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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. n. AUG. 26, wie.

THOMAS CHOLMLEY, MAYOR OF CARLISLE 1654-5. I shall be glad to learn his parent- age, and his connexion, if any, with either of the well-known Cheshire or Yorkshire families of that name. He was, I believe, the Col. Cholmley present at the siege of Carlisle in 1644-5. At a by-election for that city towards the end of the latter year he was elected to represent it in Parliament. The legality of his return was for some reason questioned, and although on July 31, 1647, he was ordered to attend the House till further order there appears to be no proof of his sitting. If he ever attended the House he was excluded through Pride's Purge. Under the Commonwealth he was appointed J.P. for his county, and acted as one of the Sequestration Commissioners in 1650. I have not discovered the date of his death, but it appears to have been shortly after the close of his Mayoralty.

He had a son Thomas Cholmley jun., whose widow Rebecca petitioned the King in 1660

" for a lease to herself for 99 years of the Irish and Scotch tolls of Carlisle and Gockermouth devised to her late father-in-law Thomas Cholmley, by him to her husband, and now to her son Thomas, an infant, she having no other means to provide for her son and daughters. Her father, Rooerc Salvin of Durham, lost 6,OOOL, all his property, in the service of the late King."

On Sept. 4, 1660, licence was granted (Vicar Gen.) to Henry Hearne of St. Andrew's, Holborn, gent., bachelor, 21, to marry Rebecca Cholmley of the same, widow, 28, at St. Margaret, Westminster, or Putney, Surrey.

I have not been able to discover this lady's father, Robert Salvin, in any pedigree of the Salvin family within my reach.

W. D. PINK.

" APPRECIATION." The First Lord of the Admiralty was invited in the House of Commons on Aug. 3 to

" consider the appropriateness of circulating to captains in the mercantile marine an appreciation of the services of the late Captain Fryatt and of the work they themselves are doing on behalf of the Empire."

In ' The Concise Oxford Dictionary ' (published in 1911) this meaning of "apprecia- tion"' is noted as derived from the French appreciation^ critique ; but this is not put as clearly in ' The Historical English Dic- tionary,' the part of which containing this word was issued in 1888. When did the particular meaning begin to be favoured here ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

[The second part of the 'N.E.D.,' containing ' Appreciation,' was published in 1885.]

PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS. I should be much obliged if correspondents would kindly communicate notes of the existence of any English portraits in windows in. churches or other public buildings or private houses before 1750. The only portraits known of two Speakers namely, Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker in 1376-7, and Sir Reginald Bray, Speaker in 1496 are to be found respectively in Farleigh Hungerford Church and in the Priory Church, Malvern, There must be many other historical charac- ters whose portraits are thus preserved.

JOHN LANE.

!iiie Bodley Head, Vigo Street, \V.

FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS. Can any one add to the following meagre list ? Keats, Shelley, Arthur Hugh Clough, Smollett, Landor, and E. B. Browning, in Italy ; Fielding in Portugal ; Freeman in. Spain. J- B. McGovERN.

SIR JOHN MAYNARD (1592-1658). Where may I find the fullest pedigree of this knight's descendants ? I know of the references in.. Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide.' Is there a pprtrait extant of him ? If so, where is it ? EDITOR ' BRADFORD ANTIQUARY.'

CAPT. BELLAINS OR BELLAIRS. He took great interest in architecture, 1730-40. Who was he ? Any information will be much valued. S. P. Q. R.

WILLIAM WILSON, M.P. Can any one supply any particulars of William Wilson, M.P. Ilchester, December, 1761 to 1768; Camelford, 1768-74 ? He was stated to be of Keythorpe, co. Leicester. W. R. W.

HENRY WHITAKER, M.P. What is known of Henry Whitaker of Shaftesbury, M.P. for that town, 1711-15 ? Was he the son of Henry Whitaker, Recorder and also M.P. for the same, who died 1696 ? And cnn he be identified with the Henry Whitaker who matriculated from New College, Oxford, Feb. 16, 1704, aged 17, as son of William Whitaker of Motcombe, Dorset ?

W. R. W.

THE HORSE-CHESTNUT. Can you tell me the reason, or the legendary reason, if there is one, why the horse-chestnut has on every branch the form of a somewhat round horseshoe with its ten or twelve nail-marks ? A man of this village, a bricklayer, brought this to me the other day to solve.

AMY SAVAGE.

Littlewick Green, near Maidenhead.'