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Protector. Oliver Leder's estates passed by pur- 

 chase to Chief Justice Sir James Dyer, who died 

 at Beachamstead manor, March 24, 1582, and 

 was buried in Great Staughton church the follow- 

 ing day. His wife, Margaret, widow of the cele- 

 brated Sir Thomas Elyot, was buried in the same 

 vault, August 26, 1569. Thomas Leder, nephew 

 of Oliver, married Dec. 14, 1552, Katharine, 

 daughter of the before-meritioned Thomas Bald- 

 win, and ob. s. p. Joseph Rix. 

 St. Neot's. 



Bolton Castle, in Wensleydale (2"*^ S. v. 32.) — 

 Bolton Castle seems to have been inhabited by its 

 proprietors at a period long subsequent to the 

 death of Emanuel Lord Scrope in 1630. The 

 Diary of Bishop Cartwright was written in 1686, 

 and his visit was paid to the Marquess of Win- 

 chester, then resident at his castle of Bolton. It 

 must, however, at that time have been in a dila- 

 pidated condition. Perhaps, however, the editor 

 of the Diary may mean in his note Bolton " Hall," 

 near the village of Weflsley, and at no great 

 distance from the castle. This mansion was 

 completed about 1678 by Charles, Marquess of 

 Winchester, afterwards the first Duke of Bolton. 



OXONIENSIS. 



Peerage and Privy Council (2""^ S. v. 47.) — 

 1. Peers of the realm are styled " Right Honor- 

 able" because they are hereditary councillors of 

 the sovereign regnant. They are, and ever have 

 been, regularly summoned to attend each Session 

 of Parliament, over which the Sovereign is sup- 

 posed to personally preside, and whom therefore 

 they assist with their counsels. 



2. All peers are not members of the " Privy 

 Council," i. e. they take no part in the privy de- 

 liberations of the ministers (or Cabinet, so called 

 since the days of Charles II.) for' the time being, 

 unless specially invited by the Sovereign to do 

 so : as in the instances of the late Duke of Wel- 

 lington, and the Marquis of Lansdowne at this 

 moment. 



3. The Lord Mayor of London is only by 

 courtesy a Privy Councillor ; and therefore is 

 neither sworn nor takes his place at the board, 

 unless summoned upon some urgent or special 

 occasion. Formerly the chief magistrate of the 

 metropolis was considered one of the most im- 

 portant political supporters of royalty, and by 

 attaching him to the Privy Council of the Sove- 

 reign, the fidelity of the citizens was in a measure 

 guaranteed. Hence his superiority to all other 

 municipal officers. 



4. The only members of the Privy Council " who 

 are so by virtue of their offices," arc the Cabinet 

 Ministers and Great Officers of State. There is 

 no list of the Cabinet (says Haydn) : they are 

 necessarily Privy Councillors, and have an extra 

 official summons or notice to attend, and each 



member holds a master key of the despatch boxes 

 of all the various departments, by means of which 

 each Cabinet Minister circulates, as it is called, 

 intelligence received, or despatches proposed, &c. 

 for the information and advice of his colleagues. 



William Daniel, Baron of Rathwyre (2""^ S. y. 

 31.) — I am not aware of any Daniel, of this 

 Christian name, having ever been so styled ; but 

 I learn from my Westmeath MSS. Collections 

 that King Edward IV. granted the ancient 

 manor of Rathwyre (which had previously apper- 

 tained to Mortimer Earl of March, and subse- 

 quently to the powerful family of D'Arcy), to 

 Thomas Daniel, Knight, styled, territorially, Lord 

 and Baron of Rathwyre, to hold in tail male ; 

 together with other manors, and all knights' fees, 

 advowsons of churches, wardships, &c. which (as 

 the patent recites) had come to the Crown by an 

 Act of Resumption. This Thomas Daniel ap- 

 pears to me to be the same who incurred the dis- 

 pleasure of the Parliament of England, as appears 

 by the Rolls ; and the possessions so designed to 

 enure to him and his descendants were reassumed 

 by an Act of the tenth year of Henry VII.'s reign, 

 which restored to William D'Arcy of Platten all 

 his rights therein. It is unnecessary to add that 

 the designations of lord or baron did not imply 

 in such instances the existence of a peerage. 



John D' Alton. 



Dublin. 



Barentine Family (2""^ S. y. 14.) — Sir Odonel 

 de Barenton, Baron of Wegon, was descended 



from Barenton, who served Emma, Queen of 



King Ethelred, and had the custody of Hatfield 

 Forest, says Morant, Hist, of Essex, ii. 503. This 

 family had large possessions in Essex, and the 

 last of the family died in the present century. 

 Their estates, including Barrington Hall in Hat- 

 field Broad Oak, have passed into strangeis' hands. 

 I know not if this is the family inquired for. The 

 de Barenton, de Barentine, and, latterly. Barring- 

 ton family were settled in Essex before the Con- 

 quest ; and Radulphus de Barentona was one of 

 the persons sworn to take the Conqueror's survey, 

 in the hundred of Trepslan, in the county of 

 Cambridge. — Selden's Preface to Eadmer, quoted 

 by Morant. The family in Sussex in the fifteenth 

 century were probably a branch of the Essex 

 family. A. Holt White. 



Ignez de Castro (2°'' S. iv. 287. 399. 461.) — As 

 the subject seems to interest some of your readers, 

 I may as well state that I have in my possession 

 four tragedies iuPortuguese, three Spanish dramas, 

 one French play, and no less than eight English 

 plays, either originals or translations, founded 

 upon the story of this unfortunate lady, besides 

 two English novels or romances with some other 

 minor pieces. I was not aware of the existence of 



