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 ii s. ix. JAN. 10, i9R] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Original Manuscript Pedic/rces from the Collection

of Sir W. Betham, Ulster King of Arms. North Family. Loftus (Colley, &c.). Ware. Newcomen. Netterville.

Le Botiller (Butler's Petition). Bath Family (manuscript History). Blomefield. Brooke.

Wellesley of Wellesley (Somerset and Ireland). Bandon (Earl of). Wellesley. Blacker. Adair. Bond. Barrington.

WILLIAM MACARTHTJR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

SIB CHRISTOPHER AND SIR WILLIAM PERKINS. These two knights were of the same stock as the existing family of Steele- Perkins of Orton Hall, Leicestershire.

Sir Christopher, LL.D., was eldest son of George Perkins and his wife Maria Hayward, and in 1556 was, like his father, baptized at Marston Jabet. He was elder brother to the Rev. William Perkins, D.D., the eminent Puritan divine mentioned in Fuller's ' Worthies ' and ' Hierologia Anglicana,' who was baptized at Marston Jabet in 1558, and died and was buried at Cambridge, 1602, cet. 44. Sir Christopher, an ambassador of Queen Elizabeth's, knighted by her about 1596, was sent to the Danish Court, with Lord Zouch to crave the restoration of English goods. The ' D.X.B.' gives some further particulars of his career, and dates his birth " 1547 ? " and death " 1622." Neither he, nor his brother William, appears to have married, and it is from the third brother, Thomas (baptized at Marston 1563, d. 1627), married to Margery Poutney, that the Orton Hall family descend.

The unfortunate Sir William, a barrister- at-law and knighted 1681, is not entered as a knight in the family pedigree, and only appears as " William Perkins, bapt. May 10, 1638," no further mention of him being made. He was Sir Christopher's great- nephew, and second son of Thomas Perkins (baptized 1615, and died 1658) and Mary his wife. His eldest brother, Thomas Perkins of Brookhurst, co. Warwick (d. 1706), was father, by Mary Buswell his wife, of the Rev. John Perkins (baptized 1677, died 1728), Vicar of Orton and Rector of Kiss- lingbury, co. Northampton, who married Sarah, daughter and ultimate heiress of John Steele, Esq.. of the manors of Orton-on-

the-Hill, Moorbarns, and other estates in-. Leicestershire. Sir William was tried, 24 March, 1695/6, for conspiring to assassinate King William and for raising of forces in order to a rebellion, and encouraging a French invasion into this kingdom, was found guilty, and was executed on 3 April follow- ing. According to family tradition, he had the knightly privilege of the silken rope. On the trial he mentioned having a wife and four children, and though, according to the pedigree, only about fifty-seven years of age, he described himself as in his old age, grown lame, having lost the use of his hands with gout, and scarce able to go on his feet. He was described as keeping a number of horses at his house in Hertford- shire, and he had also a house in War- wickshire, which he first occupied in 1693. In the printed account of his trial his sur- name is spelt "Parkyns" or "Parkins," and " Perkins " in only one instance ; the Rev. Jeremy Collier, the Non- juror, who got into trouble for giving Sir William absolution in a markedly demonstrative fashion on the scaffold, published two ' Defences ' of his conduct in so doing, and invariably spells the surname correctly " Perkins."

I shall be glad of any particulars relating^ to these knights and their families not men- tioned in the ' D.N.B.'

CHARLES S. KING, Bt_

St. Leonards-on-Sea.

EMERSON IN ENGLAND. (See 11 S. iw 69, 90, 108, 115, 152, 198.) MR. BRESLAR'S; question (at the first reference) as to where Emerson stayed in London in 1833 has not been answered. On the day of his arrival in London, 20 July, 1 833, Emerson wrote :

" A porter carried our baggage, and we walked through Cheapside, Newgate Street, High Holborn,. and found lodgings (according to the direction of my friend in Paris) at Mrs. Fowle's, No. 63,. Russell Square." ' Journals, 1833-5,' p. 171.

In case the number has changed since- 1833 the name of the landlady ought to- make it possible to ascertain the present number. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, Mass.

" LTJNKARD." By a charter (6 and 13 July, 1633) John, Earl of Mar, granted Richarkarie to Sir Alexander Irving of Drum in feu farm. The latter may not " conveine or judge [his] awin tennentis or subtennentis for any blucle or bluicleweitt " :

" Mair-over the said Sir Alex, sail caus four personnes of the tennentis of the said is landis give thair personall service to ws with thair dogis and hundis at all our huntingis within the saidis boundis of Mar, and sail caus thelsaidis