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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vi. AUG. 21. 1912.

In this edition" interest " is substituted for " instance." (See the Globe Edition of ' Pope's Works,' p. 447.)

I find that many persons do not know that there is an excellent ' Concordance ' of Pope, by Edwin Abbott, D.D.

HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

[MR. THOMAS BAYNE, C. C. B., and MR. WIL- LOUGHBY MAYCOCK also thanked for replies.]

SIR ROBERT BARTLEY, K.C.B. (US. vi. 89). This gallant officer died on board the Great Liverpool steamer, on 2 May, 1843, 40 miles east of Algiers, while on the voyage from Malta to Gibraltar. He was buried at sea on the following day.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

DETACHED PORTIONS OF COUNTIES (11 S- vi. 69). The following reason has been given for these.

In Camden's ' Britannia,' Bishop Edmund Gibson's second translation, A.D. 1722, it is stated, under ' Worcestershire ' (p. 627) :

" Under Bredon hills, to the south, lies Wash- born, a village or two, which gives the sirname to an ancient and eminent family in these parts. They lie in a spot of this county that is quite severed from the main body. And divers other like parcels lie dispersed up and down ; the reason of which I know not, unless it were this, That the Governours of the County in elder times having estates of their own lying near, annexed them to the county which they governed."

To this the translator adds :

" It is worthy of our observation, that in fact all these dismembered parts, except Dudley, were originally Church lands. Old Barrow environed by Warwickshire belonged to Evesham Abbey, and Alderminster to Pershore. All the rest were the lands of the Bishop and Church of Worcester, before the division of England into Counties ; and tho' several of these have been alienated many ages, yet they are still in the Oswaldslow Hundred ; as Old-barrow is in the Hundred of Blackenhurst, and Alderminster in Pershore Hundred ; but the foundation of the last Abbey is later than the division into Shires."

Nash, in his ' History of Worcestershire ' (Introduction, foot-note to p. Ivii), says:

" In the Saxon times the kingdom was divided more regularly than at present ; but a little before and after the Conquest very large grants being made to the Church and great Lords in distant parts of the County, or perhaps in the adjoining counties, and they wishing to have their lands under the same jurisdiction and in the same county occasioned the present irregular shape. This is very obvious if we consider the lands of the Churches of Worcester, Evesham, and Pershore ; for this reason Dailsford, Iccombe, Elmlode [=Evenlode], Tredington, &c., were placed in Worcestershire ; the like sometimes happened to great lords."

Nash has some further remarks on the hundred of Oswaldslow, with a list of places with their Domesday spelling, including most of those in the outlying portions of the county.

To the lists given in 6 S. iii. 293, 455, may be added the following :

Part of Situate in Town or Village

Worcester Gloucester. Alston,

Little Washbourne.

In the older maps of last century these are shown in a detached portion of Worcester- shire. With Teddington (almost detached) they are chapelries of Overbury, and all belonged to Worcester Priory, as did Iccomb and Shipston-on-Stour. Nash says Evenlode and Cutsdean (the latter now a chapelry of Bredon) belonged to the " Church of Wor- cester," while Blockley, Daylesford, and Tredington, with Tidmington, belonged to the Bishop. T. GLYNN.

Liscard.

FAMILIES : DURATION IN MALE LINE (11 S. v. 27, 92, 132, 174, 213, 314, 355, 415, 473, 496 ; vi. 73, 114). With regard to MR. G. H. WHITE'S letter (ante, p. 73) about the D'Aubeney pedigree, I would point out that this family have established their claim to descent from Robert de Todeni of Belvoir, a companion of the Conqueror, not from a William D'Aubigny who may have fought at Hastings. The D'Aubeneys of to-day are descended from William, father of Giles, Lord D'Aubeney, K.G., and grandfather of Henry, Earl of Bridgewater. It is, therefore, incorrect to say that the Belvoir line has become extinct.

On the tomb of John D'Aubeney at Brise Norton, Oxon, the two chevrons within a border of the elder branch, who remained at Belvoir, are shown, as well as the four fusils, still borne by the D'Aubeneys.

Mr. Fox-Davies in his ' Guide to Heraldry '

says that the D'Aubeneys are one of the

few families who have an undoubted male

descent from a companion of the Conqueror.

E. K. D'AUBENEY, Col.

Since penning my query re the lineal male descent of the Daubeney family from the Conquest, I have had the opportunity of consulting Burke's ' Landed Gentry ' (1906), and therein find it stated that the present representative of that family, Mr. G. W. Daubeney, of Cote, Westbury-on- Trym, co. Gloucester, is lineally descended from Robert de Todenei, standard - bearer to William the Conqueror, who founded Belvoir Castle and the Priory dedicated to