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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. FEB. 3, 1917.

McGovem," " The O'Shea," &c. Though not inclined to follow T. O'G. in the indig- nation he expresses in his closing paragraph, I, too, am curious to learn the grounds upon which the modern use of these titles rests.

J. B. McGOVERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

SIR WILLIAM OGLE:

SARAH STEWKELEY:

BARBARA GORE.

(12 S, ii. 89, 137, 251, 296, 518.)

I THINK those Hampshire subscribers to 4 N. & Q.' who have followed the various communications to its pages on the above subject will be glad to know that one of the puzzles has been most satisfactorily solved by Mr. H. A. Pitman, who kindly forwarded to me the following notes, with permission to reproduce them.

In an article on Sir William Ogle and Sarah Stewkeley (12 S. ii. 252) was raised the question as to the identity of " Barbara Gore," whose arms,* Or, three bulls' heads caboshed sable, a crescent on a crescent for difference, are impaled with those of her husband in Farley Chamberlayne Church. Mr. Pitman says on this subject :

" I believe there can be little doubt that William St. John's wife Barbara was the daughter of Nicholas Gore of Nether Wallop, who, according to the ' Victoria History of Hampshire ' (vol. iv. p. 528), acquired the Manor of Gar-logs in Nether Wallop about the middle of the sixteenth century. It descended to his son and heir Richard, who conveyed it to his brother William, and it re- mained in the Gore family till about 1778."

In a Chancery suit, preserved in the Record Office, is the following bill to Sir Nicholas Bacon. It is undated, but, since he de- ceased in 1579, the suit would be between 1558 and 1579. ' Chancery Proceedings,' Ser. II. 142, 72 :

" Purdue c. Gore : Orator Symon Purdue. Whereas Nicholas Gore of Nether Wallop, gent., owned divers leases, goods, and chattels, worth 2,000?., and particularly a farm called Berry Court, and land called ' Garlogge,' in Nether Wallop.. ..Nicholas made his will, and devised the residue of his goods to his eldest son Richard Gore, and .to be executor."

Hampshire Field Club Archaeological Society's volume, 1914.
 * See ' The Lords of the Manor of Farley, ,

The testator provided that if Richard Gore let his estates, William Gore, his second son, should enter.

" Your orator was a bondsman for the execu- tion of the will. Richard Gore has let part of the land, contrary to the will, and so your orator is in danger of the bond being put in force against him."

Defendant, Richard Gore, answers that Dorothy, late wife of Nicholas, married the complainant.^ According to ' The History of Hampshire,' Richard " conveyed the property to his brother William."

In an Inquisition post mortem made at Calne, Wiltshire, on Sept. 24 in the 32nd of Queen Elizabeth :

" After the death of William Gore. Jurors say that he was seized of a messuage in the Manor of

Newton Tony and died at Wallop on the

llth of November, 1587, and that William Gore is his son and next heir and was aged sixteen at the death of his father " (writ dated May 5, 1590).

In the will of this William Gore (proved 1588, P.C.C. 37Rutland) heappointed as "one of its executors " his son William Gore, and John Pitman of Quarley, and Thomas Ely,, clerk, of Nether Wallop, its supervisors.* AT the end of the will is a note in Latin, dated May 10, 1588, to the effect that, as William Gore the younger and his wife, Margaret Read, were both under the age of twenty-one, probate was granted to William St. John, the husband of the sister of the testator, William Gore, and to Leonard Ely of Wonston. one of the trustees. In a Chancery suit Gore v. Pitman (Ser. II. 240, 99), dated Dec. 2, 1592, " William Gore of Nether Wallop, gent., one of the executors of William Gore, his father," pleads :

" Your orator married Margaret Read, and John Pitman, father of Joan, wife of William Gore, the testator, and one Thomas Ely, who married the daughter of said John, and one Leonard Ely, being trustees of the testator, have combined with William St. John, and John Purdue, who married with Joan, the testator's wife," &c.

From the fact that " the younger children of William Gore " were " John, Nicholas f Richard, and William," it is surmised that William the son and heir was by a previous wife. Testator's daughters, " Agnes, Eliza- beth, Barbara, and Margery," were given 600Z. each.

All the above information, so kindly sup- plied and arranged by Mr. H. A. Pitman, will be new and very welcome to Hampshire

by H. F. Waters. Boston, 1901.
 * See ' Genealogical Gleanings in England,*