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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. MAY ie,

It may be inquired whether any similarly elaborate endeavour has been made in this country judicially to define the difference between a legitimate and an illegitimate kiss. Something of the kind was attempted by that great judge the first Viscount Esher when, as Mr. Justice Brett, he was trying a very notorious cause celebre in the summer of 1875; but his statement was given simply as an obiter dictum in the course of his charge to the grand jury.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

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.

ROBERT PLUMPTON : ISABEL ANDERTON. -Robert Plumpton of Plumpton, co. York, was born in March, 1669/70, and married first, on 15 Aug., 1691, Anne, daughter and heir of Nathaniel West of Berwick Hall, oo. Lancaster (grandson of Thomas West, second Baron De la Warr), by his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of Col. John Sayer of Worsall, co. York, and third daughter of George Preston of Holker Hall in Cartmel, co. Lancaster ; she died in childbed 19 June, 1705, leaving issue, and was buried next day at Spofforth, co. York. Mr. Plumpton mar- ried secondly Juliana, widow of Rowland White, and second of the three sisters and coheirs of Hugh Appleby of Linton-upon- Ouse, co. York ; she made her will 26 June, 1708, died s.p. 11 Jan., 1708/9, and was buried three days later at Spofforth afore- said. Mr. Plump ton married thirdly Isabel, daughter of William Anderton of Euxton Hall, co. Lancaster, by his wife Mary, widow of - - Leake (or Lake), arid daughter of William Farington of Worden Hall in the said county. See Stowe MS. 647 ; Genea- logist, N.S., xxii. 45, &c.

Isabel's parents (Addit. MS. 32110, fol. 14/38) were married 6 July, 1670, at Ley- land, co. Lancaster (' N. & Q.,' 11 S. vi. 467), and she was probably the " god daughter Isable Anderton " mentioned in the will of her great-aunt, Anne Anderton of Preston, dated 8 Aug., 1678 (Probate Registry at Chester). She was the eldest daughter,' and is said to have been living in 1722 (Stowe MS. 647) s.p. (' Plumpton Correspondence,' ed. T. Stapleton, p. ix). There is no men- tion of her in the will of her brother Thomas Anderton of Towneley, dated 29 Sept., 1735,

though he left annuities to both their sister* (Probate Registry at Chester) ; and when Robert Plumpton of Plumpton, the last of the male line, died unmarried, 8 May, 1749,. the charges on the estate did not include ona for her (26 Geo. II. cap. 20).

Robert appears to have been living 29 July, 1714 ('Blundell's Diary,' ed. T. E. Gibson, 127), and to have registered hi estate in 1717 ('English Catholic Non- jurors,' 307-8). The above-named Thomas Anderton, who was a secular priest and chaplain to the Towneley family from 1705 to 1741, said Mass on 9, 10, and 11 Dec., 1720, " pro Dno Plompton defncto " (MS. from Towneley Hall, penes Burnley Literary and Scientific Club).

When and where was Isabel Anderton born ? When and where did she and Robert marry and die ? H. INCE ANDERTON.

28, Via Gino Capponi, Florence.

EDWARD HUBBALD OF THE TOWER. I have an original letter addressed "For Mr. Edward Hubbald, at the Tower." It is as- follows :

MR. HUBBALD, I have sent you by Parker the keys of the chest that you may take out the Thousand Pound that will be wanted for the services you mention. Pray you bring up my L d Dartmouth's 300Z., and keep the key by you till to morrow, that I come myself to the office, and if it will be convenient you may put in the 500Z. Mr. Leew brings in from Mr. Duncombs for the last weekly Payment.

Your affectionate friend,

CHA. BERTIB.

March 12 th, 1682/3.

Can any correspondent explain this letter, and what offices were held by Charles Bertie and Edward Hubbald ? I conclude that it refers to the Tower of London.

W. L. KING.

Paddock Wood, Kent.

" SPEAK TO ME, LORD BYRON." Can any of your readers give the name of the author or the context of this refrain ? It appeared in a set of verses published in either HowitCs or Leigh Hunt's Journal, somewhere about 1850, when as a boy I read them. The " weekly " in which they appeared preceded Chambers's Journal, I think, and certainly Household Words. The refrain which is all that I can recall has haunted me for long over sixty years. I have, however, a vague impression of a picture of two madly galloping horses and a sort of chariot ; but whether this was in illustration of the poem or connected with some other article in the paper I am unable to say. L. G. R.

Bournemouth.