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

NOTES AND QUERIES.

One of her aunts married the Hon. Edward Butler, son of the sixth Earl of Ormonde ; and her second husband, Viscount Purbeck, was cousin to Mary, Countess of Arran.

Lady Muskerry resided at Somerhill, Ton- bridge, and her husband was lord of the manor on which the mineral springs, other- wise " The Wells, n are situated.

She was apparently a well-known character at Tunbridge Wells, and in my copy of an old guide relating to the place the following appears :

" The two darling foibles of this lady were dress and dancing. Magnificence of dress was totally incompatible with her figure, which was that of a woman enceinte without being so ; but she had a much better reason for limping, for of two legs uncommonly short, one was much shorter than the other ; a face suitable to this description completed the tout ensemble of this disagreeable figure for though her dancing was still more in- supportable, she never misted a ball at Court, and the Queen had so much complaisance for the public as to make her dance."

According to the ' Memoires de Gram- mont ' her ladyship must have been the butt for the maids of honour, as several ludicrous anecdotes are related concerning her.

R. VAUGHAN GOWEB.

Perndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.

CHILDREN WITH THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (10 S. xii. 365). Dr. Samuel Freeman, Dean of Peterborough, when Rector of SS. Anne and Agnes with St. John Zachary, London, bestowed his Christian name, solely and without addition, upon no fewer than three sons, the entries in the parish register (kept by the Rector himself at all times) running thus :

18 Jan., 1684.* " Samuel y e son of Samuel & Susannah ffreeman, Rect r, was xtn'd."

23 April, 1688." Sam. y 6 son of Dr. Sa. ffreeman, Bect r of this Parish, & Susan his wife, born Apr. 5."

16 July, 1689." Samuel y e son of Sam. ffreeman, D.D., & Susan his wife, borne June 29."

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

I have several times come across instances of children with the same Christian name in old wills, but the duplicated name has always been John, as in the instance quoted by Mr. LUMB. Is it possible that one might be named after John the Baptist, the other after the Evangelist ?

G. S. PARRY, Lieut. -Col.

An important case of two brothers bearing the same Christian name, that has escaped the notice of readers of ' N. & Q.,'- is that of


 * This date is New Style as regards the year.

the two sons of Edward III. William, the second, born 1336 at Hatfield, Yorks, who died soon after ; and William, the sixth, born at Windsor, 1347, died 1357 ; see ' D.N.B.' and Miss Strickland's memoir of Queen Philippa. Strange to say, neither Burke nor Lodge notes the birth of the latter prince in their tables of the royal lineage.

The query put by MR. C. R. HAINES at 10 S. vii. 413 relates, not to the brothers of the Protector Somerset, but to his sons. The eldest by his first wife, Sir Edward Seymour, was the ancestor of the Dukes of Somerset ; while Sir Edward by the second wife became Earl of Hertford, and married Lady Katharine Grey. This was stated at 1 S. xi. 133. N. W. HILL.

New York.

WOODEN SHIPS : THEIR LONGEVITY (10 S. xii. 467). The subjoined note in the hand- writing of Admiral Sir T. Byam Martin may be of interest :

" James [II.] escaped from Rochester in a small vessel of about 80 tons burthen belonging to the Dockyard, and it is a curious fact that the very same vessel has continued in the King's service from that time to the present moment, employed in conveying stores from one dock- ya'rd to another, and has from the tune that she took James to France ever gone by the name of the Royal Escape. I once took occasion to point the vessel out to the present King William IV., who said, as William III. might have said, ' She did a good service for my family.'

" I have a snuff-box made from some of the original timber of this vessel. T. B. M.

" Oct. 0, 1833."

I wonder when the ship was finally broken up. B. D,

DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT (10 S. xii. 490). In reply to MR. BLEACKLEY'S inquiry, I may say that I have before me as I write ' His- torical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment), with a Notice of the 2nd and North Devon, Militia Regiments, 1 by Col. H. Walrond. 4th Battalion the Devonshire Regiment, with 27 illustrations (Longmans & Co., 1897). At p. 24 Col. Walrond says :

"A regiment was raised this year [1685] among the loyal men of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, by the Duke of Beaufort, called the Duke of Beaufort's Musketeers, which subsequently became the North Devon Regiment, and is now the Devonshire Regi- ment. This was not, however, the first regiment raised in Devon, as in 1681 the 'Tangerine Regi- ment,' now the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regi- ment (4th), was raised in Exeter and the neighbour- hood by the Duke of Albemarle."

A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.