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while Miss Strickland gives her pedigree, and states that she married Sir Edward Bushel ; that their only daughter married Silas Johnson, whose daughter married the Rev. Francis Drayton, of Little Chart in Kent, where he and his wife lie buried. From that marriage the pedigree, down to Johnson Lawsons of Grove Villa, Clevedon, seems clear."

The descent of the family of Bushel (or Bushell) is derived from Sir Alan Bushell, Knt., lord of Broad Marston (Gloucester- shire), who died in 1245. In 1622 the manor house and site of the manor were conveyed by Thomas Bushell to Sir Thomas Bennett. In 1670 Frances Bennett married James, fourth Earl of Salisbury. The manor re- mained in the hands of the Salisbury family till 1791, when it was sold. A/C. C.

See 9 S. xi. 268, 358. In Davey's ' The Nine Days' Queen,' p. 143, we are told that " on 30th August, 1548, Queen Katherine bore the infant for whom such great preparations had been made. The parents had fondly hoped it would be a boy, but, alack ! it was a puny girl, destined to be a child of misfortune. She cost her mother her life, and grew up to suffer the bitter pangs of poverty and neglect."

I made a note some years ago that Hasted does not mention the Seymour marriage ; and Berry's ' Kent Genealogies ' is silent as to Silas Johnson's marriage. He is simply described as of Canterbury, being the seventh son of Paul Johnson.

Burke' s ' Extinct and Dormant Baro- netcies,' 2nd ed., under ' Lawson of Isell,' has :

" Gilfrid Lawson, Esqr., living temp. Queen Elizabeth, married the daughter of Seamer, and had a son."

The reference to ' N. & Q.' above quoted, p. 268, states that

" the late historian and genealogist Dr. Howard is said to have possessed proofs of marriage of Sir Edward Bushel with Mary Seymour."

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

SEVENTH CHILD OF A SEVENTH CHILD (11 S. x. 88, 135, 174). In a letter among the Newcastle correspondence' at the British Museum (Add. 32916, 340), dated 1760, the writer, asking the Duke of Newcastle for a favour, says :

" As your Grace mayn't remember me by my Christian name, [I,] as being [my parents'] seventh son, was, and am, vulgarly call'd Doctor." The implication is that, for the purposes of the appellation, whether the writer's father was also a seventh son was immaterial. Are other cases known or recorded of a seventh son being nicknamed " Doctor " ?

PERCEVAL LUCAS.

ST. MARY'S, AMERSHAM, BUCKS, CHURCH- YARD INSCRIPTIONS (11 S. vii. 464 ; viii. 23, 103, 204, 303, 423). With reference to these inscriptions, it may be of value to add the following, noted when I copied several of the inscriptions in May, 1900.

No mention is made of the fact that there are arms on tomb No. 96. The arms are at the north end of this large tomb within rails, and may be described as follows :

"... .a lion rampant. . . ., quartering. . . .a lion rampant .... within a bordure engrailed. .. .im- paling : Erm., three pomeis, each charged with

The tinctures are not given. There is no crest, but the following motto : " In ccelo quies."

I suggest the arms are Mason, quartern Pomeroy, impaling Heathcote. Accordii to Robson's ' British Herald ' and Burke' 'Armory' (3rd ed. ), the Masons of Bee House, near Amersham, bore : " Az., a lior rampant, with two heads, ar., holdir between the paws a crescent or." The lior on the tomb has certainly not two he neither is there a crescent between the paws

Another inscription I noted was from slab broken into pieces close to No. 124 On putting the pieces together the inscrip- tion read :

" Margaretta Eeles | Relict of James Eelca Esq. | Died 11 March, 1784, | Aged 74 years."

It was similar in size to No. 124. Pre- sumably it no longer exists. It may have been removed when the Raan Chapel was restored in 1906, for the pieces were quite close to the chapel.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

LAWYERS IN LITERATURE (11 S. x. 171). In reply to H. V. R., let me suggest Mr. Paulus ^Pleydell in ' Guy Mannering ' and Mr. Saunders Fairford in ' Redgauntlet.' Also several lawyers in Trollope, such as Mr. Chaffandbrass in 'The Three Clerks,' ' Orley Farm,' and ' Phineas Redux ' ; and Mr. Walker and Mr. Toogood in the ' Last Chronicle of Barset.' There are various lawyers in Warren's ' Ten Thousand a Year,' including Messrs. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap. I.

An article on ' The Lawyer in Literature/ by M. D. Post, appeared in The Green Bog (Boston), vol. xi., 1899, p. 553, while at p. 234 of the same volume there is an article by G. R. Hawes on ' Literature and Law.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Bolton.