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 9>s.x. JULY 19, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

old baronial estate of Scrivelsby, the owner of which is by courtesy entitled, in his official capa- city, to be addressed A. B., Esq., The Honourable the Queen's [or King's] Champion."

I was informed when at the Court that the present holder of the title had been appointed standard-bearer (in lieu of a defunct occupa- tion) at the now postponed Coronation of Edward VII. These details will, I think, satisfy the inquiries of your correspondent at above reference, and chiefly that which rightly surmises that the office of Champion was " always pageantry and nothing more." J. B. McGovERN.

[MR. PICKFORD gave 1821 as the date of George IV. 's coronation.]

GLADSTONE : AN ITALIAN ADDRESS (9 th S. x. 8). As the query extends to Mr. Glad- stone's alleged speeches in modern Greek, the following extract may be of interest :

" I do not know how sure the testimony may be, but a seller of curiosities, who has his stall beside this locality, affirms that Mr. Gladstone stood also on this platform and delivered a speech in classical Greek which nobody understood. ' Mr. Paul,' says the guide, ' he stand here, be [sic] preach. Mr. Gladstone he stand here too, he speakplenty much. Greek no understand.' " " In Classic Country; or, a Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean Squadron. By the Rev. Barton S. Tucker, B.A., Chaplain, Royal Navy. London : Henningham & Hollis ; Ports- mouth : Griffin & Co. ; Malta : A. Bartolo. Printed and published by A. Bartolo, 181, 183, Strada Horm, Valletta," p. 40.

The little book is not dated. I bought my copy in Valletta some ten or twelve years ago. The date of the cruise is 1888. The "locality " is the Areopagus in Athens.

EGBERT PIERPOINT.

ARMS OF CONTINENTAL CITIES (9 th S. ix. 308, 414, 472). At the last reference mention was made of the municipal arms of the cities of England, and so possibly it may not be altogether out of order to give the name of the following book : " The Arms of the Royal and Parliamentary Burghs of Scotland. By the Marquis of Bute, J. R. N. Macphail, and H. W. Lonsdale. 1897. Drawings of the Correct Arms, with Heraldic Descriptions, 4to, white buckram." Only 200 copies were printed for sale, and the price of a single copy was quoted last year as 2. 2s.

RONALD DIXON.

TRENTIIAM AND GOWER FAMILIES (9 th S. ix. 487), The lordship of Trentham came into the possession of the Gower family by the marriage of Sir Thomas Gower with the sister and coheir of Sir Richard Leveson, who died without issue. Sir John Gower, the fifth baronet, was created Viscount Trentham and Earl Gower, 8 July, 1746, and Marquis

of Stafford, 1786 (vide Nightingale's ' Stafford shire'). Of the Trentham family Erdawicke, in his ' Survey of Staffordshire,' says :

" The Trenthams derive themselves from a House of the Trenthams in Shropshire, which in Henry VI.'s time were of good account, but now

Siite decayed or gone, for I know none of the ouse remaining, this of Rowcester (the seat of an ancient Priory at the confluence of the Churnet and Dove) excepted, which it pleaseth God to advance in good sort."

This prosperity was of short duration. Sir Simon Degge, in his 4 Observations ' added to Erdeswicke, cites this family and numerous others to show that ruin pursues the possessor of "Monastery-Lands." "Rocester," he states, " was granted to Thomas Trentham, whose son, Francis, soon after, so settled it that he nor any of his sons could alienate it, which if any of them had had power to have done, it had been gone, and now 'tis got into a strange Family, where it is believed it will not stay half another Age."

B. D. MOSELEY.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Registers of the Parish Church of Wigan, in the. County of Lancaster ; 1580-1625. Edited by Jonah Arrowsmith ; the Index by Fanny Wrigley. (Wigan, Strowger & Son.)

THE parish of Wiganif^the old days included twelve townships, and extended over upwards 6f twenty- nine thousand acres. The earliest register, it would seem, is lost, as the present one here printed begins only in 1580. It will be exceptionally interesting to all those engaged in investigations relating to the family history of the shire. There is hardly a name of the great historic families that is not to be found therein ; it will also be of great service to those who are desirous of tracing the pedigrees of yeoman families, and those of a still lower grade, many of whose scions are now holding honourable positions in America and our colonies. The work has been most carefully edited, and the indexes are all that we could wish ; we do not, indeed, remember ever to have seen a labour of that kind performed with more painstaking accuracy. Names, places, and trades are all arranged in alphabetical order, so that it will be almost impossible for the student to miss any fact which the record contains. We have, how- ever, we think, come upon one error it is the only one which a rigorous search has revealed to us. Whether it be a misprint, an error of the transcriber, or a blunder of the person who wrote the original document we have no means of knowing. In the year 1580 we find that " Grace ye wife of Lyonesse Gerrard Esquire" was buried. Lyonesse seems to be an almost impossible name for a man, and we do not remember ever meeting with it borne by a woman ; surely Lyonel must have been the form intended. There are very few surnames which strike us as peculiar to the district, but there are two which we never saw before. Lightowler occurs in 1596 and Gaylady in 1613 ; we should be sorry were we called upon to make a guess as to their origin or meaning. Some of the entries are very curious. In 1596 we find a record of the burial of "Litle