four others, married respectively to Richard Maples, John Howker, Edward Smith, and Robert Shipman. The writer of this note has extracts from the parish registers of Rampton, and of births and marriages only from Tuxford, down to 1663 and 1730 respectively; and notes of the wills of the Tuxford and Kirton families from York. Extracts from wills or parish registers, or any information likely to lead to the identification of these several branches, would be very acceptable. G. W. M.

GORGES.-I shall feel greatly obliged to any one who can give me any information on the following points in the pedigree of the Gorges family:-1st. Who were the offspring of Sir Edward Gorges, b. 1481, son of Sir Edmund Gorges and Lady Ann Howard? He is stated in all visitations as having married two wives, Mary, daughter of Sir John Newton, and Mary, daughter of Sir A. Pointz. But in an authentic pedigree in the Bodleian Library, dated 1579, and drawn by Henry, eldest son of Sir John Newton, no mention is made of this marriage, though Sir John Newton (the father) is stated to have married Margaret, daughter of Sir A. Pointz, and therefore Sir Edward Gorges was brother-in-law to Sir J. Newton, and not likely to have married first the niece and then the aunt. I have even better evidence from Wills to upset the list of his offspring given in the visitations, but I am at a loss whom to place in their stead. There is or was an inscription in the mayor's chapel, Bristol, in memory of "Robert Gorges who died March 1st 1619," and of "Sir Robert Gorges and Elena his wife who died 1617." Who were these? He is not the Sir Robert Gorges, son of Sir Thomas, as I have extracts from his will; he died at Redlynche, Somerset, in 1648. Dorothy Mellor, afterwards Dame Dorothy Gorges, Will made 1642. proved 1649, said to have married Lord Charles Stanhope and Sir Charles Vaughan; who was she? and how was she connected with Gorges' pedigree?

Coggeshall, Essex.

THOMAS B. ALLEN.

HASTINGS OF CO. DORSET.-It is well known that a branch of the family of Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, settled in the County of Dorset, and that the eccentric Henry Hastings, second son of the fourth earl, left descendants who intermarried with several Dorsetshire families. I should be glad to know whether the entry in the subjoined abstract of the Will of Henry Browne, of Mapercomb, gent., refers to a member of the Huntingdon family. The Will is dated 28 October, 1682, and was proved May 18, 1685. The testator mentions his son-in-law, Mr. Robert Humber, and his two sons, William and Robert Humber, his daughter Anne Hastings, widow, and her three children, Henry Hastings, Anne and Mary Hastings; his daughter Julian Rock and her children Elizabeth, Mary, Grace and Anne Rock; Mary and Grace Watts, daughter of his son-in-law Richard Watts. His executor Nicholas Browne was sheriff of Dorset in 1708.

C. J. R.

RAYNEY, OF IPSWICH.-A Yorkshire lady, in her will, dated March 23, 1645, names her cousin "Elizabeth Rayney [or Ranie], daughter of Gilbert Rayney, of Ipswich, clerk, deceased." I am desirous of ascertaining what preferment or engagement Gilbert Rayney held at Ipswich and any other particulars about him. Also the date of his death or burial, to enable me to refer to his will. To any Suffolk genealogist who can kindly assist me I shall feel much obliged.

Doncaster.

C. J.

FAMILIES OF TREVERS (EXTINCT), BARONS TREVER AND VISCOUNT HAMPDEN, AND WELDON, OF LONDON, HUNTS, ETC.-I shall be glad if any of your learned genealogical and heraldic correspondents could furnish me, through the pages of your valuable miscellany, with any further particulars respecting the above families than I have appended hereto.

John Trevor, of the very ancient family of that name, derived from one of the most distinguished stocks in Cumbrian genealogy, deducing descent from Tudor Trevor, Lord of Hereford, Bromfield Chirk, both the Maelors, and Oswestry, was seated at Trevallyn, in Denbighshire. He married Mary, daughter of Sir George Bruges, Knt., of London, and died July 15, 1589. He was succeeded by Sir John Trevor, his second son, of Trevallyn, knighted June 7, 1618, who married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Trevannion, Esq., of Cornwall, and had issue, 1, John (Sir), who predeceased his father, and was one of the principal Secretaries of State and Member of the Privy Council in the reign of Charles II. He married Ruth, daughter of John Hampden, Esq., of Great Hampden, Bucks, and left at his decease, May 28, 1672, with two younger sons, Richard and Edward, two elder sons. 1, John, of Trevallyn, who married Elizabeth (Clark), widow of William, eldest son of Colonel Herbert Morley, of Glynde, M.P. for Lewes, and by her (who married, thirdly, the Lord Viscount Cutts) had issue three sons and two daughters. The

