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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. xn. AUG. 7, 1915.

5. No coat of arms.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF ELEZEBETH SHOLL

WIFE OF WTLLIAM [sic] SHOLL BRITISH FACTOR MARINE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER THE 23D. 1774. AGED 35 YEARS.

6 and 7. Two broken gravestones of large size and very heavy, of a curious dark-blue colour, decorated with well- executed coats of arms. 1. On the husband's stone is represented a coat of arms : party per pale, semee of trefoils, a lion rampant ; a cross saltire indented between four eagles dis- played ; surmounted by a knight's helm, with the crest, a demi-lion rampant holding a trefoil. 2, On the lady's stone is the same

coat of arms reversed, and surmounted by a coronet of nine pearls.

1.

Aleppo

lyes

of London |
 * hn Lvett I ****

at very

tender regard | **** beloved wife | ****tion n his will | ****e same place | ****i n g in their lives wife j **** stone | **** the deceas'd | **** re-
 * ****hght not be divided | ****er 16th 1730 I
 * years | ****hn and Francis | ****lotta his

spective tombs |
 * ppo

ther

ish merchant I


 * of Charlotta Levett. I ****
 * hant of Aleppo | **** Peter

2. Here lyes John Levett. |

Armond de Peleran | **** French Nation at Aleppo | **** his wife | **** and j **** towards her.

FACTORS MARINE (CONSULAR AGENTS OF THE LEVANT COMPANY), ALEXANDRETTA.

Martin Loe Thomas Jenkins John Wilson ... John Purnell ... Charles Usgate William Scholl C. D. Hays ... Will. Beaver Neale Barnaby Murphy Lewis John Barbar Arthur Raby. . . E. Grabscheid E. Franck A. Catoni

1647-1677

1685

1706-1712 1727- -

1766

1770-1782 183 -1847 1847-1853 1853-1856 1856-1859 1859-1863 1863-1871 1871-1877 1877-1900

Tomb inscription.

D'Arvieux, 'Memoires,' vi. 521.

Cert, as V.C. 3 May, 1706, P.R.O. and tomb.

Cert, as V.C. 29 Nov., 1727, P.R.O.

Documents, P.R.O.*

,, ,, and tomb of wife.

Foreign Office List.

The presence of English tombs in the I No. 1. ancient trade centres of the Levant is an evidence of the extensive operations of the once nourishing Levant Company. Many of these interesting memorials have, perhaps, still to be discovered, but many are possibly only preserved in the journals and notes made by European travellers in former No. 2. times. Such, for instance, are those noted in Turnfort's ' Voyage du Levant ' of 1717, as existing at Angora :

ing the Consulary House as Pro- Vice-Consul, of the brass locks and keys, weights, and a flagstaff and flags, belonging to the Right Worshipful Company, dated 15 Dec., 1766. Cyprus.
 * Charles Usgate gives an inventory, on occupy-

HIO IACET IXTERRATVS

D. IOAXXES ROOS

SCOTVS QVI OBIIT IX AX

GORA DIE 22 IVXII ANNO

DOMINI M. DC.LXVIII

JETATTS SVJE XXXV

AXXORVM HO DIE MIHI. CRAS TIBI.

HIC IACET

SAMVEL FARRINGTOX ANGLVS ACIDWALLI FARRIXGTON MERCA TORIS LOXDIXEXSIS FILIVS OBDORMIVIT IX CHRISTO AXXO

JETATIS XXIII SALVTIS MDCLX.

GEO. JEFFERY, F.S.A.

BOMBAY GENTLEMEN OF 1792 : WILLIAMSES OF EARLY BOSTON, MASS.

THE subjoined bit of the past should, perhaps, prove of interest to present-day East-Indian commercial or antiquarian circles; if so, it would please me much to see collected and preserved whatever may be known to those circles concerning any of the characters named on the list at the end of this paper.

The Capt. Robert Williams (1753-1834) therein noted, long a respected merchant and shipowner at Boston, the capital of

Massach usetts, was fourth or fifth in line of descent from another Robert Williams (1640 ?-95), in all likelihood of actual Welsh nativity, this earlier namesake being cer- tainly active in the beginning of the Bos- toman colonial coast settlements, when being able to read and write with ease and " Magistrate Robert Williams " affected both marked the one so endowed as a high- toned " ristocrat." No one but Hawthorne,