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1475. Thos. Grey, M. of Groby, married Ann,
only daughter of Hen. Holland, D. of Exeter, 3
L. P. G. within a border of France.
1475. Eich., D. of York and Norfolk, second son of Edw. IV., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L.
1477. Edw., eldest son of Rich. III., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L.
1479. Edw., E. of March, eldest son of Edw. IV., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L.
1483. Rich. III., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L.
1485. Hen. VII., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L. His crown bears 2 Fs.-d.-L. In his chapel, the crown over the white rose has 4 Fs.-d.-L.
1495. Jasper de Hatfield, E. of Pembroke, half- brother to Hen. VI., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L. ' '"1496. Edm., third son of Hen. VII., Fr. and E. 8 Fs.-d.-L.
1502. Sir Barth. Read, Ld. Mr., cross botonee fitchee arg. bet. 4 Fs.-d.-L. or (2 and 2).
1509. Willm. Courtney, E. of Devon, married Cath., daughter of Edw. IV., 3 Fs.-d.-L. and bor- der of the same.
15091547. Henry VIII., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.- d.-L.
. Thomas Manners, E. of Rutland, de- scended from a sister of Edw. IV., received as a grant from Hen. VIII. (1 and 4) 2 Fs.-d.-L, in fesse, or. This appears to have been the first royal grant of this charge (?).
1513. Sir J. Clarke, having taken prisoner Lewis d'Orleans, received also from this king the grant of an augmentation, az. a demi-ram &c. or, between 2 Fs.-d.-L. or. As in the former case, the grant only extended to 2 Fs.-d.-L.
1514. Chas. Somerset, E. of Worcester, natural son of Henry Beaufort, eighth D. of Somerset, Fr. and Eng.
1523. (15th Hen. VIII.), Arthur Plantagenet, V. Lisle, natural son of Edw. IV., Fr. and Eng.
1525. Hen. Fitzroy, D. of Richmond and Somer- set, natural son of Hen. VIII., Fr. and Eng.
1526. Henry Somerset, Ld. Herbert, son of Chas. Somerset, natural son of Henry Beaufort, eighth D. of Somerset, created E. of Worcester, succeeded his father, and bore Fr. and Eng.
1537. Edw. Seymour, E. of Hertford, D. of Somerset, 3 L. of Eng. bet. 6 Fs.-d.-L.
1539. The bishops, deans, and abbots of West- minster, with the arms of the Confessor, bore those of Edw. III., semee de lis (3. 2. 3.).
1546. Sir Hen. Hobberthorne, Ld. Mr., a mas- cle within a royal tressure.
1552. Sir George Barnes, Ld. Mr., a F.-d.-L., &c.
1553. Mary and Philip, Fr. and Eng.
1558. Ld. Thos. Howard, third son of Thos., D. of Norfolk, created V. Howard by Q. Eliz. a royal tressure.
1559. Sir W. Hewett, Ld. Mr., a royal tressure. 1562. Sir Thos. Lodge, Ld. Mr., a border flory.
1569. Sir Alex. Avernon, Ld. Mr., a cross formee
floree, or.
1575. Sir Ambr. Nicholas, Ld. Mr., 3 Fs.-d.-L., &c.
1588. Edw. Somerset, Fr. and Eng.
1589. Sir John Hart, Ld. Mr., sa. a chevron, arg. bet. 3 Fs.-d.-L. or.
1596. Si? H. Billingsley, Ld. Mr., 1 and 4, gu. a F.-d.-L. or.
1602. Henry, eldest son of James I., Fr. and Eng. 3 Fs.-d.-L.
1604. Charles, second son of James I., Fr. and Eng.
1610. Sir W. Craven, Ld. Mr., 5 Fs.-d.-L. sa., &c.
1613. Lodowick Stewart, D. of Lennox and Richmond, 1 and 4, France, &c.
1619. Esme Stewart, L. Aubigny, D. of Len- nox, 1 and 4, France. C. H. P.
(To be continued.)
FOLK LORE.
Wiltshire Superstitions. When I first came to reside in this place (a village in Wilts), an elderly farmer was living here, whose very retentive me- mory was a perfect storehouse of local traditions, old customs, &c. As a matter of course, he was a great authority on all questions of boundaries, rights of ways, &c. ; and in conversation with me on the latter subject, he one day expressed his surprise that any person should have the audacity to plough up or stop a pathway leading to the church. On my inquiring what were the peculiar penalties attached to such an offence : " Oh ! don't you know," he re- plied, " that if a man breaks up a church-path, his spirit will not be suffered to rest after death, till, by walking in it, he shall have restored the path to its previous state." He then proceeded to quote the instance of a farmer of his acquaintance, who, as he assured me, influenced by the dread of the punishment in question, had, on his death-bed, given orders for the re-opening of a path which he had shortly before caused to be stopped up. He evidently himself held with the most unques- tionable faith this article of tradition, and of the neighbourhood.
I once asked the same individual why he did not turn some late meadow-grass, which was rapidly withering under a scorching July sun.
" I shan't cut it," was his reply, "till after^St. Swithin's Day, when we are sure to have rain." " But," I said, " St. Swithin's is past." "Ah," he answered, " you go by the new style ; but God made the old style, and man made the new ; and we have never had such good seasons since the style was altered."
I once mentioned this superstition to a very in- telligent old woman, upwards of ninety years of