*He married, first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Francis Willoughby, of Wollaton, who died Dec. 4, 1638, aged 84; and secondly, in 1639, Mrs. Anne Laughton. He died Oct. 5, 1650, aged 99, and left issue two sons, George and Henry.

eldest son, John Morely Trevor, Esq., of Trevallyn, Plasteg, and Glynde, born 1681, married Lucy, daughter of Edward Montague, Esq., of Horton, Northants, and dying April 12, 1719, left issue three sons and nine daughters. Lucy, the eldest, born 1706, married Edward Rice, Esq., of Newtown, M.P. for Carmarthen, and was mother of George Rice, Esq., of Newtown, M.P. for Carmarthenshire, who married, August 16, 1756, Cecil, Baroness Dynevor, only daughter of William Talbot, second Baron and first Earl Talbot, created Baron Dynevor, of Dynevor. Gertrude, the seventh, married to the Hon. Charles Roper, third son of Henry, eighth Baron Teynham, and had issue-1, Charles Trevor Roper, eighteenth Baron Dacre, who married, March 2, 1773, Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Fludyer, Knt., brother of Sir Samuel, the first Baronet, and who died, s. p., July 4, 1794; 2, Henry, Lieut.-Colonel in the Army, died s. p.; and 3, Gertrude, who succeeded her brother in the barony of Dacre.

Thomas, the elder brother of John, I shall speak of hereafter. Anne, aunt, married Robert Weldon, Esq., of London; 2, Jane, another aunt, married the Hon. Sir Francis Compton, fifth son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton; and 3, Elizabeth, the youngest, married to William Masham, Esq., eldest son of Sir William Masham, Bart. Sir John Trevor died in 1673, and his eldest grandson, John, inherited Trevallin, while the next (alluded to before), Thomas, was brought up to the profession of the law, and having obtained reputation at the Bar, was made Solicitor-General in 1692, when he received the honour of knighthood. In 1695 he became Attorney-General, and on the accession of Queen Anne, was constituted Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, when he was elevated to the Peerage, December 31, 1711, as Baron Trevor, of Bromham, co. Beds. In 1726 he was appointed Lord Privy Seal, and the next year he was declared one of the Lords Justices. On the accession of George II. he was again sworn Lord Privy Seal, and in 1730 constituted President of the Council. He married, 1st, Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of John Searle, Esq., of Finchley, co. Middlesex, by whom he had issue Thomas and John, second and third Barons, and three daughters; he married, 2ndly, Anne, his cousin, daughter of Robert Weldon, Esq., merchant, of London, and widow of Sir Robert Barnard, Bart., of Brampton, co. Hunts (M.P. for the county in 1688), by whom he had issue, 1, Robert, who succeeded as fourth Lord. This nobleman was born 1701, and in compliance with the testamentary injunction of John Hampden, Esq., of Great Hampden, assumed the surname and arms of Hampden. His Lordship was several years Envoy Extraordinary to the States General, and was constituted, in 1746, one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland. In 1759 he was made joint Postmaster-General with the Earl of Bessborough, which office he held until the year 1765, and was created, June 14, 1776, Viscount Hampden, of Hampden, co. Bucks. He married, in 1743, Constantia, daughter of Peter Anthony de Huybert, Lord of Van Kruningen, of Holland, and had issue 2 sons and 2 daughters. On the death of the second son, John, in 1824, who had succeeded his brother Thomas, second Viscount (who died s. p. 1821), the title became extinct. 2. Richard, in holy orders, consecrated Bishop of St. David's in 1744, translated to the See of Durham in 1752, and died unmarried June 9, 1771. And 3, Edward, died young.

