Aug. 28. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



203 



the grandmother's name woukl be dropped for the 

 mother's, and Cliarles Howard Rusr^ell's son by his 

 wife Jane Percy will be Thomas Fercj Eussell. 



Ubsui-a, 



SUnNAMES ASSUMED. 



(Vol.vi., p. 97.) 



There is one practice of this kind not adverted 

 to by A. C. which strikes me as peculiarly unjust, 

 when the heirs-general assume a name that is not 

 extinct. I know a case where a sister inherited 

 her brother's estate ; and wishing to take the 

 naine, was for the time prevented by the male 

 heir ; but during the minority of his son, her son 

 assumed it by act of parliament. The descend- 

 ants of the latter having again failed in the male 

 line, the name has been a second time assumed 

 by their heirs-general, and these now call them- 

 selves the elder branch of the family, whose 

 name they have taken. In the same family, the 

 eldest of the remaining male Une having left a 

 daughter, it is said that her descendaiits°are also 

 to assume the name, while there is still a direct 

 male heii-, who, if he does not inherit the estates, 

 ought surely not to be deprived of the representa- 

 tion of his ancient and honourable name. 



I know no remedy that would be etfectual, un- 

 less it were permitted to the real representatives 

 of nirailies who ranked as European nobility in 

 the Middle Ages, to call themselves by some such 

 honourable distinction as "noble gentleman," or 

 the like, their wives having the designation of 

 " dame." I would give them no rank beyond 

 what they are entitled to as hereditary esquires. 

 But when it is considered that the name and arms 

 (for example) of Cha worth are on the tombs of 

 the Dukes of Burgundy, among the greatest 

 princes of Europe ; that Sir Philip Sydney is said 

 to have had the offer of the crown of Poland ; and 

 tliat English families, many of which remain, Avere 

 admissible as kniglits of Rhodes and Malta, which 

 required nobility of four descents, it must seem 

 rather incongruous that their direct representa- 

 tives might now write themselves " llentier," and 

 be supposed by foreigners to be of the same rank 

 which we now understand in England by the 

 term " Gentleman Farmer." 



If the eldest representatives of such families 

 would combine for such an object, as the baronets 

 did a (iiw years ago, I think they might gain tlieir 

 pomt._ And even those of them wlio possess rank 

 and_ title would not be sorry, I think, to be thus 

 distinguished from the new-made aristocracy. O. 



I will not discuss Avith A. C. the propriety of the 

 practice which he censure?, but which is now fully 

 sanctioned by custom. The instances in which a 

 change of surname, or an additional surname, has 

 been authorised by the crown, are far too nu- 



merous to be counted. The practice, however, 

 does not appear to be a very ancient one, and I 

 should like to know what is the earliest instance 

 on record ? At first, I presume, it was a special 

 favour ; at present, any one that is able and 

 willing to pay the fees may, I believe, obtain it. 

 How long has this been the case ? How long, 

 too, has it been the custom for a person of eques- 

 trian rank, who has assumed a second surname, 

 to prefix to it his original surname, as if it were 

 a Christian name, after the title "Sir?" The 

 dates of these innovations are worth being re- 

 corded. D. X. 



ENGLISH BISHOPS DEPRIVED. 



(Vol. vi., p. 100.) 



English Bishops deprived Inj Queen Elizabeth in 

 June, 1599 : 



1. John White, Bishop of Winchester, died at 

 South- Warnborow, Hampshire, Jan. 1], 1559-60. 

 Some account of him will be found in Cassan's 

 Bishops of Winchester, 8vo., 1827, vol. i. pp. 544 — 

 551. See also Wood's Ath. Oxon., by Bliss, 

 vol.i. col. 311. 



2. Owen Oglethorp, Bishop of Carlisle, who 

 crowned Queen Elizabeth, died Dec. 31, 1559, and. 

 was buried in the church of St. Dunstan's, Fleet 

 Street, London. Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. c. 792. 

 Le Neve's Fasti Ecclesice Avglicance, fol. 1716, 

 p. 335. 



3. Cuthbert Scot, Bishop of Chester, died at 

 Louvain. Fuller's Church History by Nichols, 

 8vo., 1842, vol. ii. p. 449. Le Neve, p. 341. 



4. James Tuhervijle, Bishop of Exeter, is said 

 by E. Izacke, in his Antiquities of the City of 

 Exeter, 8vo., 1677, to have died Nov. 1, 1559. 

 Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. c. 795. 



5. Ralph Bayne, Bishop of Lichfield and Coven- . 

 try, died at Islington in 1560, and was buried in 

 the church of St. Dunstan's in the West, London. 

 Zouch's Woi^ks, 1820, 8vo., vol. ii. p. 283. Le 

 Neve, p. 125. Fuller's Worthies, by Nuttall, 8vo., 

 1840, vol. ii. p. 410. 



6. Francis Mallet, Canon of Windsor, Chaplain 

 to Queen Marj^, and Dean of Lincoln, died Dec. 

 1570. Le Neve's Fasti, p. 146. Wood's Ath. 

 Oxon.y \o\.ii. c. 781.; and Wood's Fasti, vol.i. 

 C.48. 



7. Thomas Goldwell, Bishop of St. Asaph, was 

 living at Rhelms in 1580, being then about eighty 

 years of age ; and is said to have died shortly 

 afterwards at Rome. Wood's Ath. Oxon., vol. ii. 

 c. 822. 



8. Henry Morgan, Bishop of St. David's, died 

 at W^olvercote, Oxfordshire, Dec. 2-3, 1559. Le 

 Neve's Fasti, p. 514. Wood's -4/A. Oxoh., vol. ii. 

 c. 788. Fuller's Church Hist., vol. il. p. 449. 



9. Bichard Pate, Bishop of Worcester, died at 

 Louvain. 'Lhom^i's Survey of the Cathedral Church 



