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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. YII. Jan 8. '69. 



John Ribton Garstin, under the heading " Sir 

 William Weston," states that Alice, daughter of 

 Robert Weston, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was 

 married to Hugh Brady, first Protestant Bishop 

 of Meath ; and in parenthesis states that this 

 bishop was ancestor of the Right Hon. Maziere 

 Brady, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 



The late Lord Chancellor's grandfather, Nich- 

 olas William Brady, does not appear to have 

 settled in Ireland before 1770. In the year 1771 

 he resided in Dorset Street, in the city of Dublin 

 (see the Dublin Directory for 1772), and was, as 

 I understand, an Englishman by birth. As to 

 his descent from Hugh Brady, Bishop of Meath, 

 I never was able to find out the connexion be- 

 tween them. Perhaps your correspondent Mr. 

 Garstin, or your correspondent A. B. (who it ap- 

 pears has a complete pedigree of the family of 

 Brady) would kindly supply the intermediate 

 links between Hugh Brady, Bishop of Meath, 

 and Nicholas William Brady, the grandfather of 

 the Right Hon. Maziere Brady. S. N. R. 



P. S. Nicholas Brady, Esq., was admitted a 

 freeman of Cork, August 26, 1668, as was Luke 

 Gernon, Esq., on August 28, 1669. 



DR. PERCY, BISHOP OF DROMORE. 



(2°<» S. vl. 410.) 



Mr. Hartshorne's statement, in his Feudal and 

 Military Antiquities of Northumberland (p. 219.), 

 that Dr. Percy was of low parentage, is certainly 

 a mistake. Without discussing the question as 

 to whether Dr. Percy was allied to the noble 

 family of the Percies of Northumberland, which I 

 believe to have been probable, I can at least show 

 that the Bishop's family were of highly respect- 

 able lineage. In a MS. pedigree drawn up with 

 great care by the late Mr. Hardwicke of Bridg- 

 north, it is there shown that the family of Dr. 

 Percy retired from Northumberland to Worcester 

 about 1520 ; and the family, after remaining there 

 some generations, came from thence to Bridg- 

 north in the time of his grandfather, Arthur 

 Percy, who was the grandson of Thomas Percy 

 who was mayor of Worcester in 1662. Arthur 

 Percy married the daughter of a clergyman resi- 

 dent near Bridgnorth ; and his son, Arthur Lowe 

 Percy, the father of Dr. Percy, occupied an old 

 mansion in the Cartway, a thoroughfare of much 

 more importance in those days than at the present 

 time. He was twice elected and served the office 

 of Bailiff of Bridgnorth, where he died. Bishop 

 Percy, his son, was born in this mansion in 1729 ; 

 received the rudiments of his education at the 

 Grammar School of Bridgnorth, and graduated as 

 M.A. from Christ's College, Oxford, in 1753. In 

 a small volume printed and published by Mr. 

 Bowlejj bookseller of Bridgnprth, apd algo pub- 



lished by Messrs. Longmans in London, in 1836, 

 by the Rev. George Bellett, entitled the Antiquities 

 of Bridgnorth, I find the following notice having 

 reference to the house where Bishop Percy was 

 born, and which may be interesting to some 

 readers. Mr. Bellett says, when describing the 

 almost general destruction of the High Town oc- 

 casioned by the fire during the siege of the castle 

 at the time of the civil war : — 



" A few houses indeed survived the general destruc- 

 tion : one of these deserves a passing notice as being the 

 birth-place of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, the well- 

 known author of The Religues of Ancient English Poetry. 

 It stands at the bottom of the Cartway, adjoining Un- 

 derbill Street, and is conspicuous among the dwellings 

 which surround it, not only from its size, but from its 

 picturesque appearance, being ornamented with several 

 pointed gables, and being constructed partly with solid 

 beams of oak, in some places curiously carved, and partly 

 masonry. It was built at the latter end of the 16th cen- 

 tury, as the following embossed inscription in the en- 

 trance hall informs us : — 



" ' Except the Lord Bvild the Owse, the Labourers 

 thereof evail nothing. Erected bv R. For (qu. Foster), 

 1580.' 



" It was a large stately Mansion, and, when the Cart- 

 way was the principal entrance to the town, it was well 

 situated, and must have been regarded as a dwelling of 

 some importance. It is now in a neglected condition : 

 a large part of the building is untenanted, a part of the 

 premises is used as a huckster's shop; but even in its 

 present rude and decayed condition, a certain degree of 

 interest attaches to it as being one of the few surviving 

 relics of our old town ; which interest is further enhanced 

 from its having been, about an hundred years ago, the 

 birth-place of one whose literary attainments may be 

 supposed to reflect no little honor on Bridgnorth." 



In an Appendix to this book there are some 

 particulars respecting Dr. Percy communicated 

 by the Rev. H. E. Boyd, Rector of Dromara in 

 the county of Down, who was for many years do- 

 mestic chaplain to the Bishop. 



An engraving in the Antiquities of Bridgnorth 

 gives an excellent representation of the mansion. 



H. S. 



3a«j)It«iS tfl Mitiax caun-tci. 



Waltham Peerage (2'"» S. iv. 472. ; v. 98.)— To 

 some extent it is in my power to answer the 

 Query of E. H. A. on this subject. The first 

 Lord Waltham, John Olmius, Esq., was descended 

 from an ancient family, long settled at Arlon, in 

 the Duchy of Luxemburg, and was a very con- 

 siderable merchant in the city of London ; in 

 1731, Mr. Olmius was chosen Deputy Governor 

 of the Bank of England; in 1737, became M. P. 

 for the town of Melcombe Regis in Dorsetshire ; 

 and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland, May 8, 

 1762, by the title of Baron Waltham, of Philips- 

 town, in King's-county. He married Sept. 8, 

 1741, Anne, daughter and heiress of the late Sir 

 William Billers, Knt., formerly lyord Mayor of 



