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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. SEPT. 12, 1903.

Can any of your readers explain the mean- ing of the second statement ?

F. T. STONEX. 30, Lome Street, Chester.

GEOLOGY OF KURLAND. In journeying from Windau to Goldingen by river steamer I noticed that close to the latter town the rocks change from the usual red Devonian sandstone to a close-grained grey limestone. Will some one who is versed in the Devonian system kindly tell me what beds these are ? The whole system is here masked by a thick layer of boulder clay, upon which lies a layer of sand with huge granite boulders.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Libau, Russia.

GLASTONBURY WALNUT. Did any legends attach to this tree? Brome says, in his 4 Travels,' 1700, pp. 332, 333 :

" But to come nearer to our own Days, here was something not many Years since very notable and strange, the Walnut-Tree in the holy Church- yard, that did never put out any leaves before St. Barnabas Day, and upon that very Day, grew rank and full of leaves, and the Hawthorn in Wiral Park, that always on Christmas Day sprouted forth as if in May, both deserve Credit, as well as admiration, of the truth of which we were credibly informed by diverse Persons, inhabi- tants of this place, who having then still some young Scions of each Tree remaining in their Gardens, yet did not find them blossom like the other, which through the malice and fury of some Person in the late wars were cut down and destroyed."

M. P. [Seel^S. iv. 115.]

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND NEW HALL, ESSEX. MR. J. T. CURRY'S interesting note ('Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth,' p. 3, ante) reminds me of the inscription at New Hall, Essex, over the entrance door :

VIVAT ELIXABETHA. En terra la piu savia regina,

En cielo la piu lucente stella ; Virgine magnanima, dotta, divina, Leggiadra, honesta c bella.

Elizabeth gave New Hall to the Earl of Sussex, and these lines in her honour almost surpass Holland's in fulsome laudation. The brightest star in heaven, indeed, makes her first, not second, maid. Is it known who composed the Italian quatrain ?

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

THROOMORTON INSCRIPTION IN LLANTARNAM CHURCH. In the chancel aisle of Llantarnarn Parish Church, in Monmouthshire, there are two memorial inscriptions of a member of the Throgmorton family, one in stone and one in brass. With some verbal differences

they contain the same inscription. The date is 20 January, 1657. At the esd of the stone monument are the words "Cujus animse misereatur Deus," while the brass ends with "Requiescat in pace." There are several brasses of the Throgmorton, or, as spelt on the brass, Throckmorton, family recorded in Haines's 'Manual of Monumental Brasses,' but no mention of the brass in Llantarnam Church. Can any of your readers suggest the reason for the double memorial? Part of the coat of arms on the stone monument was slightly defaced by a very ugly wooden bracket placed some years ago ; this has lately been removed in the restoration of the roofs of chancel and aisle effected this year.

J. W. WARD. Vicarage, Llantarnam.

VICARS OF TWERTON. If any of your readers can give me any information, how- ever slight, about the following former vicars of Twerton-on-Avon, near Bath, or sugges- tions as to where, or from whom, such infor- mation can be obtained, I shall be very greatly obliged. Specially shall I be pleased to know of any likeness which may exist of any of them, or of any books, or sermons, or pamphlets written by them :

John Rich, M.A., 1690-1722.

James Rich, M.A., 1722-1742.

Hudson Martin, M.A., 1742-1753.

Lionel Oliver, M.A., 1753-1776.

Thomas Broughton, M.A., 1776-1797.

Thomas Fothergill, D.D., 1797-1815.

Wm. Bailey Whitehead, M.A., 1815-1825

WM. STOKES SHAW. The Vicarage, Twerton-on-Avon, Bath.

JENKINS'S HEN. In 'Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle ' a canary, Chico, pur- porting to speak for its mistress in a dialogue with a watch, supposed to be Carlyle, says it is not going to die the death of Jenkins's hen. Who was Jenkins, and what about his hen? J. M.

RADULPHUS DE GEORGES. Will MR. J. LATIMER (who has recently been perusing ancient documents belonging to the Corpora- tion of Bristol), or any other reader, kindly give me a reply to the following 1 Edward II. granted a charter to the burgesses of Bristol. It was signed on 17 February, 1320, at Gloucester, by the king, and witnessed by eight personages, amongst whom was Radul- phus de Georges. There are three (perhaps more) printed copies (sic), by different authors, of this deed, two of whom spell the name of the above witness as written, whilst the third gives it as Gorges, and not Georges. Which is the actual signature 1 This same Radulphua