Jan.. 22. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



question, Will you liave hob or nob ? seenis onjy td 

 have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? i.e. 

 beer from the hob, or beer from the nob." But Nares, 

 in his Glossary, s. v. Hahbe or Nahbe, with much greater 

 reason, shows that hob or nob, now only used convi- 

 vially, to ask a person whether he will have a glass of 

 wine or not, is most evidently a corruption of the old 

 hab-nab, from the Saxon habban, to have, and nabban, 

 not to have; in proof of which, as Nares remarks, 

 Shakspeare has used it to mark an alternative of an- 

 other kind : 



" And his incensement at this moment is so impla- 

 cable, that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of 

 death and sepulchre : hob, nob is his word ; give't Or 

 take't." — Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4.] 



i\cplt0£f. 



WELLESLET PEDIGREE. 



(Vol. vi., pp.508. 585.) 



There is an anxiety to obtain further particulars 

 on this interesting subject, and I have searched 

 my Genealogical MSS. Collections for such ; the 

 result has extended farther than I could have 

 wished, but, while I am able to furnish dates and 

 authorities for hitherto naked statements, I have 

 inserted two or three links of descent not before 

 laid down. 



A member of the Somersetshire Welleslelghs is 

 said to have accompanied Henry 11. to Ireland. 



Walleran or Walter de Wellesley, living in 

 Ireland in 1230 (Lynch, Feud. Dig.), witnessed a 

 grant of certain townlands to the Priory of Christ 

 Church about 1250 {Registry of Christ Church) ; 

 while it is more effectively stated that he then 

 "endowed the Priory of All Saints with 60a. of 

 land, within the manor of Cruagh, which then be- 

 longed, with other estates, to his family, and that he 

 gave to the said priory free common of pasture, 

 of wood arid of turbary, over his whole mountain 

 there." 



His namesake and son (according to Lynch, 

 Feud. Dig-.), "Walran de Wylesley," was in 1302 

 required, as one of the " Fideles " of Ireland, by 

 three several letters, to do service in the meditated 

 war in Scotland {Pari. Writs, vol. i. p. 363.), and 

 in the following year he was slain {MS. Book of 

 Obits, T.C.D.). The peerage books merge these 

 two Walleran s in one. 



William de Wellesley, who appears to have 

 been son to AValleran, was in 1309 appointed 

 Constable of the Castle of Kildare {Rot. Pat. Cane. 

 Hib.), which he maintained when besieged by the 

 Bruces in their memorable invasion of Ireland, 

 and their foray over that county. For these and 

 other services to the state he received many lu- 

 crative and honourable grants from the crown, 

 and was summoned to parliament in 1339. In 

 1347 he was slain at the siege of Calais. {Obits, 

 T.C.D.) -UMi :...:; 



Sir John deWellesly, Knight, son of William, 

 having performed great actions against the 

 O'Tooles and O'Byrnes of Wicklow, had grants 

 of sundry wardships and other rewards from the 

 year 1335. In 1343 he became one of the sureties 

 for the appearance of the suspected Earl of Des- 

 mond, on whose flight Sir John's estates were 

 seised to the crown and withheld for some years. 

 (Lynch's Feud. Dig.) 



His successor was another John de Wellesley, 

 omitted in the peerage books, but whose existence 

 is shown by Close Roll 29 & 30 Edw. HI., C. H. 

 He died about the year 1355. 



William Wellesley, son of John, was summoned 

 to great councils and parliaments of Ireland from 

 1372 ; he was also entrusted by the king with 

 various important commissions and custodies of 

 castles, lands, and wards {Patent Rolls C. H.). 

 In 1386 he was Sheriff of Kildare, and Henry IV. 

 renewed his commission in 1403. 



Richard, son and heir of William de Wellesley, as 

 proved by Rot. Pat. 1 Henry IV., Cane. Hib., mar- 

 ried Johanna, daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas 

 de Castlemartin, by whom the estates of Dangan, 

 Mornington, &c. passed to the Wellesley family ; 

 he and his said wife had confirmation of their 

 estates in 1422. {Rot. Pat. 1 Henry VI., C. H.) 

 He had a previous grant from the treasury by 

 order of the Privy Council, in consideration of his 

 long services as sheriff of the county of Kildare, and 

 yet more actively " in the wars of Munster, Meath, 

 and Leinster, with men and horses, arms and 

 money." {Rot. Claris. 17 Ric. II., C. H.) In 1431 

 he was specially commissioned to advise the crown 

 on the state of Ireland, and was subsequently se- 

 lected to take charge of the Castle of Athy, as 

 " the fittest person to maintain that fortress and 

 key of the country against the malice of the 

 Irish enemy." {Rot. Pat. et Claus. 9 Henry VI., 

 C. II.) In resisting that " malice " he fell soon 

 after. 



The issue of Sir Richard de Wellesley by 

 Johanna were, William Wellesley, who married 

 Katherine , and dying in 1441 was suc- 

 ceeded by his next brother, Christopher Wellesley, 

 whose recorded fealty in the same year proves all 

 the latter links ; his succession to William as 

 brother and heir, and the titles of Johanna as 

 widow of his father Richard, and of Katherine as 

 widow of William, to dower off said estates. {Ra* 

 Claus. 19 Henry VI., C.H.) At and previous to 

 this time, another line of this family, connected as 

 cousins with the house of Dangan, flourished in 

 the CO. Kildare, where they were recognised as 

 Palatine Barons of Norragh to the close of the 

 seventeenth century. William Wellesley of Dan- 

 gan was the son and heir of Christopher. An (un- 

 printed) act of Edward IV. was passed in 1472 in 

 favour of this William; and his two marriages are 

 stated by Lynch {Feud. Dig.) : the first was to 



