2-4 S. VI. 154., Disc. 11. 68.] 



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either of his father's brothers, William or Ash- 

 ley ? The latter was of course mother to Lady 

 Hesketh, but no allusion appears to her (as far 

 as I can recollect), in any of the poet's letters, 

 though to Lady H.'s father there are many. Re- 

 specting the family of William, the elder uncle 

 of the poet, CoUins's account {Peerage of Earl 

 C'owper) does not seem very clear or full. Ap- 

 parently his children were much older than the 

 poet, and his grandchildren rather the cotera- 

 poraries of their talented relative. We can 

 hardly imagine his aunt, the wife of William 

 Cowper (Joan Budget, see Nichols's Literary 

 Illustrations, vi. 84.), surviving to express (as 

 one of this lady's poems does) much spiritual 

 enjoyment in attending St. M — W — , most pro- 

 bably St. Mary Woolnoth, during the ministry of 

 Eev. J. Newton, who did not settle there till 

 1779. 



To their granddaughter, however (the daughter 

 of their daughter Judith, married to Colonel Ma- 

 dan, see Collins), who married another cousin. 

 Major \\ illiam Cowper, and lived at the Park 

 near Hertford, there are many letters from the 

 poet, from the time of his residence at St. Al- 

 ban's. These all bear more or less on religious 

 subjects, and he evidently regarded her as fully 

 partaking of his evangelical views. This lady's 

 name appears also among the list of subscribers 

 to Middleton's Biographia Evangelica. Nichols 

 {Literary Anecdotes, iii. 61.) mentions Mrs. Ma- 

 dan, and adds that she " transmitted her poetical 

 taste and devotional spirit to a daughter." May 

 we therefore assign to this Mrs. Cowper the 

 volume in question ? 



It may be worth mentioning with reference to 

 the hymn of which so much has already been 

 said in these pages, that its first line stands — 



" Come, thou/oM< of every blessing," 

 in the book intitled 



"A Collection of Psalms and Hymns from various 

 Authors, for the Use of serious and devout Christians of 

 every Denomination, 1774," 



selected, I have reason to believe, by Dr. Conyers 

 of Deptford. The omission of the single letter 

 which substitutes another word for that usual, 

 would naturally appear a printer's blunder, but 

 the first line of the hymn in the Index is identi- 

 cally the same. However, I have not found 

 this substitution in any other of the numerous 

 collections which I have examined on the subject. 

 In an edition of the collection to be sung in the 

 Countess of Huntingdon's chapels, 1778, (Query, is 

 this the first edition, or not?) it stands almost 

 verbatim as in the well-known " Select Psalms 

 and Hymns" published by the Religious Tract 

 Society. By-the-bye, perhaps I may be allowed 

 to state that tiie compiler of this selection, who was 

 peculiarly interested in examining the authorship 



of various hymns, always attributed this to 31r. 

 Robinson of Cambridge, and did so on the au- 

 thority of his mother, who was identified with 

 the religious circle in the metropolis in the days 

 of Newton, Komaine, and others. In a collec- 

 tion by Mr. Cadogan of Reading the hymn stands, 

 as usual, for the first four lines. Then it fol- 

 lows : — 



"1. 

 " Tell me from thy heavenly fulness, 

 Brought bj' Jesus from above; 

 Raise me from my earthly dulness, 

 Raise me to the mount of love ! 



"2. 

 " Here, upon the Rock of Ages, 

 Fixed, Jehovah's face I view ; 

 Here, upon inspired pages 



Feeding, 1 my strength renew: 

 Here I'll sing, how Jesus souglit rae, 

 Wandering from tlie fold of God ; 

 Slave to sin, how Jesus bought me, 

 Bought me with His precious blood." 



Verse 3. stands as usual, and closes the hymn. 

 This variation seems peculiar to this collection. 

 Do any correspondents of " N. & Q." remember 

 it elsewhere ? S. M. S- 



FAMILY OF BAEENTIKE. 



(2°« S. V. 14. 97.) 



The family of De Barenton, spoken of by Mk. 

 Holt White as settled in Essex before the Con- 

 quest, is apparently not the same as the Norman 

 family of De Barentine that Mr. Berteand Payne 

 inquires about. And I believe that in our an- 

 cient records the family of De Barintono or Ba- 

 rentono, and that of De Barentino, will be found 

 to be in general kept carefully distinct. I have 

 some recollection of having seen it stated (I can- 

 not tell where, but I think it must have been in 

 one of Mr. De Gerville's Memoirs), that the place 

 that the Norman family of Barentin derived its 

 name from was Barentin, — between Rouen and 

 Yvetot, where there is now a railway station. 



Me. Berteand Payne supposes that the Nor- 

 man family of Barentin first settled in England in 

 the fifteenth century, but there appears to be 

 abundant evidence that at least a branch of this 

 family was settled in England at a much earlier 

 period, — so early, indeed, as to render it proba- 

 ble that they were subjects of the English crown 

 as far back as the time when Normandy was 

 lost. 



In the reign of Hen. III., Drogo de Barentin — 

 who, I believe, was indisputably a member of the 

 Norman family — may be said to have been almost 

 continually in the service of the crown. It is re- 

 corded of him, in 1222, that he was one of the 

 knights who had been with Robert de Vipont 

 (see Rott. Lilt. Clam., vol. i. p. 500.) In 1223, he 



