Sept. 18. 1852.] 



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The declaration is signed William Henry Prince 

 of Orange, by his Plighness' special command, 

 C. Iluygens ; and is dated from Sherburn Castle, 

 the 28th day of November, 1688, and contains 

 eight pages- John Branfill Hakbison. 



Orchard Street, Maidstone. 



[Ilapin, as well as the author of The Life of Wil- 

 liam III., p. 150., edit. 1705, speak of the Third De- 

 claration as a palpahle forgery. Hugh Spcke owned 

 himself the writer of it. See The Secret History of the 

 Recolution in 1688, pp. 33—41. : Loud. 1715.] 



Chadderion Family. — Can any of your Lanca- 

 shire readers furnish we with a descent of the 

 Chadderton family, of which William Chadderton, 

 Bishop of Chester, was a member ? They resided 

 at Nuthurst, near Manchester. What was the date 

 of their original settlement there ; and when did 

 their residence at this place cease ? What arms 

 did this family bear ? Leodiensis. 



Leeds. 



[Among Cole's MSS. in the British Museum will 

 be found some interesting notices of the Chadderton 



Geoffrey Chatterton = . 

 of Nuthurst. 



family. Speaking of the bishop, in vol. vii. p. I3G., he 

 says, " William Ciiadderton was born at Nuthurst near 

 Manchester, being the son of Edmund Chadderton and 

 Margery Cliffe of Cheshire, his wife ; which Edmund 

 was the son of Jeffrey Chadderton of Nuthurst afore- 

 said, being descended of a very good and ancient family 

 in Lancashire, and not Cheshire, as Parker has it. 

 Browne Willis," he adds, " gives him the following 

 arms : ' Argent, a chevron gules, between three Z. 

 sable, on the chevron a mullet of the second.' But 

 this," says Cole, " I conceive to be a mistake : First, 

 from the MS. table in Queen's College differing from 

 these arras ; and, secondly, because the same arms as 

 are assigned to him on the said table are also appro- 

 priated to the name of Cliadderton in a valuable MS, 

 Book of Heraldry in my possession, and which I 

 copied from one belonging to King's College Library, 

 wrote by Wm. Smith Rouge Dragon in 1 604 ; and 

 are, gules a cross bottony nowed Or. 2d. and 3d. A. a 

 chevron gule, inter 3 Z. sable."* In vol. xxxiii. p. 184., 

 Cole adds, " There is no way of reconciling the different 

 arms but by supposing the bishop bore them quarterly, 

 as in the trick given in vol. xi. p. 223." 



In vol. xi. p. 223., Cole has furnished the following 

 pedigree : — 



daughter of . . . , 



Edmund Chatterton = Margaret, daughter of 

 of Nuthurst. I ... Cliffe of Cheshire. 



Geo. Chatterton of = Jane, daughter of 

 Nuthurst in Lan- Edw. Warren of 

 cashire. Poynton. 



Dorothy. 



Eralyn. 



Ednmnd. 



Catherine, daughter = Wm. Chatterton, D.D., Mr. of 

 to John Revell Queen's Coll., Bp. of Chester, 

 of London. then of Lincoln. 



Joane, daughter and = Sir Ric. Brooke of Norton 

 sole heir. I in Cheshire, Knt. 



Eliz., daughter and sole heir = Torrel Joscelyne of Essex. 



I 

 Theodore, daughter and sole heir of Torrell Joscelyne. 



Scriveners' Company of London, — "Where can 

 the records of this extinct company be consulted ? 



J. K. 



[Among the Harleian MSS., No. 2295., is a book 

 in folio, which formerly belonged to some Master of the 

 Company of Scriveners of London, containing various 

 documents relating to this company,] 



Dr. John Donne. — In the history of the Life of 

 Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, London, It is 

 said that he was the son of a London merchant, 

 descended from a respectable Welsh family. 

 Perhaps some of your able correspondents can 

 inform me whether he was from the same stock as 

 Sir John Donne, Knight of Kidwelly, in Caermar- 



thenshire, who married Lady Elizabeth, daughter 

 of Lord Hasthigs ? 



Were the Donnes of Norfolk, Oswestry, So- 

 mersetshire, the Dons of Berwickshire, and the 

 Dones of Cheshire, originally connected ? 



If there e.xist pedigrees in print or MS. of the 

 above, or of the families of Dwnn, Doune, Doon, 

 or Doan; Dun, Dune, Dunn, or Dunne, where 

 are they to be seen ? Louis Dox, 2. 



[Among the MSS. in the British Museum will be 

 found the following notices and pedigrees of tlie Donne 



'•' The same arms are given to the Lancashire and 

 Yorkshire branches of the family in Robson's British 

 Heraldry, art. " Chaderton." 



