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bis," "falix" probably being the artist's error for felix. Not being an armorist, one cannot pretend that the above is an heraldically correct description ; but can any one say to whom the arms appertain ?

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. "ECRIVEZ LES INJURES," &C. What 18

the origin of the phrase

Ecrivez les injures stir le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre ? The English version,

Write injuries in dust,

But kindnesses in marble,

has been known to me since early years, but I seek the original French phrase. It is cited on the first page of the First Heading

Book of Dr. Ahn.

EDWARD LATHAM.

GENERAL ROBERT BELL. Wanted, details as to publisher, price, &c., of two books by General Robert Bell, Madras Artillery, entitled ' A Laboratory Book ' and ' A Madras Gunner.' They were probably published at Madras before 1820. J. H. LESLIE, Major.

PAUL BRADDON : WATER-COLOUR ART. Information is sought as to Paul Braddon who was a water-colour artist somewhere

about 1825. A picture of his of Lancaster Town Hall has come under my notice recently, and I should be glad of any reference to biographical or other details about him.

Is there any exhaustive history of water- colour art other than Roget's history of the Old Society ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

GlFFORDS OF KING SOMBORNE, HAMP- SHIRE. Can any genealogist connect for me the line of Gifford of King Somborne, near Winchester, with those of Wooley Green, a hamlet between Hursley and Farley Cham- berlayne ? In the latter little lonely church (which stands perched all by itself on the highest part of the downs, close to the celebrated Farley Mount, and overlooking the old Roman road from Winchester to Sarum) there are several tablets to this family, and also entries in its registers.

Berry's ' Hampshire Genealogies ' under Gifford of King Somborne ends with Henry and Susan Bromker, whose children were William, Anne, and Catherine. Katherine, sister of this Henry, married Sir Henry Wallop, who died in 1599.

Anne, wife of Dutton Gifford of Wooley Green, was buried at Farley Chamberlayne

on 4 Feb., 1694, and Dutton Gifford in 1722.

On 17 Oct., 1723, Anne Gifford was married in the same church to the Rev. William Pretty of Thruxton. There is a tablet in the chancel to the Rev. William Pretty, rector of Thruxton and Upper Clat- ford, who died 30 Nov., 1747, aged fifty- two ; and to Anne his wife, daughter of Dutton Gifford of Wooley Green, who died 26 Aug., 1776, aged eighty-seven. The monument was erected by his daughters Catherine Wade and Elizabeth Parry. In the registers is the burial, on 4 June, 1769, of Richard Gifford of Wooley, aged sixty-seven. A Rev. John Pretty was rector of Farley Chamberlayne in 1702.

Wooley Green adjoins the Manor of Slack- stead, where Thomas Sternhold wrote his hymns, dying there in 1549. Close to the church of Farley stood the mansion of the St. Johns, long since pulled down. Of this family John St. John, who died there in 1627, married Susanna, daughter of Sir Richard Gifford, Kt. She was buried at Farley on 6 May, 1628. Was she daughter of Richard Gifford of Somborne, living in 1540, and a sister of Henry Gifford and Katherine, Lady Wallop ?

In the Romsey registers I find the burial " Henry Gifford, gent., of Somborne,

of

brother of Sir Richard," on 2 Dec., 1643.

(Mrs.) F. H. SUCKLING. Highwood, Romsey, Hants.

WILLIAM CONSTABLE alias FETHERSTON. Some time in 1554 this youth, who was son of a miller in the north of England, and page to Sir Peter Mewtas (knighted Sunday, 18 May, 1544, at Butterden), gave himself out to be Edward VI. Sir Peter Mewtas was arrested and committed to the Fleet on 23 March, 1554/5, but liberated on his own bail of 50Z. on 8 April.

In the meantime William Fetherston was still at large, and led astray a good number of the populace. At last he was taken at

1555, ton

illtham, in Kent, and on 11 May, jrought before the Privy Council at Hamp }ourt, and by them sent to the Marshalsea. On Wednesday, 22 May he was drawn in a cart to Westminster, crowned with a paper crown, on which his crime was written ; and from Westminster he was whipped to Smithfield, and sent home to the North. Next year Fetherston apparently came to London again with the same tale. He was again taken, and this time sentenced to death, 26 Feb., 1555/6. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on