1 JULY 1949, Page 20

Stit,—I read with interest in your issue of June 17th

the letter from Mr. Henry J. Cadbury of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It may interest him to know that on visiting St. Martin's Church at Bowness-on-Windermere I found the following printed in a leaflet entitled Interesting Features in St. Martin's for Visitors,

"At the top of the 3rd light from the right of the East Window may be seen the coat-of-arms of John Washington, of Furness, 1403, the twelfth ancestor of George Washington, first President of U.S.A. They are not easy to decipher, but a clear drawing of them may be seen in the porch. They consist of red-white-red stripes with three stars, and this personal coat-of-arms was the origin of the present U.S.A.