Islington.
Minor Queries Answered.
_Knollys Family._--QUÆRENS would be glad to know whether any of the
Knollys family, claimants of the earldom of Banbury, married either an
_Etheridge_ or a _Blackwell_?
Also, especially, who were the wives of Major-General William Knollys,
calling himself eighth Earl of Banbury, and of his father, Thomas Woods
Knollys, calling himself seventh earl.
[Thos. Woods Knollys, called Earl of Banbury (father of the last
claimant to the Earldom of Banbury), married Mary, daughter of
William Porter of Winchester, attorney-at-law; he died the 18th
March, 1793; and she, 23rd March, 1798.
Their eldest son, William Knollys, called in his father's lifetime
Viscount Wallingford, and afterwards Earl of Banbury, married
----, daughter of Ebenezer Blackwell.]
_Emblematical Halfpenny._--I enclose a rude drawing of a halfpenny, and
should be glad to be favoured with a more detailed account of its
emblematical import than I at present possess. It is thus described in
Conder's _Provincial Coins_, Ipswich, 1798, p. 213.:
"A square of daggers, the word 'fire' at each corner, a foot in
the middle, under it the word 'honor;' over it 'France,' and the
word 'throne' bottom upwards; on one side 'glory' defaced, on the
other 'religion' divided. 'A Map of France,' 1794."
On reverse, in a radiation, "May Great Britain ever remain the reverse,"
encircled with an open wreath of oak. Engrailed.