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cast out of Parliament ; and when he came home from Chelmsford the night after he was chosen, abundance of candles were lighted for joy."

He died s.p. in April, 1693, when he bequeathed his property to a Kentish kinsman.

To return to Robert Honywood, who purchased Markshall in 1605 : it will be remembered that his " son and heir Sir Robert was of Charing in Kent," where he was knight of the shire from 1601. He married Alice, daughter of Sir Martin Barham, and had a family of twenty children. Of these, Isaac was killed at the siege of Maestricht ; Benedict fought as a captain in the Low Countries ; and Philip (baptized at Charing on Jan. 2, 1617, as the ninth son and fourteenth child of his parents) served and was knighted in the Royalist army. *He was appointed Commander-in- Chief of the forces at Portsmouth in 1662 ; was promoted Lieutenant-Governor of that town on July 14, 1666 ; purchased the estate of Pett in Charing of his brother Sir Robert in 1673 ; and was there buried on Jan. 5, 1684/5.

" Sir Robert Honywood [b. 1601, d. 1686], being of a military disposition, spent many years abroad in the wars of the Palatinate, in the rank of a colonel, and was one of those gallant English volunteers that espoused the interests of Frederick, King of Bohemia, and a great part of his patrimony was sacrificed in that service."

Knighted, as steward of the Queen of Bohemia, 1625, member of Council of State 1659, he went on an embassy to Sweden, and in 1673 translated Battista Nani's ' History of the Affairs of Europe.'

His wife was Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Fane (Treasurer of the Household of Charles I.), and the mother of his sixteen children. Of these, Charles Lodwick served under his uncle Sir Philip Honywood at Portsmouth as a captain, and, with his wife Pricilla, baptized five sons in that town, viz., Charles, born 1669; Robert, 1670; James, 1672 ; Charles, and Philip.

The last -mentioned became the well- known East Anglian hero General Sir Philip Honywood, whose youthful exploits still form the theme of fireside tales. He was commissioned ensign in Col. Stanley's Regiment of Foot in June, 1694, and was present at the siege of Namur in 1695. Appointed captain in the Earl of Hunting- don's newly raised regiment of foot in March, 1702, he became colonel of Roger Townshend's Regiment on May 27, 1709, and shared in its sufferings at the siege of

Mr. Alfred T. Everett of Portsmouth.
 * The following information is supplied by

j Douay in 1710. Soon afterwards he was deprived of his regiment for drinking at a dinner in Flanders the toast : " Damnation and confusion to the new Ministry, and to those who had any hand in turning out the old."

In 1715 he was forgiven, and commissioned to raise a troop of horse in Essex and Chelmsford. The warrant was dated July 22, 1715. (This regiment, then known as Hony- wood's Dragoons, is now the llth Hussars.) In 1719 he commanded a brigade in the expedition against Spain, took possession of the town of Vigo, was appointed major- general in 1726, made K.B. for his eminent services, and was appointed Governor of Portsmouth in May, 1740. He died at Blackheath, June 17, 1752, and by a will, dated May 15, 1742, left the contents of his house at Blackheath, and the furniture of two rooms in his house at Inglefield Green, to Sarah (Wright) his wife ; and if he died at Portsmouth, he " desired to be buried in the little chapel that adjoins Government House." There is an entry in the Greenwich burial register of 1752 : " June 25th. General Sir Philip Honywood carried to Portsmouth." He was no doubt buried at the Garrison Chapel, which at that time was the principal military burial-place, but there is no record of his interment, nor is any monument to his memory known to exist. F. H. S.

Highwood.

(To be concluded.)

SIR JOHN FIELDING.

IN the ' Memoirs of William Hickey ' (Hurst & Blackett), the second instalment of which has just appeared, Hickey, writing cf his experiences in 1766, remarks (vol. i. p. 71) : ' ' The third brothel was kept by Mother Cocksedge, for all the Lady Abbesses were dignified with the respectable title of Mother. In these days of wonderful propriety and general morality, it will scarcely be credited that Mother Cocksedge's house was actually next, of course under the very nose of that vigilant and upright magistrate, Sir John Fielding, who, from the riotous proceedings I have been a witness to at his worthy neighbour's, must have been deaf as well as blind, or at least well paid for affecting to be ."

Hickey unquestionably imputes corrupt practices to the Bow Street magistrate, and as his truly remarkable ' Memoirs ' are likely to be frequently consulted and cited by those engaged in the study of social life in the latter half of the eighteenth century, I think some publicity should in fairness be