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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. MAY 7, imo.

Cornish members were different persons, pre- sumably father and son.

MB. W. ROBERTS quotes, ante, p. 238, from a volume of ' Memoirs of Eminent English Statesmen, 1806,' a paragraph in which it is set out that the captain ' ' now sits in Parliament for the first time." The identical sentences in this extract are repeated in Joshua Wilson's ' House of Commons, corrected to February, 1808,' save that the words "for the first time" are now corrected into " for the third time." His residence is quaintly given by Wilson as "at sea on board the Fame of 74 guns."

A note in Wilson's volume states that Bennet was returned to Parliament for Enniskillen in January, 1807, vice Nathaniel Sneyd, and that ' ' he stood for Ipswich, in conjunction with Mr. [Richard] Wilson, in 1807, and polled 154 votes." Henry Stooks Smith gives the number of his votes as 320. Bennet stood as a Whig.

W. P. COURTNEY.

There were two M.P.s named R. H. A. Bennet, father and son. I shall be glad to know if the son was married.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

[MR. W. D. PINK also points out that the M.P.s were father and son.]

FOSTER'S ' ALUMNI CANTABRIGIENSES ' (11 S. i. 247, 310). We may state that lot 82, ' Cambridge Matriculations,' which MR. HUMPHREYS mentions in his reply, is in our possession.

We should also like to mention that C. H. and Thompson Cooper printed a portion of vol. iii. of their ' Athenae Cantabrigienses,' but left it unfinished and unpublished. This fragment of 60 pages we are about to publish, along with (1) some MS. notes by the late Henry Bradshaw written into his copy of the first volume ; (2) some notes from the printed University ' Grace Books,' giving additional information and corrections to Cooper and the * Dictionary of National Biography ' ; (3) an Index to the whole work, giving dates of degrees, or when resident at Cambridge, so far as ascertained.

BOWES & BOWES.

1, Trinity Street, Cambridge.

SIR PHILIP PERCEVAL, M.P. (11 S. i. 262). The following notes from my ' List of Long Parliament M.P.s ' may possibly be of service to MR. ROBBINS.

Sir Philip Perceval of Tykenham and Burton, Somerset, and of Duhallow, Ireland, was second son of Richard Perceval of

Tykenham by his second wife Alice, dau. of John Sherman of Ottery St. Mary. He was baptized at Kensington 14 April, 1603. Heir to his elder brother Walter in 1624. Married, 26 Oct., 1626, Catherine, dau. of Arthur Usher, Esq. (by Judith, dau. of Sir Robert Newcomen, Bt.), and granddaughter to Sir William Usher, Kt., Clerk of the Council. Was appointed Keeper of the Rolls of the Parliament of Ireland, 1625. Registrar for life of the Court of Wards 21 Aug., 1626. Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench (Ireland) and Chief Protho- notary of the Common Pleas 31 Jan., 1628. Joint Customer of the Port of Dublin 25 Sept., 1629. Commissioner of Survey in Counties Cork and Tipperary, 1637, having been previously knighted at Dublin by Lord Deputy Wentworth 2 June, 1636. P.C. (Ireland) 1638. Commissary-General of the Army in Ireland 23 March, 1641/2, by a vote of the English Horse of Commons ; Provider-General of the Horse from April, 1642. Commissioner for the King at Oxford to treat with the Irish confederates, 1644.

Down to this period he was a Royalist, but, owing to the strong feeling raised against him on the part of the Royalists in connexion with the proposed Irish treaty, he privately left Oxford, quitted the King's side, threw in his lot with the moderate Presbyterians, and retired to Westminster. On 19 May, 1647, he was "prevailed on" to represent the borough of Newport in Corn- wall, subscribing to the League and Covenant as M.P. 9 June following. It is evident, however, that he was looked upon with suspicion, for on 2 June, 1647, certain information had been given in concerning him, which was ordered to be referred to a Select Committee on 15 July. The result is not stated, but it appears to have been satisfactory, for on 31 July he was directed to come into the House till further orders. He is named four times on Committee between 14 June and 18 Aug., 1647. Was absent at the call of the House 9 Oct., 1647, when he was fined 20Z. and ordered to attend on 3 November following.

Sir Philip, however, died after a few days' illness, 10 Nov., 1647, aged forty-four, and was buried three days after, by order and at the expense of the Parliament, in St. Martin's Church, Westminster. On 13 Nov., 1647,

"upon petition of Katherine, Lady Perceval, relict of Sir Philip Perceval, Knight, deceased, it was ordered that 200/. be paid by the Committee of the Revenue to the Lady Perceval upon account, to be deducted and allowed upon her husband Sir Philip Perceval's account." Commons' Journal.