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printed in ' Visitation of Warwickshire, . 1682-3 ' (Harl. Soc., vol. Jxii.), pp. 39-41.

According to the same book (pp. 3, 13, 21, 29), Ralph Bohun's mother Elizabeth was daughter of George Bathurst of Howthorpe, Thedingworth, Northants, and Market Harboro', Leicestershire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Villiers of Howthorpe by Mary-, daughter of George Turpin ; and the said George Turpin, whose wife was Anne Quarles of London, was son of Sir William Turpin of Knaptoft, Leicestershire, and Elizabeth, sister of the above-mentioned Richard Fiennes who obtained the patent of 1603. So says the book, but mark the sequel.

As MB. WAINE WRIGHT has already stated, and as the book also states (pp. 29, 45), the said George Bathurst, Ralph Bohun's ma- ternal grandfather, who had thirteen sons* and four daughters, was the father of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, father of Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst ; and the Earl and his brothers Peter (of Clarendon Park, Wilts) and Ben- jamin (of Lydney, Gloucestershire) were each of them blessed with issue in fact, Benjamin, who married twice, had no fewer than thirty - six children (see Baker's ' Northamptonshire/ ii. 203 ; 1 S. vi. 106 ; ix. 422). Between 1742 and 1838 fourteen members of the Bathurst family, all descen- dants of Sir Benjamin, the Earl's father, became Scholars at Winchester, and nine of these were admitted to the College as C.F. Six of the nine afterwards proceeded as C. F. to Wykeham's other foundation. New College, Oxford, where also there were privileges reserved for Founder's kin. Two of the six were Henry Bathurst, that liberal- minded Bishop of Norwich, and his son Benjamin Bathurst, the British envoy to the Court of Vienna who was mysteriouslv murdered in 1809 (see 2 S. ii. 48, 95, 137"; 7 S. xii. 307, 354 ; 11 S. iii. 46, 90). So the family provided the Colleges with some notable alumni.

However, in or about the year 1836 the authorities at New College requested Heralds' College to scrutinize the pedigree upon which the Bathursts had been relying, with the result that a flaw was found in it, and their claim to be C. F. was upset. What the flaw was I do not know, but if Kirby (' Annals.' p. 106, n. 1) is to be trusted, it was dis- covered that George Bathurst' s wife Eliza- beth Villiers was not descended from Sir William Turpin and his wife Elizabeth Fiennes. This discovery affected not only


 * See 3 S. viii. 127, 177, 217.

the Bathursts, but other families also, such as the Pyes, the Bragges, and the Bullers, whose claims had rested on theirs.

It is stated in Nichols's ' Leicestershire,' iv. 225, that George Bathurst's wife Eliza- beth Villiers had for her mother, not Mary,, daughter of George Turpin, Sir William Turpin's son, but Sibilla, sister of Sir George Turpin, Sir William Turpin's father. If Nichols was right on this point, then the flaw in the Bathurst pedigree, as given in the College book, is clearly disclosed.

If the Bathursts were not C. F., it follows that Ralph Bohun had no valid claim to be C. F. through his mother. H. C.

Winchester College.

There is a pedigree of Boone in Drake's ' Blackheath,' p. 223, not, however, precise. There is on p. 222 an account of Christopher Boone, merchant : " Born at Taunton r Somerset, a member of the Devonshire f'emily seated at Boone' s Place, Dart- mouth."

A foot-note states that according to Evelyn " Mr. Boone was related to Dr. Bohun, Fellow of New Coll."

Dr. Drake states :

"Mr. T. Streatfeild sketched these arms in the chapel at Lee : Bohun (ancient). The bend differ- enced or, and charged with three escallops gules r impaling the ancient coat of the Barons Brewer differenced by a chief vairee. (The arms of Sir Gilb. de B., t. Edw. II., and of Gilb. B., Serjeant- at-Law, t. Chas. I. Dugd., ' Origin. Ju.,' 331). Crest, a pair of bull's horns or, issuing from a ducal coronet gules."

C. Boone married Mary Brewer.

"Mark Noble states that Tho. Boone, M.P., to- conceal his obscure origin, pretended descent from the Earls of Hereford. The arms certainly re- sembled those of the great Bohuns. The transition from Bohun to Boon can be seen in the parish register of Bishop's Teignton, Devon."

It is stated that Lee Place was sold Oct. 22 1824. R. J. FYNMORE.

GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE ( 12 S. ii. 327, 397). Although it falls short by four years of the longest tenure recorded at the above reference, the case of the last three incumbents of Hart land, North Devon, is worthy of record. The Rev. Francis Tutte was appointed in 1755 and resigned in 1796 r although he did not die until 1824, at the age of 94. The Rev. William Chanter, who had been assistant curate since 1787, succeeded him, and held the living until his death in 1859, at the age of 92. The Rev. Thomas How Chope followed, and continued until his death in 1906, at the age of 81. Thus be-