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 10* S. V. MARCH 31, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1006.

CONTENTS.-No. 118.

NOTE3 : -Hardy Pedigree in ' The Three Dorset Captains,' 241 - Provincial Booksellers, 242 - French Proverbial Phrases 213 -Dally the Tall-Nelson Trafalgar Memo- randum-' King Trisanku '-Thomas Cornwallis of Por- chester- Oldest Protestant Church in the United States, 244 "Uo' its Barbarous Misuse- John Adams s Kpi- taph-" Roman" Mound-Cheyne Walk : China "\\alk- Sam piers 24o- " There ["-Incantation: 'The Image m the Sands'' The Flowers of Lodowicke of Granada,' 246.

QUERIES -.-Sterne's Letters to John Blake-French Dic- tionary for the Blind-Collop Monday, Ac, 247-Authors of Quotations Wanted -The Crucilixion : Earliest Repre- sentation in Art-Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary- Read Family, 218-Ham House: Closed Gates - James Hervey's Correspondence -Whitchurch ^ Middlesex-Duke

[ of Guelderland : Duke of Lorraine-R. Y. : " Irish Stocke -Ariel-Edmund Tillesley, 2-19 -" Rattling good thing - Knightley Family - Digby - Lewis Carroll and Charles Nodier- Mo/arabic Mass in Spain-North- West Somerset and Combe Sydenham, 250.

REPLIES : -Rebus in Churches, 250-Saxon Kings : Living Descendants -New Moon: Fortunate or Unfortunate- Meriah-"Dog's Nose," 2 o2 -Ballad by Reginald Heber : W. Crane-Homer and the Digamma, 253 -Ivy Lane, Strand- Copes and Cooe-Chests-Cromwell s Burial-Place ' Cherrv Ripe,' 254-Booksellers Motto-King s College, Cambridge, 255-Havel and Slaie Makers -Female Vio- linists, 25(3-" Pious founder "-Wigan Bell Foundry- Cross-legged Knights, 257 -Centenarian Voters-Edward Brerewood, 258.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Scots Pterage 'Lowe's Edi- t'on of Pet.ronius-Routledge's " New Universal Library 'The Voice of the Mountains' ' The Pocket Richard Jefferies ' ' Quarterly Review.'

Notices to Correspondents.

H-YRDY PEDIGREE IN 'THE THREE DORSET CAPTAINS AT TRAFALGAR.'

THE main interest of 'The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar ' is concentrated in the letters of Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy ("Xelson's Hardy "), and the genealogies of the three captains are necessarily a minor feature of the volume. Yet the pedigree of a distinguished man is always interesting, and it is to be regretted that the book was not furnished with a more reliable account of Sir T. M. Hardy's ancestors.

The principal object of the pedigree seems to have been to show that Sir T. M. Hardy had with three other admirals of the same surname a common ancestor in Clement le Hardy, Lieutenant- Governor of Jersey in 1488 ; but one looks in vain for any authori- ties for such a descent. The compilers of the pedigree, with the aid of the parish registers of Portisham, Dorset, trace Sir T. M. Hardy's family back to an Anthony Hardy whose children were baptized at Portisham in 1G17 and after. Anthony is said (without any apparent evidence) to be the offspring of the marriage, at Portisham

in 1596, of John Hardy to Ann Samways; and John is identified (seemingly without reason) with a John, son of Edmund Hardy, "of Toller Whelme, Dorset, Esq.," whose family registered their arms and pedigree at the Heralds' Visitations in 1565 and 1623. And these arms being the same as those borne by Clement le Hardy, the latter is assumed to be great-grandfather of the Edmund just mentioned.

Now the authors of the book seem to have overlooked the fact that there were Hardys at or near Portisham nearly all through the sixteenth century. On subsidy or muster rolls occur William Hardy in the neighbour- hood in 1523, Thomas and Richard at Porti- sham in 1543, Margaret at Portisham in 1558, and John and William at Portisham in 1596, with many others of the name at thsse dates in the adjoining villages of Rodden and Abbotsbury. Further, Sir T. M. Hardy's ancestor Anthony was in 1636 plaintiff in a Chancery suit (Chas. I., H. 110,49), when he described himself as " Anthonie Hardy, of Portesham, yeoman," and stated that he and one Jeffry Hardy had been sureties for William Hardy, gent., whom Anthony mentions as his "near kinsman," who had about 1606 bought land at Bexington, in Abbotsbury, and who died in 1618, leaving two grown-up sons. This William was no doubt a William Hardy of Bexington, "yeoman," who, in deposing in a Chancery suit (Bundle 363, Hayne v. Bartlett) in 1611, gave his age as fifty years, and was thus born about 1561. Jeffry seems to have been a Jeffry Hardy, "yeoman," who in 1608 (Chanc. Proc. of Chas. I., H. 90/29) had some concern at Buckland Ptipers, a village some three miles from Portisham. Again, in a fourth Chancery suit, dated 1607 (Chas L, S. 121/17), there is mention of a John Hardy the younger, of Portisham, and Ann his wife, who do not appear to have been in affluent circumstances, having rented some farm stock at Buckland from John Samways, and who were surely identical with the couple married at Portisham in 1596.

It will be observed that Anthony, William, Jeffry, and John the younger all belonged to the yeoman class, and that though the last three were presumably the contem- poraries of Anthony's father, no such persons appear in the full and well-authenticated pedigree of the Toller Whelme family. Indeed, it is inconceivable that the sons or grandsons of a gentleman who had lately registered his coat of arms could have been styled yeomen, and it may be concluded that