2nds.N''28.,^uLYi^.»56.] NOTES ANt) QUERIES. 



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expected that "N. & Q." could reproduce the 

 semi-gothic forms of the original characters. 



W. J. Bebnhar© Smith. 

 Temple. 



KAWSONS OF FBTSTON, YOKKSHIRB, LONDON AND 



ESSEX; ALURED OB AVEREY AS A CHRISTIAN 



NAME ; SIR JOHN BAWSON PRIOR OF KILMAIN- 



UAM AND AFTERWARDS VISCOUNT CLONTABFF. 



(2"'» S. i. 452.) 



Since writing these Notes and Queries I have 

 found or been furnished with answers to some of 

 the latter, but first I must correct an error in my 

 Notes. The family name of Isabella, wife of 

 Richard Rawson, the sheriff of London in 1476, 

 was not Trafford, but Craford. 



One of her sons, John, mentioned in her will 

 as a knight of Rhodes, bore two coats quarterly : 

 the first Is, parted per fess undee, sa, and az. a 

 castle with 4 towers arg. (Rawson) ; the second 

 is, Or, on a chevron, vert, 3 ravens heads erased, 

 arg. (Craford), ensigned all over with a chief 

 gules, and thereon a cross of the third. (Gwillim's 

 Display of Heraldry^ p. 435.) 



This Sir John Rawson was elected Prior of 

 Kilmainham in 1511, and by order of King Henry 

 VIII. was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland. 

 In 1517 he was Lord Treasurer of that kingdom. 

 In 1526, on the request of King Henry VIII. to 

 the Grand Master, he was appointed Turcopolier 

 of the Order of Knights of St. John, which office 

 he exchanged with Sir John Babington for the dig- 

 nity of Prior of Ireland, and in 33rd Henry VIII. 

 he surrendered the Priory of Kilmainham to the 

 king, obtaining a pension of 300 marks out of the 

 estates of the hospital, and as he had sate in the 

 Irish House of Lords as Prior of Kilmainham, he 

 exchanged his spiritual dignity for a temporal 

 peerage, being created Viscount Clontarff. (Query 

 if for life only.) 



This title became extinct in 1560; I presume 

 upon his death : but he is said to have left a 

 daughter, Catherine, married to Rowland Whyte, 

 second Baron of the Exchequer. (Notices of 

 Babingtons, Knts. of St. John, GentlemarCs Mag. 

 for June, 1856, p. 564. Archdall's Monasticon 

 Hihernicum, title Kilmainham.) 



The names of Alured and Averey are identical. 

 See " Charters of Marrigg Abbey" {Collectanea 

 Topographica et Genealogica, vol. v. p. 246. et 

 seq.) as to Alvered or Averye Uvedale. 



Mr. Hunter in his History of the Deanery of 

 Doncaster, gives a pedigree of the Rawsons of 

 Bessacar Grange, from the Visitations of 1563, 

 1585, and 1612, wherein Henry Rawson of Bes- 

 sacar Grange, Averey Rawson, and Christopher 

 Rawson, appear to have been sons of James Raw- 



son of Fryston ; and he says that Henry Rawson, 

 in his will, dated May 12, 1500, mentions his 

 brothers, Averey and Christopher Rawson, mer- 

 chants in London ; but Averey and Christopher 

 Rawson were undoubtedly sons of Richard Raw- 

 son, the sheriff, as appears from the wills of their 

 father and mother, and that of Christopher ; and, 

 therefore, unless there were two Avereys and two 

 Christophers merchants in London at the same 

 time, there must be an error in the pedigree ; 

 and it is probable that Henry Rawson of Bessacar, 

 and his brothers, Averey and Christopher, sons of 

 Richard Rawson, were not sons, but nephews or 

 grandsons of James Rawson, of Fryston. 

 I am still desirous of knowing — 



1. In what part of Essex the Crafords (not 

 TrafTords) were seated. 



2. The place of interment of Dr. Richard Raw- 

 son, Archdeacon of Essex, and Dean of Windsor, 

 ob. 1543, if any monument remains of him, and a 

 reference to his will. 



3. The like as to Sir John Rawson, Prior of 

 Kilmainham, and afterwards Viscount Clontarff, 

 ob. (as I presume) 1560. 



4. Any further particulars of him or his de- 

 scendants, through his daughter, Catherine, wife 

 of Rowland Whyte. 



5. Was that Rowland Whyte the Sir Rowland 

 Whytt, mentioned in Mr. Winthrop's List of 

 Knights of St. John (A" 1528), in " N. & Q." 

 (P' S. viii. 192.) ; and Sir Rowland Whyte, men- 

 tioned in Gentleman's Magazine, June, 1856, 

 p. 569., as having been appointed, with Sir James 

 Babington to the commandery of Swinfield, Kent. 

 The arms of Sir John Rawson as given by Gwil- 

 lim, i.e. Rawson and Craford quarterly, ensigned 

 over with the Cross of the Order of St. John, 

 were in one of the windows of Swingfield church. 

 (Hasted's Kent, vol. viii. (8vo.) p. 12.^.) Was he 

 buried there ? 



6. The connexion between the present fami- 

 lies of Rawsons in Yorkshire and Lancashire, and 

 those of Fryston, Bessacar, London, and Essex 

 before mentioned, through the Rawsons of Shipley 

 or otherwise. G. R. C. 



smith's " HISTORY OF KERRY. 



I have two copies of this work, nosTiace and 

 book : one being so beautifully clean, a^ersonal ap- 

 good condition, that I was tempted +-'»" of noble, 

 *'. , n I J, r ' /I nis day could 



either for myself or some friend. ^^^[^^^ ^j^^^ ^^ 



" copies," but they are not strictly S'l^jg time, so fm 

 of my old, but fine copy, being : 



" The Antient and Present State oeech by Sheriff 

 Kerrv. Being a Natural, Civil, Ecclesia monument to 

 and iTopographical Description thereof, gported in The 

 Remarks made on the Baronies, Pari ^ 

 lages, Seats, Mountains, Rivers, Harb< 

 Medicinal Waters, Fossils, Animals, ondents will be 



