Dec. 18. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



585 



WELLESLET PEDIGREE. 

 (Vol. vi., p. 508.) 



It would be interesting, I should think, to many 

 of your readers, if Mb. Hepple, or some other 

 of your correspondents, would furnish a somewhat 

 fuller pedigree of Wellesley than that in p. 508. 

 What authority is there for the match of Aleson, 

 daughter of a Sir William Wesley, of the date of 

 1500, with John Cusack ? Sir William's great- 

 grand-daughter, Catherine, was wife of Sir Henry 

 Colley about the year 1.'550. 



The best pedigree that I know of Wesley is 

 in Lynch's Feudal Dignities of Ireland, article 

 "Standard-Bearer," edit. 1830, p. 95., &c. Ac- 

 cording to him the pedigree runs thus, the parts 

 in brackets being excepted : 



Sir William Wellesley, of age = 

 46 Edward III. Custos of 

 Kildare, tern. Henry IV. 



Sir Richard Wellesley, = Joanna, co-heiress of Houses 



possessed of Morn- 

 ington, &c., 1413, 

 jure uxoris. 



of Cusack, Le Tuit, &c. 

 [N.B. This lady called, in 

 most pedigrees, daughter of 

 Nicholas Castlemartin (a 

 baron, 1374), and heiress of 

 Dungan.] 



William Wesley, 

 dead s. p. 1 441 . 



. I 



Christopher, brother = 

 and heir, 1441. 



Ismay =SIr William Wesley, = Mati!da O'Tothill, 

 Plunket, a minor, 1472. 2nd wife, circ. 



1st wife. 1497. 



Gerard Wesley had = [Query, if wife was Genet, 

 livery, 1 502, dead I daughter of Sir Thomas 

 before 1539. Cusack?] 



Wellesley family. 



I suppose Aleson, the wife of John Cusack, was 

 the daughter of the Jirst Sir William Wellesley ? 

 The pedigree of Wesley, under Earl of Morning- 

 ton, in Lodge's Peerage of Ireland by Archdall, 

 edit. 1789, vol. iii. p. 67., and that' in Sir E. 

 Brydges' Peerage, of Collins, under Viscount 

 Wellesley, is quite at variance with that in 

 Lynch ; but I presume the latter to be correct. 



Can any one refer me to a pedigree of Wesley, 

 giving the names of the wives, which are almost 

 always omitted by Lynch ? By that book it ap- 

 pears Walleran de Wellesley was in Ireland, 1230. 

 Cannot he be connected with Wah-and de Welles- 

 leigh, who formerly held half a knight's fee at 

 Wellesleigh, co. Somerset, which was held by 



John Stourton, 7 Henry VI., or with William de 

 Wellesleigh, who held land there 37 Henry HI. 

 The following is the passage from CoUinson's • 

 Somersetshire relating to them : 



" The hamlet of Wells Leigh gave name to a family 

 of distinction. 37 Henry III., WiUiam de Welleslegh 

 held of the Bp. of Bath ti.ree parts of a hide of land in 

 Welleslegh, by the service of the Serjeantry of the 

 Hundred of Wells, and lands in Littleton, of Wm. de 

 Button (Esch.). 22 Edward III., Philip de Welleslegh 

 held lands in the same vill, and in Dulcot, as also the 

 Serjeantry of the Bailiwick of East Ferret (Esch.). 

 13 Henry VI., John Hill of Spaxton held these lands 

 and the same serjeantry, as also the office of the Bailiff 

 of Wells Forum, of John Bp. of Bath and Wells, in 

 socage, leaving the same to John Hill, his son and heir 

 (Esch.). 7 Henry VI„ John Stourton held half aknight's 

 fee in Wellesleigh and Est- Wall, which Walrand de 

 Wellesleigh formerly held (Lib. Feod.). The manor of 

 Wellesleigh was given to the vicars choral by Ralph de 

 Salopia (see page 383., circ. a.d. 1330)." — CoUinson's 

 Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 405. 



G. R. Adams. 

 Oxford and Cambridge Club. S*a vW >'"■ A ^^ 



THE VATICAN PBESS. 

 (Vol. vi., p. 478.) 



I must strongly protest against J. R.'s endea- 

 vour to revive the Gretserian method of account- 

 ing for the notorious variations between the 

 Sixtine and Clementine editions of the Latin 

 Vulgate (Vid. Grets. Append, sec. ad lib. ii. Card. 

 BeUarm., col. 1058., Ingolst. 1607). It is a very 

 serious misrepresentation of the matter to speak 

 of it as one connected merely with typographical 

 exactness and blemishes, the work of printers' 

 "hands, and not of minds;" for Pope Sixtus V. 

 not only read, word after word (" ad verbum per- 

 legit," Roccha states), the entire of the Bible 

 which was published by his authority, but he him- 

 self corrected the errata : 



" Nostra nos ipsi manu correximus, si qua prselo vltia 

 obrepserant." — Sixti Prafat. 



It does not appear that a single copy escaped 

 from his revision ; and when the pen was insuffi- 

 cient, words were printed and pasted on. (See 

 Kennicott's Second Dissertation on the State of the 

 printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, p. 199., 

 note : Oxford, 1759.) So far was the Pontiff from 

 admitting, or imagining, that, after all his labour, 

 a more perfect book might be required, that, 

 " according to his certain knowledge, and the 

 plenitude of his apostolic power," he determined 

 by a decree of permanent validity (" perpetuo 

 valitura constitutione,") that henceforward his 

 edition — " hanc ipsam" — was to be received "pro 

 vera, legitima, authentica, et indubitata;" and 

 every future impression was to be regulated by it 

 alone, and to be completed with inquisitorial, or 



