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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. in. JAN. 20, 1917.

is known to have been 'jf or a century in the Main waring Chapel, Higher Peover Church. It bears not only the name but the portrait and initials of the owner. The inscription is " Dorothy Maynwaring." She married Sir Richard Mainwaring of Ightfield, Salop, High Sheriff of the county in 1545. Most of the chair is older than her time. Dorothy seems to have had it put together of old bits of carving, adding her name and portrait and the raven, the crest of her father Sir Robert Corbet. She lived at Ightfield, and it was probably when that branch of the family became extinct that the chair was brought to Higher Peover Church and placed in the Mainwaring Chapel.

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

GREENE'S MUSEUM, LICHFIELD. A wooden figure of a midshipman not Sol. Gill's was in this museum in 1788. Is it described in the catalogue ? I shall be obliged for any information respecting it.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY: HONYWOOD.

(12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432; iii. 16.)

MAY I venture to make a few additions to the very interesting information contributed to ' N. & Q.' by A HAMPSHIRE MAN ?

I was present with the members of the Hampshire Field Club Archaeological Society when that romantic spot, Farley Chamber- layne, was visited some years ago, and I well remember the discussion on the arms in the various hatchments in the church, particularly those belonging to Mary Waters, second wife of Mr. Paulet St. John (after- wards first baronet). At that time very little was known about her beyond the fact that she was always called " Lady Tynte," but I subsequently discovered in Burke's ' Armory ' a most interesting account of the origin of the Lloyd quartering, namely, " Sable, a spearhead embrued, two and one." At the time of her marriage to Mr. Paulet St. John, on Oct. 1, 1736, this lady was the widow of Sir Halswell Tynte, third baronet, of Halswell in the county of Somer- set, who deceased in 1730 at the age of 25,

Through the kindness of a member of the Tynte family, who replied privately to a query of mine, published in ' N. & Q.,' relative to the Grffords, I now have a com-

prehensive pedigree, not only of the latter- family, but of their connexions, the^ Hals- wells and the Tyntes. Sir Halswell Tynte, third baronet (who restored and beautified the old Tudor home of his ancestors), was fifth in descent from Sir Nicholas Halswell, Kt., by his wife Bridget, daughter of Sir Henry Wallop, Kt., by Catherine, daughter of Richard Gifford, Lord of East Tytherley in Hampshire, whose fine mansion house there, standing upon foundations ofi the time of King John, had descended to^him during one of the most romantic episodes of Elizabethan history.

Richard Gifford was succeeded at his death in 1568 by his son, Sir Henry, who was married about 1572 to Susan, daughter of" Henry Bronker, or Brouncker, of Melksham, co. Wilts, widow of Robert Halswell, Esq., of Halswell (married 1565), who died in September, 1570, leaving a son and heir, Nicholas. By Sir Henry Gifford (who de- ceased in 1592) she had a son Richard, who married his first cousin Winifred, daughter of Sir Henry and Catherine Wallop ; while her son Sir Nicholas Halswell espoused Winifred's sister Bridget. Both these half- brothers were knighted, and lie buried with their wives under sumptuous tombs in the churches on their respective manors.

On the decease of his second wife, Lady Tynte, Mr. Paulet St. John married thirdly in St. Lawrence Church, Winchester, in January, 1761, Jane Harris, the great-granddaughter of the Rev. John Harris, Warden of Winchester College from 1630 to 1658, and widow of William Pescod (b. 1701, d. 1760), Recorder of Win- chester. The marriage oi her daughter Jane Pescod was celebrated in the same church on Feb. 12, 1762, with Mr. Carew Mildmay of Shawford House, Twyford, near Winchester. The Mildmay pedigree printed in the Visitation of Essex (Harleian Society,. vol. xiv.) shows the descent of this gentle- man from Sir Humphrey Mildmay of" Danbury, Essex, whose sister Martha Mild- may, by her marriage with Sir William Brouncker of Melksham, was sister-in-law of Mrs. Robert Halswell (Lady Gifford). It shows also that he was a great-grandson of Mary, only child and heiress of Matthew Honywood, by her marriage with Francis Hervey Mildmay, Groom of the Jewel House. The family of Honywood of Marks Hall,, Essex, so well known for their military services, has a history that is of no small interest at the present time ; and by a com- parison of the pedigrees of Honywood and Mildmay it will be seen that Mr. Carew