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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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Now I find that the measurement of
ordinary people from the crown of the
head to the axilla (perpendicular) is about
14 to 15 in. If we allow an extra inch, as
we are dealing with a giantess, and deduct
16 in. from Pepys's measurement, we get as
a result 5 ft. 1 in. ; or 5 ft. 6 in. if we take
Evelyn's ; in either case the stature of a
man below middle height. But all this is,
of course, mere deduction.
W. H. WHITEAR, F.R.Hist.S.
Chiswick.
MARTEN ARMS (12 S. vi. 168). Henry Marten, the regicide, was the elder son of Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, who died in 1641. There is a
- short pedigree in Le Neve's ' Pedigrees of
Knights,' p. 372, where Sir Henry's arms are given as : " Argent, on two bars gules ix bezants." Le Neve calls him Martin. There are lives of both father and son in the 'D.N.B.' H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
CLERGYMEN : CHURCH OF ENGLAND : ROMAN CATHOLIC (12 S. vi. 170). So far as Anglican and Protestant Nonconformist
clergymen, who have joined the Roman Catholic Church, are concerned, I. F. should, if possible, consult the works of Mr. William James Gordon-Gorman of Stonyhurst College, Blackburn, who has, according to ' The
'Catholic Who's Who,' compiled six editions of ' Rome's Recruits,' and five editions of ' Converts to Rome. '
The Protestant Alliance would probably be willing to furnish I. F. with information as to former Roman Catholic priests who
- have become Protestants.
HARMATOPEGOS.
' Roads from Rome,' by the Rev. C. S. Isaacson (R.T.S., 1903), contains a list (with autobiographies) of clergymen who seceded from the Roman and joined the Anglican Communion, but a fuller list of seventy-five names appeared in The Record of Feb. 26, 1920, supplied by Mr. Humphrey Basker- ville. J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
Mr. W. Gordon Gorman published in 1878 ' Rome's Recruits.' Since then nine editions of that book have been printed, and in 1910 it developed into ' Converts to Rome, a biographical list of the more notable
-Converts to the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the last sixty years,'
edited by W. Gordon Gorman (Sands & Co.), .1910. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
DAVID HUMPHREYS (12 S. vi. 149, 198).
Humphreys played rather an important
part in the early history of the United
States. Griswold, Duyckinck, and Allibone
all give the dates of his birth and death as
1753 and 1818 respectively ; but do not
mention his father, who was a Congregational
minister, being of Welsh extraction. After
graduating at Yale University in 1771,
where he had as fellow students Trumbill
and Dwight, also destined later to gain some
distinction as poets, the son was given a
commission in the revolutionary army by
General Parsons. Subsequently, he served
on the staff of General Putnam, and in 1780
as colonel was appointed aide-de-camp to
General Washington, with whose family he
lived on intimate terms for more than a
year, at Mount Vernon till he was named
secretary to a commission consisting of
Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson which was
despatched in 1784 to Paris to conclude
commercial treaties with the European
Powers. After holding the post of Ameri-
can minister at Lisbon and Madrid for seven
years he retired from the diplomatic service
in 1802, carrying with him a flock of merino
sheep which he bred and utilised in his
agricultural and manufacturing under-
takings in Massachusetts. The coat worn
by President Madison at his inauguration at
the White House is said to have been made
from cloth obtained from Humphrey's
factory. He married an English lady of the
name of Bulkley. N. W. HILL.
Born July 10, 1702, entered Yale at the age of 15, died Feb. 21, 1818, at New Haven, Conn., U.S. A full biography with intimate details is given in the ' History of the Humphrey's Family,' by Frederick Hum- phreys, M.D., a privately printed work issued in New York in 1883. His portrait (engraved) and his epitaph from New Haven churchyard are also given in the same volume. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
CLERK OF THE CROWN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTIES (12 S. vi. 189). This functionary was a rather consequential member of the Court of King's Bench, when the king accompanied the Court, as he frequently did in Plaiitagenet, Tudor, and Stuart times in its ambulatory sessions to Oxford, Exeter, York, and other of the principal towns though its headquarters were at Westminster. In the reign of Edward I. a Court of this character was held at Rox- burgh during the king's struggle with the Scots.
