The song (i. 35) "I have a Sunne-burnt Pilgrim seen owes its first two verses to Carew's Good Counsell to a young Maid '; the song (i. 38) "Mens loves like tinder borrows freely from Carew's Perswasions to Love.' These two cases are pointed out in a copy of The Cyprian Academy in the British Museum, which formerly belonged to Mr. W. Forsyth. Here also Quarles is credited with Baron's line And lay all pickled up in briny teares (i. 48); the lines The book appeared in April, 1647, as is shown by the date in the Thomason Collection. It had an engraved title-page, and a portrait of the author, Etat. suæ 17," by W. Marshall. In two copies of the book in the British Museum the portrait is missing. The copies with date "1648" are in other respects identical with those of 1647. A year after his first venture Baron brought out another little work of fancy, "An Apologie for Paris......Occasioned by a Private Discourse, wherein the Trojans Judgment was carped at by some, And defended By R: B. Gent. Ann. Etatis suæ 18. London, For Th. Dring, 1649." According to the Dedicatory Letter "To my Noble Lady, the Lady, E: R.," again dated from Gray's Inn, the discussion which gave rise to the book had taken place at "Sir Johns": Lady E. R.'s brother had pleaded for Juno, and Sir T. B., Bart., for Pallas, when Baron was commanded by her Ladyship to become the Advocate of Venus. The commendatory verses are by “D: S. Gent." and "Robert Freeman, Gent." (who anagrammatizes "Robert Baron into "Born to be rare "). Mr. A. Esdaile has noticed on p. 85 a Shakespearian borrowing: prisoner to Venus in a Red rose chaine.” Baron, by the age of 19, had at least won his spurs as a writer, and had gained a number of friends in the literary and fashionable worlds of London. His success seems, however, to have given little pleasure to his father, who died on 1 August of this year while holding the office of Mayor of Norwich. His will, made two days before, shows that he left a widow Frances, two daughters Ester and Mary (married to John Mann* and 66 John Mann was this year one of the Sheriffs of Norwich. Thomas Morse respectively), a grandson Samuel Smith, and a sister Grey, besides Robert, his only son. He left 20l. to the poor of Norwich, to be distributed by the aldermen, each in his own ward, on the day of the testator's funeral; to his wife the house in which he was then living, with 207.; and "to my sonne Robert Baron whose growth in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord hath ben my continuall care and praver All that my Messuage or Tenemt lyeing in Braken and Mulbarton......with all the howses and grounds......upon condicon" that his son should "quit clayme" to any other lands, &c. He devised to his sonsin-law the house in which he was living (subject to his wife's life-interest), as well' as his estate in Pulham; and his estate in Shottisham, which was his wife's jointure, to his grandson, Samuel Smith. "And for that my howse wherein Josepth Browne the Taylor now lieth I give the same unto my sonne Robert Baron and his heires forever." Then follows a charitable bequest which led to the foundation of the Norwich Girls' Hospital: age "I give unto the Citty of Norwch the summe of Two hundred and fiftie pounds weh my desire and will is should be imployed for the traininge vpp of women children from the age of seaven vntill the dressinge of wooll under the tuicon of some aged of ffifteene yeares in spininge knittinge and discreete religious woman thereto appointed at some publique place by the Majestrates appointm*, hopeinge some other well affected will soe add to the same that it may become a meanes of greate benifitt to the Cittie and comfort to the poore, the same I will to be paid within one yeare after my and Overseer thereof by the Citty as aforesaid I decease, in case some place be appointed thereto constitute and appoint my two sonn in lawe John Mann and Thomas Morse my Executors, and [after paying debts] the surplus to be equally divided betwixt them. Prob. 4 Dec., 1650. Robert Baron. in pres. G. Lock Elizabeth Blofeild, John Matchin. John Mann and Thos. Morse executors. Baron's wish that some other well-affected person would add to his benefaction was fulfilled. Mr. Henry Whitingham of London contributed a further 2007., and with the total sum of 450l. the “Great Garden purchased (west of the churchyard of St. Mary Unbrent), and here the Girls' Hospital was soon established.* was The Hospital remained there till its removal to Lakenham some years ago. Over the door was an inscription : "Robert Baron esq. Mayor of this City Anno Domini 1649 was the first Benefactor towards the * Records of the City of Norwich' (ed. Hudson and Tingey). erecting of this Hospital and endowing the same, for the Education of Young Girles: in which Year he also died.' Then followed the words of the will "I give, &c.....by the City as aforesaid."