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1662, May 9. — Winifred Latham, described as the wife of 

 Latham, the King's Serjeant Falconer, petitions for 

 arrears of her late husband's salary. 



1662, May 13. — Warrant to pay her ^40 out of the privy 

 seal dormant of ^^10,000. 



The present possessor of the portrait, Mr. Frederick A. Holden, 

 claims descent through Frances, second daughter of Lewis 

 Latham. She married four times — (i) Lord Weston, (2) Wil- 

 liam Dungan, (3) Jeremiah Clarke, (4) William Vaughan. Her 

 son, Thomas Dungan, married and settled in Pennsylvania, and 

 his daughter Frances married Randall Holden, from whom 

 descends the above-mentioned Frederick A. Holden. Her 

 daughter Barbara married James Barker, of Rhode Island, from 

 whom arose a numerous line of descendants claiming relation- 

 ship with Lewis Latham. 



In a quarto volume entitled " The Ancestry of Thirty-three 

 Rhode Islanders born in the i8th Century," by John Osborn 

 Austin, published at Albany, N.Y., by Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889, 

 much stress is laid upon the number of those claiming descent 

 from Lewis Latham — eleven grandchildren and eighty- two great- 

 grandchildren — and a pedigree is printed tracing these descents 

 through his daughter Frances. 



In all probability Symon Latham, who wrote " The Faulcon's 

 Lure and Cure," 1615-1618 (No. 18), and who was falconer to 

 Mr. Henry Sadler of Everley, Wilts (third son of Sir Ralph 

 Sadler), was a relative of Lewis Latham — perhaps a brother or 

 a nephew, but not a son, his two sons being, as above stated, 

 Henry and John. 



Mr. J, O. Austin, in the work above quoted, refers to this 

 portrait of Lewis Latham as having been " fortunately preserved 

 through the care of many generations of descendants," and we 

 are now indebted to Mr. Holden, its present owner, for his very 

 courteous permission to reproduce it. 



A portrait of another of Charles the First's falconers. Sir 

 Alexander Abercromby, with a hawk upon his glove, is in the 

 possession of the present baronet. Sir Robert Abercromby, at 

 Forglen House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire. 



