county is mentioned, and local information is necessary in order to
identify them. Perhaps some {221} of your numerous readers will be able to
assist me.

_Licences to Crenellate._

+------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
|When granted. | Name of Place. | To whom granted. |
+------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| 22 Edward I. | Melton. | John de Cokefeld. |
| 17 Edward II. | Molun. | Raymond de Grismak. |
| 5 Edward III. | Newton in Makerfeld. | Robert de Langeton. |
| 9 Edward III. | Esselyngton. | Robert de Esselyngton.|
| 12 Edward III. | Cublesdon. | John Trussell. |
| Ditto. | La Beche. | Nicholas de la Beche. |
| Ditto. | Beaumes. | Ditto. |
| 15 Edward III. | Pringham. | Reginald de Cobham. |
| Ditto. | Orkesdene. | Ditto. |
| Ditto. | Stanstede. | Robert Burghchier. |
| 16 Edward III. | Credonio. | Bernard de Dalham. |
| Ditto. | Heyheved. | William Lengleys. |
| 18 Edward III. | Chevelyngham. | Thomas de Aeton. |
+------------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

J. H. PARKER.

* * * * *

DIXON OF BEESTON.

Will the Editor be kind enough to insert the accompanying letter, for _if
true_ it is worthy of a place in the heraldic portion of "N. & Q.," and _if
not true_, its imposture should stand recorded? On receiving it I sent a
copy to my brother, Mr. J. H. Dixon, an able antiquary, and late of the
council of the Percy Society, who, somewhat too hastily I think, and
without sufficient proof, rejected the information offered. That the family
which my brother represents is a "good old" one, is sufficiently attested
by the pedigree furnished by Thoresby in the _Ducatus Leodiensis_, and
thence copied by Mr. Burke in his _Landed Gentry_; but of its earlier
history there is no reliable account, unless that by Mr. Spence can be
considered such.

I shall feel very much obliged if any of your correspondents learned in the
genealogies of Yorkshire and Cheshire could either corroborate the
genuineness of the