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Prince is one of several writers whom I have fo lowed in giving the arms of Dinham as Gules, four fusils in fesse ermine. Other writers speak of five fusils, and Mr. Watson. relies for that number on casts of seals at the British Museum. As there are only four on the shield in Thurbern's Chantry, it would seem that the fesse may be drawn either with four points or with five, and for that reason the arms are, perhaps, best described as Gules, a fesse indented ermine. See The Ancestor, iv. 247 ; and Burke's ' Dormant and Extinct Peerages ' (1866), p. 173.

The existence of Lord Dinham's shield in Thurbern's Chantry denotes that he was somehow connected with the College, and I have lately discovered the fact that he was connected with it, if in no other way, at any rate as the parent of a Commoner. The name Dynham (Dynnam, Denham, &c.) occurs in the College Hall-books of 1478-9, 1479-80, 1480-1, and 1481-2, in the weekly lists of the resident Commoners.

Only one of these books, that of 1480-1, has been preserved in its entirety. This book begins on Saturday, Sept. 30, 1480, and the 'Commoners in its opening week axe Denham, Carowe, Colte, Coke, Hyll, Hulse, Catesbye, Tame, Peers, Harvye. In its final week they are Denham, Carew, Colt, Catesby, Hyll, Babyngton, Coke, Hervy, Mendaper, Tame, Well. Throughout the year the boys are divided into three sets, as here indicated, according to ,the sums paid for their maintenance. From various notes which occur against their names I gather that Mendaper was charged 8d. a week, Hyll Is., and Carew as much as Is. 8d. In the thirteenth week of the first quarter Catesby was promoted from the third set to the second, with the note " hie primo in [numerum] generosorum venit." If the boys in the second set were " generosi," then those in the first set, Denham and Carew, should perhaps be reckoned " nobiles."

If a boy was absent during any week, his name was not omitted, but a cross was put against it, and it thus appears that the one substantial holiday which Denham took this year began at. the end of the twelfth week of the second quarter, and ceased in the fifth of the third, when the note to his name is " venit in die Jo vis ad prandium." The diary of the guests in Hall informs us that on the Sunday before the boy's departure " quidam de do mo domini Denham " dined with the Fellows, and that on the day of his return " vii

famuli domini Denham " came to dinner.. It may fairly be inferred that this well- escorted boy was Lord Dinham's son.

But the evidence of his identity does not stop there. At the end of the book there is a statement of the amount due to the Sub-warden of the College (William Combe) for his stipend, &c., after deducting the sums he had received for the commons (at Is. 8d. a week) of " Mr. Gorge," i.e., of somebody whose Christian name was George r viz., for thirteen weeks of the first quarter 21s. 8d., for twelve of the second 20s., for eight and a half of the third 14s. 2d., and for twelve and a half of the fourth 20s. lOd. : total, 76s. 8d. These were the commons of Lord Dinham's son George.

" George Dynham, son and heir apparent of Lord Dyrtham," was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, by special admission, on Feb. 20, 1484/5. See 'Black Books' of that Inn,, vol. i. p. 81. H. C.

Winchester College.

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARD EDWARDS, 1669-79.

(See ante, pp. 1, 44, 81, 122, 161, 205, 244,, 262, 293, 323, 349, 377, 409, 439, 470.)

LETTER LXXIII.

Ralph Harwar to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3500.)

Huglie the 18 of October 1670 Mr Richard Edwards,

Sir, I long since Received yours of the 3d [instjant, which gave me much Joy in that I found you soe Curteously incline to what I have soe long desired, and am only sorrie that I broke no[t] my silence sooner. For what is past, I am soe far from Retaining any hard thoughts of you that I only thinke my selfe Culpable ; and that you may be Confident what I say is Re[al], I shall for the future strictly require o[f] [m]y selfe such actions as may (if possible) merrit your Friendship, and till Better Confirmed shall be verry Cautious of Commiti[ng] any thing that may in the least inpeed its growt[h], the increase of [wh]ich [is w]hat is Earnestly desirfed] Per Sir

Yotir loveing Frie[nd] and Servant

RAL: HARWAR

Excuse Hast and Rudenesse and Present me humbly to Mr March &ca.

I[de]m R. H. [Endorsed] For [Mr] Richard Edwards

Merchant in Cassumbuzar