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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1013.

CONTENTS. No. 161.

NOTES : The Lord of Burleigh and Sarah Hoggins, 61 "Casere Weold Creacum" : ' Widsitb,' 62 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 64 " Burgee," 65 Bishops' Transcripts Shakespeariana : " Entrance " 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' 66 Baccara "The Wen": a Curiosity of Indexing "The Gold Lion" in Lombard Street" Morrye-house," 67 " Night-cap," 68.

QUERIES : Top- Compounds-- "Topping of the land" The late Edward Solly and ' The Dunciad,' 68 Claren- don's ' Essay on War 'The Axe and the Sandal Tree Hayter's "Trial of Queen Caroline': Dover House Bainbridge : Goring : Gifford Vicars of St. John the Baptist, Little Missenden, 69 Andreas Miiller of Greitfenhagen Charles Family Constance Kent Medal John Walker Irish Companies Biographical Information Wanted Richard Andrewes Place-Names Napoleon as Historian, 70 " Tonnagium," 71.

REPLIES: "Sex horas somno " Galignani, 71 "To carry one's life in one's hands " Octagonal Meeting- Houses Words on a Sampler Botany, 72 The Inquisi- tion in Fiction and Drama Pepys's ' Diary ' : an Error in Transcription, 73 Hymn by Gladstone The Terminal < ac " " Cheev " : " Cheever " " Apium," 74 Napoleon's Imperial Guard Sir John Greville of Binton, 75 The Text of Shakespeare's Sonnets Epitaph at Harrington, 76 The Stones of London Wreck of the Royal George The Curfew Bell Replica of Wilkie's 'Village Poli- ticians,' 77 References Wanted Propitiatory Sacrifice- Boy Bishops, 78.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-The Oxford Dictionary Early English Classical Tragedies ' Dr. Fennell on Edwin Drood '' Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Prince, her Son.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

THE LORD OF BURLEIGH AND SARAH HOGGINS.

(See 7 S. xii. 221, 281, 309, 457, 501; 8 S. i. 387, 408.)

IN 1891 and 1892 MB. W. O. WOODALL con- tributed to ' N. & Q.' a series of papers which give the most accurate account yet printed of this marriage, and contradict a good many inaccuracies which have been repeated in the popular versions of the story, as, for instance, in that recorded in Mr. E. Walford's ' Tales of our Great Families.'

Having recently been engaged in seeing through the press the Parish Registers of Great Bolas, issued by the Shropshire Parish Register Society, I can supplement MR. WOOD ALL'S papers with some additional facts, especially with reference to^the Hoggins family.

G. E. C., that most courteous of corre- spondents, now, alas ! no longer with us, asked for the name of Sarah's mother, and the date and place of her marriage with Thomas Hoggins.

The Hoggins family came to Bolas after 1687, and shortly before 1694, when John Hoggins was residing at Bolas Heath. Where he came from I have not yet been able to ascertain, but he married at Waters Upton, on 1 Dec., 1694, Mary Ansell of that parish. She bore him four children, and was buried at Bolas 7 July, 1708. Five months later, on 27 Dec., 1708, he married at Bolas a second wife, Margaret Adney ; she was buried 25 Aug., 1727. John Hoggins served the office of churchwarden in 1711, and was living in 1727 ; but I have not found the record of his burial, unless he were the " John Hoggins, a poor man," who was buried at Bolas on 4 March, 1744/5. By his first wife he had issue :

(1) John, baptized 18 Sept., and buried 3 Oct., 1695.

(2) Mary, baptized 2 March, 1696/7.

(3) Thomas, baptized 18 Feb., 1701/2.

(4) John, baptized 23 Aug., and buried 25 Dec., 1705.

Thomas Hoggins, the third child and only surviving son, was churchwarden of Bolas in 1734, and was buried there 6 Aug., 1752. He married Sarah, daughter of Henry Bucknall by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John Snelson, curate of Weston- under-Red Castle. She was buried at Bolas on 28 Feb., 1753, and her will, dated 25 Feb., 1753, was proved at Lichfield on 8 May, 1754. She leaves all to her son Thomas, he to pay 10Z. to her other children, An, Sara, William, and Margret, at their age of 21, and to maintain Elizabeth Bate- man for her life ; and she appoints John Eddowes and her son Thomas executors. They had issue seven children :

(1) Thomas, baptized 7 Nov., 1730. (Sarah's father.)

(2) Anne, baptized 9 Nov., 1732.

(3) John, baptized 27 Dec., 1734; buried 27 Feb., 1735/6.

(4) Sarah, baptized 21 Feb., 1736/7 ; buried 19 Aug., 1763.

(5) William, baptized 13 Aug., 1741.

(6) Richard, baptized 11 May, 1744; buried 17 April, 1746.

(7) Margaret, baptized 2 Feb., 1746/7. Thomas Hoggins, the eldest child, lived

at the old Rectory House at Bolas (long since pulled down), and was overseer in 1785 and 1794. He was twice married :