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CONTENTS.-No. 191. NOTES:-Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Mings, 461-British Settlers in America, 462-Jottings from a Notebook, 463Nelson's Signal and the Man who hoisted it, 464-English Army Slang as used in the Great War, 465-Thomas Havard

Symmes's Hole," 467-Columbia Market, HackneyKeats, Hampstead and Sir C. W. Dilke, 468. QUERIES:-Antiquities of York Minster-Gentleman Ushers

of the Black Rod, 468 Norland's Academy-Riddle

"The Letter H"-R. D'Oyly Carte-Sir W. S. Gilbert's Pedigree-The Rev. Richard Snowe-St. Joseph of Arima

thea-Five Odd Queries-Hemming Family-Field-name "Actis "-Oriental Brass Pot-Antony Bustard, 469 Mundell George Basevi, Architect "Hop-scotch": De rivation of Word-Ruskin: R ference sought-Words of

Vicars of Crediton-The Rev. John Cartwright-R. C.

Songs wanted-Authors wanted, 470. REPLIES:-Verlaine at Stickney, 470-Grave to be turfed and "bryered "--Devonshire House Gates, 472-Col. Chester's Extracts from Parish Registers-Illicit Distilling in Scottish Highlands-" The King's English": "Gesture," 473 Dr. Robert Gordon, "Coul Goppagh "Buckheen "-Verbalized Surnames-Principal London Coffee-houses in the Eighteenth Century Surnames as Christian Names, 474-T.R.E.O.-Nigger Song or English Folk Song- Ruspini-Mules on Mountains-The Palace of Placentia, 475 Hatchments-Families of Pre-Reformation

Priests, 476-" Artemus Ward "-Robert Henry NewellNickname of William Pitt (the younger)-Staverton, Co.

Devon-Prince Lee Boo-The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft,' 477-Brewers' Company-Corporation of Hoast

men-John Patrick Eden, 478.

NOTES ON BOOKS: The Renaissance of Roman Architecture A Text-book of European Archæology - The War List of the University of Cambridge - The Beginning of the Year in the Middle Ages.' Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

VICE-ADMIRAL SIR CHRISTOPHER MINGS.

HAS the ancestry of Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Mings, who died in June, 1666, from wounds received in a fight with the Dutch, ever been satisfactorily cleared up? Pepys, in his 'Diary,' makes many references to him, and on the subject of his parentage states, under date Oct. 26, 1665, Sir Christopher Mings and I together by water to the Tower: and I find him a very witty, well-spoken fellow and mighty free to tell his parentage, being a shoemaker's son"; and again, June 13, 1666, he says, his father being always, and at this day, a shoemaker, and his mother a hoyman's daughter, of which he was used frequently to boast."

In the 'D.N.B.' it is stated that Sir Christopher's father was John Myngs, who

daughter of Christopher Parr, at Salthouse, Norfolk, and in the marriage register there he is described as "of the parish of St. Katherine in the City of London." From the place of marriage it is suggested in the D.N.B.' that John Myngs may have been connected with the Norfolk family of Mynnes. There may have been such a connexion, but investigations which I have made into the history of the family of Menge, Minge, Mynge, Mindge or Mings, as it is indifferently spelled, give reason for questioning it. The name appears in various parts of the south and east of England, but chiefly in Kent, where it is found in the Subsidy Rolls as early as 1348. At the present day it is rarely met with and seems to have nearly died out, but there is an annual reference to it in the newspapers in connexion with a sermon preached on New Year's Day at the Church of St. Anne and St. Agnes, formerly of Aldersgate Street, but now united with St. John Zachary, Gresham Street, London, in accordance with the will, dated and proved in 1622, P.C.C. (112 Saville) and Dean and Chapter of Westminster (Book Camden, folio 7), of Richard Minge, citizen and cordwainer of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate Street. The testator was evidently connected with Kent, as he mentions property in that county and makes bequests to John, son of Henry Minge of New Romney, and to John Minge of Precincts of St. Katherine, shoemaker. Further, Judith Mynge of the City of Canterbury, widow (of John Minge of New Romney, who was probably the M.P. for that place in 1592/3 and 1601, and Mayor in 1598 and 1604), in her will, dated and proved 1616 in the Archdeacon's Court of Canterbury (Book 61, folio 389), leaves to John Minge of London, an apprentice to my deceased husband's kinsman, £60." John Minge, citizen and cordwainer of London, was a party to certain Chancery proceedings in 1626, 1631 and 1640 in connexion with the will of Richard Minge of St. Anne and St. Agnes before alluded to.

