is an estate near Westerham, in Kent, called
"Hever's-wood."

S.S.S.

_Steward Family_ (No. 21. p. 335.).--Though not an answer to his
question, "O.C." may like to be informed that the arms of the impalement
in the drawing which he describes are (according to Izacke's _Exeter_)
those which were borne by Ralph Taxall, Sheriff of Devon, in 1519. Pole
calls him Texshall. Modern heralds give the coat to Pecksall of
Westminster. If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the
coat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in
saltier, between four owls.

S.S.S.

_Gloves_ (No. 5. p. 72.).--In connection with the subject of the
presentation of gloves, I would refer your correspondents to the curious
scene in Vicar's _Parliamentary Chronicle_, where "Master Prynne," on
his visit to Archbishop Laud in the Tower in May 1643, accepts "a fair
pair of gloves, upon the Archbishop's extraordinary pressing
importunity;" a present which, under the disagreeable circumstances of
the interview, seems to have been intended to convey an intimation
beyond that of mere courtesy.

S.S.S.

_Cromlech._--As your learned correspondent "Dr. TODD" (No. 20. p. 319.)
queries this word, I think it is very doubtful whether the word was in
use, or not, before the period mentioned (16th century). Dr. Owain Pughe
considered the word "cromlech" (_crwm-llech_, an inclined or flat
stone,) to be merely a popular name, having no reference to the original
purpose of the structure. The only Triadic name that will apply to the
cromlechs, is _maen ketti_ (stone chests, or arks), the raising of which
is described as one of "The three mighty labours of the Isle of
Britain."

GOMER.

_Watewich_ (pp. 60. 121. 236.).--May not "Watewich" be Waterbeach?

S.S.S.

"_By Hook or by Crook._"--I imagine that the expression "By hook or by
crook" is in very general use throughout England. It was familiar to my
ear forty years ago in Surrey, and within these four years its origin
was (to my satisfaction at the moment) brought home to my comprehension
in the North of Devon, where the tenant of a certain farm informed me
that, by an old custom, he was entitled to take wood from some adjoining
land "_by hook and crook_;" which, on inquiry, I understood to include,
first, so much underwood as he could cut with the _hook_ or bill, and,
secondly, so much of the branches of trees as he could pull down with
the aid of a _crook_.

W