19th 1813, aged 57 years, and had issue as therein stated. According to the Wakefield Registers, Hannah Lumb was baptized at Wakefield Church on the 13th Septr., 1746, and was the daughter of Mr. Robert Lumb. Mr. Robt. Lumb had only two other children baptized there, viz. Mary and Dorothy. The following inscription occurs on a tombstone in Hunslet Churchyard:-Here rest the remains of Dorothy daughter of Robert Lumb, also Dorothy daughter of William Pollard of Halifax, also Hannah daughter of Robert Lumb, also Martha wife of John Clapham of this town Merchant, 1808, and Honor wife of the above John Clapham, 1825. He was interred at Burley in Wharfedale. Died in Leeds 1861 Nov. 5th.

It would appear therefore that Hannah and Dorothy died unmarried, and that there was probably some family connection between them and the Claphams from the fact that their names appear on the same tombstone. That Robert Lumb's children died in his lifetime unmarried, or, if married then without issue, is corroborated by Taylor's Rectory Manor of Wakefield, pp 330-2, which states that Robert Lumb by his will dated the 3rd July, 1789, disposed of his estates to his nephews and nieces.

The pedigree not being consistent with these facts and the dates being recent, I write in the hope that this portion of the pedigree may be satisfactorily explained. G. D. LUMB.

I am obliged to Mr. G. D. Lumb for his remarks, but there is no inconsistency between the Clapham Pedigree and the inscription in Hunslet Churchyard. Hannah was the wife and not the daughter of Robert Lumb. The John Clapham mentioned was the son of John Clapham who married Hannah Lumb. Hannah Clapham née Lumb was buried in the Leeds Parish Churchard.

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This is the inscription. 'Here were interred the bodies of four children of John and Hannah Clapham who all died in their infancy; also Mary daughter of the above said John and Hannah Clapham who departed this life 20th April 1803, in the 20th year of her age; also the above named Hannah the wife of John Clapham who died Dec. 19th 1812, aged 57 years; also in memory of the above named John Clapham who died at Penzance, Cornwall, the 16th of December 1829 aged 80 years, and was interred in St. Buryar's Churchyard, near the Lands end.'

Miss Clapham exhibited at Hastings a doll's dress of flowered brocade made from the wedding dress of Hannah Clapham née Lumb, (1772.) Perhaps a Wakefield correspondent would give the marriage of John Clapham and Hannah Lumb?

Why did Robert Lumb pass by his daughter and leave his estates to his nephews and nieces? I cannot tell. Perhaps because John Clapham was a rich man and all his children were amply provided for. One of his grandchildren left over £100,000. Mr. John Clapham was a very generous man. It is recorded of him that he often went through the Leeds Cloth Halls and gave the clothiers higher prices for their pieces than they asked. J. A. CLAPHAM.

In reply to Mr. Clapham, I wish to state that I obtained my copy of the tombstone at Hunslet from an article in the Leeds Mercury Supplement for the 2nd November, 1889, probably written by one of the family, but I accept Mr. Clapham's version of it as correct-at the same time I desire to point out that the Clapham pedigree states that Hannah Lumb was born on the 16th August, 1746. According to the tombstone inscription in the Leeds Parish Churchyard as given by Mr. Clapham, Hannah Clapham died in 1812 (1813 in pedigree) aged 57 years, and would therefore be born in either 1755 or 1756, showing a discrepancy of 9 or 10 years. I do not suppose that Mr. Clapham is mistaken as to the surname of his great-grandmother, but it is apparently a case either of mistaken identity or of incorrect dates or figures.

G. D. L

The late Rev. GEORGE OSBORNE BROWNE, for 21 years Vicar of Shireoaks near Worksop, was a scholar of Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1855. He was ordained to the Curacy of Skipsea, Yorkshire, and in the following year was chosen Curate of the important Parish Church of Hull owing to a very able Sermon he preached at Hornsea on the new Divorce Law. In 1867 he left Hull for the sole charge of All Saints, Torquay. In 1870 he accepted the living of the Colliery village of Shireoaks, presented to him by Mr. Gladstone, as trustee to the present Duke of Newcastle. He transcribed the Thorpe Salvin Register for this Magazine, a few copies of which have been struck off in a pamphlet of sixty pages, and may be had from the Editor at 1s. 6d.

HORSFIELD. I have satisfied myself so far that all who bear this name are of Yorkshire extraction, and that Horsfall was their original spelling. R. Horsfield, Stationers Hall, London, 1792, and another eminent publisher of the name before that date, I should like to trace out. Horsfield, of Pennsylvania, Author of "Java" botanical works, was a Moravian, and I believe from Yorkshire.

