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Guardian, which in June, 1903, gave a description of, " the unfinished building in Beulah Road East, Thornton Heath, that has for years remained untouched, and which originally was begun for a society known as the Grand Sharri Tephlia." The building was announced for sale by auction, at the Mart, in the following month July.

W. B. H.

' THE YOUNG SON OF CHIVALRY.' I shall be greatly obliged if any contributor can furnish me with the words of this West- Country song, either through ' N. & Q.' or direct. The first line runs

A knight loved a maid in the valley. The song is from a hundred to a hundred and fifty years old, I think. I shall be glad of any particulars.

S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD.

8, Lancaster Road, Bowes Park, N.

G. EDWARDS : DRAWINGS or BIRDS. There are in my possession two coloured drawings of birds with the following descrip- tions written below them :

1. "A Bird from the Island of Ceylon, drawn from Nature of the size of Life by George Edwards,

April 4th, 1760 See Knox's 'Hist, of Ceylon

in the East Indies,' London, 1681, page 27."

2. " The Curucui of Marcgraue, drawn and etched from life by G. Edwards, June the 15th, 1759."

The first sketch represents what is called in Ceylon the bird of paradise (Tchitrea paradisi, Linn.). I should be glad to know who George Edwards was, whether he pub- lished a book of drawings of birds ; what place is meant by " Marcgraue " ; and whether Edwards travelled there and to Ceylon, or is likely to have made the sketches in England from specimens imported alive.

I should also like to learn what the second bird (which looks like a parroquet) is, and whether, if no book of sketches of birds was published by Edwards, these are original drawings. PENRY LEWIS.

Quisisana, Walton by Clevedon.

DE JERSEY FAMILY. Can any of your readers throw light upon this old family, who have resided in Guernsey since 1450, and were then styled Le Vavasseur dit de Jersey ? A member of the family in the middle of the fifteenth century is supposed to have lived in Sarum. Can any trace be found of that branch in Salisbury ? The name was spelt Gereseye in the early part of the fourteenth century, and is thus spelt in old deeds. A Richard de Gereseye is mentioned in the Patent Rolls in 1317 as

lately King's Butler ; and his son John de Gereseye had a grant of the viscountcy of the island of Geresej^e. Richard de Gereseye seems to have lost the King's plate whilst in his custody in Stryvelyn (the old name for Stirling), for which he got a pardon 1 January, 1317. Any information concerning the family will be gratefully received. CHARLES P. C. DE JERSEY. 1, Eaton Place, Choisi, Guernsey.

BTJCKERIDGE BOOK - PLATE. To what branch of the Buckeridge family do the following book-plates belong ? 1. Or, five crosslets sable salterwise between two pellets, a label in chief. Crest, a hill (? a ridge), thereon four trees. Motto, "Sub tegmine fagi." Name, Francis Buckeridge. 2. Or, five cross crosslets fitchee sable salterwise between two pellets, a martlet in chief. Crest, a hawk belled. Xo name.

ARTHUR STEPHENS DYER.

207, Kingston Road, Teddington.

LTJDLOW CASTLE. Soon after the acces- sion of George I. an order was received to unroof the buildings, and decay soon ensued. Fourteen panels bearing the arms of many of the nobility were converted into wainscoting for " The Bull Hotel " in Ludlow.

Are any of these materials, &c., now in any houses in Ludlow or the neighbourhood? What are the most notable articles from the Castle now in the Ludlow Museum ? What became of the bulk of the fine furniture when removed from the Castle ? J. K.

Brighton.

" KIDKOK." What is the origin of this word ? It occurs in a list of tenants written in the early part of the seventeenth century, and having reference to the shops and their situation under a building which w T ould correspond to a Town Hall of the present day. CITIZEN.

JAMES GLEN OF DEMERARA. I lately read, but have forgotten where, some sen- tences about the youthful days of this early advocate of " Swedenborgian " doc- trines in England and America, who died on 14 September, 1814, at the age of 85 and upwards. I think the reference occurred in some recently published history of a Scottish school, town, or locality. Can a fellow-reader remedy my forgetfulness in this matter ? I have access to the details of Glen's career furnished by the literature of the "denomination"; also to the accounts of his hermit days given by Capt. St. Clair ('A Soldier's Recollections of the