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 12 S. X. FEB. 18, 1922/ NOTES AND QUERIES. 121 LONDON, FEBRUARY 18, 1922. CONTENTS. No. 201. NOTES :John Charles Williams, a Buckinghamshire Parson 121 Sir Richard Willys, Traitor, 123 Commonwealth Marriages and Burials in the Aldeburgh Register Book 124 Philip de Harcourt, Bishop of Bayeux, 126 In ference as to Date of Birth, 127 Blake in America Foun- tains Abbey Parchments Gilbert Iinlay and Henry Lee 128. QUERIES : " Firdor "Scarlet Hunting Coat Pseudo- titles for " Dummy " Books Graves of Polish Exiles in Britain Regimental Chaplains, H.M. 84th Regiment, 129 " Satan reproving sin "Unidentified Anns The Mont- forts of Farleigh Surname Lackland Fiddlers' Green J. Richards : Identification of Church sought St. Michael's, Guernsey " Love " in Place-names, 130 Savery Family Bookplates Nevin Family Emra Holmes Bloxam Boulger Brindley and Bradbury General Clement Ed- wardsOffice of Mayor : Place of Worship, 131 Highgate -' Viva Pio, Papa, Re 'Poem of the Sixties wanted Author wanted, 132. REPLIES : Edward More, Warden of Winchester College, 132 Adah Isaacs Meuken, 133 Kimmeridge Coal Money, 135" The Five Alls " " The Swan Tavern," Chelsea " Time with a gift of tears " Erghum, 136 Baron Grant Eighteenth-century Poetry, 137 Evelyn Queries Arab (or Eastern) Horses Oxfordshire Masons Two Naval Pictures by Serres, 138 Mrs. Holt : ' Isoult Barry of Wyns- cote,' 139. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Jacques Be"nigne Bossuet.' Notices to Correspondents. JOHN CHARLES WILLIAMS: A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PARSON AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. WHEN one is collecting material for a family history one comes across many details con- cerning collaterals, and in the course of put- ting together my family papers and pedigree have amassed some interesting facts, which I think worthy of record, concerning the family of the late Rev. John Charles Williams, M.A., who during the early part of the last century flourished in several parishes in Buckinghamshire. Unless these items get into print they are apt to be lost, so I ven- ture to appeal to the hospitality of ' N. & Q.' with a view to their appearing in its columns as a permanent memento of a somewhat remarkable man. To add to the interest I have placed the letters 'D.N.B.' after everyone mentioned whose name appears in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' First let me explain how he was connected with my family. My grandfather, Henry William Bull (1792-1872), solicitor, married Charlotte Susannah Swales, from the vicar- age, at the parish church of High Wycombe, on Dec. 27, 1826. His brother-in-law, the Rev. John Charles Williams, M.A., F R.G.S., married them. Williams was curate-in- charge of that parish from 1824 to 1843 and had married Mrs. Bull's eldest sister, Cathe- rine, at St. Clement Danes in the Strand on Aug. 15, 1812. These were the days of pluralities and the Rev. James Price, B.A., was the nominal vicar having been pre- sented to the living on March 25, 1788, by William, Earl of Shelburne and was a regular absentee. The curate's grandfather, a certain John Williams (1727-1816) was an architect and surveyor of some note who flourished in the town of Shrewsbury in the middle of the eighteenth century. His eldest son, father of our curate, was also named John (1767-1827). A solicitor by profession, he was appointed one of the six clerks of the Court of Exchequer and subsequently became a partner in the firm of Price and Williams of Bedford Row. He lived in Rodney Street, Pentonville Hill, and married a Miss Ball of Welshpool, who was born in 1777, died on June 26, 1837, and was buried in St. James's churchyard, Pentonville. This John Williams was an intimate Friend of the Rev. John Newton (1725-1807 ; ' D.N.B. ') another curate-in-charge, by the way, for Moses Brown (1704- 1781 ; 'D.N.B.'), the absentee vicar of Olney, Bucks and friend of the poet Cowper (1731-1800; D.N.B.'). I have in my family records some A.L.S. written by Newton when his wife, whom " he loved with an almost dolatrous love/' died on Dec. 15, 1790. John Williams's third daughter married a man named Randall, whose son, John Williams Randall, was a partner in the firm of Brundrett, Randall and Govett of King's Bench Walk. Jonathan Brundrett was one of the founders of the Law Society. He acted for Queen Caroline (1768-1821; D.N.B.') and briefed Lord Brougham 1778-1868; ' D.N.B.') for the defence in 1820. The fifth daughter married another solicitor, well known in his day, named Alfred Umney, who resided at a beautiful