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NOTES AND QUERIES. rn s. iv. OCT. 21, 1911.

PITT FAMILY OF COSEY HALL, GLOTJCESTER- SHIBE. Where can I find a pedigree of the above family ? I am particularly anxious to learn the parentage of John Pitt of Gloucester, whose daughter Sarah married Isaac Nind of Overbury, Worcestershire, about 1760. I understand the above John Pitt was a member of the Pitt family of Cosey Hall. Is he the Col. John Pitt of Cosey Hall who married Lady Diana Howard, daughter of Henry, 5th Earl of Suffolk ? Any information will be most acceptable. Kindly communicate direct. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

62, Nelson Eoad, Stroud Green, N.

KINGSLEY AND BROWNING. In a brilliant riming letter to Tom Hughes, Kingsley genially says :

Leave to Robert Browning

Beggars, fleas, and vines.

To judge by the lines in sequence, the humorist is referring to some poems of Brown- ing on those topics ; yet I cannot recall any. Will some one kindly enlighten me ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

PENGE AS A PLACE-NAME. Could any one inform me as to the origin of the name Penge, once in the parish of Battersea, and now in the county of Kent ? The name appears on a map in Camden's ' Britannia,' 1610, as " Pens-greene," while in the end of the eighteenth century we find " Pens Green " and " Penge Common " on the same map in close proximity.

S. HODGSON.

PETER COTJRAYER ON ANGLICAN ORDERS. Has the work which Peter Courayer wrote on Anglican Orders, while a student at the Sorbonne, ever been reprinted ? Dean Stanley calls him the " Blanco White of the eighteenth century " (' Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey '), and he was buried in the Abbey in 1776. An English transla- tion seems to have been published in the eighteenth century, but I think there must have been another since then.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

UPHAM LATIN INSCRIPTIONS : HOLDWAY AND EWEN. In this churchyard is a tomb- stone bearing a coat of arms with what seem to me to be three crosses, the upper bar of each ending in something like a circle with spikes or rays. There is a bend (is that the right name ?) across the shield. The name is Hold way, and the date 1777. This name does not appear in 'Fairbairn's Crests,'

but on the other part of the stone a double one is the name of a daughter who married a Ewen, to which name a crest is assigned by Fairbairn. Is it likely that the shield belonged to Ewen ? I should be grateful to any one versed in heraldry for information as to the right description of the armorial bearings, and also for the name of the family to which they belong.

There are also two stones with Latin inscriptions of dates 1701, 1703, and 1719, but there does not seem to be any reason social or otherwise for the employment of that language. Can any one enlighten me ? E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory.

FROST ARMS AT WINCHESTER. When recently in Winchester Cathedral, I observed on the cornice of the screens between choir and choir aisles the arms of Bishop Fox (d. 1528), indeed a series of them, alternating with those of William Frost, who was steward of the bishopric during Bishop Fox's episco- pate. William Frost's arms are, as I read them, Arg., on a chevron sa., between three owls gu., a az." It is on the latter point that I desire information. The charge on the chevron appears like a blue rosette or a figure very nearly resembling the con- ventional Japanese chrysanthemum, but, having regard to the fact that the tincture is certainly azure and that it is charged on a chevron sable, I think there must be some mistake. Can any correspondent enlighten me ?

It may be noted that Burke in his ' Armoury ' gives the arms as above, but on the black chevron charges a quatrefoil or, for the family of Frost.

FRED C. FROST, F.S.A.

Teignmouth.

JEFFERSON = SAMPSON. Can any corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' give me particulars of the ancestry of a Robert Jefferson, surgeon of Dublin, who married Elizabeth Sampson of the parish of St. Mark, Dublin, on 30 January, 1739, or the parentage of this lady ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

PORCH INSCRIPTION IN LATIN. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to give me the original Latin of an inscription (now quite illegible) on the porch of an old manor house, of which something like the following was given me as a translation about fifty years ago : "If thou wouldst be a wise man, take heed of these three things : what thou sayest : where thou sayest it : when thou sayest it." H. F. FITZGUILLAUME.