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It *s some time since I was articled, bu the payment of that hundred pounds was great pull." Has not the author mixed uj the methods of barristers and solicitors ?

W. C. B.

MEDAL: "BROTHER ADAMS, LODGE 17 1810." A silver jewel is to be given in a few weeks to my son on his twenty - firs birthday. It is a ten-pointed star, with an acorn at the top of the first point. In the centre of the obverse is an organ, and on th reverse, within a wreath of oak-leaves, is this inscription : " Presented | to B Adams | by Lodge 17 | 1810." It was pre sented a century ago to my great-grand father. " Br Adams' 1 lived somewhere in or near Birmingham. The lodge may have been at Walsall, or possibly Wes1 Bromwich, or somewhere that way.

I am anxious to learn to what order the jewel refers. The acorn, colour, and oak- leaves would lead one to infer that it belongs to the Hearts of Oak ; but the jewel was presented more than forty years before that order (at any rate as now constituted) was in existence. I shall be glad of the assistance of readers of ' N. & Q. J WARWICK ADAMS. Shepley Vicarage, near Huddersfield.

KILMINGTON (WILTS) WILLS. Can any one tell me where these wills are ? They are not to be found at Wells or Somerset House.

B. T.

COURT GUIDES. What is the earliest Court Guide with list of gentry in London ? At the B.M. Boyle's, 1792, is the earliest. Is there a Boyle's anywhere else earlier than that date ? R. T.

STEPHEN MARSTON MARY THOMPSON. Information is requested concerning descend- ants of Stephen Marston, who married Mary Thompson, widow, at Boston, Lincolnshire

5 Sept., 1777 (or 1776). Please reply direct. G. H. M.

107, High Road, Willesden Green.

CROWN LANDS AT BOSTON. Where can a record be found of Crown lands (if any) at Boston, Lincolnshire ? Please reply dir> ect. G. H. M.

HEAVISIDE AND BRADFORD FAMILIES. Would some descendant of the family of a Miss Heaviside, who about seventy years ago was living at Bow in Middlesex, kindly com- municate with me ?

I should also be glad to hear from any descendant of Amelia, daughter of John

Bradford, Rector of SS. Mary and Leonard, Wallingford, and wife of Thomas Stafford, Curate of JDoddington, Cambs. She would have been born either late in the eighteenth century or early in the nineteenth. Please reply direct. J. G. BRADFORD.

Queen's Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex.

CART FAMILY ARMS. The following arms are given by Berry and in Burke's ' General Armory * :

Sa., a stag's head cabossed or, an estoile for difference. Cart.

Arg., a stag's head cabossed, between the horns an estoile gu. Crest, a stag's head holding in mouth a serpent, all proper. Cart.

Crest of Cart of Scotland. A hand holding a club in pale, all proper.

Can your readers tell me anything of the families bearing these arms ? R, G, C.

ADAMS FAMILIES. I should be glad to have any information relating to the families of William Adams, an old English potter, and Thomas Adams, missionary, born about 1780 (?). Both families are thought to have originally belonged to the counties on the Welsh borders, Shropshire and Monmouthshire.

Is anything known of the * ' three brothers Adams, pirates,' 1 belonging to the same district ? Family tradition has it that, being pressed by the authorities, one fled into South-West Wales, one to Portsmouth, and the other to the Channel Islands or the Continent. F. K. P.

LEDWELL HOUSE. There used to be in the parish of Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire, a mansion known as Ledwell House, which t vas demolished about 1800. It was once ons of the Duke of Monmouth, and was ilso the seat of Lord Carrington in the seven- eenth century. There is an engraving of the louse in existence, and I shall be greatly bliged to any one who can tell me where it s to be found. A. CALDER.
 * he property of Lord Deloraine, one of the

ROCHEFOUCAULD, CHAMPAGNE, AND HAMON AMILIES. I should be extremely obliged o any of your readers who could tell me vhat relation Maria de la Rochefoucauld e Champagne was to Fran$ois, Due de la Rochefoucauld, author of ' The Maxims,* &c. he was the wife of Josias de Robillard de Champagne, and, I believe, daughter of ?asimir, second son of Charles, Due de la lochefoucauld. Some one versed in French