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 12 s. in. JA.V. 20, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Mildmay, of Shawford House, who died 1768, was a contemporary of the celebrated dare- devil General Philip Honywood, some of whose exploits are still the subject of East Anglian tradition.

The property of Marks Hall was pur- chased in 1605 by Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent, at whose decease in 1627 it passed to his son Sir Robert Honywood, who had twenty children. Of these, Isaac was killed at the siege of Maestricht ; Bene- dict was a captain in the Low Countries ; and Sir Robert (the heir) for many years served as a volunteer in the wars of the Palatinate, and lost a fortune in the cause of Frederick, King of Bohemia. General Philip Honywood was grandson of this worthy, being a younger son of his son Capt. Charles Lodowic Honywood and Mary Clements. Philip began his military career as an ensign in Col. Stanley's regiment, to which he was gazetted on June 12, 1695, and, immediately proceeding abroad, was present at Namur in that year, and in 1709 was promoted captain in Col. Roger Towns- hend's Norfolk regiment.

In 'N. & Q.' 10 S. ix. 144, there is a reference to a portrait of Philip Honywood in connexion with a picture of his friend and companion in arms Richard Henley,* painted in 1709, .signed and dated by "Phillippe Cocklers" of Maestricht, and showing him dressed in what was, apparently, the uniform of Townshend's regiment. It was one of three portraits, all signed by Coders, and all dressed and posed alike, with the same background (a battle-field). At the Honywood sale at Marks Hall, conducted by order of the Court of Chancery in December, 1897, General Hony wood's picture and one of Col. Richard Henley were purchased by the owner of Thawts Hall, Norfolk. In the description of the sale, under date of Dec. 8, 1897, The East Anglian Times deplored " the scattering of treasures accumulated during centuries by a family '.. of distinction." Townshend's regiment is said to have " suffered severely at the siege of Douay in 1710," and that was the year in which " Honywood was deprived of his regiment," for drinking at a dinner in Flanders the toast, " Damnation and con- fusion to the new Ministry and to those who had any hand in turning out the old."

In 1715 he was forgiven, and made a colonel of a newly appointed regiment of

Hasted's ' Kent,' vol. ii. p. 449 ; and ' Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex,' p. 116.'
 * See Morant's ' Essex,' vol. ii. p. 168 ;

Dragoons (now known as the llth Hussars)'

on July 22 of that year. ' The Historical

Record of the British Army, says thatjhe-

" was commissioned to form one of the six

troops- to be raised in Essex and the adjoining

counties."

According to the same authority,

" Honywood served at the head of his regiment during the rebellion of the Earl of Mar, and in commanding a brigade at Preston was wounded at the storming of one of the avenues of the town. In 1719 he commanded a brigade in the expedition against Spain, and took possession of. the town of Vigo with 800 men, and afterwards engaged in the siege of the citadel, which sur- rendered in a few days. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1726, and was made K.B. for his eminent services in 1743. He was- Governor of Portsmouth, where he died and was buried on the 17th of June, 1752." All of which, as being connected with the- forbears of Jane Mildmay, who married Sir Henry Paulet St. John of Farley Cham- berlayne in 1786, should not be without interest for those who strive to preserve the records of that part of Hampshire.

AN OLD EAST ANGLIAN.

A HAMPSHIRE MAN is in error in saying (ii. 433) that John Goodyer was the eldest son of Edward Goodyer. Edward Goodyer- married his wife Hester Goodyer at Elvetham in 1656. Their eldest son Edward was born, in 1657, but died v.p. in 1679. The other three sons were John (who was the second and the eldest surviving son, and his father's heir in 1686), James, and Thomas.

There is a slab to Edward (the eldest son)- on the floor of the tower of the old church at Dogmersfield, the inscription on which states that Edward Goodyer (pere) was High Sheriff of Hampshire in the year of his son's death. This statement has been, verified at Winchester. Thomas appears also to have died before his father ; James Goodyer, who was Lord of the Manor of Finchampstead (West Court), died in 1711,. and John in 1712.

Lyon's ' Chronicles of Finchampstead ' contains a full reference to these Goody ers. H. O.

DICKENS AND HENRY VIII. (12 S. ii. 529). The passage MB. WAINEWIIIGHT has in mind will be found in ' The Child's History of England ' at the end of chap, xxviii.,. where the closing words read :

"He [Henry] was a most intolerable ruffian,, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England."

J. MAKEHAM.

[Several other correspondents thanked for- repiies.]/