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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. MAR. 30, 1912.

COLLIER FAMILY. A branch of the Collier family seated in the eighteenth century in Barbados, W.I., bore for their arms : Gules, on a chevron between three wolves' heads erased argent as many roses of the first, stalked and leaved vert. Crest : a demi-unicorn argent, armed, maned, and hoofed or. Burke's ' General Armory ' assigns these arms to the family of Collyer of Dorsetshire, but this is not Confirmed by inquiries in that county. Can any corre- spondent inform me if any English or Scotch branch of the family used these arms ?

The coat evidently takes its origin from that of Robertson of Struan : Gules, three wolves' heads erased argent ; and the Colliers, Earls of Portmore, who claimed descent from that family, bore very similar arms. Did any other branch of the Robertson family assume the name of Collier ?

C. W. FlREBRACE.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFOBMATION WANTED.

1. WILLIAM BBOMLEY. When did he marry " a Miss Frogmorton " ? What was her Christian name, and who was her father ? The ' D.N.B.,' vi. 404, does not say.

2. DANIEL BURGESS, the famous Presby- terian minister, is said to have married " a Mrs. Briscoe " ('D.N.B.,' vii. 308-9). I should be glad to learn the date of his marriage and some further particulars of his wife.

3. OWEN SALUSBURY - BRERETON. His mother is said by the ' D.N.B.,' vi. 268, to have been " a Trelawney." I wish to ascertain her Christian name and her parentage. When did he assume the addi- tional name of Salusbury ? When did he marry a sister of Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B., and what was her Christian name ?

G. F. R. B.

TOOLEY STREET: TOOLEY FAMILY. Can any one inform me when and from whom Tooley Street took its name ? In St. Peter's Churchyard, Brackley, Northamptonshire, are buried several people of that name. The first mentioned is Thomas Tooley, who died 1712, aged 21, whose epitaph reminds

All you, who come my grave to see,

As I am now so you must be ;

Repent in time, make no delay ;

I in my youth was ta'en away.

John Tooley, presumably a brother of

the above, died 1718, in the 34th year of his

age, while the father and mother, Thomas

and Jane Tooley, survived until 5 May, 1746,

and 3 October, 1744, dying at the ripe respective ages of 84 and 81 years. Their epitaphs (for they have appropriated more than one), if not original, are at least quaint, and deserve to be rescued from the oblivion which, alas ! is too rapidly overtaking them. They are as follows :

This world 's a city full of crooked streets, Death is the market-place where all men meet ; If life was merchandise and men could buy, The rich would always live, the poor would die.

On the back of the stone is an inscription " In Memory of Bridget and Ann Tooley both buried in one coffin," of whom it is said

Like children in the wood these babes here meek, In death's cold arms enfold each other's neck.

And written below is- Our life is nothing but a winter's day: Some only break their fast and so away, Others stay dinner and depart full fed ; The longest guest but sups and goes to bed. He's most in debt that lingers out the day; Who dies betimes has less and less to pay.

Another stone near at hand records the death of Elizabeth Punter, a granddaughter of Thomas and Jane Tooley, and her epitaph tells us :

My life was short, longer may be my rest ; God took me hence because He thought it best. Long life on earth doth but prolong our pain ; To live with Christ will be eternal gain.

The most notable inscription of this family is one nearly a century later, to the memory of Anna, wife of John Lathbury, who died 20 June, 1813, aged 42 ; she was an affec- tionate wife and dutiful daughter of T. and P. Tooley of Bucklersbury, London, and was ten years governess at the ladies' seminary in Brackley. Her epitaph is of the eighteenth- century type, and reads :

Reader, attend, and let the dead impart

A friendly caution, fix it on thine heart '

In youth, in age, be virtue still thy care,

And for death's awful change thy soul prepare.

The late Mr. B. E. Pearson of Brackley, author of ' The Town Hall, or Corporate Brackley,' informed me many years ago that some of the Tooley family removed to London, and became very successful and wealthy merchants there.

L. H. CHAMBERS.

Amersham.

[Tooley St. = St. Olave's Street. It has been already discussed in earlier vols of ' N. & Q.'J

EVANS'S PRINTS AND ENGRAVED PLATES were sold by Putticks about 1866. Are the plates still in existence ? and, if so, in whose possession ? F. VINE RAINSFORD.