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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 215-. 



Stanhope his nephew, who took the name of 

 Wotton ? 



3. Knight's National Cyclopcedia of Useful 

 Knowledge (vol. xi. p. 374.) names James Stan- 

 hope, Earl Stanhope, the eldest son of the Hon. 

 Alexander Stanhope, second son of Philip Stan- 

 hope, first Earl of Chesterfield. Had the latter 

 then, besides the above-named (see p. 281.) Henry, 

 Lord Stanhope, also other sons ? 



Kicker-eating. — Can any of your West York- 

 shire readers supply me with information relative 

 to a practice which is said formerly to have pre- 

 vailed at Cleckheaton, of eating " kicker," or 

 horseflesh ? It is a fact that natives of that lo- 

 cality who come to reside at Leeds are still sub- 

 jected to the opprobrium of being kicker-eaters. 



H. W. 



Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire. — When 

 did the family of Chadderton become extinct ? 

 Had Edmund Chadderton, son and heir of George 

 Chadderton by Jane Warren of Poynton, any de- 

 scendants ? and if so, what were their names and 

 the dates of their respective births, marriages, and 

 deaths ? In short, any particulars relating to 

 them down to the period of the extinction of this 

 family would be most acceptable. J. B. 



George, first Viscount Laneshorough, and Sir 

 Charles Cotterell. — G. S. S. begs to submit the 

 following questions to the readers of " N. & Q. : " 

 When did George Lane, first Viscount Lanes- 

 borough, in Ireland, die ? And when Sir Charles 

 Cotterell, the translator of Cassandra ? Where 

 were they both buried ? 



" Firm was their faith,^'' ^c. — Who was the 

 writer of those beautiful lines, of which the fol- 

 lowing, the only verse I remember, is a portion ? 



" Firm was their faith, the ancient bands. 

 The wise in heart, in wood and stone, 

 "Who rear'd with stern and trusting hands. 

 The dark grey towers of days unknown. 

 They fill'd those aisles with many a thought, 

 They bade each nook some truth recall, 

 The pillar'd arch its legend brought, 

 A doctrine came with roof and wall 1" 



And where can they be met with entire ? P. M. 



The Mother of William the Conqueror. — Can 

 you or any of your correspondents say which is 

 right? In Debrett's Peerage for 1790 the ge- 

 nealogy of the Marchioness Grey gives her descent 

 from " Rollo or Fulbert, who was chamberlain to 

 Robert, Duke of Normandy ; and of his gift had 

 the castle and manor of Croy in Picardy, whence 

 his posterity assumed their surname, afterwards 

 written de Grey. Which Rollo had a daughter 

 Arlotta, mother of William the Conqueror." Now 

 history says that the mother of the Conqueror was 



Arlette or Arlotte, the daughter of a tanner at 

 Falaise. We know how scrupulous the Norman 

 nobility were in their genealogical records; and 

 likewise that in the lapse of time mistakes are 

 perpetuated and become history. Can history in 

 this instance be wrong ? and if so, how did the 

 mistake arise? I shall feel obliged to any on& 

 who can furnish farther information on the sub- 

 ject. Alpha.- 



Pedigree of Sir Francis Bryan. — This accom- 

 plished statesman, and ornament of Henry Vni.'s 

 reign, married Joan of Desmond, Countess Dow- 

 ager of Ormonde, and died childless in Ireland 

 A.D. 1550. Query, Did any cadet of his family 

 accompany him to that country ? I found a 

 Louis Bryan settled in the county of Kilkenny in, 

 Elizabeth's reign, and suspect that he came In 

 through the connexion of Sir F. Bryan with the 

 Ormonde family. Any information as to the 

 arms and pedigree of Sir F. Bryan will greatly 

 oblige James Gkaves» 



Kilkenny. 



" The Whole Bidy of Man." — Of what nature 

 is the testimony that this book was written by 

 Dorothy Coventry, "the good Lady Pakington?" 



Qu^SITOH. 



[The supposition that Lady Packington was the 

 author of The Whole Duty of Man, arose from a copy 

 of it in her handwriting having been found at West- 

 wood after her death. (Aubrey's Letters, vol. ii. p. 125.) 

 But the strongest evidence in favour of Lady Packing- 

 ton is the following note : " Oct. 1 3, 1698. Mr. Thomas 

 Caulton, Vicar of Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, in the 

 presence of William Thornton, Esq., and his lady, 

 Mrs. Heathcote, Mrs. Ashe, Mrs. Caulton, and John 

 Hewit, Rector of Harthill, declared the words follow- 

 ing: 'Nov. 5, 1689. At Shire-Oaks, Mrs. Eyre took 

 me up into her chamber after dinner, and told me that 

 her daughter Moyser, of Beverley, was dead. Among 

 other things concerning the private affairs of the family,, 

 she told me who was the author of The Whole Duty of 

 Man, at the same time pulling out of a private drawer 

 a MS. tied together, and stitched in 8vo., which she 

 declared was the original copy written by Lady Pack- 

 ington her mother, who disowned ever having written 

 the other books imputed to be by the same author, 

 excepting The Decay of Christian Piety. She added, 

 too, that it had been perused in MS. by Dr. Covel, 

 Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Dr. Stamford, 

 Prebendary of York, and Mr. Banks, Hector of the 

 Great Church at Hull.' Mr. Caulton declared this 

 upon his death-bed, two days before his decease. 

 W. T. and J. H." This is quoted from the Rev. 

 W. B. Hawkins's Introduction to Pickering's edition of 

 1842; and a similar account, with unimportant va- 

 riations, is given in " N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 292, : see- 

 also Vol. v., p. 229,, and Vol. vi., p. 537.] 