* G. C. MOORE SMITH. Sheffield. (To be continued.) IRISH FAMILY HISTORIES. (See 11 S. vii. 483; viii. 124, 173, 213, 335, 403.) PART III. Historia et Genealogia Familiæ de Burgo (The His- Memoirs of the Family of Grace: being a Genea The MacCarthys of Gleannacroim, or a Historical Pedigree of the Sleogh Feidlimedh, by Daniel MacCarthy Glas. Exeter, 1875. Molony Family. Published for private circulation, 1887. Compiled by the late J. B. Molony of Ennis. Printed by Chas. Chambers, Dublin. 'The O'Conors of Connaught, by The O'Conor Don. 1891. The De Verdons of Louth, by Dr. W. H. Grattan Flood, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, December, 1899, pp. 417 419. The O'Maddens of Silanchia, by Dr. More Madden, Journal of Galway Archæological and Historical Society, 1901, vol. i., No. 3, and 1902, vol. ii., No. 7. Records of the Various Branches of the Barrys, by Rev. G. Barry. Cork, 1902. Blake Family Records, by Martin J. Blake, First Series (1300-1600); Second Series (1600-1700). Published by Elliot Stock, London, 1902 and 1905. An Account of the O'Dempseys, Chiefs of Clanmaliere, by Thomas Mathews. Dublin, 1903. Eyre of Eyrecourt and Eyreville, co. Galway, by the Rev. Allen Stewart Hartigan. Published, 1904, by Taylor & Co., 16–17, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn, London. * Blomefield's 'Norfolk,' iv. 450. Brownes of Castle MacGarrett, by Lord Oranmore and Browne. Galway Archæological Journal (1908), vol. v. pp. 48-60, 165–78, 227-38. Burke and Bourke Genealogies. See 'Obituary Book of the Franciscan Monastery at Galway,' by Martin J. Blake. Reprinted from The Galway Archeological Journal in 1911 by O'Gorman, Galway. Crichton-Genealogy of the Earls of Erne (Crichton Family), by J. H. Steele. Privately printed (60 copies), Edinburgh, 1910. De Burgh (William), Progenitor of the Burkes in Ireland, by Martin J. Blake. Reprinted, 1911, from The Galway Archæological Journal. The Huntingdon Peerage, comprising a detailed account of the Evidence and Proceedings connected with the recent Restoration of the Earldom, by Henry Nugent Bell, Inner Temple. Royalist Family, Irish and French (the Walshes), and Prince Charles Edward Stuart, translated from the French, by A. G. Murray MacGregor. The Magraths of Kilbarron, co. Clare (printed for private circulation). A Irish Family Pedigrees in Miscellanea Genea- Adams of Killoe and Willbrook, co. Clare (family Bor of Dublin and co. Kildare, &c. Goddard of Cork.-Ib., p. 330 (R. W. K. Goddard). Powell of Polesworth and Dublin.-Ib., p. 98 (J. P. Rylands'. Tuthill of Faha, co Limerick.— Ib., p. 10. Fourth Series, vol. iv. p. 16 (J. E. F. Aylmer). Bor of Utrecht and Ireland.-Ib., p. 363 (J. F. Fuller). Hewetson or Hewson of cos Kerry, Limerick, and Kilkenny.-Ib., p. 241 (John Hewetson). Fuller of Kildare and King's Co-Fourth Series, vol. v. p. 130 (J. F. Fuller). Original Manuscript Pedigrees from the Collection the-Hill, Moorbarns, and other estates in of Sir W. Betham, Ulster King of Arms. SIR CHRISTOPHER AND SIR WILLIAM PERKINS. These two knights were of the same stock as the existing family of SteelePerkins of Orton Hall, Leicestershire. Sir Christopher, LL.D., was eldest son of George Perkins and his wife Maria Hayward, and in 1556 was, like his father, baptized at Marston Jabet. He was elder brother to the Rev. William Perkins, D.D., the eminent Puritan divine mentioned in Fuller's 'Worthies' and 'Hierologia Anglicana,' who was baptized at Marston Jabet in 1558, and died and was buried at Cambridge, 1602, ot. 44. Sir Christopher, an ambassador of Queen Elizabeth's, knighted by her about 1596, was sent to the Danish Court with Lord Zouch to crave the restoration of English goods. The D.N.B.' gives some further particulars of his career, and dates his birth" 1547?" and death "1622." Neither he, nor his brother William, appears to have married, and it is from the third brother, Thomas (baptized at Marston 1563, d. 1627), married to Margery Poutney, that the Orton Hall family descend. The unfortunate Sir William, a barristerat-law and knighted 1681, is not entered as a knight in the family pedigree, and only appears as William Perkins, bapt. May 10, 1638," no further mention of him being made. He was Sir Christopher's greatnephew, and second son of Thomas Perkins Leicestershire. Sir William was tried, 24 March, 1695/6, for conspiring to assassinate King William and for raising of forces in order to a rebellion, and encouraging a French invasion into this kingdom, was found guilty, and was executed on 3 April following. According to family tradition, he had! the knightly privilege of the silken rope. On the trial he mentioned having a wifeand