Donne, Esq., of Letheringsett, Norfolk, on his tomb in the church there.
He died in 1684.

On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many
crescents.

Not having seen the stone, I cannot say whether Blomfield has blazoned
it correctly; but it seems possible he may have _meant_ to say,--

On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels
rampant.

2. _Which_ Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, was the father of
Margaret Courtenay, who, in the fifteenth century, married Sir Robert
Carey, Knt.? and who was her mother?

3. Where can I find a pedigree of the family of Robertson of _Muirtown_,
said to be descended from _John_, second son of Alexander Robertson, of
_Strowan_, by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John,
Earl of Athol, brother of King James II.? which John is omitted in the
pedigree of the Strowan family, in Burke's _Landed Gentry_.

C.R.M.


_Parson, the Staffordshire Giant._--Harwood, in a note to his edition of
Erdeswick's _Staffordshire_, p. 289., says,--

"This place [Westbromwich] gave birth to _William_ Parsons,
[query Walter,] the gigantic porter of King {136} James I.,