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harne and his heirs ; which grant was revoked on 

 October 18, 1649, being the year after his gallant 

 but unsuccessful defence of Pembroke on behalf 

 of the kjng. By the last act, the estate was re- 

 settled upon Col. Thomas Horton, and the officers 

 and men of his brigade, as a reward for the vic- 

 tory which they gained over the forces of General 

 Langharne on May 8, 1648. In this engagement 

 Langharne was wounded, and 3000 prisoners 

 were taken. After the surrender of Pembroke 

 Castle, General Langharne, Col. Poyer, and an- 

 other, were given up to the' tender mercies of the 

 Parliament ; and although the Prince of Wales 

 wrote to Fairfax on their behalf, threatening re- 

 taliation in case of extreme measures being car- 

 ried out against them, they were condemned to 

 death in April, 1649, by a council of war ; and 

 Cromwell sent an order to them to draw lots to 

 determine which of them should die. In two of 

 these lots were written the words, " Life given by 

 God ;" the third was a blank. The prisoners not 

 choosing to be the instruments of their own des- 

 tiny, a child drew the lots ; and the lot fell on 

 Poyer to die, who was shot in Covent Garden, 

 April 25, 1649. (Fenton's Pembrokeshire.) Gen. 

 Langharne married Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Button, Knt., a distinguished Arctic voyager, by 

 whom he had issue a son and daughter. His 

 grandson, John Langharne, Esq., of Saint Bride's, 

 in the county of Pembroke, was married, Decem- 

 ber 26, 1698, to Anne, daughter and heiress of 

 Lewis Wogan, Esq., of Boulston, in the same 

 county, and grand-daughter of Mrs. Katherine 

 Phillips, "the matchless Orinda." The line is now 

 extinct. I have before me a commission granted 

 by General Langharne to his nephew Vaughan 

 Langharne of Pont-faen, in the county of Pem- 

 broke, Esq., as cornet in a troop of horse. It is 

 written on vellum, and sealed with the Langharne 

 crest, a lion's head, erased, or ; motto, " Ostentare 

 jugulura 'pro capite alterius." Both seal and 

 parchment are in excellent preservation. The 

 commission is to this effect : — 



" Rowland Langharne, Esq", nominated and apointed 

 Serjeant-Major Generall of y« fForces Raised, or to be 

 Raised, w'Hn y® severall Counties of Pembrock, Car- 

 marthen and Cardigan for y" Seruice of Kinge, Par- 

 liament and Kingdome, . , 



" To Vaughan Langharne, Cornett. 



" Whereas y" place of Corn* to y« troope of horse under 

 y« comaunde of Capt" Thomas Evans, is at this time 

 voide and alt my dispose, These are therefore to recquire 

 and Authorize you to make j'our Repaire to y"* said 

 Troope, and take y" same into your charge as Cornett for 

 y" Seruice of King, Parliam', and Kingdome ; Willinge 

 and Comaundiiig all inferior Officers and Soukliers of y^ 

 saide Troope to obey you as their Cornett for y" service 

 above mencwd accordinge to tliis Comission giuen you. 

 And you likewise to obej' and ffollowe such orders 'and 

 Direcions as you shall Receiue from mj'selfe or the supe- 

 rior officers of y<> Annie accordinge to y^ Discipline of 



Warre. Giuen under my hande and seale this ffirst daie 

 of October, 1644. 



" Rowland Langharne." 



John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest, 



swiftiana. 



Sivift and Stella. — Happening to open* Dr. 

 Wilde's interesting volume, The Closing Years of 

 Dean Swifts Life (1849), I lighted upon the pas- 

 sage in which he hints that Stella was the daugh- 

 ter of Sir William Temple, and Swift his son, 

 consequently Stella's half-brother. This would 

 account, as Dr. Wilde remarks, for many hitherto 

 inexplicable portions of Swift's conduct relative 

 to both Stella and Vanessa. Why should Swift's 

 mother have sent him to solicit the patronage of 

 Temple ? There was no relationship, though this 

 has been asserted. And why should Temple have 

 interested himself so warmly in the young and 

 unprepossessing Swift? The circumstances are 

 related by Wilde ; but Sir Walter Scott seems to 

 dispose of this theory by the statement that Swift's 

 j)arents resided in Ireland from before 1665 until 

 his birth in November, 1667, and that Temple 

 was residing as ambassador, in Holland, from 

 April, 1666, until January, 1668. We have also 

 Temple's own statement {Essay upon the Advance- 

 ment of Trade in Ireland), that he was absent 

 from Ireland from 1663 to 1673. Is it certain 

 that Temple did not pay a visit to his father and 

 friends in Dublin in February, 1667 ? I see from 

 Burke's Peerage that he was created a baronet, 

 and sworn of the Privy Council, January 31, 

 1665 — meaning, I suppose, 1665-6. Writing at 

 present in the country away from books, I cannot 

 decide the point, but it should be definitively set 

 at rest, and hence I invoke the friendly aid of " N. 

 & Q." Establish the same paternity for Swift and 

 Stella (Temple's gallantries are admitted), and the 

 whole mystery of Swift's conduct vanishes — with- 

 out it all is cold, heartless, and apparently in- 

 scrutable. A. B. 



" Gulliver" as used by Sivift : its Meaning 

 (2"'' S. iii. 229.) — The names of Gulliver and 

 Gulliford are quite common in parts of Somerset, 

 viz. about Kilmington, Stourton, and Brewham ; 

 and I have frequently seen them spelt both ways 

 (I believe them originally to have been the same) 

 on carts, and over the doors of public houses, in 

 the latter instance once only. Many years ago I 

 remember passing a cart in that neighbourhood, 

 with the name Gulliver on it, and remarked to 

 my father, with whom I was walking, that it was 

 the same name as the hero of Swift's book : upon 

 which my ftither told me Swift had met with the 

 name precisely in the same manner ; that he was, 



