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Sir George Cotton, a younger grandson of Dean of Canterbury, and died in June, Sir Richard, was a coronation knight-- 1707; Catherine (d. June, 1740), the wife one of the 400 persons in 1603 who, being of Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart.; Jane and possessed of a rental of £40 per annum Mary. Col. John Hutchinson, the regicide, were compelled to be dubbed knights or to was brother of Isabel Cotton. pay a fine at the coronation of James I. At the coronation of Charles I. some 200 persons preferred to be fined-the fines ranging from £10 to £40.

The poet's second wife was Mary, daughter of Sir William Russell, widow of Wingfield Cromwell, Earl of Ardglass, by whom he had no issue. ALFRED T. EVERITT.

Admiralty Road, Portsmouth.

Sir George Cotton married Cassandra, the youngest but one of the five sisters of Henry Mackwilliam, of Stambourne, Co. THE HOUSE OF HARCOURT (12 S. ix. 409, Essex, who was killed in a duel in 1599. 453, 495, 514; x. 15).—I am greatly obliged The eldest sister, Margaret, married Sir John to your correspondent, MR. G. H. WHITE, Stanhope, Lord Harrington; the third for the trouble he has taken in answering sister, Ambrosia, was the wife of Sir William my queries, but it leaves me with the Kingswell of Shalden, Hants, in whose impression that I ought to regard the will, dated 1613, reference is made to Cas- works of Burke, Cleveland, Freeman and sandra, daughter of Sir George and Dame others as composed largely of fiction. Cassandra Cotton; and the youngest sister, Cicely, sometime maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, married Sir Thomas Ridgway, Treasurer of Ireland, afterwards Earl of Londonderry.

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However, I am not competent to judge in the matter, as I haven't access to any original sources of information, so am compelled to use my own judgment what to accept and what to reject in regard to the Sir George Cotton was first cousin to early history of this family. I should much Henry, Earl of Kent, his aunt Susan having like to know, however, what Dan le Noir married Charles Grey, who succeeded to says about it in his work, Preuves the earldom on the death of his brother généalogiques et historiques de la Maison in 1615. John Selden was steward and legal de Harcourt' (Paris, 1907). adviser to the Earl of Kent, and is said to Mr. White says that Wace is the only have married the Countess after the Earl's authority for a Harcourt being present death in 1639. Possibly the Cottons became at the Battle of Hastings. How about friendly with Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards M. Léopold Delisle, stated to be "the Lord Clarendon, and other notable people of the period, through Selden.

greatest antiquarian authority in France," who was responsible for the insertion of In Wotton's Baronetage' (i. 300) it is Robert de Harcourt in the "Dives Roll" ? stated that Charles Cotton (the poet) was He professed to give no name that is not ** son and heir of Charles, son of Sir George Vouched for by some deed or document Cotton, knight"; and in Staffordshire of the period. What was his authority? Pedigrees (Harl. Soc., p. 59) he is called Mr. White also states that the family "has "Charles Cotton of Beresford esquire (grand- become extinct in the male line (in Engson of Sir George, a younger son of land), whereas Burke's Landed Gentry,' Cotton of Warblinton and Bedhampton in vol. i., 1898, states that the Harcourts Southamp.)."

of Ankerwyke are lineal descendants in the male line. Which is correct? The Charles Cotton the elder married Olive, numerous Harcourts who are descended only d. and h. of Sir John Stanhope of from Edward Vernon, Archbishop of York, Elvaston, Co. Derby. Anne Stanhope, are, of course, only descended in the female sister of Sir John, married Thomas Cokayne, line from this family.

and was mother of Sir Aston Cokayne, Is there a record of any grant of land the poet. Another sister, Catherine Stan- to any Harcourt when it was parcelled hope, married Sir Thomas Hutchinson, out to the companions of William the and their daughter Isabel was the first Conqueror; the presence of a Harcourt wife of Charles Cotton the younger. By in the Pipe Roll as early as 1130 is in support her he had issue: Beresford, b. 1657/6 of this supposition? (in 1694 Captain in Sir Richard Atkins's

Regiment of Foot); Wingfield and Charles,

WILLIAM HARCOURT-BATH.

who both died young; Olive, who married, Is it quite certain that MR. WHITE is right in January, 1690, Dr. George Stanhope, in stating that this family is extinct in the

male line? About the beginning of this century I was acquainted with a Mr. Griffith Harcourt, the proprietor of a papermill at Hurcott, near Kidderminster. He was a younger brother of the then Harcourt of Ankerwyke, and he certainly informed me that he himself had a son.

