2"« S. VIII. JutY 16. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Adenhorongh. — In a pamphlet, entitled Whig 

 Reform^ London, 1831, much abuse is bestowed 

 upon the leading Whigs, and Sir James Mackin- 

 tosh comes in for his full share. The writer says : 



" The constituency of Adenborough, at which Jamie 

 affects to turn up his nose, is almost as numerous, quite 

 as discriminating, rather cleaner, and much more inde- 

 pendent than that of Knaresborough. Adenborough 

 w^ld not have been proud of such a mayor." 



This probably relates to something which Sir 

 James said about that time, but I cannot find it 

 in his speeches. Can any of your correspondents 

 tell me when and what he said ? or what place is 

 meant by "Adenborough ?" E. E. 



Birth and Death-years of British and American 

 Authors. — Wanted, the precise dates of the births, 

 and, for as much as necessary, of the deaths of the 

 following British and American prose-writers and 

 poets, viz. : — 



C. C. Colton, author of Lacon, or Many Things 

 in Few Words, published in 1820, and of some 

 Satires ; Washington Irving : the statements about 

 his birth differ ; Pinnock, author of a History of 

 England ; G. Long, the translator of Tacitus ; 

 W. H. Preseott, born in 1796 ; W. Carleton, born 

 in 1798; F. B. Head, Leigh Hunt, and Barton, 

 born in 1784; T. Ilaynes Bayley : the statements 

 diverge ; Wilson, born in 1789 ; R. Montgomery, 

 about whose birth-year my informants disagree ; 

 Croly, born in 1790. (Navorscher, ix. p. 130., 

 Qu. 177.) X2. 



TTie Pretender. — C. D. E. would be greatly 

 obliged by any information respecting the au- 

 thenticity of a tract bearing the following title : 



" Mrs. Frances Shnf foe's Narrative, containing an 

 account of her being in Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe's Family ; 

 where hearing many treasonable things, and among others 

 that the Pretended Prince of Wales was Sir Theophilus' 

 Son, she was trickd into France by Sir Theophilus's 

 Daughter, and barbarously us'd to make her turn Papist 

 and Nun, in order to prevent a Discovery ; but at last 

 made her Escape to Suisserland, and from thence arriv'd 

 in England, in December, 1706. London: Printed for 

 H. Hills, in Black-fryars, 1708." 



The narrative, which is very minute and cir- 

 cumstantial,, extends in small type over 22 octavo 

 pages, and is supplemented by an affidavit of 

 Estiana Rossir, sworn before " J. Holt ; " and a 

 certificate signed by nine of the justices of Nor- 

 thumberland as to the character of Mrs. Shaftoe, 

 who "did, about the space of 18 years, live in 

 the town of Newcastle, where she behav'd herself 

 Discreetly, Modestly, and Honestly." 



The Querist would also be obliged by being 

 informed of the titles of any printed books where 

 information might be found respecting the sub- 

 ject-matter of this tract. Bishop Burnet, in the 

 History of his Oion Time, vol. i. p. 754., states 

 that Bishop Lloyd had a " great collection, most 

 of them well attested," of the " reports that were 



both then and afterwards spread of this matter." 

 Are these recorded in any known MS. ? Lloyd is 

 so well known to have exhausted every subject 

 to which he applied his great powers of investiga- 

 tion, that if his notes, always well arranged, on 

 this subject could be found, probably little more 

 could be desired. 



Sacheverell. — Francis Sacheverell, " Esq." ob- 

 tained from King James T. in the eighth year of 

 his reign, a grant of lands in the co. Armagh, 

 and amongst others of Legacovry, now called 

 Rich Hill. He married Dorothy, one of the 

 daughters and coheirs of Sir John Blennerhassett, 

 Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, by whom he 

 iiad two sons, Francis and Henry, both named in 

 a deed made by their father, 8th Oct., fourteenth 

 James I. He died between 20th May, 1637, and 

 21st Oct. 1641, and was succeeded by his elder 

 son, who died 30th Jan. 1649, leaving an only 

 child Anne (born in 1632), who afterwards married 

 Major Edward Richardson, whose lineal descend- 

 ants have ever since been the owners of the 

 Sacheverell estates. Mrs. Richardson survived 

 her husband, and died, I think, in 1703, leaving 

 two sons, William, who married, but died s. p., 

 and John, from whom the present owners are 

 descended. Amongst the MSS. depositions in 

 Triu. Col. Dublin, concerning the rebellion of 

 1641, are two giving a melancholy account of the 

 sufferings of Francis and his brother Henry, with 

 their wives and children, during that fatal period. 

 I wish to obtain infcymation respecting the family 

 descent of Francis, the elder ; the wives' names of 

 his two sons ; the parentage of Sir John Blenner- 

 hassett; and the name of John Richardson's wife. 



Y. S. M. 



De Foes Descendants. — I shall be obliged to any 

 of your correspondents who can inform me who 

 are the present representatives of Daniel De Foe 

 by the Baker line. The Rev. Henry De Foe 

 Baker, Vicar of Greetham, Rutlandshire, who 

 parted with the manuscript of Defoe, " The Com- 

 pleat Gentleman," and the correspondence of 

 Henry Baker, De Foe's son-in-law, to Mr. Daw- 

 son Turner, and which were lately sold at his 

 sale, was living in 1830. 



James De Foe, in favour of whom as a male 

 descendant of Daniel De Foe, a subscription was 

 raised by Mr. Dickens and other gentlemen, died, 

 it appears, in May, 1857. What family did he 

 leave ? 



Are there any other known descendants of 

 Daniel De Foe in the male or female lines now 

 living ? C. iM. 



Knights of Yorkshire. — In the "Booke of En- 

 trances " made at the first Visitation of the County 

 of Yorkshire by Robert Glover, Herald, in 1584-5, 

 there is a list of the knights of that county and 

 their arms, under the following title : — " Nomina 



