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 12 S. II. Nov. 4, 1916.

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Alexander Xevill. 'Probably Alexander Nevile of Mattersey (a Nottinghamshire branch of the family), who made his will in 1565. His son Anthony was " servant to the Countess of Shrewsbury." See Hunter's ' Familife Minorum Gentium,' p. 1232.

John Dod. There is a long pedigree of tli is family in Miscellanea Oenealogica et Heraldica, i. 169. The head of it at the time of the funeral was John Dod of Cloveley and Calverhill, in Shropshire, who died in 1579.

Francis Aston. This family was of Cheshire and Staffordshire. Thomas Aston of Aston, who was married in 1512, and was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1551, had a son Francis. See Burke's ' Extinct Baronetage.'

George Massey. Several branches of the family were settled in Cheshire. This was probably George Massey of Potington, head of his branch at the Visitation of 1580.

Thomas Gascoigne. This might be Thomas Gaskon of Burghwallis, who was married to Jane, daughter of Thomas Reresby of Thribergh, in the Sheffield neigh- bourhood.

Robert Shakerley. Lord Shrewsbury married as his second wife Grace, daughter of Robert Shakerley of Little Longston, co. Derby. This was probably his father-in- law, or his wife's half - brother, another Robert.

I am not able to find any clue to Francis Bailey or George Scaldfield.

H. J. B CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridgc.

I send these notes, though very scanty, in the hope that they may prove of some assistance to MAJOR LESLIE.

Lord Talbot was either George, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, or his eldest son Francis.

Leonard [Dacre], Lord Dacre of Gilsland or of the North, became involved in the Northern Rebellion, and fled to the Low Countries, where lie received 1,200 ducats a year from the King of Spain. He died at Brussels, Aug. 12, 1573, whereupon his brother Leonard assumed the title.

Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, Notting- hamshire, born about April, 1516, was knighted on or before Nov. 15, 1538, and was " generally styled Gentle Sir Gervase." He married (1) Man-, daughter of Sir John Neville of Chete, Yorks ; and (2) Winifred, daughter and co-heir of William Thwaites of Oulton, Suffolk, and widow of Sir George Pierrepoint of Holme. He was a J.P., described by the Protestant bishop as being " in religion very cold," in 1564. He seems

to have been in high favour with Queen Elizabeth. He died about Jan. 20, 1587/8.. Sir John Neville, of Leversege and Billingley and Leeds, married (1) Dorothy, daughter of Sir Christopher Danby of Thorpe, by whom he had a son and heir and a daughter ; and (2) Beatrice, daughter of Henry Brome of Wrenthorpe, by whom he had ten children. A Protestant under King Edward VI., he was reconciled to the Roman Catholic Church by Dr. Thomas Robertson, Dean of Durham, under Queen Man-. Possibly he was the person of these names admitted to Gray's Inn in 1534. He was- knighted May 8, 1544. He took part in the Rebellion of 1569, and was attainted, but managed to escape to Scotland and thence to Paris. From Paris he went to Flanders. He left Flanders for Rome, 1571/2. He- arrived in Madrid from Rome in November,. 1572, and received 200 ducats, with a promise of 30 ducats a month. He left Madrid May 10, 1573, and in 1574 he was receiving a pension of 60 ducats a month from the King of Spain. In 1575 he was at Brussels. In both 1574 and 1575 the English Government demanded his expulsion from Spanish territory. Both he and his son Robert had died abroad before 1588. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Lord Talbot, probably George Talbot,. 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 1528 ?-90 (vide ' D.N.B.,' Iv. 314).

Lord Darcy of the North, probably George,, son of Thomas, Lord Darcy, statesman and rebel (vide ' D.N.B.,' xiv. 49).

Peter Frechvill, probably father of or Sir Peter Frechevile of Staveley, co. Derby (father of John, Lord Frescheville of Staveley, 1664).

The 5th Lord Shrewsbury married secondly, before August, 1553, Grace,, daughter of Robert Shackerley of Little Longsdon, Derbyshire. A R BAYLEY.

Gervase Clifton was in the royal garrison of Nottingham in 1536, at the time of the Pilgrimage of Grace. A letter written by him at Nottingham is given in (he ' Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.,' vol. xi., No. 1042.

Sir John Neville seems to have served under- the Duke of Norfolk when the latter WHS administrating the disaffected Northern, counties in 1537. A letter from Sir John Neville to Thomas Cromwell is given in the 'Letters and Papersof Henry VIII.,' No. 1317.-

Of course it is impossible to say definitely that these were the same men who attended the Earl of Shrewsbury's funeral in 1560, but