of arms being made to our Prince. He should bear the English arms and the Welsh as well as those of the Duchy of Cornwall or any other place from which he derives a title. At present he merely uses the England shield with a label or cadency mark, as do his brothers and sisters.

Such a grant of arms would be a graceful compliment to the Principality, and heraldically speaking correct, and it is extremely curious that it has not been done centuries ago. Probably the reason was that the Tudor Dynasty did not want to attract notice to the Welsh connection or suggest any Welsh descent.

Henry VII used the red Dragon as a supporter, but Stuart James quickly supplanted it by the Unicorn from Scotland.

The arms of Edward the Confessor were used by Richard II and are borne by many Welsh families, but would not meet the case of a Prince of Wales.

1767

His Ditcher Grandchildren.-Philip Ditcher and Mary Richardson had two sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Philip, baptized 22 Aug., 1759, at the Abbey Church. Bath, must have died young, for a second Philip was baptized there 28 Oct., (Harleian Society, 'Registers,' vol. 27). This second Philip was admitted a Foundation Scholar of Charterhouse on 8 May. 1779, in the place of William Balme Ruddick, and was elected an Exhibitioner on 22 April, 1784. On 31 March, 1784, he

matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, aged 16; he took his B.A. in 1787 (Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses'). He was Lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoons, 2 Mch., 1793, and Captain 26th Dragoons, 25 Mch., 1795, and not in the Army List of 1803. it is not unlikely he chose the 3rd Dragoons because of John Parslow, also a Charterhouse scholar and Somerset man, who served in that regiment 1779-98" (information of Mr. Bower Marsh).

I have a deed of 12 Jan., 1794, by which Philip Ditcher, Esq., then a Lieut. in the third Regiment of Dragoons, leased to Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., for a year, his property at Weston, co. Somerset, in the occupation of Shepherd and others, and also his dwelling house in Bladud's Buildings at Bath, in the occupation of Lady Norcliffe. In 1804 he was of Wimpole Street, London (see ante, p. 84).

I know nothing more of his career, but presume he was of easy means and lived in retirement. His death is recorded in The Gentleman's Magazine for Sept., 1840, vol. clxix, p. 330:

July 28, at Bath, aged 72, Philip Ditcher, Esq. The will of Philip Ditcher, of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, co, Somerset, Esq., was dated 5 May, 1840. Not a very informing document, it leaves all his free property of every kind to Lucy his wife, while all the estates vested in him by trusts, which he had power to dispose of, he willed to Philip Richardson Peck, of Ruswick, co. Worc., (his nephew, as we shall see), and his heirs. His wife was to be sole executrix; the witnesses were William Marshall, Taunton, solicitor, and James Shepherd, his clerk. The will was proved 26 Sept., 1840, in P.C.C. (1840, f. 635), by the executrix.

became possessed of Gainsborough's portrait of Dr. Ditcher (see ante, p. 250), and other family treasures.

Philip Ditcher and Mary Richardson's three daughters were Elizabeth, baptized 9 Oct., 1758; Maria, baptized 11 Nov., 1766; and Mary, baptized 22 March, 1770, all at Bath Abbey Church (Harleian Society, Registers,' vol. 27). I imagine it must have been Elizabeth, then aged 21, whom Fanny Burney met at Bath in May, 1780. Mrs. Dobson, the translator, had asked permission

to bring with her a grand-daughter of Mr. Richardson's, who, she said, was dying to see Mrs. T. [hrale] and Miss B. [urney], and who Mr. Whalley said had all the elegance and beauty which her grandfather had described

in Clarissa or Clementina.

How

Sunday. Mrs. Dobson called, and brought with her Miss Ditcher - a most unfortunate name for a descendant of Richardson! ever, Mr. Whalley had not much exaggerated, for she is, indeed, quite beautiful, both in face and figure. All her features are very fine: she is tall, looks extremely modest, and has just sufficient consciousness of her attractions to keep off bashfulness, without enough to raise conceit. I think I could take to her

very much, but shall not be likely to see her again Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay,' ed. Austin Dobson, vol. i, pp. 370-1).

