III. Samuel-Jolliffe, in holy orders, IV. George. This gentleman is 1. Frances-Maria, deceased. P. 183, col. 2, 1. 49, Mottoes-Manus hæc inimica tyrannis, and Esse quam videri. POPHAM OF LITTLECOTT. P. 199, col. 2, l. 51, for "Friday," read 'Trickey." 2. Frances, m. the Rev. Robert | tached from the village, or any other dwellKeays, of Pewhill House, ing. The person who had used these abrupt Wilts, and has issue. means, desired her to tie a handkerchief over 3. Henrietta-Susannah, m. to her head, and not wait for a hat, as a lady Thomas Dewell, esq. of of the first quality in the neighbourhood was Dantsey, Wilts, capt. R.A. in want of her immediate assistance. He and has issue. then led to a stile at a short distance, where 4. Anna-Catherine, d. unm. in there was a horse saddled, and with a pil1824. lion on its back; he desired her to seat herself first, and then mounting immediately he set off at a brisk trot. After they had travelled about three quarters of an hour she expressed great alarm, but her conductor assured her that no harm should happen to her, and that she should be well paid, but added, that they had still further to go. He got off his horse several times to open gates, and they crossed many ploughed and corn fields, for though it was quite dark she could discover that they had quitted the high road within two miles of her own house; she also said they crossed a river twice. After they had been about an hour and a half on their journey they entered a paved court or yard, as she concluded from the clattering of the horse's feet on the stones. Her guide now lifted her off dark passage, in which she only saw a the horse, and conducted her through a long glimmering of light at a distance, which was concealed or put out upon the shutting of a large gate through which they passed. As soon as they arrived at a sort of landing P. 201. The following is a more cor- place, her guide addressed her to the folrect version of the tradition regard-lowing effect. You must now suffer me to ing Littlecott, when possessed by the put this cap and bandage over your eyes, Dayrells. which will allow you to speak and breathe, but not to see; keep up your presence of mind, it will be wanted, and I again repeat, no harm will happen to you.' Then conducting her into a chamber, he continued, now you are in a room with a lady in labour, perform your office well and you shall be amply rewarded, but if you attempt to remove the bandage from your eyes, take the consequences of your rashness. she said that horror and dread had so benumbed her faculties, that had any assistance been wanted she was rendered incapable of giving it, but nature had effected all that was requisite, and what remained for her to do was little more than to receive a male infant, and to give it into the hands of a female, who by her voice she conceived to be a woman advanced in years. Her patient she was sure was a very young lady, but she was forbid to ask any questions, or to speak a word. As soon as the event was completely over, she had a glass of wine given her, and was told to prepare to return home by another road, which was not quite so near, but free from gates or stiles. She begged to be allowed to repose herself for a quarter of an hour in the arm chair, whilst the horse was getting ready, pleading the "About seven or eight miles from the mansion of an ancient and respectable family in Wiltshire, towards the close of the sixteenth century, there dwelt a midwife of great skill and practice, who one night was called up just as she had gone to rest, after having returned from exercising the duties of her profession in another quarter. As soon as she knew the cause of her being disturbed, she endeavoured to excuse herself, on account of fatigue, and wished to send an assistant whom she kept in the house. The messenger, however, being resolved to gain the principal only for his purpose, urged that he had something to ask of her, for a person of consequence, after which the deputy might do. She accordingly came down stairs and opened the door, after which she disappeared, and was absent for many hours. "The deposition she made of what followed before a magistrate, and afterwards upon trial, was to the following effect.-She stated that as soon as she had unfastened the door, and partly opened it, a hand was thrust in, which struck down the candle, and at the same instant pulled her into the road in front of her house, which was de Here extreme fatigue she had undergone the preceding day; and under the pretence of sleeping she made those reflections which laid the foundation of that legal enquiry, which afterwards took place. She, undiscovered and unsuspected, contrived with her scissors to cut off a small bit of the curtain. This circumstance, added to others of a local nature, was supposed sufficient evidence to fix the transaction on the house pointed out, and, but for the scrutiny and cross-examination on the trial, would have given the law great scope over the lives of several persons, as it appeared improbable that fewer than five or six persons could have been concerned in a business so regularly conducted. In the course of her evidence the midwife affirmed she perceived an uncommon smell of burning, which followed them through