don and Northumberland, to which titles he was in consequence advanced by his royal brother-in-law in 1130. Hence, in habits and feelings, he became a Norman himself, and finding his Scottish crown surrounded with many thorns, and the Celtic tribes more ready to fight for independence, than to submit to control, he prevailed upon as many as he could of the younger sons of the Norman barons to accompany him into Scotland. In this DAVID was actuated by more than one motive, for while they could not fail to enliven his court, and by their better breeding and greater polish tend to soften and civilize the manners of the Scotch, they would, at the same time, form a very efficient body guard and enable him to raise and dicipline an army with more advantage than could be done by the natives. Amongst the many young men of noble birth but scant fortune, that accompanied King DAVID, was ROBERT DE BRUIS, a son of the Baron of Cleveland, who as a reward for thus exiling himself from "merry England," received a grant of the Valla de Annan, to be held of the Kings of Scotland, "per jus Gladii”—and there he erected and fortified a castle. The Border Celts were a warlike, though at all times an undisciplined people, and subdued and heart-broken in their own territory, it may naturally be supposed they sought for adventure on some other shore. The Norman yoke must have been felt most acutelyand certain it is, that almost every man able to bear arms within the Stewartry (as it was now called) of Annandale, joined the standard of the Earl of Huntingdon, and accompanied the lion-hearted RICHARD to the Holy Land.* But even previous to this levy "en masse," many of the HALLIDAY clan had returned to Ireland, or fled into the wilds of Galloway, where their valour long kept the Norman at bay. It is not required to follow the history of the legions which King RICHARD led to Palestinewhile the illfated monarch was in captivity, the Earl of Huntingdon returned to England with all that remained of the British force and such was the jealousy of the two factions, or rather the faction of Prince JOHN, which then disturbed the peace of the kingdom, that this little band of worn out, but distinguished warriors, was discharged and dispersed over the kingdom. Among these veterans, there must have been seen many of the name of HALLIDAY, for we very soon afterwards find the surname common in several counties in England, holding freehold lands of the sovereign, as also vassals of superior lords.

Of the five thousand men sent by WILLIAM of Scotland to join King RICHARD, one thousand were from Annandale, and almost all HALLIDAYS.

In 1240, a WALTER HALLIDAY stands in the Exchequer Rolls, as lord of a manor, called St. Botolph, in Kent, and a WILLIAM HALLIDAY is mentioned in 1278, as possessing Trivil, in the same county. In 1298, THOMAS HALLIDAY, and in 1305, JOHN HALLIDAY represented the town of Bedford in parliament. About this period also a GERARD HALLIDAY, and four others of his name are mentioned as land holders in the hundred of Lackford, county of Suffolk. Others stand recorded as proprietors of the parishes of "Wardeboys," or "Warboys,” and Caldicote, in Huntingdonshire; and of Bampton-Pogys, Oxfordshire. In 1338,

JOHN HALLIDAY, of Pontefract, was summoned to attend his sovereign, EDWARD III. with twenty bowmen, and men at arms (to be paid by him) in the wars against the Scots. In 1435,

THOMAS HALLIDAY, of Pontefract, commanded five hundred archers in Sir John Shirley's division of the English army, at the battle of AGINCOURT. In 1470,

WALTER HALLIDAY, called "The Minstrel," became master of the revels to EDWARD IV., and acquired lands in the parish of Rodborough, in the county of Gloucester, which are still held by his descendants. He was father of

HENRY HALLIDAY, styled of Minchin Hampton, who m. a daughter of Payne, of Payne's Court, and left four sons, viz. 1. HENRY, his successor.

II. EDWARD, of Rodborough, in Gloucestershire, m. and had, with four other sons and one daughter, Rose, m. to Payne, of Payne's Court, WILLIAM, of Rodborough, a person

of considerable note, who wedded Sarah, aunt of Sir John Brydges, created in 1554, Baron Chandos, of Sudley, and was s. by his son, SIR LEONARD HALLIDAY, who,

at his father's decease, was sent to London, where he rose to be sheriff, and, in 1605, was lord mayor, and knighted by King JAMES I. Stowe, in his annals, states how Sir Leonard converted the Moorfields, then "a perfect lystal," in the vicinity of London, into the beautiful and fashionable gardens which they were in aftertimes, and so little agreeable was this labour to the men employed, that they adopted a term for all hard toil, by calling it like the improvements of Moorfields, "Holyday-work." Sir Leonard m. Anne, daughter and heiress

of William Winhold, or Wincot, esq. of Langham, in Suffolk, by whom (who wedded for her second husband, Henry, the great Earl of Manchester) he left an only son,

JOHN HALLIDAY, esq. of London, who m. Alice, daughter of Alderman Ferrars, and dying vitâ patris, left a son,

JOHN HALLIDAY, of Bromley, in Middlesex, who m. Mary, daughter of Henry Rolt, of Darent, in Kent, and had one son, John, aged twentythree in 1664, and a daughter, Eliza.

III. William, of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, who had one son,

THEOBALD. See the HALLIDAYS,

OF SCOTLAND.

