246 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 74. 



and Doge of Genoa. Details of several branches 

 of tlie "family will be found in Saggi Islorici 

 D' Antichitd Toscane di Lorenzo Cantini : Firenze, 

 1798. 



Among tlie junta of twenty noblemen of Venice, 

 cliosen in 1355, on the discovery of the conspiracy 

 of Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, we find tlie 

 name of " Ser Niccolo Volpe" : — 



" Questi [que' del Consiglio c!e' Dieci] elcsscro tra 

 loro una Giunta, nella nntte, ridotti quasi sul romper 

 del giorno, di veiiti iiobili di Vinezia de' migliori, de' 

 piu savii, e de' pin aniichi, per cnnsultave, nou pero 

 die inettessero pallottola." — VILt Ducnm Fendorum, — 

 thonjrli tlie title is in Latin, the work is in Italian, — 

 published in Muratori's lieruni Ualicnrum Scriptores, 

 torn. xii. p. 634. 



The following particulars arc extracted from 

 the Biographie Universelle : — 



" Ivo. Biliotti, d une famille patricienne de Florence 

 (qui avoit fourni dix Gonfaloniers de Justice a cette 

 rcpuhlique, et place ses armes sur les monnaies do 

 I'ctat), fut un des derniers def'enseurs de la liberte de 

 sa patric, et un dos meilleurs capitaines de son temps. 

 En 1529, il defendit le fort de Spello, en Toscane, 

 conlre les troupes liguees du papa et de I'Empereur 

 Charles Quint. II obligea le prince d'Orange, qui les 

 commandait, a se retirer, et sc distingua anssi au siege 

 de Florence. II passa au service de Francois I^', roi 

 de F'rance, avec dc Gondi et Pierre de Strozzi, ses 

 parents, et fut tnc au siege de Dieppe. Une partie de 

 ia famille Biliotti, proscrite par les Medicis, se refugia 

 a. Avignon et dans le comtat Venaissin, vers la fin du 

 15° siecle. Le 29 juillet, 1794, le chef de cette maison, 

 Joseph Joachim, Marquis de Biliotti, chevalier de St. 



Louis, age de soixante-dix ans, aussi distingue par ses 

 vertus que par sa naissance, fut la derniero victime du 

 tribiMial revolutionnaire d'Orange, qui fut suspcndu le 

 lendeniaiu de sa raort." 



Tiie only particTilars of Tovanni Volpe furnished 

 by the Gwerclas ]\ISS. are given in the annexed 

 pedigree. The marriage of his daughter Frances 

 with my ancestor, Richard Hughes of Gwerclas, 

 arose from the Latter (before his accession to the 

 family estates and representation, consequent on the 

 decease without issue — Febru.iry 6, 18 James I., 

 1620-1 — of his elder brotlier, Hiimffrey Hughes, 

 Esq., of Gwerclas, Baron of Cymmer-yn-Edeir- 

 nion. High Sherifl' of IMerionethshire in 1618) 

 having been secretary of the princely Cliffords, 

 Earls of Cumberland, to whom lovanni Volpe had 

 been physician. Tiiere can be little doubt that 

 lovanni was descended from a branch of the Italian 

 Volpes which had retained the ancient name ; a 

 supposition confirmed by the tr.ndition of my 

 fixmily, and by the fact of the fox being assigned 

 to his daughter Frances as her arms, in an em- 

 blazoned genealogy of the house of Gwerclas com- 

 piled in 1650 by the most accurate and eminent 

 of Welsh antiquaries, Robert Vaughan of Hen- 

 gwrt, Esq. 



I m.ay add, that among the Gwerclas pictures 

 .are portraits of Richard Hughes and Frances ; the 

 latter exhilMting in features and complexion the 

 uumistakeable impress of Italian lineage. 



Wir.LiAM Hughes. 



Twyford, Hants, March 18. 1851. 



William Wolpe. . 

 Arn]s,Vertafox 

 courant, proper. 



John WoLrc, alUcr Vulp, " An Italian 

 doctor; was ffamous in Qucene Eliza- 

 beth's tyme, went witli George Erie 

 of Cumberland most of his sea 

 voyages, and was with him at the 

 takeing of I'ortorico, in the Indies." 



, " Descended 



of the ffamily of the Monn- 

 taynes in Yorkshire, who 

 keepe the name this d.aye 

 [1622.]." 



RiCHAlVn EVERS (1st) = FilANCES, 



" Of the ffamily of daughter.'' 



Evers of Coventry." 



" Sole 

 Died 

 29 June, irsC, 

 circa at. SO. 



(2nd) RiciiARn Hughes, Esq., of 

 Gwerclas, co. Merioneth, Baron of 

 Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion. Married 



2 Nov. 1601. Died 21 March, 1641, 

 circa ast. 80. 



RlCHAUT) Llovd 

 of Vaerdre [in 

 Edeirnion, co. 

 Merioneth]. 



" Had issue sonnes and daughters, now [19 April, 

 1622] liveing." 



Martha, " Only daughfer." 

 Born 25 January, 1599. 

 Married, 27 June, 1G16. 



HuJiFFREY Hughes, Esq., of Gwerclas, 

 Baron of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, son 

 and heir. High SlicrilFof Merioneth- 

 shire in 1670. Born 14 Aug. 1605. 

 Buried at Llangar in Edeirnion, 

 4 May, 1682. X 



