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 s.v. JUNE IB, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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"In November, 1755, I was 'preferred to the rectory of Burnham Thorpe, on the presentation o the Hon. Horace Walpole, after Lord Walpole o Walterton, and the rectory of Burnham St. Alber with the medieties of Ulph and St. Margaret 5 !

alias Norton. Maurice Suckling, D.D., died ,

and Anne his widow at Burnham Thorpe, 5 Janu ary, 1768, aged seventy-seven, buried at Barsham beside her husband. Catherine Nelson, their daughter, died 26 Dec., 1767, aged forty-two, buriec in the chancel of Burnham Thorpe."

This burial is in Mr. Nelson's own writing in the registers for 30 December. Mrs Suckling died in the house leased to her in Burnham village by the Walpoles, and there dated her will in November, 1767, leaving the land in Beccles to her son William Suckling.

The deed dated 5 August, 1768, drawn between the executors of Samuel Alexander Willes and Mr. F. Isac [sic] and Mr. Blowers, trustees for William Suckling, is signed by Amos Alexander.

In 1801 the Pightle was let for one year, and that deed is witnessed by the Right Hon. Horatio Nelson, Baron of the Nile, executor to his uncle William Suckling, who died in December, 1798. It is signed by James Hume, Jeremiah Smith, and Mary Suckling (relict of William).

The next, also witnessed by Nelson, is Signed by Mary Suckling ; James Hume, of the Customs ; Horace Suckling, clerk, of Holy Trinity College, Cambs; the Rev. Benj. Suckling, of the same college: and Elizabeth Wigley.

There is also a power of attorney signed by Horatio Nelson, to be used if necessary during his absence at sea.

In Sir Harris Nicolas's 'Nelson Dis- patches ' there are some letters quoted relative to Nelson's trust under his uncle's will, but there is no actual mention therein of the Suckling Pightle.

FLORENCE HORATIA SUCKLING.

Highwood, Romsey.

In Drake's ' Hundred of Blackheath, p. 153, art. * Woolwich Dockyard,' is the following :

"9 July, 1518, the King purchased also a

small parcel called the Pyttil, probably to enlarge the site of the infant dockyard."

On p. 154 is this foot-note : "'Mr. Doctor Gilborne challengeth a smale piece of ground, part of the pightle without the 1, to be his land ' (Add. 9294, f. 699, Sta. Pa. cclxxix. Chas. I. No. 22)."

R. J, FYNMORE.

ROBERT HARLEY, EARL OF OXFORD (10 th S. iv. 206, 317 ; v. 390). I beg to thank MR. R, C. BOSTOCK for the interesting chart

pedigree which he has compiled, and which you kindly forwarded to me.

I notice that MR. BOSTOCK gives the name of the sister of Richard Jennings who married Francis Hill as Mary.

I am aware that the writer of the article in the 'D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 410, on Abigail, Lady Masham, states that her mother's name was Mary.

A. B. R. at 2 nd S. viii. 57 (not Hi. 57, as given in MR. BOSTOCK'S communication), and R. H. E. H. at 8 th S. iii. 328, also speak of her as Mary Jennings ; but I cannot trace any authority for the statement, nor can I even find that Sir John Jenyns had a daughter of that name.

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, in 'Account of the Conduct,' &c., 1742, p. 177, says that "Mrs. Masham was the daughter of one Hill, a merchant in the City, by a sister of my Father " ; and in a letter to Bishop Burnet, given in the k Private Corre- spondence of the Duchess of Marlborough,' 1838, ii. 112, Sarah wrote :

" This woman [Abigail] was a daughter of my Father's sister. My Father had in all two-ana- twenty brothers and sisters one of them

married this Mr. Hill, who had some business in the City, rather as a merchant or proprietor, and was some way related to Mr. Harley, and by pro- fession an Anabaptist."

Mrs. Colville, who had access to the Marlborough papers, merely records in her ' Duchess Sarah,' p. 360, that a daughter of Sir John Jenyns married a Hill.

It would therefore seem as if neither Sarah nor her descendant Mrs. Colville knew the name of Richard Jennings's sister who married Francis Hill.

On the other hand, the late Mr. G. Stein- man Steinman, in his 'Althorp Memoirs,' 1869-80, which, if I recollect rightly I have not the volume before me at the moment were compiled from material supplied by Lord Spencer, states at p. 58 that it was Elizabeth Jennings who became Mrs. Hill.

At 10 th S. ii. 373 I pointed to the difference of opinion existing in regard to the correct name of Abigail Hill's mother as an instance of how even the best authorities sometimes differ.

In view of the above discrepancy it would nterest me extremely to learn MR. BOSTOCK'S authority for entering the name as Mary in "n his chart pedigree.

The pedigree by A. B. R. at 2 nd S. viii. 57, dthough stated by its author to have " been nvestigated with some care," is not to be elied on. In it the mother of Francis >r, as he is (wrongly) called, Edward Hill s described as having been Abigail Harley,