THOMAS WALKER HORSFIELD, F.S.A. For several years we have been under the impression that the author of "Sussex History" was of Yorkshire extraction as all Horsfalls and Horsfields seem to be. He was a dissenting minister at Lewes, and Chowbent, and died in 1837, leaving a widow and eight children. We have just discovered that he was born at Sheffield, Nov. 6, 1792, and that the late Mr. J. Morell Horsfield, Chemist, Rotherham, was his son, and that his daughter, Mrs. Sprague, lives in Lewisburgh, Penn. The Christian Reformer, Jan. 1838, and Nov., 1848, contain biographical notices. In 1818, the year after settling at Lewes, he married Miss Waterhouse of Sheffield.

Y.C.M.

Sir William Fayrfax's Booke of Arms of

Vorkshire.

SOWLBY, Christopher,-Per chevron sable and argent, in chief, three boar's heads couped of the second. Hang West. THORPE, Robert,-Azure, on a fesse between three lions rampant or, two martlets sable.

Holderness.

THORPE, Peter,-Azure, a chevron, engrailed argent between three lions rampant or. Bulmer Hundred. VINCENT, Marmaduke, Esq.,-Barry of five argent and gules on a canton of the second a trefoil slipped or. Gilling East cum Halikeld.

VINCENT, Thomas,-Arg. 2 bars gules on a canton of the second a trefoil slipped or, in fesse point a mullet sable for differ. Strafforth

cum Tickhill fee.

WYVILL, Marmaduke, of Burton,-gules, three chevrons, embattled argent, a chief or.

WYVILL, Will. same.

Hang East.

WYVILL, Will. same.

Rydale-cum-Pickering Lythe.

field for difference.

Bulmer Hund.

BIESLEY, Edw.,-Arg. three torteaux.
CLEASBY, John,-Gules, 2 bendlets arg. a canton ermine.

Gilling East cum Halikeld. CROFTE, Ralph,-Argent on a bend sable, between 2 escallops of the first a quatrefoil, or. Hang West. DAKINS, Geo: gent. Or on a fesse az. between three pelicans gules, each charged with a plate, a lion passant gardant between 2 cinquefoils of the field. Rydale cum Pickering Lythe. DAKINS, Geo: gent. Or in a fesse sable, between 3 pelicans vulning themselves gules, a lion pass. gar. between 2 cinquefoils of the field. DAKINS, Thos.,-Gules, a lion passant gardant between 2 mullets in pale or, all between two flaunches argent, each charged with a Griffin rampant segreant sable. Gilling East cum Halikeld.

DARCY, Thos. of Hornby, Esq.-Azure semeè of cross crosslets, and 3 cinquefoils arg., with a crescent in chief point for differ. Hang East. FAIRFAX, Will., gent.,Argent, on a lion rampant sable debruised by 3 bars gemelles gules an annulet for difference. Rydale cum Pickering Lythe.

Darcy.

FAIRFAX, Edw.-As above, but with a fleur de lys for difference.

with crescent on the lion's breast for a

Langbargh cum Whitby Strand.

FAIRFAX, Nicholas, of Fawdington, as above, with crescent for difference. Birdforth cum Allertonshire. FAIRFAX, Henry,-Arg. 3 bars gemelles gules, over all a lion rampant sable charged with a crescent for difference.

FAIRFAX, Gabriel, of Steeton, a lion rampant debruised by 3 bars gemelles charged with a martlet for difference.

FAIRFAX, Sir Will: of Walton. Arg. a lion rampant sable debruised by 3 bars gemelles. Anesty of York. FAIRFAX, Sir Thos: of Denton,-three bars gemelles, over all a lion rampant charged with a crescent for a difference.

Claro.

FOWBERY, Geo.-Vert a hart tripping arg., attired or. Harthill. GREENE, John, of Newby, Esq.-Arg. a chevron between 3 fleur de lys sable. Gilling East cum H.

GREENE, Gabriel, same, charged with a crescent of the field for a difference. Skyrack. GREENE, Thomas,-Arg. on a cross engrailed gules, five crescents or, on a chief azure 3 bezants. Strafforth & Tickhill. HESLARTON, John,-Gules 6 lions rampant argent 3, 2 & 1 crowned

or.

Buckrose.

MAWDE, Anthony, of Helthwayte.-Arg. three bars gemelles sable, over all a lion rampant gules.

Claro. Skyrack.

MAWDE, Arthur,-the same. GASCOIGNE, Rich. of Sedbury, Esq.-Argent on a pale sable, a luces head couped erect or. Gilling West.

GASCOIGNE, Henry,-same, and a cresc. for difference. Barkston. GASCOIGNE, William,-same, charged with a mullet of the 2nd for a difference. Morley.

GASCOIGNE, Richard Esq.-same, charged with a crescent of the 2nd for difference.

GASCOIGNE, William,-charged with mullet of the second for diff.