Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
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was printed, according to Watts, in 1593? or can any one, who has seen
it, inform me what is the style and character of it? J.S. _Gesta Grayorum_.--In Nichol's _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, vol. iii., p. 262., a tract is inserted, entitled "Gesta Grayorum; or, History of the High and Mighty Prince Henry, Prince of Purpoole, &c., who lived and died in A.D. 1594." The original is said to have been printed in 1688, by Mr. Henry Keepe. Is any copy of it to be had or seen? J.S. _Snow of Chicksand Priory_.--"A.J.S.P." desires information respecting the immediate descendants of R. Snow, Esq., to whom the site of {352} Chicksand Priory, Bedfordshire, was granted, 1539: it was alienated by his family, about 1600, to Sir John Osborn, Knt., whose descendants now possess it. In Berry's _Pedigrees of Surrey Families_, p. 83., I find an Edward Snowe of Chicksand mentioned as having married Emma, second daughter of William Byne, Esq., of Wakehurst, Sussex. What was his relationship to R. Snow, mentioned above? The arms of this family are, Per fesse nebulée azure, and argent three antelopes' heads, erased counterchanged, armed or. _The Bristol Riots_.--"J.B.M." asks our Bristol readers what compilation may be relied on as an accurate description of the Bristol |
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