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NOTES AND QUERIES.

heiress, Mary, married John Ferris. John Swinfen represented Tamworth in Richard Cromwell's Parliament, 1659, and after the Restoration sat for Stafford (1660), Tam- worth again (1661-79, March-July, 1679, and 1681), and Beeralston (1690, till his death). W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

" THE BROAD ABROW " ( 1 1 S. ix. 481 ). For what they may be worth, I have extracted the following from the ' History of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers of Lon- don,' by C. Welch, F.S.A. :

1474-5. " Itm. delu'yd a ponchon of yrn (iron) AV* ye brode arowe hede fore the forfet niarke." In an inventory of goods belonging to the Pewterers' Company :

1489-90. " It. a punchon of Iron w* abrode arowe hede grauyn therein."

15645. " Itm. pd. for a hammer & a chesell & inending the Brode Arowhedd to saye the Tynne. iijs. iiijrf."

Although the above references in no way refer to the broad arrow as the " King's mark," it is at this early date evidently one used under authority, and is first spoken of in 1474 as the " forfet " mark, wherewith, it is supposed, all wares of inferior metal or workmanship were branded, and ulti- mately forfeited by the maker and melted down. Secondly, in 1564 it is mentioned s the mark used for assaying the tin, and more directly implies under royal authority than when it was used as a company mark for confiscated wares.

HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.Hist.S.

Foden Road, Walsall.

" BLANDANDERED " (11 S. ix. 487). In Kipling's story ' With the Main Guard ' (see ' Soldiers Three ') the Irishman Mul- vaney, a splendid soldier ruined by the Tiabit of drinking, helps his comrades through a night of terrible heat in India by his wonderful gift of story-telling. On being complimented upon what he has done,

" he looked at me wearily ; his eyes were sunk in his head, and his face was drawn and white. ' Eyah,' said he, ' I 've blandandhered thiin through the night somehow, but can thim that helps others help thimselves ? Answer me that, Son- ! ' "

C. L. S.

LOMBARD STREET BANKERS : SIR STEPHEN EVANCE (US. ix. 230, 272, 298, 373, 453, 494). The Calendars of Treasury Papers and of State Papers, William and Mary, contain a number of entries in reference to -Sir Stephen Evance or Evans, as the name is more frequently spelt in these volumes.

In 1694 Sir John Somers, writing to the King, states : " Sir Stephen Evans and Sir John Foche are very considerable men in the City, and very useful to you upon all occasions of loans." Evance was one of the Commissioners of Excise, and was appointed one of the Commissioners to the Lieutenancy of the City of London in 1694. He was concerned with army clothing contracts, was first Governor of the Hollow Sword-Blade Company, and connected with other chartered companies. It appears that he was born in New England, probably of Welsh parentage. Evance is still the pro- nunciation of Evans in, at any rate, some parts of Wales. RHYS JENKINS.

REV. RICHARD SCOTT (US. ix. 430, 498). There is, it is true, some probability that the Dublin graduate mentioned by MR. HIPWELL in his kind reply was identical with the Rev. Richard Scott, M.A., who came from Fakenham to King's Lynn in 1797, but positive testimony to that effect has not hitherto been forthcoming.

A few additional clues may, perhaps, enable some of your readers to clear the matter up one way or another. The Richard Scott, aged 20. who entered Dublin University as a Sizar on 16 June, 1778, was the son of a farmer in co. Cl are ; he had been educated previously by a Mr. Numan (Dublin Universitv Matriculation Books).

R. S. H.

Peterborough.

THE VOYAGE OF THE PROVIDENCE : CAPT. BLIGH (US. ix. 489). In the June catalogue of second-hand books on sale by R. Hall of Tunbridge Wells occurs the following :

" Bligh (Lt. W.) Voyage to the South Sea for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in H.M.S. the Bounty, including account of the Mutiny and subsequent voyage plate and charts, 4to, 1st ed., 1792."

Possibly this may be the book to which MR. TEW refers. A copy is in the London Library. A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.

DIDO'S PURCHASE OP LAND (US. ix. 47, 353,474,). See 'DieHistorie von einerFrau genannt Melusine ' in 'Deutsche Volks- buecher,' Langewiesche, 1912, p. 378. This is a reprint of the 1456 German version, by Tuering von Ruggeltingen, of a contem- porary French version of the Latin of Jean d'Arras. There is a curious woodcut illustrating the measuring of the land.

D. L. GAXBREATH.