will. We note also that funeral sermons were charged 6s. 8d. in the first year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and just double that amonnt at the end.
In 1466 Thos. Bysmer of Herne wills 26s. 8d. for one Peace-Kiss of silver (this word not in the 'N.E.D.').
In 1485 John Caxton was buried in the nave of St. Alphege, Canterbury, by his wife Isabella.
In 1505 Thos. Toller of Sandwich wills 3l. 6s. 8d. to the High Roode for guilding him, also a piece to make him a crown, and as much broken silver to make him a pair of gloves, with the workmanship.
In 1567 Peter Brown of Maidstone, "Bocher," wills to buying a great Bible, of the largest volume that was used, 26s. 8d., to be set in the nether end of the church there, in the place where it was wont to be set in the time of the late King Edward VI., and to be fast bound with a chain, for all men to read.
In 1573 John Baker of West well, Husbandman, bequeathed all his manors, lands, &c., the inventory being 180l. 8s. 8d.
In 1585 Richard Beseley, preacher, desires to be buried in the body of Christ Church, Canterbury, beside his companions in exile, John Bale and Robert Pownal.
In 1570 John Butler, Prebend of Ch. Ch., Canterbury, left his property in Calais, where he formerly lived, if Calais should again become English.
In 1533 John Hatch of Feversham desired to be buried before the Bachelor's Light in the Church of Our Blessed Lady of Feversham. An important Feversham will.
In 1530 William Chapman wills his best bow "of ewe" and arrows.
In 1665 Thos. Simon, citizen and goldsmith and Chief Engraver of the Royal Mint, divided his property into three parts, according to the custom of the city of London—one part to his wife, one part to children, and the third part he wills, having power to dispose of it by the said custom, &c. W. L. King.
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"Caterpillar Tractors."—The editor or editors of any future edition of 'H.E.D.' will find a number of words or sub-words (if that be the correct term) to be added because of the present war. "Bantam" in its military meaning to-day will be among these, while another may be foun' in a question put in the House of Commons on 8 December to the Under-Secretary of State for War, inquiring whether the Comptroller of Munitions Inventions has made any report to the War Office on the use of mobile forts propelled by "caterpillar tractors" for use in traversing ground honeycombed by trenches; and, if so, whether he has reported favourably on their utility. Alfred F. Robbins.
Halley and Peake Families in Virginia. (See 11 S. xii. 339.)—I am again indebted to Mr. Henry I. Hutton of Warrenton, Virginia, for data concerning the two above-named families as follows:—
"In Prince William County we find James Hally married a Miss Peake, and had a son Craven Halley, named for Craven Peake, and one son Humphry, named also for Humphry Peake; while one Jesse Peakes married a Sybilla Halley about 1785. Find the following in Prince William County, Qverwharton parish records:
"Mary Pike, died at Michael Pike's, Feb. 27, 1744.
"Ann Pyke, married Henry Hunt, March 20, 1750.
"Robert Peake came to Virginia in 1623.
"Found in some old records in Washington, D.C., that one of the Hawleys who came from England and settled Haw ley, Massachusetts, married a Mary E. Peake. There were three brothers, it is said, one settling in Massachusetts, one in Virginia, and the other one went further south. There is certainly an affinity between Halleys and Peakes or Pikes, both in U.S. and England. Give you the above for what it is worth."
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Motto of Richard III.: '"Lovalto Melie."—In Sir Winston Churchill's 'Divi Britannici,' 1675, p. 279, under the royal arms is the motto "Lovalto Melie," and in the letterpress following it is said that Richard
"quit his abhorr'd Stile of PROTECTOR, to take upon him, contrary to his dissembled Motto of Lovalto Melie, the better known Title of KING."
If this motto was a form of "Loyauté me lie," what is its origin or history? Robert Pierpoint.
Heraldic Query: Ferrers.—Which of the various Ferrers coats was the one borne by Sir John Ferrers, whose daughter Jane married Sir John Rouse of Rouse Lench in the seventeenth century? G. H. Palmer.
