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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. MARCH 25, 1905.

13 January, 1779, and was subsequently admitted an attorney of the King's Bench. His name appears in Browne's ' General Law List' for 1787 (p. 37) as "Francis Douce, jun., Coney Court, Gray's Inn," but is omitted from the list for 1789. He married on 2 November, 1791 (not 1799), Isabella, widow of the Rev. Henry Price, " late of Bellevue in Ireland " (Gent. Mag., Ixi. 1061), and she was the recipient of a legacy from his father. She died in Upper Gower Street in 1830 (ib., c. ii. 188).

The family appears to have come from Nether, or Lower, Wallop, co. Southampton. One Thomas Douce of that place died in December, 1732 (Musgrave's ' Obituary,' s.v.). The antiquary's father possessed a farm there called Place Farm, which he gave to his eldest son Thomas Augustus Douce, of Town Mailing, in Kent, on his marriage with Miss Margaret Hubble (will in P.C.C., 258 Howe), one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Benjamin Hubble, of Town Mailing.

Francis Douce, M.D., was painted twice by William Keable (not "Keeble"). One portrait was a half-length in an oval frame ; in the other, which is mentioned in the back, with a very big pistol stuck in the holster of the saddle. Both represented him at the age of seventy-five, and both were mezzotinted by James McArdell, the half- length in 1752. While engaged in making his will on 20 December, 1758, Dr. Douce was seized with a paralytic fit, and was after- wards declared a lunatic by a writ of in- quisition. At the time of his death (16 Sep- tember, 1760) he was a widower without children. The conditions upon which he made a benefaction to his native place are thus quaintly set forth in his will (P.C.C., 385 Lynch) :
 * D.N.B.,' the learned physician was on horse-

" My mind and will is that my Body be deposited in the Pyramid (made to receive me and my Wife

and no more) in Lower Wallop Church Yard

Imprimis I give to the parish of Lower Wallop (provided they do not suffer my Pyramid to be injured) the Interest of a thousand pounds as they stand now which I shall die possessed of in the South Sea Annuities at the South Sea House for ever to be made use of for the following purposes Vid : to help support the men and women who are past their Labours and do dwell in that parish of Lower Wallop to be distributed by twelve of the Heads of the parish or as the majority of the Jury meaning the twelve men and if they do not do -Justice I cannot help that. I order that put of the said Interest Money that the Boys and Girls of the said Parish are taught to read and write and cast an Account a little way, especially those who cannot pay for their schooling or learning, but they must not go too far least it makes them saucy and the Girls all want to be Chamber Maids and in a few

years you will be in want of Cooks. I give this charity provisionly [fc] that my pyramid shall be kept in good Order and the Iron Rails painted every second year at the charge of the parish, and if the parish Boys do climb or injure it, they shall not only be deprived of their learning, but shall also be punished, and if the parish do not keep the pyramid in good repair this charity shall cease and be void and subsist no longer."

The good doctor's charity is still enjoyed by Nether Wallop. His other nephews (besides the antiquary's father) were Francis Gosling, the London alderman, and Robert Gosling, the banker of Fleet Street. Two of his nieces were Elizabeth Miller Rivington (wife of John Rivington, bookseller) and Mary Dalton (wife of the Rev. John Dalton, D.D.). The antiquary's second brother, William Henry Douce, who practised as an attorney in Fenchurch Street, was in part- nership with a Henry Rivington in 1789. GOUDON GOODWIN.

KlLLIGREW AND BARKER FAMILIES. In

the elaborate pedigree of the ancient Cornish family of Killegrew printed by Col. Vivian in his 'Visitations of Cornwall' (p. 267; cp. p. 641) there is an error no doubt very pardonable, but of some little importance respecting the Henry Killegrew who was Admiral of the Fleet under William III., and brother of Anne Killegrew, the poetess com- memorated by Dryden. Admiral Henry Killegrew is therein described as the father of a Henry Killigrew, of St. Julian's, Herts, who died 9 November, 1712. But this second Henry is entirely mythical, and the details referred to him by Vivian really appertain to Admiral Henry Killegrew (cp. Chauncy, 'Hist, of Herts, 7 1700, p. 459).

The admiral's wife was named Lucy. Is anything known about her parentage 1 He had by her a son Peter and three daughters, of whom the second, Mary (d. 1734), was married in 1726 to Edward Barker (d. 1747), of Sompting, in Sussex. The great-grand- daughter of this Edward and Mary Barker, a Miss Anne Maria Barker, married in 1818 the Rev. William Bruton Wroth, M.A., my grandfather. WARWICK WROTH.

British Museum.

"HiRSLES YONT." In Longman's Magazine for February, p. 384, Mr. Andrew Lang volunteers some information regarding the vagaries of typography that have come under his notice. After a reference to an early book of his own he proceeds thus :

"Somebody kindly sends me a list of misprints in another book. They are not all errors. It is right to say that an aggressive family ' birses yont,' pushes beyond its bounds, not ' hirsles yont ' a