In the Weald of Kent is a manor called Causton (to which we may now add) alias Caxton, which manor was owned in the middle of the fourteenth century by a family of the same name (from whom it had passed a century later), and held of the honour of Clare, the lords of which honour, in the fifteenth century, were that ducal and royal house, by which William Caxton was warmly patronised.
From these data we will hope that some of your correspondents may deduce materials for satisfactorily fixing the place of Caxton's birth. Is there upon record any note of armorial bearings, or of any badge used by Caxton? Should there be, and we find such to be at all connected with the bearings of the lords of Causton, it will be additional evidence in our favour.
LAMBERT B. LARKING.
In the body of St. Alphege Church, Canterbury, is the following monumental inscription:
"Pray for the sawlys of John Caxton and of Jone
And Isabel that to this church great good hath done
In making new in the chancell
Of Dexkys and Setys aswell
An Antiphon the which did bye
With a table of the martyrdome of St. Alphye