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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 21, 1916.

Sir John died in 1629, and was interred at Kingston. His second son, Bartholomew (ancestor of the Hertfordshire Meuxes), m'arried Radcliff, daughter of William Gerrard of Harrow-on-the-Hill. He died in 1650, and was buried at Kingston.

Sir William (3) Meux, the eldest son, married firstly Winifred, daughter of Sir Francis Barrington, Bart., co. Essex, and had issue an only son Sir John, " the Royalist," and two daughters: Joan, wife of

Mead of Lofts, co. Essex, and Cecilie

Meux of Swaffham Priors, co. Cambs, who died in 1697, unmarried. The second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William Gerrard of Harrow-on-the-Hill. There was no issue from the second alliance. Sir William died in 1638 (Chanc. Inq. p.m., Ser. 2, ccxxii. 47).

Sir John (3) Meux, only son and heir, was created a baronet in 1641. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Worsley of the Isle of Wight. She died in 1652, and was interred at Kingston. Sir John died in 1657, and was buried at Kingston, leaving issue three sons: Sir William, who succeeded ; John, who died in 1649 ; and Henry in 1702, both being interred at Kingston ; and two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and were buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Sir William (4) Meux, 2nd Bart., was twice married : firstly, to Mabella, daughter of Sir Robert Dillington of Knighton, I.W., by whom he had issue John, who died vita patns in 1669, and was buried at Kingston, and three daughters Mabel, died an infant, Frances died in 1660, and Elizabeth in 1664 ; secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of George Browne of Buckland, co. Surrey, having issue by her two sons and three daughters. Lady Meux died in 1732, and was interred at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Sir William died in 1697, and was buried at Kingston.

Sir William (5) Meux, the eldest surviving son, succeeded as 3rd Bart., and died un- married in 1706, when the baronetcy became extinct and his property was divided between his three sisters. Elizabeth, the eldest, married Sir John Miller of Froyle, and she, on the death of her two sisters, Jane and Ann, unmarried, became sole heiress.

The small brass on the chancel floor of Kingston Church, alluded to by MB. S. GBEEN, represents a sixteenth - century (fifteenth century, J. Chas. Cox, " County Churches," I.W., p. 93, publ. 1911) civilian in a furred gown, apparently a lawyer's ; a small plate on the dexter side of the figure is engraved with four sons, the three elder of whom have similar furred robes, and on the

other side is a shield of the Mewes arms Paly of 6, on a chief 3 crosses pattee. The inscription is : " M r Rychard Mewys which decessyed the iii day of March in the yere of o r lord God MCCCCC and xxxv."

Mewes family of Dorsetshire. Ellis Mews of Stourton Caundle, one of the four sons of Peter Mewe or Mews of Caundle Purse, who died before March 6, 1597/8 (11 S. iii. 105), married a daughter of John Winniffe of Sherborne and sister of Thomas, sometime Bishop of Lincoln, and left, with other children, a son Richard of Winchester, who

had to wife Grace, daughter of Ford

of the same city. Dying in 1646, aged upwards of 60 (see ante, p. 94), he left a son Ellis, married to Christiana, only daughter of Oliver St. John (ob. 1665) of Farley Chamberlayne, and having issue a son and namesake, Ellis. He married, Dec. 6, 1699, his cousin Frances, only daughter of Oliver St. John (ob. 1689), and sister and heir to a third Oliver St. John, who died childless in 1689. Frances's husband on his marriage took the name and arms of St. John by Act of Parliament. Frances died childless in 1700, and her husband married, secondly r Martha, daughter of John Goodyear of DogmersfiekC co. Hants, and, thirdly,. Sarah, daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh Stewkeley (ante, p. 137). At his death in 1728/9, Ellis St. John of Farley Chamber- layne and Dogmersfield, co. Hants, left his eldest son by his second marriage, Paulet St. John, to succeed. He was created a baronet in 1772, and died in 1780. He was twice married : firstly to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Rushout, and secondly to Mary, daughter of John Walter and widow of Sir Henry Tynte, Bart., and had issue Sir Henry Paulet St. John, who married Dorothea Mary. She died 1768, aged 26. Their son. Sir Henry, on his marriage with Jane, eldest daughter of Carew Mildmay of Shawford House, Twyford, took the name of Mildmay.

Of the Mildmay family. Sir Henry Mildmay of Wanstead, co. Essex, a supporter and favourite of Charles I., married Jane r daughter of Sir Leonard Holliday, Knt., Alderman and Lord Mayor of the City of London, and had with her the Twyford estate, specially purchased on her marriage. Their son Henry married Alice, daughter of Sir Mundeford Bramston, Knt., and had issue by her a son Holliday Mildmay, who, by his wife Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir John Bowden, Knt., left an only daughter and heir, Letitia. She married Humphrey, second son of Carew Mildmay of Marks, co. Essex, and had issue, with other children, Carew, who