294 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. OCT. 8,1921. renamed the corps and ordered that it should be called His Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen -at -Arms, which change | of name took place on March 7, 1834. The Honourable Francis Villiers, onlyj brother of George, Duke of Buckingham, called " The beautiful Francis Villiers," but he was killed in 1648. Sir Tho. Bloodworth, also written ." Blodworth " and " Bludder," of Leather- i head, Surrey, was knighted at Windsor,) June 7, 1682, and died 1694. He was son! of Sir Thomas Bludder of Leatherhead, who | was knighted at The Hague in 1660, and became Lord Mayor of London in 1666. Sir Thomas Roe, i.e., Sir Thomas Howe, ] appears in Le Neve's * Knights ' as " Gent. | of Band of Pentioners, Car. I." His son, i Sir Thomas Roe (sic), was " Captain of a Foot Company," and killed himself in 1695. ^ Another son, Anthony Roe, was " Esquire j of the Green Cloth Company, Will. III., 1696," and died 1704. Sir Robert Dacrees, i.e., Sir Robert j Dacres of Cheshunt, Herts, and Clerken-j well, was one of the Band of Pensioners to j King Charles II. and King James II., andi one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, j He died November, 1703, at his house at Clerkenwell, and had three sons and three daughters. Sir Theop. Janson, Baronet, should be Sir Theodore Janssen. He was descended from a family of Guelderland, his great- j frandfather being Janssen, Baron de Heez. ; ir Theodore was knighted at Kensington in 1696, naturalized by Act of Parliament j temp. James II., and made a Baronet j afterwards. He married Williamza, i daughter of Sir Robert Henley, and hisj son, Sir Stephen Janssen, was Lord Mayor j of London, and died in 1777. Sir Gerard Fleet wood, Knight. This must be intended for Sir Gervase Fleet - wood, Knight, of Crowley, Northampton, a member of the branch of the Fleetwood family of Hesketh, that were devoted ad- herents to the Royal cause during the Civil Wars. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Beading. Sir Thomas Bloodworth, Bart. There seems to have been no baronet of this name, but Sir Thomas Bludworth or Bludder was knighted at Windsor, June 7, 1682. He was of Lederede, Surrey, and died un- married 1694. He was son of Sir Thomas, Lord Mayor of London (Le Neve's ' Knights,' p. 49). Sir Thomas Rowe, Capt. of a Foot Com- pany, killed himself in 1695. He was son of Sir Thomas, " Gent, of Band of Pentioners " under Charles I. (Le Neve, p. 374). Sir Robert Dacres, " of Chesthunt, Hertf., and Clerkenwell, kntd. as above " (sic, no date given, perhaps 1677), " one of the band of Pentioners to King Char. 2nd and King James, one of the Gent, of the Privy Chamber extraordinary," died at his resi- dence at Clerkenwell/ Nov. 14, 1703. He was son of Sir Thomas of Chesthunt, Knt., by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Austen of Bexley, Bart. He married Mary, dau. and heir of Jo. Brownhill of London and Derby, a widow, and left a family (Le Neve, p. 320). Le Neve does not mention Fleetwood and Courthope's ' Extinct Baronetage ' has no note on Janssen. H. B. SWANZY. The Vicarage, Newry, Co. Down, Ireland. BURNING TOWER CREST (12 S. ix. 251). The Dentons of Cardew (Cumberland) claimed this crest. In John Denton's ' Ac- compt of ... Estates and Families in ... Cumberland . . .' (published in 1887 tinder the editorship of the late Chancellor Fer- guson) the animal is called a demi-lioii rampant. At the visitation of 1665 it was called " a lion or" ; but the remark is made, " No proof e made of these armes." The lion is holding a sword in its paw. I have a set of volumes containing book-plates with this crest, and the name " Dentoii," without any Christian name. DIEGO. JEWS' DISABILITIES (12 S. ix. 250). Accounts of the Jewish disabilities in England will be found in ' The Jewish Encyclopedia ' (articles ' Disabilities ' and
- England ') and in Margoliouth's * The
History of the Jews in Great Britain.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE. E. R, HUGHES, ARTIST (12 S. ix. 250). Edward Robert Hughes was a Welshman, and was bom Nov. 5, 1851 ; elected A.R.W.S. 1891 ; Member 1895 ; and V.P. 1901-3. He is said to have been the only Welshman in the Royal Water Colour Society. Besides illustrating Masuccio's
- Novellino ' he " very admirably illustrated
some of the little known mediaeval Italian authors, as Sir Giovanni and Sharparola " (Huish, ' British Water Colour Art,' Black, 1904). He exhibited at the R.A. from 1870 to 1898, and died in London in 1908. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
