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 9* s. vi. A™, is, woo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 133 snuff-box and miniatures, Mrs. Crawford- Leslie, of Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire, great-grandniece of General Morris's second wife. F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART. Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B. GENERAL COPE (9th S. v. 289; vi. 31).— In answer to this query and reply, and to the Editor's note, "See 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,'" I beg to say that General Sir John Cope was descended from Sir Ed. Cope, of Canons Ashby and Bury St. Edmunds, great-grandson of William Cope, Cofferer to Henry VII., to whom the king granted the arms now borne by his sole male descendants, the Copes of Bramshill, which arms are to be seen on the general's medallion slab in Henry VII.'s Chapel. General Sir John Cope married Jane, younger daughter and co-heiress of Anthony buncombe, Esq. (cr. Lord Feversham, 1747 ext.), by his third wife, Anne, daughter o: Sir Thomas Hales, Bart., of Howletts Kent (by Mary Marsham, sister of the firs Lord Romney). Anne Duncombe, Lady Cope's only sister, married Jacob, seconc Earl of Radnor; and their mother, Lad; Feversham, nfe Hales, remarried in 176: William, first Earl of Radnor. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield, Reading. "LARKSILVER" (9th S. v. 376, 483).—Tha this is a rent of some kind there can be n doubt, since " silver " is so often synonymou in old law phrases with "rent." "Heac silver," "head-penny," or "cert-money," wa, a rent paid to lords of leets. "Herring; silver" was apparently a composition in money, in lieu of supplying a certain number of herrings for the provision of a religious house. "Ale-silver was a rent paid annually to the Lord Mayor of London by those who sold ale within the Liberties. " Larder-silver" was a payment of money in lieu of provisions by the tenant farmer. " PJough-silver " in former times was money paid by some tenants in lieu of service to plough the lord's lands; and there was formerly an ancient custom within the ighly esteemed for the table. At a feast iven by the Serjeants-at-Law at Ely House, [olborn, in the twenty - third year of lenry VIII., an item in the bill of fare was iree hundred and forty-seven dozen larks t 5d. the dozen. By the way, what was the method of apturing larks in such numbers? To-day it s by the shot-gun ; but was the process in jlden days that of "lowbelling"? This was ?oing out in the night with a light (Sax. ow=flame of fire) and a bell, by the light and noise of which birds sitting upon the
 * round became stupefied, and were thus
 * overed and taken with a net. And in later

days bird-catchers, I believe, enticed "the palpitating speck of living joy " from heaven 0 earth with sparkling glass. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. CHARLETON : CAREY (9th S. v. 496). —The arms—Azure, a chevron between three swans argent—ascribed to Charleton in the printed Glover's ' Ordinary of Arms'(see Edmondson's 1 Heraldry') are given in Papworth's ' British Armorials' (which see for others of almost a similar blazon) as being incorrect. Those of Carey, co. Devon, are Gules, a chevron between three swans argent; and T. W. C. will note there is a difference when given in full. Burke states that the name of Charlton (of Childwell, co. Notts, and Sandiacre, co. Derby) is probably derived from the village near Woolwich, Kent—also, that prior to 1C12 the arms were the same as the first men- tioned : but when the crest was granted three cinquefoils were added to the chevron. I can find families. no connexion between the two JOHN RADCLIFFE. WlLL PROVED IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF LONDON (9th S. v. 352 ; vi. 11).—Sir Henry de Vic, Bart., Resident for King Charles I. nearly twenty years in Brussels, afterwards Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, died in London on 27 May. He shared in the exile of Charles II., and was by him created a baronet. Sir Henry married Margaret daughter of Sir Philip de Cartaret, Knt. of St. Ouen Manor, Jersey, and left a manor of Writtle, in the county of. Essex, ' son and daughter. The son, Charles, suc- called " greensilver," according to which ' ceeded to the title, and died without issue, every tenant whose "fore-door" opened to The daughter, Margaret, married Lord Greenbury paid a halfpenny yearly to the Frecheville of Staveley, in Derbyshire. In a lord by this name. Would, therefore, the painted window of the church at Staveley word " larksilver" mean a composition for there was, and probably still is, an escut- the capture of larks, or the use for this cheon with two coats impaled, 1, Freche- purpose of non-arable lands, as MR. MAY ALL'S ville ; 2, De Vic: Or, three galtraps, and reference to Halliwell, t.v. 'Larks-leers,' chief sable. These were the arms of the would suggest? Dishes of larks, sparrows, Guernsey family. The name of Joanna de fieldfares, and other small birds were of old Vieques occurs in Normandy temp. Henry V.;