"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. York; which Lucy became the wife of Sir Anthony Browne, who was knighted at the battle of Stoke, June 6, 1487, and succeeded as above-mentioned to the Cowdray estate.