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excepting by one or two of those in the employ of his father. No immediate attention was paid to the rumours. I, however, heard from a man of the name of Rider that he had rescued the sup- posed murderer from committing suicide by drowning near Blakesbridge. He [the murderer! died soon after, to the great relief of those who knew his secret. After he had passed away the matter was much spoken of, and eventually an article appeared in a local paper in which the editor severely censured those who knew who the guilty person was for not making it known, when by doing so they would have relieved many inno- cent persons from suspicion. For many years after the murder there was a short inscription fixed on an elm tree opposite where the crime was committed. At the time of this murder there were two boys at our school who were Roman Catholics, and they seemed dreadfully distressed. Their name was Hall."

Miss Mitford's ' Belford Regis 'consists of a series of sketches of Reading life, and her story of ' The Old Emigre ' in vol. i. (1835) is the story of the murder of Francis Longuet. He there figures as L'Abbe Villaret.

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

[BBADSTOW also thanked for reply.]

MARTEN (11 S. ix. 129). This name may probably be intended for Martin de Tours, or Martin Tironensis, a Norman leader who accompanied the Conqueror, and was given lands in Somerset and Devon. He gave his name to Combe Martin and Martinhoe, and afterwards set sail to North Pembrokeshire, where he conquered the district of Kemeys and founded a Lordship Marcher which his family held for several centuries.

" A few darins adventurers accompanied the Norman Lord of Kemeys into Cardigan, where land might be had for the winning by any one who would wage war on the Welsh." Green's ' History of the English People.'

According to Mrs. E. Pritchard's ' History of St. Dogmael's,'

"Martin's name does not appear in the list of the Conqueror's companions on the column at Dive, but it is found, however, in three lists of those who fought at Hastings."

The Norman leader probably came from Tiron, Normandy, and not Tours, though his name is sometimes confused with that of St. Martin of Tours. The arms of the family were three towers, and the Norman is sometimes called " Martin of the Towers." Martin's son Sir Robert was the founder of the monastery of St. Dogmael's (temp. Henry I.).

Pedigrees of the family are given in Owen's ' Description of Pembrokeshire,' pt. ii. p. 491 ; Sir Thos. Phillipps's * Pemb. Peds.,' p. 38 ; Owen's ' Baronia de Kemeys ' ;

Lewys Dwnn's ' Visitation of Wales and the Marches ' ; ' Notes on Combe Martin,' by Kathleen M. Toms, chaps, ii. and iii.

G. H. W.

HERALDRY OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL. (11 S. ix. 69, 135). 1. Radcliffe. 3. Pedwardine, co. Leic.

6. ?Bassetfc.

7. Query: are these foxes? If meant for grey- hounds may be Berrington.

8. Coloured wrong. 10. Seward.

12. Curious heraldry, as is also No. 36. 21. Surely this is Blount.

27. ?Grey.

28. Ulster quartered by Plantagenet.

30. I think the Butler chief is always indented,

34. Pembridge.

35. I think goes with Pembridge. 37. Baron Scrops of Marsham.

41. Showing Irish descent quartered by many families Fitzgerald, Wynne, &c.

Whose arms are they those of founders, benefactors, ecclesiastics, or of persons buried there ? E. E. COPE.

FREEMAN : DAY : PARRY : PYKE (US. ix. 146). May I be allowed to correct a statement made at the above reference, viz., that my volume of ' Parry Wills ' does not contain the will of John Parry of East Greenwich, proved in 1781 ? It is there, at No. 213 of the series, my abstract being, almost word for word, the same as that quoted. The name also occurs in the Calendar at the end of the book under the year 1781. G. S. PARRY.

17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

VANBRUGH'S EPITAPH (11 S. ix. 127). In Suffling's ' Epitaphia ' the author gives the Vanbrugh epitaph as

Lie light upon him, earth ! tho' he Laid many a heavy load on thee, under the classification of ' Architects r (p. 355); and contradicts himself under 'Scottish Epitaphs' (p. 411), where he quotes :

Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee. In Box's ' Elegies and Epitaphs ' (p. 80) it is stated that Sir John Vanbrugh was buried in St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook.

" Evans wrote the following witticism on this celebrated dramatist and architect : Under this stone, Reader, survey Dead Sir John Vanbrugh' s house of clay. Lie heavy on him, Earth ! for he Laid many a heavy load on thee ! There is here an obvious reference to the sentence " Sit tibi terra levis " (May the