NOTES AND QUERIES: 



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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" 'When found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. 



Vol. IV.— No. 93.] 



Saturday, August 9. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Lady Hopton ...--- 



Notes on Newspapers — Tlie Times, by II. M. Bealby - 

 Folic Lore : Devonshire Superstitions - - - 



Minor Notes :— Curious Inscription— Glass in Windows 

 formerly not a Fixture— D' Israeli : Pope and Gold- 

 smith ....--- 



Queries : — 



On a Song in Scott's Pirate—" Fire on the Maintop " - 

 Minor Queries :— Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar ? 



— Tale of a Tub — Cleopatra's Needle _ Pair of 



Curols Cowper Law — Order of Greenwich —House 



of Yvery — Entomological Query — Spenser's Por- 

 traits —Borrow's Bible in Spain — Dogmatism and 

 Puppyism — A Saxon Bell-house ... 



Minor Quebies Answehed : — Cycle of the Moon — 

 Cocker's Arithmetic— Sanskrit Elementary Books — 

 Townley MSS.,&c. — " Man is born to trouble," &c.- 



Replies : — 



Bellarmin's Monstrous Paradox - • - . 



The Gookins of Kent, by Edward Armstrong - 

 Curious Monumental Inscription, by S. W. Singer 

 The late Mr. William Hone, by Douglas Allport 

 Plaids and Tartans ..-•-- 

 The Caxton Memorial, by Bolton Corney 

 Lady Flora Hastings' Bequest, by the Marchioness of 



Bute ..---- 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Inscription on an old 



Board — Churches decorated at Christmas — Royal 



Library — Proof a Sword — Dr. Young's " Narcissa" 



— Circulation of the Blood — Dr. Elrington's Edition 

 of Ussher— Was Stella Swift's Sister? — The Mistle- 

 toe — Family of Kyme— The Leman Baronetcy— Cure 

 for .Ague ..-.-- 



Miscellaneous : — 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - 



Notices to Correspondents . - . - 



Advertisements ..... 



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LADY ilOPTON. 



I have thought that the followinp; old letter, 

 rehitive to a family once of some distinction, and 

 especially as describing; a very remarkable indivi- 

 dual, from whom a multitude of living persons are 

 iuiinediatuly descended, might be of sufficient In- 

 terest to occupy a place in "Notes and Queries." 

 It has never, that I am aware of, been published ; 

 but it has long been preserved, amongst similar 

 papers, with the accomj)anying cndor.sement ; — 

 " rhough Mr. Ernie's letter relating to Lady 



Hopton and her family contains some fabulous 

 accounts, and is in some parts a little unintelligible, 

 yet it may be urged in confirmation of the truth of 

 the several descents therein mentioned. He was 

 the son of Sir John Ernie, and could not but have 

 some general knowledge of his grandmother's 

 relations." 



This Mr. Ernie, afterwards knighted, died 

 A.D. 1686. 



Sir Arthur Hopton lived at Withani Friary, 

 CO. Somerset, and the heroine of this document 

 was, according to the pedigree in Sir K.. C. Hoare's 

 Monastic Remains of Witham, &c., Rachel, daugh- 

 ter of Edmund Hall of Gretford, co. Lincoln, Esq. 

 The date of Sir Arthur's death is not there given, 

 but he was made a K.B. in 1603. C. W. B. 



" I will give you as good an account as I can re- 

 member of our wise & good Grandmother Hopton, 

 who I think was one Hall's daughter of Devonshire 

 without title, & had an elder brother, without child, 

 who said to his younjfer brother's wife, who ivas then 

 with child, if she would come to his house, & lie in, he 

 would give his estate to it if a daughter, & if a son it 

 should fare never the worse : so she had my grand- 

 mother, & he bretl her up & married her to Sir Arthur 

 Hopton of Somerset : who had 4000 a year, & she as 

 much. 



" By him she had IS children ; 10 daughters married; 

 whose names were : Lady Bacon, Lady Smith, Lady 

 Morton, Lady Bannister, & Lady Fettipiace ; Bing- 

 ham, Baskett, Cole, Thomas, & my Grandmother Ernie; 

 these daughters & their children have made a numerous 

 company of relations. The duke of Richmond, & Lord 

 Maynard married our Aunt Bannister's daughters & 

 heirs (one to Rogers, the other to Bannister).* Fetti- 

 piace, which was also Lord Jones, his daughter & 

 heiress married Lord Liimley, now Scarbro. 



" Cole's heir to Popham of Wilts : & Hungerford, & 

 Warnford married Jones, & some Jlackworth, & 

 Wyndham in Wales ; some Morgan, & Cammish, & 

 Kern, with many others that I have forgot. The sons 



(* "The Lady Bannister's first husband was Rlr. 

 Rogers, of Rrenson (JwJii Bryanston) near Blandford, 

 in Dorsetshire : l)y him slie had the Dutchess of 

 Richmond, who was heiress to him : she had another 

 dauglUcr of Sir Robt. Bannister, who married Lord 

 Mainard." — Added in another Version.') 



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