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MATHEUS AP ELYAS, ARCHDEACON OF ANGLESEY : BEQUEST OF PROPERTY. A writer in Archceologia Cambrensis, 1873, attempts to decipher a sepulchral slab at Xewborough Church, Anglesey, to the above cleric, temp. Edward III. Can any details be given concerning the ecclesiastic ? There is a reference to testatory dispositions of property to his daughter said to have been refused on a plea so abbreviatively set forth as not to be made plain to the reader. Legibly and briefly, what was the interpretable ground of authoritative and unratifiable refusal ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

AUTHORS' NAMES WANTED. Who were the following : (1) A. H. B., who wrote 'The Rose Tree' in 1845; (2) E. V. B., author of ' Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poet- arum,' 1885; and (3) Laudolicus, author of 1891 ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.
 * The Indian Amateur Rose Gardener,'

Whose are the following lines ?

April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eye hath place ; Within her bosom is September, But in her heart a cold December.

Set to music bv Thos. Morley about 1598.

J. W.

GAVELKIND IN ENGLAND. Does Gavel- kind prevail in Kent now in any measure ? The subject is treated in

" Consuetudines Kancise : a History of Gavel" kind and other Remarkable Customs in the County of Kent, with facsimiles and a folding genealogy of the sons of Woden,"

by Ch. Sandys, published 1851.

WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

JAMES HORROCKS (OR HORROX). The Hon. and Rev. James Horrocks died at Oporto in 1772, having been president of the Royal College of William and Mary in Virginia from 1764 to 1771. On his ap- pointment as president he is described as a " famous minister of Lincolnshire." Can any reader help me by saying what living he held in Lincolnshire from about 1758 to 1761 ? He was in Virginia by 1762.

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

21, Northmoor Road, Oxford.

CORNARO : CORNER. 1. What are the arms of the Venetian family of Cornaro or Corner ?

2. Is there any known connexion between them and families of the same name in this country ? C. CORNER.

The Lodge, High Ham, Somerset.

AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARTIST IN STAINED GLASS. Visiting the old churches of Kent, I found, painted on a border around an early thirteenth-century glass medallion, a name in old and seemingly '' ancient Lombardic " letters : " Salamoni Philipi."

I suppose it is the name of the artist in stained glass who, at the end of the eighteenth century, restored and very well indeed the most interesting pieces, which I should be pleased to study further.

I should be thankful to any reader who would help me to further information about him, as I am here quite alone, and not able to go to London in order to make search myself. P. TURPIN.

29, The Bayle, Folkestone.

LEDINGTON. (See ante, p. 259.) I am desirous of getting data of a marriage of an heiress named Ledington or Liddington or Ledenton, which took place about 1780. Can any reader assist me ? E. DRAY.

Douglas, Wyoming.

" POVERTY CORNER," HYDE PARK. In The Pall Mall Gazette of 30 Oct., 1915, under ' Talk of the Town/ is : "In the Park, as they gossiped at ' Poverty Corner,' which, as you know, is within half a minute of the French Embassy. ..."

Is either corner of Albert Gate inside the park, or any corner " within half a minute," so called ? and if so, why ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

" A STRICKEN FIELD." Can any of your correspondents throw light upon the exact meaning and the origin of the phrase " a stricken field " ? I believe that the late Lord Salisbury used it in one of his speeches.

H. W. M.

[Lord Salisbury used it at the Guildhall on 9 Nov., 1898, with reference to Lord Kitchener's victory at Omdurman. See 10 S. ii. 266.]

SAMUEL DOUSE OR DOWSE OF LONDON. Seeing the name Douse mentioned in the Pargiter and Fleetwood pedigree, ante, p. 321 , I write to ask if R. W. B. or any other reader can inform me who the Samuel Douse of London was who died before 1809, leaving considerable property to his only daughter Anne. She was married in Dublin, January, 1809, to Stephen Trant Moriarty (his second wife). He died 7 Jan., 1817, at Rathmines, Dublin, and was buried in St. James's Churchyard. I cannot trace his widow or her son (or stepson) Stephen.

(Miss) L. E. MORIARTY.

35, Manor Park, Lee, S.E.