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 12 s. ix. DEC. si, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 521 LONDON, DECEMBER 31, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 194. NOTES : British Settlers in America, 521 Glass-painters of York, 523 Lindum Colonia and its Neighbours, 524 Principal London Coffee-houses of the Eighteenth Century, 525 A Royal Charter hitherto apparently unpublished, 526 Griffith Williams, Winchester Scholar " Journey " The Woodmongers' Company " A Walking Dictionary " South Nelson's Daughter : Date of Birth, 527 QUERIES : " Mata Hari's " Youth, 527 The Pictures in the Hermitage at Petrograd Sir Richard Woolfe School Holidays Smokers' Folk-lore Anthony Bertolacci, 528 Title of " K.H." Stomp, the Miniaturist Christmas Trees Blessed Oliver Plunket Villebois, Picture Painter Ceremonial Vestments of the Judiciary Stephen Caesar Lemaistre Henry James Vincent Kemble G. E. J. Powell " Drug in the market " Author wanted Author of Poem wanted, 529. REPLIES : The Effect of Opening a Coffin, 530 Buckeen Ancient British Dye The Rev. J. de Kewer Williams, 531 " Standards " John Evelyn : Two References Steele and The Spectator, 532 Dante's Beard Cheeses as Am- munition Notes on Eighteenth-century Wapping Edward Lamplugh A Newly- discovered Map of Surrey, 533 Biographical Details of Artists sought, 534 Vicars of Crediton, Devon American Humorists: Captain G. H. Derby Iron Bars used as Money, 535 De la Porte Family : Davis of Clapham London Institutions circa 1830 Montfort Family " Bees' Wine " " ' Heads ' as the pieman says" St. Christopher and the Christ Child Hangman's Stones, 536 Pharaoh as a Surname Curious Surnames ' The Cork Leg ' and ' The Steam Arm,' 537. ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN THE GREAT WAR : Comments and Criticisms, 538. NOTES ON BOOKS : * The Laureateship ' ' The Calendar : Its History. Structure and Improvement ' ' With Cornwall Territorials on the Western Front ' ' The Provinces of Ireland: I. Ulster; II. Munster ' The Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research The Print- Collector's Quarterly. A CONSIDERABLE majority of those who have given their opinion on the matter is in favour of extending the Twelfth Series to the usual twelve volumes. We shall therefore continue it through the coming year. BRITISH SETTLERS IN AMERICA. (See ante, p. 462.) ROBERT RAINSFORD the younger (with Nor- tons) was one of the thirteen grantees of land on the east of the River Agamenticus in 1631 (vol. xxxvii., ' New Eng. Hist. Gen, Rig.') " Robert Rainsford had a grant from Warwick House, London, December 2, 1631, who had undertaken, with others, to build a town in New England " (State Papers, Colonial Series). Query, Boston or Lynn. He married Mary Stanborough at St. Giles- in-the -Fields, 1635/6, Feb. 2. She was a daughter of William Stanborough of Canons Ashby, Northampton, probably related to William Stanborough, printer and publisher, of London. Members of the Stanborough family eventually settled in Long Island and the South. In some documents Robert is styled Governor. He was the son of Robert Rainsford, who, at the marriage, in 1626, Jan. 29, of Thomas Coppin, gent., of St. Anne's, Black Friars, London, 22, and of Martha Norton, Spinster, daughter of Luke Norton, of the Inner Temple, who consents, is described as of the Uni- versity, Oxford, M.A. He was afterwards created D.D. and was at the time of his death rector of Henley-on-Thames. Will dated 1649, in which he mentions his sons Richard and Myles and daughters. Dr. Rainsford had at least one brother, Sir Garrett Rainsford, admitted at Gray's Inn, Feb. 22, 1620, and described as the son of Myles Rainsford. Robert's father, Myles, in 1603, October, is mentioned as valet of the Privy Chamber in a " grant of the keeping of Cobham Hall, Kent, as long as it remains in the King's hands " (State Papers, Domestic Series'). He was M.P. for Callington, Cornwall, 1601. In " 1604, Jan. 4, warrant to Sir John Leveson and Sir Thomas Walsingham and Myles Rainsford to demand all rents and debts due to Lord Cobham attainted and essin, the same upon warrant of the Council." He died about 1604 and was presum- ably son of Humphrey Rainsford, who was Groom of the Chamber, temp. Henry VIII., Edward VI., Queens Mary and Elizabeth, and was drowned February, 1604, when going to receive a gift of the King (vide 71, ' Book of Oxford.' p. 6). He was descended from William Rainsford, who, in a grant 1531, April, is described as Steward of the Chamber and Gentleman Usher, and is men- tioned in the will of Henry VIII., who left him a legacy. He was apparently son or brother of Humphrey Rainsford, who, in a grant 1528, is styled as of " the Privy Buck- hounds " (State Papers, Domestic Series). There was also another brother, Thomas, who was in the service of Lady Lisle, wife of Arthur Plant agenet, natural son of Edward IV. by Elizabeth Lucie. He, having married, first, Elizabeth, widow of Edmund Dudley and daughter of Edward Gray, Viscount Lisle, married, secondly, Honor Grenville, widow of Sir John Bassett, who died 1528. Lady Lisle was one of the five ladies who with Anne Boleyn danced with the French King and his gentlemen ' D.N.B.'). In a letter dated 1533, Dec. 3, Sir Thomas Elyot, in writing to Lady Lisle, thanks her for her goodness to her servant Thomas Rainsford, having had experience of the loyalty and assured honesty of him and his