WILL OF JOHN STOKYS, RECTOR OF GYSLYNGHAM, 1407.

In dei nomine Amen. Ego Johannes Stokys Rector ecclesie parochialis de Gyslyngham bone mentis sane que memorie die lune proximo post festum ascensionis domini anno domini millesimo CCCCmo septem condo testamentum meum in hunc modum. In primis lego animam meum deo omnipotenti beate Marie et omnibus sanctis eius, et corpus meum ad sepeliendum in cancello de Gyslyngham predicto. Item lego ad solucionem campanorum ibidem xvs. Item lego ad emendacionem pamuenti predicti cancelli xs. Item lego ad emendacionem clausuri cimeterii ibidem vjs viija. Et ad istud testamentum perficiendum volo quod omnes fructus et obuenciones qualitercumque prouenientes et prouenire debentes pretextu dicte ecclesie mee vsque ad proximum sinodum post festum sancti michaelis archangeli proximo futurum vendantur per executores meos iuxta vim et effectum constitutionis Sinodalis Norwicensis diocesis que incipit Walterus dei gracia et cum precio eorumdem soluantur omnia debita mea Residuum vero omnium bonorum meorum sub quacumque forma inuentor si quod super fuerit volo quod predictum residuum vendatur et pauperibus amicis meis secundum disposicionem executorum meorum pro anima mea distribuatur ad istud vero testamentum meum fideliter exequendum et expediendum tales constituo facio et ordino executores meos, videlicet Robertum Rectorem ecclesie de Thornham magna et Robertum Qwelwryth predictos ut ipsi deum habeant pre oculis et ita disponant super premissis prout melius et salubrius anime mee viderint expedire. Datum apud Gislyngham predictum die et anno supradicto.

Proved at Ocle Magna, Norwich diocese, 9 June 1407. (Arundel, 541.) [Any information as to the Testators will be most welcome.

ARTHUR SCHOMBERG.]

Genealogical Notes and Queries.

BLACKET QUARTERING IN BISHOP.

In "Visitation of London," vol. i., p. 74 (Harl. Soc.), the eighth quartering of Bishop is given as "Blewet [?]," this is really Blacket, and comes in by Baskerville with Milborne. Ralph Baskerville second son-this accounts for the crescent on the Baskerville quartering-of Sir John Baskerville, Knt., born 1410, married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Blackett, Knt., and left an only daughter and heiress, Jane, married to Simon Milbourne. (See Burke's "Commoners," vol. i., p. 90.) The coat, tricked "Azure, a bend between two cotises and six crosses-crosslet fitchée or," occurs also in Dugdale's "St. Paul's," p. 118; and a reading in "Visitation of Gloucestershire,” p. 269 (Harl. Soc.), under 'Whittington,' where it comes in with Milborne and Baskerville; but there seems to be a reading with the field "sable," which, if there is anything in a name, might prove more correct.

F. W.

GENEALOGY OF THE LOVEJOY FAMILY.

Any persons connected with the Lovejoy Family in England, or descendants from them at any time, who will send any particulars to the undersigned, with the understanding that it is for insertion in the work he is engaged in compiling concerning their genealogy, will greatly oblige by sending such particulars, authenticated by dates, to Mr. D. R. LOVEJOY, Cataract Chemical Company, Niagara Falls, New York, U.S.A.

Reviews.

A Saunter through Kent with Pen and Pencil. By CHARLES IGGLESDEN. Ashford: "Kent Express" Office, 1900.

THIS is a pleasing quarto, making 80 pp., but which might have been much enlarged, and we think with as great a success as in its present size. The popular parts are still left for a future historian, taking in from Chislehurst and Sevenoaks-charms in themselvesGravesend, Cobham, Faversham, Whitstable, etc., right on through Canterbury to Dover and Folkestone. The author has chosen the district between Tunbridge, Maidstone, and Ashford, right on to Dungeness, and begins the book at Kennington, near Ashford. In this village they have national schools, a pump to commemorate the Queen's Jubilee, allotment gardens and recreation ground, some model dwellings, and two ghost stories-one of a lady in white and another of a spectre coach. Happy Kennington, when you are told besides that neither spectre has ever been seen! Among its historical facts are accounts of smugglers and the remains of a gallows-tree, where highwaymen dangled at times.

Wye is next given, with its bridge built in 1638, superseding an old wooden one. It is celebrated for its wild flowers and a "holy well" blessed by St. Eustachius, endowed with such miraculous power that by merely tasting it all diseases were cured. It is still used for eye affections. Chilham and Dungeness are next given, though some distance apart, the former having every evidence of being near where a Roman settlement had been. The church is noted for its imposing tower and handsome porch, and was built in 1534; it had also a gallery for the use of the "company of singers" added to it in 1772, but this has since disappeared. The village revels in tales of a murder and a headless lady on a “spirited" charger.

