city of Westminster in 1630; how far back do their records extend; and
what charge would be made for a search in them? I wish to trace a family
whose ancestor was born in that city, but in what parish I am ignorant.
Were any churches in _Westminster_, as distinguished from _London_,
destroyed in the Great Fire?

Y. S. M

Dublin.

_Harley Family._--Can any reader of your invaluable miscellany give an
account of Thomas Harley, citizen of London, who died in the year 1670,
aetat. fifty-six? The Thomas Harley referred to possessed good estate in the
county of Leicester, {455} particularly at Osgathorpe, Walton-on-Wolds,
Snibston, and Heather. He founded a hospital at Osgathorpe, and endowed the
same at 60l. for the maintenance and support of six clergymen's widows.
Moreover he also erected a free-school, which he endowed with 60l. a year.
He married Mary, widow of William Kemp, citizen of London. His daughter,
and sole heiress, married into the family of Bainbrigge of Lockington Hall,
county of Leicester; which alliance carried with it the estate of Thomas
Harley into that family.

The arms of Thomas Harley are: Crest, a lion's head rampant; shield, Or,
bend cotized sable.

Is the foregoing family a branch of that of Herefordshire, now ennobled; or
does it come down from one of the name anterior to the time when such
earldom was made patent, viz. from Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I.: whose
armorial bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned as _Or, bend
cotized sable_?

Brian de Harley, son of Sir Robert Harley, in the reign of Henry IV.,
changed his crest; which was a buck's head proper, to a lion rampant,
gules, issuing out of a tower, triple towered proper.

ALDRORANDUS.

Leicester.

_Lord Cliff._--In 1645, James Howell published his _Epistolae Ho-Elianae_;
amongst the letters was one on Wines, addressed to the Right Hon. Lord
Cliff. Who was he? The letter is dated Oct. 7, 1634.

Y. S. M

Dublin.

_Enough._--Was this word always pronounced as at present, _enuf_? I am
inclined to think not; for Waller, in his poem "On a War with Spain,"
rhymes it with _bough_:

"Let the brave generals divide that bough,
Our great Protector hath such wreaths _enough_."

And again, in his "Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses," he couples it
with _plough_, in those anti-Malthusian lines:

"The world is of a large extent we see,
And must be peopled: children there must be!--
So must bread too; but since