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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[11 S. I. JAN. 8, 1910.

Hall, Esq., one of the representatives in Parlia ment for the northern division of Lancashire, is .at present lord of the manor of Woodchurch."

A foot-note refers to the genealogica collections of Thomas Do lining Hibbert of the Middle Temple, Esq.

In the above there can be little doubt that " Wilson after Patten " should be " Patten after Wilson. "

In ' Paterson's Roads,' 16th ed., 1822 p. 481, col. 1, appears " Wooton Lodge Col. Wilson." This is repeated ibid., col. 3, and p. 482, col. 3. In the 18th ed., 1826, pp. 483, 484, is " Wooton Lodge, T. W. Patten, Esq."

In the 16th ed., 1822, p. 442, is, s.v. A Warrington,' " Bank Hall, unoccupied l (Peter Patten Bold, elder brother of Thomas Wilson, died in 1819 without male issue). In the 18th ed., p. 444, is, s.v. * Warrington, 2 " Bank Hall, Thomas Wilson Patten, Esq."

I have examined the Warrington rate- book, and found

1821. Thomas P. Wilson, Esq.

1822. Thomas Wilson, Esq.

1823. Thomas Wilson, Esq.

1824. Thomas Patten, Esq.

It is apparent that he resumed his original name in 1823 (or possibly early in 1824). No doubt the particulars for ' Paterson's Roads * had to be gathered a considerable time before the date of publication.

Presumably Thomas Macklin assumed the name of Wilson in lieu of Macklin, and died without male issue in or about 1800.

It is, I think, worth noting that nowhere in the Patten chapel whether on the tablets or on the monument in memory of Anna Maria (wife of John Wilson Patten), who died 1846, and of the same John Wilson Patten, Lord Winmarleigh, who died 1892 is there & hyphen between the two surnames Wilson ,nd Patten, excepting on the brass recording the names and dates of those buried in the vault, including Lord Wiiimarleigh, and further recording that " the vault was filled up and finally closed 14 July, 1892."'

As to the allegation, e.g. in Burke' s ' Com- moners,'- that Thomas Patten " assumed the .additional surname of Wilson at the request of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, and by the testamentary injunction of his lordship's -son, n I have, I think, shown that Wilson was taken in lieu of Patten ; and further, I have found no evidence beyond the modern assertion that the Bishop had any concern in the matter. Indeed, it is scarcely likely that one of " the poorest prelates in Europe " <see 'History of the Hundred of Wirral,*

p. 216), who died in 1755, aged 91, should have troubled himself about a change of name which was to affect a man born in 1770, and which was made a condition of inheritance of an estate which never belonged to him, but. was bought by his son.

Thomas Wilson (formerly Patten, and afterwards Wilson Patten) married, 1800, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Hyde, Esq., of Ardwick (not L T rdwick, as given in the ' Diet, of Nat. Biography ').

It is asserted that his son John (Lord Winmarleigh) " travelled for some years, but returned in 1830. n He was married to his first cousin, Anna Maria, a daughter of Peter Patten Bold, formerly Patten, 15 April, 1828, at St. George's, Hanover Square (see Gentleman 1 s Magazine, 1828, pt. i. p. 362). " By her, u it is asserted, " he left a son Eustace John." The said Eustace John died more than eighteen years before his father.

There were two sons and four daughters. The younger son, Arthur, born 1841, Lieut. 1st Batt. Rifle Brigade, died un- married at Quebec, 1866. The elder, Eustace John (born 1836, died 1873), Capt. 1st Life Guards, married in 1863 Emily Constantia, daughter of the Rev. Lord John Thynne. By her he had one son -^Jbhn Alfred, born 1867, Lieut. 1st Life Guards, who died unmarried in 1889 and two daughters : Constance Ellinor, who married, 1892, Col. the Hon. Osbert Victor G. A. Lumley ; and Evelyn Louisa, who married, 1896, the Hon. Charles Harbord.

Lord Winmarleigh had four daughters : Anna Maria (died s.p. 1869), married to the Rev. Robert Rolleston ; Ellinor ; Vanda (died s.p. 1861), married to Thomas Henry Lyon of Appleton Hall, Cheshire ; and Elizabeth.

Beside the bust of Lord Winmarleigh G. Bromfield Adams in the Warrington Museum, there is one by Warrington Wood in the Town Hall, a poor production.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT. St. Austins, Warrington.

HALLER'S 'USONG. 1 IT is not likely that Haller's literary writings are much read nowadays, but there was a ime when rival translations of ' Usong ' appealed to the British public. It is a work rigid imitation of the ' Telemaque ' of Fenelon with a veneer of the conventional ' Orientalism " of the eighteenth century.
 * hat would now be regarded as a somewhat