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Dec. 30. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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DR. GEOBGE HALLET OF TOEK. 



The descendants of the Rev. G. Halley, of York, 

 D.D., who died anno 1708, and at his death was 

 succentor of the Vicars Choral in York Cathedral, 

 will be obliged to any of your correspondents for 

 information showing how the Doctor was related to 

 the Hesketh family of Heslington, in the vicinity 

 of York. Dr. Halley became one of the vicars 

 anno 1682, and by his will, dated in 1708, ap- 

 pointed his sister, Mrs. Mary Hesketh, one of his 

 trustees. In family settlements, dated in 1708 

 and 1714, she is described of York ; and in one of 

 them called spinster, but in the other a widow. 

 At Heslington, there certainly resided a Thomas 

 Hesketh (who is said to have been the representa- 

 tive of a younger branch of the ancient Lancashire 

 family of the same name), and Jane his wife; and 

 they had a son, Thomas, who married to his first 

 wife Mary Bethell, and to his second wife Mary 

 Condon, and he died anno 1653, aged forty-three. 

 The son had two daughters, namely, Ann and Mary, 

 and these daughters were his coheiresses, and 

 ancestors of the present families of Yarburgh of 

 Heslington, and Norcliffe of Langton in Yorkshire. 

 Thomas Hesketh, Esq., of Pleslington, became a 

 trustee under the settlement made upon the mar- 

 riage of Dr. Halley's only daughter, Lois, with 

 Henry Stephenson, in 1706; and James Yarburgh, 

 Esq. (who married Ann Hesketh), was a trustee 

 under family settlements relating to the Halley 

 property, made in 1714 and 1716. A grandson 

 of Dr. Halley would seem to have acted as steward 

 or agent for Mrs. Mary NorcliiFe ; at least an 

 original receipt, dated anno 1734, and given by 

 that lady to the grandson, described the money re- 

 ceived as the rent for Howsam, Heslington, and 

 Eddlethorpe, to Michaelmas, 1733. Mary, the 

 daughter of the Rev. Cuthbert Hesketh, was 

 buried in the parish church of Saint Lawrence, in 

 the suburbs of York (in which parish Heslington 

 is locally situate), on the 27th of October, 1718, 

 aged fifty-seven. 



Minav €iutriei, 



Peny-post. — A correspondent (Vol. viii., p. 8.) 

 drew attention to a Note by Mi\ Smith, the 

 editor of the Grenville Correspondence, wherein we 

 were informed that more than one of Junius's 

 letters were sent through the same post-office, in- 

 ferred from the post-mark — " pent^-post paid" — 

 a peculiarity in the spelling not likely, he thought, 

 often to be met with. I confess that I thought so 

 too, and have therefore, as he suggested, looked 

 attentively at the post-mark on letters of the period 

 in the hope of fixing the locality of this peny- 

 post office, but have not been successful in finding 



a single example from 1769 to 1772. I have how- 

 ever found many in the earlier part of the century ; 

 one in or about 1708, one in or about 1745, and 

 one on a letter from Pope to Richardson, sold re- 

 cently at Sotheby's ; and in the preface to Memou's 

 of the Society of Grub Street, 1737, the writer 

 observes, there are four evening post newspapers, 

 "not to mention peny or half-;5en?/ posts" (p. 16.). 

 Still, as the latest of these dates is some five-and- 

 twenty years antecedent to the Junius ))eriod, 

 I suggest that your correspondents should still 

 look carefully to the post-marks of about 1770. 



N. E. P. 



Janus Vitalis. — Information is desired respect- 

 ing the Latin poet Janus Vitalis, the period of his 

 existence, his works, and what editions of them 

 are now extant ? Eunonuss. 



Edward Jones, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1692 — 1703. 

 — Can any of your correspondents favour me 

 with particulars respecting the names and fortunes 

 of this prelate's children, who were six in number ? 

 He had married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir 

 Richard Kennedy, Bart., of Mount Kennedy, co. 

 Wicklow, Ireland, second Baron of the Irish Ex- 

 chequer ; and was translated to St. Asapli from 

 Cloyne, in Ireland, to which see he was conse- 

 crated nth March, 1682-3. 



Bishop Jones was a native of Montgomeryshire, 

 and is noticed at some length in Browne Willis's 

 Survey of St. Asaph. The present Query relates 

 to his lineal descendants, and not to himself. 



Samuel Hayman, Clk. 



South Abbey, Youghal. 



Ballad of Richard I. — In his Introduction to 

 Botuli Curice Regis (p. Ixxiv.), Sir Richard Pal- 

 grave mentions the curious ballad which was cir- 

 culated in Normandy a short time previous to 

 Richard's death, to the effect that "the arrow 

 was making in Limousin by which King Richard 

 should be slain." Can any of your readers refer 

 me to this ballad ? or if in MS. favour me with a 



copy 



MiNSTREI.. 



" Fasciculus Florum." — Perhaps some of your 

 learned correspondents can inform me who is the 

 compiler of Fasciculus Florum, printed in 1636? 

 The anagram, Lerimus Uthalmus, at the end of 

 the preface, readily makes Thomas Sumervill; 

 but who is this Sumervill ? W. H. C. 



The Hare. — In An Introduction to the Field 

 Sports of France, by R. O'Connor, Esq., barrister- 

 at-law, is the following passage : 



« The hare is a short-lived animal ; they scarcely ever 

 live more than eight or nine years, and are full-grown at 

 one year old. The period of gestation is thirty-one days, 

 and the doe generally has two young ones, occasionally 

 three or four. It is very curious that if a hare has more 

 than one, they each have a white star on the forehead, 



