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 II S. VII JAN. 11, 1913] NOTES AND QUERIES. 21

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1913.

CONTENTS.— No. 159.

NOTES:—The Family of Sir Christopher Milton, 21— Primero. 23 — Single-Speech Hamilton in Dublin. 25 — Pepys's 'Diary ': Error in Transcription - English Graves at Avignon: J. S. Mill and his Wife, 26 — Bushes in Lincoln's Inn Fields, circa 1730 — Octagonal Meeting- Houses — François Casanova, 27 — Epitaph at Harrington, 28.

QUERIES :—Bewickians, 28 — Prior Bolton's Window in St Bartholomew the Great - Lochow — Author Wanted — Ashford Family— "Plumpe" Watch — Weston Patrick, Hants, and King Family, 29 - Horace Pearce, F.L.S.— Boy Bishops — The Diary of Timothy Burrell of Cuckfield — "Reveille" — Thompson Family — Misleading Milestones — Nixon: Tracy—Southey MS.— Dedication of 'The Last of the Barons,'30.

REPLIES: — Descent of Darnley — The Murder of Sarah Stout at Hertford. 31 — Fourier Society — Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXV. and CXXVI.— Benjamin Harris and 'The Protestant Tutor,' 32 — Jonathan King and his Collections —Fire Ritual — Consecration Crosses — Hugh Peters, 33 — Zodiac of Ten Signs — References Wanted — Hymn by Gladstone — Exciseman Gill — Campden House. 34 — To be "Out" for a Thing — "Dope," "to Dope," "Doper" — Etymology of Esher—Gray and the Antrobus Family, 35 — Wreck of the Royal George — "Hogmanay" — Curious Entry in Registers: Nicknames—"Trow," 36 — Heraldic: Bearer of Coat Sought — Christie of Baberton — Records of Navigation in India — Token-Money — Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses' — "Employee" — Chained Books — Lambarde MSS — Regimental Sobriquets, 37.

NOTES ON BOOKS: — 'Medieval Figure - Sculpture in England' — 'Burlington Magazine.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

NOTES

THE FAMILY OF SIR CHRISTOPHER MILTON.

(See 11 S. vi. 100.)

According to the researches of the late Prof. Masson, as recorded in his Life of Milton (iii. 485-6), Christopher Milton, on his marriage (? 1638), settled at Horton in Buckinghamshire with his father, John Milton the elder. Later (1641) he moved to Reading; thence (about 1643) to Exeter; then back to London, where in 1646 he was in St. Clement Danes; and finally, before 1656 and after a period unaccounted for, to Ipswich, or rather Rushmere, where he died. He was buried at St. Nicholas's Church, Ipswich, 22 March, 1692.

It will be agreed, I think, that the task of tracing the births of his children in the circumstances of such peregrinations during the unsettled times of the Civil War is a difficult one. The lax methods of registering births under the Commonwealth, too, mili- tate against the searcher. Neither can testamentary evidence of the most direct character be brought to bear on the question, since no will of Sir Christopher Milton nor administration act is extant.

He married Thomasin Webber (Masson, i. 685). This lady we may presume to have been a daughter of John Webber of St. Clement Danes, "taylor" (buried there, as a " housekeeper," 5 June, 1632), in whose will, dated 16 July, 1625 (P.C.C. 67 Audley), are mentioned a wife Isabel and a son William, and daughters Anne, Isabel Thomasin, and Katherine, all minors. Webber, it appears, was a native of Broad- hempston, Devon, and a man of some substance. His widow was living in St. Clement's Churchyard in 1645 (Masson, iii. 437, 442).

I have not come across the record of Thomasin Milton's death. Masson (vi. 762) confuses her with a daughter of the same name. The issue of the marriage, so far as I have ascertained, was as follows. The numbering is arbitrary where un- supported by dates.

1. Infant son. Buried at Horton, 26 March, 1639 (Masson, ii. 72).

2. Sarah Milton. Baptized at Horton, 11 Aug., 1640 (Masson, ii. 488).

3. Anne Milton. Baptized at St. Law- rence's, Reading, 27 Aug., 1641 (Masson, ii. 489).

4. Christopher Milton. Buried at St. Nicholas's. Ipswich, 12 March, 1667, as son of " Mr. Melton esqr."

5. Thomas Milton of the Crown Office, Deputy Clerk of the Crown. Baptized at St. Clement Danes, 2 Feb., 1646/7 ; buried at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, 17 Oct.. 1694, as " Thomas Melton out of Fleet strete." Administration of his goods was granted 3 Dec, 1694, to his relict Martha (P.C.C, Act Book, fo. 229). The said Martha was a daughter of Charles Fleetwood of North- ampton (Masson, vi. 763). She married again by licence, dated 27 May, 1696 (Fa- culty Office), William Coward of St. Andrew's, Holborn. Coward, who was M.D. and a deistical writer, and is noticed in 'D.N.B.' (without, however, any reference to his Milton connexion), removed to Ipswich, where his will was proved 20 April, 1724. This document contains no mention of children of his wife either by himself or