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He was married three times : his first wife being 

 Frances, daughter of Sir Richard Phillipps, Bart., 

 of Picton Castle ; his second, Katherine, daughter 

 of John Fowler, merchant of the city of London 

 ("the matchless Orinda"); and his third, Anne, 

 daughter of Sir llice Reedd, Bart. I believe that 

 neither his first nor third spouse bore him any 

 children; and of the issue of Mrs. Katherine 

 Philips, only one daughter survived her. The 

 death of her first-born, a son, is touchingly la- 

 mented in one of her poems, the collected edition 

 of which was not published until after her un- 

 timely decease. I possess a copy of her works, 

 with a portrait, engraved by Faithorne, which is in 

 fine condition ; but as it is a transcript of a pos- 

 thumous bust, taken from a portrait which is said 

 never to have been very lilce her, it can scarcely 

 be considered to be a fair representation of the 

 casket which enshrined so fine a mind. Sbe is 

 said to have been very beautiful ; and so modest 

 withal, that no persuasion could induce her to 

 consent to the publication of her poems ; which, 

 written for the solace of her leisure hours, and 

 circulated among her friends, at last crept sur- 

 reptitiously into print, to her infinite annoyance. 

 Mrs. Philips was the friend of Jeremy Taylor, who 

 addressed to her a "Discourse on Friendship ; " 

 and she had her praises celebrated by Cowley, 

 Dryden, and Lord Roscommon. This woman of 

 genius and worth died in London, of confluent 

 small-pox, on June 22, 1664, at the early age of 

 thirty-one years.* Slxe lies buried with her son 

 at St. Osyth's, in Essex. I have now lying before 

 me a Bible which belonged to the daughter and 

 only surviving child of " the matchless Orinda." 

 She married Lewis Wogan, Esq., of Boulston, in 

 the county of Pembroke. The Bible is in fine 

 preservation, and has on the fly-leaf the following 

 autograph : " Kath. Wogan, Her Bible." On the 

 next page : — 



" Katharine Philips was born y° 13"> of Aprlll, 1656, 

 being Sunday morning, betwixt 4 and 5 of clock, at y= 

 Priory of Cardigan." 



Beneath this entry are inserted the births of 

 her children at Boulston ; the first of which shows 

 that she must have married at a very early age : — 



" Katharine Wogan was born y'' 6*'' of September, 1672, 

 being Frydaj', betwixt 4 and 5 of clock in the afternoon." 



" Edward Wogan was born the 26* of March, 1674 ; 

 about 8 of clock in the morning, on a Thursday." 



" Jane Wogan was Borne the 22'«i of March 167^, on 

 Sunday between ten and Eleaven of clock at night." 



" Elizabeth Wogan was Borne the 24"i of Aprill, 1676, 

 being Munday, betwixt three and 4 of clocke in the 

 morning." 



" Anne Wogan was Borne the 23^ of May, 1677, being 

 Wenesday, about five of the clock in the afternoon." 



* The age of Mrs. Philips is copied from the preface to 

 her Poems. I was under the impression that she was 

 born in 1631, which would have made her three years 

 older. 



" Frances Wogan was Borne the 23<i of July, 1678, 

 being Tuesday, betwixt eight and nine of the clocke at 

 night." 



" Lewis Wogan y^ }'ounger Avas borne November the 

 5"', 1679, about two a clocke in the afternoon." 



" Still Borne." 



" Arabella Wogan was Borne of a Wenesdaj', the 2i"'^ 

 of February, 16|.^, about eight of the clocke at iilght." 



" Hector Wogan was borne the 15"^ of May, 1683, of a 

 tuesday between eight and nine in the morning." 



" Abraham Wogan was borne the 27"' of March, about 

 three a clocke in the morning on a Frj'day, 1685." 



" James Wogan was borne March the 8"', 16g0, about 

 two of clocke in the afternoon, on a tuesday." 



" Lewis Wogan the younger was Borne Aprill the 19'i>, 

 on a Thursday, between seaven and eight a clocke at 

 night, 1688." 



" Katherine Wogan was Borne the 29'^ of August, 

 1689, on a Thursday, a litle after one of clocke in the 

 morning." 



" Lewis Wogan was Borne the e"" of March, 169J, on a 

 Frj'day, neere eleaven a clocke at night." 



" Philippa Wogan was borne the 17"' day of May, 1694, 

 being on Ascention Thursday in the morning ; between 

 six and 7 a clocke." 



Of this numerous family the sole survivor was 

 Anne Wogan, who was married, Dec. 26, IG98, 

 to John Laugharne of St. Bride's, in the county 

 of Pembroke, Esq. Lewis Wogan, Katharine 

 Philips, his wife, and fourteen of their children, 

 lie buried in Boulston churc'i, where a monument 

 is erected to their memory. The tomb bears an 

 erroneous date of the death of Lewis Wogan ; as 

 it states that he died " March 25, 1692 ;" whereas, 

 according to the Bible, his daughter Philippa was 

 born May 17, 1694, more than two years subse- 

 quently. Within a stone's throw of the church 

 stand the ruins of the mansion, once the scene of 

 so many hopes and so much sorrow : " Rachel 

 weeping for her children, because they are not." 

 The church, too, in which they were originally 

 buried has been taken down, and another occupies 

 its place : " For the fashion of this world passeth 

 away." John Pavin Philups. 



Haverfordwest. 



CAKDINAL YOBK: THE STUART PAPEKS. 



The following old letter from Rome is so curi- 

 ous, both in " a literary and antiquarian" point of 

 view, that I think it well merits preservation in 

 " N. & Q." Its publication through your widely 

 circulating medium may elicit further informa- 

 tion on the subject : — 



" Rome, Jan. 10, 1817, 



"Latterly the Stuart Papers have been the chief sub- 

 ject of conversation here. The whole of those which had 

 been in the possession of the late Cardinal York, forming 

 a Supplement probably to those in the Scotch College in 

 Paris, had been traced and purchased by a Scotch Gen- 

 tleman of the name of Watson, a resident here during part 

 of the late war. They have since been secured and sealed 

 by order of Government; the person from whom they 

 were purchased is arrested, and at this moment Papal 



