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who was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1679, had considerable estates in Hampshire and one or two other counties. His will was proved at P.C.C. in 1687. He had four sons and two daughters (John being his eldest son and heir), but all the property ultimately came to Martha St. John, as none of the sons left issue. His other daughter Mary married John Delavall, one of the sons of Sir Ralph Delavall, Bart., and died, aged 23 (before her father), Oct. 19, 1683. There is a tombstone to her memory on the floor of the tower of the old church at Dogmersfield.

Sir Paulet St. John, the 1st Bart., married three times. His first wife was the daughter and coheir of Sir James (not John) Rushout, 2nd Bart. His second wife was the daughter and heiress of John Waters of Brecknock, co. Brecon, and widow of Sir Halswell (not Henry) Tynte, 3rd Bart., M. P., of Halswell. There is a pedigree of the Waters family, terminating in this heiress, in The Herald and Genealogist, vol. vii. p. 336. Sir Paulet's third wife was Jane, daughter of R. Harris of Silkstead, M.P. for Southampton, and widow of William Pescod, Recorder of Winchester. This lady's daughter by her first husband, Jane Pescod, married Carew Mildmay of Shawford in 1761, so that when in 1786 Sir Henry St. John, 3rd Bart., married the great Mildmay heiress, Lady St. John's step- grandson married her granddaughter.

Dorothea Maria, the wife of Sir Henry St. John, 2nd Bart., was the daughter and coheiress of Abraham Tucker of Betchworth Castle, Surrey, a leading thinker and meta- physician of the eighteenth century, a full account of whom is given in the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography.' The pro- perty at Betchworth Castle came to Sir Henry St. John-Mildmay, 3rd Bart., on the death of his aunt, Judith Tucker, in 1794. He shortly afterwards disposed of it, but first of all, if the statement in the ' Victoria County History ' is accurate, )ld the box on Box Hill for 10,000?. I have 10 reason to doubt the reliability of this statement, which I remember to have seen mentioned elsewhere. Indeed, this sale was referred to some years ago in the daily press. The ruins of the old castle still stand near Dorking, and are now included in the Deepdene estate. There is a fine monument to Abraham Tucker and his wife in Dorking church.

Sir Henry Mildmay of Wanstead married Anne (not Jane, as stated), daughter of William (not Leonard) Halliday, Alderman of London, at St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield, April 6, 1619. Her mother was the daughter

of Sir John Rowe, Lord Mayor of London,, and, after Halliday's death, remarried Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral of England. Lady Warwick was, however, buried with her first husband in St. Lawrence Jewry, where there is a- superb monument showing busts of William Halliday, his wife, and their daughter, Dame Anne Mildmay. A pedigree of the Halliday family is found in a work called ' Burke' s Commoners,' published some years ago in four volumes.

William Halliday was Alderman, but not,, as stated, Lord Mayor, of London. I believe- he was the first chairman of the East India Company. Halliday's daughter brought not only the Twyford estate, but also what is now known as the "Mildmay Park " estate,, to the Mild mays.

The old family house is standing to-day, having been divided into two, and is known as 9 and 10 Newington Green, N. It is a home- for nurses. Until recently there was in this house a beautifully panelled room, with a most splendid ceiling, and with the Halliday arms carved over the mantelpiece ; but a few years ago, I am sorry to say, this was sold for thousands of pounds, and is now,. I believe, in the U.S.A.

The Mildmay Park estate was disposed of in 1858, after the death of Dame Jane St. John-Mildmay, the heiress who had married Sir Henry St. John, 3rd Bart., of Dogmersfield. This estate had been settled, on her marriage in 1786, on her younger children. As, after having sixteen children,, she lived to be over 90, this property had acquired, before her death in 1857, a value- which no one had at all anticipated, and of this the younger children got the advantage. Lady Methuen, Lady Bolingbroke, and the- Countess of Radnor were her married daughters. A HAMPSHIRE MAN.

In the fourth volume of Hutchins's ' History of Dorset,' under the article labelled c Purse Candel,' there occurs :

"Peter Mew, LL.D., Bishop of Winchester, was a native of this place ; son of Elisha Mew, and' born March 25. 1618. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School bjr Dr. Winniffe, his uncle, then Dean of St. Paul's,'' &c.

After this follows a review of the Bishop's career.

Would DR. J. L. WHITEHEAD kindly animadvert ? No doubt " Elisha " is for " Ellis." Ellis may have been rendered into Latin, perhaps, as Elisseus, and this re- translated as Elisha by mistake. But,, according to DR. WHITEHEAD, the father of Ellis Mews of Stourton Caundle (who is the