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separation of Sir William and his wife, which is the copy of one made apparently by Walpole himself, for it reads: "His third wife was sister of Sir Francis Delaval. Walpole."

In Gray's ' Letters,' edited by the Rev. Duncan Tovey, ii. 115, 236, and 273, Edward Delaval is mentioned, and in one instance as Delaval and of Anne Hussey, second wife " (this, of course, should read ' ' third wife " ) "of Sir William Stanhope.' 1
 * ' younger brother of Sir Francis Blake

In a review of the * Memoirs ' of R. L. Edge worth in ' Annual Register,' Ixii. 1203- 15, the following passage occurs :

" The Duke of York was in love with Sir Francis Blake Delaval's sister, Lady Stanhope, whose husband Sir William was dying, but the Dukedied first."

A reference, too, to ' Delaval of Ford * in Burke's ' Extinct Peerage * will show that Anne was sister, and not daughter, of John, Lord Delaval.

Sir William Stanhope was fifty-seven when he married Anne Hussey Delaval, who was thirty-five years his junior, and this un- suitable match ended in the couple separating in September, 1763. There was no issue of this union.

Sir William records in his will, dated 1 Aug., 1771, that he had been separated about eight years from Lady Stanhope, and had had no interview or intercourse with her during the separation. All he bequeathed her was the sum of twenty guineas to pur- chase a ring. His will was proved in London 23 May, 1772.

I have not, unfortunately, the 1845 edition of Lord Chesterfield's 'Letters 1 referred to by MB. COURTNEY. In the edition on my shelves (published in 1775 by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope) I find no reference to Sir William Stanhope's marriage.

From Sir William Stanhope's will we learn that he had a natural son William Stanhope, but by whom is not stated. He was, however, living on 4 June, 1772, when Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield, made his will, as that nobleman left a bequest to the natural son of his brother Sir William Stanhope (' Life of Lord Chesterfield * by W. H. Craig, ed. 1907, p. 344). Perhaps some of your readers can furnish particulars of William Stanhope and the name" of his mother.

There is a long account of Capt. Charles Morris in the ' D.N.B.* He was born in 1745, and died 11 July, 1838. He was thus eight years younger than Anne Stanhope, and survived her twenty-six years. He

died at Brockham, Surrey, and was buried at Betchworth in the same county.

FRANCIS H. RELTON. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

Surely the title of the lady, as being the wife of Sir William Stanhope, would be Lady Stanhope, and not Lady William Stanhope, there not being a ducal title in the Stanhope family. Whether any member of the Stanhope family was ever a marquis I know not. NORTH MIDLAND.

ST. AUSTIN'S GATE (11 S. i. 408). St. Austin's Gate was undoubtedly the gate leading from the south-east corner of St. PauPs Churchyard into Watling Street, and it took its name from the church of St. Augustine which stood near. This church is variously referred to in early docu- ments as St. Augustine "ad portam," St. Augustine " at the Gate of St. Paul's/* "near St. PauPs Gate, n "at the Gate, ?i &c. It was known also as " St Augustine in le Old Chaunge." The gate is frequently referred to as St. Augustine's or St. Austen's Gate in early records. The following ex- amples are sufficiently convincing.

Dean Colet in his will, dated 1514 (' Court Hust. Wills, 1 ii. 640), left " to the Wardens and Commonalty of the Mistery

of the Mercery of the City of London his grammar

school, chapel, and house for the master and other officers on the east side of St. Paul's Churchyard ; the grammar house or messuage lately called Poules Scole and four shops under the same, near Seint Austen's Gate."

In Vertue's copy of Leake's Map of London after the Fire in 1666 this corner of St. Paul's Churchyard is marked " St Austen's Gate."

Maitland in his ' History of London * has several references to St. Austen's Gate. In his description of the gates leading from St. PauPs Churchyard he enumerates six, and says, " The fifth, called St. Austin's, led to Watling-street (ed. 1756, ii. 1172) ; and he further describes it (p. 943) as "an Arch or Gate in the narrow Gut or Passage into the South-East end of St. Paul's Churchyard, called St. Augustine's Gate because adjoining St. Augus- tine's Church."

We learn further from both Strype and Maitland that the gate was not rebuilt after the Fire. Strype says (Strype's ' Stow, 1 ed. 1720, vol. i. Bk. III. c. viii. p. 197) :

"Passing out of this street {i.e.. Old Change] through St. Austin's gate (which Name it retaineth, although the Gate, since the Fire of London, is not built, but lieth open), you enter into St. Paul's Churchyard."