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334 "the Holy Blood of Wylsnake" is mentioned in a will dated 1490. It was a foreign relic, for the testator was going over the "se" on pilgrimage to it, but where it was I cannot conjecture. There seem to have been a larger number of shrines in Kent than in other counties; this was probably due to the large influx of pilgrims who entered the county on all its quarters to go to Canterbury.

(11 S. ix. 87, 177, 217, 295).—Saffron appears to have been cultivated in Lincolnshire before 1552; for in Chantry Certificate, co. Line., No. 33, we find mention of an orchard called "safferne garth" that belonged to the house of a chantry priest, and was in his occupation, in this parish.

(11 S. ix. 290).—The shield displays Ludford quartering Bracebridge and impaling Boswell, and must be that of John Ludford of Ansley, co. Warwick, who married Elizabeth Boswell, and died without male issue in 1822. His grandfather Samuel Bracebridge, whose mother was a Ludford, assumed the surname Ludford.

(11 S. viii. 226, 295).—In Sir Thomas Coningsby's 'Journal of the Siege of Rouen, 1591,' printed in "The Camden Miscellany," vol. i., at p. 38 I find:

George II.'s Natural Children (11 S. ix. 250).—Madame Walmoden's second son, John Louis, born in 1736, and known at Court as Monsieur Louis, was reputed to be the King's son, but was never acknowledged. He rose to the rank of Field-Marshal in the Hanoverian army, which he commanded during the French occupation in 1803 (Walpole, 'Reminiscences,' cxxxiv.; Vehse, i. 285).

(11 S. ix. 249).—John Mawhood or Mawde, Fellow and M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, B.A. 1655 (incorporated as M.A.Oxon 14 July, 1663), D.D. 1680, Vicar of Arksey, Yorks, 1674-1702.

(11 S. ix. 250).—These are, I think, from Ariosto.

(11 S. ix. 186, 253).—I am obliged to for his reply to my query. Would he kindly say whether "clerks, cooks, bâtmen," &c., would be spoken of as "present on parade"? Every man to whom a horse could be told off was pressed into the service that morning. I have the privilege of knowing well the oldest survivor of the charge, from whom I have gathered many interesting particulars. He belonged to the band of his regiment, the 4th Light Dragoons (now Hussars), and he told me that all the band was sent into the ranks for that occasion. The constant statement made that the numbers were 673 must be wrong, as there were not so many horses—which was my point.

(11 S. vii. 208).—Through the kindness of the present Vicar of Rye, the Rev. A. P. Howes, M.A., I am now able to answer the question at the above reference.

Thomas Crouch, the Mayor of Rye in 1679, was son of John Crouch of Rye by Mary Harry, his wife; and Chas. Crouch, the Mayor in 1686 and 1687, was son of the said Thomas by Elizabeth Spye, his wife.

The Crouch slab in Rye Church (St. Clare's Chapel) shows the following Crouch arms: On a pale … three crosses pattée … within a bordure engrailed … Unfortunately, there are no tinctures.

They are very similar to other Crouch arms, including those granted by Camden in 1608.

I searched the registers last year. The name frequently occurs from the sixteenth century to the first quarter of the eighteenth century. It is of interest to note that the slab already referred to speaks of Thos. Crouch as having been Mayor of Rye several years, but the usual lists, including the one in the Town Hall, show that he was Mayor for only one year, viz., 1679.

(11 S. viii. 167, 252).—In connexion with interesting reply regarding Wm. Salmon, and the statement that he established himself near the gates of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, it may be added that the Preface of his 'Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or the New London Dispensatory' (1691 edition), is dated 2 March, 1676, "From my House at the Blew Balcony by the Ditch side near Holborn Bridge."