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 254 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vn. mar. 29, wis. to a deed, 6 April, " in the year from the beginning of the reign of Henry VI. 49, and in the first year of his recovery of royal power." (Deeds for this short term, 9 Oct., 1470-April, 1471, are rare.) An isolated instance of Daniel Gary's name occurs 7 April, 2 and 3 Philip and Mary. In Letters Patent, 20 June, 1665, exemplifying a charter concerning the boundaries of Holmere Heath, the name of Walter Gary appears :— '' Now know yea that the tenor of the aforesaid Record at the desire and request of Walter Cary and Stephen Young, gentlemen," &c. There is no doubt that the Cary family occupied an important position in the county of Buckingham, and that it was one of the chief families of High Wycombe up to the end of the sixteenth century, and perhaps a little later. Branches of the family were found in Bucks at Quainton, near Aylesbury, and Easington, near Thame. Lipscomb gives a short pedi- gree of the Easington branch, connecting thorn with the Carys of Castle Cary, Somerset. I find that in 1546 there was a grant to Sir Maurice Berkeley :— " Grants in March, 1546, 37 Henry VIII. Sir Maurice Barkeley. Grant, in fee, for his services and for 5001., of the house and site of Brewton mon., Horn., with church, steeple, churchyard, buildings, gardens, Ac, and demesne lands (named), the rectory of Brewton and chapels of Bruham, Pitoombe, lUdlynche, and Wyke, Soma., the advowsoti of Brewton vicarage, tithes of grain, wool, and lambs in Hoddespen and Hunwike, and small tithes in Pytoombe, Cole, Haddes- ]>on, and Hunwike, and tithes of grain, wool, and lambs and other small tithes in Brew- ham, the chief messuage and farm of HorBeley in tenure of Walt. Carye and Alice his wife and John his son, in Kowthbruham parish, with a close called Qunrre Close also in their tenure there, and two oloses thete called Southmeode and North- mede which were kept in the abbot of Brow ton's own hands, and the manor of Northbruham, Bonis.," Brewton.—' Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.,' London, 1908, vol. xxi. part i. p. 247, No. 504 (28). There must have been a connexion between the Carys of Bucks and those of Castle Cary and Lytes Cary, but precisely what the connexion was I am not able to say. The name of Walter Cary (of Castle Cary) occurs twice in the will of John Capper of Almsford, Somerset, dated 23 Oct., 1619 (Soame, fo. 12). Hero let mo say something as to Mb. Barlow's allusion to ' A Boke of the Propreties of Herbes,' which, it is true, has passed under Walter Cary's name, and also under that of Walter Copland, the printer. It bears on the title-page the initials " W.C.," j which may stand either for Copland or Cary. ! This was one of the several editions of Banckes's ' Herball,' then very popular, and, although it may have been edited or pro- moted in some way by a Walter Cary, it could not have been by the one who wrote ' The Hammer for the Stone.* The ' Herball ' was issued somewhere about 1550, and various editions of it exist, Thomas Petyt issuing one, Copland another, and John Kynge another. But all these appeared when the Walter Cary we are considering (author of ' The Hammer for the Stone ') was a child. There is, however, a connexion between the Carys and herbals, because it is well known that Henry Lyte (1529-1607) of Lytes Cary was the famous translator of Dodoens's ' Herball,' 1578, and he had a herbal garden at Lytes Cary. I have no definite information as to when the Cary family left High Wycombe, but somewhere between 1653 and 1689 they became possessed of Everton Manor in Bedfordshire, and Walter Cary retained it until 1714, when it was alienated to William Astell. The arms of this Walter Cary included a swan (cf. Harl. MS. 1405, f. 15). Now Henry Lyte (1529-1607) drew up an heraldic roll : " A description of the Swannes of Carie that came first from Caria in Asia to Carie in Britain." This is, I believe, now in the possession of Sir H. Maxwell Lyte. In the ' Visitation of Bed- fordshire ' by Bysshe, in 1669, there is a pedigree of Cary of Everton, but this Visi- tation has, I think, never been printed. It is in the College of Arms' MSS. (D 24), and it is, I believe, the only existing means of verifying the connexion between the Carys of High Wycombe and those who later went to live at Everton, a house which has now disappeared. There is a Walter Cary Charity there still. "1663, July 21. Walter Cary, Esq., of Everton, Beds, Widr, 46, and Elizabeth Wollas- ton, of St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, Widow, 38; at St. Martin's Outwich, or St. Peter le Poor, London."—Harleian Society's'Canterbury Marriage Lioonces.' For copies of Cary's books elsewhere than in the British Museum, see ' Catalogue of Surgeon-General's Library ' (U.S.), Second Series. It seems certain that ' The Hammer for the Stone ' and ' The Farewell to Phy- sick ' were written by Walter Cary of High Wycombe, M.A. of Magdalen ; but, from the dates, it is impossible that the same Walter Cary could have written the Herbal, and most improbable that he wrote ' The Present State of England.' I believe that