The Harcourts of Raunton who entered pedigrees in the 1614 and 1663/4 Visitations of Staffordshire were of illegitimate descent, but the 1583 Visitation shows six male Harcourts of the legitimate Raunton line then apparently living, and also at least five males of the Staunton and Ellenhall family who were either then living or, if dead, were not stated to have died without issue.

I have myself been acquainted with two Harcourt families in the district round Birmingham, and I don't doubt that there are others.

Probably a little research would establish the existence of more than one legitimate Harcourt family in the Midlands.

WILLIAM F. CARTER.

Baronage,' states there was a Hugh de
Plugenet of Lambourne, Co. Berks, in the
reign of Henry II. (1154-89), that he married
Sibil, d. and coh. of Josceus de Dinant,
and had issue two sons, Alan and Josceus.
The latter inherited Lambourne, and it
continued in possession of his descendants
for some 150 years. He does not state
what became of Alan. The De Dinants
came from Brittany, and possibly the De
Plugenets also. No connexion can be traced
between the Plugenet and the Plunkett
families the latter, according to Burke,
were settled in the County of Meath, in Ire-
land, in the eleventh century.
ALFRED T. EVERITT.

Admiralty Road, Portsmouth.

Alan Plugenet, or Plukenet, married Alice, one of the three sisters and coheiresses of Robert Waleran. A good deal of informa tion on this family is to be found at the following references: John Batten's Historical Notes of South Somerset,' p. 96; Collinson's History of Somerset,' vols. ii. and iii.; The Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i., p. 30; Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronage.'

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PLUGENET (12 S. ix. 489). Otherwise Plokenet, Plukenet or Plogenet. Andrew de la Bere is said (by G. E. C.) to have been the husband of Alicia Walerand. of members of this family, and frequent reThere are several inquisitiones post mortem They had issue two sons, Sir Richard de la ferences to them in the Feet of Fines for Bere being the elder and Alan de Plugenet Somerset and Dorset and probably_other the younger. This Alan became a promi- counties, in the Close Rolls and Patent nent personage during the reign of Edward Rolls and in the Transactions of the SomerI., and his uncle, Robert Walerand, having set (and other counties) Archæological bequeathed him the lordship and castle of Kilpeck, he had summons to Parliament. He married Johanna, daughter of Andrew Wake of Tangley, Co. Hants, and died in 1299, leaving issue by her a son and a daughter. The son, Alan de Plugenet, died without issue in 1319, and his sister inherited-she was then known as Joanna de Bohun, Lady of Kilpeck (widow of Sir Henry de Bohun). On her death without issue in 1326/7 her cousin, Richard de la Bere, grandson of her uncle Sir Richard de la Bere, was found to be her heir. An inquiry in 1353 relating to the Plugenet property elicited that Thomas, son of Richard de la Bere, was cousin and heir to Alan de Plugenet, and that Alan de Plugenet the elder was born in Dorset at Thornton, of Andrew de la Bere and Alice his wife, sister of William Walerand and Robert his brother. A pedigree and account of the family is given in Liveing's 'Records of Romsey Abbey.'

The annual

Sunnyside, Gerrards Cross. "JOURNEY" (12 S. ix. 527).-J. R. H. is quite right. A "journey of trams is a "train ("rake," set ") of "tubs " ("corves,' trams," "hutches") in the underground roads of a mine, usually hauled by ponies or by being attached with a clip to a moving rope or cable. reports by H.M. Inspectors of Mines frequently contain the phrase. Taking at random the year 1897, one finds run into by the full journey of tubs " (Liverpool district); "run over by the journey" (do.); "a journey of six tubs was being drawn up (North Staffs); "taking out a journey of trams (S.W. district, Glos). R. C. BAIGENT.

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SMOKERS' FOLK-LORE (12 S. ix. 528).This is a very old superstition, akin to the dislike of having three lights in a room, Banks, in his Dormant and Extinct and is probably founded on the custom

of laying out a corpse with two candles at
the head and one at the foot, three lights
being, therefore, supposed to be unlucky.
As regards smoking, it was a popular super-
stition during the Boer War, 1899-1902,
and no doubt earlier examples than this
could be obtained.
F. M. M.

