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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«« S. N<* 76., JuNte 13. '57. 



The Family of Lee (2^^ S. iil. 388.)— This 

 family is an ancient one in the county of Cheshire. 

 It takes its surname from the Lordship of Lee, in 

 the parish of Wibonbury in that county. A long 

 account of this family is given in Lodge's Peerage, 

 edit. 1789 (vol. iv. p. 197.). He there states that 

 Sir Walter at Lee, Knt., who lived towards the 

 close of Edward IIL's reign, left issue Sir John 

 Lee of Lee Hall, whose son and heir Sir John was 

 father of Thomas, and to him succeeded John of 

 Lee Hall, who married Margery, daughter of Sir 

 Ralph Hockwell of Hockwell Hall, in Chester, 

 Knt., and had two sons : Thomas, who succeeded 

 at Lee Hall, and Benedict, who, in the reign of 

 Edward IV., removed from Cheshire to Quaren- 

 den in Bucks. From this branch were descended 

 the Lees, Earls of Lichfield (extinct). 



The direct male line became extinct on the 

 death of General Charles Lee, the American 

 general. The arms of the family, ar. a chevron, 

 engrailed between three leopards' heads, sa., are 

 to be found in King's Vale lioyal of England, edit. 

 1656, who also (p. 67.) makes mention of "the 

 Lee" in the parish of Wibonbury as an ancient 

 Beat of knights and esquires of that name. 



A junior branch of this family is now repre- 

 sented by John Hutchinson Lee of Bandon Lodge, 

 Torquay (see Burke's Landed Oentry, edit. 1857, 

 p. 678.). A. T. L. 



Braose Family (2"'' S. iil. 331. 412.) — A full 

 account of this family from the time of their com- 

 ing over to England with William the Conqueror 

 till their extinction in the male line by the death 

 of Thomas de Braose, 19 Rich. IL (1396) will be 

 found in my Histoi^y ofTethury, pp. 61 — 70., which 

 will be published early next month. Further par- 

 ticulars respecting the family, besides the re- 

 ferences given by <l>, will be found in Collectanea 

 Genealogica et Topographica, vol. vi. The Cotes 

 of Woodcote, CO. Salop, are now the representa- 

 tives of this family, through the female line ; Alice 

 de Braose, daughter of Sir Peter de Braose, hav- 

 ing married Ralph de S. Owen, whose great-great- 

 great granddaughter, Elizabeth Dounton, married 

 John Cotes of Cotes, co. Stafford, High Sheriff of 

 Stafford, 35 Hen, VI. The pedigree is given in 

 full, p. 249. of the History of Tethury. Margaret, 

 the widow of Sir Thomas de Braose, held in dower 

 the manor of Tetbury (Calend. Inquis. post mor- 

 tem 23 Hen. II.). She married, secondly. Sir 

 John Berkeley, and died 23 Hen. VL (1445). It 

 was by this marriage the manor of Tetbury passed 

 into the hands of the Berkeley family. 



Giles de Braose, the son of William de Braose 

 and Maud de S. Walerick was consecrated Bishop 

 of Hereford, in the Chapel of S. Catherine's, West- 

 minster, Sept. 24, 1200, &c., died Nov. 13, 1216, 

 and was buried in Hereford Cathedral (Le Neve's 

 Fasti Secies. Angl., p. 458.). Alfked T. Lee. 



Hawkinses Troublesome Voyage (2"* S. iii. 311.) 



— Mb. Bates refers to " the Voyage of John 

 Hawkins in 1567 and 1568," which he has been 

 unable to find, and which he thinks " might con- 

 tain something decisive on this point," i.e. tobacco. 

 He will find it in Hakluyt's Voy., vol. iii. p. 521., 

 ed. 1600, at the Lib. Brit. Mus. It contains no- 

 thing about tobacco : in truth, the wretched 

 voyagers on that occasion had something else to 

 do instead of observing the manners and customs 

 of the natives. It is the narrative of one of Haw- 

 kins's slave-trade expeditions ; and if such suffer- 

 ings as our ancestors then endured in the horrid 

 traffic had always attended the trade, doubtless 

 America and the islands would not now be ex- 

 piating the penalty of that crime which resulted 

 from the benevolence of Las Casas. The title of 

 the tract is curious : 



" The Third troublesome Voyage made with the Jesus 

 of Lubeck, the Minion, and foure other Ships, to the Parts 

 of Guinea and the West Indies in the Yeeres 15G7 and 

 1568, by M. John Hawkins." 



Think of a modern slave-dealer ending the nar- 

 rative of a disastrous voyage as follows : 



" If all the miseries and troublesome aifaires of this 

 sorrowfull voyage should be perfectly and thoroughly 

 written, there" should neede a painefuU man with his pen, 

 and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and 

 deaths of the Martyrs. John Hawkins. ( !) " 



But we must not pass judgment on our prede- 

 cessors in the battle of life according to our en- 

 larged theoretic development. 



Andkbw Steinmbtz* 



Henry Atherton, M.D. (2"'» S. iii. 407.) — Dr. 

 Atherton was the last who held the office of 

 Town's Physician at Newcastle, for which he had 

 a salary allowed him from the corporation. " He 

 was," says Bourne, in his History of'Nevjcastle, 

 " confessed a man very knowing in his profession, 

 and of great piety and religion." The lesser flagon 

 at All Saints' Church, Newcastle, bears the fol- 

 lowing inscription : "Deo O. M. et omnium sanc- 

 torum sacello dicat consecratque H. Atherton, 

 M.D., Dec. 25, 1697." 



Dr. Atherton was incorporated at Oxford, in 

 1673 ; and old Antony Wood informs us that he 

 was the author of The Christian Physician (Lond., 

 1683, 8vo.), a work of which it would be interest- 

 ing to know whether any copy is yet extant. Dr. 

 Atherton's son, the Rev. Thomas Atherton, who 

 was born in Newcastle, and educated at the 

 Grammar School there, was for many years Fel- 

 low and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, 

 and afterwards rector of Little Canfield, in Essex. 



E. H. A. 



Passage from. Bishop Berkeley (2°"^ S. iii. 427.) 



— Bishop Berkeley, while penning this passage, 

 had probably in view the Clarke and Leibnitz 

 Letters (pub. 1717), in which reference is made 



