Thus much is patent; but I think it probable his lordship was not aware that a branch of the family was exiled, and with the La Touches, La Bertouches, &c., settled in the sister kingdom, most likely at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Their descendants subsequently passed over into this country, and have contributed to the lists of the legal and medical professions. Up to the present century a gentleman bearing the slightly altered name of Mallie held a commission in the British army. Even now, the family is not extinct, and the writer being lately on a visit to a lady, probably the sole representative _in name_ of this once powerful house, noticed in her possession a series of four small engravings, representing the Great Conde; his mother, a princess of Montmorency, pronounced to be the "handsomest woman in Europe;" the old Marechal de Maille Breze; and his daughter, Claire Clemence. Our _Pall Mall_ is, I believe, derived from _Pailee Maille_, a game somewhat analogous to cricket, and imported from France in the reign of the second Charles: it was formerly played in St. James's Park, and in the exercise of the sport a small hammer or _mallet_ was used to strike the ball. I think it worth noting that the _Mallie_ crest _is_ a mailed arm and hand, the latter grasping a _mallet_. Be it understood that the writer has no pretensions to a knowledge of heraldic terms and devices; so, without pinning any argument on the coincidence, he thought it not without interest. He is aware that the mere fact of a similarity between surnames and crests is not without its parallel in English families. A NEW SUBSCRIBER. Birmingham, April 22. 1851. * * * * * Minor Queries. _Meaning of "eign."_--What is the meaning of the word "eign" in Presteign, also the name of a street and a brook? Is it connected with the Anglo-Saxon _thegen_ or _theign?_ H. C. K. Hereford. _The Bonny Cravat._--Can any of your readers give a probable explanation of the meaning of the sign of an inn at Woodchurch, in Kent, which is "The Bonny Cravat," now symbolised as a huge white neckcloth, with a "waterfall" tie? E. H. Y. _What was the Day of the Accession of Richard III.?_--Sir Harris Nicolas, in his _Chronology of History_ (2nd edition, p. 326.) decides for June 26, 1433, giving strong reasons for such opinion. But his primary reason, founded on a fac-simile extract from the Memoranda Rolls in the office of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer of {352} Ireland, printed, with fac-simile, in the second _Report of the Commissioners on Irish Records_, 1812, p. 160., gives rise to a doubt; for, as Sir Harris Colas states,