four children, and though, according to the pedigree, only about fifty-seven years of age, he described himself as in his old age, grown lame, having lost the use of his hands with gout, and scarce able to go on his feet. He was described as keeping a number of horses at his house in Hertfordshire, and he had also a house in Warwickshire, which he first occupied in 1693. In the printed account of his trial his surname is spelt "Parkyns" or "Parkins," and "Perkins" in only one instance; the Rev. Jeremy Collier, the Non-juror, who got into trouble for giving Sir William absolution in a markedly demonstrative fashion on the scaffold, published two Defences of his conduct in so doing, and invariably spells. the surname correctly "Perkins." I shall be glad of any particulars relating to these knights and their families not mentioned in the 'D.N.B.' CHARLES S. KING, Bt. St. Leonards-on-Sea. EMERSON IN ENGLAND. (See 11 S. iv. 69, 90, 108, 115, 152, 198.)-MR. BRESLAR'S Emerson stayed in London in 1833 has not question (at the first reference) as to where in London, 20 July, 1833, Emerson wrote:— been answered. On the day of his arrival through Cheapside, Newgate Street, High Holborn, A porter carried our baggage, and we walked and found lodgings (according to the direction of my friend in Paris) at Mrs. Fowle's, No. 63, Russell Square."- Journals, 1833-5,' p. 171. 'LUNKARD."-By a charter (6 and 13 July, 1633) John, Earl of Mar, granted Richarkarie to Sir Alexander Irving of Drum in feu farm. The latter may not "conveine or judge [his] awin tennentis or subtennentis for any blude or bluideweitt " : (baptized 1615, and died 1658) and Mary his wife. His eldest brother, Thomas Perkins of Brookhurst, co. Warwick (d. 1706), was father, by Mary Buswell his wife, of the Rev. John Perkins (baptized 1677, died 1728), Vicar of Orton and Rector of Kisslingbury, co. Northampton, who married personnes of the tennentis of the saidis landis Sarah, daughter and ultimate heiress of dogis and hundis at all our huntingis within the give thair personall service to ws with thair John Steele, Esq., of the manors of Orton-on-saidis boundis of Mar, and sall caus the saidis "Mair-over the said Sir Alex. sall caus four tennentis big and putt wp lunkardis for the said hunting, and sall mak and putt furth tinschellis at the same according to wse and wont, and sall caus them carie furth the necessaris requyrit for the said hunting to the lunkardis, and sall carie the same back againe, and tak up the slaine deir and raes to the lunkardis or to our house in Mar as they sall be directed and as they have beine in use to do in tyme bygaine."-Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. [1634-51]45. [What are the meaning and history of "Lunkard"?] Q. V. LONDON NURSERY GROUNDS.-The impending removal of Messrs. Veitch's busi ness from Chelsea will obliterate a very familiar landmark, and seriously reduce the strength of the few surviving nurserygrounds in London. Beaver (Memorials of Old Chelsea,' p. 326) informs us this was established in 1856 on the site of Knight's Nursery, established in 1808. Early in the previous century there were two gardeners' grounds at Chelsea. They are named in the exceedingly interesting list of contributors to 'The Gardener's Catalogue,' &c., "done by a Society of Gardeners," and published in 1730. I transcribe the complete list as given in the bibliographical Appendix to R. Weston's Tract on Practical Agriculture and Gardening,' 1773, p. 57: John Alston, near Chelsea College. Park Corner. Phillip Miller, at the Physic Garden in Chelsea. John Thompson, at the Rose in Chelsea. Francis Hunt, at Putney. Moses James, at Standgate. George Singleton, at the Neathouses. Benjamin Whitmil, at Hoxton. Richard Cole, at Battersea. One name in this list may be disregarded. Phillip Miller, the author of 'The Gardener's Dictionary' to which this 'Gardener's Catalogue' gave birth, was not a nurseryman. The identification of these grounds is of some interest, but at Chelsea at least it may be assumed there were many other nurserymen at this date (1730). ALECK ABRAHAMS. formation on family matters of only private interest WE must request correspondents desiring into affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. SIR JOHN STEUART, BART. HE was born in Boston, 8 June, 1716; entered Harvard College in 1730, taking his A.B. in 1734 and his A.M. in 1737; was married in Boston to Mary Viscount, 12 Oct., 1738; had one child, John Viscount Steuart, born in Boston, 17 Aug., 1740; and later went to England, where he married again (though the name of his second wife is not known) and had children. At that time a catalogue of Harvard graduates was published every third year, and in each Triennial Catalogue' from 1737 to 1788 his name appears as Johannes Steuart Mr.," though in that of 1761 his name is starred, indicating that he was (or was supposed to be) then dead. But in the Catalogue of 1791, though thirty years after his supposed death, his name suddenly appears **JOHANNES STEUART Mr. Baronettus." 