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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°* S. X. Nov. 17. '6a. 



children, John and Elizabeth, who both died in 

 infancy: their mother Elizabeth was buried in 

 St. John Baptist's church in London, Dec. 26, 

 1655. 



Thomas Frewen of Brickwall (fourth in descent 

 from Stephen by his first wife) published in 1743 

 A Vindication of Archbishop Frewen, a pamphlet 

 of thirty pages. In p. 27. he states, " Elizabeth, 

 2d wife of Stephen Frewen, supposed to have 

 been a Greene of Green's Norton." Perhaps Mr. 

 Ellacombe, in his researches, can throw some 

 light on the parentage of this Elizabeth. T. F. 



Allusion to Habakkuk. — The following forms 

 the beginning of an old Christmas Carol, as given 

 in Mr. Wright's Collection : — 



, " As said the prophet Abacuc, 



Betwixt too bestes shulde lye our buk, 



That mankind shuld redeme ; 

 The oxe betokenithe mekenes here, 

 The asse our gilte that he shulde here, 



And washe away our cryme." 



I have failed to discover in the Pi'ophet Habak- 

 kuk any passage that would explain the above 

 allusion. Does it not seem possible that the 6th 

 and 7th verses of the eleventh chap, of Isaiah may 

 be signified ? 



" The wolf also shall dwell with the Iamb, and the 

 leopard shall lie down with the hid; and the calf and the 

 young lion and the falling together; and a little child 

 "shall lead them. 



" And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their young 

 ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat 

 straw like the ox." 



Or ag^'m, Isaiah i. 3. ? 



I should feel much obliged if any of your 

 readers would help me in this matter. 



Edmund Sbddtng. 



Watson Family. — George Watson, of Malton, 



Yorkshire, circa 1720, "claimed to be of the 



Rockingham family " of Northamptonshire. Can 



any one assist me in tracing his descent ? 



Sigma Theta. 



Christophee Cableton, Esq. — By commis- 

 sion, bearing date 12th February, 1700, King Wil- 

 liam III. constituted Sir Thomas Southwell, Bart, 

 (afterwards the first Baron Southwell), Brigadier 

 Ingoldsby, Christopher Carleton, and two others, 

 trustees for the barracks in and throughout Ire- 

 land, and made them a body corporate. (Arch- 

 dall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. vi. p. 23.) 

 And in the register of burials in the parish of 

 Donnybrook, near Dublin, there is the following 

 entry : " Buried, Christopher Carlton, 6th March, 

 1726." Where may I find any particulars of Mr. 

 Carleton ? Abhba. 



Sawney Bean. — Where is there an authentic 

 account of Sawney Bene, the Scotch cannibal. I 

 know of the narrative given in vol. i. p. 161. of 

 The Terrific Register, but from whence was that 



marvellous relation taken, and how far can it be 

 depended on ? Is the case where he and his 

 family resided now known ; and, if so, is it ever 

 lionised by the curious in horrors ? 



A Constant Header and Subscriber. 

 Daughter of Lord De Wolfo : Viscountess 

 FiTzwiLLiAMS. — Can any of your correspondents 

 give me any clue to either of the under-named 

 ladies of quality, whom I am unable to discover in 

 any peerage in my possession ? 



1. The daughter of the Lord de Wolfo of 

 Swesia, married to the Mai-quis of Northampton, 

 mentioned in Guillim's Heraldri/, ed. 1660, p. 71. 



2. The Viscountess Fitzwilliam* {sic), daughter 

 of Sir Matthew Decker,'frora plate of the palace 

 at Richmond, taken from an old picture in her 

 ladyship's possession, published in 1774 by Robert 

 Wilkinson, Cornhill, for Richard Barnard God- 

 frey. 



Any particulars of the above will much oblige. 

 W. K. R. Bedeord. 



The Priory of Knights Hospitallers at 

 Harefield. — This priory is generally under- 

 stood to have been a cell to the Priory of St. 

 John, Clerkenwell. This is the more evident 

 from the proceedings in a lawsuit relating to 

 the manor of Harefield in the 4th year of Ed- 

 wai'd III., in which the parties are Sir Simon de 

 Swanland, Lord of Harefield, and the Prior of 

 St. John of Jerusalem in England. There is also 

 extant a deed of Sir Roger Bacheworth, which 

 gives ten acres of Hai'efield Moor to the brethren 

 of St. John of Jerusalem, at the instance of Ni- 

 cholas Daccombe, who is called Preceptor domus 

 Hospitalis de Herfeld. What is the date of tlie 

 foundation of the Priory at Harefield ? and is the 

 chapel, which existed some twenty years ago, still 

 remaining ? Edward F. Rimbault. 



Old Donnybrook Church, near Dublin. — 



Can any one assist me in finding a painting, draw- 

 ing, engraving, or woodcut of the old pai-ish church 

 of Donnybrook, which was taken down about the 

 year 1830, shortly after the opening of the present 

 edifice ? Something of the kind I want is pro- 

 bably in existence, but as yet I have not suc- 

 ceeded in my search. Though the building was 

 not in anywise very remarkable, it should for 

 many reasons have been allowed to remain. 



Abhba. 



Armorial Bearings. — A man, having no au- 

 thorised arms, marries a woman to whose fanuly 

 arms have been granted : she is not an heiress, 

 but her brothers die without male issue. Can her 

 descendants bear her arms alone, or how ? 



P. P. P. 



"Lord Pembroke's Port Wine." — What was 

 the nature of the beverage known by this name, 

 and at one time, if I mistake not, in good repute? 



Abhda. 



