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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.V.MAY, 1919

Tt is impossible for me to say whether any "'branch of the family in Northants changed "the spelling of their name, though we know -that the spelling Henchman was definitely fixed before the time of Thos. Henchman of London, who recorded his pedigree in 1633. We have Capt. Henry Henchman in 15 87, -and Thos. Henchman, M.P. for Whitchurch, Hants, in 1601, &c. ; and this spelling has boon preserved to the present day. Two children of Thos. Henchman of London, skinner (a brother and a sister of the Bishop ot London), remained in Northants. Richard Henchman of Rushton, apparently also Rector of Cotesbrook, 1614, Northants, married Lettice, daughter of Robt. Stevens of Armesty, by whom he had children Charles and Jane. Jane Henchman was married to Arthur Hodilow of Grafton Underwood. There was also an Owen Henchman in the same county in 1648 ; ..and a Wm. Henchman wa- Rector of Barton Segrave from 1653 to 1686. Of this branch of the family we have no complete record, but they appear to have continued down to 1722.

In The Gentleman's Magazine for 1800, no. 70, part ii. p. 664, a contributor who signs " E. T." writes as follows :

" The chief point of inquiry is whether the Bishop [Humphry Henchman "of London] had -any relations or immediate descendants residing at Broughton, in Northamptonshire. A family who resided there for near a hundred years, and spelled their names the same, had a picture of the Bishop in their possession which they styled a ' Family Piece.' This family was extinct by the -death of Mrs. Elizabeth Henchman, in 1722. and no particulars can therefore be learned by tradi- tional anecdotes."

" E. T." was the authoress Mrs. West, who claimed Henchman descent.

It was after this correspondence in the .magazine, in which the Rev. Francis Hench- man, my great-great-grandfather (d. 1824), took part, that " all male lines to (him) are -declared to be extinct." When the history -of ' The Henchman Family ' wai printed for private circulation in 1868, careful seavch w&3 made throughout the United Kingdom, but failed to bring forth any -others bearing the name except those known to the family.

The name Humphrey, borne by so many in the family, is traced to the Bishop, who was baptized at Barton Segrave, and named After his godfather Wm. Humfrey, whose lamily were lords of that manor for many generations.

HUMPHREY LLEWELLYN HENCHMAN.

'The Vicarage, Sterkstroom, Cape, South Africa.

HEART BURIAL (11 S. viii., ix., x., passim ; 12 S. i. 73, 132, 194 ; ii. 33 ; iii. 370 ; iv. 313). The Rev. Alfred Forder, in his interesting work ' In and about Palestine with Note- book and Camera,' just published by the Religious Tract Society, records an instance of heart burial which mc.y be added to those which have already appeared in ' N. & Q.' In describing tho Church of the Paternoster, on the Mount of Olives, he writes (p. 15) :

" The Princess Latour d'Auvergne, a relative of Napo/eon III., had this church built in 1868, and the inscribed tablets [with the Lord's Prayer in thirty-three different languages] put in the walls. On the south side is a life-size effigy of the princess, and in a niche in the wall her heart is deposited in a red granite urn."

J. R. THORNE.

PATEN OR SALVER ? (12 S. v. 13, 50.) In the church of Farley Chamberlayne, near Winchester, is a plain silver paten with a very wide rim, on which are two coats of arms within feather and leafage wreaths. One of these coats (said to be of older engraving than the other) is quarterly : 1, St. John ; 2, Beauchamp ; 3, Ewardby ; 4. Carew, with Rivett in pretence. The second coat is London '(Argent, three cross- crosslets between two bendlets gules) im- paling St. John, with the inscription " Ex dono Robert London Armigeri." It was given in 1691 by Robert London in memory of his wife, buried in Farley Church under a grey slate slab with a white marble coat of arms (London impaling St. John) and a Latin inscription which states that

" Here lies buried Elizabeth, eldest of the three daughters of Oliver St. John, Esq ; died Feb. 2, 1691, aged 27, in the third year of her marriage with Robert London of Middleton and Fordley in Suffolk."

Oliver St. John was third in descent from William St. John, who was buried under an altar-tomb in the same church in 1609, with his effigy in full armour, and the arms, quarterly, 1, St. John, differenced by a crescent on a crescent ; 2, Beauchamp of Bletsho ; 3, Ewardby ; 4, Carew of Bedding- ton, impaling Gore of Alderton, Wilts. Oliver St. John married Margery, daughter of Francis Rivett, who bore for his arms Argent, three bars spJble ; in chief as many trivets of the last. These arms, on a shield of pretence, are on the St. John coat on the paten, and it is often suggested that it was engraved in Oliver St. John's time on his private piece of plate, and that on his death in August, 1689, it passed to his daughter Elizabeth, whose husband, adding his arms on an additional shield, presented it to the church in 1691. In the 'Church