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For subsequent rectors, making 42 names all, see list of Vicars of Bredwardine, the fishes having been united in 1851. [ should be grateful for any corrections, nments, or additions.

H. F. B. COMPSTON. Bredwardine Vicarage, Hereford.

LEWKNOR FAMILY.

7 Edward I. Roger de Lewkenor claimed d had the manor of Horstede, i.e., Horsted jynes, in Sussex, which he and his an- stors had owned from time immemorial Sussex Archaeological Collections,' iii. 91). Mr. Weekley in his ' Romance of Names ', 100) has : " Lukner, Du. Luykenaar, Ein from Liege."

The best pedigree is in the volume of iussex Archaeological Collections ' above ioper, F.S.A. Charles Henry Cooper in Lthenae Cantabrigienses,' i. 251, expressed e opinion that Edmund Lewkenor (B.A., 62/3, Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- idge, Mar. 31, 1563), was probably a unger son of Edward Lewkenor, groom- -rter, who was implicated in Sir Thomas yatt's rebellion, and died in the Tower of >ndon in 1556 : but this seems impossible )m a perusal of W. D. Cooper's pedigree id introductory notes. He was much ore likely a brother of Thomas Lewknor,
 * ed, and was compiled by William Durrant
 * amined as a suspected Papist Mar. 24,

176, M.P. for Midhurst 1586 and 1588, id of Richard Lewknor of West Dean, lief Justice of Wales, and son of Edmund 3wknor of Fyning Manor in the parish of ogate. Nevertheless, C. H. Cooper's sug- >stion has been accepted with a query by Dster in his ' Alumni Oxonienses,' and by oase in his ' Registrum Collegii Exoniensis,' 3. 74, 75.

Edmund Lewknor commenced M.A. at imbridge in 1565, but before taking that 3gree migrated to Exeter College, Oxford . 1566, as one of the original Fellows on r William Petre's foundation, and took le degree of M.A. in 1567. Among his npils there were Thomas and John Gerard >ns of Sir Thomas Gerard, of Bryn, Lanes .t., the former of whom became a baronei L 1611, and the fatter a Jesuit in 1588 he latter writes in his autobiography F. Morris, ' The Condition of Catholics under ames I. ' p. xi) :

" At the age of fifteen I was sent to Exeter allege, Oxford, where my tutor was a certain

Hr. Leukner, a good and learned man, and a Catholic in mind and heart. There however I did not stay more than a twelvemonth, as at Easter the heretics sought to force us to attend their worship, and to partake of their counterfeit sacrament. I returned then with my brother to ny father's house, whither Mr. Leukner himself soon followed us, being resolved to live as a atholic in very deed, and not merely in desire. While there, he superintended our Latin studies ! or the next two years, but afterwards going to Belgium, he lived and died there most holily."

Edmund Lewknor resigned his fellowship in 1577, being then Vice -Rector of the College.

On June 5, 1579, he arrived at the English College at Rheims, and received the first tonsure, minor orders, and the subdiaconate at Laon, Sept. 20, 1579, the diaconate at Rheims at the hands of Mgr. Cosine Clausse de Marchaumort, Bishop of Chalons-sur- Marne, Mar. 19, and the priesthood at Soissons between May 25 and 29, 1580, and he said his first mass in the Church of St. Etienne, Rheims, June 16, 1580. He became lecturer on the Catechism in 1585, and apparently continued in that office except for a short holiday in August, 1589, until he left. In December, 1588 he was au- thorized to hear the confessions of all English people of either sex. In May and June, 1590, he gave a seven weeks' course of lectures in logic to the older students. On Aug. 8, 1593, he set out for Douay, and matriculated at the University there in April, 1594 (see Knox, ' Douay Diaries,' passim). He seems to have been the writer of the latter portion of the ' Second Diary ' which came to an end in 1593 (see ' Cath. Rec. Soc. ' vol. x. p. 1, &c.). Boase ten- tatively ascribes to him ' The Estate of the English Fugitives, 1591,' printed in ' Sadler Papers ' ii. 478. Is it known when he died ?

Nicholas Lewkenor entered Winchester College aged 13, from Broadwater, Sussex, in 1529. Possibly he was the illegitimate son of John Lewkenor who was parson of Broadwater 12 Henry VII. Is anything known of him ? The Bursar of Winchester College has kindly sent me the following notes about the Winchester scholar George Lewkner :

1. Winchester College Register : " Nomina Scholarium admissorum Ao Dni 1556. [7th name :] Georgius Lewkner de Tangmer, xij Anno rum in festo Omnium Sanctorum preterite, dioc.] Cichestrensis. [Marginal note :] rec. Oxon."

2. " Liber Successionis et Dignitatis " (compiled from New College records), under year 1562 (the date is of admission to Fellowship after two years of probation): "Jan. 29 [i.e., 1562/3] Georg. Lukener [alias] Lewkener, De villa Tagmer [sic for