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but by 'steam vessel,' a method of conveyance hardly more expeditious or less uncomfortable, it is to be feared, in those days and under those cir- cumstances, than that by which the young noble- men and gentlemen journeyed down to Yorkshire under the personal convoy of their ' guide, philo- sopher, and friend,' Mr. Squeers."

F. A. RUSSELL.

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 ad dressed to them direct.

ELIZABETH ALKIN. Can any reader of ' N. <fe Q.' give me information, or tell me where to find any, regarding Elizabeth Alkin, otherwise called "Parliament Joan"? We are told that she nursed the wounded during the war between Charles I. and the Parlia- ment, and, when afterwards our naval struggle took place with the Dutch, devoted herself to the wounded sailors of both nationalities. As to the Dutch prisoners, she is reported to have said, " Seeing their wants and miseries so great, I could not but have pity on them, though our enemies." It is to be feared that she herself died in want. All I at present know concerning her occurs in a note to Mr. Oppenheim's paper on 'The Navy of the Com- monwealth,' in the English Historical Review, January, 1896, p. 39. She seems to have been a woman who anticipated the noble charities of Miss Nightingale and the nurses now working in South Africa. ASTARTE.

RYLANDS FAMILY. It is worthy of note that, until recently, a father and two sons in one family held the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries at the same time. I refer to Mr. Thomas Glazebrook Rylands, of High- fields, Thelwall, Warrington, who was chosen a Fellow on 7 June, 1877, and to his two sons, Mr. William Harry Rylands and Mr. John Paul Rylands, who were respectively so elected on 8 January, 1880, and 27 March, 1873. Are there any other instances like this 1 I think Mr. John Brent (the historian of Canterbury) and his two sons, Francis Brerit and Cecil Brent, are a parallel instance. Then Thomas Crofton Croker and his son, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, were both Fellows, as were Sir John Evans and his son Arthur, the curator of the Ashmolean Museum. Again, the talented author of ' Annales Cantabrigienses,' and town clerk of Cambridge, was followed in the Fellowship by his son, Thompson Cooper. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

Lancaster.

CLIFFORD : BRAOSE. Walter de Clifford was owner of Wick ham (afterwards Wick- hambreux) Manor, in Kent, and married Agnes de Cundy (or Condies), and their daughter, Margaret de Clifford, married John de Braose (of the Gower and Bramber family).

1. Is he the Walter de Clifford who died about 1190, son of Richard Fitz Ponce 1 Agnes died about 1218, and in the 'Obit Book' of Christ Church Monastery, Canterbury, under 18 January (no year is given), is com- memorated "Agnes de Clifford, who gave to the Church of Christ at Canterbury a mill in her Manor of Wickham."

2. Who is the Walter de Clifford mentioned as late as the year 1234 in ' Royal Letters of Henry III.' (Rolls Series, 27) 1

3. What is the descent to Matilda, daughter of William de Clifford, who married William Longespee (died 1257) 1

4. Ancestors and descendants of John de Braose (who married Margaret Clifford), from which family the parish has been known as Wickhambreux, whose descendant, William de Braose, in 1323 sold the manor to Hugh le Despencer (son of the Justiciar).

As early as 1167-8 a William de Breose (or Braose) paid an aid from his land in Kent.

Any information about the above families will be most acceptable. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, near Dover.

EMPTY TITLES. Who are the two persons alluded to in the following sentence from a letter written by Horace Walpole in 1776 :

"They may retain their titles like Sir

M N and Lord Rivers, but they find

they have no subjects"? H. T. B.

SERGEANT - AT - ARMS : YEOMAN OF THE GUARD. Could William Pole, of Pole (alias Poole), Cheshire, Sergeant-at-arms 1509-1513, be at the same time a Yeoman of the Guard, or will the latter be another William Poole ? M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager, Cheshire.

ARMORIAL. Were the Brokes, Leigh tons, and Leighs of one common ancestry 1 Adam Broke, alias Adam de Leigh-ton, was Lord of Leighton, in Cheshire, in the twelfth century (vide Broke of Nacton, co. Suffolk). In 1580 Sir Thomas Leighton was Governor of Guernsey ; he was interred in the church of St. Peter Port, Thursday, 1 February, 1609 ; he had married Elizabeth Knollys, being the daughter of Katharine Carey oy Sir Francis Knollys, and granddaughter of Mary Boleyn. There is Leigh in Lanca- shire, and the name is characteristic of many other counties. T. W. C.