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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. VL AUG. si, 1912.

Hingand, Baderon, Alan the Seneschal, " Glajusprepositus Galterus & Herveus filii eius Buterius " (Lobineau's ' Hist. Brit.,' vol. ii., Instr., col. 138). I hardly know whether we can consider " Buterius " to apply to Hervey only or whether it be not even another witness's name. The duties of the Butarii and the Botelarii were distinct, as in the household of Henry II. (' Liber Niger,' i. 349) ; the former had charge of the wine in butts, while the latter were the " dispensatores Botellariae," and the " Magister Pincerna " was over them both.

The civil and military organization of his small diocese, copied from that of his Norman neighbours, was evidently the work of that practical and energetic prelate Archbishop Gingueneus (?Wigan), who built the castle of Combourg, and settled it on his brother "Ruellan" (Riwallon, i.e. Roland), with 12 knights' fees in Dol (Henry II. 's Inquest, 1181). He benefited others of his kinsfolk. William, Abbot of Saumur (1070-1118), was his nephew ; so was John, Lord of Dol (son of Riwallon), who took holy orders and was elected archbishop in 1082.

A new fact in the Fitzharding pedigree (see 5 S. xii. 362) may be here conveniently mentioned that Henry, son of Robert fitz Harding and " dean of More tan," was Archbishop elect of Dol, and died in August, 1188, at Rome, whither he had gone for consecration (Eyton's ' Itin. H. II.,' p. 291).

Early heraldry, always trustworthy, comes to our aid wonderfully, and clearly points to the fact that the Stewarts and the Butlers were of one stock originally. The most ancient and paternal coat of the Fitzalans those of Clun was Argent, a chief azure ; of the Butlers, Or, a chief indented azure, and this exactly we find also given to the Lords of Middleham, descended from Bardulf, a brother of Earl Alan, in the reliable pedigree drawn up about 1450, no doubt by those clever monks at Coverham (Gen., New S.,iii. 31). Rannulf de Glanville is usually assigned the same coat, but herein he is given Azure, 3 crescents argent. In the Rich- mondshire Roll of Arms (c. 1337), evi- dently from the same scriptorium, we find given to Randolf fitz John de Wod- halle the Butler coat colours reversed ; to Robert fitz Elys de Newton, Argent, a chief indented azure ; and to Hervey de Watlous, Or, on a chief indented azure 3 crescents of the field (Coll. Top. et Gen., ii. 320).

The influence this Butler coat had in Lancashire is well shown in a pedigree by the late Dr. Ormerod, the historian of Cheshire (ib., vii. 17). "A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

A RELIC OF JOHN BUNYAN (?).

THE following account of an " antient tome ' r which has lately come into my possession will, I think, interest certain of your readers. The contents are as follows :

" PEIMA The First Things ; or Regeneration Sermons, delivered by Isaac AMBROSE, minister of the Gospel, at Preston, in Amoundernes in Lancashire. London. 1650. The Doctrine and Directions, but more especially the Practice and Behaviour of a Man in the act of THE NEW BIRTH r a treatise by way of appendix to the former : by the same author. 1650. ULTIMA The Last Things in reference to the First and Middle Things or certain meditations on Life, Death, Judgment, Hell, Bight Purgatory, and Heaven : by the same author. 1650."

The three works are bound together in one volume in old calf. A former owner (who, to judge by his handwriting, would date about 1750) has written the following on the page facing the ' Contents ' :

" The notes in the margins were written by that valiant advocate for Truth, John Bunyan, while- in Prison."

A later owner has written on a .sheet of paper, loosely inserted :

" The Marginal Notes in this book were written. by John Bunyan : I know not the evidence- upon which the fact rests : but it was fully believed by my dear Husband, Dr. Olinthus- Gregory." (Signed) "A. G. Woolwich Common,. June, 1842."

On examining the work carefully I find" that the first 72 pages are thickly covered with marginal notes in a handwriting which is quite distinct and legible, and which I believe to be Bunyan's from the following evidence. If we refer to the anonymous- Biography prefixed to his works, written, evidently by one who knew him well, and had visited him in prison, we read :

" Not long after, the providence of God so ordered it, that Mr. Bunyan went to Bedford, to work at his calling, and happened there to hear three or four poor women, who were sitting in. the sun, discoursing together about the things, of God, which caused him to draw near to them, for he was by this time, himself become a mighty talker of Religion ; but when he had heard awhile as he himself confessed, he heard, indeed,, but he understood not, for they spoke of thing.s above his reach discoursing of ' THE NEW BIRTH ' and the work of God on their hearts : it was upon this discourse of theirs that he began* to feel some unusual agitations in his own heart and to be conscious to himself that his own.