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 12 s. VIIT. FEB. ID, 1921] NOTES AND QUERIES. 155 his elder brother Malcolm, a Major-General dn the Swedish Army, were both created Barons of Sweden in 1689. They were the sons, by Jean Somerville, of John or Johan Hamilton, who settled in Sweden, a younger brother of Hugo Hamilton, created Lord Hamilton of Glenawly in 1661, and son of Malcolm Hamilton of Ballygally and Moyner, co. Tyrone, Archbishop of Cashel, who died in 1629. Unfortunately, the heraldry of the Hamiltons makes no men- tion of daughters. C. K. S. M. EDWARD BOOTY (12 S. viii. 89).- MR. ROE will find some account (with portraits^ of Frederick William Booty, artist, in The Philatelic Record', June, 1905, pp. 110-116, and in The Stamp Lover, March, 1910, pp. 211-214. P. J. AXDERSOX. University, Aberdeen. REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES : PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (12 S. viii. 8, 34, 54, 76, 111). The library of the Bucks Archaeo- logical Society is at the County Museum, Church Street, Aylesbury. This library contains all the important works on Bucks history and topography, also a collection of parish histories and monographs. The MSS. collection includes : The Gough MSS. dealing with the Xew- port Hundreds. The Lipscomb MSS. biographical ccJlgc- tion (presented by the late Sir Arthur Liberty). ^ The County Treasurer's Rolls for the eighteenth century, more than 200 bundles. A collection of Bucks deeds and Manor Court Rolls, seventeenth and . eighteenth centuries about 800 in number. MSS. Hi.st. of Buckingham (Rev. T. Silvester). About fifty parish registers in MS., some of which are incomplete. A copy of Aylesbury register, 40,000 entries, &c. W. BRADBROOK, Hon. Secretary. The Museum, Church Street. Aylesbury. County of Shropshire. The Shrewsbury Public Library contains a very large collec- tion of local books, manuscripts, and deed-. and there is <> printed e.-.tr.logue of the boo'---. The manuscripts are /Mostly of genealogical or historical interest, which include some fifty volumes of pedigrees; the others have in the County. There are about one thou- sand deeds (mostly catalogued), and these relate entirely to families and property. The list under Shropshire in Humphreys's County Bibliography contains 155 items. H. T. BEDDOWS. Public Librjry, Sh ewslmry. Some yea-rs ago, when chairman of the " Books " Committee of the Free Library, at Shrewsbury, I did what I could strongly backed by members of this Committee, and the Council of the Shropshire Archaeo- logical Society to start on the lines sug- gested by MR. GEORGE SHERWOOD, who gives a very good idea of what is required. We obtained by means of special sub- scriptions and gifts, many valuable county deeds, pedigrees, and such like : especially all the deeds concerning the county of Salop, which were formerly in possession of the late Mr. Henr Cray. These we owe to the generosity of Sir Offley Wakeman. Also, there are in the library a number of deeds relating to the same county, and to the counties of Worcester and Hereford, which are there on " Permanent Loan." 1 have always tried to impress on people that all books, pedigrees, deeds, Poll-books, assessments for taxation, &c., should be found in the public library of the county town, so that any person desiring to note such matters connected with the particular county, need only go to this place for the bulk of the information, and save much time and money. I think that there should be a separate card -index for books and MSS. relating to the history, and another for genealogy. The Poll-books ere of great conseouence, as they show up to a certain date the names of all Freeholders. HERBERT SOUTHAM. Loxley TIousc, Woking. SHILLETO (US. ix. 71, 136, 212. 296, 335). The Rev. William Shilleto (1817- 1883), Vicar of Gooshaigh, Lanes, who collected much information on the origin and genealogy of his family, declared that the Shilletos came to England a,s Flemish merchants and settled in the West Riding of Yorks, during the reign of Edward III., and that the name owed its derivation to the River Schelte in Flanders. That trp-clition, lie declared, had been handed down to successive generations from a very early date. I have since discovered that a family of the name was still residing at Ypres in Flanders in the seventeenth century and that at the Revocation of the Edict of
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