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of Euston, Oxon, he had several sons, of whom the eldest, Henry, was born 5 Dec., 1675. I suggest that it was this last Henry who became afterwards the well-known Col. Brett, who would be just turned 17 years old at his matriculation, and 25 when he married the divorced Countess. He would thus be great-grandson of the Royalist M.P. for Gloucester. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

" CHALKING A SCOBE."

If I return, I shall be post indeed,

For she will score your fault upon my pate.

' Comedy of Errors,' I. ii. 64, 65.

The tapster's method of account-keeping by chalking the score on a post is not yet obso- lete. I was once present in a courthouse in the south of Ireland where a labourer was suing his employer for wages due. Asked if he had any account-book showing the number of days he had worked, he said he had, and produced a long paper parcel, which he unfolded, disclosing several rods, upon which he had burnt a scar for every day he had worked.

P. A. McELWAINE.

WE 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.

INGEPENNE (INKPENN, &c.), cos. HANTS, BERKS, AND CORNWALL. Can any one assist me to connect the Hampshire and Berk- shire families of this name ?

(1) Roger de Ingepenne, Mayor of Win- chester from 1 Oct., 1303, to 1 Nov., 1304, and again from 29 Oct.. 1310, to 28 Oct., 1311, married Isabella, daughter of Henry le Wayte of Woolston, Southants (r. " Viet. Co. Hist.," * Hants,' iii. 297). There is at Winchester College a deed dated 1289, being a grant by Henry la Weyte and Alice his wife to Roger de Inkepenne and Isabella his wife. This is the earliest at present discovered. Isabella died 1349 (Inq. p.m., Ch. 23 Edw. III., pt. ii., No. 116). The grant was probably a marriage settlement. The list of Mayors of Winchester given in Appendix VIII. to Milner's ' Antiquities of Winchester,' ii. 266, and stated to be " copied from the Catalogue extant at St. John's-house," is incorrect. The first Mayor of whom there is any record was, in

fact, Elias Westman (from 9 Dec., 1207, to

9 Sept., 1224). He was probably elected for life. The Winchester Soke Rolls com- mence 1207.

(2) Sir Roger de Inkpenn, Sheriff of Corn- wall in 1288, and Steward to Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, held the hamlet of Ingpenne (Inkpen) by service of half a knight's fee (Cal. of Inq., 26 Aug., 1 Edw. I., No. 16;

10 Oct., 19 Edw. I., No. 813). He was the son of Richard de Inkpenne of Newport Pagnell (Aug. Misc. Bo. 59, f. 84). He married Emeline of Husborne (Hurst- bourne), Hants, and died 1306 s.p. (v. ' Hist, of Deanery of Trigg Minor,' by Sir John Maclean, vol. ii. p. 43).

(3) Roger de Inkpenne (alias Paynel), the nephew of Sir Roger de Inkpenn by his brother Martin, the secondsonof Richard (writ of diem dausit ext. Orig. Rolls), married Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Halton, Kt. He succeeded to the hamlet of Inkpen on the death of Sir Roger, and died 1317.

I cannot discover who was the ancestor (1) of Roger de Ingepenne of Winchester, and (2) of Richard de Inkpenne of Newport Pagnell, and the connexion between the two families.

Inkpen hamlet, Berks, is about 17 miles north of Winchester. It was held by Nicholas de Ingepenne and his descendants Gervase and Nicholas under Gervase Paynel (Paganel), Baron of Dudley, Nicholas de Someri (ob. s.p. 1229), and Roger de Someri (ob. 1272). Sir Roger de Inkpenn succeeded Nicholas de Ingepenne (c. 1260, Testa 551). Nicholas was the son of Gervase de Ingepenne (d. 1240), and the latter was the son of Nicholas de Ingepenne (c. 1200), who married Rohais. Gervase de Inge- penne had four brothers and one sister : Henry, Robert (Aug. Misc. Bo. 59, f. 83d), Simon (Assize Roll 38), Walter, a clerk (Anc. Deeds) ; and Agnes, who married Peter de Sukemund.

It is not unlikely that Roger de Inge- penne of Winchester and Richard Inkpenne, the father of Sir Roger de Inkpenn, Were both descended from one or other of the younger sons of Nicholas de Ingepenne (c. 1200). Probably Richard was the son of Henry, the second son and next in descent ; and Roger of Winchester the son of Robert, the third son. No ancestor of Roger is mentioned in the Winchester Soke Rolls. Robert is a prenomen for four generations of issue of Roger of Winchester. Inasmuch as Richard, father of Sir Roger, and William and Richard, the brothers of Roger the nephew of Sir Roger, are sometimes described