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116 BYE-GONES. July 1, 1891. In Devonshire, however, Drogo made his_ head¬ quarters, and there, after nearly eight centuries and a half, the Drews still flourish. A century later the head of the house, Drew de Tein, feudal baron, and Lord of Drewsteignton, held at the Court of the Empress Maud that same dignity of chamberlain to which his descendant has now been advanced in the Court of the Vatican. Leo Ostiensis tells how Drew or Drogo, having, with forty followers, put in at Salerno, on his homeward way from the Holy Sepulchre, was entreated by the people to help them against the Saracens. The valiant Norman and his companions in arms were so succesful that the Duke of Salerno, in gratitude, authorised Drogo's assuming the title of Count of Apulia and Calabria. But on the 4th of August following the Count fell a victim to the jealousy of a native Apulian, for as he passed into the Church of St. Lawrence to hear Mass before it was light—it being that saint's festival—an assassin glided from behind the door of the church and stabbed him in the back. The Bickerstaffes, feudal lords of Bicker- stafte,in Lancashire,were, for generations before the composition of the Testa de "Nevill, famous for their lordly generosity to the Church. That ancient chronicle contains notice after notice of their bene¬ factions to Cockersand Abbey, Burscough Priory, and the great Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. But the representation of the eldest branch of that family has lapsed to the Earls of Derby by the marriage of the heiress of Bickerstaffe with one of the Stanleys. The Earls of Derby are now Barons of Bickerstaffe. The arms and motto of the Bickerstaffes still com¬ memorate the Crusading propensities of the family, and those of Drew bear witness to the princely original of that great Norman house. — Com¬ municated. JULY 1,1891." NOTES. THE BOAT OF CAMERAR.—On the 24th March in the 17 th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a jury at Shrewsbury present the names of the weirs and stakings which stop the course of the river Severn, and are noisome and dangerous to all passengers on the same " with floates of wood, cobles, barges, or owes." They mention twenty-eight weirs in the county of Salop, the first being Hay Weir at Melverley, owned by Edward Leighton, Esq. (1), and the last Dowles Weir, owned by Sir George Blunt (2) and William Hill (3), gent.; and this interesting record is preserved among the muniments of the Gatacres of Gatacre, reported on by the Royal Historical Commission. Elizabeth appointed, with others, Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales, Sir Andrew Corbet (4), Sir John Throg- 1. Of Wattlesborough, custos. Rot. of Shropshire, Knight of the Shire, Sheriff 1568; ob. 1593. 2. Of Kinlet, Sheriff 1564, of the Council of the Marches of Wales ; mar. Constance, d. of Sir John Talbot; ob. 1582. 3. Of Bewdley, mar. Mary, d. of Chas. Fox of Bromfleld. 4. Of Morton Corbet, Marshal of the Marches of Wales, Sheriff 1551; mar. Jane, d. of Sir Robt. Needham ; ob. 1578. morton (5), William Gerard (6), William Leighton (7), William Fowler (8), Walter Leveson (9), Thomas Powell (10), Robert Needham (11), Row¬ land Lacon (12), William Gratwood (13), Simon Kemsye (14), and Richard Lea (15), Esquires, to survey and amend the sewers, etc., of the Severn within the county ; and after the finding of the jury their first order was that the owners of the various weirs between the place called "The Boat of Camerar " and Bewdley, shall, before the last day of March next, leave 50ft. in width of clean water in the deepest part of the river for the "ballengers" vessels and boats to pass up and down, and remove the willows and other trees, stakes, etc. on the sides of the boylets of the said weirs. Can this "place called 'The Boat of Camerar ' " be identified ? It would seem to have been the point at which the Severn enters Shrop¬ shire ; and the name reminds me of the following passage from the Rev J. W. Warter:—" Who, born on the other side the Mynydd Digol, or the Long Mountain, ever called the Severn by any other name than Yr Haf Ehen, or in speaking of its junction with the Vyrnyw (sic), ever used any other term than Y Cymmermi, or the conflux?" There is certainly a resemblance between "Camerar" and " Cymmerau." In a document addressed to the Council of the Marches in 1526 the place is called " the bote of Kemeray. " W.B. MYVYRIAN LETTERS, Continued (June 17, 1891). IX.—IOLO MORGANWG TO OWEN JONES :— Llanrwst, June 12th, [1799.] Dear Sir,—If I could but bestow a fortnight on two or three excursions in North Wales, I think that it would, in addition to what I have already done, 5. Justice of Chester and the three shires of " East Wales"; of the Council of the Marches 23 years; Recorder of Shrewsbury 1569-74 ; Burgess of Oswestry 1571; ob. 1580. 6. Of the Council of the Marches, Justice of three shires in South Wales ; mar. d. of Edw. Sherar by Alice d. of John Harries of Cruckton. 7. Of Plaish, Chief Justice of North Wales, b. 1553, ob. 1607. 8. Son of Roger Fowler by Isabella, sister of Roland Lee, Bp. of Lichfield and Coventry; purchased Harnage Grange, married Maria, d. of John Blythe. 9. Probably the Walter Leveson who married Anna, d. of Sir Andrew Corbet, and cousin of Edw. Grey of Buildwas. 10. Of All Stretton, son and heir of John Howell ap Sander, by Catherine, d. of Robt. Ireland of Shrewsbury; married Margery, d. of Thos. Mauncell. His younger brother, Richard, bought Worthen from Lord Stafford, and was Sheriff 1594. The Thomas Powell, who in 1563 obtained Park from Henry, Earl of Arundel. 11. Of Shavington, Sheriff 1607; afterwards Viscount Kilmorey. 12 Of Willey, Sheriff 1571, son of Rich. Lacon by Agnes, d. of Sir John Blount of Kinlet. 13. Of Adderley, Sheriff 1572; married Maria, d. of Sir Rich. Newport of Eyton. 14. Of Pontesbury, son of Stephen Kemsye by Elizabeth, d. of John Brocton of Henley, married Katharine, d. of Thos. Jenings of Walbourne. 15. Perhaps Richard Lee of Langley, brother of Robert Lee, Lord Mayor of London 1602 : married Eleanor, d. of Walter Wrotesley of Wrotesley.