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YORKSHIREMEN IN AMERICA, 1657-1794.

The following brief notes are taken from oluminous extracts made from wills at York by the late John Sykes, M.D., F.S.A., of Doncaster :

1657. Thomas Wilson, the elder, sometime citizen and clothworker of London, now resident at Ryecroft in the parish o Rawmarsh. My cousin Thomas Brownel! of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, New England.

1669. Thomas Kirke, of North Anston, yeoman To my wife Elizabeth all my estate rea and personal in Virginia, she paying a] my debts in the said colony. J95. Seth Sothill, Esq., of Thome, and afterward of Carolina in America.

1706. Edward Beale, of Leeds, gent. My mothe Elizabeth Beale ; Mrs. Christian Vaughan, who enjoys an estate in Bar bados, of which said Elizabeth has th reversion.

1720. Josias Hawksworth, of Monkbretton

grange, yeoman. To Ann, wife of Joseph

Charlesworth, of Philadelphia, Perm

sylvania, 181. if she claim it within 5

years.

1738. William Wharton, clerk, late of the Island of Nevis, W.I.

1744. Edmund Withers, of Doncaster, clerk. Mv brother Thomas W., of the Island of Barbadoes, and his two daughters.

1765. Bulleine Knight, of Otley, clerk. My son Robert, surgeon in the East Indies : my second son William, sailed to Carolina, West Indies.

1781. Francis Hall, of Tankersley, clerk. My brother Charles in Jamaica.

1793. Jane Farrer. late of Doncaster, now of Bath,

widow of Henry F. My cousin John Beale of Newark, afterwards of London, only son of my late uncle Richard Beale, late of Rhode Island.

1794. Matthias Harwood, of Doncaster, grocer.

My son Robert, of Philadelphia/ North

America.

W. C. B.

" HONOURS " TO WHOM HONOUR is DUE: ARCHBISHOP MACLAGAN In his ' William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop of York,' chap, iij., Mr. F. D. How remarks on

the extraordinary rapidity and ease with which Mr. Maclagan was able to master the contents of a book, a gift which would of course have been an invaluable help to him had he sought for honours at Cambridge " ; and says, later on, that certain things have been quoted

" in order to give some idea of the powers of mind possessed by Mr. Maclagan at the time when, content with an ordinary pass degree, he was seeking ordination." P. 34. Mr. F. D. How does not seem to know that the fact of his hero's having come out a Junior Optimo proves that he faced the Tripos with success (pp. 30, 32), instead of submitting to the Poll. ST. SWITHIN

ROGER LANCASTER, PRIEST. (See 10 S x. 386.) He was not alive in 1623. The 'Third Douay Diary,' whose author at this period was the Rev. John Jackson, records his death at the English College, Douay, on 20 Aug., 1598, in these words :

" Dievigesimo D. Rogerius Lancaster perfectis- simus omnium quos ab incunabulis videram hujus mundi spretor sine metu et motu hac vita cessit," i.e., " on the 20th Mr. Roger Lancaster, the most perfect contemner of this world of all whom I had seen from my cradle-days, fearlessly and quietly departed this life." Catholic Record Society,

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

x. 3.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MONTAIGNE ON THE SUPPRESSION OF TACITUS. In Montaigne's ' Essays,' book ii. chap. xix. (Hazlitt's translation), is the following remarkable passage :

" It is certain that in those first times, when our religion began to gain authority with the laws, zeal armed many against all sorts of Pagan books (Vopiscus, in 'Tacit. Imp.,' c. 10^, by which the learned suffer an exceeding great loss : a disorder that I conceive did more prejudice to letters than all the flames of the barbarians. Of this Cornelius Tacitus is a very good witness,* for though the Emperor Tacitus his kinsman had by express order furnished all the libraries in the world with his work, nevertheless one entire copv could not escape the curious search of those who desired to abolish
 * t, for only five or six idle clauses that irere contrary

to our belief."

Where did Montaigne find the fact italicized ? [t surely was not his conjecture, or he would hardly specify the number of anti- Christian clauses.

ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

FRITH'S ' ROAD TO RUIN ' AND ' RACE OR WEALTH.' I have for some time past ?een endeavouring, but so far without uccess, to discover where the originals of hese historical paintings now are. Neither he artist's son nor the leading art dealers n the West End are able to enlighten me, o I appeal to ' X. & Q.,' feeling assured that here are others besides myself who would >e interested to know. ' The Road to luin ' was exhibited in the Royal Academy n 1878, and depicted in five tableaux the

Hazlitt esmoiny.

has " testimony." The French is