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HONYWOOD FAMILY : KENTISH PETITION (11 S. viii. 129). Filmer Honywood was elected for Steyning in 1774, and again in 1780, when he elected to serve for Kent. In the latter return he is described as of Evington. He continued to sit for Kent until 1796.

In 1802 Filmer Honywood of Linstead, Kent, was elected for the county.

According to Tindal's continuation of Rapin, iii. 473. the Kentish Petition was signed inter alios by above twenty justices of the peace.

Twenty-one years earlier there were two Honywoods, viz., Sir William Honywood, Bart., and Sir Philip Honywood, who were justices of the peace for Kent. See ' A Catalogue of the Names of His Majesties Justices of the Peace,' carefully collected by S. N., Esquire, 1680.

Sir William was the second Baronet. He died in 1748, aged 94, and was succeeded by his grandson John, who married secondly Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Filmer, third Baronet (G. E. C.'s ' Complete Baronet- age,' iii. 90-91). Filmer Honywood was the eldest son of this marriage.

"He is now [c. 1798] of Markshall, in Essex, and is unmarried, having been M.P. for this county in the last two successive parliaments, and is the present owner of this estate."

Hasted's ' History of Kent,' 2nd ed., vol. v.,

1798, p. 437.

" This county " must mean Kent.

Sir William was M.P. for Canterbury, 1685-98.

Many Honywoods have sat in Parliament. The first appearing in the Blue-books of Members of Parliament is Alarms Honywode, one of the representatives of Hythe, 1392-3.

Probably Filmer Honywood, M.P., was desirous that his portrait should show his connexion by descent with the Kentish Petition. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE MARQUESSATE OF LINCOLNSHIRE (US. viii. 46, 111). I am much obliged to MR. E. A. FRY for the words of the letters patent of 1572. There can be no reasonable doubt that the earldom is that of the county of Lincoln.

When the Cavendish earldom of Devon- shire was created, the earldom held by the Courtenays was supposed to be extinct.

After reading the opinions of the law lords in the Norfolk peerage case, I quite agree with MR. F. W. READ that I was wrong in suggesting that the validity of the mar- quessate might possibly be impugned that is, so long as the House of Lords follows the lawyers. I should think, however, that if

the Crown were to indulge in a duplication of titles on a large scale e.g., by creating; marquessates of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, Somersetshire, &c. the peers would probably make a stand.

In the feudal period two earls of a county would have been as impossible, I think, as two kings of England, although there might be rival claimants in both cases ; and if this view were still accepted, it might have been put forward, as a fairly arguable propo- sition, that the earldom and marquessate of a county could not be held by different persons.

The date of the creation of the earldom of Norfolk is uncertain, but apparently it was between August, 1140, and February, 1141 ('Geoffrey de Mandeville,' p. 50), not " 1135." G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

Two POEMS WANTED (US. viii. 129). The second of the two poems asked for by MR. E. A. JOHNSON is, of course, the song by Rogero in ' The Rovers ; or, The Double Arrangement,' in No. 30 of The Anti- Jacobin, often reprinted in ' Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin.' My copy of the latter is the sixth edition, as I learn from the label on the back, the title-page being missing.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

The " song of one eleven years in prison " is no doubt Rogero 's song in ' The Rovers ' : Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I 'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- -niversity of Gottingen, -niversity of Gottingen;

and so on for five more verses. I would suggest to the librarians of the University of Adelaide and the Public Library of that city to buy copies of 'The Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin,' with notes by Charles Edmunds, 1852. There is also "Selections from the Anti - Jacobin, together with some Later Poems by George Canning, edited by Lloyd Sanders, Methuen, 1904." WM. H. PEET.

A reprint of this "song" is included in ' Burlesque Plays and Poems,' edited for "The Universal Library" by Henry Morley (Routledge, 1885). THOMAS BAYNE.

Canning's lines are easily accessible in the cheap " Minerva Library " edition of Locker-Lampson's ' Lyra Elegantiarum.' In the * Life of Crabbe,' chap, vii., there is an amusing account of Crabbe's son, when a boy, being stirred to tears by hearing this poem read aloud by his father.

EDWARD BENSLY.