From these two wills it appears that in 1616 a John Minge was an apprentice in London to a kinsman of John Minge of New Romney, Kent, who, we may fairly assume, was Richard Minge, citizen and cordwainer, of St. Anne and St. Agnes, and that in 1622 he was out of his apprenticeship and pursuing his trade of shoemaker in the parish

It seems more than probable that this John Minge, shoemaker in 1622 in St. Katherine's, is identical with the John Mings married in 1623 at Salthouse, Norfolk, as of " St. Katherine's in the City of London." If this is so, then Sir Christopher Mings was of Kentish and not Norfolk descent.

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4. Hon. Thomas Cornwaleys had Cross Manor, on St. Inigoes Creek, in 1639. The Cornwaleys, or Cornwallis, family were represented in Nova Scotia, and hailed from North Wales.

5. Col. William Digges possessed Warburton Manor, in Prince George's County, in 1690. He was a son of Governor Digges of Virginia, whose father was Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls to King Charles Ì. He married Jane Sewall, daughter of Lady Baltimore by her former marriage with the Hon. Henry Sewall of London. Some of the Digges settled in Ontario.

Judith Mynge, whose will, proved in 1616, has been already referred to, was a daughter of William Hamon of Acrise, Kent, and she mentions in the will her brother Sir Thomas Hamon and several of her sisters, who are recorded in the Visitation of Kent for 1619. GEORGE S. FRY.

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BRITISH SETTLERS IN AMERICA. MR. M. RAY SANBORN, at 12 S. viii. 375 (s.v. 'Lancashire Settlers in America '), states that there is a strong desire on the part of most New England families to locate the district which was the early home of their ancestors in England, &c. I therefore have pleasure in submitting the following information.

1. Dr. Thomas Gerrard, who was granted Bashford Manor, on the Wicomico, in 1650, belonged to the family of Gerard of Lancashire. Samuel Gerrard, first President of the Bank of Montreal, was probably of this family. 2. George Talbot, Lord of Susquehanna Manor in Cecil County in 1680, was cousin of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell. Some of the Talbots settled in Nova Scotia in 1783.

3. Gov. Robert Brooke, of Brooke Place Manor, in 1654 was President of Lord Baltimore's Council. I do not appear to have a note of the county to which he belonged, but he went from England with

Manor, in Cecil County, was conceded by 7. Augustine Herman, to whom Bohemia Lord Baltimore, as a reward to him for of a respectable family in Bohemia. In making the first map of Maryland, came

1651 he married Jane Varlett. The families of Thomson, Foreman, Chambers and Spencer claim descent from the Lords of Bohemia Manor and were among the loyalists who left Maryland when the ancient régime was overthrown.

8. The Tildens, or Tyldens, had Great Oak Manor, in Kent County. Their ancestors were Lords of Great Tyldens, near Marden, Kent. Marmaduke Tylden was cousin of Sir Richard Tylden of Milsted. The family had possessed lands in the parishes of Brenchley, Otterden, Kennington and Tilmanstone in the reign of King Edward III., and Sir William Tylden paid for lands in Kent when the Black Prince was knighted.

9. Giles Brent had Fort Kent Manor, on Kent Island. The Brents were related to the Calverts, Lords of Baltimore. They consisted of two brothers, Giles and Foulk, and two sisters, Margaret and Mary. They also went out from Kent in 1638. Of their descendants Robert Brent married Anna M. Parnham, of the family of the Hon. John Pole, of the Privy Council; James Fenwick Brent married Laura, daughter of Gen. Walter H. Overton, of Louisiana; and Gen. Joseph L. Brent married Frances R. Kenner, daughter of Duncan Kenner, of Louisiana.