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 NOTES AND Q UERIES. [ii s. vi. AUG. 10, 1912.

about a nephew who had just returned from a foreign tour. Lady Sarah seems to have been much attached to Ste., although he was an unattractive personality, and very different from his brilliant brother Charles. Nature had bestowed on him a weak con- stitution ; he was afflicted with St. Vitus's dance, and he gradually became extremely deaf. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, he married (1766) one of the most charming women of the day, Lady Mary Fitzpatrick, daughter of John, first Earl of Upper Ossory, and sister of Charles Fox's great friend, the witty and high-minded Richard Fitzpatrick. Six years after his marriage Ste. became the father of a son, rather to the disgust so the gossips averred of Charles, who was then over head and ears in debt, and was looking forward to the reversion of the title and estates. However this may have been, he became in after years the kindest friend and mentor of his nephew, and instilled into him, not only his own Whig principles, but that strong love of classical literature which distinguished the third Lord Holland. On 1 July, 1774, Ste. became Lord Holland of Foxley on the death of his father, and on the 24th of the same month he succeeded to his mother's barony of Holland of Holland. These honours he did not live long to enjoy, as he died on 26 December following. Ste. hated London, where he was not adapted to shine, and enjoyed a country life; and on his accession to the peerage it was rumoured that he intended to sell Holland House, and with the proceeds rebuild his house at Winterslow, near Salisbury, which had just been burnt down. This design, if it existed, was obviated by his premature death.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.

GABRIEL GRANT, PREBENDARY AND ARCH- DEACON OF WESTMINSTER (11 S. iii. 8; v. 374). In ' The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster,' edited and annotated by Joseph Lemuel Chester (Private Edition), London, 1876, p. 120, under date 1622, 22 Oct., is recorded the burial of

" Gabriel, son of Dr. Grant, Prebendary of this Church : on the North side of the broad aisle." A foot-note says :

" Son of the Rev. Dr. Gabriel Grant, Pre- bendary and Archdeacon of Westminster, and Vicar of Walthamstow, Essex, by his first wife. Dr. Grant, who was eldest son of the Rev. Dr Edward Grant, Prebendary and Sub-dean of Westminster, and sometime Head Master of Westminster School (who died 4 Aug. 1601 and

was buried in the Abbey), died about Sep. 1631;, having married a second wife 11 Feb. 1633-4. He was first married before his father's death, and against his wishes ; in consequence whereof, as he relates in his will, he made a vow to dis- inherit him, and did so, by preferring his younger brother John. Dr. Gabriel Grant left no will, and his relict Hannah (or Anne) administered to his estate 18 Dec. 1638."

In a foot-note (p. 114) concerning the burial in the cloisters of Ambrose Fisher (21 Nov., 1617), author of 'A Defence of the Liturgy of the Church of England,' it is recorded that he is said

" to have been a tutor in the family of Dr. Gabriel Grant, Prebendary of Westminster, who adminis- tered to his estate, as a creditor, 11 Dec. 1617."

An edition of the book from which I quote, according to a note, p. xiii, was, by permis- sion of the author, printed by the Harleian Society, 1875. ROBERT PJERPOINT.

"BY A FLUKE" (11 S. vi. 26). The theory here started is wholly impossible, and could hardly have been thought of if its author had taken the obvious pre- caution of consulting the ' N.E.D.' For it is clear that a circumstance which took place in 1669, or thereabouts, can have nothing whatever to do with a phrase which never was heard of till 1857 ! How about the two intervening centuries ?

Besides, the case is misrepresented. It is not the fact that the Colchester " was said to have been sunk by a fluke," or that the phrase occurs in connexion with it. The " phrase " does not occur there at all ; nor can it be found anywhere till long after 1800. WALTER W. SKEAT.

FAMILIES : DURATION IN MALE LINE (US. v. 27, 92, 132, 174, 213, 314, 355, 415, 473, 496 ; vi. 73). The late twelfth Lord Arundell of Wardour sent me some years ago a reprint from ' The Early Genealogical His- tory of the House of Arundel,' in which the author, Mr. John Pym Yeatman, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, claims for the Lord Arundells of Wardour an unbroken male descent from William Albini (de Bosco Rohardi), Pincerna of William I., whom he identifies with William de Arundel I., Earl of Arundel, who died 1156. This William Albini, or de Arundel, who married in 1136, Queen Adeliza of England (d. 1151) is himself stated to have been the son of Niel of St. Sauveur, foremost of the Norman nobles.

My cousin Mr. William Smitton, J.P., liead of the Dunning house of the Smittons ^Smeatons), can trace an obvious male