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 12 S. IX. SEPT. 3, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 191 AEMS : IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. On my copy of Petra-Sancta's ' Tesserae Gentilitiae ' (Rome, 1638) is stamped the following coat : Quarterly : 1 and 4, A plain cross charged in the centre with a crescent ; 2, France- modern within an engrailed bordure quarter- 1 ing three roundels [a Medici coat?]; 3,| Two pales. In pretence an inescutcheon | charged with a lion rampant ensigned with ! a cross patriarchal. Supporters Two lions j rampant standing upon a flowery mount, j The whole ensigned with the coronet of a Count of France or Italy- Can anyone tell me whose arms these are ? The stamp appears to be of seven- teenth-century date. SLEUTH-HOUND. " ROYAL EAST INDIA VOLUNTEERS." What was this corps, and when was it raised ? An old house at Maidenhead Thicket, known locally as " Dick Turpin's Cottage," waa recently being renovated and in the interstices of the flooring were found, besides several pennies of George III., a brass button having embossed on it a lion rampant and regardant, holding in the sinister paw a royal crown. The inscription round it reads " Royal East India Vol^." PENRY LEWIS. A TOKEN : IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. There was found in repairing an old house at Maidenhead Thicket, known as " Dick Tur- pin's Cottage," a copper token of oval shape, inscribed, " o. w. WARRANTED DEC. 1790 28." Can any correspondent explain what these initials and words signify ? The other side is blank. PENRY LEWIS. ALUN : "AXawos. In his review of Pro- fessor Mawer's work on Northumbrian place- names (English Historical Review, April, 1921, p. 296), Dr. Henry Bradley remarked : Ptolemy's name for the Alne, "AAouvos, is etymologically obscure, but it is of some interest to know that it is, by phonetic law, the antecedent of the modern Welsh river-name Alun. It would be very interesting, in view of the number of times Alauna appears in Ravennas, if an authority on old Welsh phonology would give a few instances of modern Welsh u representing the sound that is indicated by Greek and Latin au. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. ' REUBEN MANASSEH ' : " ALASTOR."' Can anyone give me information about a tragedy entitled ' Reuben Manasseh,' which mav have been written some time between 1813 and 1843. The author is said to have been " Alastor " in that case, who was " Alastor " ? By whom and when was the tragedy published ? Is the original MS. still in existence ? Is it a five-act play ? E. E. R. MONEACHT. David Edie of Moneacht, or Moneaght, bore the following arms : Argent, three cross -crosslets fitche gules ; crest, a cross -crosslet and a skene saltireways, with the motto Crux mihi grata quies. See Nisbet's 'Heraldry,' i. 129 (Edin., 1816); also 'An Ordinary of Scottish Arms,' by Sir J. Balfour Paul, Lyon King at Arms (Edin. 1903). Where is Moneacht ? The arms are now borne by Adam of Blair Adam. T. F. D. BEELEIGH ABBEY. The records of Bee- leigh Abbey are being assembled for publica- tion. I should be grateful for any informa- tion about the Abbey from original docii- ments, not yet recorded. Are the where- abouts of the antiphoners removed at the dissolution of the Monastery known ? R. E. THOMAS. Beeleigh Abbey, Maldon, Essex. BROMLEY. John Bromley married Abigail -, 1733/4, in Lancashire or a neighbouring county. Wife's surname wanted. Possessing much information on the sub- ject of the Bromley family,.! should be glad to correspond with others for mutual benefit. JOHN BROMLEY. 30, Manchester Street, London, W.I. STUKELEY. Information is requested con- cerning Thomas Stukeley, who married Ann, granddaughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Curteis, Lord Mayor of London, 1557. W. HAYTHORNE. 83, Abbey Road Mansions, N.W.8. CHRISTOPHER SAXTON, Elizabethan map- maker. Can anyone tell me where he is buried ? He was educated at Cambridge, and died c. 1596. PRESCOTT Row, The Old House, Waddon, Surrey. AUTHOR WAFTED. Who [is the [author of a small poem, ' Give us men ! such [men/ or beginning (or ending) with these words: " Give us men ! such men." GEO. BUCKLEY.