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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. ix. JUNE 13, 1914.

For Rawden or Rawdon, seeCamden Soc., Ixxxv. xl. ; Kent's ' British Banner Dis- played,' 690 ; Foster's ' Yorkshire Pedi- grees ' ; Foster's ' Visitations of Yorkshire,' 565 ; Thoresby's ' Ducatus Leodiensis,' 168 ; Wright's ' Essex,' ii. 734 ; Geo. Robertson's ' Description of Cunninghame,' 367 ; Ed- mondson's * Baronagium Genealogicum,' vi. 103 ; Archdall's Lodge's ' Peerage,' iii. 95 ; Wotton'a ' English Baronetage,' iii. 467 ; Harleian Soc.. xvii. 188 ; The Irish Builder, xxix. 1 74 ; ' The Rawdon Papers,' edited by Edward Berwick, 14.

For Rowden or Rowdon, see ' Rowdon of Rowdon, County York,' by John Rodon, Dublin, n.d., 4to, p. 31 ; Duncumb's ' History of Co. Hereford,' ii. 71 ; Robinson's ' Mansions of Herefordshire.' 52.

For Rodon, see Burke 's ' Landed Gentry,' 3, 4, 5, 6 ; Burke's ' Visitations of Seats and Arms/ i. 61.

For Roydon, see Hasted 's ' Kent,' ii. 288 ; Harleian Soc., xiv. 598. A. R. BAYLEY.

HELMETS IN CHURCHES (US. ix. 410). Near a mural tablet to Sir Richard Beak (died 1627) in the north chapel of Hadden- ham Church (Bucks) is a steel close helmet (sixteenth century), which probably had a banner suspended from the iron bracket which still supports it; it bears traces of edit ornament on the beaver, and was pro- bably a funeral helmet. Possibly the hel- mets in the Surrey churches mentioned by MB. PRICE were also funeral ceremonial helmets. PERCY F. HOGG.

The helmets mentioned as fixed in churches are probably remains of armorial achieve- ments placed in the church after having been borne in the funeral procession. In the Middle Ages the actual helmet (with crest) and shield were thus used, but even as early as the fourteenth century dummy helmets were used, made of thin iron plates, leather, or wood. Their use continued until the seventeenth century, when they were super- seded by the carved and painted hatchment, which had been used steadily more arid more frequently from the end of the fifteenth century. D. L. GALBREATH.

Montreux.

THE FAIRY THIEF (11 S. ix. 440). It may be worthy of record in reference to your note on the fairy-tale " believed within comparatively recent days "' that the same story was told me by living lips as having happened amongst the mountains of Mourne. The meeting took place at Green Castle fair, but the Irish variant tells of a more vindic-

tive fairy, for when discovered in his thefts from the " Standings," he put the woman's eye out with a small twig and she never saw with that eye as long as she lived.

Y. T.

JOHN DOUGLAS HALLETT (11 S. ix. 307, 372, 435). This officer is called John Hallet in the East India Register ; he was in the 3rd Bombay Native Infantry from 1822 to death. He became Lieut. -Colonel of it 27 May, 1849 ; was created C.B. 16 Aug., 1850; and died at Molagaum 25 Dec., 1854. FREDERIC BOASE.

DE GLAMORGAN (US. viii. 468 ; ix. 153). There are some small errors appearing in MR. WHITEHEAD'S answer here, p. 153, and also in the ' Viet. County Hist., Hampshire,* vol. v. According to the latter, Sir John de Glamorgan married Amy, daughter and heiress of Sir Peter d'Evercy of East Standeii. I.W., by whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas, and six daughters ; and, according to the former, his wife, " who outlived him,"' was Alice, daughter of Sir Peter d'Evercy, the mother of his three sons, John, Peter, and Nicholas, and his six daughters, of whom John, the eldest son, died " after 1333.'' ' The Viet. County History ' says of this John not regarded by it, however, as son of Sir John that he married Alice, "who may have been the widow of John Pagham, Lord of Whitefield," I. of W., and assigns to him the date 1340.

I have three references that shed some light on these points : 1. ' Coll. Top. et Gen.,' iv. 365, quoting, I think, from the Chart, of Newstead : Eleanor, one of three daughters of Ralph de Gorges (who died 17 Ed. II.), married John de Glamorgan.

2. 'Cal. Pat, Rolls, 6 Ed. III.' pt. ii., m. 8 r 26 Jan., 1332 : Lie. to John de Glamorgan to resettle his estates on himself and his wife Alice for life, remainder to his sons John, Peter, and Nicholas, in succ. tail, remainder to any sons he may have by his wife Alice, remainder to his right heirs.

3. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 34 Ed. III., m. 28, 17 Feb., 1360 : The land and heir of John Glamorgan are, in the hands of the King.

From these references, I think, we may infer that Sir John's first wife was Eleanor, and that his second wife, Alice, was not mother of his three sons ; that he married Alice shortly after 26 Jan., 1332 ; that Nicholas, the idiot third son, was his brother John's heir ; and that consequently Peter,, the second son, predeceased his elder brother.

AP THOMAS.