or me to search either in annual or parish registers, or to
decipher half-defaced inscriptions on marble monuments or humble
headstones.

A lady is now living, or was two months ago, in Williamsburg, State of
South Carolina, by the name of Singleton, who is known to be in the _one
hundred and thirty-first year of her age_:

"Her mental faculties are still unimpaired, and she retains all her
senses except that of sight, of which she was deprived at the advanced
age of ninety-nine years by an attack of the measles. Her bodily energy
exhibits no diminution for many years, she being still able to walk
briskly about the room. She has outlived all her children: her oldest
descendant living being a granddaughter, over sixty years old. The
first granddaughter of this granddaughter, if now living, would be over
sixteen years of age."

W. W.

Malta.

_Arms: Battle-axe_ (Vol. vii., p. 407.).--The undermentioned families bore
three battle-axes {114} simply, their coats of arms varying only in metal
and colour:

Aynisworthe.
Bainbrige.
Batten.
Daueys.
Daverston.
Gyves.
Gibbes.
Hall.
Hakelett.
Lewston.

Stephen Hoby (the earliest ancestor of the Bisham family of whom any record
is preserved), married ----, the daughter and heiress of ---- Bylmore,
whose arms were--Gu. three halberds (long-handled battle-axes) in pale ar.
handled or.: hence, no doubt, the three battle-axes in connexion with the
Hoby or Hobby name at Bisham Church. William Hoby, of Leominster, the tenth
in descent from the above-mentioned Stephen, married Catherine, sole
daughter and heiress of John Forden _alias_ Fordayne, by Gwentwynar,
daughter and heiress of Sir Griffith Vahan _alias_ Vaughan, Knight
Banneret; who was, as I am led to think, of Denbigh or its neighbourhood. I
shall be happy to find I have thrown any light upon the Query of A. C.

H. C. C.

_Sir G. Browne, Bart._ (Vol. vii., p. 528.)--Your correspondent NEWBURY is
in error in styling this George Browne a baronet, nor was he of West
Stafford or Wickham. He was the sole son and heir of Sir George Browne,
Knight, of Wickhambreux, co. Kent, Caversham, co. Oxford, and Cowdray in
Midhurst, co. Sussex; which last estate devolved on this family by the will
of William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, the son of Lucy (daughter and
co-heiress of John Nevill, Marquess of Montagu) by her first husband, Sir
Thomas Fitzwillam of Aldwark, co. Yo