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 ii s. vii. mar. i, i9i3.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 167 for him, supposing him a robber; he, however, finally surmounted their objections, by paying beforehand." " Mr. Jones's " house must have been built within six months after the purchase, as he took his bride there as soon as they were married, on 13 April, 1790. In Drakard's ' Guide to Burghley House,' 1815, is a long account of "Mr. Jones." It states that he was advised by his uncle, Lord Exeter, after his separation from his first wife, " to retire into the country for some time, and pass as a private gentleman " —hence his journey into Shropshire. I find that the Parish Registers of St. Martin's, Stamford, have these entries of the baptism of Lord Exeter's children :— Sophia, daughter of Henry and Sarah, Earl and Countess of Exeter, was baptized at Bolas in Shropshire, 7 Feb., 1792; christened at Burghley, 26 June, 1795. Brownlow, Lord Burghley, baptized 2 July, 1795. Thomas Cecil, baptized 1 January, 1797. There is no monument to Henry, first Marquis of Exeter, or to Sarah. Countess of Exeter, in St. Martin's Church, but both were buried in the family vault there. Their deaths are thus recorded in the Registers:— Sarah, Countess of Exeter, buried 28 Jan., 1797 ; died at Burghley House. Henry, 1st Marquis of Exeter, buried 12 May, 1804, aged 50. A friend, who has searched Additional MS. 21,236 (' Shropshire Monuments ') for me, tells me that it does not give any inscription to Henry " Jones " ( " John Jones's " infant son) or to any member of the Hoggins family. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. A Link with the Past.—The Times of 29 Jan. 'notices in its obituary the death of Mr. Charles Fox Frederick Adam, late of the Diplomatic Service, who died on the 27th of that month. It goes on to say that ho was the son of General Sir Frederick Adam, who commanded the brigade at Waterloo which contributed so much to the defeat of Napoleon's Old Guard. The brigade was one of General Hill's division, and when the column of the Guard, under Cambronne, came up the hill, Adam's force—consisting of the 52nd Regiment (under Colborne), the 71st, and a battalion of the 95th (Rifles)—took it in flank, pour- ing in a deadly fire at close range. The Times says that Sir Frederick Adam was born in 1784, but the ' D.N.B.' gives the year of his birth as 1781. This seems more probable, as, according to Hart's ' Army List,' he served in Holland in 1799. After the custom of the time, he got his first commission when still a boy—in 1795—and obtained command of the 21st Regiment in 1805, when only 24 years old. In addition to the campaign in Holland, he saw service in Egypt in 1801, and later on was for several years in Sicily. From there he went to the east of Spain, and took part in the operations against Suchet in 1813, where he displayed conspicuous valour and was twice severely wounded. See note as to services in Hart's ' Army Lists.' He was a son of the Right Hon. William Adam of Blair Adam (born 1751), who fought the famous duel with Charles James Fox in 1779, becoming afterwards an intimate friend of that statesman. Hence, no doubt, his grandson's name. T. F. D. <$Lnetit&. Wk must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. Flemings in Pembrokeshire. — In a recent biography of Mr. Lloyd George, by Mr. Edwards, it is stated :— " The Georges are undoubtedly of Flemish origin. It is a matter of historic fact that a number of Flemish soldiers landed in Pembroke- shire with the Earl of Richmond for the purpose of the military campaign which culminated in the triumph of the momentous Battle of Bosworth and in his accession to the English throne, and there is every reason to believe that Mr. Lloyd George's ancestor was among them." Is it an actual historic fact that Flemish soldiers accompanied Henry, Earl of Rich- mond, in 1485, and settled in Pembroke- shire ? The Flemish settlement in that county is alluded to by writers centuries before Henry VII. was born. Giraldus Cambrensis, Caradoc of Llancarvan, Orderi- cus Vitalis, Ralph Higden, the ' Annales Cambriae,' and ' The Brut' all describe the settlement, and it would appear that the Flemings arrived in different batches about 1107, 1134, and 1154. George Owen, the Elizabethan historian, makes no mention of a further contingent in 1485, nor is there any reference to such in Law's ' Little England beyond Wales,' Phillips's 'History of Pembrokeshire,' ' The People of Pem- brokeshire' (by Rev. T. L. Evans), or Dr. H. Owen's article in the Arch. Camb., 1895.