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NOTES AND QUERIES. u-> s. 11. NOV. n, me.

Lieut. -General Hart, compiler of ' Hart's " Army List.'

Sir William Hamilton, for upwards of fifty years H.M. Consul at Boulogne.

Henry Melville Merridew, the founder of the ' Guide.'

Eighty-two bodies from the female convict ship Amphitrite, lost with all hands off Boulogne, Aug. 31, 1833.

Gilbert a Beckett of Punch was temporarily buried here previous to the removal of his remains to England.

The spelling of the names is that of the ' Guide.'

" The burial-ground contains the remains of many well-known families,, especially those of retired officers of the English and Indian armies."

Possibly the inscription over the door of the room in which Campbell died still exists.

ROBEBT PlERPOINT.

PALLAVICIXI : ARMS (11 S. ix. 511 ; 12 S. ii. 328). Burke's ' Armory ' gives arms of Palavicini (an Italian family settled in co. Cambridge) : Or, a cross quarter-pierced azure, on a chief of the first a ragged staff fesseways sable. In the 1634 Visitation of Essex (Harl. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 536) there is a foot-note to the Young pedigree referring to the marriage of Robert Young of Ongar with Alice Ploot, and quoting Harl. MS. No. 1541, fol. 166b, for the second marriage of Robert Young with a daughter of Horatio Pallavi- cini, the arms of the latter being described as : Or, a cross quarter- pierced azure, in chief a trunk ragulee sable. In the Sedgewick pedigree (Harl. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 600) there is a marriage of Edward Sedgewick of Chipping Ongar with Susanna, daughter of Tobias Pallavicini.

The description of the arms in Italian is : " Cinque punti d'oro alternati con quattro d'azzurro ; col capo del primo caricato da una fascia contro doppio addentellata e scorciata di nero." When it is explained that the punti are punti di scacchiere (chessboard squares) the blazon will be less perplexing.

In the ' D.X.B.' account of Sir Horatio allusion is made to Sir Peter Palavicino, knighted 1687, as another member of the family, but Le Xeve describes the latter as coming to England as a poor lad who became butler to Charles Torreano, merchant in London, and to him were ascribed arms, " Blew, an eagle dif-plaid arg.," which have no resemblance to any Pallavicini coat.

The family of " Horatio Palavazene who robbed the Pope to lend the Queene," and who was struck down to Beelzebub by Hercules with his club, did not make much of a mark in English history LEO C.

At 7 S. ix. 152 there is a copy of an in- scription from the church of St. Dunstan- in-the-East, London, on the monument to Sir Peter Parravicin, 1696. Arms : Gules, a swan argent. R. J. FYNMORE.

Five coats under this name are described in Rietstap's ' Armorial General.'

DRAGON VERT.

In an old manuscript armorial in my possession there is a description in French.,, and a small pen-and-ink sketch, of the arms of " Palavicini a Genes." The description, reads as follows :

d'az au chief d'o charge

est de pals liez les uns,

which I take to mean " Azure, on a chief or pallets joined together." The sketch, which, is headed " Marq de Palavicini," I should blazon : " Chequy of nine or and azure, on a chief of the first a barrulet bretessed couped sable." I think it is clear that this and the two descriptions quoted in the query are merely different readings of the eame shield.. I could send MR. PIERPOINT a copy of the sketch if he would care for it.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. [MR. CHARLES DRURY also thanked for reply.l

MATTHEW SHORTYNG, D.D. (US. ix. 406)~ May I be allowed to supplement my con- tribution at the above reference by the following extract from the Grantchester Register, for which I am indebted to tie- Rev. W. R. Harrisson, the present vicar ?

" Mrs. Grace Shorty ng, eldest daughter to Thomas Goad, Dr. of Lawes and Regius Professour in y e University of Cambridge, first married to John Byng, Esquire, late of this parish, by whom* she had one only son, M r John Byng, y' survived her : afterwards y e wife of Matthew Shortyng, M:A: Vicar of this parish, dyed on Sunday April y c 26 t! V was buried on Wednesday y e 29 th 1691."

A reference to Collins's ' Peerage,' ed. 1812. vol. vi. p. 81, shows that this John Byng, who was born at Grantchester in 1663, left issue by Frances Shortyng two daughters r. Winifred, married to Richard Burr, doctor in divinity, and Catherine, to Henry Oborne, chirurgeon and citizen of London.

ERNEST H. H. SHORTING.

ST. MADRON'S WELL, NEAR PENZANCE

(12 S. ii. 9, 58). Edmund Gibson, in his translation of Camden's ' Britannia,' 1695,- col. xxii. note 1, writes of the ease men- tioned by Hall:

" I know not whether this be a distinct instance from another that is undoubtedly true. Two per- sons that had found the prescript ions of Physicians and Chirurgeons altogether unprofitable, went to this Well (according to the ancient custom) on. Corpus Christi Eve, and laying a small offering-.