to have been
_Penelope Jephson_, grandchild of Lady Durham of Borstall. Can any of your
readers inform me who this Lady Durham was?

Penelope Jephson was daughter of Sir Cornelius (?) Jephson, I suppose of
Mallow in Ireland.

One of Bishop Patrick's granddaughters, Penelope, married Edward Weston,
Under-Secretary of State, of Corkenhatch (Herts?). Query, Who was he, and
are there any descendants of this marriage?

K. G.

_The Heveninghams of Suffolk and Norfolk._--This ancient family traces its
pedigree through twenty-five knights in succession to Galtir Heveninghame,
who lived when Canute was king of England, ann. 1020. (See Harleian MSS.
1449. fol. 91 b.; and Southey's _Doctor_, &c.)

From one of those knights, Sir John Hevenyngham (ob. 1536), descended a
collateral branch, represented by Walter Heveningham of Pipe Hall and Aston
estates, Staffordshire (1562), who married Annela, daughter of Fitzherbert
the Judge. His eldest son was Nicholas, who married Eliza, daughter of Sir
John Beevor; and the eldest son of the last-named was Sir Walter
Heveningham (1612, ob. 1691).

Now I should feel greatly obliged to any of your readers if, from any of
the published or written documents relating to the county of Stafford, or
from any other source, they could favour me with answers to the following
Queries:

1. Whom did Sir Walter Heveningham marry? His second son married the widow
of Sir Edward Simeon, Bart.; but

2. What was the name of Sir Walter's eldest son, and whom did he marry? The
issue of this {104} latter marriage was Charles Heveningham of Lichfield
(ob. 1782), who married a daughter of Robinson of Appleby, and John
Heveningham.

A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK.

_Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of
March)._--Upon what authority does Miss Strickland say (_Lives of the
Queens of England_, vol. iv. p. 300.) that it is stated "by all ancient
heralds" that this lady died without issue? What herald can say this
without bastardising the second Earl of Northumberland? This assertion is a
very sweeping one, and I have sought in vain for the statement said to be
made by all heralds.

G.

_Shape of Coffins._--It would be interesting to ascertain in what
localities any peculiar form of coffin is used?

In Devonshire, particularly among the farmers and poorer classes, the
_ridged_ coffin is very general, the end being gabled. The top, instead of
being flat with one board, is made of two b