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 184 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEPT. 2,1905. •employed him, according to Polydore Vergil —who wrote while Lambert was yet alive— as a scullion in the royal kitchen, and later as a falconer. Whether Wood's tale is true or no, it seems not improbable that an early generation of Magdalen boys may have known Lambert, even if he did not share with them their studies in Latin grammar. In John Ford's fine play ' Perkin Warbeck ' •(founded on Bacon's life of Henry VII., and first published in 1634) Lambert gives good advice, which is not taken, to his less for- tunate successor in revolt (V. iii.)- He thus describes himself:— I would be Earl of Warwick, toiled and ruffled Against my master, leaped to catch the moon, Vaunted my name Plantagenet, as you do ; An earl, forsooth ! when as in truth 1 was, As you are, a mere rascal: yet his majesty, A prince composed of sweetness,—Heaven protect him !— Forgave me all my villainies. But Perkin perished upon the scaffold, when faded finally away The milk-white rose of York, The rose of all the roses. A. R. BAYLEY. •St. Margaret's, Malvern. (To be continued.) THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. THOMAS POUNDE was born on 29 (and not, as Father Matthias Tanner, S.J., says, in his 'Societas Jesu Apostolorum Imitatrix,' Prague, 1694, on 31) May, 1539, as he himself tells us. (See the documents printed by Brother Foley, ' Eecords S.J.,' vol. ii. pp. 595 sqq. and 602 sqq. The date 1606 at the former reference is clearly a mistake for 1607—not 1609, as Brother Foley says.) These discrepancies are merely a slight foretaste of tin- difficulties that beset an historical account of his earlier years. His modern biographers include Brother Foley, S.J. (op. cit., vols. ii., iii., iv., and vii., passim). Father Morris, S.J. ('Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers," First and Second Series, passim), Dr. F. G. Lee (' The Church under Queen Elizabeth," passim), Mr. Joseph <3illow ('Bibliographical Diet, of English •Catholics," v. 354), and Mr. Richard Simpson (The Rambler, viii. 25-38, 94-106). As I have been much engaged in an arduous •undertaking lately, apart from professional work, I have been unable to consult the last named, nor have I seen the life of Thomas Pounde given by Father Bartoli, S.J., in his 'Istpria S.J. d' Inghilterra,' of which an •edition was published in 1825, nor that given by Father Henry More, S.J., in his ' Historia Missionis Anglican* S.J.,' published in 1660 • but Dr. Lee makes claim to have consulted the former, and Brother Foley the latter. Fathers Bartoli and More are said to have had the advantage of seeing a MS. life of Thomas Pounde, written by his younger con- temporary Father Thomas Stephenson, S.J., who was born 1552, and died in 1624. I wonder if it is very rash to hazard a sugges- tion that the said Father Thomas Stephenson never wrote any such life, but that we have here a confusion with Thomas Pounde's inti- mate friend Father Thomas Stevens (as to whom see 'D.N.B..' Supp. ii. 355). In 1575 or 1576 Henry Chaderdon, afterwards a priest (see Foley, op. cit., iii. 548), was recon- ciled to the Church by a " Mr. Stevens or Stevenson," who was then residing with Elizabeth, widow of Sir Thomas Guildford, Knt., and sister of William Shelley (as to whom see 10th S. iii. 441, 492 ; iv. 55). This, from the description of him there given, must have been Father Thomas Stevens's elder brother, Richard Stephens or Stevens (as to whom see 9th S. xi. 468 ; 10th S. ii. 35), who was one of Father Parsons's secretaries in 1602 (see Law's 'Jesuits v. Seculars,' cvii.). Is it not possible, then, that the life of Thomas Pounde consulted by Fathers Bartoli and More may turn out to be nothing more than the sketch of his career up to 1578 contained in a letter by Father Thomas Stevens, S.J., dated 4 November, 1578, and printed by Foley, iii. pp. 580 sqq., the result of which was to obtain for Thomas Pounde admission to the Society by the letter of the General of the Society, Mercurian, dated 1 December, 1578? This letter does not allude to his parentage : if it did, we should be spared some very difficult inquiries. 1. Father Tanner, and all the biographers whom I have had leisure to consult, describe Thomas Pounde as having been born and having died at Belmont, Hants. Brother Foley (op cit., iii. 570) says that Belmont was twelve miles from Winchester. In vol. xliii. of the Harleian Soc. Publications, at p. 225. the seat of the Pounde family is called "Beaments." Can any correspondent say where Belmont or Beaments was ? There is a hamlet called Beau worth or Bea worth in Hampshire, but its name does not in the least resemble Belmont, and moreover it is only six and a half miles from Winchester. 2. The authorities above cited describe Thomas Pounde as the son of William Pounde, Esq., of Belmont, by Anne Wriothesley, sister of Thomas, first Earl of Southampton. How- ever, this lady married about 1527 Oliver Lawrence, who was knighted in 1547 and