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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 23, wie.

There is a romantic tradition in the family in connexion with this alleged change of name, but I have not been able as yet to find any contemporary reference to or confirmation of the story that has been handed down, which is my chief reason for again opening this subject.

If any of your contributors or readers have noted any mention of a Philip Winton (living 1750-88), I shall be greatly obliged for the reference. R. G. F. UNIACKE.

Services Club, VV.

SIB WILLIAM TRELAWNY, 6TH BART. When did he enter the Navy, and to what rank in the service did he attain ? He is said to have married, in or before 1756, his cousin Laetitia, daughter of Sir Harry Trelawny, 5th Bart. When and where was the marriage solemnized ? Neither the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (Ivii. 175) nor G. E. C.'s '(Baronetage ' (ii. 45) gives the desired in- formation. G. F. R. B.

SAMUEL WESLEY THE YOUNGER. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Ix. 318, states that he married " a daughter of John Berry (d. 1730), Vicar of Watton, Norfolk." I should be glad to learn her Christian name, and the date and place of her marriage.

G. F. R. B.

BURRY AND ADAMSON FAMILIES. Col. Thomas Burry of Leighsbrook, co. Meath, had a daughter Emily ; married Rev. Arthur Smyth-Adamson as his second wife. He was Rector of Grange Gorman parish, Dublin, in 1839. I should be glad to have the dates and particulars of birth, marriage, and death of the above. To which family did Col. Thomas Burry belong, and what was the maiden name of his mother ?

E. C. FINLAY.

1279 Pine Street, San Francisco.

WILLIAM HASTINGS, 1777. In The Folke- stone Herald of Sept. 30, 1902, there is a list of officials, &c., of the town for 1777, in which occurs the name of William Hastings, chief gunner at the Battery, at 2s. per day, and 51. per annum for coals. A plan of the Bayle, in the Manor Office of Folkestone, dated 1782, mentions Hastings as gunner at the Bayle Fort.

The Kentish Gazette, April 6 to April 9, 1790, has the following :

" A few days since died at the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon's, Lord George Hastings, only son of Mr. Hastings, of Folkstone, to whom the title of Earl of Huntingdon has lately devolved. The Countess Dowager, wishing to improve the educa- tion of Lord George, had requested he might be

placed under her immediate inspection, when ha was most unfortunately taken with the smallpox ,. which proved fatal."

In ' The Universal British Directory,' 1792, William Hastings is described *as ' Esq.," Chief Gunner of the Castle ; and in ' The Kentish Companion ' for 1799 as ' W. Hastings, Chief Gunner, Folkestone." Lieut. Benson Earle Hill in his ' Recollec- tions of an Artillery Officer ' relates how on visiting the Folkestone Battery in the course of his duties he had an interview with the ' master-gunner," who was a claimant to a peerage, and although his name is not iven, he evidently refers to the same man.. The lieutenant does not give the date, but entered the service Aug. 1, 1810, and retired about a dozen years later. I any anxious to know when Hastings died, and where he was buried ; also where his son_ eorge, who died 1790, was buried.

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

DISRAELI AND EMPIRE. A writer in The.- Gentleman's Magazine for April,- 1879,.

states :

" During the debates on the Eastern- Question, it was a favourite occupation among hon. members to wager that Mr. Disraeli would conclude his speech with the word ' Empire.' Eventually it became so imperially regular that no odds coutd be got against it."

The writer adds that the two last words pronounced by Disraeli as a speaker in the House of Commons before he was trans- lated to a more exalted sphere of activity, were : " the Empire." I should be glad if any one will kindly endorse these state- ments. M. L. R. BRESLAE. Percy House, South Hackney.

BUSHE : SPENCER. I shall be glad of any information regarding the parties to whose marriage the following blazon applies r Argent, on a fess gules between three boars sable armed and langued gules, a fleur-de-lis argent between two eagles displayed or (Bushe). Impaling, Quarterly, argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret or ; on a bend sable three escallop shells of the first (Spencer). I have not been able- to refer to any pedigree of the family o Bushe. CHARLES DRTJRY.

12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.

CLEYPOLE, CROMWELL, AND PRICE FAMI- LIES. John Cleypole, Esq., of Norborougli House, co. Northampton, Master of the- Horse to Oliver Cromwell, created a baronet by him July 20, 1657 (which title was dis* allowed after the Restoration), married first.