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 V. MARCH 17, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 116.

NOTES: The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, 201 Greene': Prose Works, 202 -Elizabeth Barrett Browning Centenary 204 -Cromwell's Burial-PIace St. Wilgefortis. 205 Ralph Gout, Watchmaker" Travailler pour le roi de Prusse " Shortest Will Sundial inside a Church, 207.

QUERIES : Montfott Arms, 207-Paper-making Inventions James, Earl of Derwentwater Grosvenor : De Venoix Bookseller's Motto Eliza Meteyard's 'Love Steps o Dorothy Vernon' Allan Cunningham's 'King of the Peak ' Capt. Curry Edward Brerewood Ramsgate Christmas Procession Roman Bagpipers, 208 William Dyer Rebecca Russell Bayne Family Archdeacons Marks Denton Family Christian of Milntown Have' and Slaie Makers. 209.

REPLIES: Mr. Bradley's 'Highways and Byways in South Wales, 209 -Dr. Letsum or Lettsom, 210 Jeff ereys of Blarney Castle, 211 G. J. Holyoake : Chartists and Special Constables " Walking" Cloth Penteus or Punteus Authors of Quotations Wanted, 212 King Joachin Cardoza "The bird in the breast " Bells Glanville, Earl of Suffolk St. Paul's Cathedral : its Foundation Stone " Piece-broker," 213 ' Cherry Ripe "Bowet "Gordon of the West Indies Combermere Abbey-Sheffield Plate "Et tu, Brute ! " 214-The King of Bath Death-birds in Scotland and Ireland Kynan George Baker, Oxford Prizeman Quartering of Arms- Homer and the Digamma, 215 Oxford University Volun- teersEarly English Literature Wigan Bell Foundry Candlewick Street St. Expeditus Habitual Criminals- John Latton-Lustre Ware Sir R. Peel's Franked Letters, 216 Dekker's 'Sweet Content' Portman Family Copyright in Letters Steemson Family : Thorne Quay Large-Paper Margins Bohemian Language Poem in One Sentence, 217 Lord Camelford's Duel" Misicks," 218.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Richard Peeke of Tavistock' Reich on the Failure of the Higher Criticism.

Mr. E. J. Sage's Bequests.

Booksellers' Catalogues.

THE RIGHT HON. A. J. BALFOUR.

IN The Standard of 8 January was recorded the interesting discovery, by the Rev. Walter Crick, vicar of Oving, near Chichester, of a pedigree of Mr. James Maitland Balfour, of Whittingehame, father of the ex-Prime Minister, which showed his descent from King Robert III. of Scotland.

I am disposed to think that the III. is a misprint for II., as from King Robert II. the lineage may be traced as follows :

Robert If., King of Scotland, d. 1390, m. Elizabeth, Countess of Strathern, dau. of Sir Robert Muir, of Rowland (first wife).

Robert, Earl of Menteithand Fife, Duke of Albany, 1420, aged 80, m. Muriella, dau. of Sir William Keith, Marshal of Scotland (second wife).

John, Earl of Buchan, 1424 (eldest son). Jane, m. George, Lord Seaton or Seton.

Martha, m. William Maitland, killed at Flodden Field, 1513.

.Sir Richard Maitland, d. 1586, m. Mary, dau. of Sir Robert Cranston, of Crosbie. I

John, first Baron Maitland, d. 1595 (second son), m. Jean, dau. and heir of James, fourth Lord Fleming.

John, first Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1645, m. Isabel dau. of Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline. '

Charles, third Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1691 (second son), m. Elizabeth, dau. and heir of Richard Lander, of Hatton. Esq.

John, fifth Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1710 (second son) m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Alexander Cun- ningham, tenth Earl of Glencairn.

Charles, sixth Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1744, m Eliza- beth, dau. of James, Earl of Findlater and Seafield, Lord Chancellor of Scotland.

James, seventh Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1789 m Mary, dau. and coheir of Sir Thomas Lorn be* Alderman of London.

James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale, d. 1839 m Eleanor, dau. and heir of Anthony Todd, Esq.

Eleanor Maitland, d. 1869, m. James Balfour, Eq of Gorton, N.B.

James Maitland Balfour, of Whittingehame, m. Blanche Mary Harriett, dau. of second Marquis of Salisbury.

The Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour.

Scotland, however, has to share with England the right to claim Mr. Balfour as her countryman; for while, through his grandmother, fifteenth in direct descent from King Robert II. of Scotland, he is also through his mother, twenty-first in a direct line from Edward I., as set forth below :

Edward I., King of England, d. 1307, m. Margaret dau. of Philip the Bald, King of France (sf?ond

Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, Marshal of England, 1338 m. Alice, dau. of Sir Roger Halys, of Harwich (first wife).

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, 1399, m. John, Lord Seagrave (first husband).

Elizabeth, m. John, Lord Mowbray.

Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Earl of Nottingham, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Fitzalan, tenth Earl of Arundel and Surrey (second wife).

Margaret, m. Sir Robert Howard.

! f jr hn ^Tf^-' Du > e of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, (first wife? me ' dau '- of William > Lord " "

Thomas, Earl of Surrey, Duke of Norfolk, 1524, m Elisabeth, dau. and heiress of Sir Frederick tiluey, Knt., and widow of Sir Humphrey Bouchier, K.B. (first wife).