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" MAJOR JANERL'S WARDS." In a copy of Heath's ' Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine Warr,' &c., the second impression, printed by J. B. for W. Lee at " The Turk's Head," 1663, I find the owner's name in- scribed thus : " John Ruf of Major Janerl's wards." Is it known who Major Janerl Was, and what is the meaning of the word 4 wards ' in this context ?

GEORGE PARKER.

STONHAM FAMILY. Information is desired as to the antecedents of Samuel Stonham, who died 13 April, 1830, and is described on his tombstone in Maidstone Churchyard as having been turnkey of Maidstone Gaol. Particulars of any other members of this family resident in Kent or Sussex during the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth will also be appreciated. Please reply direct. LEONABPD J. HODSON.

Robertsbridge, Sussex.

HAMPSHIRE HOG. Can any of your readers give me an authoritative answer to the question, What is a Hampshire hog ? The point requiring elucidation is whether the animal is a sheep or a pig.

B. W. BENTINCK.

[The ' N.E.D.' has much on hog= sheep. The present query is confined to the Hampshire use of the word.]

SIR JOHN ROBINSON, BT., c. 1660. (11 S. i. 428.)

SIR JOHN ROBINSON, Knight and Baronet, Lieutenant of the Tower till 1678, was Lord Mayor of London 1662-3. His father was William Robinson, Archdeacon of Notting- ham. Sir John married Anne, a daughter of Alderman Sir G. Whitmore, " a Royalist from Shropshire," who had been Lord Mayor of London 1631-2, and whose portrait is at Haberdashers' Hall. (Sir G. Whitmore lived at Barnes, but also had a house called Baulmes at Hoxton, afterwards turned into an asylum, and demolished 1852.)

Sir John Robinson was Alderman of Dowgate, and afterwards of Cripplegate. His portrait is in the Clothworkers' Hall. Robinson was not half-brother to Archbishop Laud, as MR. BRAMBY supposes, nor was he a nephew of Laud, as stated by Orridge in ' The Citizens of London and their Rulers/ Archbishop Laud's mother was Lucy Webbe, but she was a widow when Laud's father, a clothier of Reading, married her. Her

first husband was John Robinson, whose youngest son William Robinson became Archdeacon of Nottingham and the father of Sir John Robinson. The authority for this relationship is Peter Heylin's ' Life of Laud,' 1671, folio, in which the story is told with conciseness as follows :

"His [Laud's! mother Lucy Webb was sister to Sir William Webb, Lord Mayor of London anno 1591, the grandfather of Sir William Webb, not long since deceased. She was first marry ed to John Robinson, a clothier of the same town [Reading] also, but a man of so good wealth and credit, that he married one of his daughters to Dr. Cotsford, and another unto Dr. Layfield, men of parts and worth, and left his youngest son called William in so good a way, that he came to be Doctor of Divinity, Prebend of Westminster, and Arch- deacon of Nottingham, beside some other prefer- ments which he dyed ppssest of. Having buryed her husband John Robinson, she was remarryed unto Laud." P. 42.

Peter Heylin's ' Life of Laud ' (" Cyprianus Anglicus") was dedicated to Sir John Robinson by Henry Heylin, who published the book after his father's (Peter Heylin's) death, and in this dedication the relationship to Laud is alluded to as one of ' ' blood and affection."

Sir John Robinson was one of the Com- missioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II. to return to England. Charles rewarded him by giving him a baronetcy in 1660, and granted him an augmentation of his arms. Soon after the Restoration (4 Aug., 1660) Robinson dined with the King and Lord Sandwich at the Tower (Pepys, ed. Wheatley, vol. i. p. 214).

No portrait of Robinson could equal that which may be drawn from the pages of Pepys. But Robinson is not often referred to by name ; the allusions are for the most part to "The Lieut, of the Tower - l or to "the Lord Mayor." The references are by no means nattering ; thus 17 March, 1662 :

" My Lord Mayor I find to be a talking, bragging, Bufflehead, a fellow that would be thought to have led all the city in the great business of bringing in the King." Pepys, ed Wheatley, vol. iii. p. 69.

For vivid descriptions of Robinson refer also to Pepys (ed. Wheatley) as follows : 11 Jan., 1663, iv. 11 ; 1662, 30 Oct., ii. 378, 379 ; 1662, 9 March, iii. 63 ; 1663, 20 Oct., iii. 309 ; and elsewhere in the same edition.

When the Fire of London took, place in 1666 Pepys went to the Tower to see it, and got up on one of the " high places, Sir John Robinson's little boy going up with me " (Pepys, ed. Wheatley, v. 417).

Lady Robinson found much favour in the eyes of Pepys : "a very high-carriaged, but