The Soviety’s MSS.—Note I. 229 
it appears that the mortgage was then held by “Mary Vilett, 
widow, and executrix of Charles Vilett, deceased, formerly Mary 
f Calley.” We have here, presumably, Charles Vilett, son of Charles, 
the executor and residuary legatee named in Mr. Arthur Vilett’s 
_ In the parish register of Wroughton the name occurs :— 
1660, April 15th, William, son to John Vilett, borne. 
. 1671, March 30th, Grace, daughter to Mr. Richard Vilett, 
baptized. 
1681, July 29th, Elizabeth, daughter to Charles Violett, gent., 
baptized. 
1729, June Sth, J asper York and Bridget Vilet, married. 
1673, October 28th, Mrs. Vilett, buried. 
_ One at least of the above entries appears to refer to the descendants 
_ of Richard Vilett, second son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Stephens). 
This Richard is said, in the pedigree above referred to, to have had 
issue three sons, Richard, Nicholas, and Edmund. The youngest, 
Edmund, is possibly intended in the following extract from the 
Alumni :—“ Vilett, Edmund, s. Arthur, of Swindon, Wilts, gent.,” 
who matriculated at St. John’s, 6th April, 1666, aged 16. It does 
r ot appear that Arthur Vilett had any son Edmund, and it is not 
impossible that the “‘s. Arthur ” is a misreading, or an actual error 
of the scribe. The subsequent career of this Edmund was not 
undistinguished. He became B.A. 15th March, 1669-70; M.A., 
22nd March, 1672-3; B.D., 5th June, 1679; and was “ esquire 
bedel of divinity,” 1681—1706. Claims of kin, and claims of 
county, have all long since been condemned as retrograde and 
anachronisms. .The ‘poor scholar” has not thereby in the least 
profited, but that is beside the mark. All we are entitled to say 
is that the lads who were founders’ kin did become esquire bedels, 
bis hops, and so forth; and the last fruit of the old system, it may 
be noted, was the most distinguished Rector Lincoln ever possessed, 
despair of an excluded Peri all the gates of all the colleges shut 
gainst”’ him. 
