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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. IX. Mar. 24. '60. 



the eldest of whom, John, was a knight of Malta, 

 whose tomb is still to be seen in the church of 

 St. John's at Malta. The next generation of this 

 line about the end of the sixteenth century gave 

 a younger son Henry, who, going to Ireland, 

 founded Castle Upton, and became the progeni- 

 tor of the Barons Templetown of Castle Upton. 

 From a younger generation again of the Upton 

 family sprang the branch of Clyde Court. The 

 present representative of the Lupton branch re- 

 sides at Ingmire Hall in Westmoreland, in conse- 

 quence of a marriage by his ancestor with the 

 heiress of that place. 



John Upton of Poselynche married Elizabeth 

 daughter of John Burleigh of Clannacombe, De- 

 von, and had issue, 1. John; 2. Nicolas; 3. Wil- 

 liam ; 4. Thomas ; Elizabeth, Agnes, and Marga- 

 ret. John, the eldest, born in 1498, died s. p. 

 1527, having married Elizabeth the daughter of 

 Patrick Bellew, and was succeeded by his bro- 

 ther Nicolas in Poselynche. This Nicolas, who 



having married Edburga, the daughter of 



Troise of Hampshire, died s. p. in 1568, cut a 

 considerable figure as farmer of the Devonshire 

 lands, particularly Yealmpton and Stokenham*, of 

 Margaret Plantagenet, the Countess of Sarum, the 

 daughter of George Duke of Clarence and Isabel 

 Neville. On his death he was succeeded in Pose- 

 lynch by his brother William, in whose line the 

 succession was perpetuated. 



It is this Nicolas Upton, then, whom Prince 

 supposes to be Dr. Upton the Herald ; but from 

 the date of his death it will be clear to every one 

 that he cannot be the learned Chauntor of Salis- 

 bury. Through William Upton, the third brother, 

 who succeeded Nicolas by a descent of six gene- 

 rations, came an heiress, Mary Upton, who mar- 

 ried in 1726 James Yonge of Plymouth, by whose 

 great-grandson Puslinch is still held. 



It is quite clear, then, that neither Lupton 

 nor Puslinch can boast of being the birth-place of 

 our hero. If he came of this family of Upton at 

 all, he must have had his birth-place at Trelaske 

 or Upton before the time of Thomas Upton and 

 Joana Trelawney. 



There were, however, many other families of 

 Upton in different counties of England at a very 

 early period, but, I confess, to none of them have 

 I been able to trace the Doctor. 



A Descendant of the Uptons. 



P.S. In a pedigree given by Burke in his 

 Landed Gentry, under the head of " Upton of 

 Ingmire Hall," I see that a great error is com- 

 mitted in the children of Thomas Upton of Tre- 

 laske and Joana Trelawny his wife. His son and 

 heir is called Arthur, and is made father of Jef- 

 frey. I know this to be incorrect, for I have scraps 

 of pedigrees attached to the fine passed by Jeffrey 



* Chancery suit copy, penes John Yonge. 



in 1556, in which the family is drawn out in its 

 different branches with great minuteness. I have 

 said before that Thomas Upton's sons were three : 

 John, William (the progenitor of Jeffrey), and 

 John of Poselynche. This third son, John of 

 Poselynche, had two sons John and William of 

 Lupton ; not John and John, as Burke says in the 

 same pedigree, and quotes Play/air as an autho- 

 rity. Playfair must have mistaken his authority, 

 for it is evident the two brothers called John were 

 sons of Thomas Upton. I have certain evidence 

 that the first Upton who settled at Lupton was 

 William. 



THE SINEWS OF WAR. 



(2nd S. ix. 103.) 



Cicero, in his Fifth Philippic Oration, c. 2, 

 uses the expression, "nervi belli, pecunia infinita." 

 The truth of the received saving that money is 

 the sinews of war, is contested by Machiavelli in 

 his Discorsi, written in 1516. See Disc. ii. 10. 

 "I danari non sono il nervo della guerra, secondo 

 che e la comune opinione." In this discourse 

 Machiavelli states that the saying in question is 

 employed by Quintus Curtius on the occasion of 

 the war between Antipater and the King of 

 Sparta. According to his citation Quintus 

 Curtius describes Agis as compelled by want of 

 money to give battle ; whereas, if he had been 

 able to defer the engagement for a few days, the 

 news of Alexander's death would have reached 

 Greece, and Agis would have conquered without 

 fighting. The historian, says Machiavelli, de- 

 clares for this reason that money is the sinews of 

 war. I have not succeeded in finding the passage 

 indicated by Machiavelli. The account of the 

 defeat and death of Agis occurs at the mutilated 

 beginning of the sixth book — but it contains no 

 such remark as Machiavelli describes. The 

 chronology, moreover, does not agree with his 

 representation of the circumstances in which Agis 

 was placed, and of the advantage which he would 

 have gained by the delay of a few days : for the 

 death of Agis took place about October 331 B.C., 

 and the death of Alexander did not occur till 

 June 323 B.C., nearly eight years afterwards. L. 



A correspondent of " N. & Q." of this date 

 inquires whether the expression " Money the 

 sinews of war," can be traced to its source. I 

 beg to refer him to Tacitus, Hist. lib. ii. c. 84. 

 " Sed nihil Eeque fatigabat qua.m pecuniarum 

 conquisitio : eos esse belli civilis nervos dictitans 

 Mucianus non jus aut verum in cognitionibus, sed 

 solam magnitudinem opum spectabat." It is thus 

 rendered by Sir Henry Savile : " But the greatest 

 difficultie was to get money : which Mutianus 

 affirming to he the sinews of civill ivarre, respected 