all the avenues of the house to the court-yard, where she remounted the horse. She said that she remarked to the guide, that she saw a light and smelt a smell of burning, which he said was the work of the gardeners, who were firing the weeds and burning the moles amongst them, as they always did at that time of year. And she stated, that at the time of parting from the guide, which was within fifty yards of her own dwelling, he made her swear to observe secrecy, at the same time putting a purse into her hand, which she afterwards found contained twenty-five guineas; and till that moment the bandage had never been removed from her eyes. The morning was then breaking; she also deposed that she counted the steps on the first and second landing-places, which agreed with those of the suspected house, and the piece of curtain was found to match one exactly in a room where the birth of the child was supposed to have taken place. With such evidence it was expected that nothing short of a conviction of some of the parties for the murder of a new born infant must have followed; particularly as a beautiful young lady in the family (a niece) had withdrawn herself from her acquaintance, under the plea of going to a convent at Avignon, to learn French, when she had been seen more than once after her declared departure, by a fruit woman, looking out of a small window next to her usual apartment. In the course of the trial, however, the circumstance of the curtain was rendered suspicious, by its being proved on cross-examiBation, that a Catholick servant had left the family in malice a short time before, with horrid declarations of revenge, on account of her having been forbidden to attend mass, which suggested a possibility of her supplying the fact of the curtain, as well as all the local description given by the midwife of the suspected mansion. The midwife's story, though apparently plausible, was considerably weakened by her swearing positively to so many and doubtful points. First, that of her distinguishing the being carried over corn and ploughed fields, though she only knew, it being so extremely dark, that they had quitted the high road from the sound of the horse's feet. Next, her affirming that when introduced into the chamber she was so benumbed and stupified with horror and dread, that in a case of difficulty she could have given no assistance; yet, during this state of horror and dread, she could, though blindfolded, swear positively that her patient was very young; the child a male; and the person to whom it was given advanced in years; and immediately afterwards had the presence of mind to execute the ingenious but hazardous experiment of cutting the curtain. She also said, that she remarked to the guide her seeing a light, as well as smelling the burning, yet affirmed immediately afterwards, that the bandage was not taken from her till she was within fifty yards of her own house. But an apparent contradiction, and which was supposed to have over-turned her whole evidence, was her positively insisting that in their way to the house, where her assistance was wanted, they crossed a ford twice, when it was proved that there was only one straight river between the two houses. Now supposing the guide to have made a wheel round, in order to deceive the midwife, and to have again crossed the river, they must still have forded it a third time to arrive at the suspected house. All these circumstances being pointed out, and commented on by the judge for the consideration of the jurymen, they returned a verdict of acquittal without leaving the court. "Whether the suspected parties were or were not guilty of the crime of murder, could only be known to themselves and the great Disposer of all things; but no judge or jury would have established a different verdict from such defective evidence. The train of calamity which succeeded the trial may give rise to melancholy reflections, and was, no doubt, considered by the multitude, to have been the effect of divine visitation. In few words, the owner of Littlecott soon became involved in estate and deranged in mind, and is stated to have died a victim to despondency, and though the fate of the niece is unknown or forgotten, ruin and misery are said to have befallen the family which survived him." STAPYLTON OF MYTON. Arms of the old Earls of Richmond.* The genealogist GEORGE CRAWFURD's deduction of this family from SWANE, of Danish origin, solely from that person's holding part of the barony of Crawfurd, is palpably erroneous. Swane having been contemporary with Galfiridus, and with his father, Dominus Galfridus de Crawfurd, in the reign of WILLIAM, the Lion. It is only stated, however, problematically by Crawfurd. Chalmers's enquiries amongst the records in the Tower had not, when Crawfurd wrote, given the right direction to antiquarian research. The recent discovery, in an old illuminated manuscript at the British Museum, in the Cotton collection, of the arms of Stephen, third earl of Richmond, who died in 1104, and their close similitude to the coat borne by the Crawfurds, coupled with other corroborative circumstances, has thrown new light upon the subject, and leaves hardly a doubt that those old EARLS OF RICHMOND, and this ancient and widely dispersed