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236 of the pedigree given by him I in the main agree; but he omits wife's name of the first Auchitel (son of Sir Arnold) and also John de Grey, eldest son of the second Auchitel de Grey, and father of Henry of Thurrock in Essex, whose mother's name I give in the annexed pedigree. It is possible, however, that further information may yet be got from an original source—say, from the Earl of Stamford pedigree, probably included by Edmondson in his 'Baronagium Genealogicum.'

The probable pedigree may be stated thus, which will practically be found to be in accordance with the researches of Sir William Dugdale:—

Fulbert of Falaise, chamberlain to Robert, Duke of Normandy, got a grant from that prince of the castle of Croy in Picardy, from which he assumed his name. He left issue,

John, Lord de Croy = Adela. dau. and coheir of William Fitz Osbern.

Arlette, who made a misalliance with Robert, Duke of Normandy, and became the mother of William the Conqueror.

Sir Arnold de Grey, soon after the Conquest became Lord of Water Eaton, Stoke, and Rotherfield = Joan, dau. and heir of James, Baron Ponte de l'Arche in Normandy.

Auchitel de Grey = (?) held several manors, 1086.

Richard de Grey, eldest son = Mabile.

Auchitel de Grey = Eva, dau. of Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon.

John de Grey, eldest son = Hawise, dau. of Robert de Muschamp of Waldye.

Henry de Grey, had a grant of Thurrock, in Essex, from Richard I. in 1194 = Isolda, niece and coheir of Robert Bardolph.

Henry and Isolda had six sons: Richard, John, William, Robert, Walter, and Henry. The second son, John de Grey, died in 1265. He married Emma, daughter and heir of Geoffrey de Glanville, by whom he had Reginald de Grey, first Baron Grey de Wilton, who died in 1308.

(11 S. viii. 150).—The Selle is a little river of Picardy, only about twenty miles long from its source at Catheux, in the department of the Oise, to its juncture with the Somme, by Amiens. Hundreds of English travellers cross it every week on the railway from Calais-Boulogne, a mile or two before arriving at Amiens station. It falls into the Somme at Montières, which would seem to be the same as "Montais, on the river Selle." The reason why your correspondent has been unable to find either name in ordinary atlases is that Montières is now a faubourg of the city of Amiens, and has no separate existence. It contains a Renaissance château, once the residence of the bishops of Amiens, on the site of an older castle, which was likely enough to have been the quarters of the Dauphin in "the 14th Edward III."—a year of hard fighting between English and French. There is no need to remind your correspondent that the country on the border of which Montières-les-Amiens stands was the scene of some of the chief events in which England was concerned in the first period of the Hundred Years' War. It was to Amiens that the young Edward III. came in 1329 to make homage, as Duke of Guienne, to Philip of France; and it was there that the French king assembled part of his army, which on 26 Aug., 1346, marched to its fate at Crécy from Abbeville, which is only twenty-two miles from Montières on the Selle.

 (11 S. viii. 107, 176, 217).—One of the finest representations of "the Five Wounds" is in the museum at Raby Castle. It once graced a window in Whitby Abbey prior to the Dissolution. Dr. Young in his 'History of Whitby,' i. 348, says:—

"It is a circular piece of glass, eleven inches in diameter, and is a memorial of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a token of veneration for the Virgin Mary. In the centre is a heart, surrounded by a wreath of thorns; next to that are three nails, one on each side and one below; these, with the central part, are encompassed by a circle of beads, divided into five parts by the same number of roses, placed at equal distances, one at the top, and two on each side. Of the lateral roses, the two uppermost contain in the centre the appearance of Christ's hands pierced with the nails, and the two nethermost