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ARMS OF LONDON, OF ALDEBY, NORFOLK.

Blomefield says the family of London lived here, and that Robert London was father, by Anne, daughter of Henry Pay, of Earsham, of Robert London, Esq., Justice of the Peace, who, by Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel Knyvet, of Denver, was father of Robert London, who married Anne Philpot, of London, and died s. p. His second son Nathaniel, married Catherine, daughter of Richard Wythe, of Brockdish, and had Nathaniel, living in 1698. A Robert London was buried at Wheatacre with his wife, in 1627+ The second Robert appears to have distinguished himself in the civil wars, and had a patent of arms, of which the following is a copy, taken from Add. MS. Brit. Mus., 14294, p. 7. A member of this family was buried at Thorpe next Haddiscoe, but I have not a copy of his monument by me at present.

GEORGE W. MARSHALL.

To all & singular unto whom these p'sents shall come, Sr Edward Walker, Knt. Garter principall King of Armes of Englishmen, sendeth Greeting. It hath been an auncient Custome in all well-governed Kingdomes & Commonwealths to distinguish the Conditions and Degrees of Men by Marks & Signs of Honour called Armes, such being outward Demonstrations of ye inward worth of ye Bearers atchieved either by their Valour in tyme of Warre, or by their virtuous endeavours in tyme of peace. In which respect whereas Robert London of Albye in ye County of Norfolke Esquire, one of his Maties Justices of the peace in ye sayd County, hath upon all Occasions, with ye hazard of his life, and expence of his Fortune, demonstrated his Loyalty to his late Maty King Charles ye First, of ever blessed & glorious memory, & particularly served in ye late Warrs against ye Rebells under ye Command of that worthy and Valiant Colonell Sir Edward Walgrave Knt. & Baronett, & hath synce to ye utmost of his power assisted in Order to ye Restauration of his Maty now happily Reigning, whereby he may justly deserve to have such Armes assigned unto him, as he may lawfully beare for his Honour, & may be derived to his posterity. Know yee, therefore, that I, ye sayd Sr Edward Walker Knt Garter Principall King of Armes, by ye power & Authority annexed unto my Office by ye Statutes of ye most Noble Order of ye Garter, and confirmed unto mee by Letters Patents under ye Great Seale of England, Doe by these p'sents, give, grant, and assigne unto him, ye sayd Robert London, & ye Heyres & Descendants of his Body for Ever ye Coate of Armes, & Creast hereafter mentioned, vizt., Argent, three Crosse Crosseletts in Bend Cottized Gules, and for his Creast upon an Helmet proper, Mantled Gules, Doubled Argent, & Wreath of his Colours an Armed Arme holding a sword proper, ye Hilt & pommell Or, betweene two Dragons' Wings Argent, as hereafter is more lively depicted. The which Armes & Creast, he, ye sayd Robert London & ye Heyres & Descendants of his Body lawfully begotten for ever (bearing their due and proper differences) may & shall lawfully at all tymes and upon all occasions use beare & sett forth in shield, Coate-Armour, pennon, Seale, or otherwise (according to ye lawes and practice of Armes), without ye lett, or interruption, dis

lost his Life on board ye Hunter
Customhouse Cutter on Hasbro'
Beach, ye 18th Day of Febry, 1807.
Aged 30 years.

High o'er their heads the Rolling billows s
And down they sink in Everlasting sleep;
His tender Wife and Children are left to
For him, alas! that never will return:
Not him alone, but with him thirtytwo,
Beyond relief, was doomed to perish too.

QUERIES.

CROSSES OF THE MIDDLE AGE.

"For oft the cross near some lone chapel sto
Beside the font, or in the public way;

That whoso list, might there kneel down an
To Him once crucified."

Calvary-consecration-churchyard-wayside-wee] nance-boundary and memorial crosses.-Can any correspondents inform me if any of the above cross portions of them, in the counties of Norfolk and Suff

DR. BURGOYNE-THOMAS COTTON

In the south transept of the church at Great Yeldh of the window, is a small mural tablet of marble, wi scription :

Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Susanna Burgoyne, widow, on Bastwick, and wife to Dr. Burgoyne. She departed this life th being about 45 years of age. Her life was much desired of al death greatly lamented.

The transept was and is a burial place of the Symonds family: and a John Symonds, who died in 1692, and was buried there, married as his second wife the daughter of Sir Roger Burgoyne, of Sutton, in Bedfordshire. I presume that Dr. Burgoyne was one of his family. I shall be thankful for any information about Dr. Burgoyne. The name of the wife of Dr. Bastwick was Susanna. She was the sister of Thomas Cotton, of West Bergholt, near this town. I should also be very glad to learn anything about Cotton. John Symonds was, like Bastwick and Cotton, a Presbyterian. His name appears in 1647, as one of the elders of Great Yeldham.-D., Colchester.

Roger Clopton, Rector of Downham, Ely.-A Norfolk genealogist would be obliged by any correspondent of the East Anglian informing him how Roger Clopton, Rector of Downham, in the Isle of Ely, who, in 1676, gave £200, by which the greater part of the nave in Ely Cathedral was paved," was connected with the old Suffolk family of that name.

