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 70 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm. JAN. 22, 1921. DR. WELLS : PAPER ON ' THE DEW AND SINGLE VISION.' In an Italian trans- lation of a treatise published in English early in the last century about the origin of Darwinism, there is mentioned a paper by a Dr. Wells entitled ' On the Dew and Single Vision.' Researches made in Italy have failed to trace Dr. Wells 's paper. Could any reader give an explanation of its somewnat puzzling title (possibly a translation thereof in Italian or French) and a very short general idea of the paper itself ? J. GUILLERMIN. 1 Old Broad Street, B.C. LADY ANNE GRAHAM. I am endeavouring to trace the ancestry of a certain Lady Anne Graham, who came to reside in Jersey, C. I., during the latter part of the eighteenth century. I understand that her husband was descended from the Grahams, former owners of Dalkeith Palace. Her daughter Anne, married John Dolbel of Jersey in 1792 and died in 1808. JOHN D. LE CONTEUR. Winchester, Hants. ROBERT DARLEY WADDILOVE. Dean of Ripon. The 'D.N.B.' Iviii., 406 states that he was the son of Abel Darley of Borough- bridge, but omits the name of his mother. Can any correspondent supply it ? G. F. R. B. SIR JOHN WILSON (1780-1856). The full date of his birth and particulars of his parentage are wanted. The 'D.N.B.' Ixii., 112, gives no assistance, but I have come across a statement that he was a " son of Lt.-Col. Wilson and grandson of Philip Wilson of Balingary, co. Londonderry." Where is a pedigree of this family to be found ? G. F. R. B. COAT OF ARMS : IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. Can any reader assist me to identify the following (colours cannot be given as the coat occurs sculptured upon a mantelpiece of Purbeck marble) : First and fourth quarters On a chevron between three paws razed five fire-balls or bombs and at the top of the chevron an estoile (or mullet ?). Second quarter Three bends, and third quarter A chief indented. The paws have four toes with claws, and might be leopards, lions or otters. On the opposite side the arms of the Ironmongers' Company occur, whilst between them is a coat quite undecipherable. I cannot iden- tify these arms as having belonged to the 'amilies who formerly owned the house, which dates from 1460. CHARLES S. TOMES. Mannington Hall, Aylsham Norfolk. SAN SEVERING. -Can any one give me he parentage of Gianetta di San Severino, he wife of Louis d'Enghien, Count of Brienne and Conversana (d. post 1383), whose grandson, Peter de Luxemburg, Count of St. Pol Brienne and Conversana d. Aug. 31, 1433) was one of the original mights of the Order of the Golden Fleece Jan. 10, 1429 /30), and grandfather, through Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford and Countess of Rivers, of Elizabeth Wydville, Queen of Edward IV. ? MEDINEWS. CONSECRATED ROSES IN COATS OF ARMS. Have there been any instances of recipients of roses consecrated by the Pope emblazon- ing these roses in their coats of arms ? If so, does the consecrated rose assume a form different from that of the ordinary heraldic rose ? NOLA. CHRISTMAS PUDDING AND MINCE-PIES. When did plum pudding become the recog- nised Christmas pudding and since when has the idea been in vogue that every mince- pie eaten before Twelfth Night brings luck ? Fifty years ago I was taught that the first mince-pies should be eaten on " Stirup Sunday " and every one eaten between then and Twelfth Night, in a different house, meant one month of happiness in the New Year. All the mince-meat had to be finished by Shrove Tuesday. RAVEN. SCOLES AND DUKE FAMILIES. In St. Mary's Church, Maryborough, Wilts, is a monument with the following inscription : " Near this Place Lyeth ye Body of Jane, The wife of Robert Scoles of Wroughton, gent., eldest daughter of Andrew Duke of Bulford, Esq. She died November 16th, 1733. Anno Aetat. 41." Heraldry (in colours) : arms of Scoles impaling Duke, namely, Gules, on a chevron between three escallops argent as many mullets of the fields for Scoles. Per fesse argent and azure three chaplets two and one counterchanged for Duke. Who were the parents of Robert Scoles ? Any information respecting him and his family would be gratefully received. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.