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otherwise have done, in his ' Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of London.' I, however, gather from the MS. notes which I have added to ray copy of that work the following :

Suffolk he was free of the lether Sellers of london hir first Hesband was W m Pettos of Norwich the son of Thomas Pettos Alderman and maior of Nor- wich hir 2 husband was S r Francis Joanes K lord maior of london She died on twesday the 29 of aprill 1634 at hir howse in S* martins lane in london."
 * ' My lady Joanes Elizabeth D. of Henry Rolfe of

This note was taken from a valuable MS., the Funeral Work - Book and Genealogical Collections of John Taylor, Herald Painter, of Fleet Street, London (1633-49), which at one time belonged to Peter Le Neve, Norroy, being then known as "Taylor Vol. 2," and was subsequently in my posses- sion. The will of this Dame Elizabeth Jones (of St. Martin's Lane, in the parish of St. Mar- tin Orgar : left blank in the registered copy Seager, 28 but supplied by the probate act), London, is dated 27 April, 1634, and was proved in P.C.C., 29th of same month, by her sons Roffe and William Pettus ; Robert Nut- ting of Gray's Inn, Esq. ; and her daughter Susanna Jones, the executors. She therein desires to be buried in the parish church of St. Martin's "aforesaid." She mentions also her son John Pettus and his children, and leaves 20s. to the " poore people " of the parish of "Keldon" ( = Kelvedon) in Essex. In Stpwe MS. (Brit. Mus.) 624, pencil fo. 196, this Sir Francis "Johns," whose motto appears to have been "Fides justi fiat," is shown as son of John " Jones," who was son of " John Jones of lueston in the p'ish of Claverley in Com' Sallop " Administration of his effects (he being described as "of Welford, co. Berks ") was granted by P.C.C., 29 January, 1622/3, to Abraham Jones, the son, Dame and further administration of his goods 13 May, 1630. I am not, however, aware of his having at any time a wife so named ; but if he had, it is quite clear from the above that she was not the surviving one, and that the administration act must be in error in such respect. W. I. R. V.
 * Jane " Jones, the relict, having renounced ;

Inasmuch as "Dame Jane Jones," his relict, renounced taking out administration of his goods, 29 January, 1622/3, the name of his surviving wife was undoubtedly Jane, as is stated in Cokayne's 'Lord Mayors.' Her burial and other particulars of his family may very probably be found in the parish registers of Welford, Berks. G. E. C.

'PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA' (9 th S. viii. 81). AH the editions of this work, from the first

to the seventh, have title-pages very similar to that given by your correspondent. In the first edition the name is spelt Browne, not Brown. It was " Printed by T. H. for Edward Dod, and are to be sold in Ivie Lane. 1646." In Simon Wilkin's edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Works' (published in 4 vols. in 1835) the title-page runs as follows :

"Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received Tenets and commonly presumed Truths, which examined prove but Vulgar and Common Errors. Eighth Edition."

This differs from the other in the addition of

the words "which Errors." The reason

is that Simon Wilkin has simply incorporated the headlines which occur in the earlier edi- tions, " Enquiries into Vulgar and Common

Errors," by the connecting words " which

but." With regard to the spelling of the name, it is sufficient to say that in his will (a facsimile of which is given in vol. i. of the edition referred to above) he signs himself Browne, and so also in his letters. In Arch- bishop Tenison's edition of the * Works ' (folio, Lond., 1686) the name is Brown.

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX. Royal College of Physicians.

I have a copy of this work, dated 1669, fifth edition, "with Marginal Observations and a Table Alphabetical." Whereunto are added "Two Discourses, The one of Urn Burial, or Sepulchral Urns, lately found in Norfolk," the other "of the Garden of Cyrus, or Network Plantations of the Ancients." There is a portrait "Effigies viri Doctissimi Tho. Browne Med. Doctoris." The ' Urn Burial ' has a separate title-page and contains seventy pages, and the name is spelt Browne again, and is " printed for Henry Brome at the Star in Little Britain, 1669." In the " To the Reader " he signs "Thomas Brown " in the to the ' Urn Burial ' he signs " Thomas Browne." It would seem to have been a matter of indifference, and I incline to think that the portrait belongs to the latter.
 * Pseudodoxia ' ; but in the epistle dedicatory

G. H. THOMPSON.

PEWS ANNEXED TO HOUSES (9 th S. vii. 388, 517 ; viii. 89). The house (supposing it to bem statu quo) stands close to the north side of the main road, and at or near to the south-east corner of that leading to Sheppertori station. It is distinguished by a bay window project- ing from the first floor front, affording views up the river towards Shepperton and down towards Walton. The lawn is over the road. The particulars I gave concerning it includ- ing the name I had from my father, who sold the house to its then tenant, the late