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in the same register are entries between 1739 and 1758 of fourteen children by his wife Susannah. Four of the sons (viz., Charles, George, Henry, and William) are mentioned in his will, dated Oct. 6, 1774, proved Feb. 25, 1775 (Norwich Arch- deaconry Court, Reg. 1775, fo. 19).

Can any reader throw light on the paternity of George Ward, or furnish in- formation where the record of his birth is to be found ? Correspondents are asked to communicate directly with me.

W. READ WARD.

Haslemere, 21 Beechfleld Koad, Catford. S.E.6.

WESTCAR FAMILY John West-car died March 15, 1784, aged 63 ; and Joanna his wife died Nov. 3, 1800, aged 86. There is a marble tablet to their memory on the west wall of the south aisle of Hethe Church, Ox on.

Henry Westcar, gent., son of the above, died March 27, 1805, aged 52, and was buried in Hethe Church. There is a stone in the floor of the nave to his memory, also a lozenge-shaped tablet on the west wall of the nave ; on the latter he is described as late of the borough of Southwark.

Can any one give me additional particulars about these persons ?

L. H. CHAMBERS.

Bedford.

DE QUENCY FAMILY. Will any reader knowing anything pertaining to the resi- dences, places of burial, histories, or escutcheons of the mediaeval family of De Quency kindly communicate with me ?

L. E. DICKINS.

Uplands, Church Road, Yardley, Birmingham.

THOMAS ROGEBSON, A.M., ROYALIST.- Was he related to the Rogerson family of Norfolk ? The reference to Richard, steward of the St. Paul's School feast in 1716, at p. 98 supra, is of interest here. We had a rector Thomas Rogerson to whom Walker devotes an unusually long account in his ' Sufferings of the Clergy ' (1714, part ii. pp. 347-8) ; that he had a wife Margaret is stated in Proc. of the Committee for Plundered Ministers (Add. MS. Brit. Mus. 15671, fol. 41b), but who she was or if they had issue we know not, nor is she mentioned in Thomas's letter to his patron, a most valuable document (Add. MS. Brit. Mus. 23959, fol. 49-50) ; nor do I find his death anywhere recorded. John and another Rogerson are mentioned in Cal. of Domestic State Papers of 1664-5 (pub. 1863), p. 451, and 1690-1 (pub. 1898), p. 407.

There are monuments at Denton, near Harleston in Norfolk, to the Rev. Robert, who was born in 1627, and married Barbara Gooch of Mettingham in Suffolk ; and to the Rev. Thomas, born 1661 and died 1723, Rector of Ampton in Suffolk, of whom Bloomfield adds, *' Being a non-juror, he resigned his living of Ampton and lived a peaceable retired life " at Denton.

CLAUDE MORLEY, Monk Soham House, Framlingham.

THOUSAND : ITS SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SIGN. In the seventeenth century writers occasionally used a sign resembling a U or a V to mark off thousands in the same way as the comma is now employed to divide hundreds ; but why was this form used, and what was its precise si eni 6 ration ? In the MS. of Peter Mundy (MS. Rawl. A 315 at the Bodleian Library) it is several times em- ployed, but by no means consistently throughout the MS. L. M. ANSTEY.

MAZES IN YORKSHIRE. In 1872 the late Canon Greenwell saw traces of a maze on the north side of Egton, near Whitby, adjacent to the road. It has also been said that another maze was planted at July Park, or St. Julian's, not far from Goathland. I shall be much obliged if any one can give information in reference to these or possibly to other mazes in the neighbourhood.

Whitby> GEORGE AUSTEN.

" THE BANNER OF THE RESURRECTION " : THE FLAG OF ST. GEORGE. Mr. R. W. Garden in a note on p. 155 of his interesting book ' The City of Genoa ' writes of " the ' Resurrection ' in the lunette of the north- east chapel of San Matteo, painted by Giuseppe Palmieri, in which Christ is seen bursting from the tomb with the Genoese flag in his hand."

The Genoese flag alluded to is the same as the flag of England, i.e., the flag of 3t. George, a red cross on a white ground. Pictures of the Resurrection frequently represent our Lord with a flag of this kind. It is, however, not connected with St. George in any way, the idea being taken from the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus ; see Farrar's ' Christ in Art ' at pp. 441-4. Presumably the cross which the Crusaders book was based on early pictures of the Resurrection.

Is it known when the red cross on a white ground first became connected with the name of St. George, and when St. George's flag was first adopted as the national flag of England ?