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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 B.VII. AUG. 28,1020.

HAMILTONS AT HOLYROOD (12 S. vii. 110). Horace Marryat ('One Year in Sweden,' ii. p. 472), gives this origin of the Swedish Hamiltons.

" James, fourth Duke of Ch atelherault was father to the Earl of Arran .... the second son John Marquis of Hamilton .... from a third son Claudius, Baron of Paisley, ancestor of Lord Abercorn, the Swedish branch derive their lineage."

Probably Countess Margaret Hamilton was a guest of the Duke of Hamilton, Here- ditary Keeper of the Palace of Holyrood- house. A. FRANCIS STEUART.

79 Great King Street, Edinburgh.

PHIPPS = WALLER (12 S. vii. 108). The following appears in ' Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1883 ' by Joseph Foster, p. 651 :

Sir Jonathan Wathen (Phipps) Waller, G.C.H- (only son of Joshua Phipps, of London, and Mary, dau. and heir of John Allen, of London, by Anne, dau. of Thomas, and sister and co-heir of James Waller, of Farriers, Bucks, descended from Sir John Waller, son of Sir Richard Waller, of Groomb ridge, Sussex, who fought at Agincourt), groom of the bedchamber to William IV. took the name and arms of Waller in lieu of Phipps by B.L. Mar. 7, 1814 ; created a Baronet May 30, 1815 ; b. Oct. 6, 1769 : d. Jan. 1, 1853, having m. 1st Feb. 23, 1793, Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Thomas Slack, Esq., of Bray wick Lodge, Berks ; she d. June 20, 1809. He m. 2ndly Oct. 15, 1812, Sophia Charlotte, Baroness Howe, eldest dau. of Admiral Richard, Earl Howe, K.G., and relict of Hon. Penn Assheton Curzon ; she d. Dec. 3. 1835."

In ' A Complete Guide to Heraldry,' by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies 1909, p. 433, the author commenting on the rare occur - renc^p of supporters representing any specific person cites as an instance :

" A most extraordinary grant by the Lyon [Scotland] in 1816 to Sir Jonathen Wathen Waller, Bart, of Braywick Lodge, co. Berks, and of Twickenham, co. Middlesex. In this case the supporters were two elaborately " harnessed " ancient warriors, ' to commemorate the surrender of Charles, Duke pf Orleans, at the memorable battle of Agincourt (that word being the motto over the crest) in the year 1415, to Richard Waller of Groombridge in Kent, Esq., from which Richard Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller is, according to the tradition of his family, descended.' "

After blazoning the coat of arms which appears in Burke's Peerage,' the author proceeds

" Considerable doubt, however, is thrown upon the descent by the fact that in 1814 when Sir Jonathan (then Mr. Phipps) obtained a Royal Licence to assume the name and arms of Waller a very different and much bedevilled edition of the arms and not the real coat of Waller of Groom- bridge was exemplified to him. These supporters

(the grant was quite ultra vires, Sir Jonathan being a domiciled Englishman) do not appear in any of the Peerage books, and it is not clear to what extent they were ever made use of."

In 1824 Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, bart. was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order : K.H. 1824, K.C.H. 1827, G.C.H. 4830. See ' The- Knights of England,' by Wm. A. Shaw, 1906. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[MB. S. A. GBUNDY- NEWMAN and MB. J. W FAWCETT also thanked for replies.]

SOVEREIGN OF NAAS : SOVEREIGN OF DINGLE (12 S. vii. 109). Sovereign was- the official title of the Chief Magistrate or Head of the Corporation of an Irish borough in the seventeenth and eighteenth, centuries, the same position as that now occupied by a Mayor. The subject is- dealt with in 11 S. ii. 255, and also in 3 S. vi. and vii.

H. B. J. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge.

Years ago I possessed copies of those- rather ponderous volumes, Caulfield's ' Cor- poration Records ' of Kinsale and of Cork r and my recollection is that the heads of those municipalities were styled " Sovereign," as seems to have been a former custom in. Ireland. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

Wa^ail.

"AIRWORTHY" (12 S. vii. 70). This is- clearly of recent coinage, as your corre- spondent intimates. I certainly have no- recollection of having met it previously. If The Daily Mail "pushes" the word it may get a vogue, and become a useful aviation term.

In thinking of it I am reminded of " aimworthy " and " aimworthiness." Pace the Rev. T. L. O. Davies in ' A Supple- mentary English Glossary,' the latter is used by Blackmorc in his ' Lorna Doone,' chap. liv. In the extract where the usage- is exemplified it seemed a good addition to our vocabulary ; but I have never met it in. our ordinary lexicons. C. P. HALE.

117 Victoria Park Bd., South Hackney.

CULCHETH (12 S. vii. 71). Clooeshoe was frequently the place of convention : so were- Cealchythe and Acle. After the Mercian King, the Archbishop of Canterbury usually signs as a witness ; then the Bishop of Lich- field and other Mercian bishops ; and then those of the subject kingdoms. Cealchythe- has been often identified with Chelsea, but-