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faster dye, and consequently all the best blue materials, such as policemen's and naval officers' uniforms, are dyed with a mixture of woad and indigo. For a fuller and more scientific account of woad and the processes of extraction, vide Nature, I Feb.

Having said sufficient, I trust, to give our lexicographers the cue to an accurate defini- tion in the future, I should like to put the question whether the late William Morris experimented with woad, and whether the results obtained may in any way be attri- buted to his enterprise.

HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.

Heacham Hall, Norfolk.

THE OLDEST MAYORESS. Perhaps the oldest mayoress in the kingdom is Mrs. Barclay- Allardice, Mayoress of Lostwithiel, in Corn- wall, now in her eighty-fourth year, who acts in that capacity on behalf of her son Mr. Robert Barclay- Allardice, F.S.A.Scot., who was appointed Mayor of Lostwithiel last November. ARMIGER.

FIRST OF APRIL.

"Do'st thou take this to be the first of April when (they say) folks send fools of errands?" ' S'too him Bayes ' (reply to Mar veil's ' Rehearsal Transprosed '), Oxon, 1673, p. 20.

W. O. -D.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

ARMS OF SIR THOMAS MORE. Sir Thomas More bore the arms of his father, Sir John, viz., Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, a chevron engrailed between three moorcocks sable ; 2 and 3, Argent, on a chevron between three unicorns' heads erased sable, as many bezants. Now it is not conceivable that so upright a man as the Chancellor would stoop to bear arms to which he was not legally and heraldic- ally justly entitled. I think, therefore, we may fairly assume that he was satisfied with his rights thereto. The Heralds' College seems to have no record of the original grants ; but that is not to be wondered at, as they were borne by the family before the College came into existence. Only about three paternal ancestors of Sir John More have, as yet, been identified, and these do not ap- pear to have married any heiress who bore the arms quartered with those of More. It will be historically interesting to know who this lady was. The only arms I can find re-

sembling the second and third quarters are those of the family of Killingbeck (Leeds, co. York), viz., Argent, on a chevron sable, between three unicorns' heads couped azure, as many annulets or. I can trace no connexion between the families of More and Killingbeck ; therefore, if there was one, it must have been at a date earlier than their records disclose. " By reason of King Henry's seizure of all our evidences," says More's great- grandson, " we cannot certainly tell who were Sir John's ancestors." But if not the Killing- beck arms, whose were they? As so many of your readers are well versed in genealogical and heraldic matters, I appeal to them for help to elucidate this enigma.

C. T. J. MOORE, F.S.A.

Frampton Hall, near Boston.

WILLIAM CHADWELL, M.P. for St. Michael, in Cornwall, 1640-4. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1631, aged seven- teen ; graduated B.A. in the following year ; was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1640, being described in the 'Admission Register' as son of William Chad well, of Broad well, co. Glouc., gent. In the Civil War he joined the king's party, and was one of the M.P.s who sat in the anti-Parliament of Oxford, for which he was disabled from being a member by the House at Westminster. He was in Oxford during the siege, being one of the Royalists ; created D.C.L. in November, 1644. After the surrender of Oxford he petitioned in November, 1646 to compound, stating that his father was then living and in dis- pleasure with him for his delinquency. He was let off with the very moderate fine of 30., possibly owing to his not being in actual possession of real estate. Beyond the fact that he was alive in 1648, 1 have discovered nothing further respecting him ; but as then he would be but thirty-four years old, he possibly long survived. I shall be obliged by any assistance in tracing his after career.

W. D. PINK.

G. R. DE CARDONNEL was admitted to Westminster School on 16 April, 1806. I should be much obliged to any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' for any particulars concerning him. G. F. R. B.

JOHN ANTHONY FONBLANQUE was admitted to Westminster School on 24 Jan., 1774. I should be glad to receive any information concerning his parentage and career.

G. F. R. B.

A SHIELD OF BRAWN. In 'Ivanhoe' Wamba, the jester, arms himself, I believe, against Isaac the Jew with " a shield of brawn." In