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beth Wynterfall, 5?. on day of her marriage. To every of the children of Alice Tonkis and Johan Chafleton, my sisters, which shall be alive at my decease, 51., to be paid within four years. To my cousin Thomas Ayshe all my books, apparel, &c. To my cousin William Pollard, son of Sir Richard Pollard, a gelding, or 5/. to buy him one. Residue to my well-beloved wife Phillipp Pollard, who is sole exor."

Proved in London 26 Aug., 1577, by Phillippe, relict and exor. This lady was daughter of William Sheldon of Beslye, co. Worcester, and survived her husband many years, dying 23 Dec., 1606, aged seventy-four. According to the ' Visitation of Oxfordshire ' (Harl. Soc.), Sir John and Anthony had three sisters : Alice, wife of T. Tonkes ; Jane, married to Robert Charlton ; and

Margaret, wife of Scudamore. As

will be seen, the two elder are named in Anthony's will. The M.I. to Anthony at Newnham styles him the third son of Walter Pollard of Plymouth. The other older son may have been the " Sir " James Pollard, parson of Newnham, named in the Speaker's will.

There is nothing in the will of either the Speaker or his brother to indicate their kinship with the better-known line of the Pollards of Way, Devon. Both Sir John and Anthony mention their " cousin Wil- liam Pollard, son to Sir Richard Pollard, deceased." This Sir Richard was the head of the line of Way, but the " cousinship " may have been solely a maternal kinship, through the Speaker's mother Avice, who was daughter of Anthony Pollard of Way, and aunt of Sir Richard. So far as appears, the male line of the Speaker's family ended with his brother Anthony.

The Pollards of Way, while tracing back to the fourteenth century, were brought first into prominence, and their future greatness established, by Sir Lewis Pollard, Justice of the Common Pleas 1511 to 1526. In all notices of him a serious mistake is made as to the year of his death. Foss states that he retired from the Bench in 1526, but lived until 1540 ; and these dates have been adopted in ' Diet. Nat. Bipg.' The will of " Sir Lewes Pollard, militis, Justice of the King's Bench " [sic], is dated 4 Nov., 16 Hen. VIII., and was proved 2 Nov., 1526 ; so that it is evident that he retired from his judicial duties only through death. He was the founder of several lines of the Pollard family. Both the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' and Foss state that he had no fewer than eleven sons and eleven daughters, four of his sons being knighted. This large family wants confirmation ; possibly many

of them died very young. The Pollard pedigree in Vivian's ' Visitations of Devon * (the fullest account of the Pollards of Way of which I have knowledge) gives to the judge six sons and five daughters ; while in his will he mentions four sons only. There is little doubt that the Sir John Pollard knighted in 1553, and mistaken for the Speaker, was one of the sons of Sir Lewis. I shall be glad if further light can be thrown upon the somewhat complicated Pollard lines, especially upon that repre- sented by the Speaker's father Walter Pollard of Plymouth. Also, who was the Richard Pollard who took so active a part in the suppression of the monasteries ?

W. D. PINK. Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

THE LONGMANS.

THE following events of interest in the history of the house of Longman, which appeared in the extra number of Notes on Books published by the firm on the 8th of December last, deserve, I think, a permanent record in ' N. & Q.' :

UNDER SEVEN MONARCHS.

In the Reign of George I.

1724 The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle,. Esq., published.

In the Reign of George II. 1757 Johnson's English Dictionary published.

In the Reign of George III.

1788 Mr. Longman wrote to Mr. Charles Went- worth Dilke, desiring his support to & periodical paper to be called The Time*.

1798 'Lyrical Ballads' by Coleridge and Words-

worth published.

1799 Acquired Lindley Murray's copyrights.

1800 Coleridge's Translation of Schiller's

4 Wallenstein ' published.

1802 Edinburgh Review fcranded.

1805 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel ' published. Southey's ' Madoc ' published.

1809 Byron's 'English Bards and Scotch Re- viewers' declined.

1814 Wordsworth's 'Excursion' published.

1817 Moore's 'LallaRookh' published.

In the Reign of George IV. 1825 Macaulay's first contribution to The Edin- burgh Review. 1829 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia started.

In the Reign of William IV. 1837 Booksellers' Provident Institution founded. . Publishers' Circular founded by Mr. William , Longman.

In the Reign of Victoria. 1839 Macaulay's 'England,' Vol. L, published.

1842 Macaulay's ' Lays ' published.

1843 Macaulay's ' Essays ' published.