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comely big woman. I was mightily pleased with her" (1663, 28 Feb., iv. 58). Later, 1666, 19 Dec., Pepys dined with Sir John Robinson :

" I dined at the head of his table, next his lady, who is comely and seeming sober and stately, but very proud and very cunning, or 1 am mistaken, and a wanton too." Vol. vi. p. 108.

John Tatham, w T ho dropped into super- latives over successive Lord Mayors without much provocation, published " London's Triumph : presented in severall delightful! scenes, both upon the water and upon Land : and celebrated in honour of the truly loyal and known deserver of honour Sir John Robinson. Kn* and B fc, Lord Mayor of the City of London. At the costs and charges of the Worshipfull Company of Cloth workers," London, 1662, 4to.

A. Brome's ' Epitaph,' 1661, bis ' Songs,' 1664, S. Persons' 'Anatomical Lecture,' 1664, and W. Winstan ley's ' Loyal Martyr - ology,' 1665, were all dedicated to Sir John Robinson in addition to Heylin's ' Life of Laud ' already referred to.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

" Robinson, of London (Sir John, Knight). Created Baronet, June 22, 1660

"William Robinson (see Morgan's 'Sphere of Gentry,' b. 2. p. 30) descended out of the north parts of England, was father of John Robinson, of Reading, in Berks, who married Lucy, daughter of John Webb, of Reading, and sister to Sir William Webb, Knt. alderman and lord-mayor of London, 1591 (and who surviving him, was re-married to William Laud, of Reading, and was mother of [see Ibid.] Archbishop Laud), and had issue William Robinson, D.D. (see Walker's ' Sufferings of the Clergy,' p. 84), archdeacon of Nottingham, 1635, a prebendary of St. David's and Westminster, rector of Bingham, in Nottinghamshire and rector of Long Whatton, in Leicestershire, who married Sarah, daughter of William Bainbrigge,of Locking- ton, in com. Leicest. Esq ; by whom he had Sir John, of whom hereafter, and Henry, who was rector of Long Whatton (see Ibid. p. 345), but depriv'd of his living during the usurpation, but liv'd to be restor'd.

" Sir John Robinson, Knt. alderman, and lord- mayor of London, was lieutenant of the Tower, and for the services he did King Charles II. towards his restoration, was, soon after it, advanced to the dignity of a baronet, and had an augmentation granted to his arms ; he married Anne, daughter of Sir George Whitm ore, of Barnes, in Surrey, Knt.

(re-marrid to Shenton, Esq;), and had

several Children." (' The English Baronetage,'

anon, by Wotton, aided by Collins), 1741, vol. iii.

( pt. i. p. 56.

The present baronet (10th) is Sir Frederick Villiers Laud Robinson, of Cranford Hall near- Kettering, Northants.

ROBERT PIERPOINT,

Sir John was the third son of the Rev.

illiam Robinson, D.D., Archdeacon of STottingham and Rector of Bingham and Long Whatton, by Sarah, daughter of William Bainbrigge of Lockington, co. Leicester. This Dr. Robinson

' was uterine brother of the celebrated Archbishop Laud, their mother Lucy (sister of Sir William Webb, sometime Lord Mayor of London) having m. irstly John Robinson and secondly William Laud, roth of Reading, Berks." See G. E. C.'s 'Baronet- age,' vol. iii. pp. 52-3.

G. F. R, B.

In reply to item 4, 1 will quote from Arch- bishop Laud's will, dated 13 Jan., 1643 (probate granted to Dr. Bailey, 8 Jan., 1661) :

"By Father and Mother, I never had Brother, nor Sister : but by my Mother many. They were all Ancient to me, and are dead, but I give to their children."

Laud's mother Lucy married first John Robinson of Reading, clothier, by whom she had one son William (Archdeacon of Nottingham, D.D.) and five daughters ; she married secondly William Laud of Reading, also clothier, by whom she had one child, namely, the Archbishop.

Dr. Robinson had three sons, who are named in Laud's will Henry, John, and Thomas and several daughters : Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Bailey, President of St. John's, and Sarah, wife of Dr. Walker, Master of University College, who would be nephews and nieces of the Archbishop. Dr. Bailey was sole executor. R. J. FYNMORE.

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[MR. H. J. B. CLEMENTS, F. DE H. L., MR. JOHN ROBINSON, and SILO also thanked for replies.]

EDWARD = IORWERTH : IORWERTH VII. (11 S. i. 387). Is lorwerth a genuine Welsh (Brythonic) Word ? Is it not possible that lorwerth may be a name borrowed from a foreign source, assuming a native appear- ance from the influence of popular ety- mology ? I think that it is not impossible that lorwerth may be really a Welsh mode of representing an old dialect form of the Old English royal name ^ladweard. Dialectically in English O.E. tad- (or Ed-) may become Ear- (or Er-). The Well- known Cheshire surname EarWaker (locally pronounced " Eddiker ") represents O.E. liJadwacor, a name identical with Odoacer, famous in history as the name of the first Gothic King of Italy.

Then, again, O.E. edisc appears also as ersc (in English dialects eddish, errish, and arrish). A. L. MAYHEW.

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