66 as Sir John was the son of George Steuart, who presumably came from Scotland or the North of Ireland, as he was a member of Here he married Ruth Cutler, 2 June, 1715, the Scots Charitable Society in Boston. and had, in addition to Sir John, a daughter Mary, born 13 Dec., 1724. Mary Steuart married (1) Henry Johnson, 26 Feb., 1744; and (2) Francis Johonnot, about 1752; and was buried in Boston, 15 March, 1797. George Steuart practised medicine, and was sometimes called "Dr. Steuart." In July, 1740, he was commissioned a Captain, and sailed on the expedition against Carthagena. The following appeared in The New England Weekly Journal of 17 March, 1741 : "An Extract of a Letter from an Officer in Capt. Stewart's Company at Jamaica, dated Jan. 8. 1740. by Capt. Jarvis....Capt. Stewart has done a great deal of Service in the Fleet, among the sick, being sent for all over the Fleet. He gives them Medicines & Advice without Fee or Reward, which gives him a good Name among our Country-Men; and if he should ever want to raise Recruits, he would meet with little or no Difficulty." 66 TROD," "TRODE," PAST TENSE OF "TREAD.' -This is rare before the sixteenth century. The earliest instance of the singular trode that I have is from Coverdale (1535), 2 Kings xiv. 9, "A wylde beest.. ran ouer ye hawthorne and trode it down." The plural troden, trode, appears earlier, e.g., in the B text of Piers Plowman,' xi. 847, "Some [birdes] troden hir makes." I should be glad to get earlier instances than these of both singular and plural; also examples of trod before 1700. The original past tense trad, with its plural trêde(n), trade(n), was usual down to 1500. The past participle troden began to supplant the original treden before 1350, and was already shortened to trode before 1400, and later to trod. Ex In the same paper of 30 June, 1741, we read: amples of the past participle are not asked Stuart of this Town." 66 In her will (dated 5 March, proved 5 May, 1752) Ruth Steuart mentions my Son Sir John Stuart Baronet now in England and "his Children by his second Wife (name not given). On 13 Feb., 1756, John Viscount Steuart, "Son of Sir John Stewart of London, in Great Britain," made Benjamin Faneuil (who married Mary Cutler, a niece of Sir John's mother) his guardian. In his will (dated 16 Aug., 1760, proved 2 Oct., 1761) Dr. John Cutler, a brother of Sir John Steuart's mother, bequeathed "the Remaining half part of my Estate" to various nephews and nieces, among them "the Children of my deceased Sister Ruth Stewart," Each Child to have an equal share of said Remaining half of my Estate, excepting my Nephew John Stewart to whom I give five shillings only." 66 This is all the information I have been able to obtain about Sir John Steuart, Bart. It will be observed that in 1752 his mother called him Sir John Stuart Baronet," that in 1756 his son called him Sir John Stewart," and that in 1760 his uncle called him plain "John Stewart." Can some one on your side of the water clear up the mystery surrounding his title, give the name of his second wife, and the date of his death? Was he, in fact, a baronet? If so, how did he obtain the baronetcy? Or was he merely a claimant for some baronetcy? and if so, what baronetcy? Burke, G. E. Č.'s Complete Baronetage,' and the usual authorities apparently do not mention him. | It need scarcely be added that the name occurs in various forms-Steuart, Steward, Stewart, and Stuart. In the chronology of English verb-forms there is still room for much research. For example, when did spoke and bore begin to supplant spake and bare, and are the earliest instances singular or plural? The Dictionary' cites bore first in the plural boren. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford. TRILBY.-Alfred de Musset wrote his Réponse à Monsieur Charles Nodier' in 1843. To whom and to what does he refer in the following lines?— Non pas cette belle insomnie Trilby would appear to be masculine here, inversion. MICAH, ADMONITION, ARGENT, AS FEMALE first (Micah) was not unusual in the neigh bourhood of St. Germans. A. STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddington. KING'S LYNN AS A SPA.-Is it true that this place was, for a very short time, a spa? There is usually a certain amount of truth in Sir Walter Besant's novels, and I should like to know whether what I believe was very nearly his last work—'The Lady of Lynn-is founded on at least some fact. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. 23, Unthank Road, Norwich. |