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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"d S. YIII. Nov. 6. '69. 



of Minstead, who found the body of King William 

 II. on Aug. 2, 1100, and conveyed it in his cart 

 to Winchester. I am told that the representa- 

 tives of this man still occupy the same ground as 

 their historical ancestors, and what is moi'e ex- 

 traordinary have preserved the same station of 

 life, neither advancing in circumstances, nor laps- 

 ing into absolute poverty, during the seven cen- 

 turies and a half which have elapsed since first we 

 hear of them. 



This account, I believe, is thoroughly credited in 

 the New Forest district ; but with an unbounded 

 respect for the truth of tradition, I should be 

 glad to learn if the matter is well known, has 

 been thoroughly investigated, or satisfactorily 

 proved. K. 



Welsh Judges, — It is well known that the 

 administration of justice in the Principality was 

 not until comparatively lately under the same re- 

 gimen as in England. There were four Welsh 

 judges, each with his attorney-general. Can you 

 or any of your correspondents furnish me with a 

 list of these judges and attorneys ? Ymovyntdd. 



Col, Johnes of Havod. — The Annual Biography 

 for 1817 contains a sketch of the life of this gen- 

 tleman, in which a very long and elaborate pedi- 

 gree is given, but his immediate forefathers are 

 omitted. Can any of your correspondents supply 

 this deficiency ? Ymovtnydd. 



Dycsons and Dixons of'Furness Fells, Lanca- 

 shire. — I have collected many waifs and strays 

 of the above border-family, but much is still want- 

 ing to enable me to write a continuous memoir. 

 When did these descendants of the Keiths and 

 Douglases of old first settle in Furness, formerly 

 a boundary between Scotland and England ? 

 When, and under what circumstances, were their 

 arms, a Jleur-de-lis and chief ermine, acquired, 

 which are first recorded on the tomb of Sir Nicho- 

 las Dixon, who, dying in 1448 rector of Cheshunt 

 in CO. Herts, was buried in its chancel ? I learn 

 that William Dycson, George Sandys, and another 

 William Dicson, were, in 1525, tenants of Furness 

 Abbey, and, as such, subscribing witnesses to a 

 deed of indenture. In 1548, William Dixon and 

 Miles Dixon, sons of John Dixon by Anne Roos 

 (descended from Eobt. Lord Roos and the Prin- 

 cess Isabel of Scotland), were supervisors under 

 the will (dated 1548) of William, father of Arch- 

 bishop Sandys, who married their sister Margaret. 

 In 1570, Richard Dixon, D.D., became Bishop of 

 Cork and Cloyne, and William Dixon, circa 1564, 

 became possessed of an estate in the W. R. of co. 

 York, called Heaton-Royds ; these are supposed 

 to have been sons of William and Miles Dixon, 

 and first cousins to Archbishop Sandys, but this 

 requires confirmation, though they were un- 

 doubtedly of kin. Not wishing to trespass too 



much on the forbearance of the Editor, I will 

 merely add that I shall be much obliged for any 

 direct information, or references to easily-acces- 

 sible authorities, likely to elucidate the border 

 annals of the above ancient race. R. W. Dixon. 

 Seaton-Carew, co. Durham. 



Irish Pedigrees missing. — In Moule's Bihlio- 

 theca Heraldica, head Ireland, p. 609., referring 

 to four Visitation Books taken by Narbonne and 

 Molyneux (Ulster Kings), it is said: — 



1. " Many books are also said to have been carried off 

 by the person holding the office of Athlone Pursuivant, 

 who fled to France with James II." 



Is there any trace of those books ? Again, 

 (p. 612.), it is said : — 



2. " In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps are genealo- 

 gies of Irish families, &c., late Sir Isaac Heard's (Garter). 

 The 2nd volume is lost, containing D to L and S." 



Is there any trace of that book ? Nash, Jun. 



Henry Lord Power. — In the earliest extant 

 parish register of Donnybrook, in the county of 

 Dublin, the following entry occurs, p. 53. : — 



" Buried, Henry Lord Power, in y* vault of St. Mathew's 

 Chappel [Ringsend, in the parish of Donnybrook], May 

 6th, 1742." 



Who was Henry Lord Power ? I wish, for a 

 particular purpose, to find him out, but I have 

 not as yet been able. Archdall, in his edition of 

 Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, throvis no light upon 

 the matter; referring only to Sir Henry Power, 

 Viscount Valentia, who died exactly a century 

 before Lord Power (vol. v. p. 20.). Abhba. 



Aid-de-Camp to the Lord Primate, and to the 

 Lord Chancellor. — 



"Died 1st of May, 1749, Capt. Richard Downes of Bol- 

 ton Street, aged 45, a near relative and aid-de-camp to 

 the late Lord Primate. 



" 14th Oct. 1746, the Hon. Folliott Ponsonby, brother 

 to the Earl of Besborough, Captain in General Went- 

 worth's Horse, and aid-de-camp to the Lord Chancellor." 

 — Exshaio's Magazine. 



Can any of your correspondents give some ac- 

 count of these two offices, singular as they now 

 appear to be ? Y.' S. M. 



Peel Towers. — The small square towers which 

 are numerous in the Border Counties are called 

 Peel Towers. I should be glad to know the deri- 

 vation and meaning of the name. E. A. B. 



John Pope, Gentleman. — By Letters Patent 

 dated Octobers, 37 Henry VIII., the king granted 

 to John Pope, Gentleman, for 1393/. the manor of 

 Abberbury in the county of Oxford, with divers 

 other lands and tenements in several counties. 



I wish to know who this John Pope was, and 

 when he died ; and if any of your correspondents 

 can favour me with a reference to his will I should 

 be obliged. Geo. R. Corneb. 



