and for that the said Sir John Newton is yncertaine of any creaste which he ought to beare by his owne proper name, he therefore hath also required vs, the said kings and hereauldes of armes, to assigne and confirme vnto him and his posteritie for ever, the creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, which Sir Auncell Corney, as it doth appere by divers ancient evidence and other monuments of the said Sir John Newton, was at the winnynge of Acom with Kinge Richard the First, where he toke prisoner a kinge of the Mores:  and farther, the said Sir John Newton, knight, hath made goode proofe for the bearinge of the same creaste, that the heires male of the said Sir Auncell Corney is extingueshed, and the heires generall do only remaine in him.  In consideracion whereof wee, the said kinges and herehauldes of arms, do give, confirme, and grant vnto the said Sir John Newton and his posteritie for ever, the said creaste of Sir Auncell Corney, knight, that is to say, vppon his helme on a torce silver and asure, a kinge of the Mores armed in male, crowned gold, knelinge vpon his left knee rendring vppe his sworde, as more plainly aperith depicted in this Margent, to have and to horold the said creast to him and his posteretie, with there due difference to vse, beare, and show in shelde, cote armour, or otherwise, for ever, at his or their libertie and pleasure, without impediment, let, or interruption of any parson or parsons.  In witnesse whereof we, the said hinges and hereauldes of arms, have caused these letters to be made patentes, and set herevnto our common seale of corporation, given at the office of arms in London, the twelvethe of December, and in the tenthe yeare of the reigne of our sovereign {429} ladie Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queene of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faithe,” &c.

H.T.  ELLACOMBE.

Clyst St George, Nov. 4. 1850.

Cradock—­I should like to know whether the MSS. of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible?  Nichols refers to them as his authority for Cradock’s pedigree, as laid down in his Leicestershire (vol. iv. part ii. p. 807.).

H.T.E.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

REPLIES BY GEORGE STEPHENS.

I beg to encloze ethe following scraps, purposely written on slips, ethat ethe one may be destroyed and not ethe oether if you should þink fit so to do, and for eaze ov printing.

Pleaze to respect my orþography—­a beginning to a better system—­if you can and will.  Ethe types required will only be ethe Eth, eth, and Þ, þ, ov our noble Anglo-Saxon moether-tongue, letterz in common use almost down to ethe time ov Shakspeare!

If you will not be charmed, ov course you are at liberty to change it.

I have a large work in ethe press (translationz from ethe A.-Saxon) printed entirely in ethis orþography.