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the eagle (the arms of the Martinengo- Cesarescos), but I have never before seen a concave one with this or any other badge, and the chain and ball are quite new to me. The person of whom I bought the mirror could give me no information about its origin.

EVELYN MABTINENGO-CESARESCO. Venice.

SHEFFIELD FAMILY. (See ante, p. 50.) Among the persons interred in the old church of SS. Anne and Agnes, according to S tow's ' Survey,' was " John, Lord Sheffelde." Can any one tell me precisely .who this nobleman was, and what may be assumed to be the most likely reason for . his interment in this City church, away {as it would appear) from other members of his family ? Stow gives no date un- fortunately, and the will of "Sir John Sheffelde, knight, lord Sheffelde," dated 1568, proved 1569 (P.C.C. 1 Sheffeld), the only likely individual traceable at Somerset House, contains no local reference. The will, in fact, contains no London reference whatever. WILLIAM MCMUBBAY.

LIEUT. BTJSSY MANSELL, R.N. Can any one kindly inform me (1) who were the parents of Lieut. Bussy Mansell, R.N. (twenty years), who d. 23 May, 1732, cet. 44, and is buried at Swansea (inscrip- tion at St. Mary's) ; (2) who were those of his wife Peregrina, who d. 30 Oct., 1721, cet. 34, and is buried at Newport Pagnell, Bucks (Church Register, 4 Nov.) ? An inscription in Bromley Church, Kent, incorrectly describes her as buried there. L. GRIFFITH.

70, Flaxraan Terrace, W.C.

TRTJSSELLS AND SWYNNEBTONS. Some .time ago you kindly inserted a query for me on this subject, but no explanation has yet appeared as to the armorial bearings of these two houses in Plantagenet times. They were the same, save only for differ- ences of colour and metal a fact which should point to a common origin of both the families. That the Swynnertons were Breton in origin has been well established. " Trussell " has been defined as a sobriquet or nickname only. Did any noble Breton house bear the cross flory on a plain field ? What were the arms of the twelfth-century descendants, of Alan, Earl of Brittany, for example ? I hope some of your learned contributors will kindly look into this subject again. Early heraldry contains many a valuable historical secret.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

THE STONE'S END, BOROUGH. (11 S. v. 289, 396, 515.)

STONE'S END was at the spot where Black- man Street, New Road, Xewington Cause- way, and Horsemonger Lane met. The turnpike is given in Wallis's map of 1795 as standing close to this same spot, but other maps make the turnpike further south by apparently a few hundred yards.

In Rendle and Norman's ' The Inns of Old Southwark' the following occurs. (Pre- sumably the ground plan referred to is still in the possession of the Society of Anti- quaries) :

" Considerably further south we come to an- other ' Unicorn ' [Inn]," which I take the liberty to describe here, leaving the Bankside for the purpose. It was on the east side of Blackmail Street, nearly opposite Dirty Lane, now more elegantly Suffolk Street. This is a much more interesting ' Unicorn,' not in itself perhaps, but by good hap from the preservation of an elaborate ground plan of two hundred and fifty years ago, the original presented to 'the Society of Anti- quaries by Mr. Halliwell a picture of a little township at Stone's End, 1627."

Formerly the roads to the South Coast were measured from the Standard in Cornhill ; but those on the Portsmouth Road, at any rate, were, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, measured from Stone's End. The following appears in the early editions of Paterson's ' Roads ' :

" The Mile stones on the Portsmouth Road have been lately altered as far as Sheet Bridge, and the measure taken from the Stone's end, instead of the Standard in Cornhill ; by which means the 29th mile stone stands within the Town of Guildford ; and the other Roads branch- ing therefrom are consequently shorter than heretofore reckoned when the measurement was taken from Cornhill, according to which the Mile stones are standing in many places."

In James Elmes's ' Topographical Dic- tionary of London ' (1831, p. 379) it is stated that

li Stone's End, Southwark, is at the South End of Blackman Street, and is the spot from which most of the measurements of the Surrey roads are taken."

I think that the following from Brayley and Britton's ' Surrey ' may, perhaps, also help to throw light upon the possible origin of the name :

" Howsoever historians and antiquaries may have differed as to the courses of the several Roman roads from the southern and south-