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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vm. DEC. e, 1913.

Inglis, Writer to the Signet. She wrote 4 Anna and Edgar ; or, Love and Ambition, a Tale,' Edinburgh, 1781.

The ' D.N.B.' records Henry David Inglis (1795-1835), traveller and miscellaneous writer, the only son of a Scottish advocate, who was born at Edinburgh. Was he her grandson ? A. R. BAYLEY.

SIB GEORGE WRIGHT OF RICHMOND SURREY (11 S. vm. 348, 410). That Lady Dorothy Wright, the wife of Sir George Wright of Richmond, was the daughter, and not the daughter-in-law or stepdaughter, of the elder Dorothy, the wife of Sir Robert Wright, the following, from the Marriage Licences of the Bishop of London, proves :

" Robert Wright of the city of London, Esquire* and Dorothy Farneham, widow of John Farne- ham, late of same, Esquire, deceased. General Licence. 24 December, 1588."

From the ' D.N.B.' I gather the following facts with reference to this Sir Robert Wright :

" Robert Wright (1553 P-1596 ?) matriculated at Cambridge as a sizar of Trinity College on 2 May, 1567, and became a scholar there. In 1570-1 he graduated B.A. (M.A. 1574), and was elected a Fellow. He was incorporated M.A. of Oxford on 9 July, 1577. He was appointed tutor of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, before the Earl went to Cambridge, and accom- panied him thither. After Essex left the uni- versity Wright became head of his household. When Essex was made the Queen's master of the horse, Wright was appointed clerk of the stables (Addit. MS. 5755, fol. 143). He was a man of learning, and Thomas Newton (1542 P-1607) complimented him on his many accomplishments in an epigram addressed 'Ad eruditiss. virum Robertum Wrightum, nobiliss. Essexise comitis famulum primarium.' Latin verses prefixed to Peter Baro's ' Prffilectiones in Jonam' (1579) are also assigned to Wright. He died about 1596."

The last statement, however, is wrong for as his will was dated 21 Nov., 1608, and proved 27 March, 1610, his death must have occurred between these dates. There is no entry of his burial in the Richmond registers, although that of his wife appears.

The Thomas Newton referred to above edited some of the English translations from the Latin of John Studley (1545 ?- 1590, see ' D.N.B.') included in ' Seneca his tenne Tragedies,' 1581. John Studley was doubtless of the same family as Thomas Studley, who married Lucy, the sister of Sir Robert Wright, and may have been a brother. Robert Wright was knighted at Richmond, 17 May, 1605.

In the pedigree given in my second com- munication I should have added Elizabeth to the daughters of Sir George Wright ; her

will which was proved by her brother John in 1633/4 states her to be of the parish of St. Katharine Coleman, spinster. She was buried at Richmond, 3 April, 1634. Her sister Douglas married Robert Millicent, Esq., at Kensington, 22 Jan., 1622/3, and a son of theirs, John, was baptized at Rich- mond, 5 Dec., 1623.

Of the three sons of Sir George Wright, the eldest, Thomas, was dead in 1658, and probably died before 1633. John, the second son, was no doubt dead in 1658, since on 20 Aug., 1658, administration of the goods unadministered by Sir George's relict and son Thomas, both deceased, was granted to the third and remaining son Robert, who on 6 July of the preceding year had come to the meeting of the Richmond Vestry with the plea, or, as it is stated in the Vestry Book, the " pretence," that moneys owing to his father by the parish had not been paid either to Sir George Wright in his lifetime or to his heirs or any of his executors after his decease, and that such sum of money might be raised in some short and convenient time, " as may in some reasonable manner supply the present urgent necessities of the petitioner." After he had put his signature to the following :

"It appearing by the acts of this Vestry Book, 1624, July 5, that after the death of Sir George Wright there was due from him as re- maining in his hands of money belonging to the parish the sum of 5Z., and that the said sum of 51. was afterwards satisfied by the Lady Wright to the parish without mentioning any sum pre- tended to be due from the parish to the said Sir George Wright, I am therefore satisfied that there was not any such sum of money as was pretended owing from the parish to the estate of 1 my deceased father, and therefore I do hereby acknowledge that I have been misinformed touching that pretended debt, and have therefore without just grounds put the parish to un- necessary trouble and charge, for which I am heartily sorry, and for the future do promise to disclaim any pretences to the effect aforesaid, and whatsoever the parishoners do please to bestow upon me, be it more or less, I shall thankfully acknowledge it as their free gift and bounty,"

it was

" Ordered by the Vestry that the present churchwardens do give unto the said Robert Wright the sum of forty shillings, as the free gift of the parish to him, out of such moneys as shall be in their hands."

He was about 43 years of age at this time, and it seems to be the last appearance of the Wright family at Richmond.

Hasted, writing of Henhurst, Kent, says :

"Sir Edward Harpur, Knt., in the beginning of

Elizabeth's reign, alienated this manor to Mr.

Thomas Wright, whose son George Wright, dieing