Mar. 12. 1853.] 



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useful miseellany, asking your readers for any in- 

 formation they may be in possession of. At pre- 

 sent I should be glad to be informed of the locality 

 of Estoving Hall, the seat of a branch of the Hol- 

 land family, of whom a long account is given by 

 Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, and which, 

 he says, was nine miles from Bourn, in Lincoln- 

 shire, but respecting which I can leai-n nothing 

 from gentlemen in that neighbourhood. Drayton, 

 so often alluded to by Stukeley, and referred to by 

 Blomefield in connexion with the Holland family, 

 is also of very uncertain locality. Can any of 

 your readers assist me upon these points, either 

 through your journal, or addressed to me at Stoke 

 Newington ? I am also in want of information 

 respecting the Kyme family, so as to connect the 

 Kymes of Boston, and its neighbourhood, with the 

 elder branch of that family, the Kymes of Kyme, 

 which merged into the Umfraville family, by the 

 marriage of the heiress of the Kymes with one of 

 the Umfravilles. 



The account of " the buylding of Boston steeple," 

 by H. T. H., at p. 166. of your present volume, is 

 incorrect in many respects. That which I have 

 seen and adopted is as follows. It is said to have 

 been accepted as correct by Dr. Stukeley. I find 

 it at the foot of a folio print, published in 1715, 

 representing — 



" The west prospect of Boston steeple and church. The 

 foundation whereof on y" Monday after Palm Sunday, 

 An". 1309, in y« 3^ year of Edward y<^ II., was begun 

 by many miners, and continued till midsumer foils, 

 when they was deeper than y' haven by 5 foot, where 

 they found a bed of stone upon a spring of sand, and 

 that upon a bed of clay whose thickness could not be 

 known. Upon the Monday next after the Feast of 

 St. John Bapt'. was laid the 1st stone, by Dame Mar- 

 gery Tilney, upon w"='' she laid £5. sterl«. Sir John 

 Truesdale, then Parson of Boston, gave £5. more, and 

 Rich"*. Stevenson, a Merch*. of Boston, gave also £5., 

 wh"'' was all y« gifts given at that time." 



PiSHEY Thompson. 

 Stoke Newington. 



WELBOSNE FAMILY. 



In Burke's Extinct Peerage it is stated that 

 John de Lacy, first Earl of Lincoln, died a.d. 

 1240, leaving one son and two daughters. The 

 latter were removed, in the twenty-seventh year 

 of Hen. III., to Windsor, there to be educated 

 with the daughters of the king. One of these 

 sisters, Lady Maud de Lacy, married Richard de 

 Clare, Earl of Gloucester ; but I can find no men- 

 tion of either the name or marriase of the other. 

 Am I correct in identifying her with " Dorothy, 

 daughter of the Earl of Lincoln," who married Sir 

 John Welborne (see Harl. MSS. 888. 1092 — 

 1153.) ? The dates in the Welborne pedigree per- 

 fectly correspond with this assumption. 



Another question relative to this family is of 

 greater interest, and I should feel sincerely obliged 

 by any answer to it. Simon de Montfort, earl of 

 Leicester, married Eleanora, daughter of King 

 John, and had by her five children. The fourth 

 son is called Eichard in Burke's Royal Families^ 

 vol. i. p. xxiii. ; and the report is added, that 

 " he remained in England in privacy under the 

 name of Wellsburn." In the Extinct Peerage, the 

 name of the same son is Almaric, of whom it says : 

 " When conveying his sister fi'om France, to be 

 married to Leoline, Prince of Wales, he was taken 

 prisoner with her at sea, and suffered a long im- 

 prisonment. He was at last, however, restored to 

 liberty, and his posterity are said to have flourished 

 in England under the name of Wellsburne." Is it 

 not to be presumed that the above Sir John Wel- 

 borne (living, as he must have done, in the latter 

 half of the thirteenth century, and allying himself 

 with the great family especially protected by 

 Henry III., uncle of the De Montforts) was him- 

 self the son of Richard or Almaric de Montfort, and 

 founder of that family of Wellesburne, said to have 

 "flourished in "England"? The De Montforts no 

 doubt abandoned their patronymic in consequence 

 of the attainder of Simon, earl of Leicester, and 

 adopted that of Wellesburne from the manor of 

 that name, co. Warwick, in the possession of 

 Henry de Montfort temp. Ric. I. 



The only known branch of the Welborns ter- 

 minated (after ten descents from Sir John) in 

 coheiresses, one of whom married in 1574, and 

 brought the representation into a family which 

 counts among its members your correspondent 



Ursula. 



DESCENDANTS OF SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT. 



In a work published not many years ago, en- 

 titled Antigua and the Antigtians, by Mrs. Flan- 

 nigan, there is the following passage : 



" The Hon. Nathaniel Gilbert, Speaker of the House 

 of Assembly in the island of Antigua, and one of the 

 chief proprietors in that island, derived his descent 

 from a family of considerable distinction in the west of 

 England, where one of its members, Sir Humphrey 

 Gilbert, associating himself with his kinsman, Sir 

 Walter Raleigh, became one of the most eminent cir- 

 cumnavigators of the reign of Queen Elizabeth." 



Dying, he left a son, Raleigh Gilbert, who along 

 with others obtained from King James I. a large 

 grant of land, in what was then called Plymouth, 

 but which now forms part of the colony of Vir- 

 ginia. To this place he emigrated with Lord 

 Chief Justice Popham in 1606. Afterwards he 

 succeeded to an estate in Devonshire on the death 

 of his elder brother. Sir John Gilbert, President of 

 the Virginian Company. 



Can any of your correspondents kindly inform 

 me from what source I can complete the line of 



