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 218 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEPT. 9, im monument in the year 1679 to the memory of his step - grandfather, William Nicolson (of>. 1672), Bishop of Gloucester, and his grandmother Elizabeth (nde Heighten, ob. 1663). This monument, which bears the full arms of Nicolson and Brigstocke, was originally placed in a small chapel on the south side of the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral, over the spot where the bishop and his wife are interred ; but during a restoration it was taken down, and is now to be found in the nave of the cathedral. In the little chapel where the bishop was buried is also a monument to Bridget Langley (ob. 1688), Owen Brigstocke's eldest sister, who at first married a man named Harvey, and subsequently, in 1664, John Langley, who survived her. The next adult member of the family named Owen was Owen Brigstpcke, of Llechdwny, grandson of the preceding, and, on the death of his elder brother Robert, son and heir of William Brigstocke (ob. 1713), of Llechdwny ; born 1679, matriculated at Jesus College. Oxford, in 1695, barrister-at-law Middle Temple, M.P. for Cardigan Boroughs 1712-13, and for the county of Cardigan 1718-22, F.R.S. 1710 and F.S. A. 1720, travelled abroad, collected a valuable library of books, edited 'Posthumous Works of Sir Thomas Browne,' and married Anne, daughter and eventual heir of Dr. Edward Browne (ob. 1708), of St. Bride's Parish, London, and of Northfleet, Kent, and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Browne, Knt, M.D. (ob. 1682). She died at the end of March, 1746. He died at Caermarthen without issue, 4 May, 1746, and was buried with his wife at Kidwelly, in Caermarthenshire His will was proved in London, but not till 1748. His book-plate, "old English style," is probably the one referred to at 8th S- xi. 168. ITA TESTOR is incorrect at 10th S. ii. 86 in stating that most of Owen Brigstocke's property came to him through his marriage, for he inherited the Llechdwny estates, including the manor of Clygin and the manor of the Priory.of Kid- welly, from his father, as well as a consider- able estate from his mother, Winifred (ob. 1722), co - heir of Robert Byrt, of Caer- marthen and of Llwyndvris, co. Cardigan. His wife's property at her death was to devolve (according to her father's will) upon the College of Physicians and St. Bartho- lomew's Hospital in equal shares. The third was Owen Brigstocke. of Llandygwydd, nephew of the preceding, second son of William Brigstocke and Eliza- beth his wife, heiress of Blaenpant, co. Cardigan ; born circa 1710, died unmarried in 1739 or 1740, when his estate was adminis- tered by his eldest brother, William. The fourth was Owen Brigstocke, of Blaenpant and Llechdwny, nephew of the preceding, and son and heir of William Brig- stocke (ob. 1751); born 1740, matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford (to which college his father presented a piece of plate), entered the Middle Temple 1758, Mayor of Cardigan 1765, and again in 1772, was nominated as High Sheriff for Cardiganshire in 1768, but did not serve, added considerably to the library of books at Blaenpant, married in 1760 Anne, elder daughter and eventual co- heir of John Williams, of Bwlchgwint and Corngafr in Mydrim parish, county of Caer- marthen, who survived him many years (she was sole legatee of her aunt Anne, the wife of Hon. Charles Hamilton, son of Viscount Boyne). He died 25 August, 1778, and was buried at Llandygwydd. He left issue: William Owen Brigstocke, his son and heir, and four younger children, viz., Rev. Owen Tudor Brigstocke (ob. s.j>. 1808), Anne, wife of James Greene (ob. 1810), Martha, firstly wife of John Nares, then of John Lens (ob. 1820), and Frances Eliza Maria (ob. unmarried 1830). Will proved in London. His book- plate, "Chippendale style," maybe the one referred to at 8"' S. xi. 168. This family migrated early in Elizabeth's reign from the neighbourhood of Brigstock, in Northamptonshire, to Croydon, in Surrey, whence a cadet branch settled in South Wales early in the reign of Charles I., and, having married a succession of Welsh heiresses, acquired a very good estate in those parts. G. R. BRIGSTOCKE. WILLIAM LEWIS, COMEDIAN (10th S. iv. 148). —Mr. Calcraft could only have meant, I think, that Lewis made Probatt's Family Hotel his home, the site of which was occupied by the Garrick Club. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. I possess an interesting portrait of Lewis in the part of Zamor, engraved by Thorn- thwaite after Roberts, London, 1777. LUDWIG RoSEJfTHAL. 16, Hildegardstrasse, Munich. FAMOUS PICTURES AS SIGNS (10th S. iv. 169}. —-In Liverpool a picture - dealer uses the familiar portrait of Rembrandt (by himself) as a sign, and a second art dealer adopts Reynolcjs's equally well-known picture of ' Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse.' In the same city a bookselling firm appropriately takes the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare as its figure-head ; and a Birmingham book-