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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 24, i92L] NOTES AND QUERIES. 257 THE MARGATE GROTTO (12 S. ix. 210). This grotto has been several times dis- cussed in ' N. & Q.' MR. PENGELLY should refer to 9 S. xii. 75, where an article is quoted which was written for The Home Counties Magazine by Mr. C. H. Woodruff, F.S.A., joint -secretary of the Kent Archaeo- logical Society. The conclusion appears to be that it was constructed in the early part of the last century. At p. 192 of the same volume reference is made to several other grottoes of similar date. These shell grot- toes are frequently found in different parts of -^he country, but I think that at Margate is a particularly good one. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. CHURCH OF ST. MARY, LITTLE OAKLEY, ESSEX (12 S. ix. 212). MR. YOUNGER does not say if the tinctures of the " Woodthorpe " arms are shown in the stonework. John de Vere, who succeeded to the earldom of Oxford in 1417, married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Howard ; her,arms were Gules, a bend between six cross -crosslets fitchee argent, and I would suggest that it may be her coat which is opposite that of her husband in the window. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. MORDEN FAMILY (12 S. ix. 212). Sir John Morden's pedigree will be found in Drake's ' History of the Hundred of Black- heath,' p. 126, together with his portrait, and a view of the West Prospect of Morden College, dants. He appears to have left no descen- H. J. B. CLEMENTS. WILLIAM TOONE (12 S. viii. 250). There is a little information about Toone at 11 S. i. 335, s.v. ' " British Chronologist " : T. Sal- mon, W. Toone, J. Wade,' where MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS refers to The Gentleman's Magazine and The Times as to his (if it be his) date and place of death, Oct. 30, 1849. MR. W. SCOTT writes : " Toone is designated an attorney-at-law and was the author of several volumes published between 1813 and 1835." In Clarke's ' New Law List,' 1838, one of the " London A.ttornies " is William Toone, 4, Copthall Buildings, London, and 5, Kensington Green. That this is the Toone, author of ' The Chronological Historian,' is suggested by the fact that William Toone' s ' Glossary and Etymological Dictionary,' 2nd ed., 1834, was published by Thomas Bennett, Copthall Buildings. ROBERT PIERPOINT. "TENANT IN CAPITE " (12 S. viii. 429, 472, 518 ; ix. 156). I note " OLD SARUM " is not inclined to accept my suggestion that he who held a caput and its appurtenant lands was the tenant in capite of them (to the dominus Capitalis). I had some good reason for saying so. For example, when King John resolved to divide the lands late of Earl Walter Giffard in Normandy and England between the (two next) heirs, the Countess of Pembroke and the Earl of Hert- ford, he ordained that " to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and to Isabel, his wife, daughter of Earl Richard . . . shall remain the esnecy and caput in Normandy, and to Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, shall remain the esnecy and caput in England and all other lands [which would, I suppose, refer to lands held in capite of other lords and to lands not held in capite at all, as in feudo firma] they shall part between them ; so that the said William and Isabel, his wife, and the Jieirs of Isabel shall hold their half in capite de nobis et heredibus nostris. . . ." (20 Ap, [1200], Chart., 1 John, m. 12.) L. GRIFFITH. ALLUSION IN ' LONDON LYRICS ' (12 S. ix. i 210). The gentleman with the curly hirsute appanages to whom Frederick Locker alluded was George John Frederick, Viscount Cantelupe (not Cantilupe), the eldest son of the fifth Earl De La Warr, born in 1814, and pre-deceased his father in 1850. He was in the Grenadier Guards, a very handsome man, and a super-" ladykiller." Harriet, Countess Granville, writing from Rome in 1843 said : " Lord Cantelupe is the Apollo of the place ; four ladies are so in love that he cannot tear himself away." The late Lady Dorothy Nevill in her Remi- niscences, after quoting Locker's lines, says : "I well remember the curls in question and their owner at Florence many years ago in the early forties. Lord Cantilupe [sic] was, indeed, one of the very last of that race, now passed away, whose recognized mission in life was ' to be dandies.' ' WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. Viscount Cantelupe, son of Earl De La Warr, was a very well-known man in London society, temp. Queen Victoria, and was remarkable for his curly locks. The creation of that title was, in 1761, with the earldom, but there had been the same in earlier members of the West family. "Lady Di " probably Lady Diana