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 268 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* a. iv. SEPT. so. isoe, Court h baronet, and married the daughter of the Duke of Montemar in Spain, and had issue ; (3) James Richards, of Cadiz ; (4) Lewis Richards, who died before March, 1736, leaving five children. I am endeavouring to trace the descendants of Sir Philip, the fourth baronet, and those of his brother Lewis, who died about 1736, and shall feel grateful for any notes or information respecting this family. There is no pedigree of it in Heralds' College. W. W. RICHARDS. Grenfell House, Mutley, Plymouth. THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. (10th S. iv. 184.) THOMAS was the eldest son of William Pounde, of Belmorit or Beamond, near Bed- hampton, to the wast of Havant, Hants, by his wife Ellen, a sister of the Lord Chan- cellor who was created Earl of Southampton. His mother survived his father, and remained a widow, with her home at Belmont, until her death, which occurred between 25 Sep- tember, 1589, the date of her will, and 15 October, 1589, when the will was proved. It appears from this will (P.C.C. 75 Leicester) that Thomas Pounde had three brothers and one sister. The brothers were: 1. Richard, who probably died before his mother, as by her will she entrusted tlie up-bringing of his two children, Henry and William, to their uncle Thomas: 2. John, to whom a legacy was to be paid "upon his own demand," a condition perhaps inserted on account of doubt whether he was still alive ; 3. Henry, who was evidently alive, and who had a wife named Honora. The legacy to Henry was conditional upon his not inter- meddling with his mother's estate : so she had probably experienced trouble from him, as well as from Thomas, whose debts to the amount of seven score pounds she had paid, besides bearing " other greate charges " on his account. The sister, who was appointed executrix of the will, was Anne, the wife of George Breton, and the mother by him of four sons — Henry, Dennis, George, and Samuel— and three daughters, Anne, Elizabeth, and Ellen. The testatrix devised to her daughter Anne and her grand- child Elizabeth, for their lives, with remainder in fee to her grandchild Ellen, some land at "Aderton" (Arreton), in the Isle of Wight, which had come to her as a gift from her mother-in-law, Edboroe Upton. She constituted her cousins Thomas Uvedale and Thomas White as the overseers of her will ; and she furnished a clue to her connexion with Thomas Wripthesley, first Earl of South- ampton, by legacies to Lady Anne Lawrence, whom she twice described as her sister. The biographers of Thomas Pounde who have written his mother down an Anne have con- fused her, as regards her Christian name, with this sister, the wife and widow of Sir Oliver Lawrence, Knt., of Creech Grange, Dorset, whom MR. WAINEWRIGHT has already mentioned. I am unable to name the year in which William Pounde, Thomas Pounde's father, died ; but his burial was evidently at Far- lington, which lies west of Bedhampton, as his widow expressed in her will a desire to be buried in Farlington Church, by his side. He had bought from the Crown, in 1540, the manor of Farlington, which had been part of the possessions of the dissolved priory of Southwick (' Letters and Papers temp. Hen. VIII.,' vol. xv. p. 412); and he was the younger of the sons of the William Pounde, Esq., who, as MR. WAINEWRIGHT has stated, died on 5 July, 1525. William Pounde, sen., the grandfather of Thomas Pounde, was the son and heir of Sir John Pounde, Knt., and was a person of considerable position and property, par- ticularly in Hampshire, where tie was in the commission of the peace. See his will, dated 24 October, 1524, and proved on 20 July, 1525,. P.C.C. 36 Bodfelde; and the five inquisitions which in consequence of his death were taken in and between July and October, 1525, at Chelmsford, Andover, Southampton, Mid- hurst, and London, 'Inq. post Mortem,' C. vol. xliii. Nos. 29, 30, 42 ; vol. xliv. Nos. 89, 143 (Record Office). Two only of his children are mentioned by Berry ('Hants Genealogies,' 194), viz., his elder son Anthony and his eldest daughter Catharine (whom MR. WAINK- AVRIGHT has converted into Charlotte). These were children he had by his earlier marriage with Mary Heyno. But his will informs us that he had younger daughters by a later marriage with a lady whomlie calls Edboro-we (Edburga), and also that he had a younger son named William. I infer that this son was Edburga's child. At any rate, certain properties were settled by the will upon Edburga during her widowhood, and next upon the son William as tenant-in-tail; and as the properties so settled included the manor of Belmont, it is clear that this William was the father of Thomas Pounde, who was born at Belmont in 1539. Edburga, who was an executrix of the will, found a later husband in Nicholas Upton, and she died on 14 January, 1552/3. See the inquisi- tion of 1553, Ynentioned below.