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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 H.L JAN. 22,1916.

" To said Sir John Mundy, Knyght, and my lady his wife and his children two like obligations of 10?." " To George Colt, Esquire, a like obliga- tion of 10Z." "To be equally divided between my uncle Rauf Warke, my aunt Barrows, and George Warke of Awsforth (Horsforth) a like obligation of 6Z." 40Z. to be bestowed upon the highways in Essex and Suffolk. Residue in deeds of charity. Executors, George Colt, Esquire, Robert Swymborne, Thomas Howker and Thomas Thomlynson, Clerks. Witnesses, Maister Thomas Hersley, Canon John Dalamero, Clerk, Sir Willm. Dykers, Maister Willm. Lowell, Nicolas Sampson and John Sutton, Clerks.

That testator was a bachelor is evident. There are references in ' N. & Q.,' 7 S. v. 151, 218, which tend to prove he was of kin to that branch of the Browne family which gave three Mayors to London at the begin- ning of the sixteenth century. Sir W illiam Browne, whose daughter Juliane Sir John Mundy married as his second wife, appointed Shorten as assistant to the executors of his will. His uncle Ralph W arke, or W erke, is also mentioned in the will of Sir John Browne. Some little importance seems to have attached to the gift of tapestry. Thomas Legh, writing to Cromwell, said :

" Since I wrote to you last I am certified that the Dean of Stoke is dead. According to promise he made me ; he has bequeathed you live pieces of arras."

George Colt also sent from Cavendish, in Suffolk, a letter to Cromwell relating to it (S. P. Dom. Hen. VIII. 1535-6). Robert Shorten died at Stoke Oct. 17, 1535. These arms are attributed to him in the ' Athenae Cantab.' : Vert, a fesse wavy argent between three caltraps or. It is not improbable that the John Shorton who was a member of the " Company of Skynners," London, in 1537, was of his family.

ERNEST H. H. SHORTING.

Broseley.

" STAIG." (See ante, p. 19.) Aberdeen- shire, like Strathearn,knows the word " staig " solely as a synonym for " stallion," and not as for a young horse, as your reviewer of Sir James Wilson's book says. I once heard of an Aberdeenshire schoolboy who, on being questioned in class on what he would like to do in life, replied that he would like to " traivel a staig " which was regarded as the very zero of ambition.

J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

DICKENS AND THE FOX-UNDER- THE-HILL. This humble beerhouse of immortal fame was probably revisited by Dickens in the year 1848, when for a short time it had an attraction which it is surprising he

has not alluded to. A post 8vo oblong yellow handbill before me announces :

" Have yo.u seen the Whale ? Recently Captured and Fresh as when caught, measuring 50 feet in length, and now exhibiting at the Fox under the Hill opposite the Adelphi Theatre,, Strand. The Halfpenny Steam Boat Pier. Persons desirous of seeing this mighty monster of the deep, must be early as it can be exhibited only a few days. Admission Threepence."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

A GENERATION CIRCA A.D. 1250 (FEET OF FINES, co. DEVON). On the 1st of July* 1250, Mark, the Prior of Montacute; in Somerset, by John de Wylton, his monk, granted to Richard, son of John, tenant, one and a half ferling of land in Moneke. Culum (in Cullompton parish, Devon), to have and to hold to the said Richard and Isabella his wife during the lives of the prior and his successors and his church the said land, and the whole of that land which is called La More, at a quitrent of 10s. a year, payable quarterly. And likewise the prior undertook for himself and his suc- cessors and his church that should John, the eldest son of the aforesaid Richard,, survive Richard and Isabella, the whole of the said land should remain to the said John, &c.

Would it have been possible for John, the father of Richard, Richard himself, and John his son, to have been born within the fifty years preceding the year 1250, or would it have been more probable that John, the grandfather, wa& born between the years 1189 and 1199 ? Perhaps some correspondent will kindly favour me with an opinion on this point.

A. J. MONDAY.

Taunton.

BARKER, CHAPLAIN TO QUEEN KATHARINE or ARAGON, was imprisoned Dec. 19, 1533, and sent to the Tower of London on the following Dec. 27. He was removed to Newgate before Easter, 1537 (Camm, ' Lives of the English Martyrs,' i. pp. 465, 473), where, according to the late Major Hume (' Chronicle of King Henry VIII. of England/ p. 42, n.), he died. What was his Christian name ? what ecclesiastical preferments did he hold, if any ? and when precisely did he die ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT,