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 338 NOTES AND QUERIES. [liarx o OT .22,'i92i. MARTIN (12 S. v. 236). The Rev. Charles ; ' History of England' gives the cromlech Martyn, an English clergyman and rector Trevethy Stone, i.e., Trevedi, which signifies, of St. Andrew's Parish, Charleston, South : in the British language, a place of graves. Carolina, owned " Courtlands " (257 acres) | Any notes in this connexion would be on the Ashley River about 1760. He | appreciated. G. M. PEET. married Sarah Fuller, daughter of William j Manor House, Fenstanton, Hunts. (III.) Fuller, on April 13, 1755 the cere- mony being performed by the Rev. Alexander Barrow. The widow (Martha) of Fuller afterwards re-married Richard Bedon. The Rev. Charles had one son, Charles Fuller, born at Charleston Nov. 11, 1758 ; he returned to England with his son and there died in 1777. His son was living in Calcutta in 1804, and on Dec. 6, 1811, con- veyed " Courtlands " to Colonel James Simons. The above dates can be veri- REV. E. DAVIES, POET (12 S. ix. 292). Can this be Edward Davies, the Welsh antiquary (1756-1831), mentioned in the ' D.N.B.' and Allibone ? Though neither mention ' Blaise Castle ' he is given as the author of ' Aphtharte, the Genius of Britain, a Poem, &c.,' published in 1784 (his earliest publication mentioned by the 'D.N.B.'), 'Vacunalia' (1788) and other poems, &c., apart from his most important work on ' Celtic Researches.' He was born in the parish of Llanvareth in Radnorshire, learned Welsh and wrote hymns and poems having seen nothing in ' N. & Q.' indicating | before he was twenty, was curate of Bacton, that the inquiry has been answered, it goes, in Herefordshire, and in 1783 became master I see in ' N. & Q. 12 S. vi. 150, April 24, of the Grammar School at Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire ; the proximity of this place to Bristol and the date of his appoint - fied if necessary from the records of Andrew's Parish. St. I am a little late in sending this, but 1920, ' Martyn and Beadon Families.' L. HOMFRAY IRVING. CARISBROOKE CASTLE, I.W., WATER- WHEEL (11 S. vii. 269, 354). Perhaps I ought to place on record the fact that, not finding the drawings of this wheel which ment lend colour to the possibility of his having been the author of ' Blaise Castle ' (Bristol, 1783). Later he was rector of Bishopstone and Chancellor of Brecon, and died in 1831 ; but for details see the ' D.N.B.' RUSSEL MARKLAND. RUNNYMEDE (12 S. ix. 150, 177, 195, I wanted, I took measurements myself. I forwarded a short notice of the apparatus with the drawing to Engineering, in which it appeared in 1915, vol. c. 260. A model is 234 )- The lists of the 25 executors of now in the Science Museum, South Ken- Magna Charta given by your two corre- sington H W DICKINSON spondents both contain one small mistake. The "Earls of Hertford, Gloucester" (I TREWTHE FAMILY (12 S. ix. 170, 215, 238, j quote from both your correspondents) were 296). I have copious consecutive notes n t two persons but one. The first Earl relating to this Cornish family, from 1300 -of Hertford was Gilbert de Clare (cr. 1141), to the present day. The head and a cadet | who died without issue. His brother, Roger of the family now live at Silsoe and Bedford. [ de Clare (d. 1173), was second Earl of Both arms quoted belong to the family. Hertford ; and Roger's grandson, Gilbert Probably the Eling register gives the burial i (d. 1230), was fourth Earl of Hertford, connected with the tomb referred to. Is it i sixth Earl of Gloucester, but first de Clare possible for the "fleurs-de-lis " to belong to the arms of the wife of John or Lewis Trethewy, who attended Charles II. during his exile ? Maclean, &c., mentions the " ancient village and manor of Trethewy alias Trethevy." The history of this ancient family seems to have been greatly neglected. I think the following fact connected with the family may give it a very special historical interest, and a glory that few families can claim or date to. In the ' Victorian History of Cornwall ' we have the sketch of the wonderful " Trethevy Stone," a dolman near St. Cleer. Knight's | pledge. earl of that royal title by inheritance from his mother Amice, daughter and ultimate heiress of William, Earl of Gloucester (d. 1183), who, by base blood, was a grand- son of Henry I. Gilbert de Clare died on Henry III.'s mismanaged campaign in Brittany in 1230, but he, with his father Richard (d. 1217), had been one of the " executors " of Magna Charta. They were, father and son together (a unique case), two of the 24 barons who, with the mayor of London, also a baron ex officio, were ap- pointed to see that John kept his sealed UVEDALE LAMBERT.