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the U.S. for more than fifty years. She is known to have had a nephew, William G(raham ?) Welch. She died in a mission house connected with a very high Protestant Episcopal church, and, presumably, was of that faith.

From such meagre data can some reader versed in such matters suggest the part of England in which the above family names would be likely to be found ? C. H.

New York City.

THE BOLTON LIGHT HORSE : THE DUKE OF LANCASTER'S OWN YEOMANRY. I shall be glad of any information about this regiment, which, as the Bo It on Light Horse and the Purness Light Horse, is traceable to about 1797. When did the amalgamation and the assumption of the name Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry take place ? Local information in particular would be valuable. Some day I hope to have time to search Army Lists and such like sources of information. JR. S. B.

ARMS OF ENGLAND WITH FRANCE ANCIENT. Over the door in the south porch of Church Brampton Church, Northants, there is a stone shield with the arms of England in the first and fourth quarters, and France Ancient in the second and third. The church is of about 1350.

I am told there are two other instances of this unusual arrangement of the arms, one at Gloucester. Can anybody give their exact whereabouts ? A. G. IVEALY,

Chaplain R.N. retired.

Bedford.

MARY BOIJJES, " BARONETESS." Can any reader tell me the origin of Mary Bolles being created a Baronetess by King Charles I. and to what family she belonged ? It is said to be the only instance on record of a woman being raised to that dignity. Any information will be gratefully received. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

JANE BROWN, CENTENARIAN. A tomb- stone at Elswick, Durham, records the death of Jane Brown, Aug. 28, 1844, aged 102, widow of Peter Brown, master mariner, who died 1821, aged 79. Was this one of the cases investigated by the late Mr. Thorns ? I wish to discover where Jane Brown was baptized, and where married. A daughter, also Jane Brown, died at Elswick, Nov. 11, 1854, aged 82. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sand gate.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. The dog that don't know how to bite He didn't ought to bark.

J. H. LESLIE. Sheffield.

2. May I sink meanlier than the worst, Abandoned, outcast, crushed, accurst,

It I forget.

A. STANTON WHITFIELD, F.R.Hist.S. High Street, Walsall.

I should be greatly obliged for information as to the authorship of two little poems. One begins :

3. In summer, when the vales are clear,

And woodlands blithe with flowery heights.

The other begins :

4. Yet if his Majesty, our sovereign lord, Should of his own accord Friendly himself invite ....

P. T. CRESWELL. 57 Esm4 Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham.

JOHN PRUDDE: "KING'S GLAZIER."

(12 S. ii. 430, 517.)

THE following notes will perhaps be of use to MR. J. LE COUTEUR :

1. Prudde was appointed for life to the office of glazier of the King's works by letters patent dated Sept. 10, 19 Hen. VI. (1440). One of the many saving clauses to the " Act of Resumption " which Parlia- ment wrung from the King in 1450 provided that the Act should not prejudice John Prudde, " cure glasyer," with regard to the grant or grants which Henry had made to him of 12cZ. by the day, to be taken for the term of his life of the issues and profits of the shires of Surrey and Sussex by the hands of the sheriffs there for the time being. See ' Rotuli Parliamentorum,' vol. v. (1765), p. 1966.

2. MR. WYNDHAM HULME has already mentioned that, as soon as Henry VI. was dethroned by Edward IV. in 1461, Thomas Bye was appointed to the glaziery of the King's works. I notice that by letters patent dated Sept. 3, 3 Ed. IV. (1464), John Randolf, esquire, obtained, together with other premises at Westminster, a house within the palace which John Prudde lately held at farm by grant of Henry VI. See "' Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1461-7,' p. 273.