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10th S. IV. SEPT. 30, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 269 Anthony Pounde, the elder son of William Pounde, sen., inherited from his father properties which included the manors of Drayton, Hants, and Wickford, Essex. In 1525, when his father died, he was twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and he afterwards married Anne Wingfield, who survived him and became wife to John White, of Southwick. He made his will and died in February, 1546/7,* and the will was proved by his widow on 14 May, 1547 (P.C.C. 35 Alen). He left three children by her, an only son Richard and two daughters, Honora and Mary. Richard married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wayte, of Wymering, Hants, after a deed of settlement between the parents, dated 4 April, 1542, and he died on 28 May, 1548, leaving an only son, William, who died on 20 June, the very next month. An inquisition upon this son's death was taken at Winchester on 10 April, 1553, and his aunts Honora and Mary were returned as his co-heirs, 'Inq. post Mortem,' C. vol. xcviii. No. 58 (Record Office). Honora was sixteen and Mary fourteen and a half years old when their nephew died. Honora was married in 1549 to Henry Ratcliffe, afterwards fourth Earl of Sussex (Harl. Soc., xxiv. 14; G. E. C.'s 'Peerage'); and according to Berry (loc. cit.), Mary became the wife of her cousin Edward, the eldest son of John White, of Southwick, by his marriage (after the death of his wife Anne, Anthony Pounde's widow) with Catherine, Anthony Pounde's sister, whom I have already mentioned. If this be correct, Edward White must have been considerably younger than his wife Mary, for Anthony Pounde's widow was still alive, as John White's wife, in 1553. See the inquisition of 1553, supra.

The above sketch of the family of which Thomas Pounde was a member furnishes a solution to two of the problems set to us by MR. WAINEWRIGHT. The third problem concerns Thomas Pounde's connexion with Winchester College, the true particulars of which I have long vainly desired to obtain. I hope, however, to be able to tackle this problem also on some future occasion.

H. C.

Beamond, or Belmont, the residence of the Pound family, was situate in the parish of Farlington, some six miles north-east of Portsmouth; and Drayton is a hamlet in the same parish. The present Belmont Castle, on Portsdown Hill, is probably built on or near the site of the old house.

Thomas Pound was the eldest son of Wil-

* He was also buried at Farlington. See Gentleman's Magazine, lxx. ii. pp. 729 et seq.

liam Pound, of Beamond (a younger son of William Pound, of Drayton, by his second wife, Edburga, daughter of Thomas Troyes), by his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of William Wriothesley, York Herald, and sister of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, first Earl of Southampton, and also of the Lady Anne Lawrence.

According to the Farlington register, Thomas Pound was baptized on 29 May, 1538. He had ten brothers and sisters, as will be seen by the following entries, copied by me from the registers at Farlington some thirteen or fourteen years ago :-

Baptisms.

1538. Thomas, son of Mr. William and Mrs. Helen Pound, 29 May.

1539. William, son of William and Helen Pound, 24 May.

1541. John, son of William Pound and Helen, 10 Oct.

1543. Richard, son of Mr. William Pound, 9 April.

1544. Anne Pound, daughter of Mr. William, 11 Oct.

1545. Nicholas, son of William Pound, 17 Oct.

1548. Mary, daughter of Mr. William Pound, 23 Dec.

1549. William, son of Mr. William Pound, 15 Sept.

1551. Henry, son of Mr. William Pound, 9 July.

1557. Jane Pound, daughter of William Pound, Esquire, 7 July.

Burials.

1546. Joan, daughter of William Pound, July 22.

1547. William, son of Mr. William Pound, 8 Feb.

1559. William Pound, Esquire, of Farlington, ... Feb. ...

1566. Mary Pound, daughter of Ellen Pounde, of Bemonde, buried 20 May.

1589. Ellen Pound, wife of William Pound. Esq., of Beamond, deceased the last day of September, and buried the 14th of October.

1613. Thomas Pound, Esq., was buried by night the 1st of March.

Anne Pound (born 1544), sister of Thomas, married George Breton, or Britton, of Michell Park, co. Sussex by whom she had issue Henry Breton (living at Soberton, Hants, in 1602, and had a son Beverley), Anne, Dennis, George, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Ellen, all living in 1602.

The Pounds were living at Drayton and Farlington for upwards of two hundred years; but very little, beyond what is given by Berry in his 'Hampshire Pedigrees,' has