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deusieme iour dudit moys et an et a eu pour parains Jehan de sainct simon mon frere et pour marinne Jaqueline lanangour dame de sosseulx laquelle luy a donn nom louyse Et a este baptisee par le cure damblainuylle a la chapelle de sandri- court.

In the same handwriting :

Le vintiesme iour doctobre mil sine sens soy- ssente et quinse qui est le iour des onse mille vierge ma femme est acouchee dung fllz a dis heures du matin et a eu pour parain et pour marinne mon frere le mortemer et mon frere le remon et pour marinne manyesse do vernyeulleet a eu nom claude et a este baptise a lesglise dam- blainylle par le gardien de pontoyse du conuent des cordeliers.

In another handwriting :

Le premier Jour de Decembre mil cinq cens soizante et seize Je fus ne a dis heures du matin Et feu ma merre mourut a sept heures du soir mon parain feu Monsieur de balaincourt et ma maraine Madame de hedonuille Et fus baptise en leglise D 'Amblainuille par Maistre Daniel le febure cure Lors Et fus nomee Louys De Sainct Symon.

Le dizneufuiesme Jotir de febrivier mil siz cens et sept Je fus Marie avec Margueritte de Monceante fille de Monsieur de St. Sanson. Le samedy Cinquiesme Jour de Julliet mil siz cens et huit ma femme est accouchee dun filz a dix heures du Matin et fust baptise le lendemain Et a eu pour parain Monsieur de Sandricourt son grand perre et pour marraine Susanne de Soyecourt sa. . ..

The ancient Seigniory of Saint-Simon of Vermandois came into the possession of Matthieu de Rouvroi, nicknamed Le Borgne, by his marriage with Marguerite de Saint - Simon about A.D. 1332. Matthieu II. de Rouvroi who was killed at Agincourt 1415 had two sons Gaucher and Gilles. The latter, Chamberlain to Charles VII. in 1424, died December 1477, was the founder of that branch which became Dues de S.S.

Fcom Gaucher came two branches the elder of which became extinct in the mid- eighteenth century by the cloath of Henry de Rouvroi Marquis de S.S. Jean de S.S. second son of the grandson of Gaucher came into possession of the Seigniory of Sandri- court on the death of an aunt. He founded the branch of the S.-S.s which took the title of Marquis de Sandricourt. The entries given above refer to this family.

In the seventeenth century there were five branches 01 the Saint -Simons of which the principal were the Comtes and Dues de Saint-Simon and the Marquis de Sandricourt but in 1864 only two branches were in existence that of Sandricourt and Montbleru. Montbleru had regained the title of Due, but it was a Spanish creation granted to Claude Anne Marquis de Saint-Simon by

Ferdinand VII. The Saint-Simons were firm adherents of the Bourbons and shared their fortunes.

M. de la Bedolliere, in his preface to Memoires du Due de Saint-Simon ' (Louis de Rouvroi 1675-1755) Paris 1856, says that the genealogy of the family had been drawn. 1 up by Pere Anselm. Whether this genealogy has ever been published and is available for reference, whether it refers only to the' ducal branch, I do not know. Perhaps the publication of these entries in the Book of Hours is only porter de feuilles au bois. If so, I crave information of the name of the brother of Jehan, Mortimer and Ramon who- made the first entry, and the name of the child whose birth is recorded in the last entry. RORY FLETCHER.

MAPESBURY HOUSE, BRONDESBURY.

WILT/ESDEN LANE has lost much of its rural charm in the all conquering villadom. A few fine old trees survive and there are at least two fragments of hedgerows, but its most interesting survival isMapesbury House r hidden by a brick wall, and indifferent paling at this date, to let on an " occupation? lease "which promises continued preservation..

The site at the highest point of a consider- able rise is notable. The moated manor house of the Prebend of Mapesbury occupied part of the area from an early date, and the records (Ecclesiastical Commissions Survey, 1649) describe in some detail the house and grounds that were then presumably unaltered since the demise of Richard Bancroft, Arch- bishop of Canterbury, who in 1610 be- queathed the property to his nephew,, Richard Bancroft of Willesden, who died in occupation thereof in 1631, leaving the lease to his son Richard who probably possessed it at the date of this survey, 1649.

" A Bridge bowse over the moate, a Porch Entrie and a little stone court leadinge into the Howse, a Hall paved -with Square Tiles, a great Parlor waynescotted with Deale, a Little Parlor, a Celler paved with lurbeck stone, a Dairie Howse, an entrie there with a little Courtyard, a Larder, a Kitchine, paved with Purbeck Stone,^ Butterie there, a Brewinge house, a Pastrie (Pantry ?) a meale house, a little closett there,, one paire of Great Stayres and Entry, Tower Chambers, a clossett over the Great and Little Parlors, one Paire of Backe Staires and Entrie,. with three come chambers there, one Cheese Chamber with a clossett and the Servants Chamber over the Kitchine and entrie ; a Henn Howse,. framed arbour of timber, five orchards an*