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strong measure. The Bon Homme Richard sank the following day, with all the wounded and all Jones's treasure. I have always understood that the Baltic ships under convoy got safe into Scarborough harbour, where they were protected by the guns of the castle. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

SWAKELEYS, NEAR UxBRIDGE(9 th S. ii. 368).

I think COL. PRIDE AUX will find the most recent description of this estate in Walford's 'Greater London,' where it is placed in the manor of Ickenham. The parish is named in old documents Tichenam and Tykenham, names that I suppose may be from the same root as the name of the manor. The estate is supposed to derive its name from Robert Swalclyve, who owned it about four centuries ago. Norden (' Speculum Britannise,' 1596) mentions it as " sometime a house of the Brockeyes, now of Sir Thomas Sherleyes." It is also mentioned in Brewer's ' Beauties of England.' Pepys describes a visit to the house under date 7 September, 1665, when it was owned by Sir Robert Vyner, Lord Mayor of London. The present house, said to be one of the most interesting Jacobean houses remaining, is smaller than Knole or Holland House, and was erected by Sir Edmund Wright, Alderman of London, the date 1638 and the initials E. W. being still visible on different parts of the building. In 1750 it passed by purchase to the family of the Clarkes, its present owners. The grounds are intersected by a small rivulet that has been dammed up to form a little lake, but I find no mention anywhere of a moat. Walford gives some account of the former owners, but as his notice occupies over two columns of his work I have only given those points on which I thought COL. PRIDEAUX appeared to be interested. B. H. L.

WILLIAM PRYNN (9 th S. ii. 288, 336). Who this man was I am not prepared to say. It is, however, worthy of record that my friend Mr. George H. Fellowes-Prynne, the present President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, states he can clearly prove that the surname " Prynne " is the oldest name used as a surname in England.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

THE RIVER PARRET (9 th S. ii. 329). The name Parrett does not seem to be of Norman origin. The river is called Pedride, Pedrede, and even Pederede in the 'A.-S. Chronicle,' and Bosworth in his Anglo-Saxon dictionary connects the last of these words with Perrott.

Nor are the two villages near the source South Perrott in Dorsetshire, and North Perrott in Somersetshire so called from Norman lords who received them at the Conquest, but, according to Collinson in his ' History of Somersetshire,' from the river which flows by them. Hence the meaning of the name Parrett, or Perrett as the river is sometimes called even now, will have to be sought for in Anglo-Saxon or Celtic sources, and in this latter connexion it may be worth while noting that there is a village named Perret in the Departement C6tes du Nord. T. P. ARMSTRONG. Putne,y.

FAMILY OF FURLY, ESSEX (9 th S. ii. 368). By the kindness of various correspondents I have been able to trace the family of Samuel Furly as follows : John Furly, Alderman and (in 1650) Mayor of Colchester, was the father of Benjamin Furly, his fifth son (born 1636 : see Colchester School Registers), who lived much in Rotterdam, and was the friend and correspondent of Locke and Lord Shaftesbury (see ; D.N.B.'). Benjamin mar- ried in 1680 Gertrude Hasbert and died in 1714. His third son, John Furly, married Johanna, daughter of Joseph Wright, ''merchant of Cannon Street in the city of London" (see Shaftesbury's 'Letters'), arid had two or three children, one of whom (the youngest apparently) was Samuel, baptized at West Ham Parish Church, 3 November, 1733, who died as rector of Roche, Cornwall, in 1795. The Rev. Samuel Furly married at St. Marylebone Church, London, 22 June, 1758, Ann Blood worth, of that parish, and had ten children, but only two daughters appear to be represented by descendants at the present time. The descendants of these daughters, Johanna and Martha Maria, are now living.

What I should be glad to discover now is (1) the origin and early history of the family of Furly before 1600 or 1650;' and (2) some- thing about the families of Wright and Bloodworth. Can any reader give informa- tion? (Rev.) H. DE B. GIBBINS.

6, Newsham Drive, Liverpool.

"HELPMATE" (9 th S. ii. 105, 185, 310, 453). It would be useful if writers in these columns would indicate their exhaustive knowledge of the topics they discuss before, and not after, information has been submitted for their consideration. This practice would save misapprehension and economize space. It is surely a very singular thing that any one, easily familiar with Wordsworth's and Tennyson's use of " helpmate," should boggle