Mae. 25. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Devereux Boidy (Vol. ix., p. 173.). — In reply 

 to Uneda's inquiry, Devereux Bowly, watch- 

 maker, of Lombard Street, London, died Mar. 15, 

 1773, in his seventy-eighth year. 



He was a member of the Society of Friends, 

 and being at the time of his decease a widower, 

 and without family, he left a large portion of his 

 property to their school, then at Clerkenwell, in 

 the neighbourhood of which he resided. T. S. N". 



Reversible Names (Vol. viii., pp. 244. 655.). — 

 There is a gentleman in this island who bears the 

 name and surname of Xuaved Devaux, which are 

 mutually reversible. Henry H. Breen. 



St. Lucia. 



Your correspondent Balliolensis, in speaking 

 of reversible or palindromic English names, seems 

 to have overlooked the names of Hannah and 

 Anna. X. 



Duval Family (Vol. viii., pp. 318. 423.). — A 

 grant was made by the crown in Ireland on the 

 4th July, 1 James II., to Garret Wall, alias Du- 

 vall, sen., Esq. ; Garret Wall, alias Duvall, jun. ; 

 Jas. Wall, alias Duvall; and Michael Wall of the 

 manor, town, and lands of Culenemucky, co. Wa- 

 terford. J. F. Ferguson. 



Member of Parliament electing Himself (Vol. 

 viii., p. 586.). — In the article forwarded by 

 H. M. are many gross errors. William M'Leod 

 Bannatyne, Esq., was Sheriff of Buteshire from 

 Dec. 22, 1775, till May 28, 1799 ; during which 

 period there were only two county elections in 

 Buteshire, viz. April 22, 1784, and June 27, 1796 

 (the counties of Bute and Caithness being repre- 

 sented only in alternate parliaments), and on 

 neither of those occasions was he the sole free- 

 holder present. The statement in question can 

 therefore only refer to the election on Nov. 13, 

 1806, when, owing to some accidental circum- 

 stances, he was the only freeholder present. In 

 1799 he was raised to the Bench of the Court of 

 Session by the title of Lord Bannatyne ; and con- 

 sequently he neither did nor could act as sheriff 

 seven years after he ceased to hold that office. It 

 is true that, as a technical formality, he nominated 

 himself chairman of the meeting to enable him to 

 sign the minute of the election in that capacity ; 

 but it is not true that he either administered the 

 oaths to himself, or signed the return of the elec- 

 tion as sheriff. I was then a lad, and was present 

 as a spectator on that occasion, when I saw Mr. 

 Blain the sheriff-substitute administer the oaths to 

 Lord Bannatyne ; and, of course, Mr. Blain also 

 made the election return, certifying that "the 

 Honorable James Stuart Wortley Mackenzie of 

 Rosehaugh, &c. (a relation of the family of Bute) 

 had been duly elected." Thus you see that the 

 title of the article is quite erroneous, and is not 



even borne out by the original account, as the 

 freeholder did not elect himself, but another per- 

 son ; and he did not act in any other capacity than 

 that of a freeholder : the case being extraordinary 

 enough of only one freeholder attending at a 

 county election, without the addition of those 

 marvellous circumstances. J. M'K. 



Gresebroli, in Yorkshire (Vol. viii., p. 389.). : — 

 To assist your correspondent 'HpaxSmos, I may 

 tell him that the family he inquires about now 

 resides at Horton Castle and Audenham in Staf- 

 fordshire. Many years ago, when I took some 

 interest in genealogy, I had the pleasure of being 

 a guest of this family ; and I then heard it said, 

 that they could trace a very ancient and brilliant 

 line from one Osbert, who married a great heiress 

 at the Conquest, and that they were direct de- 

 scendants of the ancient kings of England. Some 

 of Mr. Burke's publications I think would assist 

 'HpaAdiKos ; not having them by me, I cannot give 

 the exact reference ; but some months ago I saw, 

 either in the Landed Gentry, or in the Visitations, 

 a note of the family.* But I think, if your cor- 

 respondent could by any means see Mr. Graze- 

 brooke's papers (as above noted), he would obtain 

 all the particulars he may require. Hospes. 



Charlotte Street, London. 



Sir Anthony Fitzherbert not Chief Justice (Vol. 

 viii., pp. 576. 631.). — The accompanying extract 

 will resolve the difficulty which M. W. 11. pro- 

 poses : 



" But here our author objects against himself: That 

 once upon a time the archbishop called a synod by his 

 own authority, without the king's licence ; and was 

 thereupon prohibited by Fitzherbert, Lord Chief Jus- 

 tice ; but the archbishop regarded not his prohibition. 

 What this is to his purpose I cannot tell, nor do I see 

 wherefore he brought it in, unless it were to blame 

 Rolle for quoting Speed for it. And therefore, in be- 

 half of both, I shall take the liberty to say thus much. 

 That I know not what harm it is for a man in his own 

 private collections — for such Itolle's Abridgment was, 

 though afterwards thought worthy of a public view — 

 to note a memorable passage of history, and make a 

 remark of his own upon it, out of one of the most 

 faithful and judicious of all our modern historians. 



" I have before taken notice of this passage, and that 

 not from Speed, but from Roger Hoveden ; from 



[* Ferdinando Smith, Esq., of Halesowen, born 

 March 26, 1779, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant, 

 and Lieut.-Colonel of the Worcester Militia, married 

 first, in July, 1802, Eloisa Knudson, who died s.p. 

 Sept. 14, 1805 ; and, secondly, Oct. 5, 1830, Elizabeth, 

 fourth daughter of Michael Grazebrook, Esq., of Aud- 

 nam, co. Stafford, by whom he left two surviving sons, 

 Ferdinando Dudley Lea, now of Halesowen, and Wil- 

 liam Lea, born Feb. 27, 1836. Colonel Smith died 

 July 20, 1841. — Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 1248. — 

 Ed.] 



