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 us. xii. JULY u, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

The Sir Richard Bulkeley mentioned by MR. LEONARD C. PRICE was the 2nd Baronet, his father, Richard Bulkeley, of Dunlavan, co. Wicklow, and of Old Bawn, co. Dublin, having been created a Baronet of Ireland 9 Dec., 1672.

He was born 17 Aug., 1660 ; matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, as a Fellow Commoner, 4 Sept., 1676 ; graduated B.A. 1680, and M.A. 1682, and was a Fellow 1681-2 ; he also belonged to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 21 May, 1680, and was elected a F.R.S. after pub- lishing several treatises. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet, 17 March, 1685, and was M.P. for Fethard, co. Wexford, 1692-3, 1695-9, and from 1703 to his death, sine prole, at Ewell, Surrey, 7 April, 1710, in his 50th year, when the baronetcy became extinct. He was married in Westminster Abbey, 16 Feb., 1686, to Lucy Downing, third d. of Sir George Downing, 7th Bart., of East Hatlejr, C o. Cambridge, by the cele- brated beauty Frances Howard, his wife, sister of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle. The ' Diet. Xat. Biog.' records that in his later years " he became a convert to certain French enthusiasts, pretending to the gift of prophecy and the power of working miracles."

His widow remarried in August, 1710, four months after his death, one William Worth, who had been in the reigns of Charles IT. and James II. a Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and died two months afterwards, 9 Oct., 1 710. This William Worth had previously married Dorothy, Lady Bulkeley, the second wife and widow of Sir Richard Bulkeley, the 1st Baronet, the stepmother of his second wife's husband, the 2nd Baronet. F. DE H. L.

[DR. MAGRATH also thanked for reply.]

LOPE DE VEGA'S GHOST STORY (11 S. xi. 417, 498). It may be perhaps worth while adding another brief reply. As I gather from Ticknor's * History of Spanish Literature,'

" a sort of ghost story, in the fifth book of Lope

P%' > 8 ,*mu pr ? s -? romance 'El Peregrino en su

The Pilgrim in his own Country '), seems

to have been founded on fact. The entire romance,

divided into five books (a story of two lovers, who,

vtter many adventures in Spain and Portugal, are

carried into captivity among the Moors, and return

orne by the way of Italy, as pilgrims), is one of the

earliest and best specimens in Spanish literature

edition of'lW"' ''"' L "' P - 172 ' TOm)0ted In the year after the poet had given it to the world on the last day of 1603 from

the city of Sevilla, it appeared in 1604, and was soon reprinted ; but the best edition is that in the fifth volume of the ' Obras Sueltas,' 1776, as stated by Ticknor (I.e., p. 173, foot-note). A copy of this ' Colcccion de las Obras Sueltas ' (i.e., loose or separate works), " assi en prosa, come in verso," comprising 21 vols., 4to, Madr., 1776-9, which I have before me, belongs to>.., and is preserved in, the Taylorian Library> Oxford. H. KREBS.

EARLY LORDS OF ALBION (US. xi. 126> 284, 423). The following may interest, though I fear it will not help MR. G. H. WHITE to solve his puzzle.

The ' Histoire Genealogique,' quoted by me at the second reference, says (iii. 283} that Godehilde, wife of Ives I., is so named in the title deed (titie) which contains the foundation of the chapel of Bellesme, in the Chateau de Bellesme. In this deed, mention, without names, is made of her sons. I have found nothing as to daughters named Billechende and Evemburge (or Eremburge).

When I wrote, at the second reference, that Ives I. " was active in affairs in 944," I referred to the following given in the ' Histoire ' :

"In 944 Ives I. helped Osmond, guardian (gouverneiir) of the young Richard II. [sic], Duke of Normandy, to deliver him (Richard), under a

Srotext of feigned illness, from the hands of Louis 'Outremer, who held him prisoner." P. 283 of the ' Histoire.'

Richard II. (above) is undoubtedly an error for Richard I., the Fearless.

Louis IV., d' Outremer, King of France, died 954. Richard I. was Duke of Nor- mandy 943-96, when he died. Richard II., the Good, succeeded him 996, and died 1026 (or 1027). The guardian of Richard I. who managed his escape was Osmond de Centeville (see ' The Normans,' by Sarah Orne Jewitt, 1891, pp. 72, 73, and the genealogical tree of the Duke's, ibid., p. xv). For dates of deaths of Richard I. and II. see also ' Lavoisne's Complete Genealogical

Atlas,' third edition, 1822, map No. 27.

Ives I., Comte d'Alenon, founded in hi* Chateau de Bellesme a church for canons in lonour of the Virgin Mary, which was given ^ater to the Abbey of Marmoutier, and is circa 1733) called St. Santin. In the deed [not dated) he gives to the church (called lere chapel) many churches situated in divers places, among them in Sonnois _diocese of Le Mans) and in Corbonnais [territory of Mortagne), whence the author quoted, viz., Guillaume de Jumieges, presumes