Our author having gone as far as Dungeness, with its lighthouses looking straight over to Cape Grisnez, gives Pluckley next, near to Ashford, which as a quiet retreat seems well suited for invalids, being 300 feet above the sea. Strolling among the tombstones in the old churchyard you come across several singularities, one being that of a tombstone commemorating the death of a wife with the name of her husband also engraved, although still alive and yet waiting to join her. Surrenden, with its fine elm trees, is within a mile, and the Dering family has been there for thirty generations, the previous baronet having possession of the title at the age of three, and holding it till the age of eighty-eight. The "Dering Arms" Inn is, as the author says, a picture in itself. The remainder of the book gives brief accounts of Marden, Charing, Lenham, High Halden, Bethersden, Sturry and Fordwich, and Wingham, of which each has an excellent history given, and, like the preceding villages, illustrated in little sketches in black and white, give a charm to the book, which, at its price of 2s. 6d., is worth every Kentish man having it. It is in its second edition, and being nicely printed and a convenient size, ought to command even a better sale still.

The Registers of the Parish Church of Aston-juxta-Birmingham. Transcribed and Edited by WILLIAM F. CARTER, B.A., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Birmingham: C. Cooper and Co. 1900.

THIS is the first volume of the Registers of Aston, which begin in 1544. They were originally printed by the Editor from 1600 in the "Midland Antiquary," and by the advice of friends he has issued the present edition, beginning from the earlier date, involving 46 pp. as a preliminary to p. 1, which begins the 1600 Registers-an unfortunate arrangement, because it shews the difference in the paper, etc. The whole makes 141 pp., and the Registers go to 1639. The Editor has supplied an Index at the beginning, and the book is worthy of being supported by the Members of the Register Society and others. No price is given for the Part, which is done up in a paper wrapper.

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. January, April, July 1900. Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, U.S.A.

THESE three Parts keep up the general interest of the Work. "Richmond during 1812" is interesting, shewing how alert the inhabitants were for fear of being invaded by the British Fleet under Sir George Cockburn. There are articles on the Virginia Militia, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents, and an account of Virginia in 1628, where a ship is mentioned as having taken an Angola with many negroes, which the Captain bartered for tobacco to bring home. In genealogy there is a good account of the Fitzhugh family, with five portraits in the three parts, and also of the Farrar family, originally of Yorkshire, and related to the Bishop of St. David's, who suffered martyrdom in 1555.

The April Number contains several papers on Virginia, and also adds to the account of John Paul Jones, the pirate as he was called in England.

In the July Number are some interesting letters of Mrs. Ralph Izard concerning affairs in 1780 and after, expressing the hope that the French would come and drive the English away, and the capture of Lord Cornwallis and his whole army is such a stroke against Great Britain that she must give in and have peace! This Part also contains a photograph of the tomb of Robert Throckmorton, in Huntingdonshire, England, and continues the accounts of the Fitzhugh and Farrar families, besides other interesting articles.

Fenland Notes and Queries. April and July 1900. Peterborough: George C. Caster,

Market Place.

THE April Part opens with an interesting account of an old benefactor to the Fens, John Perry, who in 1716 stopped Dagenham Breach for the British Government, after being in the employ of Czar Peter the Great as a Comptroller of the Russian Maritime Works. There is also an amusing account of "Bill Hall," a local poet and philosopher flourishing at Lynn in 1816.

In the July Number more tokens are given, illustrated by a plate, the quaint spelling of one of which is Peeterbovrowgh. There is also a good notice of Colonel Moore, C.B., an enthusiastic local antiquary and a descendant of Sir Thomas More.

The Journal of the Ex Libris Society. Vol. X., July to September. A. and C. Black,

Soho Square.

THE July Part contains a very nice plate of four designs by Mr. J. Vinycomb, well printed by the Art Printing Company, and the plate of Mr. John P. McKnight is a quiet reminder to the worthy President that process blocks can be printed equal to engraved plates. The Shrewsbury School plates are samples of 1750 work. The School might worthily improve upon the present plates, if any artistic scholar in 1900 undertook the design. Among the plates for identification we see are the arms of Lord Raymond of Abbots Langley 1732 (No. 425), a full description of which, by the Clarenceux King of Arms, is kindly written for our present Part. Our Editor had it among his large collection of bookplates.

The August Part is embellished with nine bookplates of the Rylands family, the head of which died early this eventful year. His sons are well known, too, as leading members of several Societies, Mr. J. Paul Rylands having been Hon. Secretary with Sir George J. Armytage, Bart., of the Harleian Society, at present busily occupied as Editor of "Musgrave's Obituary," four volumes of which will be issued this year. Mr. Harry Rylands is well known as the active Secretary of the Society of Biblical Archæology. The frontispiece plate of Mr. J. Paul Rylands was designed by his brother. The two arms by our old friend Cleghorn are good examples of work done thirty years ago. The plates for identification now number 430.

