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 10 s. x. OCT. 3, 1908.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Thomas Hudson's ' History of Judith ' was bound up with all the folios of Sylvester's works, but it was made plain that ' Judith ' was Hudson's work, and not Sylvester's. Allot knew this, and hence the signatures in his book to quotations from that work. But whether or not he and Collier are correct in regard to the Hudson entries throughout is a question that one could not answer without a good deal of research. Knowing that Allot confused authors bound up in the same book, I suspect that some of Sylvester's work has been given to Hudson.

Sylvester retranslated Hudson's ' Judith ' under the title of ' Bethulia's Rescue,' claim- ing the new work wholly for himself, although he was under no small debt throughout to Hudson, whose translation he belittles in his verses addressed to Queen Anne. And yet I have been able without difficulty to trace in Sylvester's version of ' Judith ' many of the quotations assigned to Hudson by Allot, simply because Sylvester has adopted Hud- son's own peculiar phrasing. It is strange that Grosart did not mention the fact that ' Bethulia's Rescue ' is Hudson's translation of ' Judith ' rewritten.

CHAS. CRAWFORD.

(To be continued.)

SIR WILLIAM NEVILLE HART AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

ABOUT eighteen months ago, in my reply to a query regarding Stanhope Aspinwall, I gave (10 S. vi. 473) a few particulars of his son-in-law, William Neville Hart. I have since searched in vain for any con- nected account of the family of Hart, which is, I believe, still extant in the male line. The following details may perhaps prove of use to some of your readers.

Lewis Augustus Blondeau, appointed a gentleman usher to George II. in 1739,* married Denise, nee Gougeon. She is said to have been previously married to a Mr. Crowe of Kiplin, in Yorkshire, but I cannot trace any issue of this marriage. Her sister Esther Gougeon m. (? in London, 11 June, 1738) Daniel Cornelius de Beaufort, a French refugee, and was grandmother of Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. (see references to the families of Crowe and Beaufort in Mrs. Griffiths' s diary. Mrs. Denise Blondeau m. 2ndly or Srdly Sir William Hart, Kt., banker, and Sheriff of London, 1760-61, who d.e.p. 22 Aug., 1705
 * Diet, of Nat. Biog.'). There are frequent

Gentleman 1 s Magazine.

(will proved P.C.C. 3 Sept. following).- From the records of the Lord Chamberlain's department in the Public Record Office it appears that Mrs. Denise Blondeau was appointed under housekeeper of St. James's Palace to George II., 31 Jan., 1740/41. On 25 Feb., 1761^ she, then Lady Hart, was reappointed to the same office under George III. She d. at St. James's Palace,. 6 Dec., 1793, according to The Gentleman'* Magazine ; but the date, 12 Dec., given in her granddaughter's diary, is more probably correct.

By his wife Denise, Lewis Augustus; Blondeau had issue : 1. William Neville Blondeau. 2. Lewis George Blondeau, b. 5 April, 1744, and bapt. 2 May folio wing, t 3. Frederick Blondeau, b. 17 March, 1745/6,. and bapt. 5 May folio wing, f The eldest son, William Neville (Nevil) Blondeau,. banker, of Pall Mall, assumed by private^ Act of Parliament, 22 March, 1765, the- surname of Hart instead of Blondeau ; b. 27 Dec., 1741, and bapt. 14 Jan. follow- ingt; M.P. for Stafford, 1770-74; Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, 8 July, 1773 ; Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, 27 Dec., 1794, and sometime Chamberlain to Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland. Nicholas Carlisle in his ' Foreign Orders of Knighthood ' (London, 1839) states that in October, 1795, Sir William Neville Hart, after his return to England, received a letter from the Duke of Portland, then Secretary of State for the Home Department, notifying to- him his sovereign's permission " to assume and bear the title of Knight of 'The Order of Saint Stanislaus,' and to wear the insignia appertaining to the same." This is confirmed by his grandson, H. C. HART (2 S. vi. 162), who gives the text of Sir W. N. Hart's diploma as a knight of St. Stanislaus. Sir William m. 1st, 7 Jan., 1765,t Elizabeth (then under age), dau. of Caesar Hawkins (cr. a baronet 25 July, 1778), Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, and surgeon to St. George's Hospital. She- d. 30 Oct., 1766.* He m. 2ndly, 6 Oct., 1767,t Elizabeth, dau. of Stanhope Aspin- wall (see 2 S. vi. 534 ; 10 S. vi. 409, 473), and by her (who d. in 1783*) had issue two- sons and four daughters :

1. William Stanhope Hart, b. 17 Oct., 1769, and bapt. 14 Nov. followingf ; d. in his father's lifetime.

2. William Nevil (Neville) Hart, some- time captain in the 79th Cameron High- landers, b. 19 July, 1772, and bapt. 12 Aug.

f Registers of St. James's Church, Westminster.