Family of Grey.
—Thomas, second Marquess of Dorset, had four sons; Henry, Thomas, Leonard, and John. Henry was created Duke of Suffolk, and was with his two brothers, Thomas and Leonard, beheaded in 1555, for taking part in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. John was ancestor of the Earl of Stamford. The Queries I wish to make are, were Thomas and Leonard, or either of them, married? If they were, what were the names of their wives, and did they leave issue? And most particularly did Thomas?
C. DE D.
[Thomas, the second brother of the Marquess of Dorset, married and left a daughter and heir, Margaret, wife of John Ashley, Esq., Master of the Jewels to Queen Elizabeth, and she left issue. Edward, the third son, died s.p. Some pedigrees call Edward Leonard, but upon what authority does not appear.]
Coinage of Richard III.
—Is the mint mark of the cross to be found on any of the coins of Richard III. struck at London? I am aware that it is to be found on pieces from the country mints; but on metropolitan coins his heraldic cognizance (the boar's head) is the more usual, if not the only mark impressed.
RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE.
Dublin.
[We are not aware that the cross occurs as a mint mark on the coins of Richard III., either of the London or provincial mints. If our correspondent has a coin of Richard III., with the plain cross on the reverse for M. M., the probability is that it is struck from the die of a reverse of Edward IV., on whose coins it does occur.]