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assisted in building the cathedral and dome of St. Paul's.
Can any reader give biographical details of Jasper Lathom, one of the masons mentioned at ante, p. 89?
L. H. Chambers.
Bedford.
Devonshire MSS. (12 S. x. 170).—The query seems to refer to the purchases by the Bodleian Library at Sotheby's in April, 1843 (Milles Collection) (see Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1843, p. 72). Milles's 'Risdon' and 'Westcote' were transcripts. The Risdon MS. purchased by the British Museum (add. MS. 36748) from Sir Thomaa Phillipps's library was propably earlier. There are also Westcote MSS. at the British Museum and another is mentioned in Devon Notes and Queries, v. 52. M.
BOOK-PLATE OF D. ANDREWS DE SWAYTH-
LING (12 S. x. 191). Swathling is a pleasant
village just outside Southampton to the
north. It is partly in the parish of North,
partly in the parish of South Stoneham.
Writing of South Stoneham Church, John
Duthey (* Sketches of Hampshire,' 1839)
says :
At the south side of the eastern wall is a monu-
ment of foreign sculpture, in memory of Dummer
Andrews, Esq., and of his daughter Mary.
No dates given. No doubt MR. PRICE
could obtain full particulars from the in-
cumbent of St. Mary's Church, South
Stoneham, near Southampton.
W. COURTHOPE FORMAN.
The arms given by MR. PRICE are ascribed
by Burke to Andrewes of Bisbrook, in
Rutland. The crest is, A demi-lion or,
ducally crowned arg., holding in the dexter
paw a human heart gu. There is a pedigree
of the family in Wright's . ' History of
Rutland,' and a short pedigree of a junior
branch in J. H. Hill's ' History of Langton.'
In the crest of this junior branch the lion
holds a human head between his paws.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
UNIDENTIFIED ARMS (12 S. x. 130, 199).
These are the arms of the Alberton family,
according to Papworth's ' Ordinary of
British Armorials ' and Burke's ' General
Armory ' ; but when or where this family
flourished I am unable to say, as I find no
record of it in Bridger's ' Index to Pedigrees
of English Families' (1867), nor in * The
Genealogist's Guide to Printed Pedigrees,'
by George W. Marshall, LL.D. (1879). The
arms given by Papworth and Burke to this
Alberton family are identical with those
given by MAJOR WILBERFORCE-BELL of the
family whose identity he is seeking ; and
to the Alberton arms Burke appends the
following crest, viz., A pennon in bend
gules, staff headed sable and tasselled or.
Is your correspondent sure of his tinctures,
as Papworth records many similar arms with
different tincturing, and with the bulls'
heads erased, couped and cabossed ?
CROSS CROSSLET.
DERIVATION OF CHINKWELL (12 S. x. 93,
157). There is a Chinkwell Tor on Bone-
hill Down in the parish of Widecombe-in-
the-Moor, Dartmoor. It is marked thus
in the Survey of 1810 as well as in 1904.
I only know of this one instance of the name
in Devon. It is on the east side of the
valley of the East Webburn, some 600 feet
above the level of the stream. Numerous
springs are in the hill-side, the nearest to
the tor being Slades Well, just below a
hut circle a"nd about equidistant from and
between Honeybag Tor and Chinkwell Tor.
As the ch in the place-name Chelston can be
traced in record to the soft rendering Shilstone,
which name elsewhere is rendered in Domes-
day Book as Selvestan, meaning a dolmen,
so I suggest that Chinkwell would be the
Anglo-Saxon Sinc-wytt. The exact signifi-
cation of the first syllable may be open to
doubt. The A.S. word Sinc-geof is quoted
by Bosworth, from ' Boethius,' by Rawlin-
son, as meaning money-gift. As applied
to a spring, more likely the adjective is
derived from the verb sincan, and simply
means the sunken spring. There cannot
be any Roman connexion in this instance
of the word.
Similarly Chigwell would be Sig-wyll,
from sigan, which also means " to sink, to
fall." HUGH R. WATKIN.
Chelston Hall, Torquay.
LAND MEASUREMENT TERMS (12 S. x. 48,
96, 156, 198). Correspondents on pp. 96 and
198 appear to miss one simple meaning of
the word " warland," which is applied to a
site adjoining the river Dart at Totnes. It
gave name to a small religious house of the
Holy Trinity founded in 1271 by Bishop
Walter Bronescombe. The word occurs spelt
in various ways warlord, w,rlotde, la w&re
lande, la wortaid and meant " the enclosed
or fenced land, probably referring to a
' weir ' or rough protection of wattles built
along the line of Warland Street to check