Molesworth inquired for are James and St. George Molesworth, sons of the Hon. (Hamilton) Walter Molesworth of Waltonon-Thames and St. Margaret's, Westminster, who were admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1736 and 1749 respectively. Both died before their father, who died in 1773. There was a Bt.-Col. James Molesworth, I fancy that most superstitions are Lt. Col. 2nd Foot, who died Lt.-Governor connected with ideas concerning the con- of Cork, Feb. 28, 1765, who might well be tinuance or transmission of life. A match the James inquired for. The probability which has afforded vitality to set two of the identification is increased by the cigarettes going may be supposed to be fact that the fourth and fifth viscounts, first enfeebled when called into requisition for cousins of James and St. George, were also at Westminster. J. B. WHITMORE.

a third and to be symbolic of the decadence of the man who receives its service. I do not suppose that soldiers have thought this out, but the idea that flame is life seems to have become inherent, and the dislike to the expiring match inherent. In most things "three for luck " is looked for; but if you want life and good fortune have nothing to do with expiring flames. I hope I have not said this before in N. & Q.,' but I have said so much there in the course of time that it is not as easy to remember as it is to forget. ST. SWITHIN.

EDWARD LAMPLUGH (12 S. ix. 491, 533). --Faulkner (Kensington,' p. 355) records the baptism on Jan. 17, 1692, of " Mary, d. of Thomas Lamplugh, clerk, son of the Archbiship of York deceased at his house in the Square."

On Aug. 23, 1703, administration to the goods of Thomas Lamplugh, late of Kensington, S.T.D. was granted to Mary the widow (P.C.C.).

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AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED (12 S. ix. 529).The poem Harry' was written by Mrs. Fanny (Wheeler) Hart, wife of the Rev. Dudley Hart, rector of Stretford. She also wrote Freda a Novel,' Mrs. Jerningham's Journal' (in verse), Try and you will, The Runaway,' and ARCHIBALD SPARKE. several others.

Notes on Books.

Ancient Tales from Many Lands: A Collection
of Folk Stories. By R. M. Fleming. (London :
Benn Brothers, 108. 6d. net.)
IF we consider this merely as a collection of stories
told for their own sake, it deserves nothing but
praise. Obviously the writer has practised the
art of story-telling with much thought and with
success. Crisp and clear-with every bit of
colour, light, humour, grotesque form or inci-
dent, and hint of character set out to full yet not
disproportionate advantage-these narratives
might be given as models to teachers. Where
pathos or tragedy appears the success, given the
limits of the work, is hardly less complete, and to
every other merit is added that of an easy un-
attention to

will only half fulfil this.

On March 1, 1719/20, a further grant de bonis issued to Edward Lamplugh affected diction which draws no itself. The stories are taken from all over the (P.C.C.). Foster, Al. Oxon.,' states that world, and range from the rude folk-lore of West Thomas Lamplugh, the Archbishop's son, Africa or Polynesia to well-known Greek legends, became rector of St. Andrew-Undershaft and even to an account of Hammurabi, which in 1701, and the Novum Repertorium', hardly belongs to the category of "ancient tales." states that the rector of this name died in A little more work would have made the book July, 1703, without, however, identifying first rate for its purpose; as it is we suspect it It is meant for children, him as the son of the archbishop. and for teachers who have made no special study of mythology. We gather from the Appendix that it forms part of a plan for the teaching of history But in view of its being used and geography. for more than amusement the tales should have been classified; their sources should have been indicated, and those which belong to important cycles of myth, forming part of the religious beliefs of ancient civilized peoples-such as the story of Rama-or which belong to the main literary tradition of Western Europe-such as the story of Io (incorrectly set out here)-should not have been placed side by side with crude savage myths the importance and interest of which are great but of a different kind.

It seems clear, putting all the evidence together, that Edward was the grandson of the archbishop, and that Burke,L.G.,' is wrong in calling the archbishop's son's wife Margaret. J. B. WHITMORE.

MOLESWORTH (12 S. ix. 491). As James Molesworth who was elected into College in 1733 is stated in Phillimore's Alumni Westmonasterienses' to be the son of Walter Molesworth of Westminster, it seems probable that the James and George

In the Appendix, where Miss Fleming gives her views as to the educational use that may be made of folk-stories, we find Bible stories mentioned along with ancient national legends as if, for European children, they were on the same level. Have the educationists sufficiently considered that unless children are themselves taught a group of tales as "sacred they will have no more than a verbal knowledge of what a "sacred tale is ? And, if the Bible stories have not, for European children, that particular value, they must forgo the possession of anything of the kind, for 10 others can now be so presented to them. But what is sacred must be kept apart.

