given in the ' Picture of London for 1803,' no mention is made of any " Salutation " east of Temple Bar, other than the still existing tavern of that sign in Newgate Street. This latter " Salutation," it may be noted, was an abbreviation, like the others, of " The Salutation of the Angel and Our Lady," which Richard Flecknoe, a long- forgotten dramatist, in his * Enigmatical Character,' published in 1665, describes as having been changed by the fanatic Puritans into "The Soldier and Citizen," and the sign was undoubtedly compounded originally of the angel Gabriel saluting the Blessed Virgin, a distinction derived from the cir- cumstance of its having been a hostelry adjacent to the Priory of the Salutation of Our Lady of the Greyfriars, on the site of which was founded by Edward VI. the lately departed Christ's Hospital.

While alluding to this site of the old Blue Coat School, it is desirable to note that in connexion with excavations there for the foundations of the new General Post Office, Roman remains of a diverse character have been lately discovered : a very fine portion of the old Roman wall, fragments of tessel- lated pavement, sepulchral urns containing ashes, fragments of red glazed pottery, probably Samian ware, and mediaeval pottery. Of interest, too, in connexion with the Priory site, is the discovery, in close proximity to Christ Church, and not far from the cloisters, of arches composed entirely of chalk instead of masonry. Several heavy leaden coffins are also stated to have been found in the vicinity, a cir- cumstance which would point to a priory