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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi APHII. 10, isaot

' Natural History ' the words : " Inhonorus est nee in ternplo ullo " were, in defiance of the MSS., altered to : "In honore est et in templo illo," which made nonsense of the latter part of the sentence.

EDWARD BENSLY.

JAMES (12 S. vi. 39). William James, D.D., Dean of Christ Church 1584-96, was born at Sandbach, Cheshire, in 1542.

See Wood's ' Athense Oxon.,' ed. Bliss, ii. 203 ; Lansdowne MS. 983, f. 297, 984, f. 194 ; ' Alumni West.,' 14 ; Foster's ' Index Eccl.' ; and Wood's ' Fasti,' i. 196.

W. GERALD HARDING.

Christ Church, Oxford.

PIBIE (12 S. vi. 11). Sir John Pirie. 1st Bart. (1781-51), and Lord Mayor of London in 1841-42, was the eldest "son of John Pirie of Dunse, Berwickshire.

H. G. HARRISON.

SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STEWKLEY " MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. iii. 92, 421 ; iv. 166). In Wotton's 'Baronetage' (1741) it is stated of Sarah (Stukely), the widow in 1725 of John Cobb, D.D., that "she was afterwards m. in 1726, to - St. John of Farley, in Hants, Esq. ; and after his death to her third husband, Capt. Francis Town- send." The only contemporary officer in the army of that name that I can find is the one given in Dalton, viii. 370, 371, as follows :

" Fra-s. Townshend to be Ens. in the Coldstream Guards. April 28, 1725 ; lieutenant and captain Aug. 25. 1737 : wounded at Fontenoy May 11, N.S., 1745, and died the same day."

I have no doubt that this was the man, and that, as ensigns generally joined at 17 or 18 years of age, he was probably some twenty years younger thai, aie wife. Presumably he would be on or brother to George Townshend, the owner of the lands at Donnington, co. Gloucester.

In the foregoing correspondence I do not remember seeing any reference to the following man : Sir Peter Mews, M.P. for Christchurch 1710 till he died Mar. 19, 1726 ; knighted July 13, 1712; Chancellor of Winchester diocese 1698 till death; seated at Hinton Admiral, Hants. He matriculated from St. John's College, Oxford, May 31, 1688, aged 15 ; B.C.L. All Souls' College 1695, as son of John Mews of London, (son of Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester 1684 to 1706). ^ See Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' and Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' p. 44. Samuel Mews, Prebendary of Win- chester, died June 19, 1706, cet. 75.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

CHAIR c. 1786 : INFORMATION WANTED* (12 S. vi. 12). I should say from MR. HATTON'S description of the conveyance- recently presented to the Pump Room at Bath that it is in all respects identical with a machine constructed circa 1809 by a car- penter named John Betcher at Brighton and patronized extensively by the Prince of Wales and his noble companions. It is- very fully described in "Mr. John Ackerson^ Erridge's ' History of Brighton ' and quoted?: at length by Cuthbert Bede at 3 S. iv. 346- in connexion with the genesis of the word " fly " as a four-wheeled conveyance. These quasi-sedan chairs were called " fly by nights." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK..

JENNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 149, 245). In> support of my conjecture as to the paternity- of Thomas Jenner, D.L>., President oT Magdalen College, Oxford, I may say that iiii his will he mentions his nephew Vincent Jenner ; the latter administered to his; father Josiah's effects, 1750. The President also mentions his niece Elizabeth, wife of Henry Jordan, who was a sister of Vincent's. Again, Foster's ' Alumni ' I find has " Josi " in inverted commas, as if uncertain. The list of Josiah and Hester Jenner' s children: given by me at 12 S. v. 149 probably is from Standish, at all events the Vicar of Standish vouches for the entry as to baptism of Thomas Jenner, son of Josiah and Heater f. his wife, Dec. 26, 1687.

R.. J. FYNMQBE..

SHIELD OF FLANDERS (12 S. v. 238, 323) This gyronny coat may be traced best by- beginning with Papworth, who, on p. 685,. quotes Sandford's ' Genealogical History off the Kings and Queens of England.' While hardly to be caUed evidence, it seems Sandford hp-1 a measure of instillation foir what he said. What he does say (1707 ed.. Stebbing, p. 2) is that on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth in Henry VII.'s Chape, at West- minster are certain attributed arms " for tha^ Conqueror impaled with those of Queen Maud of Flanders his wife, viz. : Gyronny of 8 or and az. an inescutcheon gu." He adds that these arms are attributed " to the foresters and first earls of Flanders " doubtless rather hypothetical personages " to the time of Robert the Frison," and for this he gives as- his authority " Olivarius Vredius in Sigilla Com. Flandriae, p. 6." On turning to- Vrediiis (Bruges, 1639) it is at once apparent that this reference is entirely misleading. At the page cited, Vredius says, indeed, that Robert Friso used a lion seal ( " leonis typo-