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apparently, succeed in getting any answer from Dr. Wilson, that though the action or threatened action of the Joint Vestry may have been contributory to the event, anger at the marriage was the final cause which inclined Dr. Wilson to accede to the de- mands of the Joint Vestry, or that both causes combined produced the effect.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT. St. Austins, Warrington.

(To be continued.)

CROWE OF KIPLIN, YORKS.

IN 1860 a correspondent of ' N. & Q.* (2 S. ix. 144) inquired what were the arms and pedigree of the above family. By means of a deed dated 1765, which has come into my possession, and by reference to various well-known sources of information, I am able to reply to the query, to which no answer was given at the time.

As far as I can discover, no pedigree of this family has been printed hitherto, though members of it intermarried with some of the best-known families in the North Riding.

In a book called ' Historical Sketches of the Reformation,' by F. G. Lee, D.C.L. (1878), mention is made of a family of Crowe, " of position and respectability in the co. of York in the middle of the sixteenth century. The heads of it and the various chiefs of its branches were in the ranks of esquires and gentlemen." Dr. Lee does not, however, give any references in support of his state- ment, and I know nothing further of any of this name in Yorkshire till the eighteenth century.

Christopher Crowe purchased from Sir Richard Child the hall and manor of Wood- ford, co. Essex. He married Lady Char- lotte Lee, widow of Benedict Leonard Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (who was born at Kiplin), and dau. of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield, by his wife Lady Charlotte FitzRoy, natural daughter of Charles II.

Lady Baltimore died in 1720, and was buried at Woodford : on her monument in the chancel of the church there are the follow- ing arms : Gules, a chevron or, between three cocks arg., Crowe, impaling Arg., a fesse between three crescents sa., Lee (Lysons's-
 * Environs ').

In 1727 Crowe sold the Woodford property to Wm. Hunt, Esq., and in the same year leased to the Earl of Lichfield and Willey

Revely of Newby Wisk, Esq., the manor of Tunstall, Yorks. He died 9 Nov., 1749.

Of the above-mentioned marriage there were two sons, Christopher and George, and two daughters, Catherine and Charlotte.

Christopher Crowe, jun., was born 1716- 1717, and matriculated Univ. Coll., Oxford, 6 Feb., 1732/3, " son of C. C. of Woodford Hall, Essex, armiger," and married in 1752 Barbara, dau. of Thos. Duncombe, of Dun- combe Park, Yorks, Esq. (marriage settle- ments dated 20 Jan., 1752, in which she is described as of Copgrave). There was no issue of this marriage. Mr. Crowe had lands in Bolton-on-Swale, Catterick, Ellerton r Scorton, and Kiplin, all in Yorks. The second son George married, and had issue Robert and George Crowe, both under age in 1765, of whom hereafter.

Of the daughters of C. C., sen., Charlotte d. unm. before 1749, and Catherine married Roger Henry Gale, Esq., of Scruton, Yorks, and died in Newman Street, London, in 1782, having had issue Henry, Samuel, Christopher, Harriet, and Catherine Gale, all under age in 1765.

Robert Crowe (Burke's * Landed Gentry * calls him "colonel") was of Kiplin, and married Ann, only dau. of Christopher Buckle, Esq., of New Hall, co. Haddington (by Ann, dau. of Henry St. John, Esq., and widow of Nathaniel Wessel), and had a dau. Sarah, who married, 1 Oct., 1817, John Delaval Carpenter, 4th and last Earl of Tyrconnel, to whom descended the manor of Kiplin. We may presume that there was no other issue.

George Crowe of Langton, Yorks, married Anna, dau. of Anthony Salvin, Esq., of Sunderland Bridge, and d. Oct., 1782. An entry in Gent. Mag. describes him as " register of the N. Riding."

Probably he left descendants, for " on 21 Jan., 1823, Margaret Alexander, dau. of the late Mat. Crowe, Esq., married the Rev. John Charge, Rector of Copgrove '* (Gent. Mag.).

It would be interesting to know if the pedigree could be continued to the present day.

The arms mentioned above are those granted in 1584 to Crowe of Crowe's Hall, Suffolk, to whom I may refer some other time. If Christopher Crowe had any right to the arms he used, he was a member of the Suffolk family. If any reader can supple- ment the above pedigree, especially with reference to the parentage of the elder Christopher Crowe, I should be glad of particulars. W. ROBEBTS CROW.