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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. SEPT. 25, 1915.

C. BARNARD, ASTROLOGER. Can any I him as her father). True, Sir Henry may reader of ' N. & Q.' give me some data as to have descended from an illegitimate son of this man ? I have lately seen two volumes i Sir Robert, but proof of this is lacking. I in his handwriting one of " Nativities," think it probable, however, that were your the other of " Decumbitures." In the correspondent to consult Berry's ' Hampshire former he gives horoscopes of such famous Genealogies ' (p. 40) she might there discover men as Dryden, Pepys, Petty, and William some particulars of Sir Henry'" " .+ Penn. The dates cf visits (in the " Decum- This work, unfortunately, is nc "bitures") paid to patients are in 1678 to me at the moment, and 1679. There is also a long list of money It might, perhaps, assist in proving, or paid to Barnard. Pepys does not mention disproving, the validity of the reputed him. T. A. MALLOCH, M.D. | claim, supposing it to have been based on a

descent from a natural son of Sir Robert, i were the arms borne by Sir Henry, which LSt - I will doubtless be recorded by Berry, corn-

s ancestry, not accessible

notice published in ' N. & Q.'

of the 'Calendar of Fine Rolls prese^

m ^TT^oS* ?2!?S* *??* ''*' -Francis who, according to Woodward, ward III., 1337-1347 contains the following followi Burke [or ^ versa]? was a

interesting statement (ante, p. 191):- descendant of the above-mentioned Sir

" Another detail concerning the Isle of Wight Robert, though, for the reasons above given, given us in a commission of looJ, directing -^j-jjg statement cannot be relied upon

staSorde/fo^VfenS agaFnsVth^ aliens^ the P elon g ed - These arms were : Quarterly, same to be built of the oaks in the king's forest 1 and 4, Az., crusuly of crosslets, a cross on the island which lately had been thrown down moline voided or ; 2 and 3, Gules, a chevron in great numbers by a violent storm." arg . charged with three roses of the first.

Is anything known of the whereabouts j n re ply to your correspondent's in- and history of " the port of Shamelforde " ? qu i r ies (1) for the name of Sir Francis's wife CHARLES LLEWELYN DAVIES. I an d (2) whether this Sir Francis was

14, Barton Street, Westminster, S.W.

JUpius,

THE KNOLLYS FAMILY.

(11 S. xii. 141, 205.) REGRET I am unable to assist MRS. F. H.

Treasurer to the Household of Elizabeth in 1572, I am in a position to inform her that his wife's Christian name was Catherine, she being, as stated, daughter of William Carey, Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII. (by his wife Lady Mary Boleyn, sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, daughters of Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond), and sister to Henry Carey, created Baron

SUCKLING to the pedigree of Sir Henry Hunsdon ; and that it was this Sir Francis

Knollys of Grove Place, Nursling, co. who filled the office of Treasurer to the

Southampton, beyond saying that I have Household of Elizabeth in 1572.

been unable to discover a particle of evidence The above inquiries lead me to think

in support of the claim which, it is said, he that, possibly, other particulars concerning

put forward to be a descendant of Sir Robert Sir Francis himself may not be without

celebrated general in the reign of Edward III., Francis Knollys appears to have been a

who died 15 Aug., 1407, aged 90; and that I great favourite at Court in the reigns of

am convinced that Sir Henry would have Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth.

found it very difficult, if not impossible, to In 1538 Henry secured to him, in fee, the

have substantiated any such claim, for the lordship of the manor of Rotherfield Greys,

evidence is entirely the other way, it being near Henley-on-Thames (which had been

on record (1) that Sir Robert's wills he granted to " his parents in survivorship in

made two, one in French, dated 21 Oct., 1399, 1514 at the annual rent of a red rose at

and the other in Latin, dated 20 May, 1404 Midsummer), and made him one of the

make no mention of any children, and Gentlemen Pensioners. He attended Anne

(2) that he d.s.p. m. legit, (and even a doubt of Cleves on her arrival in England in 1539.

is cast on the statement of some writers In 1542 he represented Horsham in Parlia-

that Emma, or Margaret, who married ment. Five years later (28 Sept., 1547) he Anthony, or John, Babington, could claim | received the" honour of knighthood. On