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unusual device ? It would appear to be either an allusion to some incident or the badge of some family. The manor of Old Cleeve was granted to the De Honiara family by the Conqueror, and by William de Honiara conveyed to the Abbey of St. Mary Cleeve in 1188. I find no record of any member of the De Romara family or person of similar importance having resided at Old Cleeve at the date to which the figure appears to belong. F. HANCOCK.

Dunster Priory, Taunton.

STOKES : STOCKER. In Harl. MS. 6774 is the following short pedigree :

Robert Stokys of Eaton=pEliz, Maxham in com. Berks. of Berkshire.

Barbara, d. of Michael Stocke(r or 8),=^Kliz., d. of

Chambers,

in com.

Hertford.

one of the Beadels of. Cambridge University.

Parker (2nd wife)

i r~i r~i

Mathew B. and h. Thomas. Lawrence.

Robert. Philip.

Stokys undoubtedly is a variant of Stokes, but the arms (also given) are certainly those of Stocker. Can any one kindly explain this and oblige ? G. M. PEET.

Manor House, Fen Stanton, St. Ives.

CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED ' ROBINSON CRUSOE.' Some decades back the firm of Cassell & Co. brought out a yellow-papered edition of ' Robinson Crusoe ' in serial form, page bordered throughout, and with remark- ably fine woodcuts. I have been wishful to know who were the band of illustrators and engravers. Can any one kindly furnish information ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

BOWTELL : BEAUCLERK. I shall be glad to know if anything is recorded of a Suffolk family named Bowtell, which claimed descent from the Boauclerks. How did the name Beauclerk originate in the case of the 1st Duke of St. Albans ? And why was it given to Nell Gwyn's " little bastard " ?

P D. M.

Miss MITFORD AND HER WORKS. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me whether Mary Mitford's ' Our Village,' illustrated by C. A. Murray and W. H. J. Boot, is still in print, and, if so, who is the publisher ? Or would it be possible to obtain a good second-hand copy ? The edition was issued, as far as I can discover, at least twenty years ago. Murray was responsible for the figure- subjects, and Boot, the landscape painter

'or the drawings of the Berkshire country. [ should like to know if this edition of

Our Village ' is complete. Can any one tell me, also, whether Miss Mitford's letters are published, and by what firm ?

DOROTHY KING.

Dolphinholme, St. Annes-on-Sea.

[The Rev. A. G. L'Estrange brought out in 1869 a 'Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Selections from her Letters,' ; n 3 vols. ; and a second series of her letters, in 2 vols., was edited by H. F. Chorley in 1872. Both works were issued by Messrs. Bentley and Son, whose business was afterwards taken over by Messrs. Macmillan. ]

flepiws.

GEORGE TURBERVILLE. (12 S. ii. 470; iii. 37.)

UPON the question where and when was this poet born the following notes will, perhaps, be of some help.

1. In the Rev. John Hutchins's ' History of Dorset ' it is stated, as if it were a well- established fact, that Winterborne Whit- church was the home of that branch of the Turberville family which produced the poet, and that he was born there. See vol. i. p. 66 (original edition, 1774) ; vol. i. p. 197 (edition of 1861). Has he been claimed as a native of any other parish ?

2. According to the Winchester College Register of Scholars, twelve boys were admitted as Scholars in the year 1554, i.e. (I presume) under the election held in the summer of that year, and the twelfth of them was " Georgius Turbervyll de white churche xiij. Annorum 1 die Aprilis preterito dioc. Bristall." In Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars,' p. 132, Turberville's age at admission is given as " 14," but it is " xiij." in the Register. There is a pecu- liarity about the entries of 1554. At this period, entries in the Register were not usually signed, but there is a signature at the foot of this year's admissions, and, though it is not easy to decipher, I believe it to be that of William Adkyns, who was Sub- warden in 1553-4, and again in 1554-5 (see the Bursars' Account-rolls). Indeed, all the twelve entries seem to be in his handwriting, of which there are specimens in Register O : for he acted for a while as College Notary. In that capacity he did not draw his notarial mark with a pen, but used a stamp, or it may be a stencil ; but the innovation was not a success in his hands, 'and was liable to produce smudges. As the precise date of