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genealogical particulars of these and their descendants may be seen in Foster's ' Collec- tanea Genealogica,' i. 27-30. The eldest son, Isaac, adopted Quaker tenets. He resided at the Grange, Chalfont, Bucks ; died 8 August, 1679, and was buried in the Friends' burial- ground at Jordans, where William Penn was afterwards interred, and where their grave- stones are yet carefully preserved. Isaac's descendants' settled in Philadelphia, U.S , and, I believe, still flourish there.

W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

According to Clarendon ('History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in 1641 '), Sir Isaac Pennington was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1642, and on Sir- John Coniers's resignation of the Lieutenancy of the Tower in 1643, he was appointed to that office by order of the two Houses.

A somewhat different account from the foregoing is given by Dixpn (' Her Majesty's Tower ') He says that Sir Isaac Pennington succeeded Sir W. Balfour as Lieutenant in 1641 ; but this is apparently incorrect, as Clarendon states that Col. Lunsford, who held the post for a few days only, was Sir W. Balfour's successor, and that Sir John Byron was appointed on Col. Lunsford 's removal, Byron, in turn, being succeeded by Sir John Coniers.

At the Restoration Sir Isaac Pennington was attainted and convicted of high treason, but was respited from execution, and confined to the Tower until his death in 1661. ^ Granger, in his ' Biographical History of England,' gives a short description of a portrait of Sir Isaac Pennington in a print entitled ' The Committee ; or, Popery in Masquerade.' He also mentions a woodcut prefixed to

" A True Declaration and Just Commendation of the great and incomparable Care of the Right Honorable Isaac Pennington, Lord Mayor of the City of London, in advancing and promoting the Bulwarks and Fortifications about the City and Suburbs, with a Vindication of his Honour from all the malicious Aspersions of Malignants. Published and presented to his Honour by W. 8. 1643."

A short sketch of Sir Isaac Pennington and of some of his descendants will be found in the 'Pennsand Penirigtons of the Seven- teenth Century,' &c., by Maria Webb (London E. Hicks, Jnr, 1891). ALBERT GOUGH.

[Other replies are acknowledged.]

THEOPHILUS BUCKWORTH : EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON : PHILIP BYGO (9 th S viii. 384). The arms of Philip Bygo were ': Azure, on a chevron between two mullets in chief and a ferret passant in base argent, a

mullet between two ferrets passant gules. They will be found under ' Bigoe ' in Burke's 'General Armory '(1884). G. D. B. 1

Theophilus Buck worth was a Fellow of : Trinity College, Cambridge, Bishop of Dro- more by patent dated 14 May, 1613. He died at Cambridge, in the house in which he had been born, in the year 1652, aged seventy- two (' Fasti Ecc. Hib ,' iii. 280). C. E.

The arms of Philip Bigpe, of Newtown, King's County, as given in his funeral entry in Ulster's Office, were: "Az., on a chev. betw. two mullets in chief and a ferret pass, in base ar., a mullet between two ferrets pass, gu." See Burke's ' General Armory.' E. T. B.

MOTTO ON BELL (9 th S. viii. 304). With due submission to MR. BIRD, I suggest that the difficulty arises from the bell- founder's miscasting, something that looks like a Y being substituted for a v ; and that his third and fourth words are only one GARDIANVS = (church)warden. O. O. H.

Try "Richardus Philpots, gardianus, 1680." But before closing the question, do let us know how " diarius" can be made to signify 9 October; it is surely a triumph of inge- nuity. F. P.

In the inscription referred to by your correspondent the y in "Richarys" is pro- bably v or dv, making the word read "Richardvs" (=Richard), and the two words "CAR DIANYS," as given by him, are doubt- less one, viz., "GARDIANVS" ( = warden, i.e., churchwarden, in 1680). I can see nothing therein equivalent to " a motto," nor to ; "9 October." W. I. R. V.

[Similar replies from W. C. B., E. S. D., and others acknowledged.]

"YOU MIGHT RIDE TO RoMFORD ON IT"

(9 th S. viii. 306). "You might ride on it to Doncaster " is the miserable possibility that I have heard declared in Yorkshire.

ST. SWITHIN.

[London seems more frequently employed than Romford. Similar phrases concerning a blunt knife are sent us by very many contributors. It simply indicates that a knife is blunt.]

MACAULAY'S ESSAYS (9 th S. viii. 384). Betty Careless, whom, in relation to Macaulay's phrase "sometimes drinking Champagne and Tokay with Betty Careless," F. C. M. inquires about, was a notorious prostitute, con- 1 spicuously referred to in Hogarth's plate viii. ' of 'A Rake's Progress,' which represents a 'Scene in a Madhouse,' one, of the lunatics confined in which has written on the hand"