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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. VI. 145., OCi'. 9. '58. 



Burton. The name Francis Pewterer is written 

 on the title-page. Is anything known of this gen- 

 tleman or his family ? 



Blount or Blunt family. Two persons of this 

 name, viz., Robert Blount, who settled in Suf- 

 folk, and William Blunt who settled in Lincoln- 

 shire, came to England with William the Conqueror : 

 the latter is (said by Kelham, in his illustrations 

 of Domesday Book), "supposed to have been 

 brother to Robert le Blund or Blount." Nicolas, 

 in his Synopsis of the British Peerage, gives five 

 generations of the descendants of Robert le Blund 

 (or Blount), terminating with William le Blund, 

 who was killed at the battle of Lewes in 1263; 

 he left no issue, and his two sisters shared his 

 lands. 



Thomas le Blount, supposed to have descended 

 from the above family, was summoned to Parlia- 

 ment, 132G and 1328, and William le Blount 

 from 1330 to 1337, when he died without issue, 

 and the barony became extinct. 



Walter Blount was created Baron Mountjoy of 

 Thurveston, co. Derby, 1465, and his heirs suc- 

 ceeded to that title until Charles Blount (who was 

 created Earl of Devonshire in 1603) died in 1606, 

 without issue. 



Mountjoy Blount (natural son of the last 

 baron) was created Baron Mountjoy in 1627, and 

 Earl of Newport in 1628; the title became ex- 

 tinct by the death of Henry Blount without issue 

 in 1681. The title of Baron Mountjoy was after- 

 wards conferred upon the Windsor family in 1711. 

 The Windsors were descendants, in the female 

 line, from the sister of Edward Blount, second 

 Baron Mountjoy. The Windsor family became 

 extinct, in the male line, in 1738. The title of 

 Viscount Mountjoy in the Isle of Wight was con- 

 ferred upon the Earl of Bute in 1796, and remains 

 in his family, I believe, to the present time, I do 

 not know, however, that this family is in any way 

 connected with the Blunts or Blounts. This lat- 

 ter family (Blunts) is now spread into seventeen 

 English counties, and the descent of the principal 

 or leading branch, and the connection and ramifi- 

 cations of the others, are, perhaps, impossible to 

 trace ; but I shall be glad of all the assistance 

 which the readers and correspondents of " N. & 

 Q." can render me, I have stated nearly all I 

 know upon the subject. 



Was Thomas Blount son of Myles Blount of 

 Orleton in Herefordshire, and the author oi F'^ag- 

 meuta Antiquitatis and Glossographia, and many 

 other works connected directly with the early 

 family of that name, and if so, how ? Thomas 

 Blount is said to have drawn up an account of his 

 family, which was published in the tlilid edition 

 of Henry Peacham's Complete Gentleman, Sfc, 

 London, 4to. 1661. This edition is very scai-ce, 

 I believe ; at least I have not been able to meet 

 with it. I should be very glad to know whether 

 it contains anything pertinent to this inquiry. 



Anthony h. Wood says that Thomas Blount (the 

 author of Glossographia, ^c.) was " of a younger 

 house, and of an ancient and noble family of his 

 name, and that he was a barrister in the Temple." 



Is Blunt or Blount the patronymical or ances- 

 torial name of this family ? Pishey Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Minav dhxttvieg. 



Quotation by Reginald Pecock. — Can anyone 

 inform me where the following citation occurs ? 

 Reginald Pecock, in his Repi-essor of over much 

 Blaming of the Clergy (fol. 110. b. MS. Cantabr. 

 K k. 4. 26.), having just quoted St. Jerome, pro- 

 ceeds thus : — 



" And another Chronicler saith in sentence thus: 'Eer 

 the Clergy of tlie Church was endued with uumovable 

 possessions, the clerks were holy and devout and ghostly ; 

 and by ensampling of so holy conversation, turned much 

 of the world into true faith and virtuous conversation, 

 and then also the clerks were ready for to put their lives 

 for witnessing of truth, and for the ghostly health of their 

 neighbours. And againward, after in time that the 

 clergy of the church was endued with unmovable goods, 

 the clergy decreased in holj' living and in all necessary 

 governances to the health of the church, which before the 

 said enduing they had ; and vices grew into the clergy 

 much thicker than before, as pride, ambition, vain-glory, 

 gluttony, lechery, covetousness, and specially simony 

 and such other.' " 



Churchill Babington. 



St. John's Coll., Cambridge. 



Bondage. — Could any contributor of " N. & Q." 

 inform me at about what period this system of 

 rural labour came into practice ? and about what 

 time was the term first used to designate the sys- 

 tem ? Bondage is practised chiefly in Berwick- 

 shire, Roxburghshire, Northumberland, and par- 

 tially in a few other counties of Scotland, and is 

 reckoned by the hinds, who have to provide the 

 boJidager,a, sad grievance and oppression. 



Mentanthes. 



" When the King enjoys his own again." — In Mr. 

 Chappell's Pojmlar Music of the Olden Time, pp. 

 434-5., there is the following quotation from Rit- 

 son : — 



" It is believed to be a fact that nothing fed the enthu- 

 siasm of the Jacobites, down almost to the present reign, 

 in every corner of Great Britain, more than The King shall 

 enjoy his own again; and even the great orator of the 

 party, in that celebrated harangue (which furnished the 

 present laureat with the subject of one of his happiest 

 and finest poems), was always thought to have alluded to 

 it in his remarkable quotation from Virgil — ' Carmina 

 tum melius cum venerit ipse canemus.' " 



On this arises the following Queries : Who was 

 the great orator ? What was the celebrated 

 harangue? Who the present laureat? and what 

 was tiie poem by that laureat which is alluded to ? 



M. C. 



