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 ii s. ix. JAN. si, 19U.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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hint may have come from Sir Thomas Browne, who, in his ' Musseum Clausum, or Bibliotheca Abscondita ' ('Miscellany Tracts,' xiii. ), puts in the list of ' Rare and Generally Unknown Books,'

" The Letter of Quintus Cicero, which he wrote in answer to that of his Brother Marcus Tullius, desiring of him an account of Britany, wherein are described the Country, State and Manners of the Britains of that Age."

EDWARD BENSLY.

OVER KENNETT (CORRECTLY OVER KELLET), LANCASHIRE (11 S. ix. 28). " Over Kennett " is Over Kellet, a parish in the South Lonsdale petty-sessional division of Lancashire, and in the rural deanery of Tunstall. It was formerly a parochial chapelry in the parish of Bolton-le-Sands. The Robinsons were customary tenants of a messuage in the hamlet of Capernwray, within the township of Over Kellet, early in the sixteenth century. John Robinson occurs in 1543 ; Miles Robinson of Capern- wray died on Christmas Day, 1584, his will being proved on 23 July, 1585. His son Marmaduke held a tenement in Capernwray by copy of court roll of the manor of Hornby, and died about 1631. He had issue William of Capernwray, husbandman, who pre- deceased him, and whose will was proved 20 Jan., 1622[-3] ; Thomas, of the city of Bristol, glover ; Richard ; and three other sons. Elen (or Eleanor), daughter and heir of the said William, inherited her father's tenement, and died, aged 16, in August, 1636. In that year Thomas Robin- son of Capernwray brought a bill of com- plaint in the Duchy of Lancaster Court (Bundle 348, Mich. Term, 12 Ch. I.) against Robert Leaper of Capernwray touching that tenement. Possibly Thomas, the plaintiff, was Thomas of the city of Bristol, uncle of Elen. The next link in the descent is defective, but Robert Robinson of Capern- wray, yeoman, by will dated 22 March, 1674[-5], proved 15 April, 1675, devised 10Z. to the children of Thomas Robinson of the City of London ; 101. to the poor of Over Kellet and Capernwray; 201. to his niece Elizabeth Beetham, 201. to his nephew Richard Beetham, and 301. to the said Richard's eldest son ; and his real estate to nephew George Robinson of Over Kellet.

Thomas Robinson was buried at Over Kellet on 15 Aug., 1655. Probably he was the person about whom F. C. B. inquires, find possibly he was the father of the Thomas of the City of London whose children were legatees in the will of Robert Robinson in 1675. If F. C. B. will communicate with

me, I will supply him with further details. No tomb exists in the church of St. Cuthbert, Over Kellet, of a date as early as 1655, nor do I know of any arms recorded in favour of this family. W. FARRER.

Hall Garth, Over Kellet.

Over Kellet is no doubt the correct name ; it is a parish about six miles from Lancaster. In the seventeenth century there were many Robinsons living in the parish. A Thomas Robinson was buried there 15 Aug., 1655. The parish registers (1652 to 1812) have been printed by the Lancashire Parish Register Society (vol. xlii.). There were several wills of this branch of the Robinson family proved at Richmond, for list of which see vols. x., xiii., and xxiii. of the publications of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. HENRY FISHWICK.

The Heights, Rochdale.

If the deed is examined closely, it will probably be found that " Over Kennett " is a misspelling for Over Kellet. a village one and a half miles west of Carnforth, and six miles nearly due north from Lancaster. The village of Nether Kellet is a mile and a half in a south-westerly direction from Over Kellet.

In a will dated 14 March, 1586, the testator gives instructions "to be buryed in my Parishe Churche Yarrde of Over Kellett nye unto the crosse." The remains of this the churchyard cross are still in situ, and the village green is adorned by another recently restored cross of dignified proportions. Opposite is the house of a descendant of the testator a learned and well-known antiquary.

HENRY TAYLOR, F.S.A.

Birklands, Birkdale, Lancashire.

[MR. C. W. HUSTON - HARBISON also thanked for reply.]

UPRIGHT STONES IN CHURCHYARDS (US. viii. 490 ; ix. 35). If the querist will consult Mr. Walter Johnson's ' Byways in British Archaeology,' 1912, pp. 346-7, he will find a discussion of the subject and a number of references. I have found the work a mine of information on this and kindred topics. My experience has been that the inscriptions on what are apparently the oldest stones are almost, if not entirely illegible. M. M.

In ' Ancient Sepulchral Monuments,' by Brindley and Weatherley, published by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, London (1887) perhaps the most exhaustive book on the subject in existence there occur measured