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it is certainly over fifty vears ago ; and iri my day (1859-69) the last of the three wickets taken had to pay for the hat, I believe. The hat was always supposed to be of the value of a guinea, and I think money was always given instead of it, but I never was a victim myself. A. GWYTHER.

Windhara Club:

In old days it was customary to present a bowler who took three wickets, in three consecutive balls, with a hat as a reward for his skill. In later years a jockey who wins three races consecutively is constantly referred to as having performed the " hat

trick." WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

The earliest use of the phrase which I have been able to trace occurs in The Sportsman for Nov. 28, 1888, where it says : " Mr. Absolom has performed the hat trick twice, and at Tufnell Park he took four wickets with four balls." ARCHIBALD SPAKKE.

SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STEWKELEY {12 S. ii. 89). -The explanation of the point which has puzzled F. H. S. concerning Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, of Hinton Ampner, the second baronet, is that this lady, following the example of her second husband, entered the bonds of matrimony thrice. See Wotton's ' Baronetage,' III. ii. (1741) 393, under ' Cobb, of Adderbury.' Her husbands were : (1) Dr. John Cobb, Warden of Winchester College, who died on Nov. 25, 1724 ; (2) Ellis St. John (formerly Ellis Mews), of Farley Chamberlayne ; and {3) Capt. Francis Townsend or Townshend, of whom I should be glad, to have particulars. There is a tablet in the College Cloisters to the memory of her first husband, and the inscription ends : " Sarah, vidua illius superstes. . . .Monumentum hoc optimo Marito P." I take it that, in using the epithet " optimo," she had no intention of reflecting upon her later " better halves."

H. C.

Ellis St. John, of Farley St. John and of Dogmersfield, married as his third wife, between 1725 and 1729, Sarah, daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, 2nd baronet. She is referred to in his will, proved at the P.C.C. in 1729. She died as "Sarah Townshend, widow, of Winchester," in 1760. Her will is at P.C.C. (407 Lynch). In it she refers to " her late husband Ellis St. Johrv"

Whether it was^this lady who had previously married' * Dr. Cobb, Warden of Winchester College, I do not know. But as

he died in 1724, and Ellis St. John only lost his second wife in 1725, this obviously may easily have been the case.

She bequeaths the manor of Dunster (t!:c Stewkeley s had for long been connected with Dunster) to her niece Mary, wife of the Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge. Her residuary legatee, and sole executor, was Paulet St. John, eldest son of her previous husband, Ellis St. John, by his second wife (he had no issue by his first wife). This Paulet was M.P. for Winchester, and afterwards for Hants, then for Winchester again. In 1772 he was created a baronet. His grandson, Sir Henry Paulet St. John, 3rd baronet, took the additional surname of Mildmay by royal licence.

Sir Hugh Stewkeley 's eldest daughter and coheir married the last Lord Stawell, by whom she had one son and one daughter (the Mary Bilson Legge of her will).

The son died before his father, and the barony therefore lapsed on the latter' s decease without (surviving) male issue. It was, however, revived in favour of his only daughter, Mary Bilson Legge, May 20, 1760, who was created Baroness Stawell of Somer- ton, co. Somerset. Her husband was a pro- minent statesman of the day.

STEPNEY GREEN.

FlELDINGIANA : MlSS H AND (12 S.

i. 483 ; ii. 16, 38). There can be no doubt that the maiden name of the Countess of Northington was Huband :

I. John Huband, of Ipsley, co. Warwick, created a baronet 2 Feb. 1660-1, married Jane, daughter of Lord Charles Pawlett, of Dowles, co. Hants, and died 1710.

II. Sir John, son and heir, married Rhoda, daughter of Sir Thomas Broughton, of Broughton,

o. Stafford, bart, and died 24 Jan., 1716-7.

III. Sir John, son and heir, died at Eton, a minor and unmarried, set. 17, 10 Nov., 1739, when the title became extinct. See ' Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England,' by William Courthope, 1835, p. 105.

According to ' The English Baronetage ' (by Thomas Wotton), 1741, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 263, Rhoda, daughter of Sir Thomas Broughton, second Baronet, married Sir John Huband of Ipsley, in the county of Warwick, Bart. In the same ' Baronetage,' vol. iv. p. 277, Huband of Ipsley, Warwick- shire, appears among the " Baronets, Ex- tinct.' See also G. E. C[okayne]'s ' Com- plete Baronetage,' iii. 158.

According to G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' vi. 80, the Earl of Northington married, Nov. 19, 1743, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Jane, sister and coheir of Sir John