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lived here on parole, were received in the best society, and were well supplied with money.) No doubt the captives wrote many letters home, some of which possibly survive to-day. A. STAPLETON T.

39, Burford Road, Nottingham.

BISHOP KEN.

sometime Ordinary of Newgate. This John Chalkhill was uncle by the half-blood to Walton's second wife, and about his own age. The Chalkhill pedigree shows *that there was a son Thomas by the first marriage of the Bishop's father with Jane Hughes, but he died young.

Concerning the two Chalkhills I propose later sending a note.

- C. ELKIN MATHEWS.

Shire Lane, Chorley Wood, Herts.

(11 S. iii. 248.) According to Dean Plumptre's 'Life of MB. CHAMBERS asks, " At what date was Thomas Ken, D.D.' (1890, vol. i. p. 11), the Thomas Ken married to his second wife ? " register of St. Olave's, Silver Street, London, I do not think the date has ever been ascer- " gives the marriage of Thomas Ken and tained, but it is not really essential to know Martha Carpenter in December, 1625." It in order to state definitely that Izaak would seem from this that Thomas Ken's Walton's second wife Anne Ken was the second wife was the widow of one Car- Bishop's half-sister. penter. Is anything known about her first

Thomas Ken of London, attorney in the husband ?

Court of Common Pleas gentleman citizen, If MR CHAMBERS will tu rn to ' Thomas

and barber-surgeon, first married Jane R d j k Walt > pp. 7 and 8> pub _

Hughes daughter of Rowland Hughes L d fc Messrs. Longma ^ P in 190 8, he will

of Essendon, Herts, a small village a mile L d sa t| s f ac tory proof that Thomas Ken

or two distant from Little Berkhampstead, h third * b the second wife of

where his youngest son was born. The Thomas Ken of Furniva l's Inn.

proximity of these two villages should be Iza&k Walton married Anne Ken (born

remembered because the mistake of desig- } &g hig gecnd wife in 1646 ghe Wftg

nating Great Berkhampstead, in the same ^ five rg old when her half _ brother

county, but many miles away, as the Bishop s h f * b f h fc j lfm

birthplace, is often repeated. Dean Plumptre ^ thinks the future bishop was born when

his father was, with his second wife, visiting the relations of his first.

PAWPEB on PAUPER BIRD (11 S. iii. 89,

Their daughter Anne married Izaak I 216). I think that, as is suggested, the

Walton in 1646. According to the learned name o f the bird was certainly of imitative

genealogist Sir Harris Nicolas, Jane Ken origin, viz., from the repetition of the

died before 1625, or twelve years before the sy n a ble pa, as in papa and popinjay. Cf.

birth of the Bishop. Thomas Ken married Bavarian pappeln, the equivalent of E. babble.

secondly Martha Carpenter, the daughter of j can add t o the information already

Ion (John) Chalkhill of St. Giles, Cripplegate, SU ppii e d a few notes from Godefroy's French

and of Kingsbury, Middlesex.* Her first dictionary. He gives, s.v. paper, a dialectal

husband's name was Carpenter. F paper, to smack the lips ; also papeter,

Martha Ken died in 1641, when her son to babble ; papier, to stammer ; papegay,

Thomas was four years old, and her step- ft pO pi n j ay ; popelle, the name of a bird

daughter Anne a woman of thirty-one. It ( per h a ps the pawper) ; and (from Cotgrave) may be noted here that her father was doubt-

ft pO p nay ; popelle, the name of a bird ( per h a ps the

was out- ^ apec hieu, a lapwing, teewit, black plover. less the author of ' Thealma and Clearchus,' The re f erence to Harrison's ' England,'

and her brother the John Chalkhill who was I 2 23 seems to be quite correct, In

f or ty-six years a Fellow of Winchester College Fumivall's reprint the chapter on birds is

and is buried in the Cloisters there the ch i{ of Book n i. ; see the end of the

same my brother Chalkhill " of the auto- first paragraph

graph inscription in the ' Lives/ 1670, once H g ^ >rr and such like> the

in the collection of the Rev. H. S. Cotton, are dailie brought vnto vs from be.vond the sea,

as if all the foule oE our countrie could not suffice


 * The latter place is given on the authority of to satisfie our delicate appetites."

James Heywood Markland, a distmetuished anti- Hence it was not really a British bird, but

quary, who died 1864, and himself a descendant of. / K, N c_JL -c> fantt

the first of the three witnesses to the will of Isaak imported (probably) from trance.

\Valton. WAL/TER W. OK-EA1.