July 8. 1854.] 



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to the great loss of Disraeli and his Curiosities of 

 Literature. Amory is said to have been educated for 

 a physician, but is not known to have ever practised. 

 He appears, from his works, to have been evidently 

 deranged. He died in 1788, aged ninety-seven. There 

 are two or three letters relative to the family, and the 

 eccentric habits of this individual, in the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, vols. Iviii. and lix. A good biographical 

 sketch of him is given in Chalmers' Biographical Dic- 

 tionary, s. v.]l 



John Zephaniah Holwell. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me where John Zephaniah Hol- 

 well, Esq., who died at Pinner in 1798, was buried, 

 and if any monument has been erected to his 

 memory? His narrative of his sufferings in 1758 

 is well known. In De La Motte's heraldic work, 

 printed in 1803, he is described as of Walton in 

 Surrey. I have been some time collecting all I 

 can about the worthies of this parish, and have 

 searched in vain in the registers for his name. 

 His age too is a matter of doubt ; as, in the Annual 

 Register, I find that he died in his one hundred 

 and first year, while the Oent. Mag. makes him 

 ninety-eight ; and the Handbook of Harrow states 

 that he was born in Dublin, Sept. 17, 1711, and 

 died Nov. 5, 1798. F. G. W. 



Pinner. 



[We would recommend a search to be made in the 

 registers of Fulham, as Faulkner, in his History, 

 p. 349., states that Zephaniah Holwell was buried in 

 that churchyard, a. d. 1771; but this is clearly an 

 error, as Lysons' Environs, vol. ii. p. 412., more cor- 

 rectly notices that Elizabeth, wife of Zephaniah Hol- 

 well, Esq., was buried there in 1771.] 



Leases. — Will one of your readers, learned in 

 the law, be good enough to explain why leases are 

 granted for 99 years, or 999 years, rather than for 

 100 years or 1000 years? Is there some technical 

 reason for this, and where can an explanation of 

 it be found ? E. H. H. 



[There is no sound technical or legal reason. The 

 estate would be of the same nature if the terms were 

 for 100 and 1000 years respectively as 99 or 999. It 

 is a custom to have the odd number, which has arisen 

 from some old notion that 1000 years was equal to a 

 freehold, and that 100 years was too long for a build- 

 ing-lease.] 



3RepTtc^. 



TWO BROTHERS OP THE SAME CHRISTIA.K NAME. 



(Vol. ix., p. 125.) 



A correspondent of yours has written on the 

 above subject, in which he brought forward in- 

 stances of two brothers of the same christian 

 name ; but those mentioned by him are of rather 

 a remote period. The only instance of compara- 

 tively recent date that I can mention, is the Mor- 



gans, of Tredegar Park, near Newport, Mon- 

 mouthshire. The late Sir Charles Morgan had 

 two sons of the same christian name, viz., Charles 

 Morgan Robinson Morgan, the present Baronet, 

 and Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, M. P. 

 for Monmouthshire. Perhaps an objection may 

 be made to the above, as the Morgans have in- 

 termediate names, whereby they are distinguished. 

 But on the other hand, at the time when those 

 persons lived, that are mentioned by your Chester 

 correspondent, two or more names were then never 

 given to a child at baptism. J. D. Lucas. 



Bristol. 



About sixteen years ago, having occasion to 

 inquire of John Tod as to his circumstances and 

 family, he informed me that he had thirteen, 

 children, seven of whom were sons, each named 

 John, five of them then living ; and of six daugh- 

 ters then alive, three were named Parnell. 



H. Edwards. 



An instance of this kind will be found in the 

 noble family of Hawkins. — Vide Burke's Peerage 

 and Baronetage, p. 496. edit. 1848. W. W. 



Malta. 



To the instances of two brothers with the same 

 christian name already given, add that of Edmund 

 Verney, tried for his share in Dudley's conspiracy, 

 June 11, 1556, whose brother. Sir Edmund Ver- 

 ney, of Penley, Knight, was his heir. — See pedigree 

 m'' Letters and Papers of the Verney Family, pub- 

 lished by the Camden Soc. ; also page 78. of the 

 same. Edward Peacock. 



Bottesford Moors, Kirton-in-Lindsey. 



An ancient instance of this occurs in a grant 

 made by Robert de Vallibus, to Castleacre Priory, 

 as early, probably, as the reign of William Rufus 

 or Henry I. He thereby grants a mill in Pentney, 

 and other property, to the Priory, for the health 

 of himself, his wife, and his sons, and for the souls 

 of his father and mother, and of his brother, 

 Robert Pinguis, and of the rest of his brethren, to 

 wit, Gilbert and Hubert. Pinguis was probably 

 a bye-name, given to the second Robert, to dis- 

 tinguish him from his brother of the same name. 



Akoit. 



Your correspondent, who refers to Lodge's 

 Peerage for instances of two brothers in families 

 having the same name, quotes the names of the 

 sons of the Marquis of Ormonde, all of whom 

 bear the christian name of James. He might 

 have added the fact, from the same source, of all 

 the sons of the Duke of Portland bearing that 

 of William. This is presumed to have been in 

 honour of William, Prince of Orange (afterwards 

 William III. of England), by whom the family 

 was first ennobled. Perhaps the name of James, 



