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 244 NOTES AND QUERIES. [iz s. x. APRIL i, not family history, might probably have said of many another that all he knew of him was that he was alive in the year of Killiecrankie but dead since. That he did not die without at least female issue appears from one of the papers, which I had taken with me to Scotland. It runs as follows : The Twenty Ninth Day of July Seventeen Hundred and Seven years. > Sir John Whitefoord of Miltoun and Dam Robina Lockhart his Lady a daughter named Barbara. Witnesses Thomas Carruthers, Bookseller, Alexander Kinkaid, Goldsmith, and others. Child born Monday Twenty First Instant. Edin' 8th June, 1790. Extracted above from the Register of Births & Baptisms in the City of Edinburgh per George Pirrie, Depute Sess. Clk. paid ten shillings & sixpence G. P. This is endorsed by my grandfather, Thos. Blair, " Register of my Mother's birth." From the names of the witnesses it is to be inferred that Sir John, who had been obliged to part with Miltoun to Sir John Hamilton, had retired to unfashion- able quarters. I had also with me a letter from Allan Lockhart of Cleghorn, dated April 5, 1790, enclosing a pedigree of his family from its founder down to himself, and saying of his uncle James, who married Barbara Wardrope, James' fourth daughter was married to White- foord of Miltoun, of which marriage it is probable the eldest daughter would be named Barbara after her grandmother. And does not Nisbet himself allude to this Whitefoord on another page than that quoted above, " Whitefoord of Miltoun married a daughter of James Lockhart the Royalist " ? Anyhow Barbara's place in the Miltoun line seemed settled, and my interest in the Blaquhan branch died away, to be revived some years later. A. T. M. (To be continued.) MARY SEYMOUR : LADY BUSHELL. AN interesting question occurs to me with reference to Mary Seymour, daughter of Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral of England, Lord Seymour of Sudeley, and Catherine Parr, and her daughter, Mary Bushell, who afterwards married Silas Johnson. I am informed that Mary Seymour's name is not given in either Dugdale or Francis Sandford's works, although it is said in Messrs. Hasties' advertisement (v. 'N. & Q.,' March 11) that her name occurs in 3 and 4 Edward VI., cap. xiv., by which her father's attainder was reversed and she herself was restored in blood. Now, when working in the Vatican archives many years ago, I found in the dispatches of Castegna, Archbishop of Rossano and subsequently Pope Urban VII. , the Papal Nuncio at Paris in 1570-1572 (' Nunziatura di Parizi,' 1570-1572), at least one, if not several, mentions of a nipote (granddaughter) of Queen Elizabeth of England, whom Catherine de' Medici, at some period shortly after she had made peace with the Huguenots, wished to marry to Henri of Navarre, afterwards Henri IV. of France. This was about October, 1570, if I recollect rightly. Considering the relations which are known to have existed very shortly after the death of Henry VIII. in January, 1547, between Elizabeth and Lord Seymour of Sudeley, whilst she was living with Catherine Parr at Chelsea, and the fact that, according to Messrs. Hasties' advertisement, Mary Seymour was born on Aug. 27, 1548 (not 1568 as printed), it would be interesting to know whether Mary Seymour may not have been Princess Elizabeth's daughter by the Lord High Admiral, and whether Mary Bushell. may not have been the nipote mentioned in Castegna's dispatches. I do not know whether there are copies of these dispatches amongst the Roman transcripts at the Record Office, and un- fortunately, at this moment, I cannot look up the matter myself. I am informed that Sir Edward Bushell, Kt., was of Cleve, Worcestershire, that he had at least two wives, and that he had two sons by the second, one of whom, Thomas, was living A.D. 1594. Now Cleve is not far from Catherine Parr's residence at Sudeley, so it is probable enough that he married Mary Seymour, and, moreover, as Worcestershire was up to the Civil War a most Catholic county, Catherine de' Mediei would have every means for obtaining information about Mary Seymour and her children. I am under the impression that I men- tioned some particulars about the nipote in a lecture upon the ' Massacre of St. Bartholomew,' which I delivered before the Huguenot Society in June, 1886, and which appeared in their Transactions, but of this I have no copy. In view of Dugdale's and Sandford's