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 v. MAY 12, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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KNIGHTLEY FAMILY. (10 th S. v. 250, 313.)

IN reply to H. D.'s query I subjoin an extract from the MS. family history, a copy of which is at Fawsley :

" Richard Knightley, of Fawsley, Esq., succeeded to the estate upon the death of his brother, Lucy Knightley, Esq. He had been for many years captain lieutenant in the royal regiment of the Blues, at that time under the command of the Right Hon. the Earl of Oxford. He was born Feb. 24, 1658, and married to his first wife, June 22, 1680, Elizabeth (daughter of the Hon. Henry Waldron, Chief Justice in the Island of Barbadoes, and of the family of Waldron in the county of Devon, by his wife Deborah Ayloffe, of the same county), by whom he had

1. A daughter Elizabeth, who died young.

2. A son, Lucy, born at Islington, June 29, 1684, who succeeded him in the estate.

3. Elizabeth, born also at'Islington, Jan. 30, 1687. She married, Jan. 3, 1720 or 1721, Cecil Tufton, Esq., son and heir of Charles Tufton, of Twickenham, who belonged to a younger branch of the Right Hon. the Earl of Thanet. He died in New North Street, London, where he had always lived, and was buried at Hothfield, in Kent. She survived him, and lived many years (being afterwards a lunatick) under the care of her sister, Deborah Knightley, in New North Street, Red Lion Square, where she died, and was buried near her mother at Islington, in the year 1749.

6. Jane, 7- John, who both died young.

8. Richard, bom in Hatton Garden, Feb. 9, 1691, now living [1765] at Newport Pond, near Saffron Walden, in Essex, where he succeeded to the Dents' estate of about four hundred pounds per annum, left him by his uncle, Gyles Dent, Esq., brother to his grandmother, Elizabeth Dent. He was educated at Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, where he took a degree, being designed for holy orders and to succeed his cousin Jno. Knightley in the rectory of Byfield. But having a prospect of this estate (for it was left first to his uncle Samuel Dent for his life, and afterward to his father Richard Knightley for his life or till he came to the Fawsley estate, to which it was designed never to be annexed), he declined it, though when he was about fifty years of age, in hopes of being preferred to the living of Newport, where he resided (and to which his ancestors had been benefactors), he took orders, but was disappointed in his scheme, and has as yet no preferment. Whom he married and what issue he had may be seen on the next page. 9. Deborah, who died an infant.

10. Deborah, born 24 June. 1694. She died a single woman at Charwelton, and was buried at Fawsley, 1764.

Mr. Richard Knightley married to his second wife Mary, daughter of John Upton, of Lupton, in the county of Devon, Esq., and Commissioner of the Customs in London (Car. II.), and relict of John Sayer, of London, merchant, by whom he had no children, but enjoyed a good jointure, upon which he chiefly subsisted after he lost his commission in the army (1 Geo. I.), being broke (as was suggested)

for disaffection to the Government. He lived to survive her, but happily a few years after, upon the death of his uncle, Samuel Dent, he came to the Essex estate before mentioned, now possessed by his son, Richard Knightley, which he enjoyed till he came to Fawsley in the year 1726. He was a man of a goodly personage, and of a genteel, generous spirit, so. that it was expected he would have been a grace to the estate when he came to it ; but it was too late. He was then sixty-eight years old. and having gone through some little difficulties and disappointments in his fortune, which a person of his generosity of temper could not bear, he became low and dejected in his spirits, so that when he came to an affluence, he lived not quite two years, and enjoyed it not at all, dving July 9, 1728, and was buried in the chancel at Fawsley, at the east end of which a very handsome monument was erected for him by his son and successor, Lucy Knightley, Esq., thus inscribed: ' Near this place lies interred Richard Knightley, of Fawsley, Esq., who married Elizabeth Waldron, daughter of Henry Waldron, Esq., Judge of the Island of Barbadoes, by whom he had a numerous issue Lucy Knight- ley, his eldest son (who is now possessor of Fawsley,- and at whose charge these monuments were erected), Richard, Elizabeth, Deborah, are now living. All the rest died infants. His second wife was Mary Upton, by whom he had no issue. He departed this life 9 day of July in the year of our Lord 1728.' This monument is of beautiful variegated marble, adorned at the bottom with various ensigns of war. At the top are the arms of Knightley, empaling, 1, Waldron, viz, Argent, three bulls' heads, em- bossed sable, attired or; 2, Upton, Sable, a cross moline argent."

LOUISA M. KNIGHTLEY.

"PLACE" (10 th S. v. 267, 316, 333,353). By 1756 London seems to have increased its number of "Places" to eight. I find in Maitland's ' History of London ' of that year four others named, in addition to those mentioned by COL. PRIDEAUX. They are : Bailey's Place, Little Tower Hill ; Deadman's Place, Southwark ; Savoy Place, in the Strand ; and Worcester Place, Thames Street. Deadman's Place, Southwark is, I find in Elmes's * Topographical Dictionary of Lon- don,' 1831, described as " the second turning on the left hand in Park Street, going from the Borough market."

LORD SHERBORNE will be interested to know that in the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury there were several " Places " in Kent, some of them of great antiquity. In Phil- pot's k Villare Cantianum,' 1659, I note the following : Brown's Place ; Bore Place ; Crow Place ; Home's, or Horn, Place ; Place House ; Haut's Place; Hextall Place; Hall Place; Koe's Place ; and Town Place.

The original name of "Brown's Place," Horton Kirby, appears to have been " Rey- nolds" ; but it took its later name from John Brown, who was Sheriff of Kent in 1567-8.

"Crow Place" was originally known as