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Anthony Guydott at the time of the order of knighthood given tmto him."

This " flaggon chaine," MB. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, from whose communication to esses which it had been previously usual to give to foreigners when knighted by our sovereigns."
 * N. & Q.' (2 S. iv. 392) I am quoting, says,
 * ' was the substitute for the livery collar of

In a grant of an augmentation of arms from King Edward VI. to Sir Antonio, preserved in the Bodleian Library, we have :

" Since worth is always excited by the desire of greater honour, We, having considered the great merits of that noble man Antonio Guidotti of Florence, and also his remarkable gifts of mind and singular dexterity in transacting affairs : Therefore we have granted to him the dignity of knighthood ; and have permitted him to add to the arms of his ancient family the following additions, from Our arms and insignia ' on a chief arg. a lion rampant - guardant between three fleurs-de-lis or.' "

The foregoing grant is given in the same series of ' N. & Q.,' p. 438 of the same volume taken from Bodl. MS. Rawlinson, B. cii., and said to be in the handwriting of Guillim.

Sir Anthony's residence at Southampton was the Bugle or Bull Hall, and is referred to in Leland's description of that town, where he says : " The house that master Mylles the recorder dwellith yn is fair. And so be the houses of Nicoline and Guidote, Italianes." At an earlier date the house had been a town residence of the Abbots of Beaulieu. Sir Anthony married Dorothe whose family name I have not been able to trace and left issue by her. Dying in Italy on 2 Dec., 1555, at the age of 63 years and six months, he was buried in the church of S. Marco at Florence, and a marble slab, with inscription, was erected by his relatives (in the absence of his sons) to his memory. The inscription is given at length 2 S. iv. 328. His widow, "dame Dorothe Gwydott," remained in this country, and her remarriage " with John Harman, esquyer, one of the gentilmen hushers of the chambre of our sovereign lady the Quene," on 21 Dec., 1557, is entered in the Register of Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex.

John Guidotti, presumably the eldest son, is mentioned in the letters patent granting him a yearly pension of 37Z. 10s. (Rymer, pp. 227-8). William, inferentially the son of John, is entered on p. 236 of ' Old Times Revisited, Lymington, Hants,' and fol- lowed by Francis Guidott, who was Mayor of Lymington on several occasions between

1632 and 1662. A small brass in the parish church there records the death of his wife Joan on Christmas Day, 1668.

" On a shield is Guidott, Party saltirewise nebuly or and azure, with two crescents gules in the or and a chief azure with a leopard between three fleurs-de-lis or therein, quartering Party a griffon counter-coloured in an engrailed border." ' Viet. County Hist.,' iv. 648.

He had issue by his marriage at least three sons a, 6, and c :

(a) Anthony, who purchased in 1669 the estate of " Horwood " and in 1705 Lasham, near Odiham, both in co. Hants, which properties are found later held by William Woodroffe Guidott in 1772 (' V.C.H.,' iii. 374 ; and iv. 83). His will, dated 18 Nov., 1707, and proved in Dublin, January, 1707/8, names his deceased brother William, his nephew William Guidott, and a niece Ann Jenyns.

(6) William "senior" who was Re- corder and Steward of Basingstoke from 1661 to his death in 1697 (Baigent and Millard's ' Basingstoke,' p. 493). He was Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1682. His burial at Wootton St. Lawrence is entered in the parish register. He was succeeded by his son William, of whom later.

(c) Thomas Guidott, the third son, was a physician of some repute, practising at Bath, and a voluminous writer in his day.

William Guidott, " junior," followed his father as Recorder and Steward of Basing- stoke, 1697, and was similarly a treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, 1728, and several times M.P. for Andover. He purchased Slack- stead, co. Hants, in 1705, North Oakley in 1711. He resided at and probably built Preston (Candover) House, one of the famous country seats of England. He is said to have been married three times. The burials of two of the wives are entered in the Preston Candover Registers : " Buried, Jane Guidott, wife of William Guidott, Esq., October 28th, 1738." She was the daughter of Sir Josiah Child, the London banker. His last wife was Patience, one of the three daughters and eventual heiress of John Soper of Preston Candover. She survived him : " Mrs. Patience Guidott, who died at Reading, was buried January 17th, 1748/9." He died in 1745, aged 74, and apparently left no issue to succeed, for the Guidott estates passed at his wife's death to their kinsman and heir Wm. Woodroffe, who took the name of Guidott.

JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D. Ventnor.