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NOTES AND QUERIES.

(12 S. IV. MAY, 1918.

the Brahmin Buddha ; that it is the emblem of immortality ; that the figure of it coiled into a circle with its tail in its mouth is an appropriate symbol of eternity with its ever-recurring cycles ; and that representa- tions of this Naga are found at A junta on the sculptured decorations of the doorways or in detached bas-reliefs outside the caves. He appears to rely on James Fergusson's ' Tree and Serpent Worship.' J. W. B. Jf

This emblem is carved on the vaulting of the interesting Norman church of Iffley, <3lose to Oxford, under the central tower. Is it connected with Scandinavian mytho- logy ? E. S. DODGSON.

THE LOKDS BALTIMORE (12 S. iv. 76). Lodge's ' Peerage of Irelan-J,' 1754, gives seven Lords Baltimore, viz., 1 George (d. 1632) ; 2. Cecil ; 3. John ; 4. Charles (d. Feb. 21, 1714); 5. Benedict Leonard (d. April 16, 1715); 6. Charles (d. April 24, 1751) ; 7. Frederick.

In the cases of Cecil and John, Lodge does not give the date of death. lie mentions John, third Lord, as attending King James's Irish Parliament in 1689, and says that he died soon after. Charles, fourth Lord, " was Outlawed for High Treason in Ireland, notwithstanding he never was in the King- dom." The outlawry was reversed Jan. 25, 1691. He was buried in St. Pancras Church, Middlesex, on Feb. 26, 1714. Benedict Leonard, fifth Lord, was buried at Epsom in Surrey on May 2, 1715.

In ' The English Baronetage,' 1741, vol. i. p. 56, is the following curious reference :

" Richard Gerard, the second son of Sir Thomas [Gerard of Bryn, Bart.], born in October, 1613, at the age of twenty-one was one of those that went first into Maryland with Mr. Calvert, the lord Baltimore's uncle, lord proprietor thereof."

W. P. H. POLLOCK.

Miss WALDUCK'S query as to a Calvert connexion with a family of Fowler or Wilson doubtless refers to the data contained in a manuscript pedigree forwarded to me some years ago. According to this, a Capt, Fowler, owner of a vessel in which various members of the Launce family of Launceston left England, married Rebecca Launce, whose portrait by Kneller still exists.

Their son Darcy Fowler married Miss Calvert, a Yorkshire lady, niece of Charles Calvert, who went to America and founded the estate of Baltimore. Darcy Fowler's daughter Jane Maria married William Wilson of Stockton, and left issue.

WM, ASHETON TONGE. Disley.

Miss WALDTJCK will find in my catalogue of the miniatures in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection, vol. i., in the B.M., a portrait of George, Lord Baltimore. She should also consult Burke' s ' Extinct Peerage.'

G. C. WILLIAMSON.

Burgh House, Hampstead, N.W.3.

[Vol. i. of G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' revised by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs (1910), says that Cecil, second Lord Baltimore, was buried at St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, Dec. 7, 1675, and was succeeded by his second son Charles, the first son George having died in June, 1636, under two years old. Charles is said not to have been present in James II. 's Parliament of May, 1689 ; and in the list of peers absent from that Parliament, printed in Appendix D of vol. iii., appears, under Barons, " Calvert Ba. of Baltimore." Charles is also described as having been " outlawed by the Wexford Grand Jury in 1691. but this was reversed by the King 25 Jan. 1691/2." Lodge evidently used the old ecclesiastical year, as he states that Charles was buried on " Feb. 26, 1714 " ; whereas G. E. C. says that his will was dated 29 July. 1714, and that he was buried " 26 Feb. 1714/5, at St. Pancras, Midx., aged 77."

The dates in the extract from ' The English Baronetage ' indicate that " Mr. Calvert, the lord Baltimore's cZe," was Leonard Calvert, who (at the request of his brother Cecil, second Lord Baltimore) sailed from Cowes on Nov. 22, 1633, arrived at Point Comfort, Virgini ( a, on Feb. 27. 1634, and was the first governor of ^laryland (see the account of him in the ' D.N.B.').

We have forwarded the other portion of MR. TONGE'S long reply to Miss WALDUCK.]

WINCHESTER EPISCOPAL ARMS (12 S. iv. 75). A similar shield is noted in Wood- ward's 'Ecclesiastical Heraldry,' p. 174:

" Bishop Waynflete's seals have a shield charged with a sword in bend, and with a key (or keys) in bend sinister, and in chief a mitre. In the hall of New College, Oxford, is a similar shield in painted glass with the field of the shield azure. This may possibly be of earlier date than Waynflete's seal, but the tincture of the field is, as far as I am aware, unique." Your correspondent's example was evidently unknown to Woodward.

J. HARVEY BLOOM.

These arms appear on the seal of William Waynflete (1447-86) as a sword in bend surmounted by a key in bend sinister, and on the seal of Peter Courtenay (1487-92) as two keys in saltire, surmounted by a sword, hilt in base in pale.

The seal of John Denton, commissary to Bishop Waynflete, had as arms of the see a sword and key in saltire, and in chief a mitre with labels, as in the window dating c. 1460 mentioned by MR. LE COUTETJR.

Of course these seals do not show the colour of the field, and I .regret not to be able to answer the query.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.