I have above stated that Anne, aunt of the first Baron Trevor, married Robert Weldon, of London, Esq., and from often hearing my relatives say we were nearly related to the Lords Trevor, Dacre, and the Fludyers, Baronets, I set inquiries on foot and come to the following result:-James Weldon of London, afterwards of Buckden, Hunts, and then of Duddington, Northants, was son of Robert Weldon, of London, woollen mercer, who through fire was burnt out of his dwelling near Temple Bar. After that event he came to reside at Buckden, a village close to (in fact adjoining) Brampton, Huntingdonshire, where his daughter, Lady Bernard, resided. James had a family, but who his wife was I am ignorant; but his daughter Mary married at Derby, in June, 1757, my great-grandfather, Thomas Simpson; another sister, Jane, married Hugh Jackson, Esq., of Duddington, Northamptonshire; and another married an East Indian merchant named Bennett, who on their voyage to that country perished, as neither they nor the ship was ever seen or heard of afterwards. After a short residence at Duddington, Mr. Weldon returned to Buckden. By Mary (Weldon), his wife, Mr. Simpson had inter alios Thomas, his eldest son, and who married Mary, one of the daughters of James Nowlan, of the Hermitage, London, and died March, 1810; Robert Charles, born 1777, still living. There was a numerous family of the Nowlans. Another of the daughters married Octavius Graham Gilchrist, Esq.. F.S.A., a distinguished literary character of his day, who died in 1823, a brother of a celebrated portrait-painter of the last century; another married Captain Reilly, R.N.; another married Francis Simpson, a younger brother of Thomas, and was mother of Francis, author of a work on Baptismal Fonts; and a fourth married Justin M'Carthy, barrister-at-law, a member of the ancient and once royal family of the M'Carthys, of Carrignavar, co. Cork. This gentleman married, secondly, a daughter of

Sir Thomas Hawes, of London, by whom he had inter alios Sir Charles Justin M'Carthy, Knt., Governor of Ceylon, who died October, 1864. A writer in the 'Cornhill Magazine,' recording the death of the late Cardinal Archbishop Wiseman, remarked upon the singu larity of the death of the Cardinal following so closely that of his old schoolfellow and cousin the Governor of Ceylon; I shall feel obliged if any clue can be afforded to show how this relationship existed.

Stamford, Sept. 3, 1866.

JUSTIN SIMPSON.

P.S.-In the chancel of Duddington Church, Northamptonshire, are two brass plates inserted in the floor; one is inscribed to the memory of James Weldon, who died January 9, 1761, and the other to Thomas Marsh* Weldon, who was born October 18, 1774, died December 6, 1850. Frances Weldon, widow of Thomas Marsh Weldon, born July 19, 1763, who died March 8, 1851.

Peter Frecheville, of Staveley, co. Derby, who married Matilda Wortley and died in 1503, had, amongst other children, a younger son, Ankerus Frecheville, who married Isabella Wakefield. This Anker had a son Robert. Can any of your readers inform me, through your columns, whether this Robert was ever married and, if so, to whom; also what issue, if any, he had?

F. W. H.

It is stated that a colony of Flemings and Walloons settled in Halifax, Yorkshire, and the neighbourhood, about the fifteenth century; I shall be glad to learn where I can meet with a list of the names of these families. ATHERSTON.

Roger Fretwell, of Carr and Hooton Levet, Yorkshire, living there in 1531, and was formerly of Soucombe or Sookholme, co. Notts; could one of your correspondents supply me with information as to his progenitors ?

F. W. H.

LAWRENCE FAMILY.-Is the Tisbury, co. Wilts, branch of the Lawrence family extinct? Had Nicholas Lawrence, æt. 26, 1615, or Thomas, 2nd son, or William, 3rd son of Richard Lawrence, of Tisbury (of Dorset Visitation, 1623), any issue? if so, where is the account thereof?

L.

FULLER FAMILY.-Can any of your correspondents give me particulars about or extracts from the Will of Honourable Mary Fuller, daughter of Lord Baltinglass, and wife of Thomas Fuller (the Church historian), from whom I claim to derive (see 'Gentleman's Magazine' for September, page 355). I want also information about Fuller's first wife, his sisters, his brother John, his son John (by first wife), his son Thomas (by second wife), -in short, I want all the information I can get about any member of his family, and shall be much obliged to any of your correspondents who may give me the smallest aid. The Honourable Mary Fuller was living at Uppingham in 1674. Probably her Will is to be found in Doctors' Commons.

Killeshandra, Ireland.

