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great merit. By the way, all notices, con- I Nicholas Gennys of Launceston proves temporary and subsequent, of Edward the most prominent figure of all these. He Prentis seem very slight and meagre ; yet married Katherine, daughter of Ambrose he had much vogue in his day, and was an Manaton of Manaton and Trecarell (v. Sir early member of the Society of British John Maclean's ' Trigg Minor,' vol. ii. p. 670). Artists. Are any of his paintings in the who was Recorder of the borough from 1622 public galleries, or are the present owners of to 1646, and one of its members in both the any of them known ? L. A. W. Short and the Long Parliaments elected in

1640. On Aug. 12,^ 1646, a new writ was

TREASURY NOTES. May inquire the i ssued in his place ('Commons' Journals,' meaning of the words printed in red on some voL iv< p< Q2 l), he being disabled for his Of the one-pound notes, and in black on some somewhat late adherence to the roval cause, of the ten-shilling notes ? I have asked this being just a month before" Thomas several bank cashiers, and they could throw Qewen of Bradridge -who was to become, no light on the subject. One thought that as Manaton's successor in the representa- the characters were Hebrew, and another tion> a persistent critic in Parliament of Arabic while a leading provincial paper Cromwell's policy was made Recorder on recently suggested that the printing I refer Sept. 19 (Peter, p. 281). It was before to was merely the written name of some Nicholas Gennys as Mayor that a deposition Egyptian who had previously owned the was i aid on M ay 30, 1642, against a pro-

A. C. C. minent townsman named John Escott,

ARMS OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD. Deputy-Herald. for evon and Cornwall The arms of this college, founded in 1274 r ?nt">izing in public the proceedings of by Walter de Merton, are: Or, three chev- Parliament upon the strength of which ronels per pale, the 1st and 3rd azure and deposition the House of Lords took drastic gules, the 2nd gules and azure. This shield P cee J dings against the unhappy partisan is now nearly always impaled with another, \Al fred F. Bobbins, Launceston Past and viz.: Argent, on a saltire gules a scallop \? Te ** ni > PP- 157 > 15S 5 7 f S '. X11 ' 247 \' and shell of the field. To whom does this latter m the borou g h accounts of his mayoral year shield belong ? and why is it placed on the are . f veral entr l es * expenditure for dexter, thus having precedence over the *P e(ial beacons and watches in preparation arms of the founder ? H. I. HALL. I * or the comm g trouble (Peter, pp. 259, 260).

22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W.

It would almost seem to establish another connexion between the Gennys family and Launceston that William Gennis is given among the vicars of St. Olave's, Poughill, a parish in the extreme north-east of

GENNYS OF LAUNCESTON AND I Cornwall, where he was buried, July 21, IRELAND I548 (Boase's ' Collectanea Cornubiensis,'

p. 1446), as it appears that the patrons of

(12 S. i. 126, 193.) that living were the Prior and Convent of

I AM much interested in the reply of Launceston (cf. Hingeston-Randolph's ' Re- H. L. L. D. to the query of Miss GERTRUDE gister of Edmund Stafford, Bishop of Exeter,' THRIFT, as the family of Gennys played a P- 195 )- As the date of death is within ten prominent part for a long period in the civic years after the surrender of that Priory, it life of Launceston. It appears from Messrs. ma y be inferred that William Gennis re- R. and O. B. Peter's ' Histories of Launceston eived his presentation from this source, and Dunheved ' that a John Gennys was Of all-importance, however, as associated Mayor of the borough in 1584, 1595, 1605, with the settlement in Ireland of members 1617, and 1632 ; and he signed, next to the of the Gennys familv of Cornwall, is the fact then Mayor, on Sept. 27, 1620, the stated by H. L. L. D., that they were

Society's edition, p. 281). Nicholas Gennys Gennys became Mayor, the borough accounts was Mayor in 1641, 1657, and 1666; and have a record that there had been demised Richard Gennys in 1658 ; while a Nicholas by the commonalty for one thousand years ^innys was Mayor of Plymouth in 1703 two pieces of land adjoining two tofts upon (R. N. Worth's 'History of Plymouth,' which had been two shops, late " the enherit-

ance of Peter Edgcombe of Mounte Edg-