Indenture dated 8 Sept., 1654, between Thomas Atwood, of Arlingham, shoemaker, and Elizabeth his wife, and John Atwood, of Stinchcombe, broadweaver, brother of Thomas (1) and Brice Wickes, the younger, of North Nibley, ruggmaker (2). Sale for £22 of a messuage, late 2 tenements, whereof one is fallen down, situate at Stinchcombe, and late in the tenure of John Atwood.

Indenture dated 21 Jan., 18 Charles II., between Brice Wickes, of North Nibley, rugmaker (1), and Thomas Harmer, of Stonehouse, yeoman (2). Sale for £80 of one messuage, wherein Jonathan Smith, gent., and Thomas Moody inhabit; bounded by the highway on the west, land of John Pinfold on east and south, and Samuel Smith on north; Seal a stag (?) tripping.

Indenture dated 30 July, 1690, between Thomas Daniel, of Stinchcombe, weaver (1), John Browning, of Stinchcombe, yeoman (2). Conveyance for £11, of 2 acres of arable land in the north field, next land of John Browning on sonth and west, and land of Mr. Pinfold on north, now in tenure of Thomas Daniel.

Marriage settlement dated 4 March, 1697, between Anthony Try, the elder, of Passenham, Northants, clerk, and Anthony Try, the younger, of Passenham, gent., only son and heir of Anthony Try, senior (1), Elizabeth Sheppard, of Alderton, Northants, spinster, (one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Sheppard, of Abthorpe, Northants, gent.) (2), and Thomas Pargiter, of Passenham, gent., and James Horton, of Alderton, gent. (3), being settlement on intended marriage of Anthony Try, jun., and Elizabeth Sheppard.

Indenture dated 9 Sept., 1723, between Thomas Bayly, of Uley, gent. (1), and Michael Bayly, of Uley, gent. (father of Thomas Bayly, (2). Recites that T. Bayly is seized in remainder on death of Michael Bayly, and Sarah, his wife, and subject to payment of monies charged thereon by M. Bayly; that T. Bayly is yet a bachelor, and now about to take a voyage by sea to the East Indies. T. Bayly covenants with M. Bayly and his heirs, being seized of messuage and lands in Uley, known as Wrisden, late in tenure of John Eles, and since of said M. Bayly and his under tenants, with the barns, etc.; and close of meadow called Wrisden mead, containing 5 acres: 4 acres of arable land called Middle lease; 6 acres of pasture called Banshwell; 6 acres of arable or pasture called New Tyning; 3 acres of closes of pasture ground known as Angeston; arable land in Shibley field,

abutting on Newbrook stream westward; 8 acres of arable land in the West field, in Uley, whereof 4 acres lye together below Seechmead, having 1⁄2 acre of glebe land belonging to Cam parsonage, between the said 4 acres and Seechmead; 11⁄2 acres more thereof, near James Lord's house under Mr. Small's tyning hedge; 11⁄2 acres more thereof shooting from the said tyning hedge by the north end of the said last mentioned; 11⁄2 acres downwards to the Dewlands and the other acre thereof, residue of said 8 acres, lieth in the said field at a place called Beggers Bush, next Mr. Basset's tyning hedge; all which premises lye in the parish of Uley; that said premises shall be to use of said M. Bayly and his heirs. Signed, Thomas Bayly; Witnesses, Thomas, Bartlett, John Kendall, James Hellewell.

Enrolled 20 June, 6 George II.; Close roll, 5469.

*Indenture made 5 Sept., 15th of George II., between "John Miles, of Winterbourne, miller, only brother and heir of Richard Miles, of Bristol, mariner, who was eldest son of Elizabeth Miles, of Farmiload, in Saul, widow, deceased, who was one of the two daughters and co-heirs of James Beard, of Frethrene, husbandman, afterwards of Farmiload, yeoman, and likewise only sister and heir of Mary, late wife of Thomas Holder, of Frampton on Severn, clothier, who was the other daughter of James Beard, and which said Richard Miles was likewise eldest son and heir of Richard Miles, late of Bristol, wine cooper, deceased, husband of the said Elizabeth, who was one of the devisees in the will of John Miles, of Farmiload, in Eastington, mariner, and Mary, wife of the said John Miles, of the one part, and Thomas King, of Farmiload, in Fretherne, yeoman, of the other part. Seal, a saltere engrailed, charged in centre with........ Crest, a fool's head. * Communicated by Thomas Watts, Esq., Bournemouth.

Queries and Replies.

Hodges Family.-Although I cannot give the dates of the deaths of the two Thomas Hodges, still it may interest Mr. Pink to have the date of the marriage of William Hodges, the younger son of the elder Thomas Hodges. I met with it a few days ago in the Abenhall registers.

1672. William Hodges, of Shippen Moyen, and Anne Sargeaunt, of Long Hope, married 13 June.

Where in the Hodges pedigree comes in "George Hodges, of Shipton, gent.," who was executor to the will of Charles Bridgeman, of Little Deane, dated 1639, proved 1644? There was formerly on the floor of the north aisle of Shipton Moyne Church, a brass plate to the memory of Elizabeth, wife of George Hodges, of Hill Court, who died 30 August, 1686. Any notes relating to the Serjeaunt Family I shall be glad of.

There are three pedigrees I know of: one in the Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619, which agrees with one in Harl MSS., 1041 and 1543; but I cannot connect these with the one in the Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1682-3.

