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East Pennard. Will of Stephen Brodripp of Ditcheat. Dated 11 Feb., 1628. Mentions lands in East Pennard. F. Brown, ' Somersetshire Wills,' ii. 74-5

Shepton Mallet. John Broderip, organist of Shepton Mallet and of Wells Cathedral. Probably son of William Broderip, organist of Wells Cathedral. Died 1771 (?). ' D.X.B.'

Stone, in East Pennard. Will of Stephen Brodripp of Ditcheat. Dated 11 Feb., 1628. Mentions lands in Stone. F. Brown, ' Somerset- shire Wills,' ii. 74-5.

Street. Will of Joane Brawdrip. Dated 6 Sept., 1570. A. J. .Tewers, ' Parish Registers of Street,' Exeter, 1898, p. 43.

Wells. William Broderip, organist of Wells Cathedral. Born 1683 (?); died 31Jan., 1726/7. ' D.N.B.'

John Broderip, organist. Probably son of the above. Organist of Wells Cathedral. Vicar Choral 2 Dec., 1740. Died 1771 (?). Ibid.

Will of Isabell Bodrib of Lotisham. Dated May, 1618. Bequest to Wells Cathedral. J. H. Lea, ' Abstracts of Wills, 1620,' Boston, Mass., 1904.

Wick, in Berroic. Will of William Bradripp of Berrow. Dated 14 Nov., 1620. Lands in " Weake." Ibid.

In Horsington Church there is a tablet to the Rev. Anthony Wickham, "late rector of this parish " (d. 15 April, 1767), whose first wife was Jane, daughter of Mr. George Brodripp " of the city of London."

The connexion between Broadribbs and Broadripps is, I think, established by the pedigree of Joseph Broadripp of Barrow Hill, Somerset (baptized 15 June, 1726). Vide Ashworth P. Burke's ' Colonial Gentry,' 1895, vol. ii. p. 441. This pedigree is con- nected with a biography of Mr. W. A. Broadribb, who emigrated to Tasmania in 1816, and d. Sydney, N.S.W., 31 May, 1886, and is buried at Brighton, Victoria, N.S.W.

The Broderips of Cossington, Somerset, share with the family of Mapperton the dis- tinction of being the " swell " branches of the family, and claim descent from those of South Mapperton. See Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' editions 6 and 7, where brief pedigrees are given. See also Eton School lists under Broderip, and Foster's ' Alumni ' and the ' D.N.B.'

I do not know whether by coincidence or by design the present leading representatives of the Broderips live at Cossington, almost within a stone's throw of the village of Bawdrip, whence the family originally came.

Those who would pursue the history of the family as far back as possible may be glad to know (if they are not already aware of it) that while the registers of Bawdrip are very

faulty (beginning 1748), there is in exist- ence a fine series of Court Rolls for this place from 19 Edward IV. to 42 Elizabeth. These are in the P.R.O.

Another village connected with the Brode- rips is Ditcheat. The registers of this parish begin in 1562, and there is as well a collec- tion of early deeds (1414-73) relating to the parish in the B.M. Brown's ' Somerset- shire Wills,' Second Series, p. 74, gives Broderip entries from the Ditcheat registers.

Miscellaneous notes relate that Joan Brodripp, the mother of an illegitimate child (Robert Cullinge of West Pennard,. tailor, being the reputed father), was ordered, 12 April, 1614, at the General Sessions at Ilchester,

" to be conveyed to Wells, and on the next market day to be openly whipped at the cost and charges of the parishioners of West Pennard, And as there is no certain ground or vehement presumption to inflict the like upon the reputed father, he is left to the judgment of the ordinary." Vide ' Quarter Sessions Records for Somerset.'

George Brodrepp of Maperton d. 20 Nov., 1739 Gent. Mag., 1739, p. 605.

Col. Richard Brodrepp, Registrar of the Pre- rogative Office, d. Nov., 1737. ' Historical Register,' 1737, p. 24.

Dr. Thomas Brodrepp, Netherbury, Dorset, d. 10 Dec., 1756. London Mag., 1756, p. 612.

Rev. Broderip, Minor Canon of Canterbury, d. 17 April, 1764. Gent. Mar/., 1764, p. 198.

Details of the boyhood of the crowning genius of the Brodribbs, Henry Irving, alias John Henry Brodribb, are found in Mr. Austin Brereton's ' Life of Henry Irving.' where also is given an illustration of the house where he was born at Keinton Mandeville, and a word-portrait of Samuel Brodribb his father and Mary Behenna his mother. Mr. Brereton says that Henry Irving's grandfather " and various other ancestors are buried at Glutton,'' and he adds that the old church has many memorials of the Brodribb family. Samuel Brodribb died at Bristol, 20 June, 1876. With much loving care he kept a book from 1866 to 1874, in which he recorded every incident of note in connexion with his son's careeiv This book now belongs to Mr. H. B. Irving.

Articles upon Irving's connexion with Somerset and upon his boyhood are found in The Cornish Magazine, August. 1898, and in The Idler, January, 1895; both articles are illustrated. Sir Henry's recollections of Keinton are printed in The Times, 30 Nov., 1904, p. 9, col. 3. See also Bristol Observer, 4 Nov.. 1905. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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