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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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traits" of the Nisbets which in 1794 were in pos- 

 session of J. Nisbet ? 5. Who was John Nisbet, 

 and when did he die ? 



The tract entitled God and the King has been 

 subsequently reprinted, but the edition of 1616 

 seems the first one. Licence was given that year 

 to James Primrose "for twenty-one years to print, 

 or cause to be printed, both in English and Latin, 

 either abroad or at home, the work entituled God 

 and the King.'" 



Primrose was the founder of the noble fauiily of 

 Rosebery. Could he have been the author ? 



J. M. 



RICHARD, SEVENTH EARL OF ANGLESEY. 



Permit me through your valuable publication, 

 to ask for information respecting the last Earl of 

 Anglesey in connexion with the Annesley family, 

 a member of v/hich still retains the title of Vis- 

 count Valentia in the Irish peerage. Richard 

 Annesley, the sixth Earl of Anglesey, died in 

 1761, when a question arose as to the legality of 

 his marriages (having been married four times), 

 and the consequent legitimacy of his children ; 

 which became the subject of inquiry before the 

 House of Lords in England, and of that of Ireland. 

 The claimants were Richard Annesley, an only 

 child by Ann Selkeld, and Arthur Annesley, the 

 son of Julian Donovan. 



Respecting the issue of this inquiry before the 

 English House of Lords the following appeared in 

 the London Evening Post of the 4th April, 1772 : — 



" Richard Anneslej', the claimant of the titles and 

 Honours of Richard, late Earl of Anglesey, is the le- 

 gitimate son of the said Earl, by Ann, second daughter 

 of William Salkeld, of the city of London, Merchant." 



The said Earl of Anglesey advanced his claim 

 to the title, &c. of Viscount Valentia in Ireland, 

 which was accordingly heard, and of which the 

 following record appears in the Gentleman's Mag- 

 azine, vol. xlii. page 291. : — 



" 2nd June, 1772. — " The long-conteste"& Valentia cause 

 was this day decided by the House of Peers in Ireland in 

 favour of the sitting lord (Arthur Annesley) : 19 were 

 for him, and only G against him ; several lords did not 

 vote upon the question, which seemed to them doubtful. 

 It is somewhat remarkable that this noble Lord is ille- 

 gitimate in England, and the true son of his father in 

 Ireland ; and that he has been so declared by two tribu- 

 nals, each supreme in its decisions upon the question of 

 the different peerages." 



I shall feel greatly obliged to any of your readers 

 Avho can inform me, through your very useful 

 publication, when and where Richard Annesley, 

 the seventh Earl of Anglesey, died, and was in- 

 terred. Whether married ; if so, to whom, and 

 whether he left issue. 



Burke's Peerage:, &c. 1833, and his Extinct 

 and Dormant Peerages, are not in this instance to 

 be relied on. , _ H. J. M. 



Irish Knights. — In the Dublin Warder, 26th 

 January, 1822, the following short paragraph, 

 copied from The Globe, appears : — 



" The opinion of the Attorney-General and Solicitor- 

 General has been taken, whether the Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland has any power to confer the honour of knight- 

 hood, and they are both decidedly of opinion that, since 

 the Union, no such right has existed. A copy of the 

 opinion has been sent to Lord Wellesley." 



Can you give me any farther information re- 

 specting knighthood in Ireland ? What proceed- 

 ings were taken in consequence of the foregoing 

 opinion ? and how, and when, was the right of 

 the Lord Lieutenant to create knights, now exer- 

 cised without any let or hindrance, placed beyond 

 dispute ? Abhba. 



Antrobus. — Can any of your readers inform 

 me if there is any connexion between the local 

 name of " Antrobus " in Cheshire and the families 

 of that name settled in the south of England ? 

 Also, has any light been thrown upon the origin 

 of this curious name ? Is the termination Latin? 

 and if so, are there any instances of its being 

 vernacularly used in English ? Eleutherus. 



Stewart, Earl of Orkney. — What are the 

 facts about the representation of this title ? The 

 earldom is stated to have been claimed by John 

 Stewart, Esq., who died at tis estate. Mount 

 Stewart, Prince Edward's Island, in 1833, at a 

 very advanced age. • Mr. John Stewart had held 

 some high offices in that island, such as Speaker 

 of the House of Assembly, &c. Where can the 

 pedigree be found ? The title to which he laid 

 claim was that created by James V. of Scotland 

 in favour of his son Robert, whose mother was 

 Eupheme, daughter of Lord Elphinstone. The 

 title does not appear to have been borne by any 

 of the family after the death on the scaffold of 

 the second earl. Query, was the title claimed by 

 the aforesaid John Stewart as the representative 

 of a younger son of the first earl ? Iota. 



Miss Parsons and D . — 



" Can that soft flame still dwell in Parsons' breast. 

 Which palsied age with his cold hand has prest? 

 'Tis not her face, 'tis her ingenuous mind, 



That did a Grafton, doth a D , bind." 



N. F. H.for Wit, vol. v. p. 255. 



It is well known that Miss Parsons, after the 

 rupture of her liaison with the Duke of Grafton, 

 was ultimately married to Viscount Maynard. 



Who then was D ? He must have been 



some intermediate lover, who, perhaps with others, 

 filled up the space between her two aristocratic 

 admirers. 



Junius says of the Duke, " His baseness to this 

 woman exceeds all description and belief." But 

 the fact was that the Diike of Grafton, having 

 been released from a wife whom he disliked, de- 

 termined on becoming respectable. He therefore 



