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St. John (1608-65), who married Con- stance, daughter of Walter Dawley of Lainstone, and was father of Christian St. John, whose son, Ellis Mews of Win- chester, eventually succeeded to his grand- father's property, and, assuming the name of St. John, bequeathed it to his son Pawlett St. John (created a baronet, 1772), who married Mary, widow of Sir Haswell Tynte, third baronet.

Of the " four children " mentioned in the above will of Richard Gifford, Richard, his son and heir, matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, in 1672-3, aged 18, and beyond the fact that he dated his will on 12 July, 1678, as " of King Somborne, Esquire," very little is known of his career, and nothing of His wife. He bequeathed his " worldly goods " to his " daughter Jane Gifford," and all the " lands and houses in the county of Somerset that formerly belonged unto her mother " ; and gave to his brother Dutton Gifford all his lands and houses in King Somborne, Stockbridge, and Romsey,

' he paying unto my brother Gabriel Gifford one third part of all the rents. .. .To Dutton Gifford the lease of my Park at King Somborne and the lease of Tanner's farm in the said parish. Executor and sole trustee, Sir Haswell Tynte of Haswell in the county of Somerset." Proved in London 8 Nov., 1679.

The name of Dutton Gifford brings us back 'to Sir Gerard Fleetwood and to the year 1657, when he dated his will on 26 Nov., making no mention of this grandson, Dutton Gifford, apparently born about that time. According to Mr. Pledge's ' Crawley,' "Dutton Gifford occupied a house in the parish some time between 1697 and 1701." But he was presumably living at We oily Green, in the parish of Hursley, in 1689, when his daughter Anne Gifford was there baptized (afterwards wife of the Rev. William Pretty, Rector of Thruxton ; buried at Farley Chamberlayne, 1776). The sur- name of Dutton Gifford's first wife, Anne, is not at present known. She was buried at Farley in 1694, and in the following year he married Elizabeth Hunt of Popham, by whom he had a son Richard, who died s.p. in 1769. Dutton Gifford was buried at Farley on 16 Oct., 1722, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.

To continue the story of the Fleetwoods : R. W. B. says that Dutton, only son of Sir Gerard Fleetwood, was a colonel in the Royalist army, and predeceased his father ; and, by his marriage in 1641 to Anne Salisbury, left a son named Gerard Dutton Fleetwood, who died in London in September,

1699. The entries at Crawley of Wm. Page, the reeve, in 1664 give the names of Dutton Fleetwood, " farmer," and Henry Dawley, " Gent.," and in 1665 " Henry, eldest son of Walter Dawley, and Dutton Fleetwood" (whose farm is called Pigenhold). The latter's name occurs in 1670-74-75 and '76 (when Sir Robert Henley takes the Dawleys' place); and 1677 seems to have been the last year of the tenure of a Fleetwood, for in 1708 Pigenhold is described as " lately granted to Robert Fitter."

It would be of no small interest to Hamp- shire subscribers to ' N. & Q.' if some of the queries suggested in the foregoing notes could be satisfactorily answered, especially in regard to the Gifford wives and the Duttons. It is curious that the Dutton family (whence come the Lords Sherborne) eventually came into the possession of the manors of Michelmersh and Timsbury (near Crawley) by the marriage of Mary Stawell Legge (the heiress of the Stewkley family) with John Dutton, second Baron Sherborne ; for in September, 1642, Sir Gerard Fleetwood was appointed executor to the will of Sir Hugh Stewkley of Michelmersh (see ' Ex- tinct Baronets '), whose daughter Sarah was third wife of Ellis St. John of Farley Cham- berlayne.

There is one other query suggested by the 'Fleetwood Miscellany,' which relates to 10 S. v. 404, concerning John Pargiter of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (who dated his will in 1687), father of Anne, first wife of Sir Gerard Dutton Fleetwood. Is anything known of this Pargiter pedigree ? A Samuel Pargiter married the heiress of the Douses of Moor Court, and their son, Samuel Fuller Pargiter, in 1740 sold that estate and retired to Overton.

F. H. SUCKLING.

Highwood, Romsey.

A FRENCH COUNTING -OUT RIME (11 S. vi. 166). Referring to the rime in which the name " Marjolaine " occurs, mentioned by ST. SWITHIN, it may be of interest to note that Charles Dickens must have overheard the lines or something very similar, as he includes some verses containing the same name in ' Little Dorrit.' In reply to an inquiry by myself some years ago, M. Henri Ferrari of Paris gave an account of the lines and the music. This information will be found in The Dickensian, 1909, vol. v. p. 44. HENKY LEFFMANN.

Philadelphia.