Roll of Swan Marks.—I have a book, forming a Roll of Swan Marks' made on October 6th, in the 29th of Elizabeth. The names to which the marks are given are those of persons then residing in Cambridgeshire. Though this roll was made out in Elizabeth's reign, it must be a copy of an earlier one, for the first two marks are Rex; and another, that of the Abbot of Peterborough, dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII. The original of this roll was probably the roll of the Clerk of the Session of Swans for the Cambridgeshire Fens, and was made out in accordance with the provisions of the statute of Edward the IV (22 Edward IV, c. 6). There should be, somewhere, the ordinances which were once attached to this book. Can you help me to find out where they are? They are not in the British Museum.-C. R. COLVILE, Lullington, Burton-on-Trent.

Norfolk Accent.-No one coming from another part of the country to Norfolk, can fail to notice the curious accent or emphasis used by the natives. As far as I can make out, a regular Norfolk man raises his voice towards the end of the sentence in a sing-song manner-reaching the climax of loudness or emphasis at, the last word of the sentence if it is a monosyllable, the penultimate syllable if a word of two, and at the ante-penultimate if of three syllables-in all cases lingering on such syllable, E. g. Have you got any beer?

I was in the library all the time.

'Taint likely.

He drank three bottles of claret.

Nothing makes me ill so soon as cucumber.

He leant against the parapet.

I have, however, heard several exceptions to the above rule. Perhaps some one else will give me the benefit of their experience.-WALTER RYE.

The East Anglian.

OCTOBER, 1866.

NOTES.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE TOKENS (VOL. III, P. 3).

I am pleased to see a list is given of those interesting little pieces used in the seventeenth century, for small trading and commerce among the inhabitants of nearly every town and village in England, and as such, welcome the assistance of your correspondent in making them known in the immediate locality, but certainly could wish that the list had been more extensively illustrated by notes of the issuers, or had contained all known additions. As it is, it is only now a copy (nearly verbatim), taken from the well-known and careful work of William Boyne, Esq., F.S.A., wherein are described 10,000 of these English and Irish pieces, published in a thick 8vo volume of 600 pages, and illustrated very extensively.

Of the list already printed, I can supply the following alterations, corrections, and additions:

Doddington.

No. 69. This token is confirmed as being a Cambridgeshire one by the issuer, Robert Adams, also issuing a variety of this token at March, in Cambridgeshire, two years afterwards.

Robert Adams was a quaker. On the 25th of the 11th month in 1660, he was one of twenty-seven persons committed to Cambridge Castle, for being present at a Friend's meeting.

70. Johnson. The mill (on the token) was standing in 1859, and the last direct male descendant, John Johnson, was accidentally shot a few years previously. Some of the female descendants are still living in Wisbech. These facts prove them to be Cambridgeshire tokens.

Ely.

Between 72 and 73 insert O. WILLIAM CHEVILL.-the arms of the Merchant Taylors' Company.

R. IN ELEY, 1667-w. s. c.

Between 74 and 75 insert O. IOHN GATER OF-the arms of the Fishmongers' Company.

81. Two varieties are issued by this person from different dies.

The Reades of Ely were also quakers. In 1660, four of the Reades were committed to Ely gaol for refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and when brought before the magistrates said, "we could not for conscience's sake, being the Lord's free men." George Read was again committed in 1663 for refusing the oath, and remained prisoner some months. Richard Read, in 1663, suffered a distress of a large brass kettle, said to be worth £1. 68. 8d., for refusing to bear arms in the county militia. 84. Also a variety, reading

0.

R.

WILLIAM TVCKINTON.-a stick of eight candles.

IN. ELY. CHANDLER.-W. T.

The name is distinct on both the tokens, though spelt differently.

85 and 86. On both these tokens the name is Wagstafe, and the device on reverses of the tokens is simply w w twice, one inverted crossing the other, making the initials of the issuer W. W.

87.

The name is Weatherhead, and on the reverse, in the field are the initials I. R. W.

Gamlingay.

88. Reads GAMLINGHAY. The variety reads GAMLINGAM.

Hinxton.

90. Reads HINSSTON, and the initials are on the obverse, not on the

reverse.

Isleham.

92.

Spelt ISELEHAM. on the token.

Add to Isleham also, O. WILLIAM. READE. IN.- the Grocers' arms. R. IESLEHAM. 1666.-w. E. R

The above are all from the actual tokens, now lying in my cabinets, and a record of them is necessary, to make the list of the county as complete as possible, Probably other correspondents can also supply some additions.-C. G., Paddington, London.

Another correspondent supplies further additions:

Between 7 and 8 add. 0.

R.

Cambridge.

Will. Bassett. Mercer.-His halfe penny.
In. Cambridge. 1669.-W. K. B.

13. Challis. A variety has the date 1663.

18. Collins.

39. Cotman.

The initials do not correspond with the name of the issuer.
The device in the field of 0. is a unicorn.

51. Powell. A variety has the date 1667.

52. Raper. A variety reads on the R. In. Cambridge, 1660.-a pair of shears.

Note on 32 and 60. Hampson and Williams appear to have been followers of the notorious "prophet" Lodowick Muggleton. In the collected