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NOTES AND QUERIES. [i28.iv. JULY, wis.

HAMPSHIRE CHURCH BELLS. There are in the county some fifteen bells, cast between 1610 and 1642, bearing the founder's initials " I. H." The writer of the note; relating to these bells in the Hampshire Victorian County History suggests that the initials may possibly stand for John Higden.

A further series of twenty-one, with dates ranging between 1595 and 1614, have the initials " R. B." (possibly for Robert or Richard Bond), but on no bell of the series is the name or location of the foundry indicated.

Any information respecting the founder's name and the locality of the foundry will be gratefully appreciated.

JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D. Ventnor.

FlNLAY OR FlND LAY FAMILY. Two

brothers from Lanark or Fife, Scotland, migrated to Dublin in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and engaged in the woollen trade. One had a son William Henry, who married Sarah Browne in 1799, and died in 1842 in Dublin, intestate, and a daughter, who married Mr. Sheil of Dublin. I shall be grateful for details of the births, marriages, and burials of the brothers, and the names of their children.

E. C. FlNLAY.

VALENTINE KNIGHTLEY CHETWOOD LABAT of Portarlington and Mount Mellick, Queen's County, had a son John Kinder, born about 1800, and a daughter Ismenia. I should greatly appreciate particulars concerning this family and the origin of the name Ismenia. E. C. FINLAY.

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HERALDIC : CAPTOR AND HIS CAPTIVE'S ARMS. In Mr. DorJing's book ' Leopards of England,' p. 16, we read : "It was a principle of the law of arms that if any man were made a prisoner of war his arms with all else that he had became the just prize of his captor." I presume this means that the captor became entitled to make use of such arms by quartering or displaying them on his own shield ; otherwise there would be no particular reason for alluding, in a book on heraldry, to the obvious fact that a victor was entitled to seize anything his prisoner was possessed of, and keep it for his own. It would be interesting to have some examples of this principle, illustrating the user by a captor of his victim's arms or the adoption of them in lieu of his own. I have never noticed any such cases. I suppose the principle would

apply to crests as well as to coats of arms. Perhaps in this way can be explained the otherwise unaccountable presence of certain quarterings in the achievement of some ancient families. Certain great warriors would be entitled to " sport " a number of coats on the above basis, but I am sceptical whether the principle ever existed to any recognizable extent. R. S. B.

SHIELD IN WINCHESTER STAINED GLASS. Among the ancient heraldic glass in 10 Winchester Cathedral Close (a house which once formed part of the monastic refectory) is a shield, c. 1500, charged Gules, four fusils conjoined in fesse argent, surrounded with a Garter. I should be glad to know what family bore these arms, and to which particular member thereof this shield belongs. JOHN D. LE COUTEUR. Southsea.

SHIELD DIVIDED QUARTERLY. Will some one versed in armory kindly explain how a shield divided per cross or quarterly, each quarter bearing a charge, but the whole forming a single achievement, is to be dis- tinguished from a " quartered " shield ? [ have consulted various good authorities, but none of them makes any relevant remarks on this peculiarity Are not such shields of late origin ? G.

STRUG, STRUGUYL, OR STRUGNELL FAMILY. Can any readers tell me what arms were borne by Sir John Strug, Kt., who was iving in Wiltshire between 1327 and 1341 1 [n 1327 a commission of oyer and terminer was issued to John de Annesle, Elias de odele, and Peter Fitz-Waryn on com- alaint by John Strug', Kt., that John de Tichbourue and sundry others took away L2 horses, 24 oxen, and 200 sheep, worth 31Z., and other goods, at Heghterbury i.e., Heytesbury) and Berwyk, Wilts. The constant recurrence of an apostrophe, as above, leads me to think that Strug was an abbreviated form of Struguyl, especially as both a William de Struguyl and William Strug' were mentioned in Inquisitiones Post VIortem in Wilts between 1216 and 1272. Any information concerning John Strug' or other members of the family will be acceptable.

Also, information is required concerning

he lordship of Strugull, mentioned in

Wiltshire Inqiu'sitiones Post Mortem in

1338, when Sir Bogo de Knouille, Kt., held

one messuage of the lordship of Strugull in


 * he vill of Ditherigge ( ? Ditcheridge). Has

his any connexion with the lordship of