J. F. FULLER.

NEWMAN.-F. N. will feel grateful for any suggestions to enable him to ascertain the Arms and when granted, of Sir Richard and Sir Thomas Newman, brothers of Henry Newman, Vicar of Harringworth, diocese of Peterborough, and who in his will, dated August 11, 1522, makes sundry bequests to the Abbess of Elnestow (Elstow, near the town of Bedford), Dame Abys, and Dame Elizabeth Beovyll, to the Monastery of Elnestow, and to the paryshe church of Harringworth.

Any information respecting the arms and family of Newman, of Folksworth, near Peterborough, would also be very acceptable.

HENRY PERCY, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND.-Wanted, a reference to the Will of the above, who died at Hackney, 30 June, 1537, and was buried there. Brighton.

J. R. D. TYSSEN.

THOMAS HUSEE.-Thomas Husee, of Stalham, Norfolk, living 1596, married Jane, daughter of George Townshend, of Raynham, and had a son and heir, Richard, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Skinner, of Hempstead-cum-Eccles, in the same county. Harl. MS. 4756, f. 29 b.

This Richard and his wife had issue; can their descendants be traced? Hunstanton. W. M. H. C. SHEERS OR SHIERS FAMILY, OF LONDON.-Information required respecting the armorial bearings of this family. Also a reference to any wills, monumental inscriptions, registers, etc. E. B. J.

*This name was given to him by his relative Mr. Marsh, father of Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough.

WILL OF SIR JERVAS ELWES,* KNIGHT, OF THE CITY OF LONDON, 1638.

my

In the Name of God Amen the thirtyth day of May in the yeare of our Lord God sixteen hundred thirtye and eight and in the foureteenth yeare of the raigne of our Souvraigne Lord King Charles (by the Grace of God) of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the faith &c. I Sir Jervas Elwes of the Cittie of London Knight being sicke and weake in body but of good and perfect memory and vnderstanding (for wch I doe giue most humble thanks unto Almightie God) doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in man'er and forme following that is to say. First and principallye I com'end my soule vnto God my maker and vnto Jesus Christ my Redeemer by whose meritts and mercie I trust to be saued and unto the blessed Spirit my Comfortor My Body I com'end vnto the earthe from whence it came the same to be buried in the Sepulture wth my fathers in the parish of St Mary Bothawe London in a decent and seemely manner at ye discretion of my Executors herein by mee hereafter nominated and appointed And for and touching such temporall Goods and Chattels as it hath pleased Almighty God of his mercy and goodness to bestowe upon mee I doe ordeyne and dispose of the same in man'er and forme following that is to say first my debts being satisfyed and payed and my funerall charges discharged I doe will and ordeyne that (according unto the Custome of the Cittie of London) my Goods chattels and personall estate be devided into three equal parts or portions One third part whereof I leaue unto my louing Wife Frances One other third parte thereof I leaue to be equally devided amongst all my Children that is to say Gervase Robert Jeremy John and Elizabeth parte and parte alike and the other third part I reserue to myself to be disposed as hereafter in this my last Will is expressed viz' First I giue and bequeath unto my louing Wife Frances all her chaynes Jewells Pendants Rings of Dyamond Pearle Gold and other pretious Stones whatsoeuer Item I giue unto my said Wife my two Coaches and fouer Coachhorses Item I give unto Wife the remainder of the Lease of my now dwellinghouse scittuate and being in the parish of the Blackfriers London with all the Goods in it And to the end and purpose my said louing Wife may peaceablye and quietlye_enioy their my giftes and bequests least that my children should pretend some Interest or proprietie in the same by the Custome of the Cittie of London to the molestation and trouble of my said Wife I doe therefore giue vnto all my Children Gervase Jeremy Robert John and Elizabeth as a full and ample satisfaction of all claime or Interest which they or any of them haue in or to the said Chaines Jewells Pendants Rings Coaches Coachhorses and Lease of my dwellinghouse in the Blackfriers I say vnto every one of my Children the sum'e of one hundred poundes apiece But if they or any of them shall refuse to accept of the said hundred pounds so giuen him or her in full satisfaction then I giue the said hundrith pounds of him or her so refusing vnto my said Wife Furthermore I giue and bequeath unto my Eldest Sonn Gervase the sume of fiue thousand pounds and it is my Will and mynd if it shall happen that my sayd Sonn Gervase shall die and departe this world before he arriued and attained unto the yeares of discretion allowed by the lawes of this land to make a Testament (which God of his mercie I beseech forbid) or leaue the same undisposed at the time of his decease then I say the said legacie of fiue thousand pounds shalbe and remaine vnto my eldest child shalbe liuing at the time of the decease of my son Gervase Item I giue vnto my sonn Robert the sum'e of fiue hundred pounds Item I giue unto my Sonn Jeremy the sum'e of fiue hundred pounds Item I give unto my sonn John the sum'e of £500 I say fiue hundred pounds Item I giue unto my daughter Elizabeth the sum'e of fiue hundred pounds And it is my Will and mynd if it shall so fall out that any of theis my younger Children dye and depart this world before he shee or they attaine to the yeares of discretion allowed by the lawes of this land to make a Testament or leaue the same vndisposed at the time of his or their decease then I say the said seuerall legacies of *Father of the first Baronet and fifth son of Geoffrey Elwes, Alderman of London.

