_All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication._ DR. FRANCIS MALLETT. SIR,--Dr. Francis Mallett, Vicar of Rothwell, near Leeds, instituted 7 January, 1533, is styled in the church register, “Magister Franciscus Malett: Sacre Theologie Doctor.” He resigned this living before 1547. In the catalogue of vicars, he is designated “Mr. Francis Malett, cap.” (capellanus or chaplain). In a sketch of the life of Arthur Yeldard, one of the first Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford, founded by Sir Thomas Pope, it is stated that Mr. Yeldard, while at Cambridge (in 1553) for his better support in study, received an annual exhibition from the Princess, afterwards Queen, Mary, by the hands of Dr. Francis Mallet, her chaplain and confessor, the last master of Michael House in Cambridge, and dean of Lincoln. Again, I find that a Dr. Francis Mallett, as master of St. Katherine’s Hospital,[34] offered to resign the mastership in 1559. On December 18, 1573, a “Dr. Mallett” was buried at Normanton, and it is remarked in the parish register that there remained unpaid for his burial in the church, 3s. 4d. I wish to ascertain, if possible, whether the instances given refer to one and the same man or no; and if so, whether he was a member of the ancient family of the Mallets of Normanton, in Yorkshire. JOHN BATTY. _East Ardsley, near Wakefield._ ARMS OF JOSUAH BARNES. SIR,--I send you a description of the armorial plate, dated 1700, of Josuah Barnes, who was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1695, and of whom Bentley said that he knew as much Greek as an Athenian cobbler. (1) For Greek Professor--Argent and sable, party per chevron: in first, the letters Alpha and Omega sable; in second, a grasshopper argent. On a chief gules a lion passant guardant or, impaling (2) Barnes--Argent, a lion rampant gules, crowned; in dexter chief a mullet; a chief or. The crown and mullet have no tincture marked. The crest over a healm (an owl argent on a wreath argent and sable) and the mantelling (gules doubled argent) are those of the Greek Professor. Below is the motto-- “Hæc mihi musa dedit Vix ea nostra voco;” and under this-- “Josua Barnes, S. T. B. Græc. Ling. Cantab. Prof. Reg. Eman. Coll. Soc. 1700.” According to grant of arms to the five Regius Professors, the lion passant guardant is marked in his side with the letter G sable, and the owl has its legs, ears, and beak or. J. HAMBLIN SMITH. _Woodbridge, Suffolk._ PORTS AND CHESTERS. (See _ante_, pp. 47, 96.) SIR,--Mr. Round adds nothing of value to what has gone before. (1) As to the alleged “borrowing,” the word port must, on Mr. Round’s own showing, have been taken up, adopted, or _borrowed_ by the so-called English pirates, before they incorporated it into their language; the question is, when?