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 12 8. VIII. MARCH 12, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 201 LONDON, MARCH 13, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 152. tNGTES: Notes on the Life and Family of Dr. John Younger, Dean of Salisbury. 1705-28, 201 - A Miscellany of Modern Folk-Lore, 203 Nathaniel Field's Work in the "Beaumont and Fletcher" Plays, 204 sir John Wood. Treasurer, 206 Funeral Cake Charles Dickens at Hazebrouek, 207 Book Borrowers St. Agnes-le-Clere= Aniseed Clare Cardinal Newman's Birthplace, 208. ^QUERIES : -Meridians of London and of Greenwich- Thomas Butler, 209 Edmund Gibson " Burnt his Boats "" Zices " or " Screeds " Blount of Lincolnshire Impaled on aThorn Book Wanted Gen. SirH.F.Camp- bel), K.C.B., Ranger of Richmond Park " A Hogarth Miniature Frame" A " Phiolad " of Barley -Purefoy Henrietta Gordon, dame d'atour to the Queen of France, 210 Inscription on Claret-jug Sir Hans Sloane's Blooms- bury House' Hinchbn'dge flaunted ; A Country Ghost Story 'Cherry Orchards of Kent Epitaph Desired Shakespeare : Pronunciation of Name London Society in 1747 John Hands Gaston de Foix Plees Family Cobbold Family, 211 Leander Club: Kaily Records Sought Slave Owners in Jamaica The Coffin-Mouse Bible of Jauies the First Giles Jacob, his Year Books and Law Reports Author Wanted, 212. fREPLIES. " < ounts of the Holy Roman Empire," 212 Hazebrouck Body's Island R^nelagh in Paris Pro- nunciation of Greek (and Latin), 214 Anecdote of Laurence fiterne Richard III. Countess M acnamara, 215 Original Portraits of John Howard, the Philan- thropist ' Pertide Albion " Wiison the ' Ranger of thu Hima!? vas," 216 ' H. K*.," Member for Maldon John Bear, Master of Ripon School Loss of the Birkenhead, 217 The Mannequin or Dressmaker's Doll Parliament Hill Mrs. Susaun* Gordon Capt. Cook: Memorials- Sheffield Plate: Marthew Boulton, 218 Matthew Carter Author Wanted, 219. 1NOTES OX BnOKS. ' Cosimo I., Duke of Florence' 'S.P.E. Tract. No. IV. The Pronunciation of Kuglish Words derived from the Latin' 'The Incas and their Industries ' ' Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society.' Notices to CorresDon dents. NOTES ON THE LIFE AND FAMILY OF DR. JOHN YOUNGER, DEAN OF SALISBURY, 1705-28. DR. JOHN YOUNGER, born c. 1636, was probably the son of John Yonger of Daventry Northants, and grandson of Thomas of the same place, whose will is dated Mar. 20, 1633, in which three sons are named : "Thomas, John and Valentine, together with three daughters, among these being one Elizabeth, married to Waloen, thus in- dicating a Dutch connexion, which might account for the fact (referred to later) that Dr. Younger spoke Dutch fluently and possibly acquired it through residence with an aunt in Holland. The arms borne by the Daventry family, viz., Arg., on a bend between two dolphins sa., three martlets displayed of the first, wit h crest, a buck's head or, may be compared with those* of another person of the same name, viz., Capt. Henry Yonger, Controller- General of the Train of Artillery, temp. Car. I., who obtained a grant independently, e.g., Arg. a bend between two cannons sa. to which was added at Oxford May 10, 1645, by way of honourable augmentation, "on a canton or a rose gu. surmounted by another arg." This latter gentleman, who recorded no pedigree, is believed to have been one of the many Dutchmen who came to England about that time ; but he ma,v nevertheless have been some connexion of the family then resident at Daventry. There was also another family at Strettoii- Grandison, co. Hereford, and a John Yonger of that place applied, at the Visitation in 1634, for a grant of arms which are practically identical with those carried by the Daventry family, so that it is fair to assume a relationship. The pedigree re- corded at the time extended back three generations, John Yonger 's ancestors being Anthony, William and James respectively. It may be added that this claim was queried and eventually disallowed. In connexion with an assumed Dutch descent the arms borne by a Dutch family of Jonckheer may be mentioned, viz., Or, a fess gu. between three martlets in chief sa., and a rose in. base of the second. In the Daventry arms the three martlets are placed on a bend between two dolphins, while Capt. Henry Yonger adopts the bend only between two cannons (instead of dolphins) afterwards adding the rose. This may not indicate much to an expert in heraldry, but to an outsider it appears to be somewhat significant of a family connexion. It would seem that the Scottish and English name Younger is derived from the Dutch name which has many variants, viz., de Joncheere, de Jonckheere, de Jonckheer, Jonkheer, Yonker, Yongere, Yonger, &c. At the present day Jonkheer is a title in Holland, indicating the junior branch of a noble family, and in Scotland a somewhat similar use has been made of the word Younger. There appear to be good grounds for assuming that the Younger family originally came from the Low Countries, as inter alia, their early records in this country are principally connected with the ports on the East Coast, viz., on the Forth, the Tyne, and the Thames. The earliest mention of