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 490 NOTES AND QUERIES. p* s. vi. DM. 22, woo. usual sources of information, such as geo- graphies, gazetteers, and encyclopaedias found in our admirable Free Reference Library, together with Canon Taylor's books, but cannot find the information I am in want of. I have an idea it is a corruption of the Spanish. AUONZO GARDINER. Leeds. [The Spanish for eagle is ayuila. Lat. aquila seems a more likely source.] HATTON CHARTERS.—The First Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1870, gave a list of fifteen Saxon charters forming part of the Hatton collection, belonging to the Earl of WinchiUea and Nottingham. I am anxious to know whether any full tran- scripts of these charters have since been given, or whether they are now accessible. W. C. B. GEORGE ABBOTT, M.P. for Tamworth 1640-9, known as the Puritan, to distinguish him from his namesake, the M.P. for Guildford, with whom he is often confused, is stated in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.'and also in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses' to have been son or grandson of Sir Thomas Abbott of Eastington, Yorks, by a daughter of the family of Pickering. Is it possible to identify him more exactly i Who was Sir Thomas Abbott of Eastington ? He is not included in any list of knights that I have seen. A George Abbott, son and heir of George Abbott of the city of York, was ad- mitted to Gray's Inn 10 May, 1026, and might very well have been the after M.P. The member for Tamworth was son-in-law of the well-known Col. William Purefoy of Calde- cote, and aided in the defence of his father- in-law's mansion-house against Prince Rupert, What was his wife's Christian name? He lies buried in Caldecote Church, where a hand- some monument was erected to his memory, on which are his arms quartering Abbott and Pickering. W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows. SIR JOHN BORLASE WARREN, BART., 1753- 1822.—Does the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. lix. p. 412, give the parentage of this admiral correctly by describing him as fourth son oi John Borlase Warren, of Stapleford, Notts, and Little Marlow, and his wife Anne 7 This agrees with the statements in Burke's 'Ext and Dorm. Baronetcies,' p. 554, but not with the pedigree facing p. 317 of Langley's' Hund of Desborough,' where the admiral appears as eldest son of John Borlase Warren anc Bridget Rossell, who were married 14 Nov. 1752. See also Betham's ' Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 7, and Lipscomb's 'Buckingham- shire,' vol. i. p. 310; but in these two Docks the pedigree is marred by 1752 being treated as the year of Bridget Rossell s death. According to Burke, the Arthur Warren who married Anne Borlase was the admiral's rrandfather; but according to Langley, Betham, and Lipscomb, he was the admiral's great-grandfather. See also Earwaker's G. E. C.'s ' Peerage,1 vol. ii. p. 436, and Glover's 'Derbyshire,' 8vo. edition, vol. ii. p. 186, a marriage is mentioned between a _ Borlase Warren and Anne, daughter of Sir John Harpur of Calke, third bart. Were not these the admiral's grandparents] H. C. SWANS.— "This is the ordinaunce for the conseruation and keping of the Queues Maiesties swannes and sygnettes, and of the Lordes spiritual! and tem- poral!, and of her Commons within the Counties of Lincolne, Northampton, Rutland, Huntingdon, and Cambridge" [inlfr alia]. " Item it is ordeyned that euery swanherde in- tending to keepe any swannes or signettes, that they shal keepe them in a pen or pit within . xx . foote of the common streme, or els within . xx . foote of the Quenes hygh way, so that the Quenes snbiectes passyng by may haue the syght of the sayde swannes, vpon payne of . xl«."— 'Proclam. O. Eliz.,' Rawlinson Coll. in Bodleian (press-mark Arch. F. c. 11), at fo. 90. Was this a provision made for the aesthetic gratification of the lieges ? O. O. H. GASCOGNE.—I should be glad of information respecting an eighteenth-century artist named Gascpgne. He lived in Fleet Street at one time. I believe his Christian name was Peter. He was one of a large family, and his father was a James Gascogne. An ancestor of his, also Peter Gascogne, was, I believe, concerned in the 1715 Stuart rebellion. BETA. [No eighteenth-century painter of this name is mentioned in Mr. Graves s exhaustive' Dictionary.'] SIR GABRIEL CROSS AND SIR ARTHDR BROOKE.—I have the above-named in an old family parchment. They must have existed about the middle or end of the seventeenth century, and are named as the progenitors of a Clarke (Irish). I cannot come across any trace. I see that in olden days Cross was sometimes spelt Croft. Have any of your readers ever met with the names ? R S. C. Bishop's Hall, Taunton. " PHILOSCRIBLERIUS."—I have a large silver spoon dated by the hall-mark about 1740 or 1750, inscribed on the handle "The Gift of Philoscriblerius." Has this anything to do with R. O. Cambridge, the author of ' The Scribleriad'? E. HEKON-ALLEN.
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