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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JAN. 5, 1907.

native of Bridekirk, in Cumberland, where he was born in 1686. He received the beginning of his education at Carlisle Grammar School, but from the commence- ment of his college career saw little of his native North. He mixed freely with the wits of his time, and contributed verses to The Guardian and The Spectator. His friend- ship with the Addison clique of politicians secured him an appointment of a lucrative character in Ireland Secretary to the Lords Justices which he held from 1725 until his death at Bath in 1740. His poetry is of the conventional eighteenth-century type, and if we did not remember that he was but aping his betters, we might well be filled with wonder at the fulsomeness of the flattery in which he sometimes indulged. He is not likely to have his work resuscitated, though a student of the period in which he lived can hardly afford to ignore him alto- gether. JOHN OXBEBBY. Gateshead.

LADY ANNE HOLBOURNE.

DUGDAIE, in his ' Hist, of Warw.' (1730), i. 346, mentions as being in Long Itchington Church a tablet near the pulpit referring to the above lady. He gives the inscription and arms thereon. T am inclined to think he was wrong in using the word " tablet," as there still exists in the church an achieve- ment and inscription, painted on canvas enclosed in a wooden frame, which corre- sponds in all other respects with his descrip- tion. For many years past (doubtless since 1860) this painting has hung at a point over the western or tower arch, from which it was quite impossible for any one to see its details. Last September it was brought down from its elevated position, and placed, with certain charity records, on the wall at the west end of the south aisle. Before it was rehung T examined it closely and as my reading of the arms somewhat differs (especially with regard to the tinctures) from Dugdole's, I submit it to * N. & Q.'

At the foot of the canvas runs the follow- ing inscription :

The truly Virtuous & Right Honorable the Lady Anne Holbourne one of ye Daughters

& Coheires of ye Right Honoble S r Rob* Dudley K 1 Duke of ye Empire who bequethed 50 U per

annum to M r Sam: Row minister of this Church & to his

successors for ever also 50 n more to ye poore of this Parish.

Above this is a femme shield containing the following arms :

Quarterly, 1 and 4, Arg., on a fesse sa. three crescents or, in chief two choughs (?)

rising of the second ; 2 and 3, Sa., three- lions passant in pale arg. ; impaling

1. Or, a lion ramp, double-queued sa.,. langue gu.

2. Gu., a cinquefoil erm.

3. Or, two lions passant in pale sa.

4. Arg., a cross patonce sa.

5. Barry of six arg. and sa., in chief three torteaux ; a label of three points sa.

6. Or, a maunch gu.

7. Barry of twelve arg. and sa. ; an orle of martlets sa.

8. Vairee arg. and gu.

9. Gu., seven mascles conjoined or, 3, 3, and 1.

10. Sa., three garbs or.

11. Gu., a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or.

12. Gu., a fesse betw. six cross-crosslets or.

13. Chequy or and sa., a chevron ermine.

14. Gu., a chevron between ten crosses pattee arg.

15. Gu., a lion passant guardant arg., crowned or.

16. Or, a fesse between two chevrons sa.

The inscription bears the marks of re- touching in several places, and the canvas has at one time been repaired ; but the achievement has not apparently been tam- pered with. The tinctures are therefore in some instances very hard to define, owing to the mellowing tendency of the dust of ages. On the sides and at the top and bottom of the frame are painted hour-glasses and skulls and crossbones. Lady Anne Holbourne was granddaughter to Eliza- beth's Dudley, the Earl of Leicester who figures conspicuously in history as the hus- band of the ill-fated Amy Robsart. He married secondly Douglas, daughter of William, Lord Howard of Effingham, by whom he had one son, Robert. This Robert married Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, the issue being five children, of whom Anne was the youngest. She married Sir Richard Holbourne, Solicitor-General to Charles I. This and other parishes still benefit by the charitable bequests of Lady Anne Holbourne and her sister Lady Catherine Leveson, wife of Sir Richard Leveson, K.B.

Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Peerage' (iii. 266) states that Lady Anne Holbourne, who died in 1663, was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. I shall be glad if some London correspondent will kindly tell me if any tablet or monument dedicated to her memory still remains there.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.