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 12 S. X. MAY 6, 1922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 341 LONDON. MAY 6, 1922. CONTENTS. No. 212. NOTES : Concerning the Grandfather and Father of Sir George Etherege, 341 The ' Red Book ' of Lynn. 344 Whitechapel as an East London Norfolk Colony, 345 Two Fleet Street Taverns. 346 An Irishmaa's Tomb on the Frontier of Afghanistan Charles Pigott. Author of ' The Jockey Club.' 347 The Game of Chess, 348 QUERIES :" Willoughby and his Avisa " Blyth, 348 Esquire and Essayist John Tatham, Dramatist and City Poet The Lytteltons and the Popish Plot Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines 'The King, the Bishop and the Shep- herd ' Clarence Gordon (" Vieux Moustache ") Vesa- lius, 349 Hampshire Folk-lore Composers of Hymn- tunes The Rev. George Skene Sir Richard Steynor Blake Bettesworth Sir Wm. Henry Clinton Cane- bottomed Chairs Martin, 350 Punch, 1885 Authors wanted, 351. REPLIES : Needham's Point Cemetery, Barbados, 351 Rhymed History of England, 352 Carlings Barrel Organs in Churches Rope of Sand, 353 Henry Howarth Mary Seymour : Lady Bushell, 354 Beef : Effect on One's Wit " Berwick " " Sorencys "Peter Ducasse Wines Racing Stable Terms : Cosh Fleet Marriages : Registers, 355 Knaves Acre Robert Jurdett Henry Ellis Boates of Liverpool The Montfort Families Buried Wine Loftus Captain Skinner, 356 Oldmixon Descendants of Richard Penderell The Stars and Stripes Charles Alcock Arms of Mill Hill School Palavicini Arms, 357 Nevin Family- John and Christopher Wright " At " or " in " with Place- names Daniel de Ligne Sir Thomas Phillipps 'Peter Simple ' : Naval Slang, 358 Authors wanted, 359. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Building of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in Exeter ' ' On the Text of Abbo of Fleury's ' Quaestiones Grammaticales ' ' English Prose : Landor to Holmes ' Journal of the Society of Army Historical Re- search Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Notices to Correspondents. CONCERNING THE GRANDFATHER AND FATHER OF SIR GEORGE ETHEREGE. IN The Times Literary Supplement of Feb. 16, 1922, a lawsuit was described that had to do with George Etherege, the future dramatist, his grandfather and father, both of the same name, of Maidenhead, Berks. In the course of this lawsuit of 1656 the grandfather stated that his oldest son, George Etherege, then deceased, was in July, 1628, " a young man unmarried about the age of 21 years and was resident beyond the seas at the island of Bermudus." Further information has come to light concerning the Etherege connexion with Bermuda and the grandfather's interest in Virginia as well. After the pioneering efforts of the earliest Virginia Company to colonize in and trade with America, subsequent to the grant of Letters Patent, April 10, 1606, by James I., the Company saw the need for reorganization and applied for new Letters Patent ex- tending their powers. A new charter was signed and sealed by the King on May 23 9 1609. The 659 names of the members of the Company, residents in or near London, are incorporated in the charter, and among them is that of " George Etheridge, gen- tleman " (W. R. Scott, * Joint-Stock Com- panies to 1720,' Cambridge, 1910, vol. ii., pp. 246-49 ; A. Brown, ' The Genesis of the United States,' London, 1890, vol. i., pp. 52, 208, 221). In the ' Brief Biographies ' at the end of ' The Genesis,' vol. ii., p. 887, Brown gives that of Etheridge (or Etherege), George, gent.,. . . (of Maydenhed, in County Berks, whose daughter married William Canning, of Elsenham, Essex, oldest son of William Canning). The older Canning is described by Brown as "of Bashingshaw Blackwell Hall," London, a holder of patented lands in Co. Derry, Ireland, a member of the East India Company, deputy governor of the Bermuda Islands Company, master of the Ironmongers in London in 1617 and 1627, elected a director of the Virginia Company of London, April 28, 1619 (ibid., ii., p. 842). There is extant the subscription list, circulated late in 1610 and early in 1611, " of such as have signed with the somes of money by them adventured on 3 yeares towardes the supply of the Plantation begonne in Virginia." Under the heading Etheridge," who subscribed 37 10s. (ibid., i., p. 468). Of the- 142 citizens and others [Brown states], nearly all were leading men of affairs of that day, merchants, &c. . . . All of the subscribers must have been persons of considerable means, as the smallest subscription was 37 10s., a sum nearly equal to one thousand dollars present value (ibid., i., pp. 465-6). The value of one share was 12 10s. (ibid., ii., p. 549, footnote). This entitled the holder to participate in the profits of the joint stock and in the land when distributed. Thus Etherege subscribed for three shares. The division of land intended in 1616 seems not to have taken place until 1619 (P. A. Bruce, ' Economic History of Vir- ?'nia in the Seventeenth Century,' New ork, 1896, vol. i., pp. 503-4). The first instalment of this division was to be 50 acres per share, and the same amount to adventurers of their persons. Ultimately the dividend of land was arranged on the basis of 100 acres per share, as a first division. On the adventurer settling the land so obtained, he received another 100 acres, together with an addition of 50 acres for each person he transported to his estate (Scott, op. cit., vol. ii., p. 255).
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