Sir Edward Hungerford, of Corsham, in Wilts. This lady founded a magnificent alms house, at Corsham.

SAMUEL, of whom presently. John, to whom his brother, William, bequeathed £50 a year.

Margaret, m. to Mr. Jasper Clutterbooke.

The second son,

SAMUEL HALLIDAY, esq. to whom his brother, Mr. Alderman Halliday, devised £1000, was father of

WILLIAM HALLIDAY, esq. who m. and had issue,

EDWARD.

Giles, of Wedington, near Devizes, ancestor of the HALLIDAYS, of Urchfont and Sutton Veney, extinct in 1827.

Richard, progenitor of a branch seated at Bradford, Wilts.

Dorothy, m. to Matthew Cooke, of Frome.

The eldest son,

EDWARD HALLIDAY, esq. of Warminster,

Hall.

a son,

THOMAS HALLIDAY, esq. of Kings Stanley, father of

LAWRENCE HALLIDAY, some time mayor of the city of Gloucester, who wedded Jane, daughter of Thomas Pury, and had issue,

William, a merchant of London, chosen in 1617, one of the sheriffs of that city, and, in the following year elected alderman of Cripplegate Ward. This gentleman was the first chairman of the United East India Company. He m. Susanna, sister of Sir Henry Rowe, of Shacklewell, and by her (who wedded, secondly, Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, admiral of the seas, and d. 1645) left at his decease, 14th March, 1623, aged fifty-eight, (being buried, with his relict and elder dau. in St. Lawrence Jewry, where a handsome monument is erected to their memory*) two daughters, his co-heirs, viz.

ANNE, to whom her father bequeathed £14000, married to Sir Henry Mildmay, of Wanstead, Essex, keeper of the Jewel Office, who d. in 1656, and had two sons and three daughters.

MARGARET, to whom her father likewise devised £14000, m. to

The monument of Mr. Alderman Halliday,

in St. Lawrence Jewry, (sketched here) bears the

Pilton, of Warminster, and had a son,

EDWARD, b. in 1659, who settled at Frome, in Somersetshire, and marrying Mary, daughter of John Hippie, became ancestor of the HALLIDAYS, of Frome, extinct in 1823. Edward Halliday wedded, secondly, Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner, but by that lady (who d. in 1662) had no issue. He espoused, thirdly, Mary, daughter of John Barton, of Warminster, and had issue,

William, of London, predeceased his

father.

Mary, b. in 1665, m. to John Higden, esq. of London, and d. in 1741. Susanna, b. in 1675, m. to John Bennett, esq. of Smallbrook, and d. in 1763. Mr. Halliday died in 1701-2, and his widow 5th February, 1723. His elder son, by his third marriage,

JOHN HALLIDAY, esq. of Yard House, in the county of Somerset, and of Tilshed, near Devizes, Wilts, b. in 1671, espoused Mary, daughter of Edmund Trowbridge, esq. of Lyppeyeate, by whom (who d. 9th May, 1732) he had issue,

í. Trowbridge, b. in 1706, d. young.
II. JOHN, s. to his father.

III. Edward, b. in 1712, d. in infancy.
IV. Edmund, b. in 1716, who m. Mary,

only dau. of William Jones, of Sher-
borne, and dying in 1744, left issue,
Edmund, b. in 1744, who m. Joan-

na, daughter of John Ricketts, esq. of Gosport, and died at Dinan, in Brittany, 24th March, 1832, leaving a son and suc

cessor,

JOHN-EDMUND, now of WAR-
MINSTER, Who m. Mary-Jane,
eldest daughter of Dr. John
Seagram, of Warminster.
Mary, d. unm, 1807.

v. Margaret, both d. young.
vi. Mary,

Mr. Halliday d. 17th June, 1737, and was s. by his eldest son,

JOHN HALLIDAY, esq. of Yard House, who for his attachment to the reigning family, was appointed high sheriff of Somersetshire, when CHARLES-EDWARD advanced to Derby, in 1745. Mr. Halliday filled, for many years, with ability and integrity, the duties of chairman of the quarter sessions, and at the general election in 1754, when party spirit ran high, was returned to parliament, at the head of the poll, for the borough of Taunton; having caught, however, a severe cold during the contest, he was carried off by an inflammation of the lungs, prior to taking his seat. He had m. 1737, Mary, dau. of Isaac Welman, esq. of Poundisford Park,* in the county of Somerset, and had issue, 1. JOHN, his heir.

II. SIMON, of Iford Park, in Wilts, and
subsequently of Westcombe Park, in
Kent, an eminent banker of the city of
London, b. in 1738, m. Jane, daughter

In 1811, Mr. Simon Welman Halliday became heir-at-law to the Poundisford estate, at the decease, issueless, of Thomas Welman's only daughter, the wife of the Hon. Charles Noel (now Lord Barham). Mr. Thomas Welman, however, subsequently remarried, and left a son and heir, now a minor.

of John Bythesea. esq. of Weake House, in the county of Wilts, and dying 18th May, 1791, left issue, 1. SIMON-WELMAN, now representative of the family. 2. Mary.

