Penkenol was probably written in error for pencenedl, the head of a sept or family. Pennant so uses the word in his Whiteford and Hollywell, p. 33. The Welsh pronunciation of dl as thl will point to an obvious Greek analogy, which Davies's Dictionary carries to an earlier source.
Lancastriensis.
Johnny Crapaud (Vol. v., pp. 439. 523.).—I cannot but think that the solution of Mr. Philip S. King's Query about "Johnny Crapaud" will be found in the circumstance that three frogs are the old arms of France, and I would refer him if he needs it, to the Rev. E. B. Elliott's Horæ Apocalypticæ, where the reasons for believing that such were the arms of France are fully given and illustrated by a plate, vol. iv. p. 64. ed. 1847. I may add that, for what reason I don't know, but perhaps Mr. Metivier does, the natives of Jersey are called crapauds by Guernsey men, who in return are honoured by the title of ânes, asses.
Perez.
Sir John Darnall (Vol. v., p. 489.).—Sir John Darnall, Serjeant-at-Law 1714, knighted 1724, died Sept. 5, 1731, and was buried at Petersham, leaving by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Jenner, two daughters and coheirs: Mary the elder married in 1727 Robert Orde, Esq., Lord Chief Baron of Scotland; and Anne the younger married in 1728 Henry Muilman of London, Esq.,
whose only daughter and heir married John Julius Angerstein, Esq.
The above Sir John Darnall was the only surviving son of Sir John Darnall of the Inner Temple, King's Sergeant-at-law 1698, knighted at Kensington June 1, 1699, died in Essex Street 1706, and was buried in the chancel vault of St. Clement's Danes, co. Middlesex (see the English Post, Monday, Dec. 23, 1706). He was son of Ralph Darnall, of Loughton's Hope, co. Hereford, and his will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in Jan. 1707.
The arms assumed by Sir John Darnall, who died 1706, were—Gules on a pale argent, a lion rampant azure impaling Gules a boar passant.
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Bastides (Vol. v., pp. 150. 206.).—Dumas, in his Pictures of Travel in the South of France, says, that Louis XIV. while at Marseilles, observing the charming houses which surrounded the town, with their white walls, red tops, and green blinds, inquired by what name they were called in the language of the country: "They call them Bastides," replied Fostea de Piles. "Good!" says the King; "I will have a Bastide." He built a fort to check the Marseillaise.