VOL. I.

M

fiue hundred pounds apeece by mee disposed unto my younger Children Robert, Jeremy, John and Elizabeth shalbe equally devided amongst all the rest of my Children which shalbe liuing at the tyme of such death or decease part and part alike and I doe comitt the tuition and breeding up of my Children unto the Čare of my louing Wife and doe ordaine that my said Wife shalbe allowed twenty pounds apeece by the yeare for their maintenance vntill they attaine unto the age of fifteen yeares and from thenceforth shee shalbe allowed three score pounds by the yeare for the maintenance of my eldest Sonn and thirty pounds apeece by the yeare for the rest of my Children the same to be payed her out of the profitts arising of their portions seuerally and respectiuelye Item I giue unto my servants Degrane Mary Florey William Sale William Heateley and William Brockett to euery one of them fiue pounds apeece Item I giue unto my Servants John Hancks John - John Powell and Sara to euery one of them fiue markes apeece Item I giue unto the poore Inhabitants of Black fryers London the sum'e of twenty nobles the same to be distributed by a vestrye of the Inhabitants of the same parish Item I giue unto the poore Inhabitants of the parish of St Mary Bothaw London the like sum of twenty nobles the same likewise to be distributed by a vestry of the Inhabitants of the same parish Item I giue unto the poore Inhabitants of the parish of Woodford in Essex the sum of fiue pounds the same likewise to be distributed by a vestry of the Inhabitants of the same parish Lastly my debts and funerall charges being satisfied and paied this my Will discharged and performed and all costs and charges laid out and expended by my executors abought getting in and recovering my estate foreprised and deducted I giue the remainder of my Estate by mee undisposed wholly unto my Sonn Geruase And I doe make my louing Wife Francis Elwes and My Brother Jeremy Elwes my Executors of this my last Will and Testament of whose loue and care for the p'formance thereof I rest confident and doe giue unto either of them ten pounds apeece to buy each of them a Ring to weare in remembrance of mee and wherein I am wanting to recompense their great care and paines I trust God will supply unto them manifold Amen Gervase Elwes-This Testament was published Sealed signed and deliuered the thirtieth day of May 1638 in the presence of-John ArgentSiluius Elwes-Ja. Metham-John Hoock-Tho Jacie.

Proved at Westminster, 15 April, 1653.

WILL OF JEREMY ELWES,* ESQUIRE, OF BROXBOURN, CO. HERTS, 1653.

In the name of God Amen I Jeremy Elwes of Broxburne in the County of Herts Esquire beinge sick and weake of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory thancks bee giuen to God for the same and consideringe with my selfe the Certainety of my mortallity and the Incertainety of the tyme of death Doe hereby make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme followeinge And first and principally I doe commend my Soule into the hands of God that gaue it hopeinge and assuredly beeleeveinge to bee Saved through the meritts of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ And for my body I committ it to the Earth to bee buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named As for my Estate wherewith God hath blessed mee in this life I dispose thereof as followeth And first Whereas my lands lyinge in Risby in the County of Lincolne are already setled vppon Mary my loueinge Wife for her Joynture Now I doe hereby giue Will and devise vnto my sayd Wife all my lands in Sawcliffe in the sayd County of Lincolne And all my lands in Middleton in the County of Yorke with their and

*Seventh and youngest son of Geoffrey Elwes, Citizen and Alderman of London, whose Wil is dated 1616, and father to Jeremy Elwes, of Throcking, co. Herts, whose administration to Wil

is dated 1678.