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"They were called 'clogs' because the sole was a solid clog of wood"? The variety which he speaks of as "over-clogs" were always " clogs " simply with my mother and her mother, who wore them until they were superseded by what the Americans term "gums." ST. SWITHIN.

ARMS OP THE SEE OF WORCESTER (9 th S. i- 427, 477). Having a short time to spare in Worcester recently, I made a cursory exami- nation of some of the episcopal monuments in the Cathedral there. These are the results. The roundels or torteaux in the arms of the see are represented flat on the tombs of Bishops Bullingham, 1571, Freke, 1584, Bland- ford, 1671, Hough, 1717, Johnson, 1759 ; and spherical on those of Thornborough, 1616, Gauden, 1662, Fleetwood, 1675, Stillingfleet, 1689. The dates are those of appointment. The arms are all sculptured except in the case of Stillingfleet, on whose tablet they are painted, but the painting seems to have been renewed at a comparatively recent date. On his con- temporary engraved portrait they are drawn flat.

Perhaps this evidence is not large enough to warrant a decision, as it shows a singular want of uniformity. But so far as it goes it shows a greater number of instances, includ- ing two of the oldest, in favour of the flat representation. The bishop's castle at Hartle- bury has additional instances, but of these I have no notes. Mr. Hooper, in the paper already mentioned, refers to several early specimens, but unfortunately his attention had not been drawn to this variation.

W. C. B.

THOROTON GOULD'S MARRIAGE (9 th S. ii. 69). There is an account of the Yelvertons, Earls of Sussex, Viscounts Longueville, and Barons Grey de Ruthyn, in Burke's 'Extinct Peerage.' From the pedigree it appears that the two former titles became extinct on the death of Henry Yelverton, third earl, in 1799, whilst the barony descended to his only surviving daughter, Lady Barbara Yelverton, who married Edward Thoroton Gould, Esq., of Mansfield Woodhouse, co. Notts, whose son became Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and assumed the name of Yelverton. He died in 1810, leaving an only daughter and heiress, who became Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, and mar- ried George, Marquess of Hastings.

There are numerous monuments of the Yelvertons in the parish church of Easton- Maudit, co. Northampton, where they are buried, a little village of which Thomas Percy afterwards Bishop of Dromore, the editor oi the ' Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,' was

or many years vicar. Their arms are em- blazoned upon their hatchments : Az., three ions rampant, and a chief gules : motto, ' Foy en Tout." Easton - Maudit Hall, the ancient seat of the Yelvertons, is now com- pletely levelled with the ground, and the estate is at the present time the property of at Castle Ashby, not far distant.
 * he Marquess or Northampton, who resides

The Thorotons mentioned by your corre- spondent were a family of considerable mportance in Notts. One of them, the Rev. Sir John Thoroton, Knt., was rector of Bottesford, and the Rev. Charles Thoroton succeeded him in the benefice. The name is .ocally pronounced "Thirton." There are mural monuments to the memory of both in the chancel of Bottesford Church, Leicester- shire, in the vale of Belvoir. Sir John was ^nighted by the Prince Regent in 1814, when ic was already a clergyman and chaplain at Belvoir Castle, and died in 1820. See, for further information on clerical knights, ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. i. 209, 273, 354.

JOHN PICKPORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Wooclbridge.

ALICE PERRERS (7 th S. vii. 148, 215, 449; viii. 30, 97). The question was asked, Is her parentage known ? No positive answer has appeared in your columns up to the present time. I am not prepared with one now, but I hope the following words on this interesting subject may not be consid ered inappropriate for ' N. & Q.' In spite of all that has been written derogatory to the character and conduct of Alice Ferrers, many circumstances in her career point to the conclusion that she must have been a lady of eminently high birth, and the statement in ' D.N.B.' that her first husband was a Sir Thomas de Narford a statement afterwards rejected by the writer as due to a confusion points in some measure to a solution of the mystery, the confusion being caused by giving to Alice a husband, instead of a mother, of the name of Narford or Nerford ; and the parents of Alice Perrrs will be found (I am almost certain) to have been the last Earl of Warren and Surrey and Maude de Nerford, his mistress. I have no proof to offer in support of the statement, but I have been led to this opinion by follow- ing up certain clues which I found in HER- MENTRUDE'S reply to the question in 7 th S. vii. 449. R. C. BOSTOCK.

Broadstairs.

THROUGH-STONE (8 th S. xii. 487 ; 9 th S. i. 9, 210 ; ii. 153). In Jamieson two meanings are given : (1 ) A stone which goes through a wall ; (2) a flat tombstone. In the latter sense it is