2»*S. NoaS-jAuo. 80. '56.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Wolston, and constituted a separate parish by Act 

 of Parliament. The granddaughter of the last- 

 named Thomas Herbert, the heiress of this family, 

 married, in 1726, William Noyes, Esq., one of the 

 Six Clerks in Chancery. It being premised that 

 the inquirer has searched carefully both Fines and 

 Subsidy Rolls, the Query is, can it be ascertained 

 (from any source accessible to any contributor to 

 " N. & Q.") at what period this branch of the 

 great Herbert family derived from the parent 

 stock in Monmouthshire, Salop, or Wilts? (for 

 they also possessed an estate at Long Wittenham, 

 in Berks and Wilts). Who were the wives of the 

 first-named Thomas, John, and Thomas Herbert, 

 and how were they related to the Chamberlaynes, 

 lords of the manors of Chilverscoton and Priuce- 

 thorpe, to whom, as his cousins and executors, 

 Captain William ]3erbert left the advowson of the 

 church of Stretton ? 



Family of Noyes of ErcJifont, Co. Wilts^ and 

 Andover, Co. Hants. — Coat : Azure, 3 cross 

 crosslets in bend. arg. Crest : on a cap of maiut. 

 a dove ppr. holding in the beak an olive branch, 

 vert. The family tradition runs that this name was 

 originally Noye, of Norman origin, and it bears 

 the same arms as those of Noye in the Visitation 

 of Cornwall. In the 14 & 15 Hen. VIII., Wil- 

 liam Noyes of Erchfont was assessed for the sub- 

 sidy at 80Z., and paid 41. yearly. In 1540 he be- 

 came possessed of the prebend of Erchfont with 

 its dependencies, and died in 1557, leaving by his 

 will, proved at Doctors' Commons in that year, 

 considerable property among a numerous family, 

 of whom John was M. P. for Calne, a.d. 16(K), 

 and Robert, the eldest, who succeeded to the pre- 

 bend, having purchased in 1574 for his eldest 

 son, another Robert Noyes, the manor and estate 

 of King's Hatherdene, in Weyhill, near Andover. 

 His cousin |and executor, Peter Noyes, also of 

 Weyhill and Andover, is the first of the family 

 who is recorded in the Visitation of Berks, in 

 which county his descendants possessed for many 

 generations the estate of Trunkwell in the parish 

 of Shinfield, acquired by a marriage with Agnes, 

 daughter and heiress of John Noyes of that place, 

 who ob. 1607. 



Query, 1. If this name was originally Noye, 

 and of Norman origin, whence is it derived, and 

 at what period did the fiin)ily come over to Eng- 

 land? 



2. Is there any trace of it in Court Rolls or 

 other sources previous to 1524, the period of the 

 first Subsidy Roll after the reign of Edward III. 

 which gives the names of contributors ? 



3. It appears from letters and papers of John 

 Noyes, M. P. for Calne, tliat he was a cousin of 

 the Ducketts, an ancient Wilts family, now 

 baronets, one of whom succeeded him in the re- 

 presentaiiou of Calne, and who, according to the 



obituary of the last baronet recently in the IlluS'^ 

 trated London News, are said to possess very an- 

 cient family muniments. Query, What was the 

 relationship, and are any of the matclics of the 

 Noyes of Erchfont traceable ? 



4. The manor of Blackswell in Chute and 

 Chepenbury, &c., and very extensive estates in 

 that neighbourhood, were purchased by a William 

 Noyes in 1614, and it appears by the inquisitio 

 post mortem of Joan, his widow, in 1631, that she 

 died at Weyhill, leaving a son and heir, William, 

 and that Pe^eriV<>?/e5 delivered the inquisition into 

 court. 



Query, What relation was this William Noyes 

 and Joan his wife to Peter aod Robert of Weyhill 

 and Erchfont ? 



5. Peter Noyes of Aijdover, the first-mentioned 

 in the Visitation, who wi^ living in 1646, as ap- 

 pears by the records of a chancery suit then in 

 progress with the widow of his eldest son, had a 

 second son, Richard, not named in the Visitation, 

 but who was married and had issue (wanted to 

 trace his descendants, if any) : he had also ^ 

 daugliter, Joyce, married to the Rev. Robert 

 Wilde, D.D., who was living in 1668. Query, 

 Was this the great Presbyterian poet of the same 

 name and period ? or if not, what is known of 

 him and his descendants ? Memob. 



MISSING EECOEDS : THE DISTRIBUTION BOOKS OF 

 IRELAND. 



" No. 26. Lord Mountgcarret, Ir. Pap., Part of Rameen 

 duffe, 26 acres, granted to L<i Mountgarret after reprise. 

 Certificate dated Nov. 16, 1666. 



" No. 23. Cath. Archer alias Grace. Ir. Pap., Boot- 

 stoun under Down Survey, profitable 236 acres, of which 

 122* 1p were granted by certificate to Sir Francis Gore, 

 May 11, 1666. Remainder 118» 3p granted by certiiicate 

 to Richard Coote, Oct. 8, 1666." 



The above are copies of extracts niade about 

 the yearil830 from one of the volumes mentioned 

 at the head of this article, then in the evidence 

 chamber of Kilkenny Castle. The books were 

 large folio, and are supposed to have been the 

 only copy existing in Ireland out of the Record 

 Department, Custom House, Dublin (where the 

 originals are preserved, extending I believe to 

 eighteen or twenty volumes). The copy which 

 had been in the possession of the Ormonde family 

 has been lost; it is feared, stolen. Should any 

 of the readers of " N. & Q." be able to identify 

 the books as existing in any collection, public or 

 private (it is supposed that the third and oidy 

 other copy of those important records is in Paris, 

 having been taken, along with the vessel that 

 carried it, by a French privateer in transit to 

 England), and be able to give sucl^ information, 

 publicly or privately, as may lead to the know- 

 ledge of their present place of existence, if not 



