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served to endow Winebaud de Ballon, an immigrant from Maine (ibid., pp. 187-94).

The statements that Turstin fitz Rou was granted Wigmore Castle, assumed the name of Wigmore, and had two sons, from whom descended families named Mortimer and Wigmore, all seem to be unsupported assertions. In 1086 Wigmore Castle was held by Ralf de Mortimer, son of the Roger de Mortimer who fought at the Battle of Mortemer in 1054, and was still living in 1074 (Planche, ' Conqueror and his Com- panions;' i. 234-9). Roger, by the way, would take his name of Mortemer or Mortimer from his town and castle of Mortemer, not from the battle fought there, as MB. WIG- MORE seems to imply.

I have referred to Round's ' Feudal England,' p. 324, but there is nothing there to suggest a connexion between the Thurstan, or Turstin, who was son-in-law of Alvred de Merleberge (Alfred of Marlborough), and Turstin fitz Rou.

" Sylvaticus, Earl of Shrewsbury," sounds as romantic as the ' Roman de la Rose.'

G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross. Harleston, Norfolk.

PENLEAZE (11 S. v. 270, 414 ; vi. 33). The gentleman referred to is presumably the person mentioned in Hare's ' Two Noble Lives ' as a former occupant of High- cliff, near Christchurch, Hants. He is stated to have met with a singular " treasure trove " in the form of a vast number of bank-notes concealed within an old cocked- hat box, left behind in a cupboard of the house by some former tenant.

This Mr. John Story Penleaze, M.P., was the father of the Rev. John Penleaze, sometime rector of Black Torrington. Devon, and of Col. Henry Penleaze, neither of whom had any male descendants. The family is now considered to be extinct.

I should be glad to know if I am right in supposing that a book - plate which I possess represents the Penleaze arms, i.e., 1st quarter, croisy, a lion rampant ; 2nd quarter, p.p. fesse indented or et az., three martlets sable ; 3rd quarter, a chevron embattled between three hatchets ; 4th quarter, a human hand erect proper. Crest, a wyvern. Motto, " Neque prodigus, neque avarus." G. J., F.S.A.

WORDSWORTH'S FRIEND JONES (11 S.

v. 430). "This excellent Person, one of my earliest and dearest friends," as Words- worth himself describes him in a note to be found in the Oxford edition of the poet's works by Thomas Hutchinson (1895), p. 903,

which MR. T. LL. JONES does not seem to have seen, and to whom the poet dedicated his ' Descriptive Sketches,' published in 1793, was of the Joneses of Plas-yn-Llan, near Ruthin, but the name of his father I cannot ascertain. He was elected Fellow of his College (St. John's, Cambridge), and sub- sequently became incumbent of a living in Oxfordshire, where he died in 1835. In the note above referred to Wordsworth himself gives some of these particulars, speaking of him most affectionately, as he also does in the letter prefixed to his ' De- scriptive Sketches,' and the sonnet (No. 7, ' Miscellaneous ') he addressed to him (1807).

He was the poet's companion not only through France and Switzerland in 1790, but on frequent excursions through England and Wales. See Knight's ' Works and Life ' of the poet, vol. ix.

JOHN HUTCHINSON.

Dullatur House, Hereford.

TURKISH SPY IN PARIS IN THE SEVEN- TEENTH CENTURY (11 S. v. 489). The author of this work is supposed to have been Charles Frazer, M.D., son of Sir Alexander Frazer, Bart., Physician to Charles II. See the ' D.N-B.' and Cokayne's ' Complete Baronetage ' ; see also ' N. & Q.,' 17 Dec., 1910. S. D. C.

The ' Letters writ by a Turkish Spy ' is a well-known book which ran through many editions from 1691 onwards. It is by John Paul Marana, a Genoese born about 1642, a life of whom may be found in Moreri, Chalmers, and other biographical diction- aries. He lived in Paris from 1682 to 1689, when he retired to Italy, dying there in 1693. Chalmers says :

" Few supposed the author to be a real Turk, but credit was given to the unknown European, who, under a slight fiction, thus delivered opinions and anecdotes, which it might not have been

safe to publish in a more open manner The

whole are now the amusement of few except very idle readers."

John Dunton, bookseller, 1659-1733, in his ' Life and Errors,' 1818 (p. 182), attri- butes ' The Turkish Spy ' to a hackney- author named Bradshaw, on internal evi- dence only. Perhaps he was the translator. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

The book referred to by your corre- spondent was published in England in 1687, and was a very free translation from G. P. Marana's ' L'Espion Turc,' of which several editions appeared on the Continent, with subsequent continuations. It is one of a whole family of novelistic miscellanies