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 9*8. VI. JULY 28,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Tl sovereign assigns arms and differences to the other members of the royal family. MR. SAWYER is wrong as to the non-inherit- ance of titles. It is impossible to generalize ; but the titles of Royal Highness in certain cases, and Prince or Princess, and, in the case of certain of the descendants of the Prince Consort, Duke or Duchess of Saxony are hereditary, as are the peerage titles granted to the younger sons of the sovereign: e.g.. the Dukes of Cambridge, Cumberland, ana Albany inherited their titles. MR. SAWYER, however, goes too far in saying the royal family are " below the rank of armigerous gentlemen." They do not inherit the royal arms of dominion, but the last dynasty inherited the personal arms of Stuart. A. C. FOX-DAVIES. E. L.-W. will find some information on this subject in "Regal Heraldry: the Armorial Insignia of the Kings and Queens of England from Coeval Authorities. By Thomas Wille- ment, F.S.A London, William Pickering, 1821." Should he not have access to this book, it may be stated that Edward VI. is shown (p. 76) to have borne France and England quarterly, with a lion as the dexter and the red dragon as the sinister supporter. He used the garter round his arms. Elizabeth is said (p. 82), on the authority of Morgan's 'Armilogia,' p. 189, to have changed the sinister dragon from red to gold. She also is shown as using the garter, and, amongst other mottoes, " Semper eadem." FRANK REDE FOWKE. 24, Victoria Grove, Chelsea, S.W. DANIEL QUARE, WATCHMAKER (9th S. v. 474). —In a list of members of the Clockraakers' Company, from the period of their incorpora- tion in 1631 to the year 1732, by C. Octavius S. Morgan, F.R.S., F.S.A., is, " Daniel Quare, a member in 1670, (c) was a great clock- maker, (b) was admitted a Brother of the Company, and died in 1724, aged ninety- two. He was an assistant on the Court of the Company, 1705-10, and (I think) Master in 1708. He carried on business at the " Plough and Harrow," Cornhill. at the " King's Arms," Exchange Alley, London, and for some time under the title of Quare & Horseman, London. Thefollowing is a cutting from the Daily News, 23 August, 1898 :— "In the bedroom of William III. at Hampton Court Palace is a clock of the ' grandfather' pattern, which goes for twelve months without winding. The clock was made about 1660 by Dan Quare, and is such a splendid timekeeper that it does not vary & second in a month. It does not record the hours only, but also the seconds, minutes, days, and and even the times of sunrise and sunset. The clock has just been cleaned by a Kingston firm of watchmakers, who state that the mechanism in such excellent condition that the old timepiec will probably keep on going for another 200 years. By the date of this clock, the age of the maker of it at his death, as given in the Clockmakers' Company's list, seems to be more nearly correct than that stated by Mr. Britten. " In 1695-6 many Friends (Quakers) were prisoners, and others under prosecutions for nonpayment of tithes, ac., and Friends (Quaker*) in London taking the iuatt«r into consideration, thought it expedient to draw up a state of the case and present it to the King, who received them in a private apartment, where ho was alone. This case and petition was presented to the King by George Whitehead, Gil- bert Latey, Thomas Lower, John Taylor, and Daniel Quare, the latter of whom being known to the King, had ready access to him, and obtained admission to his presence for the rest. The King previously en- quiring who they were, and in what stations in the society ; Daniel told him they were ministers and elders amongst us."—' History of the People called Quakers,' London, 1799. How was it that Daniel Quare was held in such estimation by the king as to have this ready access to him ? Was it as the maker of the clock standing in the king's bedroom, or was Daniel Quare a Dutchman ? Daniel Quare, the celebrated clockmaker, is the earliest instance I have found of this sur- name. Many of his descendants are still living, but I should be glad to know the names of his wife and parents. Since sending you my reply respecting the above, I am pleased to say that I have found, in the library of the Beaney Institute at Canterbury, a set of the volumes of the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography,'in which is a notice of Daniel Quare. It gives the name of his wife as Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Stevens, of High Wycombe, Bucks, but of his origin only states "possibly a native of Somerset." I am anxious to discover the names of his parents, and where he came from. It- C. BOSTOCK. According to the catalogue of books, &c., of the Company of Clockmakers deposited in the Library of the Corporation of London, Daniel Quarre, " a great clockmaker," was admitted and sworn a Brother on 3 April, 1671; was chosen on the Court of Assistants, 1697; served the office of Warden, 1705 7 ; chosen Master 29 September, 1708. In 1676 he in- vented the repeating movement in watches, by which they were made to strike at pleasure. According to Octavius Morgan's 'List of Members of the Clockmakers' Company,' Quarre died in 1724, aged ninety-two. He was buried in the Quakers' burial-ground,