Next month, however, when at the pumproom, Miss Burney again saw the beautiful Miss Ditcher, Richardson's granddaughter" (ibid., I., 387). It seems scarcely possible that this elegant creature can have been Maria Ditcher, then only a child of thirteen, while Mary Ditcher is quite ruled out by her being only ten. Both Elizabeth and Maria Ditcher must have died young or unmarried, for, as we have seen, they are not mentioned in the will of their aunt, Ann Richardson, in 1802 (see ante, pp. 83-4).

Dr. Philip Ditcher's third and only surviving daughter, Mary, baptized, as we have seen, on 22 Mar., 1770, was married on 18 Oct., 1798, at Queen's Square Chapel, Bath, to the Rev. Kenrick Peck, second son of Kenrick Peck, of London, and of Cornish Hall, co. Denbigh, by Sarah his wife, daughter of Oliver Humphreys, of Totten ham; he was born on 4 Jul, 1768 (Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' 1879, Feck of Cornish Hall and Temple Combe '). On 4 May. 1790, aged 21, he matriculated from Oriel College, Oxford; he took his B.A. in 1794. and his M. A. in 1798 (Foster's Alumni Oxonienses '). Some time Curate of

Rushall, Wilts, he was Rector of Ightfield, Salop, from 1820. He was buried at Rushall, where there is a mural tablet to his memory in the chancel :-

In Memory of The Revd. Kenrick Peck, M.A., of Notton Lodge in this County, February 17th, 1837, aged 69. And of four Formerly Curate of this Parish: who died Children of The Revd. Kenrick Peck and Mary his Wife and Relict: Kenrick the eldest son aged 17 (Buried at Clyst St. Mary Devon | Jasper William an infant Samuel Richardson, aged 13 | William, the youngest, aged 16.†

The death of his widow, the last surviving grand-daughter of Samuel Richardson, is noticed in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1849, vol. clxxxvii, p. 108: May 28. At Bath, aged 80, Mary, relict of the Rev. Kenrick Peck." Her real age was 79. She was buried at Lyncombe Cemetery, near Bath.

John Thomas Smith, in his 'Nollekens and His Times," 2nd ed., 1829, vol. i., p 113, makes allusion to

Mr. Jasper Peck, one of Nollekens' first cousins, to whom he had left some very trifling remembrances, considering his near relationship to his own mother. To the Rev. Mr. Kenrick Peck, another of his first cousins, nothing was left; and that gentleman has several children dependent on him for support.

But Nollekens' will, dated 21 Mar., 1818, seems to have been more generous to his cousin than Smith suggests :—

I give to Jasper Peck, Esquire, my four leasehold houses, situate in St. James's-street; my four other houses, situate in Edward-street, aforesaid; my two ground-rents of two houses, in the same street; my leasehold house in Margaret-street, Cavendish-square; and my two corner houses in Norton-street and Clipstone-street, and all my estate and interest therein respectively (ibid. ii, 21).

"Mr. Peck of the Temple, (one of his two cousins),' was a mourner at Mrs. Nollekens' funeral on 25 Aug., 1817 (ibid., i., 316); and a memorandum the sculptor made on the back of one of his sketches states that on 8 Feb., 1806, "died Mrs. Peck in Marlbrough-street (ibid., i., 388). In connexion with Nollekens' own funeral, on 1 May, 1823, Smith speaks of "Mr. Peck. one of Mr. Nollekens' two nearest relations,' having been overlooked in the list of mourners to be invited (ibid., ii, 32); and again he tells us that Nollekens had purposed leaving £1,000 to 'Mr. Kenrick (ibid., ii, 36).

+ Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 2nd Series, vol. iii, p. 43.

Jasper Peck was the elder brother of the Rev. Kenrick Peck; born 24 Aug., 1765, and died unmarried 28 Feb., 1849. He was of Lincoln's Inn and the Inner Temple, and in addition to his paternal estate of Cornish Hall he owned Temple Combe, Wincanton, Somerset (Burke's Landed Gentry,' 1879). I cannot explain the relationship to Nollekens. It seem unlikely that two brothers born in 1765 and 1768 were first cousins to a man born in 1737. Smith's statements, pieced together, imply that Jasper Jasper and Kenrick Peck were nephews to Ñollekens' mother, but this does not seem to be so, for their mother was Sarah, daughter of Oliver Humphreys, as we have seen; while Nollekens' mother, the wife of old Joseph Francis Nollekens, was Mary Anne le Sacq, who, after her husband's death in 1748, remarried a Welshman named Williams.

