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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. SEPT.,

BRIGGS OF VIRGINIA, 1622. In going through the numerous volumes of ' N. & Q. in our Congressional Library at Washington I found several references to the Brigg; family.

I am interested in finding the ancestry of a Henry Briggs who was in Virginia in 1622, and had at that date a brother Thoma: Briggs, a merchant "at ye Custome House Key in London."

I do not know whether this Henry wa any connexion of Henry the mathematician, who was a member of the London Company of Virginia, and wrote a tract on the width of the James River for the Governor of Virginia (Earl of Southampton). I have failed to find any record that Henry the mathematician married. He died 1630 at Merton College, and is buried there. I shall be glad of any further information.

(Mrs.) LILIA BRIGGS SAMPSON. Sampson's Harbor, Sandgates, St. Mary's Co., Md.

HENGLER FAMILY. Any particulars about the Hengler family (of circus fame) will be welcomed. J. ARDAGH.

GEORGE BORROW. Is there any litera- ture giving identifications of the localities described by George Borrow ?

J. ARDAGH. 35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

GRAMMATICAL MNEMONIC JINGLE. There used to be a jingle for fixing the properties of the various parts of speech in memory. It began :

Three little words we often see Are articles a, an, and the.

Can any one supply the remainder ?

H. T. D.

[The lines were printed in full at 9 S. xii. 504, and commented on in the first volume of the Tenth Series, pp. 94, 337.]

SPURS IN COATS OF ARMS. I shall be very grateful to any readers who can inform me of the earliest recorded use of the following coats of arms. They are all given in Burke' s ' General Armory.'

Capp (England) : Sa., 3 spurs or.

Connell or Connel (Ireland) : Arg., a chevron between 3 spurs az.

Wiggins, originally Wigan, of Stafford- shire : Gu., 3 mullets (6) (spur-rowels) arg. ; on a chief invected or, 2 spurs leathered sa.

Wailes, now Wailes-Fairbairn of Askham Grange, in the 16th century of Husthwaite, Yorks : Per fesse gu. and sa., a stork arg. ; in chief 3 spurs leathered or.

Cocks of Rode, Somerset : Gu., a spur leathered and buckled or ; on a chief arg. 3 cocks' heads erased gu., combed and wattled or. This coat is given incorrectly by Burke as " a spur leather and buckle or," <fec., and the mistake is repeated in the ' Visitation of Somerset ' (Harl. Misc.), Papworth, &c. Reference to an original trick of the arms dated 1635 in the Brit. Mus. Lib. (Harley 1559, fo. 338 bis) shows the correct form to be that given above.

Any information as to the origin of these coats will be welcome. CHARLES BEARD. Military Hospital, Felixstowe.

CAULTHAM : ITS LOCALITY. Some old verses printed in an edition of Foxe's ' Book of Martyrs,' intituled ' A Fantaisie of Idolatry,' speak of pilgrims going To Ely, to Caultham, To Wynsore, to Waltham, Barefoted and barelegged apace. Ely, Windsor, and Waltham Holy Cross are plain ; but what place is Caultham ?

G. H. J.

KEARE BAKYRSAXTHER. This man was Bailiff of the city of York in 1390-91. Is anything more known of him ? Are not both Christian name and surname very uncommon ? J. W. F.

PETER ESHE, Sheriff of the city of York !n 1546-7, died on July 11, 1551, and was
 * >uried under a white stone in the south

quire of St. Dionys Church, York so says James Torre in his MSS. (1691). Can any reader give more particulars of this man or iis family ? ALPHA.

HUTCHINSON, RECTOR OF CHURCH LAW- FORD. I am anxious to trace the parentage

of the Rev. Hutchinson, who was

Sector of Church Lawford, Warwickshire, jefore the middle of the seventeenth century about 1630-40 so far as I can judge. Dne record gives Lord Montague as his Bather. (Mrs.) L. MORTLOCK.

Abington, Wigston, Leicester.

REV. THOMAS NOEL. I should be glad of any Information with regard to the life, ancestry, and wives of Thomas Noel, Hector of Kirkby Mallory, co. Leics., from 1798 to his death in 1853. He matriculated at Oxford (Christ Church), April 27, 1792, aged 18, as Thomas Noel Noel, son of Thomas Noel of London, armiger (Vis- ount ?) ; the latter refers to Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth, who d.s.p. 1815. He was B.A. in 1796 ; M.A. 1801. Mention