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Kenn of Langford, co. Som., bore Erm., three crescents gu., and for crest, three crescents interwoven arg. Kenne of Kenne, in the same county, bore, ancient coat, Arg., three crescents gu. ; crest, three crescents interlaced or ; but in 1561 a later coat was granted : Erm., three crescents gu. Crest, a unicorn's head azure bezante, maned or, horned of the last and sa. (See Burke's
 * General Armory.')

Bedford's ' Blazon of Episcopacy ' assigns to the Bishop Erm., three crescents gu.,and cites as authority a window at Wadham. None of these coats is in Edmondson.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, F.S.A.Scot. Littleton Place, Walsall.

According to the pedigree in " The Life of Thomas Ken.... by a Layman" (1854), part ii. p. 828, the Bishop's eldest brother, Ion Ken, who became Treasurer of the East India Company, had " a son, d. at Cyprus about 1707." This son was seem- ingly the William Ken whose epitaph is given at the above reference. In the same ' Life ' (which was written by John Lavi- court Anderdon), part i. p. 2n., the arms of the Ken family are given (correctly, as I believe) as " Ermine, three crescents gules, the crest three crescents interlaced argent." See also the title-page to each part. H. C.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. vi. 290). The quotation may be found in The Spectator (10 Oct., 1711) in an essay by Steele. The exact words are : " The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life."

A. L. HUMPHREYS, 187, Piccadilly, W.

SEGRAVE : DE SEGRE (H S. vi. 271). Stephen de Segrave or Sedgrave (d. 1241), Chief Justiciar, was son of Gilbert de Se-

rave, son of Hereward, who in 1166 held egrave in Leicestershire as a fourth part of a knight's fee, under William, Earl of Warwick.

In his time was compiled the ' Red Book ' of the lordship of Segrave, much used by Nichols in his ' History of Leicestershire,' and now in the British Museum.

A. R. BAYLEY.

The Barons Segrave owe the title to Segrave (sometimes spelt Seagrave), a village in Leicestershire, which is not very far from Six Hills, which lies on the borders of that county and Nottinghamshire. The barony

is now held by Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton, who bears in the fourth quarter of his arms Sa.,a lion rampant arg., ducally crow r ned or, in token of Segrave. There is a parish called Six Hills in Lincoln- shire, in the neighbourhood of Market Rasen. ST. SWITHIN.

DOGS ON TOMBS (11 S. vi. 129, 195, 253). I do not know whether your correspondent has seen the following tombs, but they all have dogs at the feet of the knight, and are quaint and picturesque.

Tomb of a member of the Fitzralph family in Pebmarsh Church, Essex, 1320 ; also a similar one on monument to Sir John de St. Quintin, Brandsburton Church, Yorks, 1397 (the animal appears to be a grey- hound) ; Sir John de Leventhorpe, 1433, Sawbridgeworth Church, Herts ; Sir Robert Staunton, Castle Dorington Church, Leices- tershire, 1458 ; Sir Robert de Bothe, Wims- low Church, Cheshire, 1460.

SYDNEY HERBERT.

Carlton Lodge, Cheltenham.

THE ROYAL GEORGE : NAME OF DURHAM (11 S. vi, 110, 176). I have in my posses- sion a little book, 4 in. X 2 in., published in 1841, entitled

"A Narrative of the Loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 ; including Tracey's attempt to raise her in 1783, also Col. Pasley's operations in removing the ship, by gxinpowder, in 1839-40-41. Bound in the wood of the wreck. Fourth Edition."

This contains a list of the officers belonging to the ship at the time of her loss, and Philip Charles H. Durham is named as the seventh lieutenant. The narrative says :

" Among the officers snatched from a watery grave was Admiral Sir Charles Philip Henderson Durham, Gr.C.B., recently commander in chief at Portsmouth, who was then a young lieutenant, and was returning from the shore, but when about a boat length from the ship, she went down, and his boat was drawn into the vortex. He was the seventh lieutenant and aide-de-camp to Admiral Kempenfelt. He threw off his coat and dashed into the sea, when he was seized by a drowning marine, by whom he was twice carried down. On rising to the surface a second time, the lieutenant succeeded in extricating himself from the dying marine's grasp, by tearing off his waistcoat, by which the marine clung, and he swam to the halyards of the mainmast, from whence he was taken by a boat. The body of the marine was washed on shore a fortnight afterwards, with the waistcoat firmly twisted round Iris arm, a pencil case bearing the initials of Lieutenant Durham, was found safe in the pocket, and restored to its owner."

The book contains the accounts of two survivors who escaped through portholes.