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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. V MAY, 1919.

A History of the Parish of Westbury, Bucks. By the Rev. Richard Ussher, Vicar of the parish. The date of publication is not given, but it was circa 1900. The printers were Walford & Son, Market Hill, Buckingham.

Historical Buckingham. By J. T. Harrison, " The Poplars," Buckingham. 1909. Also printed by Walford & Son.

I hope to send a further list.

L. H. CHAMBERS. Bedford.

See the Journal of the Society for Pre- serving the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.

Dublin.

To the list may be added the following : Epitaphiana : or, The Curiosities of Churchyard

Literature. By W. Fairley, F.S.S. London :

Samuel Tinsley. 1873.

C. C. B.

MR. FAWCETT will find two items on this subject in Mr. Courtney's ' Bibliography of Bibliographies' vol. i. p. 176, and vol. iii. p. 92. EDWARD SMITH.

42 Rosehill Road, S.W.I 8.

This subject has been dealt with at considerable length in the Tenth Series, vols. i. to iii. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

THE SWIN (12 S. v. 95). In topography swin frequently occurs in connexion with water ; but I never feel sure whether it stands for the element itself, or for some peculiarity in the particular instance of it, to which the syllable has been attached. Mr. Streatfeild, author of ' Lincolnshire and the Danes,' believed that swin -was " at least cogna,te with Dutch swin, a creek or bay" (p. 194) ; and he mentioned Swineshead, which was formerly clo~e to, if not washed over by, the sea, as a place "which formed perhaps the limit in one direction of the navigable channel." I some- times fp,ncy that my rainy patron owes something to swin. ST. SWITHIN.

CRAGGS AND NICHOLSON FAMILIES (12 S. iv. 220, 310 ; v. 21). T find from the Kendal parish registers that Edward Nicholson and Margaret Cragg (not Craggs), both of Kendal, were married at Underbarrow on Nov. 18, 1739. If the person who made the entry wrote the bride's name correctly, then she was not a member, of the Craggs family. The Cragg family was distinct from the Craggs family. The former is a yeoman family indigenous to Cumberland and Westmorland ; the latter is not. The arms of the Cra^g family were : a fe'se between three mullets in chief, and as many

cross-crosslets in bar^e, argent. I am not certain what the arms of the Craggs family were. If Margaret's name was correctly Cragg, there is some misiinde:- tanding about the relationship with the Postmaster - General Craggs. J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

H. C. PIDGEON (12 S. iii. 211, 307). I think there must be an error in the state- ment in the above query that H. C. Pidgeon of Liverpool was the author of the fairly well-known " Memorials of Shrewsbury, by Henry Pidgeon," 1837 ; second edition, 1851.

The title-page (1851) describes the author as Treasurer of the Corporation of Shrews- bury ; and the preface to the first edition speaks of his " ardent attachment to his native place," the preface to each edition having " High Street " appended, appar- ently in Shrewsbury. It hardly seems possible that H. C. 'Pidgeon of Liverpool and afterwards of London, and the local official, were the same person.

W. B. H.

RICHARD BAXTER or ' THE SAINTS' REST ' (12 S. v. 60). I think that' J. P. B. might find particulars about the Baxter family in Canon Newling's MS. Shropshire Pedigrees, now in the William Salt Library r,t Stafford ; in the Blakeway MSS., vols. v. and vi., preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ; and in the George Morris, William Morris, and Wm. Hardwicke MSS. which pro in private hands. The Hardwicke MSS. have pedigrees of Baxter in vols. i. 199, and ii. 8^. The Eaton Const&ntine and Leighton Registers, published by the Shrop- shire Parish Register Society, should also be searched. There are over thirty entries of Baxter in these two registers. The Registers of High Ercall (in which parish Rowton is situated) have been copied, but not yet printed.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A.

BROOKE ROBINSON OF DUDLEY (12 S. v> 97). The book MRS. S. BENNITT inquires about is ' Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Brooke Robinson of Dudley, together with the Kindred Families oi Persehouee, &c.,' privately printed in 1896. There is a copy in the William Salt Library at Stafford, and also one at the British Museum. The reference to the latter is 906. d. 17. There ought also to be a copy in the Birmingham Public Libraries. A copy was lately offered for sale in a Bir- mingham bookseller's catalogue for Ll.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A.