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 34 NOTES AND QUERIES. C i 2 s. VIIT. JAN. s, 1921 probably his father, in the Manor of Horsted Parva. Of the same family was Agnes, wife of John "Daney," also called "de "Dene " and " atte Dene " (Subsidy Lists and Patent Rolls). " Dyn " is another variation in, the case of this family, in the same period, aiamely circa 1300 to 1430. John "Danney," K.B., 1306, also described as "Deane," "Dean," "Denie," .and "Dene." In the Inq. p.m. of Robert Dynne of Heydon, Norfolk, 1499, one of his trustees sometimes "Denne." This may have been the father of Baron Sir Edmond Denny (called "Deene" in a document of 1500), .And identical with William "Denny," "Denne" or "Dene," of London, a legal personage of the fifteenth century. The surname of Henry, Archbishop of -Canterbury, 1501-3, appears as "Deen," "Dene," "Deane," "Deany," "Deney " ,-and " Denny. " Similar variations occur in ^the case of the surname of Sir John Deane -of Great Maplestead, who died in 1625. The conclusion which I have drawn from such evidence as the above is supported by the very considerable authority of Mr. Walter Rye, who wrote as follows in an .article on 'Old Norfolk Families,' some years ago : " There were men of the name of Denny in the -county e.g in '1499, and in forms of Dene and Deney it occurs in Norwich much earlier still." During many years of research I have never come across any evidence that there was ever a family connected with Denny, <; Cambs, which took its surname from that place. Even if such evidence were forth- coming, it would not necessarily prove that -every family named Denny derived its sur- name from that or any other place. H. L. L. D. HORSELEPERD (12 S. v. 320).' My query v,as to the meaning of this word has now been answered by the Earl of Kerry in a letter which appeared in The Wiltshire Gazette (Devizes) for Sept. 30, 1920. This letter, ^the last of a number on the same subject most of which appeared in The Gazette during ^the early part of 1920, is quoted and sum- marized in The Wiltshire Magazine, the organ of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, -vol. xli. (December, 1920), pp. 212, 213. O. G. S. CRAWFORD, Hon. Sec., Congress of Archaeological Societies. ST. LEONARD'S "PRIORY," HANTS (12 S. vii. 90). What authority is there for calling this a Priory ? I know of no references to it as such, and from the existing remains it would appear to have been merely a large farm belonging to the monks of Beaulieu Abbey to which it belonged. O. G. S. CRAWFORD. LONDON POSTMARKS (12 S. vii. 290, 355 ; viii. 18). The late John G. Hendy's ' Post- marks of the British Isles 1840 to 1876 ^ was issued as a serial supplement to ' Gibbons' Stamp Weekly ' some 12 or more years ago, and was afterwards published in volume form by Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., 391 Strand, W.C.2, with 842 illustrations, price in paper 3s. and in cloth 4s. GEO. HARDWICK. 8 Hallswelle Road, N.W.ll. NOTES ON THE EARLY DE REDVERS (12 S. vii. 445; viii. 15). Richard^ de Redvers was not son of Baldwin " de Brionne." I do not know who his father was. Baldwin the Sheriff, de Excestre, was father of three sons, the youngest of them, Richard fl. Baldwini, dying without issue on June. 25, 1137. No/ did the family of de Redvers hold the barony of Okehampton, which Baldwin the Sheriff held in 1086, his son and heir, William, in 1090, the latter's brother and heir, Richard, in 1129. In 1166, Matilda d'Avranches, heir of Baldwin the Sheriff, and wife of Robert, the younger natural son of Henry I, was tenant of it. See V. C. H. Devon, I, 555 and seq. L. GRIFFITH. REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (12 S. viii. 8). A very valuable section of York Minster Library consists of Yorkshire books, MSS. prints,* &c., collected and left to it, by Mr. Edward Kailstone, F.S.A. of Walton Hall near Walsfield. To this treasure, something like a thousand kindred works have been added either by gift or purchase. There are some pleasant paragraphs about Mr. Kailstone in Chancellor Raine's preface to 'A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York.' I should imagine that almost every county has a store such as that which Mr. ROWE desiderates ; but every town should try to keep together anything that throws a light on its own history. The " shire of broad acres " has not done badly, as your correspondent shows and, inasmuch as he did not mention the Kailstone garnering, it
 * is called sometimes William "Deen," and