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Thomas Howes Edward Amyot, M.R.C.S., born at Diss 6 January Carolina Catharina Engelhart, da. of Christian Engelhart, Manager and baptized there 19 March 1850.

Genealogical Notes and Queries.

HOLGATE AND OSBORNE.

How were the families of Holgate and Osborne of Bishop's Stortford related to those of Saffron Walden? Date about 1650.-T. W. S.

THOMAS BROWNELL.

Is there any known relationship between Thomas Brownell of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, U.S.A., in 1647,* who married Ann- in Derbyshire, England, in 1638, and Thomas Brownell, son of Thomas of Arundel, Sussex, who in 1595† was apprenticed for ten years to Thomas Cockayne of the Skinners' Company? A certain Thomas Wilson, "sometime a citizen and clothmaker of London, but now a resident of Ryecroft in Rawmarsh, York," willed in the year 1657 £20 to his cousin "Thomas Brownell of Portsmouth, R.I., New England," and an equal amount to his cousin George Brownell of London. Were not these two Brownell "cousins" brothers, and may they not have been the sons of Thomas, the apprentice, of Arundel?

The derivation of the name "Brownell" is much desired is the suffix from the French "elle," or from the English "ell"?

Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.A.

MARCIA BROWNELL BREADY.

SMITH-NEILL.

Did General James George Smith-Neill, C.B., leave any issue? He married 31 October 1835 Isabella, daughter of Colonel William Warde of Bradfield, Berks. A monument was erected to his memory in Wellington Square, Ayr. His widow was raised to the rank which would have been hers had her husband lived to receive the K.C.B. designed for him.

Reviews.

The Journal of the Ex Libris Society. Vol. VI., January to March 1896. London: A. and C. Black, Soho Square.

THE above three parts, commencing Vol. VI., still keep up the standard of excellence and utility which have characterized the former volumes. The woodcut of Balthasar Beniwalt de Walestat, 1502, will form an excellent frontispiece for the volume, more on account of its age than for its design, which is but rough; it is copied by permission of the French Society, as being one of the earliest bookplates of the world. The Gainsborough coat of arms is also a good example of 1700, but the appearance of it would have been enhanced had it been printed on a toned ground, like that of Seton, by A. Burden. Of this Scotch designer three examples are given, each shewing a mastery of mantling. There are also some excellent coats for identification, notably Nos. 142, 143, and 145, the Welsh one being certain to be identified shortly.

The Arms of Sir John Hussey Delaval were introduced in the " Wardour Press Series of Armorial Bookplates," with an account of the family by Dr. Howard. It is here repeated, and a lengthened history of the family given. The American touts for plates will we hope meet with scant notice, and also the clever "Will. Whimble" will meet his deserts we trust by a stolid indifference to his wares by bookplate gatherers.

"Gen. Dict. R.I."

† “Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica," Vol. I., p. 45. "New England Hist. and Gen. Register," vol. xlvi., Oct. 1892, p. 454.

The Kent Magazine. No. 1, January 1896. London: The Tower Publishing Company. THIS first number of a new quarterly comes as a welcome visitor from a county the most indifferent to literary culture that we are aware of. The works of heavy research which have been produced by Kentish men for Kent have only been subscribed to by persons out of the county, and from the days of Hasted down to the present Kent has been fortunate enough in her men of talent and painstaking research, but never in the support needed to enable authors to recoup themselves for the immense outlay they have incurred. Poor Hasted is but one of many ruined by hopes never realized. Roach Smith we doubt if he ever got back half of his outlay, certainly not from Kent, and numberless others. Dr. H. H. Drake's "History of Blackheath" is a modern instance of enormous research met with indifference from Kentish people, and the same with our high scientific penmen, who, except backed up by giant means for their giant labours, would have never enriched the world by the publication of their studies. Sir John Lubbock is a notable instance, and the present part of this work being enriched by his portrait is the most favourable sign of the Journal's success. The account of his labours, scientific, financial, and political, follows the Editorial Letter, and we sincerely hope to find his statement at the end of the first volume shewing a balance in its favour will be realized. He will then have achieved what his predecessors have never done in literature before, and we trust the county will for its own credit support a Journal which promises so much good.

The second paper is by the Rev. J. Cave-Browne on "Maidstone Parish Church," and a better historian or a more painstaking writer Kent has not. He tells us of the Courtenays, the Derings, Beales, Knatchbulls, and Astley families: likewise the Washington monument, that to General Havelock, the brother to Sir Henry, and the windows to soldiers fallen in the Egyptiau Campaigns.

There is a short article on the "Wager of Battel," by Mr. John Copland, which fails in its interest because no one was killed; and this is followed by a summary of an old Parish Account Book of Strood, the items in which are very curious, particularly the payments for small-pox. An article on "Kentish Houses" follows, illustrated by a small sample, but some in Rochester would have been better examples. "Kentish Orchids" is interesting, giving such an account of them that will gladden the heart of our Colonial Minister, and the author, the Rev. C. H. Fielding, promises another paper on "Kentish Lilies." "The Romance of Allington Castle" next claims our attention, by Mrs. Olivia E. Payne, and she has made her article as pleasing as possible, only too short; would that she had enlarged upon the love engagements of the beautiful Lady Anne Bullen, who, in her natural sprightliness and her talents in dancing and singing, must have won the hearts of more men than Sir Thomas Wyatt, who had he slain the King would have died a martyr's death in endeavouring to save one he loved so Mr. G. O. Howell contributes a good paper on " Kentish Proverbs, Men of Kent and Kentish Men, Old Rhymes and Sayings," and so good are the returns of health that he repeats that "they forget to die in Kent." "Old Maidstone Inus," by Mr. Henry A. Hughes, is interesting; likewise an ample account of the Rainfall in Kent for the last eleven years, by Mr. C. Bird, begins a scientific subject which will be of great service generally. The Tonbridges and Staffords are described as 8 "Fated Family" by the Rev. C. H. Fielding, "Royal Eltham" has its historian in Mr. BruceAngier, Geology is exemplified by an article on the finding of the Iguanodon in Maidstone, and St. Leonard's Church, Hythe, is amply described by Mr. T. H. Oyler, and Poetry has its champion in Mr. Wood-Smyth in his Reply to Sir Lewis Morris's Poem "From a Ruined Tower." An Obituary gives an account of Mr. A. F. Mummery, killed in the Himalayas, and Reviews follow. The Part, altogether, is worthy of support, and in our lengthened notice we trust to forward the advancement of a Quarterly which does credit to its originators, and the success of which ought to be assured.

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