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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL JO, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 18.

NOTES : Cavalier or Roundhead, 341 Automobile and Taximeter Anticipated, 343 John Reynolds, Wilkes's Attorney, 344 The Green Park Avenue, 345 Initial Letters for Names "Howde Men": Robin Hood's Men Launceston as a Surname " Bog-slide," 346.

QUERIES: May Baskets and June Boxes "As dead as Queen Anne" John Henning, Sculptor Sculptures taken at Sea St. Margaret and Joan of Arc P. Wilcock Bishops' Lands in 1660, 347 Stowmarket Effigies Barfreston Church-Sir Nicholas Crispe Heraldic MS. in British Museum French Church Registers George Romney, 1611 -Churchyard Records Dr. Richard Temple -Lady William Stanhope, 348 Seventeenth-Century Biography Coleridge on Firegrate Folk-lore Atkyns and Rigail Families " Hogler," Church Official- Anglo- Spanish Author ' Collier's Water' Col. John Pigot Watering-Place Guide, 349.

EEPLIES : Wall-Papers, 350 De Guileville and Bunyan Addison's Maternal Ancestry Seventeenth-Century Quotations, 351 Catalogues of MSS. Scotchmen in France Shrove Monday "Plains' =Timber-denuded Lands "Brack," 352 Sir John Suckling Olybius's Lamp Wirral "Forbes Mackenzie hour of eleven," 353 Authors Wanted Court Guides " Mallas Rigg" Sir John Chad worth Coleridge Phrases, 354 Ladies-in- Waiting of Mary, Queen of Scots "Fairery" Major Farquhar " Dew Drop Inn" "Prince Fred" Satire The Brazils, 355 'History of Bullanabee 5 Clothes and their Influence Earthenware Tombstones The Com- mandments, 356 Heine on Kant " Bluestocking " Yule Log Speaker Pelham, 357 Earls of Pomfret " Moral Pockethandkerchiefs " " Roundhead," 358.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Modern Greek Folk-lore'' English

Catalogue of Books ' ' Nottinghamshire ' ' Cornwall.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

CAVALIER OR ROUNDHEAD : THE ST. BARBES OF ROMSEY.

THE recent restoration of the neglected and whitewashed tomb in Romsey Abbey of I John St. Barbe has revived the controversy jthat, at the time of the Romsey Pageant in 1907, raged round the question of his politics n the Civil War. The subsequent examina- ion of the wills and of the parish registers f Ashington in Somerset has clearly proved lat Nichols, in his ' Progresses of James I.* vol. ii. p. 95), was in error in saying that the King on the 5th of August, 1607, was pro- anly lodging at Broadlands, near Romsey, vhere his Majesty's host appears to have been M \vard St. liar l)o, Esq., who, being previously f Ashington in Somersetshire, married Frances, aughter and heiress of William Fleming of Jroadlands, who died in lt>06." In point of fact ; Edward St. Barbe, who s married before 1576, died, and was nried at Ashington, in the lifetime of his ather-in-law, having a family of children,

whose ages are recorded in his will, dated 2 Jan., 1592, when Francis, his son and heir, was aged sixteen, and Henry four.

Also, Mr. Alfred T. Everitt has discovered that Frances, the wido\v, remarried before 1599, when the administration of the estates of Francis St. Barbe was granted to his mother, " Frances Shelley alias St. Barbe. 2 '' If only it could be discovered who was this second husband of Frances Fleming, and when and where she died, it would materially help to complete the history of the manors of Broadlands and Paultons. All that is at present known is that Henry, son of Edward and Frances (born 1588-9), succeeded to Broadlands, and must have been the entertainer of King James in September, 1607, in August, 1615, and on the 25th of August, 1623. He married Amy, daughter of Edward Rogers ; and if the inscription on her tomb of 1621, at Cannington (co. Somerset) is correct, she had ten children. Of these, only John (born in 1616) and three other sons and a daughter are mentioned in Berry's pedigrees.

In Woodward's ' Hampshire l it is said that ' ' Francis St. Barbe stood for the King at Newbury," and it has always been taken for granted by local historians that John St. Barbe and his father were ardent Royalists, because of those progresses of James. Possibly Henry St. Barbe was so. He appears to have retired to Ashington when his son John was old enough to assume the reins at Broadlands. At all events, Henry died, and was buried at Ashington in 1652. John, according to Woodward, was M.P. for Southants in 1634, and served on the original Committee appointed on 4 Nov., 1643, for levying contributions from Hamp- shire papists and delinquents for Sir William Waller's troop (Woodward, vol. ii. p. 121). His name also appears, with those of Francis St. Barbe and William Pawlet, in the ' Journals of the House of Commons ' for 22 July, 1642, in the list of " Hampshire gentlemen immediately before the breaking out of the Civil War.* 1 Was this the Wil- liam Pawlet of Paultons who married Frances (daughter of Henry) St. Barbe, born in 1590, and buried at Hursley on 4 Oct., 1621, as wife of the Right Worshipful William Pawlet ? If so, he was son of William Pawlet (buried at Eling, 1596) by Dulcibella, daughter of James Pagett of Grove Place, near Romsey. Confirmation of this would be very satisfactory.

In ' Old Times Revised * (Lymington, King), under ' Hampshire and the Long Parliament,' is this "note,' 1 "Richard