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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 246. 



distribution of the personal estates of intestates. 

 It may assist Mr. Thomas Russell Potter, your 

 first correspondent on this subject, in the object 

 of his inquiries, and save him the trouble of fol- 

 lowing a wrong track, to state how this relation- 

 ship arose. The Rev. Peter Beauvoir was only 

 child of Osmond Beauvoir of Downham Hall in 

 Essex (ob. 1757), by Elizabeth his wife, who was 

 daughter and heiress of John Beard, Esq., Gover- 

 nor of Bengal. Mary, the widow of Governor 

 Beard, and mother of Elizabeth Beauvoir, married 

 secondly Thomas Wright, Esq., of East Harling, 

 Norfolk ; and by him was also mother of Richard 

 Wright, Esq., who was father (with other chil- 

 dren) of Mary, the wife, first, of Admiral John 

 M'Dougal, and afterwards of Sir John Edmond 

 Brown, an Irish baronet. This gentleman assumed 

 the name of De Beauvoir, as much I presume 

 from its euphony over that of Brown as in testi- 

 mony of the large fortune he had with his wife, 

 to the entire exclusion of her nephews and nieces, 

 the children of her late brother the Rev, James 

 Wright; who, by the accident of their father's 

 death before Peter Beauvoir, were, in law, one 

 degree too remote in succession to his property. 

 To return to the Beauvoir family : Osmond, 

 above mentioned, who was son of a Richard 

 Beauvoir, or De Beauvoir, of Hackney, in Mid- 

 dlesex, had a sister Rachel Beauvoir married to 

 Francis Tyssen of Hackney, Esq., by whom she 

 had, besides other children whose legitimate 

 descendants have failed, a daughter Mary, wife 

 of Richard Benyon, Esq., whose grandson, the 

 late Richard Pawlett Wrighte Benyon, changed 

 his name to De Beauvoir ; and was certainly a 

 descendant of that family, and, although too re- 

 mote to participate as next of kin in the personal 

 estate, was probably the heir-at-law of Peter 

 Beauvoir. 



Mary, the wife, first of Governor Beard, and 

 afterwards of John Wright, is also stated to have 

 been a Beauvoir by birth ; but this wants proof. 

 Your correspondents may satisfy themselves as to 

 the other facts in the pedigree, dates, &c., by in- 

 specting the records of the proceedings in Chan- 

 cery in the cause M'Dougal v. De Beauvoir, circ. 

 1822 ; and of the more recent proceedings in De 

 Beauvoir v. De Beauvoir, instituted by the baronet, 

 also in Chancery, in 1846. G. A. C. 



Coaches ("Vol. vi., p. 98.). — The words of the 

 old song were, as I remember them, — 



'*' If the coach goes at nine, pray what time goes the 

 basket, 

 For there I can sit, and sing Langolee ? " 



Can any correspondent say where this old song 

 can be found ? I. R. R. 



" Quod fuit esse," ^c. (Vol. vii., p. 235.). — 

 Mb. Edgar MacCulloch's version of this enig- 



matical epitaph was corrected by another corre- 

 spondent in p. 342., same volume ; who ought not 

 however to have supplied any pointing. For 

 other conjectural readings or translations, refer 

 to GentlemarCs Magazine, Feb. 1840. See also 

 Ecclesiastes, i. 9. and seq., and iii. 15. G. A. C. 



Was Queen Elizabeth dark or fair f (Vol. v., 

 pp. 201. 256. ; Vol. vi., p. 497.). —I send you the 

 following description of her from one who cer- 

 tainly had no great cause to be very partial to 

 her : 



"Shee was a lady upon whom nature had bestowed, 

 and well placed, many of her fayrest favors ; of stature 

 meane, slender, streight, and amiably composed ; of such 

 state in her carriage, as every motion of her seemed to 

 beare majesty : her haire was inclined to pale yellow, her 

 foreheade large and faire, and seemeing seat for princely 

 grace ; her eyes lively and sweete, but short-sighted ; her 

 nose somewhat rising in the middest. The whole com- 

 passe of her countenance somewhat long, but yet of ad- 

 mirable beauty ; not so much in that which is termed the 

 flower of youth, as in a most delightfuU compositione of 

 majesty and modesty in equall mixture . . . Her vertues 

 were such as might suffice to make an Ethiopian beauti- 

 fuU ; which, the more man knows and understands, the 

 more he shall love and admire. In life, shee was most 

 innocent ; in desires, moderate ; in pi^pose, just ; of spirit, 

 above credit and almost capacity of her sexe : of divine 

 witt, as well for depth of judgment, as for quick conceite 

 and speedy expeditione; of eloquence, as sweet in the 

 utterance, soe ready and easy to come to the utterance ; 

 of wonderful knowledge, both in learning and affayres ; 

 skilfuU not only in Latine and Greeke, but alsoe in divers 

 foraigne languages. None knew better the hardest art of 

 all others, that of commanding men ; nor could more use 

 themselves to those cares, without which the royall dig- 

 nity could not be supported. Shee was relligeous, mag- 

 nanimous, merciful! and just." — Annals of the First Four 

 Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Sir John 

 Hayward, Knight, D.C.L., p. 449. 



Hayward wrote the commencement of a Life of 

 Henry IV., dedicated to the Earl of Essex; a 

 seditious pamphlet " as it was termed," says Lord 

 Bacon, for which he was committed to prison, the 

 queen being anxious to subject him to very severe 

 treatment. R- J. Shaw. 



Lord North (Vol. vii., pp. 317. 207. ; Vol, viii., 

 pp. 183, 230, 303.). — Respecting any personal 

 likeness supposed to exist between George III. 

 and Lord North, I am able to confirm the fact by 

 stating that last autumn, at Appuldercombe [then 

 on sale, being the property of Earl Yarborough], 

 Isle of Wight, there were lying for removal to his 

 Lordship's other seat in Lincolnshire, two por- 

 traits, one of George III., the other of Lord 

 North, by Wm. Wynne Ryland, 1778, and mea- 

 suring, as far as I recollect, about twelve inches 

 by seven. 



The similarity between the two was exceedingly 

 striking ; and this idea was strengthened in the 

 minds of two friends and myself, by placing the 

 smaller representative of Lord North by the side 



