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and that it contained the lyric under dis- cussion, which was familiar to Hogg as a traditional song and " a great favourite all over Scotland." Till Hogg's statements can be explained away, it will be impossible to assign the authorship of ' The Wee Wee German Lairdie ' to Allan Cunningham or any other writer. THOMAS BAYNE.

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GOWER FAMILY OF WORCESTERSHIRE (11 S. ii. 249, 417, 452; iii. 472). As the lineage of William Gower, M.P. for Ludlow, has been queried, it is as well to give the following information concerning what Grazebrook in his 'Heraldry of Worcester- shire' terms "a right ancient family."

The descent from Richard Gower of Whittington, co. Wore. (temp. Ed. I.), to William Gower of Boughton St. John, co. W^orc. (son of Henry Gower of Boughton St. John by his wife Barbara Littleton), who married Eleanor, daughter of John Folliott of Pirton, and died 1601, is in 'Visitation of Worcestershire of 1569 ' (Harl. Soc.).

The second son of William Gower, i.e., George Gower of Colemers, co. Wore., succeeded to the Boughton St. John property on the death of his elder brother John Gower in 1625, and was father to Abel Gower, M.A. Oxon., Fellow and Proctor of Oriel College, who was born 1567 ; married at St. Bartho- lomew-the-Less, London, 1 June, 1614, Ann Withers ; and died 1632 (will proved P.C.C. 1632).

Abel Grower's elder son, Abel Gower of Boughton St. John (born 1620 and died 1671 : will proved P.C.C. 1671), had by Ma.ry his wife two sons, who are both mentioned in his will : (1) Robert and (2) William, M.P. for Ludlow. (Particulars of William Gower and his descendants are supplied in Burke' s ' Landed Gentry ' under 4 Gower of Glandovan '). The elder son, Robert Gower of Boughton St. John and of Buttonbridge Hall, co. Salop (born 1645), married in 1671 Katherine, daughter of Sir William Lacon Childe of Kinlet, co. Salop, and died 1690 (will proved P.C.C. 1690). His eldest son, Abel Gower of Boughton St. John (born 1672), married in 1692 Mary, daughter of - - Alnut of (?) Penshurst, Kent, and died 1710, leaving two sons : Abel Eustace Gower (born 1707, died 1711) and William Gower (born 1701), who married in 1729 Ann, daughter of Edward Thorp of Chiddingstone, Kent, and died 2 November, 1788.

William Gower between 1724 and 1728 considerably encumbered his estate, and by

indentures of lease and release dated 16 and 17 October, 1729, disposed of Boughton St. John to one Joseph Weston, thus parting with a property which had been in the family for many generations. William Gower had several children, the eldest of whom, Edward Gower of Chiddingstone, was born 1744, married Jane Honey wood of Ashford, Kent, and was father to Edward Gower, whose descendants are given in Mr. Crisp's ' Visitation of England and Wales,' vol. xv. p. 38.

I have related the devolution of the Boughton St. John property to show that Nash ('History of Wore.') was wrong in stating that it "descended to the Ingrains in the female line." Nash was evidently confusing Boughton St. John with the ad- joining estate of Earl's Court, which did so descend. H. A. BULLEY.

The difference of opinion as to whether the cross in the Gower arms is flory or patonce may be accounted for by Mr. Barren's ex- planation that both these terms are given in Tudor and modern heraldry to variants of the mediaeval cross paty : " The true cross paty, when encountered by the armorist in its plump shape (fashion of 1300), is ticketed cross patoncee ; but when the fashion of 1450 thins its arms it straightway becomes a cross flory " (Ancestor, L 51). The term " paty " or " pate," Mr. Barron points out, is applied in modern heraldry only to the old cross formy. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

LUSH AND LUSHINGTON SURNAMES (11 S.

iii. 490). The name Lushington occurs frequently in the parish registers of this neighbourhood, but in its earlier form is, I think, without the h.

In ' Testamenta Cantiana,' p. 157, Thos. Lustenton of Stonden, 1495, desires in his will to be buried in the churchyard of Hawkinge, near Folkestone.

In Saltwood register, under 1579, is the record of the marriage of Alice Lussenton ; and at Cheriton is that of Robertus Lussing- ton.

About the middle of the next century the spelling changes to Lushington.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

Long, ' Personal and Family Names, 1883, says :

"Lusher (le usher) and Lush. Lushington, tha town of the son of Lush."

W. B. GERISH.