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Waltham Cross, I do not know. The Tonis were, therefore, fairly near neighbours to Walthamstow.

5. The principal manor in Walthamstow is, and time out of mind has been, called Walthamstow Toni or High Hall, and these names may be read on the manorial boundary posts, of which there are many.

6. There are two other manors in Walt- hamstow parish (besides a small reputed manor, Salisbury Hall) : Walthamstow Francis or Low Hall and Higham Bemsted. Of these, the latter appears in Domesday Book as part of the land of Peter de Valoigne, but Walthamstow Francis is not mentioned there. Walthamstow Francis was, no doubt, carved, by sub-infeudation, out of the principal manor shortly after Domesday Survey, for there is clear evidence (see Morant's ' Essex ') that it was held by Simon de Senlis and his descendants as a separate manor. In fact, it looks as if Earl Waltheof 's manor of Walthamstow was divided, one part being given to Maud's husband, de Senlis, and the other part to Judith's (or Alice's) husband, de Toni.

The de Tonis certainly held the principal manor, by the title of Walthamstow Toni, for several generations. If the tradition that they got it by the marriage of their ancestor Ralf with Earl Waltheof's daughter, Judith or Alice, is incorrect, how did it come to them ? F. S. EDEN.

Maycroft, Fytield Road, Walthamstow.

I find that the ' D.N.B.' has an article on Ralph of Toesny, which, being inserted under Ralph instead of under Toesny, had escaped my notice. This article introduces a new element of confusion, as it states that Ralph married. " Adeliza, daughter of Waltheof," whilst under Waltheof the lady's name is given as Judith, as I stated pre- viously. G. H. WHITE. Lowest oft.

CHEVRON BETWEEN THREE ROSES, 1630 (10 S. xii. 488). I have a list of sixty-five families who bear the above arms, but it is impossible to tell which of them is intended to be commemorated in the monument alluded to by WORCESTER, as he does not give tincture or metal (fur would be too distinct to be overlooked) of field, ordinary, or charge. If WORCESTER would like me to do so, I will send him this list of sixty-five families, and then, if he has access to a pedigree of the family whose arms are represented on the other half of the shield, he may be able with something like certainty

to decide to whom this coat belongs, as it is apparently that of husband and wife. If, on the other hand, he can discover the tinctures or metals, I may perhaps be able to help him to identify the family without such reference to a pedigree.

FRED. C. FROST, F.S.I. Teign mouth.

A chevron between three roses, varied as to colour, is borne by nearly a hundred families. See Papworth's ' Ordinary of British Armorials.' WORCESTER should specify colours. S. D. C.

CROWGAY OR CROWGIE FAMILY (10 S. xii. 488). The arms of this family as given in Burke's ' General Armory l are : Gyronny of eight vert and argent ; on a chief of the last, an eagle displayed gules. Crest, an arm from the elbow, holding a key, proper.

If WORCESTER will communicate with me, I shall be happy to supply him with further information. S. D. C.

[MR. H OLDEN MACMICHAEL also refers to Burke. ]

LANGUAGE AND PHYSIOGNOMY (10 S. xii. 365, 416). In this connexion I would refer to the extremely curious plates at the end of the ' Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici Brevissima Delineatio ' of F. M. B. at Helmont. These show the mechanical production of the various letters, and though the anatomy of the mouth, larynx, &c., is peculiar, an attempt is made to establish a certain connexion between phonetic sounds and the organs of speech, and the external parts of the mouth and face. My edition was published at Sultzbach in 1657.

E. E. STREET.

I think ST. SWITHIN would find much that would interest him on this head (gene- rally if not specifically) in Prof. W. Z. Ripley's ' Races of Europe.*

As regards the sharpness of the Hebrew features, it is, I believe, more pronounced in the male than in the female type ; for this reason I am led to conclude that the formation of the nose is in great part artificial, if not wholly so. N. W. HILL.

New York.

FILBERTS : " WHEN THE DEVIL GOES A-NUTTING " (10 S. xii. 388). Like other sacred festivals, that of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, so far as secular customs were engrafted upon it, reverted in respect to such customs, in course of time, almost to the character of the heathen festivals