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 290 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. OCT. 8,1021. identified the shield. This is evidently the same as that on Sir John Mason's tomb which Canon Vaughan cannot identify. He has, I think, merely used a heraldry book and does not realize the difference between the arms of Bernake and Isley. I made them Bernake, Co. Leicester. Will an expert reply ? E. E. COPE. Finchampstead Berks. FAMILIES OF PRE -REFORMATION PRIESTS. Was it entirely illegal for priests of the pre -Reformation period to marry, and must any of their children be neces- sarily regarded as illegitimate ? Wallingford. H. E. RUDKIN, Major. MEAD. Can anyone tell me whether " the stinging mead " of the sagas is still prepared in this country, and, if so, where it may be obtained ? MEDINEWS. THE ESCAPE OF KATHARINE XAIRNE (MRS. OGILVIE OF EAST MILN). In August, 1765, j Katharine Nairne, daughter of Sir Thomas i Nairne of Dunsinane, and wife of Thomas j Ogilvie of East Miln, Forfar, was tried with j her brother-in-law, Lieut. Patrick Ogilvie | of the 89th Regiment, for incest and the ' murder of her husband, and both were found guilty. Her execution was post- poned because she was to have a child, who (a daughter) was born in prison on Feb. 27, 1766, and died March 23. Katharine escaped from the prison at Edinburgh on March 15, 1766. " G. E. C." (' Complete Baronetage,' iv. 426) says she escaped to France. What became of her ? "A Barrister," retelling the story as ' Drama of Scottish Country Home -' in The Weekly Dispatch, Jan. 28, 1921, omits to notice her escape. J. M. BTJLLOCH. THE MABERLY FAMILY. Frederick Herbert Maberly (1781-1869), politician, son of Stephen Maberly, merchant, and William Leader Maberly (1798-1885), son of John Maberly, M.P. and Secretary of the General Post Office, are both dealt with in the ' D.N.B.' Were they related ? John Maberly, M.P., and Stephen Maberly were partners in Broadford (Linen) Works, Aberdeen, where there is a street named Maberly. Where can I get a good account of the Maberly family ? Stephen Maberly 's London house was pulled down by the Gordon rioters. J. M. BTJLLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I, THE GORDON-GUMMING FAMILY. In a private Act, 50 George III., cap. clxxii., the first baronet is called Sir Alexander Penrose Gumming Gordon, and his son, Sir William Gordon Gumming Gordon. Burke calls the latter Sir William Gordon Gordon- Gumming. When did the inversion take place ? J. M, BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square. WEST CLIFF HOUSE, RAMSGATE. It has been claimed for this fine marine residence recently acquired, with its adjoining pro- perty, for the expansion of this popular watering-place that the Duchess of Kent with, as child, our beloved Queen Victoria, once sojourned there. We know that Townley House, in Chatham Street, was thus honoured in the year 1823. Can any readers of ' X. & Q.' furnish the date and any particulars of this other interesting visit ? CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. TUDOR TREVOR, EARL OF HEREFORD. I am anxious for literary purposes to trace the above and to know his date and the particulars of his descent from Rhys ap Tewdyr. Also to know how the Trevors of Brynkinallt and the Jeffreys of Acton derived from him. Burke mentions this connexion and states that Galfridus ap Hugh de Acton (Lord Chancellor Jeffrey s's great-grandfather) was " nineteenth in descent from Cadell, Prince of Powys." Where can this be traced, and is this Cadell, son of Rhodri Mawr, or his grandfather of the older House of Powys ? Can any book or history of the Princes of Whales be suggested, where fuller particulars of these early times are given in detail ? FAIRLEA. A POPULAR MEDAL. Among a quantity of London house refuse had down to dress the land was found the other day a thin brass coin, the size of a sovereign, with the edges slightly milled. On the obverse i& Queen Victoria's headj very well executed,, as at her accession, with the words " Victoria Regina." On the reverse is depicted a helmeted trooper, with sword at the slope, galloping over the prostrate dragon. Above are the words " To Hanover," and below the date 1837. I suppose it to have been struck in close imitation of a sovereign to testify the national joy at the Queen's accession and the departure of the hated Duke of Cum- berland to his new Hanoverian kingdom the