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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 83. 



Duchess of Buckingham (Vol. iii., p. 281.). — 

 There is one circumstance omitted by P. C. S. S., 

 in his remarks upon the Duchess of Buckingliam, 

 which exfJains why a Phipps, on being called to 

 the peerage, chose the titles of Mulgrave and 

 Kormanby, 



By her second husband — the Duke of Buck- 

 ingham and Normanby — she had one son, who 

 succeeded to the title and estates; but, dying un- 

 married during his mother's lifetime, becjueathed 

 to her all the Mulgrave and Normanby property. 

 Her daughter (by her first marriage wiih James 

 Annesley, third Earl of Anglesey) was then the 

 wife of Mr. W. Phipp.=, son of Sir Constanfine 

 Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland : to their 

 issue, Constantine Phipps, first Lord Mulgrave, 

 the Duchess left by tvill these estates; tlms founding 

 her grandson's fortune, although she did not live 

 to see hinv created tlie first Baron ^lulgrave. 



The ShefBeld Buckingham family, although ex- 

 tinct in the male line, is represented iu the lemale 

 branch by the Sheffield Dicksons ; Mrs. Dickson, 

 the widow of Major Dickson, of the Life-Guards, 

 being in direct descent fi-om the Lady Catherine 

 Darnley's husband, by another wife. A. B. 



liedland, April 13. 



Swearing by the Peacock (Vol. iii., p. 70.).— 

 Swearing in the presence of a peacock, referred to 

 by T. J., from Dr. Lingard's History of England, 

 time of Edward I., is, witli the ceremony observed 

 at the Feast of the Peacock, in tlie thirteenth cen- 

 tury, related at full by j\Ir. Knight in his Old 

 England, pp.311, and 312.; and the representa- 

 tion of tlie Feast from the Bran of Kobert 

 Braunche, in the choir of St. Margaret's Church 

 at Lynn (a mayor of Lynn), who died October 15, 

 13C4, is given fig. 1088. Blowen. 



Howe Family (Vol. iii., p. 3J3.). — Your coire- 

 spondent who asks what was the connexion of the 

 Howes with the royal family, will find in Wal- 

 pole's Reminiscences (ch. ii.) that Charlotte Vis- 

 countess Howe, the motlier of Captain Howe, 

 afterwards the celebrated admiral, and of General 

 Sir William Howe, was the daughter of George I. 

 by Madame Kehnansegge, Countess of Platen, 

 created iu England Countess of Darlington. C. 



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