The Rev. Kenrick Peck had issue by Mary Ditcher his wife:

I. Kenrick Peck, born 9 Dec., 1800; died 7 Dec., 1817; buried at Clyst St. Mary, Devon.

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II. Philip Richardson Peck, of Temple Combe House, Somerset, and of Cornish Hall, co. Denbigh ; born 5 April, 1802. He matric. 16 Nov., 1820, aged 18, from Trinity College, Oxford, but apparently took no degree (Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses '). Died 20 Aug., 1858; buried Temple Combe. He married, 5 Oct., 1831, at Weymouth, Georgina (born 19 April, 1814), 3rd dau. of James Ford, of Finhaven Castle and Bromley House, co. Forfar. She married, secondly, Mark Pinkerton, of Ealing, in 1870, and died 25 Aug., 1894, being buried at Temple Combe, leaving issue:

i. Philip William Richardson Peck, of Temple Combe House and Cornish Hall, born 29 April, 1849; died 4 Oct., 1898; buried at Temple Combe. He married 30 April, 1869, at Wincanton, Louisa, only child of John Messiter, of Wincanton, and had issue:

(1) Henry Richardson Peck, C.M.G., D.S.O.. Colonel R.A.; now of 6, St. Leonard's Bank, Perth, N.B.; born 17 Oct., 1874, at Temple Combe; married 14 Oct. 1908, at St. Luke's Chelsea, Kathleen Dulcibella, only child of Col. Charles Owen Hore, C.M.G., of 22, Elm Park Gardens, London. So far as the descend ants of Samuel Richardson go, Col. Peck is now the "head of the house,' the eldest liv.

ing representative of the novelist.

(2) Arthur John Peck, Major, Royal War wick Regt.; born 17 Sept., 1877, at Wincanton. (3) Herbert Peck; born 25 Jan.; died 29 April, 1885; buried at Littleham-cum-Exmouth.

(1) Charlotte Louisa Peck: born 30 Sept.,

1870, at Temple Combe.

(2) Ellen Hartley Peck; born 3 April. 1870 at Temple Combe; married 30 April, 1902, at St. Nicholas', Bathampton, to Thomas William Warry, of Weston-super-Mare, and has issue:

She died a widow on 20 July, 1802, aged 70, and was buried at Rushall, where there is a mural tablet to her memory in the chancel.

|| In 1840 he was of Ruswick, Worc. (see ante, p. 287).

(i) Diana Warry, born 27 Feb., 1905, and (ii) Elizabeth Warry, born 12 Oct., 1914.

(3) Beatrice Lucy Peck, born 11 Oct., 1875, at Temple Combe; married 9 Jan., 1908, at Christ Church, Westminster, to Robert Edward Tomkinson (born 1847), of Willington Hall, Cheshire (4th son of Lieut.-Col. William Tom. kinson, J.P., D.L. of Willington Hall), and has issue: (i) William Robert Tomkinson, born 19 June, 1909, and (ii) Edward Philip Tomkinson, born 22 Sept., 1911.

ii. Georgina Maria Richardson Peck; married Robert G. Long, and had a son, James Godolphin Long, who died in 1922, leaving a widow. III. Jasper William Peck; born 22 Sept., 1803, at Rushall; died 7 Mar., 1804; buried at Rushall. IV. Jasper Peck, of whom and his issue later. V. Samuel Richardson Peck, born 26 Aug., 1806, at Rushall; died 1 April, 1819; buried at Rushall.

VI. William Peck, born 15 Sept., 1810, at Rushall; died 28 Feb., 1826; buried at Rushall. I. Mary Peck, born 23 Feb., 1809; married 10 April, 1834, at Laycock, Wilts., to Henry Goddard Awdry, and died 8 May, 1852, having had issue: (i) Henry Short Awdry, born 17 July, 1836, (ii) born Kenrick Wither Awdry, 21 Nov., 1837, (iii) William Awdry, born 14 Jan., 1840; and (i) Mary Catherine Awdry, who were all dead with out issue in 1879. Henry Goddard Awdry, born 21 Aug., 1804, was 4th son of John Awdry, J.P., D.L. of Notton House, Wilts; after his first wife's death he married twice again.

