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NOTES AND QUERIES. L 12 s.m. MARCH 3, 1917.

According to the dictionary referred to, among the many who claim to be her proteges are cannoneers and fortresses, consequently I was surprised to hear of her statuette being in a naval mess.

A gunner myself, I should welcome any further information, especially anything explaining why the Pulverkopf should regard St. Barbara as being especially concerned about him. ROY GABABT.

STOKES: STOCKEB (12 S. iii. 110). The central name in Miss G. M. PEET'S family table, there given as " Michl. Stocke(r or s)," should be Matthew Stokes, who, during most of the second half of the sixteenth century, was one of the chief officials of the University of Cambridge, holding the posts of registrary and esquire-bedel. His two wives, Katharine and Elizabeth, were biiried in the churchyard of St. Botolph's, Cambridge ; he himself was buried at Great Staughton, Hunts, on Nov. 18, 1591 (see 2 S. v. 139). His arms were : " A., on a bend S. 3 dolphins embowed O." ; his crest : " Out of a ducal coronet a cubit arm proper habit ed G., cuffed A. , holding barwise a bedel's staff," as may be seen on the curious picture in the Registry at Cambridge, on a wooden tablet, in the Pitt Press, on his brother's well-cut brass at the south door of King's Chapel, on windows in a side-chapel in the same celebrated build- ing, in the old library of Trinity Hall, in the beautiful President's parlour at Queens', &c. ; all of which commemorate benefactions given by this generous official. His son Matthew altered the bedel's staff in the crest.

H. P. STOKES.

St. Paul's Vicarage, Cambridge.

The short pedigree, Harl. MS. 6774, quoted by Miss G. M. PEET, in which Robert Stokys (Stokes) is given the arms of Stocker, simply contains an error. But your corre- spondent also makes a mistake, misreading Maxham for Warham as the wife of Robert Stokys. The arms given with this pedi- gree seem undoubtedly those of Stocker, not Stokes, and precisely those of John Stocker of Eaton, 1489, excepting that in the crest of Robert the hand holds a mace, whilst in John's it holds a battleaxe and has on the wrist the Nevill saltire. Too much of your valuable space would be taken up were I to set out all the reasons for saying a mistake has been made in this pedigree, but I should have much pleasure in giving them to any one desirous of having them.

This is not the only instance in which the name of Stocker has been confused with another. In Harl. MS. 5186 is a pedigree

of Walterus Luke de Cople, in which Paulus Luke is said to have married Eliz., " filia de Johis Stocke," instead of Stocker. This mistake was easily disproved by the will of John Stocker, 1583, and also by a fuller pedigree from the ' Hunts Visitations ' by Wm. Camden. CHAS. J. S. STOCKEB.

Pinewood, Budleigh Salterton.

STAFFOBDSHIBE M.P.s (12 S. iii. 90, 156). John Cotes, M.P. Lichfield 1708 to 1715 (when defeated under the name of Thomas Cotes), Steward of that city May 6, 1726,- till December, 1734, was of Woodcote,. Salop ; son of Charles Cotes of same ; born 1680 ; licensed June 21, 1700, then " aged 18," to marry Lady Dorothy Shirley (who died March 11, 1739), sixth daughter of the- 1st Earl Ferrers. He died 1756.

William Nevil Hart, M.P. Stafford April, 1770, to 1774, a Westminster banker, was created D.C.L. Oxford, July 8, 1773 ; his first wife died Oct. 30, 1 766 ; his second wife died in Normandy, October, 1783. Query, son of Sir Wm. Hart, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, a banker and goldsmith in Pall Mall, who was knighted Oct. 16, 1760, when Sheriff of London, and died Aug. 22, 1765. Query, father of Wm. Neville Hart, ensign 60th Foot, July 7, 1790 ; lieutenant in the same, Sept. 18, 1792 ; captain 79th Foot,. Sept. 17, 1794, till 1796.

Rowland Okeover, M.P. Stafford 1685-7,. eldest son of Sir Rowland Okeover, Knt.,of Okeover, co. Stafford (1624-92) ; died 1729,

W. R. W.

FOBEIGN GBAVES OF BBITISH AUTHOBS (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495 ; iii. 39, 59, 96, 114). In the old cemetery at Bathurst in the Colony of the Gambia which was the first pied d terre of the British in the con- tinent of Africa there is a small tumble- down brick grave with a cracked marble tablet, upon which is inscribed the follow- ing :

.... the memory of Thomas Edward Bowditch.

aged 31

January 10,. 1824. Equalled rarely, excelled never.

This marks the grave of T. E. Bowdich, one of the early nineteenth-century explorers; of the West Coast of Africa, the author of ' Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashan- tee,' and of

" Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo- during the autumn of 1823 while on his third voyage to Africa. To which is added by Mrs.. Bowdich : I. A Narrative of the continuance of the voyage to its completion ; together with the' subsequent occurrences from Mr. Bowdich's,