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NOTES AND QUERIES, [n s. xn. SEPT. 25, 1915.

Montagu Burrows in his ' Worthies -of All Souls,' p. 194, speaks of the name of " the Colonel- Proctor * Hieron. Sanchy ' ' standing first on " the list of the forty-three Fellows intruded by command of the Parlia- ment without election."

In a letter of Cromwell to Speaker Lenthall, dated Cork, 19 Dec., 1649, Col. Zanch'y is mentioned as commander of a regiment of horse ; and in writing to Bradshaw from Cashel, 5 March, 1649 (1650), Cromwell says :

"We have taken the Castle of Dundrum, at

which we lost about six men, Colonel Zanchy, who commanded the party, being shot through the hand."

Gardiner in his * History of the Common- wealth and Protectorate,' vol. iii. p. 72, quotes from Thurloe's Notes on Wildman's Plot, in which Col. Sankey is mentioned.

John Aubrey in his ' Brief Lives ' (Oxf., 1898, vol. ii. p. 148) writes in his account of Sir William Petty :

" Quaere nomen of the knight his antagonist,

Sir ? Resp. 'Twas Sir Hierome Sanchy that

was his antagonist : against whom he wrote the 8vo booke, about 1662. He was one of Oliver's knights, a commander and preacher and no conjuror. He challenged Sir William to fight with him. Sir William, being the challengee, named the place, a darke cellar, the weapon, carpenter's great axe ; so by this expedient Sir William (who is short-sighted) would be at an equal tourney with this douty knight."

A Thomas Zanchy was granted the office of " Registrar of seizures and forfeits of Goods uncustomed or prohibited." See ' Calendar of State Papers (Domestic), 1660-61,' pp. 315, 368, 387. Pepys mentions several times Clement Zanchy, a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Mynors Bright notes :

"At the College meetings he spelt his name 'Zanchy,' at first, but in 1656 he changed it to
 * Sankey,' and it is sometimes spelt ' Sanchy.' "

Mr. Zanchy was Solicitor to the Common- wealth in 1655 ; see F. A. Inderwick, The Interregnum, 1648-60,' p. 192.

The Colonel's Christian name naturally raises the question as to his relationship with the famous sixteenth- century Protestant theologian Hieronymus Zanchius (Zanchi), who at one time proposed to accompany Peter Martyr to England, and who addressed dedications to Archbishop Grindal and Francis, Earl of Bedford.

EDWARD BENSLY.

DR. BUSBY : ROBERTS (11 S. xii. 140, 208). Since writing my reply I have discovered yet another Roberts of the Pells Office, viz., Edward Roberts. I cannot give the exact dates of his tenure of office. One Barre

Charles Roberts, son of Edward Roberts,. Esq., deputy and first clerk of the Pell& office of the Exchequer, and of Baling, Middlesex, died 1 Jan., 1810, at his father's- house at Baling. The son had contributed to The Gentleman's Magazine on numismatic subjects (Gentleman's Magazine, 1810, part i. pp. 93, 179).

Presumably Edward Roberts was a man; of means, as the collection of coins made by his son, who died under age, was sold to the Trustees of the British Museum for 4,000 guineas (ibid, part ii. pp. 440* 544).

In The Gentleman's Magazine, 1814,. part ii. pp. 4616, is a review of ' Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers of Barre Charles Roberts, Student of Christ Church..' The said Barre Charles, third child and second son of Edward Roberts, was born 13 March,. 1789, in a house in St. Stephen's Court, West- minster, which his father inhabited as Deputy Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer^ Barre Charles was entered at Christ Church as a Commoner, 11 Oct., 1805. He became a student (presumably junior student) at the- following Christmas by the presentation of Dr. Hay, obtained at the request of Viscount Sidmouth. His home was then at Baling. He was buried in the church there (i.e.,, St. Mary'-s). There were present at the funeral his brother William Henry Roberts ;. his brother-in-law Mr. Welch ; his cousins Grosvenor Charles Bedford and Henry Bedford ; and the Rev. William Goodenough,. his early preceptor at Baling, who wrote the Latin inscription for the tablet in the church. Perhaps the W. H. Roberts, Clerk Assistant of the Pells, or possibly the senior W. H. Roberts (ante, p. 208), was the elder brother of Barre Charles. The father, Edward Roberts, is not mentioned as being present. One may gather from the mention of Barre Charles's " early preceptor at Baling," under whose care he was placed in 1799, and the date (1810) of the boy's death, that Edward Roberts had a house at Baling at least from 1799 to 1810. Does this fit the date of " our friend Roberts of the Exchequer " ? Perhaps the Roberts family spread in Baling as it did in the Pells Office. Barre contributed to The Quarterly Review.

The marble tablet still exists in the church. Under the inscription is a coat of arms with a crescent, mark of cadency for the second son.

There is, I think, no other Roberts monu- ment in the church ; there may be others in the churchyard.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.