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('Cal. Doc. in France,' p. 27) and byDupont (' Recherches sur les Compagnons de Guil- laume le Conquerant,' vol. ii. p. 76) as early as 1070, contains a notification that Eudo Dapifer gave to St. Amand " the whole tithe of the Forest of Tison, &c., and the tithe of assarts, &c., in all his honour of Preaux," and a witness to it is William de Heauville. Later (in 1163) the name of Robert de Hausvillft' appears in the Car- tulary of the Abbey of Preaux, near Pont Audemer (' Cal. Doc. in France,' p. 116). In Duchesne's ' Feoda Normarmiae ' William de Hauteville holds half a knight's fee in the Ballia Pontis Audemaris, and half a knight's fee in the Honor de Bellimontis (Beaumont) ; so that we have evidence that a family of Heauville had arisen quite dis- tinct from that of Tancred, and taking its name from another district.

Another Radulphus de Heauville is the King's Falconer, and his name occurs in the Pipe Rolls between 1163 and 1183. He held Takelea in Essex in 1175/6 (Pipe Roll, 22 Hen. II.), and this entry serves to locate the Takelege mentioned in a charter of 2 John (2 June, 1200), by which the manor is confirmed to William de Hauteville, "which was his father's, Ralph de Hauteville, and his grandfather's, William de Hauteville, which he holds by the confirmation and concession of Alex- ander de Limesy and his wife Roesia, to have and to hold for 40 shillings from the aforesaid Alexander and Roesia and their heirs," &c.

A possible pedigree, therefore, may be :

Radulphus de Hal villa, T.I.C. Wiltshire (Domesday), one of the King's servants (Royal Falconer?) (of Heauville, in the Ballia Pontis Audemaris).

William de Heauville, or Hauteville, of

Takeley, co. Essex, witness to a deed, " ante

1120," of St. Amand, Rouen.

Ralph de Hauville, or Hauteville, of Takelea, the King's Falconer.

William de Hauteville, or Hauville, of Takelea, and holder of two half knight's fees in Normandy (' Feoda JNormannise ').

This latter William is only mentioned in the Pipe Roll of 1171/2, under co. Hants, in connexion with cloth (pannos) ; but the office of Royal Falconer would seem to have been hereditary in the family, for Walter de Hauvilla (Pipe Roll, City of Winchester, 1184/5) has to do with hawks, and Hugh de Havilla is granted 11. for carrying the King's birds from Normandy to England (Mag. Rot. Scac. Norm., 1203, ut videtur, m. 1). This entry occurs in the " Ballia de Cos- tent ino," but it is evident that this Hugh

has nothing to do with Hauteville-la- Guichard. It is more likely that he and Walter were also sons of Ralph de Hauville of Takeley. In the Pipe Rolls of 1183/4 and 1 1 84/5, under Northants and Rutland, there is also mention made of Adam de Hauville ; and in the Mag. Rot. Sca'c. Norm, of Waukelin de Hauville (1198, Ballia de Oximino) and Hubertus de Hauvilla (1203, Ballia de Vira).

I have not carried the investigation further, but shall be glad if any reader can throw further light on the question, either in support of my theory of the origin of the English Hautvilles or the reverse.

C. W. FlREBRACE.

CROMWELL'S ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTER, MRS. HARTOP (11 S. ix. 29, 94, 372). The passai^e to which MRS. LAVINGTON has kindly referred me is to be found in The General Magazine and Impartial Review, vol. iv. p. 186, in the number for April, 1790, and runs as follows :

" WONDERFUL LONGEVITY. Mr. Jonathan Har- top, now living at the village of Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, has attained to the amazing age of 137 years, having been born in 1653. His father and mother both died of the plague at their house in the Minories, in 1666, and he perfectly remembers the great fire of London. He is short in stature, has been married five times, and has now alive 7 children, 26 grandchildren, and 74 great-grandchildren. He can read without spectacles, and plays at crib- bage with perfect recollection. Last Christmas day, he walked nine miles to dine with one of his great-grandchildren. He remembers Charles II. perfectly well, and once travelled from London to York with the facetious Killegrew. He eats but little, and drinks nothing but milk ; he enjoys also an uninterrupted flow of spirits. The * third wife of this very extraordinary old man was the illegitimate daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who gave with her a portion amounting to about five hundred pounds. He has in his possession a fine portrait of the usurper by Cooper, for which the late Mr. Hollis offered him three hundred pounds, but was refused. Mr. Hartop lent the great Milton fifty pounds soon after the Restoration, which the bard returned him with honour, though not without much difficulty, as his circumstances were very low. Mr. Hartop would have declined receiving it again, but the pride of the poet was equal to his genius, and he sent the money with an angry letter, which is extant among the curiosities of this venerable old man."

I have ascertained that this account was taken almost word for word from The London Chronicle for 23-25 March, 1790, and that it also appeared in The British Chronicle for 24-26 March, 1790. It seems prob- able, therefore, that the account in The