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married Anna, daughter of Thomas Dyer of Stoughton, Huntingdonshire, and had issue Thomas, born 1436, George and Arthur (twins), born 1458, who served the House of Austria. Arthur married Henretta de la Villa Odorosa. Thomas married Bridget, second daughter to Sir George Hervie de St. Martin's, Middlesex, and died 1480, leaving issue William and Anna. William married Isabella Harcope de Frolibay, and " lived to revenge the death of the young Princes murdered in the Tower of London upon their inhuman uncle, Richard III." He was called " Flos Militiae." He left ten sons William, George, Thomas, Robert, Nathaniel, and John (the rest not recorded). George lived in Shropshire, Thomas in Hereford. Nathaniel and John settled in Ireland. William, the eldest son, had issue Clement and Elizabeth, and was buried in the chancel at Chew Magna, Somerset, 23 Feb., 1585. Clement had issue Clement, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Mary, died 31 March, 1640, and is buried at Chew Magna.

Thomas emigrated to New England in 1630, and is the ancestor of the Connecticut Miners. Thomas's brother Clement married Sarah, daughter of John Pope of Norton- Small-Reward, Somerset, and had issue William and Israel. He was buried at Burslingtown, Somerset. William married Sarah, daughter of John Batting of Clifton, Gloucestershire, and in 1683 was living in Christmas Street, Bristol, having issue William and Sarah. Israel married Eliza- beth, daughter of Thomas Jones of Bursling- town, and had issue Clement, Thomas, Sarah, Jean, and Elizabeth.

I should be grateful for any information regarding the early history of the family or its present branches in England.

JOHN RICE MINER.

Ann Arbor, Mieh., U.S.

PATRICK ARCHER OP LONDON, MERCHANT, TEMP. CAR. II. I should be glad of any information relating to the parentage and family of Patrick Archer of London, mer- chant, died circa 1686, whose Irish adventures are told at some length in the ' Calendar of State Papers, Irish Series, September, 1669, to December, 1670' (1910).

In 1660 Archer was petitioning the King that he would give his ambassadors instruc- tions to get him redress for the following grievance.

In 1652 Archer, by the King's orders, sent a small vessel to Ireland, the St. Ann, with arms and ammunition upon his own account for the King's service. The value of the

cargo was 1,2001., and it was to be delivered to the Earl of Clancarty, then Lord Muskerry, who was besieged in Ross by the usurper's army. When the vessel arrived at the mouth of the Valentia river the master heard that Ross had capitulated on terms, so he tried to get away to sea to find some place where the King's forces lay. Meeting with a storm, he was driven on the coast of Brit- tany, where he put in for safety to a place called Aberbracke, and there was seized on by orders from the Due de Venddme, Lord High Admiral of France, who dis- tributed all the arms and ammunition among the French ships of war, without giving any manner of satisfaction to the petitioner.

By letters patent dated 28 Jan., 1664, Charles II. acknowledged his indebtedness to Patrick Archer for the sum of 6,294Z. 5s., and ordered it to be paid within three .years by six equal instalments.

In June, 1670, Archer brought an action in the Irish Chancery Court against one John Preston.

Seven years before, the plaintiff had agreed with John Dawes and others in England for the purchase of two Irish villages, Riverstown and Castletown, being 911 acres, and had paid a good part of the purchase money. Afterwards Dawes and the rest sold the same lands amongst others to John Preston, Alderman of Dublin, and Archer brought this action to enforce his prior claim, after an action in the English Chancery Court had failed, by reason of the defendant retiring to Ireland. Patrick Archer appears to have dispossessed Preston and to have settled at Riverstown, which is in the co. Meath. His will, in the Pre- rogative Wills of Ireland, is dated 1686. He married Catherine Dillon, and left a son, John Archer of Riverstown, who married, probably circa 1700, Margaret, daughter of Jonas and Mary Archer of Kiltimon, co. Wicklow. Nothing is known of any previous relationship between the Riverstown and Kiltimon Archers. The will of Anthony Archer of Keeloge, co, Wicklow, dated 27 Jan., 1707/8, a brother of Mrs. Margaret Archer, contains bequests to the latter and to John Archer, and also to their two daughters, named Alice and Christian Archer. H. G. ARCHER.

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MRS. GORDON, ACTRESS. The Theatrical Times, 17 April, 1847, published a woodcut of ' Mrs. Gordon, as Imogen in " Bertram." Who was she. and what was her husband ? J. M. BTTIXOCH.

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