It is only fitting, when going so closely into the whole question of Richardson's family, to give a complete record of his descendants for future reference, and in the next article I shall continue with the issue of Jasper Peck.

The D. N. B.' seems to find nothing improbable in this story, nor does Francis H. Groome in his Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland,' vol. iii (1886) at p. 190; nor does Sir Herbert Maxwell in his Dumfries and Galloway' (2nd edn., 1900), at pp. 201-2, raise any objection to it.

But if the authorities are right in stating that Thomas Hay was appointed Abbot of Glenluce by the Pope in 1560, and that he conformed and became perpetual commendator of the Abbey, and in 1590 built Park Place, Old Luce, out of the ruins of the Abbey, and was the ancestor of the Hays of Park, who was the Abbot who died? It is certain that on 17 April, 1572, Thomas [Hay], perpetual commendator of the monastery of Glenluce, and the other members of the said monastery made a feu of the lands belonging to it, with the exception of the monastery itself and its immediate surroundings to Gilbert, Earl of Cassilis, and that King James VI confirmed it 12 March, 1573/4 (J. M. Thomson, Registrum Magni Sigilli Reg. Scot.,' 1546-80, No. 2202). It is also certain that in December, 1575, the same Thomas is described as Abbot of Glenluce and Rector of Spynie near Elgin (ibid., 1580-93, No. 693) and that he was alive in 1577 (ibid., 1541-80, No. 2681).

The Rev. A. T. Hill, without citing any authorities (Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway N.H. and A. Soc., N.S. xxiv., at p. 134) writes:

In 1560 Thomas Hay was appointed Abbot. He came with the Pope's authority; but the Gordons, who had a lease of the Abbey lands, refused to admit him. Hay got possession by authority of the Court of Session. The Gordons had been pulling the Abbey to pieces; and Hay accepted a loan of 2,000 merks (about £1,350) for its repair. In the same year (1560) Hay granted a lease of fifty-eight farms to the Earl of Cassilis. The annual rental of these farms at that date is, in round figures, £18,500. But according to Groome (op. cit.) the annual value of the Glenluce lands when feued to Cassilis in 1575 (as he wrongly writes for 1572) was £666.

Mr. James Affleck (Transactions, etc., N.S. xxiii, at p.184) mentions a "Notorial Instrument," done at place of Glenluce at one o'clock afternoon on 17 Nov., 1561," which instrument does not mention Thomas Hall at all, but was executed, he says,

on the removal of John Gordon of Lochinvar and his men from the Abbey and yards of Glen luce, and delivery of the same with the keys thereof and all the goods therein to Gilbert,

Earl of Cassilis, bailie thereof, in terms of decreet arbitral by James, Commendator of the Priories of St. Andrew's and Pittenween, reserving to the said John Gordon all old byerun duties of the Abbacy.

He adds that William, son of Sir John Gordon, was Abbot in 1581. If so, Hay was probably dead by then. What is the authority for the statement that Thomas Hay was appointed by the Pope? Who was the Abbot, when Gilbert Kennedy became 4th Earl of Cassilis, as a minor in 1558? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOHN LEACH.-In years to come some person will ask in "Notes and Queries " where John Leach was born.

The Times of 6 Jan., 1923, states:and Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, which is to be demolished, bears tablets denoting that John Leach, the Punch artist, was born there, and that John Rennie, the engineer, lived there.

An old house at the corner of Bennett-street

John Rennie, Noted Engineer. Leach, above.

See John

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

CARDINAL BEAUFORT AND ST. SWITHIN'S SHRINE.-Could any reader tell me the original source of the statement that Cardinal Beaufort erected a magnificent marble shrine and ivory casket in Winchester Cathedral to contain the relics of St. Swithin. It is mentioned in Dr. Radford's Life of Beaufort," but not in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.'

I am very anxious to ascertain the origin of this statement, as it directly contradicts the evidence of Cromwell's Commissioners, who in 1538 described St. Swithin's shrine as being of "silver gilt plated, and garnished with stones."