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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Hill; Hurley ; Jennings (2°* S. viii. 9.) — Per- 

 haps the subjoined table will satisfy Mr. D'Ave- 

 ney's inquiry, and also show how Lady Mashatn 

 stood connected with that bitter and proud 

 duchess whom (if the latter is to be believed) she 

 first toadied and then supplanted, or, as might 

 better be said, toadied only to supplant. 



Edward Barley^Ablgail Stephens. 



Sir John Jenninea.<: 



Sarah, D. of 

 Marlborough. 



— Hai=Abigail Harley. 



Mary=Edward Hill. 



Abigail, Lady Masham. 



Edward 

 Harley, 

 Earl of 

 Oxford. 



If this pedigree be correct, and it has been in- 

 vestigated with some care, Harley was Abigail 

 Hill's great-uncle. If, however, the Edward 

 Harley, son of Edward and Abigail Stephens, 

 was his father, he would then have been her 

 father's cousin- German, while the Duchess stood 

 in the same relation to her mother ; and I think 

 I have heard that she stood in the same degree of 

 relationship to both. A. B. K. 



Belmont. 



Special Licences (2""* S. iv. 89.) — By an order 

 from his Grace the tord Primate, dated 30th Oct. 

 1817, special licences were to be granted by the 

 Judge of the Prerogative Court to the persons 

 following only : — 



1. Prelates of the church and their children. 



2. Peers and Peeresses, their children and 



grandchildren. 



3. Privy Councillors and their children. 



4. Members of Parliament and persons who 



have been such and their children. 



5. Great Officers of State. 



6. Baronets and their children, 



7. Knights, including Knights Companions of 



the Bath, and persons having an honour- 

 able appellation by patent or warrant 

 from the Crown for services performed. 



8. Judges Spiritual and Temporal and their 



children. 



9. King's (Queen's) Counsel. 



10. Deans of Churches. 



11. General Officers and Admirals. 



12. State Physicians and Physicians and Sur- 



geon-General. 



13. Officers of the King's (Queen's) House- 



hold. 



14. Officers of the Lord Lieutenant's House- 



hold, that is to say : Private Secretary ; 

 Chaplains ; Aides-de-Camp ; Steward of 

 the Household ; Comptroller of the 

 Household ; Chamberlain ; Gentleman- 

 Usher. 



15. Doctors in Divinity. 



This order, I need scarcely say, does not pre- 

 vent his Grace granting such licences to any other 

 person under special circumstances. Y. S. M. 



John Jones (2'"^ S. vii. 467.) — Your correspond- 

 ent G. L. S. has made a slight mistake as regards 

 the publicati(m of " Attempts in Verse, by John 

 Jones, an old Servant." The book was published 

 by subscription, Southey contributing " An Intro- 

 ductory Essay on the Lives and Works of our 

 uneducated Poets," which extends over 168 pages 

 — more than one-half the volume. In winding- 

 up this Essay, Southey makes this proclamation : 



" Before I conclude, I most, however, in my own be- 

 half, give notice to all whom it may concern, that I, 

 Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, being somewhat ad- 

 vanced in years, and having business enough of my own 

 fully to occupy as much time as can be devoted to it, 

 consistently with a due regard to health, do hereby de- 

 cline perusing or inspecting .any MS. from any person 

 whatsoever, and desire that no application on that score 

 may be made to me from this time forth." 



It would appear that John Jones, residing at 

 Kirkby Hall, near Catterick, applied to Southey, 

 who, in the summer of 1827, had come to Harro- 

 gate with his family, for leave to send him for 

 perusal, and his opinion, a book of verses, which 

 Southey was good-natured enough to allow him 

 to do. The result was that Southey recommemled 

 their publication for the gratification of those 

 " gentle readers " who, having escaped the epi- 

 demic disease of criticism, are ever willing to be 

 pleased. \V. H. Logan. 



Berwick-on-Tweed. 



Aldrynton (2"^ S. vii. 455.)— The deed in E. B.'s 

 possession undoubtedly refers to Aldrington, now 

 Alderton, about nine miles from Chippenham, in 

 North Wilts, anciently belonging to the family of 

 Thomas Gore, Esq., the Wiltshire antiquary. I 

 have now before me a fine MS. register of the 

 old title-deeds of Aldrington, alias Alderton, in 

 the handwriting of Mr. Gore : and on referring 

 to the year 1393, I find '■'■ Reyner's Tenement" 

 was then the property of " John and Isabella 

 Hardyng." Many of these old title-deeds are 

 still in good preservation : and if E. B. is dis- 

 posed to restore the one he has to the box in 

 which it must once have lain, his courtesy will 

 be duly acknowledged by the Rev. J. E. Jack- 

 son, Leigh-Delamere, Chippenham. J. E. J. 



"Night: a Poem" (2°^ S. viii. 11.) — Referring 

 to your correspondent's inquiry as to the author 

 of Night : a Poem, I recollect such a poem being 

 published in Glasgow upwards of forty years ago. 

 I cannot speak to the exact year, but it was pro- 

 bably in 1811. The author was a Mr. George 

 Martin, who was a bookkeeper to Messrs. Flem- 

 ing and Strang, solicitors. He has been dead for 

 more than thirty years. I was not aware that he 

 had published any other poem than the one re- 

 ferred to. A. D. 



Witches worried at a Stake (2°* S. viii. 27.)-;- 1 

 hope I do no injustice to Ache in suspecting him 