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GRANT OF ARMS TO WILLIAM CHESTER, 12 EDWARD IV.

To All Nobles and Gentilles theise presents l'res hering or seing William Hawkeslowe otherwise called Clarencieulx King of Armes of the Southe Marches of Englande sendithe humble & due recomendation as apperteyneth Forsomuche as William Chester Gentilman Couragiously moened To exercise & vse gentyl and Comendable guyding in such laudable maner and forme as may best sound vnto Gentrye by the weh he shall moue wth godes grace to atteigne vnto honure and wourshipe hath desired and prayed me the said King of Armes that I by the power and auctoryte by the Kinges good grace to me in that behalfe comytted, shulde deuyse a congnysance of Armes for the said gent. wiche he and his heires might boldly and vowably occupie challenge and enioye for euermore without any preiudice or rebuke of eny estate or gentill of this Realme at th'instance & request of whom I the said king of Armes taking respect and consideration vnto the goodly entent and disposition of the said gentilman haue deuised for him and his said heires theis Armes following that is to say A feild of Siluer and Sable party in pale A cheueron greylled enterchanged iij rames heads rased of the same armed gold wth a Bordure of goules greylled besante golde. Weh Armes I of my saide power and auctoryte haue appoynted yenen and granted to and for the said Gentilman and his heires And by theis my presentes l'res appoyncte yeue and grante vnto theym the same; To haue Challenge occupie and enioye wtout eny preiudice or empechement for euermore. In witnes wherof I the said king of Armes to theis p'sentes haue set my seale of Armes wt my singne manuell. Yeuen at the Citee of London the xxijth day of May the xijth yeare of the raingne of King Edward the fourthe.

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Monumental Inscriptions in Lucerne.*

[Copied August 1899, and July 1900.]

ENGLISH CEMETERY.

On Kreuzbuch, about two miles from Lucerne, is situated the English Cemetery. The cemetery was purchased, enclosed, and the chapel built therein, in loving remembrance of Florence Brandt (who died on 19 September 1873), by her bereaved parents, both of whom lie buried with her. The property was given by the founder to the Colonial and Continental Church Society on the terms specified on the brass plate in the chapel. The cemetery and chapel were consecrated by the Bishop of London (Dr. Jackson) on 19 September 1874. The Swiss custom of using the same ground for interments after a lapse of years appeared so repugnant to Mr. Brandt that he bought this ground so that the bodies of those therein interred might never be disturbed. The view from the graveyard is magnificent, and the ground itself is beautifully laid out and well cared for.

In the chapel are the following inscriptions on brass plates :

This Mortuary Chapel was erected by | ADOLPHUS & ELIZABETH ALICE BRANDT to the Glory of God | in memory of their only child | ALICE FLORENCE BRANDT A.D. 1874.

This Mortuary Chapel & Cemetery were | transferred to the Colonial & Continental Church Society, London, in perpetual trust | for the use of British Subjects residents or visitors of Lucerne; provided that the rites and service of the Established Church | of England be complied with and used | Sept. 19th, 1874.

In the crypt below are deposited the remains of | ALICE FLORENCE BRANDT. | Born at Teddington, Middlesex, 29 Dec 1853 | Died at Bellerive, Lucerne, 19 SeptTM 1873.

In the crypt below lies the body of | ADOLPHUS BRANDT | Born in London 12 August 1814 | Died at Bellerive 8 June 1884.

In the crypt below lies the body of | ELIZABETH ALICE widow of ADOLPHUS BRANDT | Born 15 Oct. 1826. Died in London 1 June 1899.

[Mr. Brandt was buried on Corpus Christi day, 12 June 1884. Mrs. Brandt died at 12 Leinster Gardens, Hyde Park, after six years of great suffering, on Corpus Christi day, 1 June 1899, and was buried on 12 June 1899, the fifteenth anniversary of her husband's funeral, with her husband, daughter, and sister. Mr. Brandt was for many years Consul-General for Bavaria.]

There was also buried in the crypt of chapel on 1 March 1879 (Miss) EMILY MARKHAM, aged 46.

Miss Markham was Mrs. Brandt's sister.

In loving remembrance of | THOMAS EDWARD RENDALL, | Born at Oxenwood, Berks, Nov. 1st, 1820 | Died at Lucerne Sept. 2nd, 1854. | Buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery.

[Of Trinity College, Oxford.]

* Communicated by CECIL T. DAVIS, Esq.