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Philippo, entered the mission field, and wa one of the pioneers in the emancipation o the West Indian slaves. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

DOWAGER PEERESS (9 th S. vii. 468, 510) -In the case of Cowley v. Cowley ('Law Reports,' 1900, Probate Division, pp. 118 305) counsel stated in argument (p. 308) thai ever since the Duchess of Suffolk's case, 1564 (Leon., part iv. p. 196; Dyer, fol. 79), "the widow of a peer, on marrying a commoner, continues, by the etiquette of society, though not by legal right, to retain her title and precedence " ; and he referred to Burke's 'Peerage,' 1899, p. 1762 ; 1900, p. 1642. No customary exceptions are mentioned. This case is under appeal to the House of Lords.

G.

Anne, sister of King Edward IV., is called Duchess of Exeter, though her second husband was a knight (Sir Thomas St. Leger). She died 1495 (tomb at Windsor). Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk (died 1580), retained her title to the end of her life, her second husband being Richard Bertie (see Foxe). Alice, widow of Ferdinando, Earl of Derby (died 1594), married Lord Keeper Egerton, but retained her title of Countess of Derby, and in 1631 signed as " Al. Derby " (Redford's 4 Uxbridge,' p. 21). The widow of Sir John Cheke was called Dame Cheke down to her death, though in Elizabeth's reign she married Henry Mackwilliams (epitaph in Strype's ' Stow '). J. B.

ICKNIELD STREET (9 th S. viii. 17). MR* DUIGNAN should consult the late Dr. Edwin Guest's tract ' The Four Roman Ways,' which was first printed in the Archaeological Journal, No. 54, and secondly, with Dr. Guest's other historical and topographical papers, in the second volume of 'Origines Celticse' (1883), pp. 218-41 :

"Hilde-weg, a way fitted for military expeditions, a highway ; Icen hilde-weg, the highway of the Icen or Iceni, the people into whose country this track- way directly led.

As to the course of the way Dr. Guest is very explicit. C. DEEDES.

Brighton.

ANTHONY FORTESCUE (9 th S. vii. 327, 435). I am much indebted to MR. EVERITT for his reply to my query. May I add the following notes ?

1. Lord Clermont (' Hist. Fain. Fortescue,' p. 177) found reasons for his doubting whether Sir Adrian Fortescue's second wife had been married previously to Sir Giles Greville. Is there good evidence of this marriage? Sir

Thomas Parry, the ambassador, her son by her last marriage, was evidently a Wyke- hamist, though not recognized as such in Mr. Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars.' An old marginal note to his name in the college register (1558) is " legatus in Gallia."

2. Lord Clermont (pp. 318-20) set out the will, dated 1608 and proved 1611, of Thomas Fortescue, of "Donington " (i.e., Donnington, near Newbury, and not Dinnington), Berks. The passage to which MR. EVERITT refers runs thus :

"Item, my will and mynde is that all such plate, household stnffe and books as are belonging unto Anthony Fortescue my brother be safely kept and delyvered to the use o! my said brother/'

This passage was thought by Lord Cler- mont (p. 310) to favour the supposition that the brother was an exile from England for life. Sed qucere de hoc.

3. Lord Clermont (p. 310) assigned to this brother (Sir Adrian's youngest son) the fol- lowing children :

' Anthony, married to a daughter of Overton,

brother to the then Bishop of Coventry ; John, mar- ried to Ellen, daughter of Ralf Henslow of Barrald, in Hampshire ; and George, of whose marriage no mention is made."

It seems from MR. EVERITT'S statements that these were really the sons of Anthony Fortes- cue, the conspirator. Does he intend us to nfer that the above John Fortescue married his mother's stepdaughter ?

4. Anthony Fortescue, the conspirator, was almost certainly not the Winchester scholar. How was his wife Katherine Pole related to
 * he following scholars there : " Jeffery Poole"

(adm. 1558), of Lordington, Sussex ; Stephen Henslow (adm. 1552) and Henry Henslow adm. 1563), both of Boarhunt, Hants?

H. C.

Marshall, LL.D. (London, 1885), gives on pp. 249, 250, a long list of pedigrees and
 * The Genealogist's Guide,' edited by G. W.

>apers relating to the family of Fortescue.

This exhaustive list may possibly be of some service to those of your correspondents who are specially interested in that ancient and

listinguished race. They should likewise ance, entitled 'Notitise and Pedigrees con-
 * efer to another compilation of some import-

erning the Family of the Fortescues ' (Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 15,629, f. 63). The Lambeth Review for March, 1872, contains on pp. 65-77 most interesting article on * Sir John For- ,escue and his Descendants.' H. B.

FUNERAL CARDS (9 th S. vii. 88, 171, 291, 332, 14 ; viii. 21). The funeral card, resembling n many particulars the one described by