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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. NOV., 1917.

JOHN PEPYS OP SALISBURY COURT. In the preface to Mr. Wheatley's edition of Pepys's ' Diary ' it is stated that " Cosen Pepys of Salisbury Court " could not be identified. The following notes may assist identification :

1. His Christian name was John, and he was Sir Edward Coke's London agent.

2. Mr. William Armiger of North Creake, Norfolk, addressed him by letter in 1631 as " Good Cosen," and mentions " my cousen youre Wiffe with the residue of my cousens with you."

3. According to Mr. Rye's ' Norfolk Families,' there was a connexion between the Pepys and Armiger families thus :

John Mansuer : f(2nd wife) Eliz. Norton of N. Creake.

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Anne Mansuer, Riohard=^ Alice, widow of

m. William Mansuer Thomas

Armiger. of Holkham. Pepys.

4. In the ' Diary ' a Mr. Armiger is named more than once. He lived with Thomas Pepys, the diarist's brother, in London. This was probably Clement Ar- miger, who was son of William Armiger and was knighted in 1660. Mr. William Armiger in writing to Sir Edward Coke at Stoke Poges, Bucks, in 1631, offers " thanks to your Honor for my son Clement."

FAKENHAM.

JOHN PAULEY. (See US. ix. 409.) As MR. J. B. WAINE WRIGHT regarded the " D. Joannes Pauleus " who is said to have been at Louvain in or about 1575 as identical with the John Pauley who was Usher at Winchester in the earlier part of 1549, may [ draw attention to the will of a John Paulye which, being dated -Sept. 6, 1549, was proved on June 20, 1550, by Christopher Smith, proctor for Agnes Bekingham, the testator's mother and executrix (P.C.C., 16 Coode) V The testator mentions, besides his mother and his " f ather-by-lawe " (i.e., stepfather), his brothers Nicholas, Thomas, and Richard, and his sister Eliza- beth. He leaves to John Bekingham all his books, save his Proverbs, Livy, and Virgi] with commentary, which he leaves to " the schole of the St. Mary College beside Winchester." He appoints William Ewryd as overseer of the will, and it is witnessed by Thomas Frende, William Adkyns, and Thomas Hawkyns. We can identify Ewryd with Evered, then Head Master at Win- chester ; Frende with a Scholar there of 1533 who had become Fellow of New College,

Oxford ; Adkyns with a Winchester Fellow ; and Hawkyns, to whom the testator left his '" lether sprewse jerkin," with the Usher of that name who was Pauley's immediate successor. Though the will does not specify the testator's abode or occupation, is it not manifest that he was our Usher ? There is r moreover, this further point to be mentioned. A note in the Act Book states that the testator was of the diocese of Salisbury ; and in 1551 John Bekingham of New Sarum was elected a Winchester Scholar. Surely he was the above-mentioned legatee and the Usher's step-brother. H. C.

Winchester College.

MILITARY DUEL : TRUNTON v. CADENSKI. Historians of the duel may like to know of a duel in which Lieut. R. H. Trunton,. 22nd Light Dragoons, challenged and killed Lieut. Cadenski, 80th Foot, with swords over the mess-table at Fort St. George, on Nov. 5, 1812. The story is set forth circumstantially in the court martial on Trunton held at Fort St. George, Jan. 18, 1813. He was acquitted (P.R.O. W.O. 71 : 229). J. M. BULLOCH.

" DEUCE." The most interesting quota- tion throwing light on this word that I have found is in Southey's ' Common-Place Book/ Third Series, at p. 411, where he quotes from Jean Boucher, ' Sermons de la Simulee Conversion de Henri de Bourbon' (1594), at p. 3, as follows :

" Le Diable aussi est double, et 1'ont signifie les Pythagoriens par le nombre de deux, qu'ils disent estre principle de tout mal."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

COFFIN-PLATES IN ST. MARY'S, BATTER- SEA. The crypt of this old parish church has in recent years been cleaned out, .and paved with wood-blocks, being now used as a choir vestry. The plates of the coffins were fortunately saved, and have been fixed to the walls and brick piers. There is a large number of them, ranging over the eighteenth century, several having coats of arms, the embossed work and engraving being well executed. Probably CM ing to lead having been largely used in their com- position, damp has not damaged them, and they are in excellent condition.

Looking at this fine collection, one regrets that similar conservative treatment has not been applied in other parishes, where the destruction of such interesting memorials must have been incalculable, especially during the destruction of- some of the churches in the City. . V. L. OLIVER. Sunninghill.