Mr. ALFRED J. KEMPE begs to reply to L. R. (June, p. 562.) so far as to shew that he by no means wrote the word manred erroneously for manrent. Mr. Kempe has already mentioned that he found the word in several MS. authorities, but not in the glossaries which he consulted. Fully to establish its recognised existence it will be only necessary to quote so accessible a volume as the Catalogue of the MSS. in the Cotton Library; where L. R. under Vespasian C. XIV. No. 184, will find a MS. described as "Articles for the ordering of the Manrede of this the King's realm, and for the good advancement of justice and preservation of the common weal of the same." If, instead of correcting the term as an error, L. R. had said that Jamieson had defined it and its variations, there would have been no necessity for the present note. Jamieson speaks of it thus, "Manrent, manredyn, manred, moraden. Anglo-Saxon, manred. The Saxon phrase to make manrent or manredyn is merely manred maecan, to do homage thus the Gibeonites are said to be the man rædne, the servants or vassals, of the Israelites, Josh. ix. 11. The word is compounded of Anglo-Saxon man, which signifies a servant or vassal, and ræden, law, state, or condition; q. d. the state of a vassal; man beon or man weorthian is to profess one's self to be the vassal of another." Thus much has been supplied from Jamieson's Dictionary, which, therefore, with the Cottonian Catalogue and the MSS. already quoted by A. J. K. fully and distinctly establish the existence of the term manred. It is, indeed, the most pure and uncorrupted form of the expression, as may be seen by the variaties particularised by Jamieson.

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J. G. N. remarks, with reference to the parentage of Archbishop Stafford, (mooted by D. A. Y. in p. 2,) that Bp. Godwin, in his Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, whilst he commits the error of styling the Archbishop "Comitis Staffordiæ filius," yet gives a clue to his actual origin by adding, "natus in pago Dorcestrensis in villa paterna Hook nuncupata." was, in fact, the younger son of Humphrey Stafford, of Hook, called (either from his generosity, or an artificial member) Sir Humphrey with the Silver Hand. This is to be found in Dugdale (Baronage, i. 172) where in an abstract of the will of Sir Humphrey Stafford, dated 1442, is a bequest to John, then Bishop of Bath and Wells, his brother, of a pair of flaggons of silver gilt. It may be mentioned that the

pedigree of Mautravers, communicated by Mr. Steinman to the Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vi. 335, materially corrects Dugdale's statements of the alliances of these Staffords. Sir Humphrey senior married first Alice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Adam Beville, by whom he had Humphrey with the Silver Hand, His second wife, the widow of Sir John de Mautravers, was the daughter of Sir William d'Aumarle (not "of .... Dynham," as Dugdale); and Sir Humphrey with the Silver Hand married Elizabeth Mautravers, younger daughter of his father's second wife, and sister and heir to Maude the wife (not "sister as Dugdale) of Sir John Dynham.

S. remarks: "The Shakespeare (pardon me for adhering to what, in my humble judgment, is the proper spelling of the name) Society are doing much towards the elucidation of the life, times, and writings of the poet. If the Society were to print every document to which he was a party, such as his will, deeds, &c. and every passage in contemporary writers, and, perhaps also in every writer who lived within fifty years of his decease, in which his name is mentioned, together with all entries respecting him and his family in parish registers, records, &c. they would give the world the most solid materials for his biography." We believe that a collection very nearly corresponding with this is preparing by the Society, under the editorship of Sir Frederick Madden and Mr. Bruce.

E. D. inquires where any notices are to be found of a site in London called "St. Paul's Stump," or how it is to be explained. It occurs on the title page of Francis Robert's "Clavis Bibliorum, London: printed by T. R. and E. M. for George Calvert, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the half moon in Watling Street, neer to Paul's Stump. 1649."

Mr. GEO. GRANT FRANCIS "would be greatly obliged to any heraldic reader for the arms of the twelve Knights of Glamorgan, together with those of Fitz Hamon their leader." Our correspondent refers to a period of history before the assumption of coat-armour; and therefore the plain answer is, that FitzHamon and his twelve knights had none.

Errata.-June. P. 614, line 3 from foot, for Cistercian, read Castilian. In Marriages, p. 646, the marriages after March 9 should be April 5, and those which follow belong to April. P. 653, 1. 14 from foot, for verged, read merged.