Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 8.djvu/490

 404

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vra. NOV. 23, 1007.

of Mathew Lightfoot will account for her residence with her uncle, Henry Wheeler (a linendraper of Market Lane as early as the year 1735), who died of consumption at St. James's, aged fifty-four, on 22 Jan., 1758. She is the only Hannah Lightfoot mentioned in the registers whose age coin- cides with the requisite dates, and she was reported to a meeting of the Society on 1 Jan., 1755, after having been married by a priest. The register of marriages at St. George's Chapel, Mayfair (Keith's), contains the following entry :

"Dec. 11, 1753. Isaac Axford of St. Martin's, Lud^ate, and Hannah Lightfoot of St. James's, Westminster."

Taking all these facts into consideration, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that Hannah Lightfoot, the niece of Henry Wheeler, linendraper, of Market Street, St. James's, the bride of Isaac Axford, and the renegade Quakeress, was the same lady for whom George, Prince of Wales, was believed by many of his contemporaries to have had a serious admiration.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

(To be continued.)

ROTHWELL PARISH REGISTER.

THE restoration of the earliest parish register of Rothwell, in the county of North- ampton, which had been missing for more than half a century, is worthy of being recorded in ' N. & Q.' This took place on 16 September last, when it was handed over to the vicar, the Rev. J. A. M. Morley, by Mrs. Newsham, whose grandfather, a former Churchwarden (buried at Rothwell), had died possessed of it in 1869. It extends from 1614 to 1708, the first entry, 29 March, 1614, being the burial of " Francis Parsons, Viccar of Rothwell." It is in good preserva- tion, save for the loss of a few pages of the baptisms, 1625-7, 1636-8, and 1700-2. An elaborate account of this volume (with some extracts therefrom), by " Fredk. Wm. Bull," entitled ' An Interesting Find,' is given in The Kettering Leader for 25 October.

It is curious that, a few months previous to this restoration, there had appeared in ' The Report of the Northampton and Oakham Architectural Society ' an interest- ing article entitled ' Parish Register Extracts from Barby, Maidwell, Pytchley, and Roth- well, co. Northampton,' commencing " earlier than the date of the now (1907) existing registers." This was contributed by the Rev. Henry Isham Longden, the extracts

(which as to Rothwell end in 1706) having been taken by his ancestor, Sir Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet, who was born 1687, and died 1737. Of the nineteen children of Edward Hill, lord of the manor of Roth- well, by Susan, daughter of John Maunsell, of Thorpe Malsor, the baptisms (1667 to 1689/90) of seventeen are extracted ; but, oddly enough, that of Nathaniel, who suc- ceeded to the Rothwell estate in 1709, is omitted. This is given in the original register as " Nathaniell, ye son of Mr. Edward Hill and Susanna his wife, born May 21 and bap. July 11, 1671," he being mentioned in the Heralds' Visitation of Northamptonshire in 1681 as the fourth son, and then " set. circa 10." He died 28 April, 1732, and was succeeded by his son George Hill (bap. 27 Sept., 1715, at Waddington, co. Lincoln), the King's Ancient Serjeant-at-law (well known for his learning and eccentricity), who died without male issue, 22 Feb., 1808, aged ninety-two, being the last heir male of his race. See an account of this family of Hill in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. xv. (1899).

Another somewhat important omission in the Baronet's extracts is that of the burial of " Mr. Edward Lambe," 21 Nov., 1626. He was brother of Sir John Lambe, of Rothwell, Dean of the Arches (1633-47), to whom the above-named Edward Hill (in right of his mother, Susan, wife of the Rev. John Hill, vicar of Rothwell, and daughter of the said Edward Lambe) was, 19 April, 1673, " great-nephew and next of kin," and from whom he and his mother (who died May, 1665) inherited considerable property at Rothwell. G. E. C.

LEWIS CARROLL'S SOURCES : BURKE. Perhaps even more remarkable than making immortal fun out of nothing at all is making it from the blank cartridges or the heavy artillery of other men's matter ; and I think the process is more interesting to watch. The ' Ingoldsby Legends ' is a case in point. Lewis Carroll's work would richly repay more study in this line than seems to have been given to it. I have before called attention to his indebtedness to Nodier for a few germinal suggestions ; here I will point out a more striking one. In the ballad of ' Peter and Paul,' in ' Sylvie and Bruno,' Paul agrees to lend Peter fifty pounds, takes a short-term bond for the money, then finds it " not convenient " to spare the cash, and in fact never gives him a farthing of it, but holds him to the bond, and throws