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under- Lyme, Staffordshire, is the monument of William Smethwicke of Smethwicke, Esq., and Frances Coleclough, his wife, who died 1 May, 1632, surmounted by their half-figures. On a tablet underneath her effigy is the fol- lowing epitaph :

Here also lieth the body of Frances Smethwicke, daughter of Sir Anthony Coleclough, Knight, married to William Smethwicke aforesaid, and lived in wedlocke with him 58 yeares, a devout and hospitall matron, borne anno Dom. 1557, in the castle of Kildare, in Ireland, Novemb. 6,

and died 1 of May 1632. Mors absorpta est in victoria.

The arms of Smethwicke (a family long extinct) were : Or, three crosses patee fitche sable ; those of Colclough : Argent, five eaglets displayed in cross sable. Smeth- wick is a township in the parish of Brereton, but the old hall has long since been pulled down. There is a pedigree of the family in Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire,' showing them to have intermarried with good county families. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

CHOCOLATE (9 th S. viii. 160, 201, 488). An early English book on this subject is that by Dr. John Stubbe, scholar, and physician to King Charles II., called " The Indian Nectar,

or a Discourse concerning Chocolata

Lond., 1662." Its use was widely spread even at that time, as the following from p. 2 shows :

" The Northerly tract thereof [of America] prin- cipally seems to use the drink called Chocolata, in New Spain, Mexico and the neighbouring Pro- vinces And indeed it hath prodigiously spread

itself not only over the West - Indies ; but over Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, high and low Ger- many, and England, yea Turkey, and Persia : and hath been recommended by sundry learned Phy- sicians to the world."

The author quotes several times from Thomas Gage's ' Survey of the West Indies,' the first edition of which appeared in 1648.

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

In Addit. MS. (British Museum) 10,116, being vol. i. of Thomas Rugge's k Mercurius Politicus Redivivus, 1659-72,' p. 14, is the following interesting note :

"Nov. 1659. Theere ware also att this time a Turkish drink to bee sould, almost in eury street, called Coffee and another kind of drink called Tee [sic], and also a drink called Chacolate [sic], which was a very harty drink."

This, I presume, refers to the sale in London only. The date of the first introduction of chocolate into England (probably from Spain) could not, I think, have been long prior to 1659 which is, indeed, earlier than that

generally ascribed to it, viz., temp. Charles II., as dating from the Restoration of 1660.

W. I. R. V.

DOROTHY CECIL (9 th S. viii. 362, 386, 490, 529). When I made my inquiry as to the church in which the curious epitaph appears I assumed that it was in Wimbledon Church, but I wished for confirmation. I must refer H. to Dal ton's ' Life of Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon,' vol. ii. p. 363, as authority for stating that Dorothy Cecil died unmarried in France, and the quotation there from her will induced me to ask where she was buried. I do not gather from the pedigree of the Earl of Ranfurly in Burke's 'Peerage' that any member of the family could have a right to quarter the arms of Cecil. Jos. PHILLIPS.

ANTHONY FORTESCUE (9 th S. vii. 327, 435 ; viii. 73, 449). Further search enables me to answer both the questions asked by MR. EVERITT at the last reference, at the end of his valuable notes upon the relations between the families of Pole and Fortescue.

1. Proof that Anthony Fortescue, the rector of Symondsbury, held that living after Octo- ber, 1562, when Anthony Fortescue, the con- spirator, was sent to the Tower, is furnished by the following entry, dated 3 May, 5 Eliz. (1563), in the 'Composition Books' at the Record Office :

' ' Dorset, Sy mondisborough. Antonius Fortescue, juris civilis bacchalarius, composuit pro primitiis rectprise prsedictse. Extenditur ad xxxvi/i. 3-s. 4d. Decima inde Ixxiis. 4cZ. Et remanet clare xxxii^'. 11s. (1 Novem. 1563, 1 Maij 1564, 1 Novem. 1564, lMaij 1565.)

" Obligantur Johannes Fortescue, magister magnse

arderobae dominse reginae, armiger, Nicolaus Payne e Wallingforde in com. Buck, [sic], generosus, et Adam Wormall de parochise Sti Christopher! apud le Stocks, London."

According to the index to these 'Composi- tion Books,' the next entry therein concern- ing the rectory of Symondsbury is that which is dated 5 Nov., 14 Eliz. (1572), when William Hemmerford, " clericus," became rector. Hem- merford is not in the list of the rectors of Symondsbury given in Hutchius's 'Dorset.' Some particulars about him appear in Foster's 'Alumni Oxon., 1500-1714,' p. 692, No. 7. His successor, Edmund Hund, who compounded 16 Feb., 26 Eliz. (1583/4), is mentioned by Hutchins.

The style of B.C.L. seems sufficient proof that Anthony Fortescue, the rector, was the Wykehamist, younger brother of (Sir) John Fortescue, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe and afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer ('D.N.B.,' xx. 45). The records of New College, Oxford, show that this Anthony