3. Harriet, m. to the Rev. Joseph Griffith, of Brompton Hall, Middlesex, rector of Turvey, in Bedfordshire, and has one daughter, Harriet.

4. Elizabeth, m. to Michael Dicker Sanders, esq. of Exeter.

5. Jane, m. Sir John Dyer, K.C.B.
colonel of the royal artillery,
first cousin to the present Sir
Thomas Swinnerton Dyer, bart.
and has issue,

Thomas Dyer, who m. Miss
Clement, daughter of Col.
Clement, of the royal ar-
tillery, and has one son,
Swinnerton Halliday

Dyer, b. in 1833. Richard Dyer, d. young. Jane Dyer, married to Colonel Greentree, E.I.C.S. and is deceased.

Eliza Dyer, m. to Thomas Dillon Hearne, esq. of Hearnesbrook, in the county of Galway.

6. Louisa, m. first, to General Sproule, R.A. and secondly, to Frederick Caulfield, esq. of Faulkner House, Gloucestershire.

III. Edmund Trowbridge, of Chapel Cleeve, in Somersetshire, b. 26th October, 1743, who m. Jane, daughter of the Rev. Tilleman Hodgkinson, and left issue,

1. John, of Chapel Cleeve, m. Anne, dau. of General Dyer, and dying in 1826, left three sons and four daughters,

JOHN.

over the town of Stroud, and where there have been erected sham battlements, belongs to Mr. Halliday. On this hill the Romans had a watch tower, and it formed an outpost for their camp at Woodchester.

Seat-Froom Hall, about half a mile from Stroud, and on the banks of the Stroud

water.

HALLIDAYS, OF SCOTLAND.

HALLIDAY, of Tullibole, now

of Berngaw,

HALLIDAY, of Whinnyrig. HALLIDAY, of Castlemains, HALLIDAY, of Chapman

town,

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Stewartry of Annandale. Stewartry

It is now ascertained by documentary evidence the most authentic that, although the last Laird of Corehead, undoubtedly the chief of all who bore the name of Halliday, and the lineal representative of the first Celtic warrior who assumed it, left no heir male of his body, and that the direct Scottish line failed between the years 1400 and 1450, yet that WALTER, "the minstrel," (master of the revels to EDWARD IV.) was a younger son of the Annandale Chieftain.

WILLIAM HALLIDAY, third son of Henry Halliday, of Minchin Hampton, and grandson of WALTER, the minstrel, was presumed to have been father of

THEOBALD HALLIDAY, who lived contemporaneously with William Halliday, of Rodborough. He went to Holland, and there married Hay, heiress of Tolyboll, in the county of Fife, only daughter of Colonel Hay, of the service of the states general, and was s. by his son,

JOHN HALLIDAY, educated in Holland, who inherited at the decease of his mother the lands of Tolyboll, and established himself there. It would appear that this John Halliday was a person of some distinction, for he was in great favor with King JAMES VI. who during the progress of the court from Stirling to Falkland, in his youthful days, often slept at Tulliebole House, midway on the journey, and is said to have conferred the honor of Knighthood upon the Laird. His second son,

WILLIAM HALLIDAY, who became provost of Dumfries, and one of its representatives in parliament, had the honor of entertaining the same monarch, at his house in that Royal Burgh, after the king's accession to

The estate of Tulliebole remained in the descendants of the eldest son of this Sir John Halliday, until 1722, when CATHERINE, daughter of John Halliday, wedded the Rev. Archibald Moncrieff, and conveyed it to that family, now represented by her great grandson, the present Sir James Wellwood Moncrieff, bart. of Tulliebole.

I. WILLIAM, his heir.

11. Simon, who acquired the lands of Whinnyrig, on the banks of the Solway Frith, and by Gracie, daughter of of Dumfries, had several sons, of whom, SIMON, the second son, became an eminent ship builder, and had an only daughter, who m. Captain David Scott, R.N. of Aberdeen, and left two daughters, Jane and Margaret Scott. The eldest son, JOHN, inherited Whinnyrig, and was s. by his elder son, ROBERT HALLIDAY, of Whinnyrig, who m. Helen Douglas, niece of Sir John Douglas, bart. of Kilhead, but leaving no issue, was s. by his brother, SIMON HALLIDAY, of Whinnyrig, a naval surgeon, and afterwards banker in London. He wedded MISS HARVIE, only daughter of Thomas Harvie, esq. of Jamaica, by Anne, his wife, subsequently Lady Farquhar, and d. in 1829, having had two sons and two daughters, viz.

1. GEORGE, a partner with his father in the banking of Herries, Farquhar, Hallidays, and Co. who d. unm. in 1820.

2. WALTER, in holy orders, now of Whinnyrig, in Dumfries, and of Linton, in Devon, m. in 1831, Anne, daughter of Gardiner,

esq. of Edinburgh.

3. Anne, m. to W. G. Johnstone, esq. now a banker at Florence, and d. leaving issue.

4. Elizabeth, m. to Sir William-Richard Cosway, knt. of Bilsington, in Kent, and has one son, William Halliday Cosway, and several daughters.