Caledonian family sprang from a common progenitor. The original coat of the earls of Richmond, as shewn by GALE, in his Registrum Honorum Richmondia, was ermine; the arms of Britanny, whence those earls descended. GALE further states, and is supported by CLARKSON, in his History of Richmond, that the family adopted gules, the tincture of royalty, in addition to ermine, as a mark of gratitude to their royal benefactor, WILLIAM, the Conqueror, under whose * This shield, with a bourdeur argent, is prefixed to the grants of the first earls, but the male line of that house failing, and the elder co-heir, ALICE, having conveyed the earldom of Richmond to her husband PETER DE DREUX, the subsequent earls carried the DREUX arms, " chequy, or and az." the ermine being borne in canton. The bordure in the Richmond shield indicates cadency, the earls being a younger branch of the house of Britanny, and was omitted after the marriage of BERTHA, daughter and heiress of Conan, duke of Britanny, with ALAN, fourth earl of Richmond, who succeeded his father in 1104, his elder brother, GALFRIDUS, having died previously, s. p. Arms of Crawfurd. great seal they had obtained not fewer than 440 manors, and 140 knight's fees in the counties of York, Lincoln, and Norfolk. Some of their successors carried leopards or over the gules, hence gules and or became the colours of the lords of Bedale, sprung from Brian, second son of ALAN, fourth earl of Richmond. The ERMINE, after gules had been adopted, was variously timbered by some, in canton, as depicted in an ancient picture at the Museum; by others, in bend, as in the engraving above, (which with the bordure was adopted, and still continues as the arms of the town of Richmond, taken evidently from the arms of its founder, Stephen, third earl, from whom it received its first charter,-see Clarkson), and in fesse, as borne by the CRAWFURDS, who located in Scotland, in the time of DAVID I. Reginald, the youngest son of the fourth earl of Richmond, and the great-great grandson of GALFRIDUS, duke of Britanny, who died in 1008, does not appear to have founded any establishment or family in England, but at the period in which he lived, we find at the court of King DAVID, in Scotland, a person bearing the name of REGINALD, whom George Crawford deems the extreme ancestor of the Crawfurds, and who obtained large grants from that prince; whose policy it was, as stated in the introductory observations to the Halliday family (page 127), to allure the young and unendowed Anglo-Norman knights, to settle in his dominions. This Reginald was father or grandfather of the Dominus GALFRIDUS the charters of WILLIAM, the Lion, and apDE CRAWFURD, who frequently witnessed pears to have received many marks beside of royal consideration, demonstrative of alliance to the court; for which Crawfurd states himself unable to account. If, however, Reginald were, as now conjectured, one of the sons of the Earl of Richmond, (and of which the concurrent testimony of a variety of facts forms the strongest presumption), he, GALFRIDUS, would be closely connected with THE LION, his uncle, CONAN Le Petit, fifth earl of Richmond (Reginald's brother), having married Margaret, daughter of Prince HENRY, of Scotland, EARL OF HUNTINGDON, and sister of King WILLIAM: thus his rank at court, and the high degree of confidence he enjoyed there would be easily explained. In fine, the aggrandizement of Reginald and Galfridus at the Scottish court-the constant recurrence of those names in both pedigrees and above all, the identity of arms, for be the ermine carried in bend or in fesse it is the same bearing (the variation being adopted probably as a mere difference to distinguish brothers), present so strong a combination of circumstantial evidence, (in absence of proof by charter, which, through the destruction of so many of the Scotch records by King Edward I. of England, is now impossible) as to remove, in our humble opinion, almost every doubt from the hypothesis, that the old earls of Richmond, and the Crawfurds of Scotland, sprang from a common ancestor. VAUGHAN OF BURLTON HALL. P. 241, col. 1, 1. 9 from foot. FRANCIS CHAMBRE, of Wolverley, living in 1666, is erroneously stated to have been father, instead of grandfather, of John Chambre, who married Miss Waring. The said Francis was buried at Loppington, 9th May, 1678; his grandson, John, at Newton Chapel, 13th March, 1718, aged sixty-seven; Sarah, the widow of John, was interred in the same vault with her husband, 26th December, 1723; these particulars are taken from the monuments of the Chambre family, in Newton Chapel, to which Francis Chambre was a munificent benefactor. The following descent of the Loppington branch of the family is principally from the registers of Loppington parish, and from monumental inscriptions in that church: HUMPHREY CHAMBRE, who was living 24th HENRY VIII. (by a copy of court roll of the manor of Loppington, dated 4th December, in that year, whereby he was admitted customary tenant of a copyhold estate within the said manor) married Jane Barker, of Coogage, and had two sons, namely, THOMAS, his heir, now represented by ROBERT CHAMBRE VAUGHAN, esq. of Burlton Hall, as stated at page 242, and GEORGE CHAMBRE, the first of the family settled