Dec. 24. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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de Carteret, Sir William Armourer : — the first 

 by Charles I. ; the four following by Charles II. 



G. S. S. 



Martyn the Regicide. — Was Martyn the regi- 

 ■cide married or not ? If married, is it known 

 whether he had children ? and if any of his chil- 

 dren settled in Ireland, and became possessed of 

 property in that country ? E. A. G. 



History of the Nonjurors. — What are the best 

 authorities for the history of the Nonjurors and 

 their sufferings ? Of course, Lathbury, Hickes's 

 Life of Kettletvell, &c. are well known. Whence 

 <;ame their adopted motto : " Caetera quis nescit ? " 

 Any reader who would communicate any inform- 

 ation on these points to C. R. would confer a 

 favour. C. R. 



Florin and the Royal Arms. — What is the au- 

 thority for placing the national arms (which are 

 by royal proclamations ordered to be borne 

 quarterly in ratification of the respective unions, 

 and to be borne under one imperial crown) in 

 separate shields ? They surely cannot with any 

 heraldic propriety be so arranged. The absurdity 

 was remarked in the reign of the Georges, for by 

 the separation of the coats the arms of the German 

 dominions of George I. obtained the second place, 

 viz. the dexter side, with France on the sinister, 

 and Ireland at the bottom or fourth place. 



Mat o' the Mint. 



A Mistletoe Query. — Why has mistletoe the 

 privilege of allowing the fair sex to be kissed 

 under its branches, on condition that a berry is 

 plucked off at the time ? And also, when was this 

 first allowed ? * J. W. Aston (late of Trin. Col.) 



Seivell Family (Vol. viii., p. 521.). — Your cor- 

 respondent D. N. states, that " nothing farther is 

 known of the family of Lieut.-Col. Sewell, who 

 died in 1803, than that he had a son Thos. Bailey 

 Heath Sewell, Cornet in 32nd Light Dragoons, 

 and Lieutenant 4th Dragoon Guards." Had he 

 referred to Lodge's Peerage, he would have found 

 that the Honorable Harriet Beresford, fourth 

 daughter of the Most Rev. Wm. Beresford, Lord 

 Archbishop of Tuam, and first Baron Decies, 

 married Jan. 25, 1796, Thos. Henry Bermingham 

 (not Bailey) Daly Sewell, Esq. ; and died June 1 1, 

 1834, having had three children, viz. : 



1. Thomas, formerly Page of Honour to the 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, circa 1829, afterwards 

 a pensioner of Trin. Coll. Dublin, and subse- 

 quently Lieutenant 13th Light Infantry; who 

 died at Landour, Bengal, Aug. 1, 1836. 



[* This Query has been incidentally noticed in 

 « N. & Q.," Vol. v., pp. 13. 208.— Ed.] 



2. Isabella, who married her cousin Major Mar- 

 cus Beresford, in October, 1828 ; and died in 1836. 



3. Louisa, married to the Hon. Sir W. E. Leeson, 

 and died in 1849 or 1850. 



Will D. N. favour me with the dates of the 

 birth and death of the late unfortunate, and, as I 

 believe, ill-used Lieut.-General John Whitelocke, 

 whom he mentions, with the localities where the 

 birth and death occurred ? G. L. S. 



[We have submitted our correspondent's communi- 

 cation to D. N., who has kindly forwarded the follow- 

 ing reply : 



" My communication (Vol. viii., p. 521.) I was aware 

 was far from a perfect pedigree of the Sewell family, 

 and my object was to give such notices as might form 

 an outline to be filled up by some one more compe- 

 tently informed. Your correspondent G. L. S. has 

 very well supplied the ccetera desunt, where my inform- 

 ation terminated with the appointment of Cornet 

 Sewell to a Lieutenancy in the 4th (Royal Irish) 

 Dragoon Guards. In the London Gazette 13789, 

 June 23, 1795, he is inserted as 'Mr. Bermingham 

 Daly Henry Sewell' to be a cornet in the 32nd Light 

 Dragoons ; and as in filling up commissions much ac- 

 curacy is always considered very essential, I am dis- 

 posed to regard those Christian names as correct. 



" There was a Rev. George Sewell, Rector of By- 

 fleet, Surrey. Was he a brother of Lieut.-Col. Sewell 

 of the Surrey Light Dragoons ? 



" Did the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Sewell marry a 

 second wife ? For I find, in The Globe of October 9, 

 1820: 'Died, Saturday, Sept. 16, at Twyford Lodge, 

 Maresfield, Sussex, in her seventy-eighth year, Lady 

 Sewell, widow of the late Right Hon. Sir Thomas 

 Sewell, Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor, 

 &c.' Now, in Manning's Surrey, vol. iii. p. 201., it is 

 stated that Lieut.-Col. Sewell died in 1803, in his 

 fifty-eighth year, which would render it impossible for 

 him to be the son of the above-named Lady Sewell. 

 In Horsfield's Sussex, 4to., 1835, vol. i. p. 375., I find 

 a William Luther Sewell, Esq., who most probably 

 was connected by the second marriage, residing at the 

 above Twyford Lodge. 



" I regret that I cannot reply distinctly to the in- 

 quiries of G. L. S. respecting the late Lieut.-General 

 Whitelocke. I have ineffectually searched all the 

 various biographical dictionaries to that of the Rev. 

 H. J. Rose in twelve volumes, 1848, inclusive, without 

 having found one that has taken the least notice of him. 

 I had casu.illy heard, some years since, that he had 

 fixed his residence in Somersetshire, and that he had 

 died there ; which I find confirmed by a paragraph in 

 the Annual Register, vol. Ixxvi. for 1834 (^Chronicle'), 

 p. 218., which states that he died 'near Bath,' in 

 February, 1 834. With such scanty information on the 

 required points, I would still refer G. L. S. to a work 

 entitled The Georgiati jEra, in 4 vols,, London, 1832 ; 

 where he will find, in vol, ii. p. 475., a short military 

 memoir of Lieut.-General WHiitelocke, which is dis- 

 passionately and candidly written, and which accounts 

 very reasonably for the inauspicious result of his mili- 

 tary operations. There is one slight error in the 

 account of The Georgian ^ra, viz. in the date of the 



