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 12 s. ix. DEC. 17, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 497 its Neighbourhood ' (Torquay Directory Office, 1876 ; copy at Exeter City Library), where a poem by Coaker called ' A Poem on Widecombe-in-the-Moor ' is printed at pp. 75-78. A further account of Coaker is given by the late Mr. Wm. H. K. Wright in his 'West Country Poets' (1896; portrait and specimen verses). Most of Coaker's poems were printed as leaflets and sold when occasion offered. He is said to have published in book form a poem entitled ' Sketch of the Several De- nominations in the Christian World ; with a Short Account of Atheism, Deism, Judaism and Mahometanism ' (Tavistock, 1871). Inquiry for this book might be made at the Tavistock Library or at the Plymouth Free Public Library. M. BROTHERS OF THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (12 S. ix. 230, 273, 312, 336, 376, 415, 436, 454). Sir Thomas Myddelton, the first Bart., of Chirk Castle, had two sons of his own name, the first by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Cholmondley, Esq., of Vale Royal, who succeeded as second Bart., and died on Feb. 5, 1683-4 ; and the second by his second wife, Jane, daughter of John Trevor, Esq., of Brinkinallt, Co. Den- bigh, who was of the Inner Temple, and died in 1696. W. M. MYDDELTON. Woodhall Spa. It may be worth while mentioning, in this connexion, that similar nomenclature was by no means always confined to the sons of a family. I can cite a case in which two sisters, who lived to ripe old ages (born in 1812 and 1815 respectively), were both baptized Jeannetta, although the elder was known by her prefixed Christian name of Eliza. These ladies had had three other sisters, all of whom had been christened Maria, one bearing, in addition, the rather superfluous name of Mary ! Only the youngest outlived infancy, and no two of them were in existence at the same time. Their parents seem to have possessed con- servative tendencies, since their sons in- cluded a George Robert, a Robert George, and two more whose first names were Henry. Here again one child seems to have died before the other was baptized, thus making it quite clear that the parents were bent on perpetuating certain family names which they held in great affection. F. GORDON ROE. Arts Club, 40, Dover Street, W.I. .HATCHMENTS (12 S. ix. 310, 337, 377, 397, 433, 476). In June, 1876, when I was at Denbigh, I saw in Whitchurch, the parish church of Denbigh, three hatchments to the Myddelton family of Gwaynynog, viz. : ( 1 ) That of Col. John Myddelton (who enter- tained Dr. Johnson), who died in 1792, con- taining, quarterly of four, 1st and 4th, Argent on a bend vert three wolves' heads erased of the field : crest, on a wreath, a dexter hand proper (Myddelton) ; 2nd, Azure, a bridge of three arches embattled in fesse, with a label of three points in chief (Trowbridge) ; 3rd, Argent, a chevron between three lozenges, ermine (Shaw) ; impaling, Azure a chevron between three cups argent (Bulter). (2) That j of the Rev. Robert Myddelton, rector of quarterly of four, as above; impaling, Ar- gent six bees, three, two and one : crest, a dexter hand proper issuing out of a ducal ! coronet or : motto In ccelo quies. (3) That of the Rev. Robert Myddelton, D.D., of Gwaynynog, rector of Rotherhithe, who died
 * Denbigh, who died in 1797, containing,
 * in 1815, containing, Argent on a bend vert,

three wolves' heads erased of the field ; im- ! paling, Argent, a lion passant guardant gules, crowned or (Ogilvie) : motto, In ccelo quies. W. M. MYDDELTON. WoodhaU Spa. CAPTAIN MORTON RHYS (12 S. ix. 410). The correct name of this actor was Horton Rhys, although he was better known under amateur actor. He went to America with his wife, Catherine Lucette,in 1859, and appeared at the Metropolitan, New York, May 23, I 1859, as Citizen Sangfroid in ' Delicate j Ground,' and Pierre Chase in ' All's Fair in j Love and War,' when he failed to please his i through Canada, Dec. 15, 1859, and for the inext eight years played in the English pro- ! vinces. In 1868 he became the lessee of ! a small hall in Brooklyn, New York, and ' attacked the actors and managers of America i in an English journal over the nom de plume of " Imported Sparrow." His ' A Theatrical iTrip for a Wager, through Canada and the United States,' was published in 1861. He ARCHIBALD SPARKE. UNIDENTIFIED ARMS (12 S. ix. 330, 396, i 437). I think the gules and or with star is j Morris, but I cannot yet trace the chevron i cottised between bears' heads. E. E. C.
 * his stage name of Morton Price. Boase says
 * he was" born about 1823-4, and was an
 * audience. He concluded his theatrical tour
 * died at Birmingham, May 8, 1876.