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name on a list of the members for Grantham in a " Grantham Red Book " :

" Son of Sir Wm. Pelham, of Brocklesby, Knt., was of Oxford and Lincoln's Inn, had repre- sented the borough of Grimsby from 1620, was a lawyer of considerable eminence, recorder of Lincoln, and deputy recorder of Grantham, was chosen speaker of the House of Commons, 30th July, 1647 ; but from the distracted state of the country, he held that high office but a few days. There is a portrait of him in the possession of the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough."

13 ury> W. H. PINCHBECK.

There are references to Speaker Pelham in ' Memoirs of the Verney Family, l by Lady Verney, 1892, vol. ii. p. 246 ; and in Anthony Wood's ' Life and Times * (Oxford Hist. Soc.), voi. ii. p. 215. Refer also to Hist. MSS. Comm. Reports on the Duke of Rutland's MSS. and House of Lords MSS. In the latter (13th Report, App., Part V.) there is an allusion to ' ' the Pelham Estate Act." This related to a division of the Brocklesby estate, and being dated 29 Dec., 1691, might contain references to Henry Pelham's children, if he had any.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

According to * East Anglia and the Great Civil War,* by A. Kingston (p. 298), Edward Pelham of "Brockley," Lincolnshire, was called upon by Parliament to pay a fine amounting to 2,250?. G. H. W.

FERMOR, EARLS OF POMFRET (11 S. i. 288). The Draycotts may be of Chelsea, and commemorated in Draycott Place, Chelsea, as Peter Denys, Esq. (ancestor of Denys- Burton, Bt.), of the Pavilion, Hans Place, Chelsea, married, 1787, Charlotte, only daughter of George, Earl of Pomfret, and died 1816, leaving issue Anna Maria Dray- cott, afterwards Lady Shuckburgh. In Debrett's ' Baronetage l for 1819, under Sibbald of Sillwood Park, Berks, now Sibbald Scott, Bt. Sir James Sibbald, Bt. (d. 1819), having married Eliza Delagard (d. 1809), niece of the Countess of Pomfret is the following :

4 Delagard, of London, Esq., left issue: 1.

Anne Maria, who took the name of Draycott, before marriage, m. 1764, George Fermor, Earl of Pomfret, and d. 1787. 2. William Delagard, Member of Council, Bombay, where he d. 1760, leaving issue (1) William Delagard, E.I.C.C.S., who assumed the name of Draycott, and d. in Bengal 1768. (2) Eliza, Lady Sibbald, aforesaid. (3) Henrietta, Mrs. Hartwell. (4) Louisa, Mrs. David Scott of Dunninald, co. Forfar."

I fancy the Countess was also connected, by property, with Sunbury, Middlesex.

LIONEL SCHANK.

According to the account of Sunbury in Lysons, Lady Mary Coke's monument in Sunbury Church " was put up by Anna Maria Draycot (afterwards Countess of Pomfret)," to whom Lady Mary "bequeathed a con- siderable fortune and her seat in this parish."

G. F. R. B.

" MORAL POCKETHANDKERCHIEFS " (11 S. i. 146, 196, 257). These were very common in Northamptonshire upwards of forty years ago. One I particularly remember depicted a crippled beggar-man standing near a cottage door. Beneath the picture were the well-known lines commencing, Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, &c.

JOHN T. PAGE.

" ROUNDHEAD," A WEAPON (11 S. i. 187). The interesting contribution of A. S. showing that there were at Nottingham weapons called "roundheads" in 1644-5 does not " disprove the very old assumption that the term, as applied to the Parliamentarians, grew out of their practice of cropping their hair." As I showed at 7 S. xii. 247, it was applied to Pym in a conversation recorded in an affidavit of 16 June, 1642, now in the records of the House of Lords, and obviously as a term of opprobrium, to be shared by those with whom he was politically asso- ciated. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

Why does the discovery of the term "roundhead" in armourers'- lists lead A. S. to suppose that it was applied to a weapon ? Was it not, rather, the description of a plain sort of helmet or " skull " ? E. L.-W.

A double meaning of the term ' ' round- head " is implied in a passage in ' Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson,'' which says that when the King's soldiers seized the ammunition at Nottingham, one, who had taken a musket on seeing Hutchinson, said

he wished it loaded for his sake, and hoped the day would shortly come when all such round- heads would be fair marks for them. The name of ' roundhead ' coming so opportunely in, I shall make a little digression to tell how it came up."

Mrs. Hutchinson tells us that some Puritans cut their hair ' * close round their heads with so many little peaks as was something ridiculous to behold,' 1 and from this custom of wearing their hair,

that name of ' roundhead ' became the scornful term given to the whole parliament party, wl: army indeed marched out as if they had been only sent out till their hair was grown."

G. H. W.