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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. JAN. 3,

REGIMENTAL BADGE or THE GTH FOOT. Sir Walter Vane, the fourth son of Sir Henry Vane the elder, was appointed first Colonel of the regiment afterwards num- bered the 6th of the Line on 12 Dec., 1673, and was killed at the battle of Seneff on 11 Aug. (N.S.), 1674. The sinister supporter of the Vane family arms is : An antelope or, plain collared azure, thereon three martlets of gold. The present head of the family is Baron Barnard of Barnard Castle.

The regimental badge of the 6th Foot (now the Royal Warwickshire Regiment) is a silver antelope, statant, collared and chained or, and this is also the badge of the 12th Company of the Grenadier Guards. Sir Walter Vane served in the 1st Foot Guards before being appointed to the colonelcy of the 6th Foot, and it is suggested that he gave the badge from his family coat of arms to both. Another tradition describes the antelope badge of the 6th Foot as having been assumed from the standard of a Moorish regiment captured at Sara- gossa, where the 6th was present. Col. Thomas Harrison, who commanded the regiment, took home the dispatches and the standards, of which thirty altogether were captured.

In a publication called ' The Military Guide,' 1772, the antelope is described as the " ancient " badge of the 6th Foot, and this word would hardly apply to a badge which had been assumed only a little more than half a century. The battle of Saragossa was fought in 1710.

Can any one throw any light on the subject ? ANTELOPE.

GODS IN EGYPT. Gibbon, in the thirty- seventh chapter of the ' Decline and Fall,' makes the statement that it was formerly (that is, in the times of Egyptian paganism) said that in Egypt it \vas less difficult to find a god than a man. What is the autho- rity for this statement ? Gibbon does not give any, and none is supplied by Milman or Smith. TYNTOL.

FYNMORE, MASON, AND LINKE FAMILIES. William Fynmore, B.C.L. of St. Giles, Oxford, in his will (126 Twisse, P.C.C.), proved 24 Sept., 1646, mentions his grand- children-in-law Anne and Jane Mason, daughters of Anthony Mason. W. Fyn- more's first wife, Christian (surname un- known), was buried at Hinksey, November, 1619 ; he married secondly, 7 Aug., 1621. Mrs. Linke, of the parish of St. Mary Mag- dalen, Oxford, probably widow of Mr,

Robert Linke, M.A., who was buried at St. Mary Magdalen's, 27 Jan., 1617/18. Mrs. Fynmore was buried 20 April, 1622, in the " Minister's Chapel," St. Mary Magdalen. The memorial to W. Fynmore in Hinksey Church does not mention his wives ; he had only one child, also named William. I wish to ascertain the connexion with the Mason family. Was it through the first or second wife ? R. J. FYNMORE.

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JOSHUA WEBSTER, M.D. Can any infor- mation as to parentage, descendants (if any),, and other particulars be supplied by any of your readers concerning one Joshua- Webster, M.D., who seems to have been a celebrity in the county of Essex during the eighteenth century ? Family tradition sup- posed him to have been a son of the Old Pretender, known as the Chevalier St. George, and his name appears in the list for the year 1777 of members of the Corpora- tion of Surgeons of London, which in 1800 was changed into the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He seems to have practised his profession at Chigwell, at Witham, as also at St. Albans where ha is alleged to have attended Simon, Lord Lovat, when on his journey to London as a prisoner after the battle of Culloden. In October, 1799, he appears to have been residing in Chelsea in extreme old age.

Joshua Webster compiled a Herbal and: wrote a history of St. Albans, but neither work seems to have been published, the manuscripts being still in the possession of a descendant of his wife by her first husband,. Thomas Cunningham, R.N. He has beei> credited with the authorship of the poem entitled * The Beggar's Petition,' though mV claim to such authorship was challenged by a writer in The Gentleman's Magazine undeV date 12 Jan., 1800, in favour of the Rev. Thomas Moss, minister of Brierly Hill and Trentham. F. DE H. L.

EDWARD POCOCK, THE ORIENTALIST (1604- 1691), AND HIS ANCESTORS. Edward Po~ cock, the fathe of the above, matriculated Magdalen College, Oxford, 2 July, 1585, aged 17, as of Hampshire, and had a brother Isaac at the same college. He was presented to the vicarage of Chieveley, Berks, by Giles Pocock of the same village, who died in> 1624/5. This Giles was the son of Richard., who died 1595, and brother of John of Bradley Court, Chieveley, and Richard Pocock of Shaw in the same county. The family had long been resident at Chieveley.. What relation was Giles Pocock to the