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the manor belonged to the hospital of the Savoy. I also learn from the same authority that Nicholas Rawson had a son Walter, on whose death his daughter Anne became not his sole heiress, but one of three coheiresses; her sisters Margaret and Philippa sharing the inheritance with her.

Christopher Rawson, second son of Richard Rawson, was also a citizen and mercer of London, and merchant of the Staple of Calais. He pos- sessed Old Wool Quay in Petty Wales (Lower Thames Street), by devise of his mother Isabella. He died 1518, and was buried at Allhallows Bark- ing, London, where there is a brass remaining with his effigy, inscribed to his memory, and that of his two wives, Margaret, and Agnes daughter of William Buke.

Richard Rawson, fourth son of Richard, the alderman and sheriff, became Prebendary of Durnsford in Salisbury [Cathedral, D.D., Arch- deacon of Essex 1502, Rector of 'St. Olave's, Hart Street, 1510, resigned 1518, Canon of Windsor 1521, and died 1543.

Queries. 1 . From the similarity of the arms of Sheriff Rawson to those of the Rawsons of Friston, and the allusions in his and his brother's wills to that place and neighbourhood, I conclude them to have been scions of that family. Can any of your readers say how they were connected ?

2. Is Averey the familiar name or substitute for Alured ? and is Alured Rawson, mentioned by Morant, the same as A very Rawson, eldest son of the sheriff and Isabella Trafford ?

3. Where was Dr. Richard Rawson, the Arch- deacon of Essex and Dean of Windsor, buried ?

4. Can any of your correspondents favour me with any information respecting the Traffords of Essex ? I find a family of that name at Waltham- stow in Lysons's Environs, but at a much later period, and they appear to have belonged to Lin- colnshire.

Do any of the families of Rawsons in York- shire or Lancashire claim through the Rawsons of London and Essex ? or are there any other fami- lies, besides the noble families of Stanhopes, who are known to be descended through female branches ?

Any other information on the subjects em- braced by the foregoing notes will be esteemed a favour by G. R. C.

MARK OP DIFFERENCE.

Can any of your readers kindly inform me of the mark of distinction for a tenth son ? I do not think any published work gives beyond the ninth son or branch of a family.

Also I wish to ascertain what would be the mark of difference for the following junior branch. Abel Smith died in 1720, leaving three sons,

John, George, and James. John died in 1774, having survived an only son, and on his death George, the second brother, became the repre- sentative of the 'family. Query, would James, the third brother, retain the mullet, or assume the crescent as his difference ? I am anxious to as- certain this point, and in what manner it would affect his youngest son. This James died seven yenrs prior to his brother George, who died in 1796, leaving an only daughter. On the death of George Smith, William, the fourth, but eventual eldest surviving son of James, became the repre- sentative of his family. Now what difference would be assigned to his youngest and only sur- viving brother Charles Smith, the .sixth son by birth of James ? Would Charles bear the fleur- de-lys, the difference of a sixth son, upon his father's mullet or crescent ? or would he bear a crescent charged with a second one, as showing him to be the second (surviving) son of a second house ?

I assume that William Smith having succeeded to the representation of the family on his uncle George's death, this event would not entitle his brother Charles to remove their father's difference from his coat, that father being but a second branch at the time of his death. Both William and Charles became heads of two distinct branches.

P. C. S. B.

Tyrconnel hunting at Combmartin, Can any of your readers furnish an answer to the accompany- ing Query, which appeared a short time ago in the Illustrated London News ?

" At Combmartin, on the north coast of Devon, it was customary, a few years ago, for a large party of the townspeople to proceed, one day in the summer, to a certain spot in a wood above the town, to search for the Earl of Tyrconnell. He, being discovered (in the form of one of the inhabitants who had purposely conveyed him- self thither), was seated on a donkey, and brought in (drunken) triumph to the old market-house, where cer- tain Bacchanalian ceremonies concluded the evening. The custom was abolished a few years ago, in conse- quence of the melancholy death of the then (assumed) Earl, who, having partaken too largely of the refresh- ment supplied him, rolled over some stone steps and lost his life."

H. S. P.

" To be, and not to seem" fyc. Who is the author, and who the subject of the following :

" To be, and not to seem, is this man's maxim ; His mind reposes on its proper wisdom, And wants no other praise." j

EASBT.

Buchanan's " Jeptha." There is a translation of Buchanan's Jeptha, by W. Tait, published at Edinburgh in 1750. Is anything known of the translator? X. (1.)