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coronation of Queen Elizabeth of York, in 1487. He was probably made a knight ^banneret in 1493, and as such was one of the twenty-eight who in 1503

" attended the fiancells of Princess Margaret to .James, King of Scotland, escorting the bride to Scotland, and carving at the marriage dinner, wearing a very rich chain."

He acted as chief carver to the King on St. George's Day in 1517, and, together with Lady Owen the second, attended him to Canterbury, when proceeding to meet Francis I., while his son's wife, " Lady Owen the younger," accompanied the Queen to the interview.

The second document above referred to is his will, dated Feb. 20, 1529, which (with notes) takes up ten pages of small print at the end of the lecture, and is of great interest. Mr. Blaauw says that the original MS. was then in private hands, and proceeds :

" Though duly authenticated by the autograph signature of the testator on the margin of each sheet of parchment, as well as at the end, the numerous interlineations and erasures in it prove -a copy of which is extant in the Registry of Doctors' Commons, the original being lost, and in which -the dispositions relating to the real estate appear distinct from those of the personal property. To this is annexed a schedule of legacies and bequests, which his executors were, perhaps shortly before his death, instructed by the testator verbally to Oourt on May 13, 1542."
 * it to have been superseded by a will of later date,
 * pay, the whole being proved in the Archiepiscopal

The original monument was erected soon after the death of his wife, Mary Bohun -c. 1500, and in his will of 1529 he alludes to the vault for his burial at Easebourne being ready, and to the images of himself and his first wife on his tomb, which he directs to be new gilt and painted. As there is no room for a second effigy in the recess where it now lies, it is clear that the effigy of the knight has at some time unknown been removed to its present position frorr .another where his first wife's image lay b his own. We may be sure he would neve have sanctioned such desecration of the tomb which he had himself erected so long before, and of which he was so proud, for in the same will of 1529 he directs :

" My body to be brought with my helmet an .sworde, and my cote-armour, my standarde pen -daunt and setton, a baner of the Trynyte, one o our Lady, and one other of St. George, borne afte "the order of a man of my degree, and set up in th said priory [of Easebourne] after the observanc done at my tombe."

ALAN STEWART.

The tomb of Sir David Owen is not Eastbourne Church, but at Easeboum

sronounced Esbum) near Midhurst. Sir )avid Owen was a natural son of Owen ap leredith ap Tudor, who married Catherine, idow of King Henry V. Sir David married lary, one of the daughters and coheiresses f John de Bohun. His will was proved in 542, but the monument in Easebourne Church is said to have been erected during lis lifetime, some years earlier. The will ,nd a minute description of the monument ire given in vol. vii. of the Sussex Archteo- ogical Collections. H. CHEAL.

Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham.

PAPAL INSIGNIA : NICOLAS V. (12 S. i. 50, ^16). In ' A Treatise on Ecclesiastical heraldry,' by John Woodward, LL.D., Rector of St. Mary's Church, Montrose, 1894, chap. ix. p. 158 et seq., are descriptions, including tinctures, of the " Arms of the Popes from 1144-1893." On p. 161 is ,he following blazon : " 1447, Nicolas V. Parentucelli) Argent, two bends wavy, the one in chief gules, the other azure."

P. 153, Dr. Woodward writes :

" Nicolas V. seems to have used only the cross teys in an escucheon crowned with the tiara. Henetrier says that examples of this Pope's escucheon were to be seen on the gates of the Churches of S. [sic] Paul, S. [sic] Theodore, and St. Laurent in Borne."

The cross keys looped together appear as ie arms of Parentucelli (Nicolas V.) in recent editions of Murray's 'Handbook of Rome,' e.g., 17th edit., 1908, p. [120], i.e., of the Introduction. By error the date is given as 1334, which is the date, as given in the 'Hand- book,' of Nicolas V., Antipope, whose true date is 1328.

The Pope Nicolas V. appears to have been Tommaso Parentucelli, or di Sarzana. Very probably he preferred the cross keys to a family coat of arms. According to Gibbon (' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' chap. Ixvi.), " from a plebeian origin.^he raised himself by his virtue and learning."

As to the tinctures of the cross keys, the indications which I have found are such as :

" Usually the Tiara is placed above the es- cucheon ; and the keys (of which the dexter is of gold, and the sinister of silver) are placed m saltire behind the shield which bears the Pope s personal arms." ' Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry,' p. 150.

Apart from the field, about which I have found nothing, I think that the blazon of the arms used by Nicolas V. would be : Two keys addorsed in saltire, the wards upwards (i.e., wards in chief), the dexter or,