Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 4.djvu/227

 ID* s. iv. SEPT. 2,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 185 died on 1 January, 1559/60. (See Hutchins's ' Dorset,' third ed. vol. i. p. 599, and Harleian !Soc. Publications, vol. x.. p. 63 ; and of. Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' vol. lii. p. 672, and Burke'a ' Dormant and Extinct Peerages,' p. 594.) Thus she could not have been Thomas Pounde's mother (though all the accounts, some of them con- temporary, e.g., those by the Rev. Henry Chaderdon and Father Thomas Stevens, so describe the widow of William Pounde), but she may have been his stepmother. So much for Thomas Pounde's mother. Who was his father : Berry, in his ' Hants Genealogies,' at p. 194, mentions a William Pounde, who by his wife Mary, daughter and coheir of Thomas Heyno, of Salisbury, had a son and heir, Anthony Pounde, of Dray ton, and a daughter, Charlotte, who married John White, Esq. The mention of Drayton seems to connect this William Pounde with two Wykehamists, Robert Powndeand William Pownd, of whom the former entered Winchester College from Drayton, aged eleven, in 1518, and the latter entered the same college, also from Drayton, aged eleven, in 1579 (Kirby, ' Winchester Scholars,' pp. 109, 149). But Berry's William Founde cannot be the father of our Thomas Pounde, as, according to Morant's 'Essex,' vol. i. p. 254, he diea 5 July, 1525. Berry's William Pounde's daughter Charlotte's daughter, Ann White, is stated to have married one John Britten, and in various places it is asserted that our Thomas Pounde's mother's sister married a Mr. Britten or Brittan, and the ' Chronicles of St. Monica's, Louvain,' at p. 148, state that Sister Helen Brittan's mother was a niece of the first Earl of Southampton. The bearing, however, of these statements lies, as Capt. Cuttle would say, in the application, and I am unable to see any light through this genealogical haze. The only other remarks I have to pass on Thomas Pounde's relations are (1) that the contemporary authorities, (a) the Rev. Henry Chaderdon and (b) Father Thomas Stevens, state respectively (a) that his mother was a. Protestant (b) and his father a Catholic (Foley, iii. 547, 581). (2) That Mr. Chaderdon says the Rev. John Pounde, who was sent on the mission in 1583, and imprisoned in the Clink late in the same year, and who appar- ently died in exile in or before 1586, was Thomas Pounde's brother (Foley, iii. 45, 546-7, 657), whereas Father Stevens, in 1578, says that Thomas Pounde was the only son and heir of his father (Foley, iii. 581). 3. Father Tanner says (a) that Thomas Ponnde was educated till he was twenty- three at the College of the B.Y.M. of Win- chester, and (I) that he received Queen Elizabeth there with a Latin ode. (a) It is obvious that Father Tanner's statement may refer either to Winchester College (the College of the B.V.M. of Win- chester, near Winchester) or to New College, Oxford (the College of the B.V.M. of Win- chester at Oxford), though Brother Foley, Mr. Gillow, and Dr. Lee all make the same statement of Winchester College. Thomas Pounde was certainly not on the foundation of either college, but he may have been a Commoner at one or the other, or both. However, he certainly was not there till he was twenty-three, for on 16 February, 1559/60, he was admitted to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. (I) Moreover, he did not (in all probability) receive Queen Eliza- beth with a Latin ode, either at Winchester or at New College, for it is almost certain that the queen was not either at one college orat theotherinpr before 1562. Undoubtedly she was at Winchester in August, 1562 (Nichols, ' Progresses,' &c., vol. i. p. 87), but it does not appear that she visited the College on that occasion. She did so in 1570, bat Thomas Pounde was most certainly not there then. He was at that time aged thirty-one. Father Stevens says he went to Court in 1566 (Foley, iii. 580), but he appears to have gone there before that, and to have acted the part of Mercury in Gascoigne's Masque, performed before the queen at Kenilworth in 1565 (see Foley, iii. 544). He left the Law Courts for the Court on the death of his. father, as all his earlier biographers assert, but the date of his father's death has not been ascertained. I may mention that it is not tenable that a mistake has been made as to the sovereign to whom the congratulatory ode was delivered. King Edward VI. visited Winchester College in 1552, and King Philip and Queen Mary in 1554, but the verses de- livered on these occasions are preserved in the King's Library at the British Museum (12 A. xxxii. and xx.), and on neither occa- sion were any verses delivered by Thomas Pounde. I should like on some future occasion to make some note as to his various prisons; but the present note has already exceeded all reasonable bounds. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. SAGHALJEN : ITS PRONUNCIATION. — This island has come to the front in the peace negotiations between Russia and Japan, and it may not be amiss to discuss the pronuncia- tion of its name. It is admittedly a word of the Manchu language, and signifies " blac'