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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58. 



On Huh Hewet. 

 "Here lyes rich Hewet, a gentleman of note, 

 For why ? — He gave 3 owles in his Coate *, (4) 

 Ye see he is buried in the church of St. Paule, 

 . He was wise — because rich — and now you know all." 

 Extracted from a magazine called The Mirror 

 (1823), vol. ii. p. 293., said to be from Cam- 

 den's Remains. 



This tomb was near Dean Colet's, but was re- 

 moved with Sir William Cockaine and others to 

 the yard where a new convocation-house has 

 been erected, when the " ghastly entablature " (as 

 some author, I forget who, terms it) of skulls, 

 skeletons, bones, hour-glasses, scythes, shovels, 

 pickaxes, coffins, and other emblems of mortality 

 with which the tomb, accoi-ding to the peculiar 

 taste prevailing in that century, was profusely de- 

 corated, was then destroyed. 



Where, in Camden's Remains, does this mock 

 epitaph occur ?| and does this monument still 

 exist ? 



This William, Esquire, of London and Killa- 

 march is too often confounded (as in the case of 

 the pedigree of Hewet of Pishiobury, Viscount 

 Hewet, given in Clutterbuck's History of Herts) 

 with Sir William, Knight, Lord Mayor of London, 

 1560, (Oct. 4th, 15G0, letter from Queen to Sir 

 William Hewett, Lord Mayor, to affix the mark of 

 a greyhound and portcullis on testoons in cur- 

 rency to distinguish the base from the better sort, 

 Cal. State Papers, vol. xiv. Lemon,) twice Mayor 

 according to some, born at Wales, York., who, in 

 accordance with the provisions of his will (proved 

 1566) was buried with his wife Alice, daughter of 

 Leveson of Kent, and his daughter Ann, spouse of 

 Sir Edward Osborne, in St. Martin's, Orgur (^oide 

 also Stowe), and who died, leaving by his said 

 wife Alice (not three sons, as I have seen stated, 

 probably in confusion of this William of Killa- 

 march and London), one only daughter and heiress, 

 Ann (of whom Stowe i-elatcs a romantic story), 

 who married Sir Edward Osborne, and who, con- 

 veying to her husband the manor of Harthill, ad- 

 joining AVales and on the border of Derby and 

 York, and Bylbye and Kanbye, Notts (on the 

 border), founded the fortunes of the ducal house 

 of Leeds. 



This William of Killamarch or" Kynolmarch" 

 was a cousin of Leonard Hewett {vide will, 1563), 

 brother of Sir AVilliam, the Lord Mayor, and con- 

 sequently of Sir William himself; and surely Ly- 

 sons is in error in stating that Killamarch passed 

 to the Osbornes. Here again appears to exist an 

 instance of confounding the two contempo) aneous 

 Williams. To me it seems that it never did, nor 

 could, have belonged to Sir William himself, who 

 mentions all his property in his will ; but I con- 



* Alluding to arms, gu. a cliev. ongr. between 3 owls 

 arg. 



[t At p. 515., edit. 1674.] 



fess I do not know how Robert of Killamarch 

 became possessed of it, nor how, when, or to whom 

 it passed away; yet I do know that the lands at 

 Killamarch and Wales, parishes adjoining one 

 another, though situate in different counties, be- 

 longed to the same family. 



Wills and all other evidences negative, nay dis- 

 prove, Lysons' supposition, and it must have con- 

 tinued in the family of Hewett of Killamarch (an 

 ancient family long settled in Yorkshire, says 

 Wotton in his Baronetage, Art. "Hewett of Head- 

 ley Hall, York "), which Yorkshire family (pre- 

 viously from Kent) possessed property in York- 

 shire, Derby, Notts, and Northampton. I am 

 aware positively that documents exist among the 

 muniments of some of the gentry residing in that 

 neighbourhood, which, could I but inspect them, 

 would not only settle this point, but prove the 

 pedigree some centuries back, and I hope some 

 day to be accorded that favour. 



I thank Mr. Eastwood for his communication 

 (2""^ S. vi. 382.) respecting this family, and would 

 feel infinitely obliged if Mr. E., or any other 

 reader or correspondent, would inform me how 

 and when the lands at Killamarch fell into the 

 possession of, and passed away from it. Are there 

 any entries in the parish register books (name 

 spelled, temp. Henry VIII. generally Huet), and 

 do any memorials, arms, or tombs exist? 



Families of Hewett. — And I now proceed to 

 redeem in part my promise (p. 332.) to unravel 

 the tangled thread of the descent of the families 

 of Hewett of Headlcy Hall, York, afterwards of 

 Wareslcy, Hunts., Bt. ; the Hewetts of Pishio- 

 bury, Herts, extinct in main line with Viscount 

 Hewett ; the Hewetts of Shire-oaks, Notts, and 

 York, and the Hewetts of Stretton, Leicester, 

 now Barts. I may here remark en passant that 

 I have discovered, since I wrote the notes (p. 

 332.) on Hewetts of Ampthill and Millbrooke, 

 evidence which leads me to believe that some 

 truth exists in the statement of the Visitation of 

 Leicester (quoted in Nichols's History and An- 

 tiquities of that county, and in " N. & Q." 2""* S. 

 vi. 332.) that the Hewetts of Stretton, who are 

 indubitably descended from the family which 

 possessed property in York, Derby, Notts, and 

 Northampton, from Manor Hewits or Hewats, 

 Kent, were connected with the Hewetts of Ampt- 

 hill and Millbrooke, and in consequence deduced 

 from that ancient family : but the point is not 

 yet decisively proved. 



The foregoing epitaph coincides with the Visi- 

 tations of London (Harl. MS. 1096, fol. 67, 1634- 

 1664), except that these give the date of death 

 (3) 28th June instead of 12th, and the Baronet- 

 ages (Collins, Kimber and Johnson, Betham, 

 Playfair, Dcbret, and Burke, extinct and dormant) 

 are correct so far as concerns the line of the eldest 

 son John (also Visitation Herts, 1634, Harl. 1547, 





