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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. FEB. 5,

Banham, Stretton, Gereford, Lanrecost, Aqua de Gonne, Aqua Usise, Godestok, Pikenham, Nerkeldale, Haresternes, Galmon, Bontham, Depidale, Sixendale, Fymmer, Redenes.

ALFRED T. SPANTON. Hartley, Staffs.

DR. JOHN RADCLIFFE. In ' N. & Q.,' 8 th S. v. 408, there was a query for pedigree of Dr. John Radcliffe, founder of Radcliffe Li- brary, Oxford, signed by ANO INNO, of Ryton. After diligent search through ' N. & Q.' up to present date, I can find no reply. There is another query in 'N. & Q.,' 8 th S. x. 415, for information relating to Dr. Radcliffe, which is replied to, 8 th S. x. 466, by two correspond- ents referring querist to 'Dictionary of National Biograpny,' vol. xlvii., on reference to which I find no ancestry given beyond father and mother. Will some of your corre- spondents give me the pedigree of Dr. John Radcliffe and state how he was related to the third Earl of Derwentwater ? If ANO INNO, of Ryton, the original querist, received any information, perhaps he will kindly com- municate it. ANNA MARIA R.

Boston, Mass., U.S.

SCHILLER'S ' SONG ON THE SPANISH ARMADA.' Schiller's epinikian song bearing the title 'Die uniiberwindliche Flotte,' which cele- brates the defeat of the Spanish Armada (recorded by a Dutch medal inscription of 1588, preserved in the British Museum, "Afflavit Deus, et dissipati sunt"), is stated to have been inspired by an earlier poet, who is quoted by Mercier in his ' Precis Historique et Portrait de Philippe Second.' This work appeared in 1785 at Amsterdam, anonymously, and shortly before Schiller's, poem of the same year. It would be desirable to know the original source from which Mercier has drawn his French text. Was it perhaps an English song of a poet of the Elizabethan

ADMIRAL BENBOW. Can any one kindly furnish me with any particulars of the family of Admiral Benbow outside the pub- lished sources of information ?

(Rev.) F. J. WROTTESLEY.

18, Buckland Crescent, South Hampstead.

"PARRY, FATHER AND SON." This is the title of the two of spades in a pack of political cards of the Restoration in the Guildhall Museum. The other cards represent pro- minent Roundheads, as "Vane, father and son "; and " Sir A. Hazlerigge, ye knight of ye magotty brain." I should be grateful to any one who could identify these Parrys. The only persons of the name of any prominence

at that time do not seem likely subjects : Leonard Parry, paymaster of the troops in Dorset, and Jeffrey Parry, a cornet of Crom- well's Horse in Carnarvon. J. H. PARRY. Harewood, Ross.

STATIONER, 1612. Could some of your readers kindly say what exact trade or trades this term designated at this date 1 ? Was it merely a synonym for " printer " 1 The Com- pany or Society of Stationers were printers then or later, but I also find " printer " given as a man's trade both before and after 1612. E. R. McC. Dix.

17, Kildare Street, Dublin.

[Before the invention of printing, scribes and limners were called "stationers." At the period you mention stationers were booksellers. See, under 'Flying Stationers,' 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. vii. and viii. passim.}

ARMS OF BERKSHIRE TOWNS. What are the arms or badges of the principal towns in Berkshire? E. E. THOYTS.

NICHOLSON FAMILY. Can you give me any information as to the Nicholson family of Cumberland? F. L. N.

FRANCIS HOWLYN was head master of West- minster School, 1570-2. If any correspond- ent can give me information concerning this head master, I shall be greatly obliged.

G. F. R. B.

THE LATE DUKE OF KENT : THE FENCIBLES. Can any one tell me the name of the vessel in which the late Duke of Kent sailed to Prince Edward's Island, and the date? Was it in 1817?

I had a relative (an officer) in the Fencibles, who died at Quebec. How can I obtain any particulars about him ? M. A. WARREN.

HUGUENOT CRUELTIES. Can any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' tell me the name of a good Roman Catholic history of the religious wars in France, giving fully the various in- cidents illustrating the bravery and readiness to submit to martyrdom of the Catholics? References to such incidents are occasionally met with, but the lengthy histories, such as Baird's volumes, while giving abundant details of the sufferings of the Huguenots, do not recount the stories of their cruelty to their opponents. CAROLUS.

PAYN FAMILY. In the windows of an early sixteenth-century house in Suffolk the fol- lowing coat of arms is to be found under the name of Payn : Arg., three boars' heads couped gu., impaling Rookwood of Eveston, Parker of Aldeburgh, Thwaytes of Owlton, all in Suffolk ; and Spelman of Narburgh, co. Nor-