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Pedigrees of some East Anglian Dennys.
H. L. L. Denny. (Reprinted from The
Genealogist.)

Memoir of Colonel William Denny, Lieutenant-
Governor of Pennsylvania. By H. L. L. Denny.
(The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, vol. xliv., No. 2.)

THE subject of the memoir was the son of a Hertfordshire rector belonging to a family of The advice in the Appendix is, in general, East Anglia which had borne a good part in the rather too facile and sweeping, though it may foundation of the English colonies in America. here and there hold useful suggestion for a He was born in 1709, matriculated at Oriel College, teacher who has accumulated a tolerable know- Oxford, in 1726, and took his degree in 1730, ledge of folk-tales and is at a loss to get the most and is next heard of as an original member of out of them. The illustrations, chosen to the Society of Dilettanti. By 1744 he had entered illustrate the culture of the people who told the the Army; in 1756 he was appointed Lieutenantstories, are most interesting, but want more than Governor of Pennsylvania; in 1759 he was rea child's or inexperienced person's knowledge to called, and he died in 1765, after occupying himcorrelate with the text. What has a faïence self again with the affairs of the Dilettanti. relief from Knossos in Crete to do with Io? There can be little doubt that his position as Governor was difficult. The most interesting pages in this account of him are those containing the full report of his situation addressed to Thomas Penn from Philadelphia in April, 1757, which, together with one or two others, has been extracted from the "Penn Papers" in the MS. Division of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

The pedigrees are those of the Dennys of Cheshunt, Herts, and Howe Hall, Norfolk; and of Beccles in Suffolk. Neither line seems to have male descendants. Needless to say, all the ascertainable particulars of each member of the two families are here set out with the greatest care, and the relative abundance of the information testifies to the exhaustive research undertaken to obtain it.

Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. vii. Collected by John Bailey. (Clarendon Press, 78. 6d.) THIS Volume counts among the best in this delightful series. The lover of Donne must certainly not miss it. Here is an account, by Mr. John Sampson, of a copy of the 1639 edition of Poems by J. D., with Elegies on the Author's Death,' annotated by its first owner, whose initials G. O., the nature of the notes, and a comparison of the handwriting with that in the parish registers of Bourton-on-the-Hill, point to Giles Oldisworth, the Royalist divine. Oldisworth, besides other interesting matter his annotations are most copious-solves the puzzle of R. B., author of the last elegy, who has been variously conjectured to be Richard Braithwaite, or Broome, or Ralph Brideoak. None of these-it is Richard Busby, the famous headmaster. He also gives "L. Cary as the name of the person for whom Donne wrote the Elegie on the L.C.,' which would make the letters "L.C." indicate the Lord Chamberlain. These two interesting identi- EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed fications are mentioned as examples of the good to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Adverdetails upon which Mr. Sampson has lighted by tisements and Business Letters to "The Pubhis purchase of a "dogeared, worn and ink- lishers"-at the Office, Printing House Square, stained " copy which the bibliophile might easily London, E.C.4; corrected proofs to The Editor, have passed by with disdain. Mr. de Selincourt's N. & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. Rhyme in English Poetry' is a very delicate ALL communications intended for insertion in study of a topic of vital importance for English our columns should bear the name and address of letters, rounded out by illuminating reference the sender-not necessarily for publication, but as to and comparison with French use of rhyme. a guarantee of good faith. Mr. Fox Strangways's paper on Words and Music in Song' is fresh and original, not merely in style, which is good, but also in matter, which

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Mr. A. H. Cruickshank gives a very charming account of Thomas Parnell, to which is attached a pleasant and suggestive though not very deepgoing series of criticisms of the eighteenth century. Mr. Geo. Neilson deals with a bundle of MS. Ballads, printing an "abbreviate " of the whole collection with notes of identification and, after a careful discussion, showing that the collector of these transcripts is no other than Robert

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Notices to Correspondents.

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WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately.

WHEN answering a query, or referring to an article which has already appeared, correspondents are requested to give within parentheses-îmmediately after the exact heading the numbers of the series, volume, and page at which the concontribution in question is to be found.

A. ROGERS.-The query on a translation of stanzas from Omar Khayyám appeared at 12 S. ix. 272 (Oct. 1, 1921), and was answered at 12 S. ix. 317 (Oct. 15).

