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 12 s. ii. OCT. 14, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

been Apothecary to the late king, and to their mother as having been " Rocker " to the present king (Charles II.). Xo reply to this petition was given, but in 1666 John Chace, son of Stephen Chace above men- tioned, was made Court Apothecary at an annual salary of 115Z., with reversion of the post to his son, James Chace. Three years later, however, John Chace had to apply for arrears of salary, which he, by calculation or miscalculat ion, found amounted to 7,OOOJ. (!), together with 4?. 19s. 6c?. a month for " Laboratory Fuel."

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

Another apothecary M.P. would be Samuel Batteley of Bury St. 'Edmunds. A vacancy in the representation of Bury being caused by the death of Joseph Weld in January, 1712, Batteley was chosen to fill it as " trustee " for Carr Hervey, who was then r.broad. Carr Hervey came to his own in September, 1713. Batteley died in July, 1714. Particulars of this family will be found in several volumes of the Suffolk Creen Books. Two brothers of Samuel (with some errors of date) are in the ' D.X.B.'

S. H. A. H.

James Chase, son of John of Westminster, arm. Christ Church, matriculated Dec. 15, 1665, aged 15 ; one of these names M.P. t'.reat Marlow in nine Parliaments, 1690- 1710 (Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ').

A. R. BAYLKY.

"ONE'S PLACE IN THE SUN" (12 S. ii. 170,218). Compare ' Correspondance Lit- teraire par le Baron de Grimm,' tome iii., Paris, 1813, " Copie d'une lettre du Roi de Prusse au Marquis d'Argens, datee de Horensdorf, pres de Breslau, le 27 aout, 1760," p. 71 :

" Ma maison it Breslau a pe>i durant le bombarde- ment. Nos ennemis nous envient jusqu'a la lumiere du jour, ainsi que 1'air que nous respirons : il faudra pourtant bien qu'ils nous laissentune place, et si elle est sure, je me fais une ide"e de vous y recevoir."

As the German Emperor is probably familiar with the writings of Frederick the Great may not this be the origin > of the expression " One's place in the sun " ?

J. P. H.

ERASMUS SAUNDERS, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (12 S. i. 466). Jane Saunders, wife of Erasmus Saunders of Raveningham, Norfolk, Esq., is mentioned in Recusant Roll, So. 1, Mich., 1592-3; and Erasmus Saunders himself is mentioned in the same roll as " nuper de Pannyngham in com'

Xorff ," and as being possessed of properties at Eglwys Cymmin, Pendine, and Laugharne- iii Carmarthenshire, and at Crunwere and Tenby in Pembrokeshire. See Cath. Rec, Soc., xviii. 228, 376.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193V 275,416,474; ii. 14, 77, 197). I saw one such recently in actual use on the high road between Blakedown (near Kidderminster) and Harvington Hall, at Chaddesley Corbet t, Worcestershire. J. B. McGovEBN.

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Le Slranye Record*. A Chronicle of the Early le Stranges of Norfolk and the March of Wales, A.T>. 1100-1310, with the lines of Knockin and Blackmere continued to their Extinction. By Hamon le Strange. (Longmans & Co., II. Is. net.)

THIS is a sound and solid piece of work. We do not remember having seen anything of its kind better done. Mr. le Strange has made it less of an annotated pedigree, and more of a history, than are most recent compilations of family records : and there seems no single stray mention of any person belonging to these two centuries to whom the name " Kxtraneus " was attached which he has failed to weave in. A name obviously applicable to many scattered individuals who might have noconnfxion with each other, it has been found in several quarters where it seems independent of the chief family that bore it : these instances are duly noted.

The first le Strange, to whom legend gave a descent from an apocryphal Duke of Brittany,. would seem to have been an Angevin. He came into Norfolk and married an heiress there, and in Norfolk the line continues to the present day. But in the Middle Ages it was in the Western Marches that the family distinguished themselves. Brought over to England, we may well suppose, as the Plantagenet's man, the first le Strange handed down to his sons and sons' sons an extraordinarily firm attachment to the House of Anjou. Not only vicissitudes of fortune, but also, if 'we may so put it, vicissitudes of character, found the le Strange loyalty unswerving. The king might be a John, might be a Henry III. he could still count unon the support of the men of the le Strange family. The service rendered by one generation of them after another was, during the two centuries chiefly dealt with, much the same. They kept their portion of the Welsh march safe at the price of pretty constant fighting, .and one or the other of them was almost always to be found acting as Sheriff. Of Knockin Castle, the principal stronghold entrusted to their keeping, hardly anything now is loft humps and traces of old walls beside the road fronv Shrewsbury to Oswestry. And the line that settled there is itself now extinct.

To try to make a summary of -their achieve ments would be to summarize the history of the relations between England and Wales during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But a few of the more picturesque details may be mentioned