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' NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. x. SEPT. 5,

GEORGE HENLEY OF BRADLEY, HANTS (10 S. ix. 141, 470, 496; x. 92). In reply to MB. E. A. FRY, I have to admit that " Blackborough " was a slip for Black Bour- ton. With regard to the Christian name of Sir Robert Henley's first wife, Katherine or Mary, authorities differ. Le Neve's Sir Edward Hungerford, and the Visitation of London says daughter of Sir Antony ; while Hutchins's * Dorset ' calls her Mary.
 * Knights ' calls her Katherine, daughter of

Sir Antony Hungerford lies buried in a chapel on the north side of the church of Black Bourton, and on a black marble stone is the following :

" Here resteth the body of Antony Hungerford, of Black Bourton in the county of Oxon, and Rachel his wife, by whom he had twelve children, three sons and nine daughters. He departed this life the xviii day of August, and here interred the xv day of September following, Anno Dom. 1657."

Of these (according to the registers)* Katherine was baptized at Black Bourton* 11 June, 1642 (married Sir Robert Henley) ; Mary married Sir Samuel Hele ; Rachel (bapt. 8 March, 1637) married, 14 April, 1653, Lewis, Viscount Falkland ; Sarah (bapt. 3 March, 1641) married Sir John Carew ; Elizabeth (bapt. 16 Nov., 1643) married Sir Edward Stradling ; Diana (bapt. 19 Nov., 1648) married, 1671, Sir John Montague ; Lucia (bapt. 2 Jan., 1649 1649/50 ?) married, 7 Aug., 1673, Edmund Lechmere of Hanley ; Frances married Sir William Wyndham ; and Margaret Hunger- ford (born 18 April, 1631) died 7 April, 1637.

Katherine, daughter of Sir Robert Henley (born 1669, and licensed to marry, at the age of nineteen, to Henry Cornish of St. Lawrence Jewry on 5 April, 1688), must have been daughter of Katherine Hunger- ford, as Sir Robert Henley married his second wife, Barbara Every, at Wootton Glanville, in 1674. Antony Henley, Sir Robert's son and heir, was born in 1666 ; so that if Mrs. Webb was his sister and named Katherine, she might quite well be Cornish's widow, and also the " Mrs. Webb, wife of a clergyman in Hampshire, and sister of Antony Henley of the Grange in the same county," - whose death was recorded on 25 Feb., 1730 ('Historical Register,' vol. xv. p. 22).

I have had all the Henley wills at Somerset House examined for my lost Richard, also those at Blandford, and have seen the collec- tion of Somerset wills referred to by MR. FRY. My only hope now lies in family documents such as those quoted at 10 S. ix. 470 by MR. V. L. OLIVER. His evidence

regarding the George Henley, father and son, is most interesting and conclusive, and shows that my Col. Richard Henley has no place in that branch of the family.

During my search for the original of our portrait, I collected several stray notes, which may be of interest. The following are from the registers of St. George the Martyr, London :

Burial. "Joseph Henley of St. Bride's, 31 Dec., 1769."

Marriages. " John Henley of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, to Susannah Clay of South wark, 10 Oct., 1714."

"Jane Henley of St. Clement's Danes, spinster, to Robert Thacker of the same, bachelor, 27 Sept., 1720."

In the Visitation of Somerset, 1623, Margery, daughter of Andrew Henley of Taunton, is said to have married Richard Cherke of co. Worcester.

The Henleys of Boston, Massachusetts, given by MR. J. G. CUPPLES of Brookline, Mass. (10S. ix. 496), are exceedingly interest- ing, and would be doubly so if they bore our Henley coat of arms.

The pedigree of the Henleys of Bristol, who descended from Robert Henley of Leigh and Anne Trubody, may be of interest to American genealogists.

F. H. SUCKLING.

Romsey, Hants.

"STYMIE" AT GOLF (10 S. ix. 370, 414, 492 ; x. 15, 112). When one is at fault, it may be but a small palliation of the delin- quency to say that the position is due to misplaced confidence. This, however, is all that has to be offered in explanation of the statement made, ante, p. 15, regarding the etymology of " styme." The writer incautiously trusted to ' The Encyclopaedic Dictionary,' quoting its exact words, " A.-S. stima, a gleam, brightness," and unfortu- nately omitting to enclose them within inverted commas. One's faith in the au- thoritative character of this compilation is materially strengthened by the editorial assurance to the effect that Prof. Skeat's ' Etymological Dictionary ' was diligently consulted in the course of its preparation. At the same time, there is no excuse for failing to verify its conclusions.

THOMAS BAYNE.

"SWANK" (10 S. ix. 428, 513). I have not access to the ' Dialect Dictionary ' here, so I may be giving what is already well known. In the Orkney dialect " swanky " and " swingie " mean an earthworm.

ALEX. RUSSELL. Stromness, Orkney.