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 US. VII. June 21,1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 487 Ann Poixard.—I am anxious to find particulars of the parentage of Ann Pollard, the first white woman who stepped on land in what is now Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Mr. Walter Kendall Watkins, Secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars, Common- wealth of Massachusetts, has favoured me with the following notice printed by Ben- JRmin Franklin in The New England Con- rant :— " Mrs. Ann Pollard, widow of Mr. William Pollard, born in Saffron Walden, in ye kingdom of England, died Dec. 6 (1725) in ye" 105th year of her age." The record of her marriage, which took place at Boston about 1643, does not exist. She emigrated with Winthrop's fleet in 1630. I have searched the parish registers at Saffron Walden without any result. Does any list of Winthrop's party exist, or is there any means of discovering the maiden name and antecedents of Ann Pollard ? Thomas Wm. Huck. Saffron Walden. Chilston.—He is the author of a tract, or " litil tretise " of music, mentioned and quoted by Sir John Hawkins in his ' His- tory of Music' Hawkins also states that the work was a " manuscript of Waltham Holy Cross." Is the MS. still in existence ? Chilston is likewise mentioned in the ' Bio- graphic Universelle des Musiciens' of Fetis, but not in the ' D.N.B.' Has any- thing subsequent been discovered concern- ing him ? I am most anxious to gather a few personal details of him for ' The Dic- tionary of Writers on Music ' on which I am engaged, with the assistance of Mr. Louis A. Klemantaski and other collabo- rators. Andrew de Ternant. Gironny.—Seyler, in his ' Geschichte der Heraldik,' 1885-9, quotes L. v. Ledebur's opinion that the gironny shields of certain families connected with forests by name or office represent the divisions of a forest among the members of a colony into tracts radiating from the village, i.e.. the centre of the shield. Certainly the time of the beginning of heraldry was also a time of extensive colonization, at least in Germany, by the " defrichement" of forest land. Acts forbidding the wholesale removal of forests begin about this time in the well- settled west of Germany (forest of Lorsch, near the Rhine, 1165), and in the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries become more and more frequent in the rest of Ger- many. Seyler repeats his approval of this theory in his note on the Waldbott arms in the ' Miinchener Kalender' for 1900. Has this question ever been dis- cussed elsewhere ? Can any gironny coats of English or Scotch families, or indeed any other, be explained in this way ? Among the cases given by Ledebur are Waldbott von Bassenheim (" forestarios et custodes qui Waldbode dicuntur," charter of 1226), the Foresters of Flanders (changed to a lion upon becoming Counts of Flan- ders), Waldeck, Vaerst, Holtrup, Counts of Bruchhusen (" Holzgrafen iiber die Desemer Mark"). The oldest gironny arms I know of in England or Scotland are Bassingbourne, Briansoun (Brinzon), and Campbell. D. L. Galbreath. Montreur, Switzerland. Queries from Green's ' Short His- tory.'—Can any one give me information about Challon ? (Green's ' Short History of the English People,' p. 183 : " Edward the First saved his life in a tournament at Challon.") I do not find Challon on maps of England. Who is the " poet of the time " in Green's ' Short History,' p. 157 (' The Barons' War'), and,p. 214, the Scotch writer (' The War of Scotch Indepen- dence ': " The horses that w^ere stickit," &c.) ? Dr. Madert. Wenkerstr. 23, Dortmund. " Jiffle."—Writing of Sir George Staun- ton on 17 Feb., 1829, Crabb Robinson (' Diary,' ii. 60) gives this description :— " He is the son of the diplomatic traveller in China, known by his book, and he himself after- wards filled the situation of his father. He has a jiffle and a jerk in his bows and salutations which give him a ludicrous air ; but he is per- fectly gentlemanly, and I believe in every way respectable. He is a great traveller, a bachelor, and a man of letters." Discussing " jiffle " in the ' Scottish Dic- tionary,' Jamieson says it is a Perthshire word, and denotes " the act of shuffling." He considers it " either a corr. of the Eng. v., or from Teutonic schuyffelen, prolabi." Can any one further illustrate its use as an English word in Crabb Robinson's manner ? Thomas Bayne. Hudson of Osmerston.—I should be grateful if any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' could give me information (births, deaths, or marriages, or any family information) about the Hudsons of Osmerston Hall, Osmerston, co. Derby. A. E. Hudson. 89, George Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
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