at Loppington. This gentleman, The name (then written Chamberay) of the carliest ancestor of the family who passed into England with WILLIAM of Normandy, is enrolled at Battel Abbey. (See BURKE'S Extinct Peerage.) who was living 22nd of ELIZABETH, as appears from an award made 6th May, in that year, to which he was a party, married, and had, with a younger son, who was father of Francis Chambre, esq. of Wolverley, his successor, FRANCIS CHAMBRE, esq. of Loppington, John, who died s. p. and was buried at The elder son, GEORGE CHAMBRE, esq. of Loppington, espoused 25th May, 1660, Mrs. Dorothy Eddowes, of Hanmer, and by her, who was buried at Loppington, 17th November, 1685, had one son and five daughters, viz. GEORGE, his heir. Catherine, bapt. 22nd August, 1663, m. at Loppington, 29th March, 1681, John Legh, esq. of Chester, a younger son of the family of High Legh, and had a son, GEORGE LEGH, of whom presently. Dorothy, bapt. 16th June, 1671, m. to - Lewis, esq. Ermine, bapt. 15th March, 1674, m. to Francis, bapt. 17th December, 1679. GEORGE CHAMBRE, esq. of Loppington, bapt. 27th September, 1666, at whose decease, issueless, 8th April, 1707, the estates were inherited by his nephew, THE REV. GEORGE LEGH, D.D. vicar of Halifax, who married thrice, but died without issue, directing, by his will, which bears date 10th March, 1779, the sale of the Loppington estate : it was in consequence purchased by Thomas Dickin, esq. high sheriff of Shropshire in 1799, and is now the property of his son, THOMAS DICKIN, esq. of Loppington House, who is an acting magismerly major of the Shropshire militia. He trate for the county of Salop, and was forthe Hon. Edward Massy, and sister to the espoused, in 1827, Jane, fourth daughter of present Mrs. Vaughan, of Burlton Hall. DAVIES OF ELMLEY PARK. David of Hope" stated, at p. 259, to be the first name in the pedigree, was fourth in' descent from Celynin, a chieftain of Powys, who resided at Llwydiarth, an estate which he inherited in right of his mother, who was the heiress of Ririd, son of Cynric Evell, lord of Eglwysegl. RIRID, father of Celynin, was fifth in descent from ALETH, lord of Dyved, or Demetiw, from whom many respectable families in the principality are descended. FARQUHARSON OF HAUGHTON. principal gentry of Wales. In this family, the surname of EDWARDES was not assumed until the time of ELIZABETH, when Richard Edwardes, being appointed chancellor of St. David's, appears to have gathered all the surviving members of his family into Pembrokeshire. THOMAS EDWARDES, the second son of Edward-ap-John, was twice married: by his first wife he had two sons, Nicholas and P. 261, col. 1, 1. 10 from foot, for "At- | Richard, and the same number by his second tyre," read "Altyre." EDWARDES TUCKER, OF SEALYHAM. Although this family has lost its own early records, there are documents in existence, certified by its chiefs living in the reign of Queen ELIZABETH and JAMES I. from which we are enabled to correct the statement at page 314, and to complete the early descents. The EDWARDSES, of Trefgarne, quite different in descent from the Edwardses of Rhydygors, are a branch of the numerous descendants of Tudor Trevor, a powerful chieftain, whose residence was on the border of North Wales and Shropshire, whence he is styled the head of the tribe of the Marches, of Wales. Third in direct line from Tudor Trevor, was CYNRIC, or CYNVRIG, the son of Rhiwlillow, which Cynric was lord of Christionydd, Cynric, and Maelor Cymraeg, in North Wales. Eleventh from Cynric was EDWARD-ap-John, who resided, not at Chirk Castle, as stated in page 314, but in Chirkland, as a considerable district in Denbighshire is termed. He married Catherine, daughter of Ievan, or Evan-ap-William, of Mold, in Flintshire, and had issue, 1. JOHN-AP-EDWARD, or JOHN ED WARDES, who m. Gwenn, daughter of 2. RICHARD EDWARDES, the first of the 3. THOMAS EDWARDES, ancestor of Mr. EDWARDES TUCKER, of Sealyham. 1. Margaret, m. to Thomas Hewett, son and heir of Thomas Hewett, chanter of St. David's, and a justice of peace for Pembrokeshire. The three brothers above mentioned were the first members of this family who adopted the surname of EDWARDES; and it was not in the reign of HENRY the FOURTH, as asserted at p. 314, but in that of HENRY VII. that surnames were first adopted by the wife, Sage, daughter of Thomas Tucker, viz. Owen and Richard. The elder son of the second marriage, OWEN EDWARDES, was living in 1613, and was then married to Ethliw, or Elliw, dau. of Morgan Voel, esq. of Haverfordwest, by whom he had a son, JOHN EDWARDES, father, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Thomas Birt, of OWEN EDWARDES, esq. of Trefgarne, in the county of Pembroke, who wedded Damaris, daughter of James Perrott, esq. as stated in page 314, and from whom the descent to the present Mr. EDWARDES TUCKER is there accurately deduced. SWIRE OF CONONLEY. P.343, col. 1, 1. 3. Roger Swire, of Hali- 1. Roger, now resident in Jamaica, 1. Hannah, are, who or GRACE OF MANTUA. CARR OF COCKEN HALL. P. 354. Ralph Carr, esq. died in Oc- The motto of the Carr family is "L'esperance me console.” HUSSEY OF WOOD WALTON. P. 358. Adeliza Hussey, second dau. of Thomas Hussey, esq. born in 1745, married, in 1775, Major M'Fie, of |