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 las. vm. APBILSO, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 341 LONDON. APRIL 30. 1921. CONTENTS. No. 159. NOTES : Legay of Southampton and London, 341 Aldeburgh : Extracts from Chamberlains' Account- Book, 343 Assheton of Salford and Penn of Pennsylvania, 345 Among the Shakespeare Archives, 346 Ascension Day : A Warwickshire Custom Joseph Austin, Actor (1735-182]) Neology, 347. QUERIES : Eighteenth- Century Naval and Military Funds Rights and Duties of Functionaries " Venetian Window," 347 Pictures of Covent Garden Parsons Family Paul Lucas : His ' Journey through Asia Minor ' A Slice of Bread and Butter Francis and John Ander- son, Writers to the Signet, Edinburgh Robinson Crusoe's Island Record in Longevity, 348 Predecessors of ' Edwin Drood ' Sullivan, Itinerant Bookseller Novel Wanted : ' The Vagabond ' Michael Kenyon Meaning of Motto Wanted, 349 " Amtmann " Music in the Early XVIIIth Century" The Joseph Hume of Dorsetshire " Mary Russell Mitford's Lottery Prize : 1799 " Geen " Whisky Sir Roger de Coverley Dance, 350. REPLIES : Book Borrowers, 350 The Death of William Rufus Cherry Orchards of Kent, 352 The Habeas Corpus Act The Roman Numerical Alphabet Old London : The Cloth Fair, 353 Banquo Sherington : Old Church Registers Hunger Strike in the Fourteenth Century Tavern Signs : " Flying Scud " Giuseppe Parini, 354 Publications of Frederick Locker- Lampson Regattas The Year's Round of Children's Games " The Haven under the Hill " Tribal Hidages, 355 Raining in the Sunshine Patricius Walker : " Juan de Vega "--" Source of Lines Wanted," 356 " Four- Bottle Men " Carew Family of Beddington, Surrey, Bart. Isaac Walton Lilian Adelaide Neilson M. Gor- don, Minor Poet The Golden Ball " Britisher " v. " Briton," 357' The Golden Manual 'Gray's ' Elegy ' Culbin Sands Katharine Tudor of Berain, 58 Author Wanted, 359. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of Sir Willam Osier ' ' Cambridge Plain Texts ' The Print Collector's Quarterly. Notices to Correspondents. LEGAY OF SOUTHAMPTON AND LONDON. THE following outline of the story of a family which attained local importance in the seventeenth century has some interest in itself and will be useful to genealogists. The principal sources which have been used are four. (1) The registers of the Walloon church at Southampton and the French church in London, printed by the Huguenot Society. (2) An interesting little note -book in the British Museum (Egerton MS. 868) containing a list of the mayors and other officials of Southampton from 1471 to 1671, with a number of general, local and family particulars entered under the different years. These entries are in various hands and made at different times, but all seem to be by members of the Delamotte family, including Philip Dela- motte, who was the first minister of the local Walloon congregation, from 1585 until his death in 1617. The chief con- tributor, however, was his son, Joseph Delamotte, mayor of the town in 1651, and the entries cease at his death. Among other things, Joseph records that he became a burgess in 1634 at a cost of 30, and that in 1641 "the ship called the Mayflower" was sent to guard the port. (3) Various wills at Somerset House. (4) Chancery pleadings. There are many references to the Legays in the Calendars of State Papers, but a knowledge of the pedigree is necessary for the use of them. I. The story of the family in England begins with Pierre le Gay of Armentieres in Flanders, who was admitted to the Lord's Supper at Southampton in 1569, and is frequently mentioned in the registers, as godfather or witness, down to 1601. He married as his first wife Janne Bus of Valenciennes on February 11, 1570/1, when the parties showed by writing that their fathers consented. The names of the parents are not given, and from consent being given by writing it seems probable that they had not come over to England. This first wife died August 23, 1590, and was buried at Southampton the same day. Peter married, secondly, at the Flemish church in London, on July 11, 1592, Catherine de Behout of Antwerp. He died of the severe plague that visited Southampton in the summer of 1604, and was buried June 26. There were 87 deaths from the plague, including infants, in this refugee congregation alone. By the first marriage there were two sons Abraham and Isaac ; and six daughters Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Sara, Esther, and Judith. Of Abraham, baptized November 15,1571, nothing further is recorded. Isaac continued the line as below. Eliza- beth (baptized November 4, 1576) married Isaac Roussel of London ; Jane (March 8, 1579) married Jan Gorion or Jon-yon, and went to London also, their sons being baptized there. Mary (June 25, 1581) married Paul Latelais. Sara (December 22, 1583) married Jean Chapelin. Esther (March 31, 1586) married, first, Peter 1'Escaillet, and, secondly, Jean Lourdel of London. Judith (July 28, 1588) married James Guyot in 1612. II. Isaac (Isacq) le Gay, second son of Pierre, was baptized August 16, 1573, and