, when the property of those who suffered
after the battle of Boroughbridge was restored, John de Keilewaye was found
"haeres de integro sanguine" to Lord Gifford of Brimesfield.

The last of the family appears to have been John Kelloway of Collampton in
Devon, who married Joan Tregarthian; and dying in 1530, left co-heiresses
married to Greville of Penheale, Codrington of Codrington, Harwood, and
Cooke.

The arms of the family are singular, being, Argent within a bordure
engrailed sable, two groving irons in saltire sable, between four pears Or.

R. H. C.

[The pedigree of this family will be found in two copies by Munday of
the "Visitation of Devonshire," A.D. 1564, in the Harleian MSS. 1091.
p. 90., and 1538, p. 2166. The only difference in the arms is, in both
copies, that there is _no bordure engrailed_; but this has probably
been added since as a _difference_, as was often done to distinguish
families. The name is here spelt _Kelloway_, and the pedigree begins
with "Thomas Kelloway of Stowford in County Devon, who married Anne,
daughter of ---- Copleston, of ----, in county Somerset," and ends with
"John Kelloway, who married Margery, daughter of John Arscott of
Dunsland, and left issue Robert, who married ----, and Richard."]

_Regatta._--What is the etymology of the word _regatta_? From whence is it
derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat-race?

C. B. N. C. J. S.

[Baretti says, "Regatta, _palio che si corre sull' acqua_; a race run
on water in boats. The word I take to be corrupted from _Remigata_, the
art of rowing." Florio, in his _Worlde of Wordes_, has "_Regattare_,
Ital. to wrangle, to cope or fight for the mastery." The term, as
denoting a showy species of boat-race, was first used in this {530}
country towards the close of the last century; for the papers of that
time inform us, that on June 23, 1775, a regatta, a _novel_
entertainment, and the first of the kind, was exhibited in the river
Thames, in imitation of some of those splendid shows exhibited at
Venice on their grand festivals. The whole river, from London Bridge to
the Ship Tavern, Millbank, was covered with boats. About 1200 flags
were flying before four o'clock in the afternoon, and vessels were
moored in the river for the sale of liquors and other refreshments.
Before six o'clock it was a perfect fair on both sides the