of general application. The smallest contribution will be thankfully
received.

K.

[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston
to Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]]

_Sir John Vaughan._--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton of
Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of October, in
the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus Hamilton, he is
described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by Sidney, daughter and
heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said Dame Sidney Hamilton
was descended from an honourable line of ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will
Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of the same name Comptroller
of the Household to Henry VIII., &c., &c.

Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir John
Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys of
Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any such
marriage?

The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of Hamilton
and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron sable between
three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each entwined round the neck
with a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his descent from the Vaughans
of Porthaml Tretower, &c., in the county of Brecon.

J. P. O.

_Quebecca and his Epitaph._--

"Here lies the body of John Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.
When his spirit shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, the Almighty will
say to the Angelic Choir, 'Silence, ye calves! and let me hear John
Quebecca, precentor to my Lord the King.'"

Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and where
the epitaph may be found?

E. HAILSTURE.

_A Monumental Inscription._--Near the chancel door of the parish-church of
Wath-upon-Dearne, in Yorkshire, is an upright slab inscribed to the memory
of William Burroughs. After stating that he was of Masbro', gentleman, and
that he died in the year 1722, the monument contains the two following
hexameters:--

"Burgus in hoc tumulo nunc, Orthodoxus Itermus,
Deposuit cineres, animam revocabit Olympus."

The meaning of all which is obvious, except of the words "Orthodoxus
Itermus:" and I should be glad to have this unscanning doggrel translated.
It has been conjectured that _Itermus_ must be derived from _iter_, and
hence that Burroughs may have been a