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 12 S. III. SEPT., 1917.]

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years later photographs of the head, passing as Wykeham's, were on sale at Winchester and Oxford. Leach reproduced the head in his 'History' of the College (1899), at p. 210, but scarcely improved matters by suggesting that it might be a portrait of Waynflete.

9. Charles Blackstone in his MS. book of ' Benefactions ' (1784) mentioned, at p. 58, the removal of glass in 1772 from Thurbern's Chantry to Fromond's. He also stated, at p. 148, as if speaking of his own time, that there were in windows at Fromond's but he did not say in which windows the arms of two Bishops of Winchester, Stephen Gardiner and John White, each within a garter. It would seem, therefore, that some of the Prudde glass may have been replaced by new glass in Queen Mary's reign. Gardiner's arms have disappeared, but White's* are still at the College, though Kirby (' Annals,' p. 248) said that they had gone to a " window in St. Cross Hospital." They are in fact in a window at the Second Master's House, and in company there with Wykeham's arms of like workmanship. Each shield is surmounted by a mitre, and encircled by a garter having a diameter of about 9 inches. White's coat is impaled by the see of Winchester, but not so Wyke- ham's.

10. It is true that Bishop White's shield within a garter is to be seen also at St. Cross, in the tracery of the westernmost of the clerestory windows on the north side of the nave of the church. But it has a com- panion shield (also within a garter) which demonstrates that the pair were made, not for the College, but for the Hospital, as this shield bears the arms of St. Cross impaling the arms of the see of Winchester, a some- what curious impalement which may be due to the fact that White, having appointed Dr. Robert Raynold as his Vicar-General in January, 1556/7, collated him on Aug. 23, 1 557, to the Mastership of St. Cross. >

H. C.

Winchester College.

roses counterchanged, slipped vert ; on a chief gules three hourglasses argent, framed or. Ac- cording : : to^Bedford's ' Blazon of Episcopacy ' {1897), White's seal bore Three roses slipped, a cinquefoil in fesse point. But his seal, as set to a deed in the possession of Winchester College, dated Dec. 1, 1 Eliz. (1558), bears, impaled by the arms of the see, Per chevron embattled, three roses slipped. Probably Bedford (or his au- thority) saw a poor impression of the seal, and mistook the apex of the embattled chevron foe -a cinquefoil.
 * Per chevron embattled or and gules, three

SIR WILLIAM OGLE :

SARAH STEWKLEY.

(12 S. ii. 89, 137, 251, 296, 518; iii. 92.)

MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY.

(12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432 ; iii. 16, 52, 113,

195, 236.)

THE information contributed to the pages of ' N. & Q.' on the above subjects grows more and more interesting. To the reply by DIEGO (12 S. ii. 296) as to the identity of Catherine Ogle, to whom her " cousin," Sir Hugh Stewkley (2nd Bart,), in his will, proved in 1719, leit a bequest, we owe a new chapter in the history of the Stewkleys. His suggestion to try vols. iii. and iv. of the ' Memoirs of the Verney Family ' was most happy in its results, although, despite the fact that " Kitty Ogle " is mentioned in 1695, the identity of her husband is still a mystery. She was, it seems, one of the younger children of " Gary," fourth daughter of Sir Edmund Verney (the standard-bearer to harles I., killed at the battle of Edge Hill), who, as the widow of Sir Thomas Gardiner, married, as his second wife, about 1652-3, John Stewkley, " a younger son, with a comfortable income, of Sir Thomas Stewkley."

From the delightful gossip of the ' Memoirs ' we learn that they all lived at Preshaw House, in Hampshire, where " Gary leads as busy a home life as such a train of babies must entail : and where good John is proud to see the old nursery filled a second time." Their family consisted of a son John, born in the first year of their marriage, and five daughters Penelope, Gary, Carolina, Isabella, and Catherine.

In the various pedigrees of the Stewkleys, notably the 1913 Visitation of Hampshire, Sir Thomas Stewkley, Kt. (born 1569, died circa 1642), is shown to have married " Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of John Geodwyn of Over Winchenden in county Bucks," by whom he had three sons, who all matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford. Hugh, born 1604, entered July, 1618, aged 14 ; Middle Temple, 1621 ; made a baronet, 1627 ; died September, 1642. Thomas matriculated July, 1621. aged 15. John matriculated July, 1626, aged 14 ; entered the Middle Temple in 1629.

In 'The Victoria History of Hampshire,'* under Hinton Ampner Church, it is said that Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Stewkley, was there buried in 1648 ; and in the same


 * Vol. iii.