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merly at a rental of 5s., now at nothing, because, 

 as be says, they are included in his park." 



J. Eastwood, 



Henr?/, Earl of Wotton (Vol. viii., p. 173.).— 

 Philip, first Earl of Chesterfield, had a son Henry, 

 Lord Stanhope, K.B., who married Catherine, the 

 eldest daughter and co-heir of Thomas, Lord 

 Wotton, and had issue one son Philip, and two 

 daughters, Mary and Catherine. Lord Stanhope 

 died s. p. Nov. 29, 1G34. His widow was governess 

 to the Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I., 

 and attending her into Holland, sent over money, 

 arms, and ammunition to that king when he was 

 distressed by his rebellious subjects. For such 

 services, and by reason of her long attendance on 

 the princess, she was, on the restoration of 

 Ciiarles II. (in regard that Lord Stanhope, her 

 husband, did not live to enjoy his father's ho- 

 nours), by letters patent bearing date May 29, 

 12 Charles II., advanced to the dignity of Countess 

 of Chesterfield for life, as also that her daughters 

 should enjoy precedency as earl's daughters. 



She took to her second husband John Poliander 

 Kirkhoven, Lord of Kirkhoven and Henfleet, by 

 wliom she had a son, Charles Henry Kirkhoven, 

 the subject of the Query. 



This gentleman, chiefly on account of his mo- 

 ther's descent, was created a baron of this realm 

 by the title of Lord Wotton of Wotton in Kent, 

 by letters patent bearing date at St. Johnstone's 

 (Perth) in Scotland, August 31, 1650, and in 

 September, 1660, was naturalised by authority of 

 parliament, together with his sisters. He was 

 likewise in 1677 created Earl of Bclhmont in Ire- 

 land, and, dying without issue, left his estates to 

 his nephew Chai-les Stanhope, the younger son of 

 his half-brother the Earl of Chesterfield, who took 

 the surname of Wotton. 



This information is principally from Collins, 

 who quotes " Ec. Stem, per Vincent." I have 

 consulted also Bank's Dormant Baronage, Burke's 

 Works, and Sharpe's Peerage. Broctuna. 



Bury, Lancashire. 



Anna Lightfoot (Vol. vii., p. 595.). — An ac- 

 count of " the left-handed wife of George III." 

 appeared in Sir Illchard Phillips' Monthbj Ma- 

 gazine for 1821 or 1822, under the title of (I 

 think) " Hannah Lightfoot, the fair Quaker." 



Alexander Andrews. 



Lawyers Bags (Vol. vlii., p. 59.). — Previous 

 correspondents appear to have established the 

 fiict that green was the orthodox colour of a 

 lawyer's bag up to a recent date. May not the 

 change of colour have been suggested by the sar- 

 casms and jeers about " green bags," which were 

 very current during the proceedings on the Bill 

 of Pains and Penalties, commonly known as the 



Trial of Queen Caroline, some thirty years ago ? 

 The reports of the evidence collected by the com- 

 mission on the Continent, was laid on the table in 

 a sealed green bag, and the very name became for 

 a time the signal for such an outcry, that the 

 lawyers may have deemed it prudent to strike 

 their colours, and have recourse to some other less 

 obnoxious to remark. Balliolessis. 



" When Orpheus ivent down" (Vol. viii., p. 196.). 

 — In reply to the Query of G. M. B. respecting 

 " When Orpheus went down," I beg to say that 

 the author was the Rev. Dr. Lisle (most probably 

 the Bishop of St. Asaph). The song may be found 

 among Ilitson's English Songs. When it was 

 first published I have not been able to ascertain, 

 but it must have been in the early part of the 

 last century, as the air composed for it by Dr. 

 Boyce, most likely for Vauxhall, was afterwards 

 used in the pasticcio opera of Love in a Village^ 

 which was brought out in 1763. C. Oldenshaw. 



Leicester. 



Mujfs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. vi. passim; 

 Vol. vii., p. 320.). — In Lamber's Travels in Canada 

 and the United States (1815), vol. i. p. 307., is the 

 following passage : 



" I should not be surprised if those delicate young 

 soldiers were to introduce muflTs : they were in general 

 use among the men under the French government, and 

 are still worn by two or three old gentlemen." 



Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Wardhouse, and Fisherman's Custom there 

 (Vol. viii., p. 78.). — Wardhouse or Wardhuuse, 

 is a port in Finland, and the custom was for the 

 English to purchase herrings there, as they were 

 not permitted to fish on that coast. In Trade's 

 Increase, a commercial tract, written in the earlier 

 part of the seventeenth century, the author, when 

 speaking of restraints on fishing on the coasts of 

 other nations, says : 



" Certain merchants of Hull had their ships taken 

 away and themselves imprisoned, for fishing about the 

 Wardhouse at the North Cape." 



W. PiNKERTON. 



Ham. 



" J?i necessariis unitas," S)-c. (Vol. viii., p. 197.). — 

 The sentence, " In necessariis unitas, in dubiis 

 libertas, in omnibus caritas," may be seen sculp- 

 tured in stone over the head of a doorway leading 

 into the garden of a house which was formerly the 

 residence of Archdeacon Coxe, and subsequently 

 of Canon Lisle Bowles, in the Close at Salisbury. 

 It is quoted from Melancthon. The inscription 

 was placed there by the poet, and is no less the 

 record of a noble, true, and generous sentiment, 

 than of the discriminating taste and feeling of him 

 by whom it was thus appreciated and honoured. 



