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PRICE AND WHITCHURCH: FAMILIES. I should be very glad to receive any informa- tion about the above families. Walter Price, barrister, resident in Denbigh town, 1733, is said to have been the son or grandson of Walter Price and his wife Anne Whitchurch, both of the parish of St. James's, Bath, and descended from the Prices of county Den- bigh. The Whitchurch family are said to have been of Froomesetwood, Somerset, gentlemen in 1694. What were the arms of both these families ?

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

KENDRICK OF READING.

(US. ix. 309.)

HAS COL. FYNMORE seen the articles upon the Kendrick family which are printed in vols. vii. and viii. of The Berks Archceol. Journal ? In vol. vii. p. 95 there is a para- graph stating that Mr. Greene Kendrick of Waterbury, Conn., U.S., is writing a his- tory of the family of Kendrick, and there is also a lengthy article by him in the same volume, pp. 101-12. The subject is returned to in vol. viii., and on pp. 60-64 are further valuable notes by Mr. Greene Kendrick. Kendrick entries from the Hambleden (Bucks) Registers are given in Berks Arch. Journal, vol. viii. p. 31. In the churchyard of Hambleden is a mausoleum of the Ken- drick family, and their arms appear on a window in the church there.

A bibliographical note respecting this family may not be out of place, so I attach a few memoranda which I have at hand :

' The Last Will and Testament of Mr. J. Kendrick. . . .who departed this life 30 Dec., 1624,' London, 1625. Full and interesting details of John Kendrick's benefactions, with names of his family, are given in Ed. Hatton's ' New View of London,'" vol. i. pp. 199-201.

Andrew Kendrick, Alderman of Billings- gate Ward 1651-2; died 1653; will P.C.C. Brent 329, proved 16 May, 1653.

James Kendrick, M.D., Warrington (Lanes), gave to the Free Library at War- rington a thousand books and pamphlets. See Palatine Note-Book, vol. ii. pp. 113-16. As to his interest in the Kendrick family, see
 * N. & Q.,' 2 S. x. 455.

For notes upon Kendrick wills and pedi- gree, see Herald and Genealogist, vol. vii. pp. 550-52 ; see also Foster's ' Alumni,' First Series, under Kendrick (John).

When John Kendrick died in 1624 he left large benefactions to Reading, and being anxious that the cloth industry should be encouraged in Reading, he arranged that shops and warehouses should be erected there. This was done, and an extensive range of buildings stood in Minster Street, Reading, until about 1850. This place was known as " The Oracle." For probable derivation of this see Coates's 'Reading,' with illustration of the imposing oaken gates which stood at the entrance to these works. These gates are now, perhaps, the only tangible link between John Kendrick and the present day. At the sale of " The Oracle," they were bought by Alderman Robert Hewett, and they are now built into a wall in the garden of the house of Mr. Thomas Hewett, his son. They bear the Kendrick arms and " I. K. 1628 " carved upon them. There exists Materials and Fittings of the Oracle, 1850 '; also ' Farewell to the Oracle,' a poem, and ' The Autobiography of the Oracle.' The various charities endowed by Kendrick are detailed in the Charity Report, vol. xxxii. As to the administration of the charity there have been various disputes : see Watts (J.), 'A Black Scene Open'd : being the True State of Mr. J. Kendrick's Gift to the Town of Reading,' 1749, and ' The Attorney- General v. the Drapers' Company re Ken- drick's Gift,' London, 1847.
 * Catalogue of the Sale by Auction of the

The pedigree of the present representa- tives of the family Kenrick of Pendell Court, Bletchingley, is in Howard and Crisp's ' Visitations,' vol. v. I have a note that Mr. Henry Rigg, 3, Madeley Road, Baling, has collected information regarding this family.

The best authority for the history of all the branches of the Kendrick family is the series of articles by Mr. W. F. Carter in The Genealogist, vol. xxiv. pp. 15-22, 96-103, 164-72/244-9 ; and vol. xxv. pp. 15-21, 120- 25, 175-81, 215-23. In vol. xxiv. pp. 18, 19, there is a useful list of the various branches of the family arranged under localities. The Kendricks of Reading are given, with extracts from wills, in vol. xxiv. p. 99, &c. A good account of the same branch will be found in the G. E. C. ' Baronet- age.' There is a curious old ballad connected with a romantic story in the history of the Reading branch in Robert Bell's ' Ancient Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry,' 1857. It is called ' The Berkshire Lady's Garland.'

The Kenrick family of Wynn Hall, Ruabon, possess a pedigree of the Kendricks which ,vas drawn up by Sir Thomas Martinean,