Bradford.
[Sir Edmund Keynton Williams, K.C.B., born 1779, at Mathern, county of
Monmouth, died Dec. 7, 1849, Colonel of the 80th Regiment of Foot, was
only son of the Rev. Henry Williams, Vicar of Undy, county of Monmouth;
who was second son of Edmund Williams, of Incasryddit, in the parish of
Bedwelty, county of Monmouth; and grandson of William Williams of the
same place. Where any farther account of his family can be found we
know not.]
_Order of the Cockle._--What sort of Order was this? Was it the Order of
_St. Michael_? It is mentioned incidentally by John Knox in his _History of
the Reformation of Religion in Scotland_ (book v.):
"In the end of January [1566] arrived an ambassador from France, named
Monsieur Rambullet, having with him about forty horse in train, who
came from England. He brought with him the Order of the Cockle from the
King of France to the king [Lord Darnley], who received the same at the
mass, in the chapel of the palace of Holyrood House."
In 1548, also, the Duke of Chatelherault, and the Earls of Huntly, Argyle,
and Angus, had been invested with the same Order (book i.). Of course, Knox
was always ready to ridicule such "remnants of paganism and popery."