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 244 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. SEPT. 24,1021. dictionaries even now. But it is recondite in the ' N.E.D.' and others. Do you say centenary or centenary ? Miscellany or miscellany ? You may say both of each, according to the ' N.E.D.' Yet the older miscellany was already noted in a book on " Mistakes " in 1855.* Yet so was acceptable, the (by exception,) older stress. In costume or costume ? To exor- cize or to exorcize ? (Both, of both, ' N.E.D.' ) Are you conversant with it, or conversant ? And in an English laboratory with an English professor ; or (as with an Irish professor, and with an English Cabinet Minister speaking at the Universities Con- gress, 1913) in a Scottish laboratory a mere confused echo of " oratory," thinks the quoted professor of English, in England ; people pronouncing (he reflects) words they have never heard pronounced. W. F. P. STOCKLEY. (To be continued.} ARMS ON THE LEVENTHORPE MONUMENT IN SAWBRIDGEWORTH CHURCH, HERTS. AGAINST the south wall of the south aisle of Sawbridge worth Church, Herts, stands a tomb bearing the recumbent effigies of Sir John Leventhorpe, Bart., of Shingle or Shingey Hall, and his wife Joan, beneath a canopy which is supported on Corinthian columns and surmounted by three coats of arms. Sir John was Sheriff of Herts in 1607, received the honour of baronetcy in 1622, and died in 1625. His wife Joan was of the Brograve family of Hamels, Braugh- ing, and died in 1627-28. The arms of Leventhorpe Argent, a bend compony gules and sable cotised sable appear on all three coats f ; but the artist has tinctured the cotise gules in error for sable. The centre coat bears arms : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Leventhorpe ; 2, Argent, a fess between three fleurs-de-lis" gules ; 3, Sable, a lion rampant argent, clucally crowned, within a bordure engrailed or. Over all the badge of Ulster, d noting baronetcy. The quartered arms of this coat have f Burke's ' General Armory ' omits the cotise in the case of the Shingey Hall family, but gives two cotises sable to the Kent branch. hitherto eluded identification. No. 2 par- ticularly still remains a matter of conjec- ture. Sir John Leventhorpe' s great -great - Grandfather John, who died in 1511, married ane, daughter of - Clovell of Hatfield, Essex, so Clutterbuck's ' History of Hert- fordshire ' (iii. 208) records. But Pap- worth's ' Armorial ' ascribes these arms to the family of Carwell, Karvell or Karwell, of Wiggenhall, Norfolk ; while both Blom- field's k Norfolk' (ix. 179) and Burke's ' General Armory ' record that Kervile or Kervill of Wiggenhall bore arms Gules, a chevron or between three leopards' faces argent. On the other hand, from Morant's ' History of Essex ' (ii. 37), dealing with the descent of Cloville Hall, WestHanning- field, can be gathered this pedigree : John Cloville or Clouville, d. 1490. = Margery, dau. of Sir William Alington, Kt. Henry, 1464-1513. = Margaret Anger of Kent. I William, b. 1473. = Mary, dau. of Sir William Carew. Mary = John Leventhorpe. And in agreement with this pedigree the 'Visitations of Herts 1 (Harl. Soc., xxii.) identifies John Leventhorpe' s wife as Mary, daughter of William Clovell of West Hanning- field. Yet the Clovill, Clovile, Clovell or Clonvyle arms were Argent, two chevrons sable each charged with five nails or. ( Vide Burke, and F. Chancellor's ' Ancient Sepul- chral Monuments of Essex,' p. 345.) Nor does any other family known to have allied with the Leventhorpes bear the Fess and fleur-de-lis. No. 3, which is blazoned on the monu- ment sable, a lion rampant argent, ducally crowned, within a bordure engrailed or, is attributed uncrowned by Papworth to Gethin Tedwdog, a descendant from David Goch, Lord of Penmachno ; and, without the bordure but crowned, by Burke to Twichet. Both these attributions might perhaps be claimed as correct, judging from the phonetic similarity of the two names, on the assumption that the English Twichet was descendant from the Welsh Gethin Teiwdeg. But on this point one acquainted with the Welsh language would be more competent to give an opinion. However, the attribution of the arms to
 * Vide ' N. & Q.,' US. xi. 121.