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invitation of " the inhabitants his old neigh- bours." He had taken " orders " in the Church of England. I find there was a " John Quippe, clerk," Vicar of Sturton, Notts, in 1602, and a " George Quipp," Vicar of North Leverton, Notts, in 1601. The name is unusual. Was William Quipp of Morton and Torksey descended from the Quipps on the Nottinghamshire side of the Trent ? He was a man of sturdy character.

WALTER H. BURGESS. 4, Ladysmith Road, Plymouth.

" VOSSIONER." At Ufton Church in War- wickshire is an inscription which states that

" Here lies the boddyes of Richard Wod domes, Parson and Pattron and Vossioner of the Churche

and Parishe of Oufton and Margerye his

wyiTe."

In his new work on ' Shakespeare's Country,' Archdeacon Hutton says that the word vossioner is said to mean " owner of the advowson." Can any one throw light on the word ? H. K. H.

RICHARD RIDLEY of Lynjey, Shropshire, "twice bayly " of Much Wenlock, 1592, married Eleanor, daughter of John Sydenham of Chelworthy, Somerset. Can "any one trace this Eleanor Sydenham, who is not seemingly in the Sydenham pedigrees ?

(Rev.) SYDENHAM SLADEN.

0, Talbot Road, Highgate, N.

HERALDIC. I should be obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who would identify the following coat of arms, which is a third quartering of the Leche arms painted on a tablet in Chester Cathedral : Argent, a mullet between three buckles sable.

FRANK SIMPSON.

JOHN FESSARD, who entered Winchester College in 1533, aged 12, from Tisbury, Wilts; was Fellow of Exeter 1543 to 1544, chantry priest of Mere 1543, Vicar of Tisbury 1543/4* M.A. 1554, and Rector of Donhead St. Mary, Wilts, in 1555 (9 S. xii. 205, 293, 356). He was succeeded after deprivation in 1565. His name occurs in Sander's list. In 1558 Queen Mary directed him, with Dr. Thomas Harding the Precentor and Dr. Thomas Heskyns the Chancellor, to preach throughout the diocese of Salisbury during the vacancy of the see (S.P. Dom., Mary, xii. 15). Sander speaks of him about May, 1561, as deprived of his benefices and in prison ( Cath. Rec. Soc., i. 19, 42). The composition books say he became Rector of Holy Trinity, Shaftesbury, Dorset, in 1556 ; but this is probably an error, and

the rector of this parish would seem to have been Thomas Fessard, who became Vicar of Great Fontnell, Dorset, in 1559, and was in prison at Hereford, aged 60, in 1579 (Strype, ' Annals,' II. ii. 662). The present Bursar of Winchester College courteously informs me that John Fessard was Usher of Winchester College 1538-43.

THOMAS GARDINER entered Winchester College in 1529, aged 11, from Oxford. Is he the Thomas Gardiner who was Demy of Magdalen College in 1531, and Fellow in 1536 ; Vicar of Willoughby 1548, where he was succeeded after deprivation in 1562, and Vicar of Cubbington 1557-61 ? Both Willoughby and Cubbington are in Warwick- shire.

EDWARD HARMAN entered Winchester College in 1531, aged 13, from Winchester, and was Fellow of New College 1538 to 1546, and B.C.L., and was succeeded after deprivation in the Rectory of Ashley, Hants, in 1560.

THOMAS HAWKINS entered Winchester College in 1540, aged 12, from Newbury. The Bursar of Winchester College tells me that he was organist of the College in 1547-8, and Usher in the first quarter of the scholastic year 1549-50, and that he became Fellow on 'the last day of February, 1555/6, and had resigned his Fellowship before 16 Jan., 1557/8. He thinks that Hawkins was not Usher continuously from 1549 to 1555, but was succeeded in that post in 1551 by Robert Knaplocke, who, according to Davies's ' History of Southampton,' was first Head Master of Southampton Grammar School, 1554-61. Possibly, if Knaplocke left in 1554, Hawkins then came back, and held the post till he became Fellow. Sander mentions Thomas Hawkins as deprived. Of what benefice was he deprived, and when ?

ROGER JAMES entered Winchester College in 1530, aged 13, from Dorchester, and was Fellow of New College 1536-40, B.A. 1537, M.A. 1540, Fellow of Winchester College 1540-52, Rector of Bradford Peverel, Dorchester, 1552-63, and afterwards went out of the realm without licence, and re- mained with King Philip of Spain (Appendix, ' 38th Report of Deputy-Keeper of Public Records,' p. 11, n. 703). He is mentioned as being abroad in 1576 (Strype, * Annals,' II. ii. 596-7). Probably the " Ricardus Jacobi " of Sander's list, who, according to the ' Con- certatio,' was imprisoned.

JOHN_B. WAINE WRIGHT.