been banished from
thence, became king in Friesland, and that his descendants came over to
England, and settled in Kent and _Norfolk_. Pedigrees of the Kentish
branch exist: but that of Norfolk was distinct. Guillim refers to some
of the name in Friesland.

T.S. LAWRENCE.

_Salingen a Sword Cutler._--A sword in my possession, with inlaid basket
guard, perhaps of the early part of the seventeenth century, is
inscribed on the blade "Salingen me fecit." If this is the name of a
sword cutler, who was he, and when and where did he live?

T.S. LAWRENCE.

_Billingsgate._--May I again solicit a reference to any _early_ drawing
of Belins gate? That of 1543 kindly referred by C.S. was already in my
possession. I am also obliged to Vox for his Note.

W.W.

_"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke."_--Can you inform me of the
author's name who says,--

"They speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke,
The faith and morals hold that Milton held," &c.?

and was it applied to the early settlers of New England?

X.

_Genealogical Queries._--Can any of your genealogical readers oblige me
with replies to the following Queries?

1. To what family do the following arms belong? They are given in
Blomfield's _Norfolk_ (ix. 413.) as impaled with the coat of William
Donne, Esq., of Letheringsett, Norfolk, on his tomb in the church there.
He died in 1684.

On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many
crescents.

Not having seen the stone, I cannot say whether Blomfield has blazoned
it correctly; but it seems possible he may have _meant_ to say,--

On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels
rampant.

2. _Which_ Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, was the father of
Margaret Courtenay, who, in the fifteenth century, married Sir Robert
Carey, Knt.? and who was her mother?

3. Where can I find a pedigree of the family of Robertson of _Muirtown_,
said to be descended from _John_, second son of Alexander Robertson, of
_Strowan_, by his second wife, Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John,
Earl of Athol, brother of King James II.? which John is omitted in the
pedigree of the Strowan family, in Burke's _Landed Gentry_.

C.R.M.

_Parson, the Staffordshire Giant._--Harwood, in a note to his edition of
Erdeswick's _Staffordshire_, p. 289., says,--

"This place [Westbromwich] gave birth to _William_ Parsons,
[query Walter,] the gigantic porter of King {136}