LONDON, JANUARY 21, 1922.

CONTENTS.-No. 197.

of assistance in protecting the privilidges of the British Subjects Trading to this place, too much invaded by the French and too little protected from Home; But at this time shall have no occasion to trouble you, The French Ship having sailed hence before we received your Letter-we are Gentlemen

Your most humble Serts

SAML ROWLES ALEXR GRAHAM CHRISTOPHER BENNETT WILLIAM CAULFIELD

NOTES:-Annamaboe, 41-The Royal Society and Free-
masonry, 42-Oliver Starkey, 43-Glass-painters of York:
the Hodgson Family, 44-Byron and Campbell: a Parallel,
45-Needham's Point Cemetery : James Sims, 46-A
New Criticism of Casanova's Mémoires -Schoolmasters
in 1714 and 1759- Castle Daly' and Galway, 47.
QUERIES:-Ruvigny's Plantagenet Roll-British Melo-
dies-Portrait of Nelson by H. Edridge-Land Measure-
ment Terms-Henshaw of Uttoxeter and Cheshunt: Weake
of Norfolk-Armstrong. 48-J. M. W. Turner and Haddon
Hall-King Famiy Book-plates- The Running Horse,'
Piccadilly George Henry Harlow-Sir Robert Hesilrigge,
Bart.-Dalstons of Acornbank-Turner Family-Final
"' den " in Kentish Place-names-Authors wanted, 49 To the Honble The President and Council
Translators wanted, 50.

REPLIES:- Anything for a Quies Life'-Jacob Tonson as
a Spy on Prior, 50-Fieldingiana-Gervase de Cornhill-
Not So Bad As We Seem': Charles Knight, 51-Psalm
lxxxiii.-The Fifth Petition in the Lord's Prayer-Col.
Chester's Extracts from Parish Registers "Sunt oculos
clari qui cernis sidera tanquam." 52" A Walking Dic-
tionary"-Cardinal Newman and Wales-Vangoyen, a
Dutch Painter-Heads' as the pieman says "G. E. J.
Powell, 53-" Artemus Ward "-" Time with a gift of tears,"
54-Erghum of Erghum, Yorkshire-St. Peter the Proud,
London-Fullolove Surname Villebois, Painter-Blessed
Oliver Plunkett-Disraeli Queries-Freedom of a City, 55-
The Arms of Leeds-Dante's Beard-Gentleman of the
Poultry Nicholas Grimald- Rudge Family School
Holidays-The Abyssinian Cross, 56-British Settlers in
America-Biographical Details of Artists sought-Meiler
Magrath. Archibishop of Cashel-Brothers of the Same
Christian Name The Rev. J. de Kewer Williams-Norris
and Eyre Families-Mulberries-A Newcastle Apothe-
cary,' 59.

NOTES ON BOOKS:- Authors' and Printers' Dictionary'-
A Dictionary of English Phrases --The Quarterly Review.
Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.
ANNAMABOE.

CAPE Coast Castle was settled by the
Portuguese in 1610, but soon fell to the
Dutch.

It was demolished by Admiral Holmes in 1661, but all the British Settlements, factories and shipping along the coast were destroyed by the Dutch Admiral De Ruyter in 1665.

Polly in Annamaboe
Road 20 March 1750

P.R.O.

JAMES CARR

DAVID BRUHANAZ

[Addressed on the back]

for Transacting the Affairs of the Royal African Compy of England

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Cape Coast Castle

A Letter of thanks from Sundry
English Captains at Annamaboe.

T.1/343 fo. 146.

Gentlemen

We the

Annamaboe,

May. 28th 1750

underwriters desire you will supply us with some shot of several sorts, vizt: 4li 3 ditto 2 ditto if you can spare 4 sixpounders gunns; according to your promise to us all, when at Cape Coast; we Intend to keep Annamaboe Road clear of the French as we have made a beginning all ready so that we may be well prepared with shot, we have a great quantity yet but we Can't tell what may happen we have Gunn'd & man'd 4 Vessels fitt for the purpose so we are determin'd to keep the road Clear for they allways bid above us we will protect the British right or sink, we remain Gentm

Your most humble Servts

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In 1667 this Cape was confirmed to the To The Honourable ye Presedent and English by the Treaty of Breda.

Anamabu is a town and fort in the

Gold Coast Colony, and had a population of 5,000 in 1899.

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