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made by the Commissioners, which he apparently took from a MS. book among the muniments of Peterborough Cathedral.

HENBY R. PLOMEB. 41, Crowuhill Koad, Willesden, N. W.

STOWMABKET : EFFIGIES ON TOMB. I am anxious to learn whether secular coats of arms and brass effigies of females are ever found on the tomb of an ecclesiastic. There is a tomb in Stowmarket the brasses of which are gone, but there was one central figure of a woman or robed abbot. Three coats of arms are over her head, and there are twelve small effigies (brasses) four on each side of her, and four under her feet.

I claim that it is a sixteenth-century tomb, and the tomb of a woman, as I think that kind of tomb -decoration (big and small brasses) peculiar to that period. I shall be glad of help from readers of ' N. & Q.'

H. C. BIBCH.

Preston Hill, Stowmarket.

BABFBESTON CHTJBCH. This church in Kent was, I have heard, reconstructed on a new site. Where can particulars of this occurrence be obtained ?

J. HABBIS STONE.

SIB NICHOLAS CBISPE : ABMS IN HAMMEB- SMITH CHUBCH. On the original lid of his stone coffin, which now forms a headstone to the grave of Sir Nicholas Crispe, " K. and Barronett, n under the north wall of the choir of the parish church of Hammersmith, is an impaled shield with a blazon of a chevron and three owls. This also occurs, in both cases above the Crispe arms (Arg., on a chevron sa. five horseshoes or), on the shield upon the column inside the church which bears the heart of the baronet and the bust of King Charles. Whose arms are these, and how do they come to be on the Crispe shield ? H. C. FANSHAWE.

72, Philbeach Gardens, S.W.

HEBALDIC MS. IN BBITISH MUSEUM. William Herbert, the Corporation librarian, refers, in a foot-note appended to p. 227 of his ' History of the Goldsmiths' Company/ to " an ancient heraldic MS." in the Museum, which he describes as detailing the arms then existing in the church of St. John Zachary, in addition to arms depicted on the windows of Goldsmiths' Hall. Can any one supply the reference to this MS. ? I made recently a cursory examination of all MSS. that appeared (from the catalogues) to be likely, but could find nothing answering the description. Herbert gives no precise date

for the MS., but heads his extracts " Chi- chester, Mayor." There was no Mayor of this surname apparently, Robert Chicheley (1411-12' and 1421-2) being the nearest traceable. The extracts are all of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century.

WILLIAM McMuiatAY.

FBENCH CHUBCH REGISTEBS. Can any of your correspondents inform me of the whereabouts of the Marriage Registers of the French Church in Threadneedle Street and at Greenwich ? It is believed that they are in private hands.

Are there any unexplored papers ?

C. W. L. CABTEB.

GEOBGE ROMNEY, 1611 : JANE ROMNEY. Can some one tell me where the will is of a George Romney, alive in 1611, a recusant late of St. Clement Danes, London, whose property was estreated ? He was, I think, about Appleby and Carlisle c. 1580- 1590, and probably belonged there, being a cousin of Andrew Hylton of Burton, recusant, and martyr at Carlisle. I want the names of the property and of George Romney's father. Was the latter of Tetbury or Ullswater ?

Also, are there descendants alive, and where, of Jane, only sister of Romney the painter ? MBS. LAW.

44, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, W.

CHUBCHYABD RECOBDS. Is there any society or club for the collection or printing of epitaphs and inscriptions ? Wishing to systematize my collection, I should be glad to learn what system is adopted to represent different forms and locate the position of stones, &c. C. R. S.

[See the notes by MR. GERISH and MR. STAPLE- TON, ante, pp. 205, 251.]

RICHABD TEMPLE, M.D. Can any reader give me information about Richard Temple, M.D., who died 1826 ? He was author of ' The Practice of Physic, 5 8 vols., London, 1792-3, and physician to St. Marylebone Dispensary in 1802. I want to find out whom he married, and what children he had.

I should be much obliged for answers direct. R. GOBDON SMITH.

2, Manor Road, Brockley, S.E.

LADY WILLIAM STANHOPE : CAPT. MOBBIS. I should feel most grateful to any reader who could inform me of the maiden name of Lady William Stanhope, who, affc her husband's death, married my great great-grandfather, Capt. Charles Morris.