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His mansion, Hurley Manor, stood near the church, and then contained the crypt. The mansion is now demolished, but the crypt remains still in the grounds of the new residence "Ladye Place." Lysons's 'Magna Britannia ' deals with the secret chamber. There is also an article on it, by Mr. Thomas Woods of Battersea Park, S.W., in The Defender of December, 1911.

WILLIAM MACABTHTJB.

FRANCES, LADY LTJMLEY. A statement in Lodge's ' Peerage of Ireland,' ed. Archdall (ed. 1789, vol. iv. p. 264), to the effect that Frances, Lady Lumley, daughter of Henry Shelley of Warminghurst, co. Sussex, died in 1657, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, needs correction. She was buried at Westbourne, Sussex, 10 March, 1626 (Sussex Arch. Coll., vol. xxii. p. 89). The Lady Lumley who was buried in 1657/8 in Westminster Abbey was Elizabeth, second wife of Lord Lumley, daughter of Sir William Cornwallis of Bourne, in Suffolk, and widow of Sir William Sandys.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

CATHERINE SEDLEY AND THE CHTJRCHILLS. In Wolseley's ' Life of John Churchill, Duke of Maryborough,' p. 186 (London, 1894), it is stated that Sir Winston and Lady Churchill wished John Churchill, afterwards first Duke of Maryborough, to marry their kinswoman Catherine Sedley, afterwards famous as the Countess of Dorchester. On p. 1 88 there is reference again to this kinship. Can any of your readers indicate the line of relationship ? Lady Churchill was a Drake, and her maternal grandmother a Villiers. Catherine Sedley was descended from Saviles and Savages. It is possible that the link lies in the Saviles, as Henry Savile was entrusted to break the matter off ; but I can find no link between Saviles and Churchills, Villiers or Drakes.

K. P.

Univ. Coll., London.

LANERCOST MANOR. Will you kindly inform me through the medium of 'N. & Q.' in what year and by whom the Manor of Lanercost, Cumberland, was founded ? The Priory of Lanercost was founded in, I

believe, the year 1169, but I can find no record as to when the manor was founded, although I think it was after the passing of the statute of Quia Emptores in 1290, 18 Edward I., c. i., by which Act the creation of new manors was rendered impossible (vide Halsbury's ' Laws of England,' vol. viii. p. 3, published 1909 ; and Scriven on ' Copy- holds,' in loco, 7th ed., published 1896). The above manor is still in existence, but illegally so, I contend, for the above reason, and the steward of the manor is still collect- ing the fines, lord's rents, and other dues in respect of the customary and freehold lands from the tenants. Kindly also inform me whether or not the Manor of Lanercost forms part of the Barony of Gilsland. I think not. BERTRAND.

"PENARD." In the first volume of the parish register of Wotton or, as it was then called, Wooton in Surrey, I note the entry (written by a hand that Evelyn the Diarist may have grasped !) :

1597. " Layd out uppon esterdaye, for iij pot of mamsie & viij penard' of bred, ij s ix d ."

This yields an early instance of the word, which I find in the ' N.E.D.' spelt " pen- neard," i.e., penn'orth, pennyworth; unless, indeed, it be some unrecorded word. Might it possibly derive from the Latin penus, provision ; penarwis, pertaining to victuals ? ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

ST. AGNES : FOLK-LORE. I should be glad to know where Keats was likely to obtain the folk-lore which he has worked up into his poem ' The Eve of St. Agnes ' :

They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve, Young virgins might have visions of delight, And soft adorings from their loves receive Upon the honey'd middle of the night, If ceremonies due they did aright ; As, supperless to bed they must retire, And couch supine their beauties, lily white ; Nor look behind, nor sideways, but require Of Heaven with upward eyes for all that they desire.

Is there any mention of such a custom in any pre-Keatsian work ?

Which St. Agnes is thus commemorated St. Agnes the First, virgin and martyr, 21 Jan., St. Agnes the Second, 28 Jan., or St. Agnes of Monte Pulciano, 20 April ?

J. H. R.

MOTTO FOR MILK DEPOT. A municipal milk depot is being erected in Bradford. Can any of your readers suggest a motto or distich to be placed over the entrance ?

SHELL LAC.