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hamstead," co. Hertford, " widdow." Ther are legacies to Aunt Fulthorpe and Siste Bendish, cousins Thomas and Sarah Burkitt of Sudbury, Suffolk, John Nevill the elder, o Ridgwell (co. Essex), and others. Briefly, th effect of the will is to make George, the elde son of John Nevill, sen., her heir, and to b put in possession of the estate on attaining the age of twenty-one, with remainder to John, the second son, and Elizabeth the daughter. She expresses a strong wish tha: whichever son succeeds should study law In accordance with her wishes, she was interred in Little Berkhampstead Church bj the side of her husband, 501. being left for a monument and a tablet on the wall. The will was proved by Thomas Burkitt, one ol the executors, on 4 June, 1692, with leave to John Nevill, sen., to prove later.

The monument bore the arms Quarterly, 1st and 4th Fleetwood, 2nd and 3rd Neville, with the Fleetwood crest, and the inscrip- tion:

" Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Fleetwood, widow, who died the 20th of April, MDCLXXXXI., adjacent to the body of her vertuous husband Cromwell Fleetwood, Esquire, who died y c l of June, MDCLXXXVIII. This Elizabeth was sole daughter of George Nevill, Gent., and died without issue." Cussans's ' Hundred of Hertford,' p. 169.

Clutterbuck, in his history of the county, gives the inscription, but makes the year of Elizabeth's decease 1693. Both authorities on another page assign another year as the year of death, but neither gives 1692. The discrepancy in quoting the inscription itself may possibly arise from its having been in the floor of the chancel, the figures on the stone becoming gradually defaced.

Chauncy's ' Hertfordshire ' contains a small pedigree of Nevill, which is useful in showing how the estate passed. Presumably by some family arrangement, John Nevill the younger succeeded, and eventually sold the property to Sir John Dimsdale, of Hertford, Knt. His brother George Nevill married in 1709 Jane, daughter of William Guyon, of Halstead, and had issue a son George Raymond and a daughter. These Nevills were descended from Ralph Nevill, first Earl of West- morland, through his son George, Baron Latimer, whose grandson Richard succeeded him as Baron Latimer ; Sir Thomas Nevill (died 1540), a younger son of Richard, was the ancestor of the Halstead and Ridgwell branch.

Regarding Thomas and Sarah Burkitt, men- tioned in Elizabeth Fleetwood's will, the wife must have been the Sarah Neville to whom Bridget Fleetwood bequeathed the Fleetwood cabinet (9 th S. iii. 347; 10 th S. ii. 67). Jt '

would, therefore, appear that Cromwell Fleetwood and his wife were related before marriage. R- W. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be sent to them direct.

KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. Je desirerais par 1'intermediaire de votre journal obtenir des indications sur les documents concernant Ford re du Temple (1128-1312) qui peuvent se trouver dans les differentes bibliotheques, publiques ou privees, de I'Angleterre (en dehors du British Museum) ; c'est a dire les chartes originates concernant 1'ordre du Temple en general et les biens qu'il possedait en Angleterre, Ecosse, Irlande.

LE MARQUIS D'ALBON. Paris, VII., 17, Rue Vaneau.

HERMITAGE, HARROW. I find that the house in which I live, and which is still called the Hermitage, was known at the close of the fifteenth century as the " Her- mitage of St. Edmund and St. Catherine." Can any of your readers tell roe what was probably then understood by a hermitage, ind what would probably be the connexion oetween St. Edmund and St. Catherine? The widence of a religious house upon the site s very slight and precarious, if it exists at all. W. DONE BUSUELL.

Harrow-on-the-Hill.

NEWPORT FAMILY. Can any reader tell me


 * rom what family of Newports (of Essex,

Shropshire, or Worcester) was descended that

Christopher Newport, captain of one of

^ueen Elizabeth's frigates, who was the first

x) land on the Bermudas ? There is a tablet

o his memory in the Botanical Gardens,

St. George's Island, Bermuda. I should be

glad of any information of his ancestry and

escendants. J. A. K.

"WARKAMOOWEE." In 'The Century Dic- ionary' (1891) this word is explained as "a sland of Ceylon." Certain details are also
 * anoe with outriggers, used at Point de Galle,

voodcut. The explanation, details, and wood- ut are all copied from Ogilvie's 'Imperial
 * iven regarding the boat, of which there is a

Dictionary ' (1883). ' The Encyclopaedic Dic- ionary ' (1888) gives the same explanation, ut alters the language of the details, and as a more spirited woodcut. As to the tymology of the word, the 'Imperial' is

discreetly silent; the 'Encyclopaedic' com-