The arms in all cases are the same, but in the Visitation of 1682-3, as printed by Messrs. Metcalf and Fenwick, the dolphins are said to "nowed" they should be "naiant embowed." These arms are to be seen on the old font of Abenhall Church. In the 1682 pedigree, John Serjeant, of Micheldeane, who died circa 1615, is said to have married Anne, d. of ...... Trotman, of Berkeley. I should like to know the name of her father.

This leads me into another family, the history of which is appearing in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries. It may interest the writer on the "Notes on the Trotman Family" to know that there were some of the name at Micheldeane. I give the extracts I have; they are from the Bishop's Transcripts. The registers commence with the year 1680.

1621. Elizabeth Trotman, bur. 16 May.

1629. John, s. of William Trotman, bap. 6 September. 1638. Anne, d. of Edward Trotman, bap. 8 May.

I notice that in the last number of "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries," at p. 297, Bigland's mistake as regards the impalement on the achievement at Syston has been repeated. The arms. are those of the family of Heines or Haynes, of Southmeade, and afterwards of Wick, and should be thus: Blazoned-Argent, on a fesse gules between three demi-greyhounds courant azure, as many plates (or bezants). This coat points to a Salopian origin of the family. W. C. HEANE.

Cinderford, Gloucestershire.

Whitney Family.-Mr. Henry Melville of 120, Broadway, New York, writes:

I beg leave to ask your assistance in a little genealogical investigation in which I am engaged, which has recently been the subject of advertisement through the church papers, and otherwise.

In 1635, an ancestor of mine, John Whitney, with his wife Elinor (Ellin), and sons, John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, emigrated from the Port of London to the Colony of Massachusetts.

John Whitney was born about 1589, certainly not later than 1600. He was married about 1617, certainly not later than 1625.

The records of Somerset House and the Rolls Office show that at that time one or more 66 Whitney" families were living in Gloucestershire.

I will pay Ten Guineas for either the record of the said John Whitney's birth or marriage.

Church Sundials.-Many of these ancient methods of telling the time remain in Gloucestershire, not only as picturesque additions to the gardens of country houses, but upon churches also. There are the remains of a sundial on the south western buttress of the tower of Coaley church, and during the late restoration of Frocester Chapel, another has been exposed, graven upon the lintel of the priest's door on the south side of the chancel. In neither case does there appear to have been any accompanying motto. We shall be glad to record any other Gloucestershire examples. F. L. M. R.

Stubbs. The parish registers of Bitton contains many entries relating to the family of Stubbs, or as the name is often spelt Stibbs. Amongst them is :

Mr. Henry Stubbs was buried Jannary the xxth, 1653.

John, the sonne of Mr. Henry Stubbs, was bapt. October xxth, 1646.

Do these entries refer to Mr. Henry Stubbs, the puritan minister and intruder at Dursley and Horsley, who also left a charitable benefaction to Uley parish?

F. L. M. R.

Cottle Family.-Can any reader oblige with particulars of the above family? Is it a Gloucestershire one? I believe at one time a portion of the family of this name lived at Wottonunder-edge. SCRUTATOR.

Atkyns' Gloucestershire.-Can any of your readers inform me by whom was written the preface to the second exhibition of Sir Robert Atkyns' "Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire," which was issued in the year 1768. F. A H.

Harris, of Uley.-I should be very much obliged if anyone can give me some information concerning the family of Harris, of Uley. James Lloyd Harris, who I believe was born there, and who lived at North Nibley for some years, married the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Claver Morris Burland.

Their son, John Burland Harris, Burland afterwards, of New Court, Newent, inherited the property of the Burlands, of Steyning, co. Somerset, and assumed the name and arms of Burland, in addition to his own by royal license in 1835. (vide Fosbrooke's Gloucestershire, Vol. I., p. 469, and an article in Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, by W. P. W. Phillimore, No. 1077.)

According to Rudge's Gloucestershire, Vol. II., p. 228, Mr. Cornelius Harris owned the Isle of Rhea in North Nibley in 1803. Was he a relative?

Information about this branch of the Harris family will be very acceptable to me. JOHN B. HARRIS-BURLAND.

A Mr. Cornelius Harris, of Wotton-under-edge, late of Ewely, where he rented £500 per annum in lands, is mentioned in the diary of Mr. Edmund Clutterbuck, who states that they travelled by coach together from Cirencester to London in 1773. Mr. Harris "began with £50." See "London & Middlesex Notebook" p. 30. EDITOR.

Bristol and Carmarthen.-The Corporations of Bristol and Carmarthen (ante, No. 1938). It is quite possible that in very early times Carmarthen was of more importance than Bristol, which may account for Bristol being incorporated on the precedent of Kermarden, for it is the representative of Maridunum, and Antoninus makes Iter XII. strart from Maridunum to Uriconium (Wroxeter), via Isca Silurum (Caerleon); but in Iter XIV., from Isca to Calleva (Reading), he passes over Bristol between Abone (Lea Miles) and Trajectus (Bitton Ferry), without noticing it, which leads to the inference that Bristol, if in existence at that time (being unnoticed), was of less importance than Carmarthen; and therefore it is not surprising that in later times Carmarthen was the first to be incorporated. H. F. N.

Tax on Registers.-Towards the close of the last century, for a short period, a tax was imposed on baptisms and burials. Its incidence is illustrated by the registers of Coaley. Apparently