Feb. 17. 1855.] 



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done in order to be in the country at the time when 

 the D. of Lorrain was to come to Houghton. I 

 din'd at Houghton last Thursday, and observed 

 that the preparations for the reception of his 

 Highnesse were very great. On Saturday his 

 Highnesse came, and with him Count Kinski, 

 Count Althan, Gen" Nieubourg and Gen'^ Die- 

 mar, the Dukes of Grafton, Richmond, Newcastle, 

 and Devonshire. My Lord Essex, Delaware, 

 Scarborough, Albemarle, Baltimore, Lovell, Port- 

 more and Lifibrd. Besides severall persons of 

 distinction. 



I was at Ho — n on Saturday last, and had the 

 honour to be presented to the Duke of Lorrain 

 (with some other gent'"), and afterward din'd 

 with him in the Great Hall, at the most magnifi- 

 cent entertainm* I ever yet saw. The table 

 where the D. of Lorrain din'd was serv'd with 

 twice 26 dishes : and after that a noble disert of 

 more (prepared by Mr. Lambert, the King's con- 

 fectioner, who attends all the time to furnish the 

 disert). The second table, where I din'd, was 

 twice serv'd with 16 dishes, and afterw'' with a 

 disert suitable. 



The greatest rarities were there in greatest 

 plenty. And everything appeared with the 

 greatest elegance, as well as grandeur, and manag'd 

 with the greatest order and oeconomy. 

 ^ The same method of entertainm* will be con- 

 tinu'd all the time his Highnesse stays there ; w*^** 

 will be till Fryday next. 



The Duke himself appears to be affable and 

 easy ; and after dinner was over, seem'd to be gay 

 and pleasant as if he lik'd his company, and made 

 himself one with them, 



The crowd of visitants upon this occasion is 

 inconceivable. And the going out in the morning 

 to hunt, looks more like an army than a body of 

 sportsmen. I should have been in the field to- 

 day, but that it has prov'd so thorough bad, that 

 it was neither fit for hunting nor visiting : to- 

 morrow I hope I shall not be prevented. But 

 I have already been too tedious, and it is time to 

 put a stop to what might farther be said upon 

 this subject. 



I am very glad to hear Mr. Musgrave is well, 

 and I hope you will favour me with the tender of 

 my humble respects to him. 



I take this opportunity, with pleasure, to kiss 

 jour hands : and to assure you that I am, with 

 the greatest respect, 

 S% 

 Yo"" most obedient and most humble 

 Serv', 



Hen. Hare. 

 I must not forget my old friend Mr. Mason, 

 liiope he is well. 



DEAK BUX. 



(Vol. xi., p. 49.) 



Since writing the preceding article, I have ob- 

 tained the following notices of the family in Hert- 

 fordshire. 



A Dr. Bill was Rector of Wallington, having 

 succeeded William De Thorntoft, who was instil 

 tuted 2 Edward IL (Chauncy.) 



Roger Bill, cap., was instituted 26th August, 

 1418, to the vicarage of Weston, by Bishop Re- 

 pingdon of Lincoln. 



Roger Bille was linstituted to the Rectory of 

 Aspenden during the episcopate of Bishop Aln- 

 wick (1436—1450). Walter Dale succeeded, 

 15 th July, 1447, upon the death of Roger Bille. 



John Bill, Clk., S.T.B., was instituted to the 

 rectory of Letchworth, 13th February, 1597. 



John Bill, S.T.B., was instituted to the arch- 

 deaconry of St. Albans, a.d. 1604. (Clutter buck.) 



Dr. Thomas Bill received 12/. lOs. per quarter 

 as one of the physicians to Henry VIH. 



In the Princess Mary's " Privy Purse Ex- 

 penses," under June, 1543, is entered, "Item, 

 payed to Docto"" bill for a wagier that hir gee lost 

 to hyme, x li." (Madden.) 



King Edward VI., by letters patent dated 

 2nd March in the fifth year of his reign (1551), 

 granted the chantry of Rowney, together with 

 divers lands, tythes, &c., in the parishes and places 

 of Rowney, Sacomb, Stondon, and Great and 

 Little Munden, co. Herts, to Thomas Bill, the 

 late king's physician, and Agnes his wife, and to 

 the heirs and assigns of the said Thomas Bill for 

 ever. Thomas Bill, by his will dated 1st June, 

 1551, devised these premises, after the death of 

 his wife Agnes, to his daughter Margaret, who 

 married Michael Harris of Grawell, co. Hants, 

 Gent, (compare with Burke's account above). 

 Michael and Margaret Harris sold the estate in 

 38 Eliz. (1595-6) to John Heming the Elder, of 

 Rowney,. yeoman. (Clutterbuck.) 



Ann, wife of William Branfield of Clothall, one 

 of the daughters of John Byll of Ashwell, gentle- 

 man, died 5th November, 1578. Mont. Insc. at 

 Clothall. (Chauncy.) Patohcb. 



(Vol. X., p. 264.) 



Hozer is a misprint of Hoijer, a Swedish, not 

 a German, metaphysician. Sturzenbecher {Die 

 neue Schwedische Literatiir, p. 29., Leipzig, 1850) 

 says that he had prepared to edit a new literary 

 journal, and condescended (demufhigte sicJi) to 

 solicit permission, but could not obtain it, as the 

 king thought one such work enough for the whole 

 kingdom. Sturzenbecher sliows his dissent from 

 the royal judgment by calllng^ Hoijer the " Phi- 



