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 166 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a ix. A. 27, mi. altar with, dexter, arms, Barry of six or et gu. on a band sa., three escallops of the first ; sinister, Lightfoot impaling arms or (?) az;. Two sons of his are known, John and Richard. The first, John, evidently he who caused the above memorial to be erected, was born about 1598, and was entered at Gray's Inn in 1617. He married about 1625 Elizabeth Phelips, a daughter of Francis Phelips, one of the auditors of the Exchequer, by whom he had 13 children, eight being sons and five daughters, namely, 1. John 7. Philip 2. Francis 8. Robert 3. George 9. Elizabeth 4. William 10. Mary 5. Richard 11. Anne 6. Edmund 12. Jane 13. Elizabeth. The first son, John, seems to have taken up a naval career, and there is little doubt but that he was the Captain John Lightfoot who commanded the Speedwell in 1665, and subsequently the Elizabeth, of 40 guns, losing the latter ship to the Dutch in the Chesapeake, for which he was tried by court- martial and sentenced to 12 months' im- prisonment in the Marshalsea, and not to be further employed In the inquiry it was stated, on the affidavit of the owner of the Handmaid, " a ship lately returned from Virginia " that Capt. Lightfoot had a day's notice of four Dutch ships coining into James River, and had he gone to the assistance of Capt. Conway, who fought for six hours, the enemy ships might have been taken, but instead he went to a wedding with a wench he brought out from England. The Elizabeth only fired one gun, whea?. she was captured and burnt. John Lightfoot married Elizabeth, daughter of John Taylor, of Maidstone, Kent, but had no issue. It is believed he continued a sea- faring life after his imprisonment, trading on his own account, possibly with Antigua, and died at sea off Surinam about 1682. Francis, the second son, lived at Rye, Sussex, and married Lucy Fuller, daughter of Davee Fuller, Esq., of Chamberhouse, Berks, and left two sons and two daughters. George, the third son, died young. William, the fourth son, born about 1632, entered Gray's Inn, 1653, and became one of the Attorneys in the Lord Mayor's Court, and Registrar of the Charterhouse, then Button's Hospital. He married Catharine, daughter of Robert and Bethia Abbott, of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, and had three sons and one daughter. A handsome mural tablet to her memory was placed in the Guildhall Chapel, and on the demolition of this was transferred to the west wall of the Church of St. Lawrence, Old Jewry, where it now is and bears the inscription : Pise Memoriae Catharinae Lightfoot Filiae Robert Abbott Gen. Praecharissimae Conjugis William Lightfoot. Unius e quatuor clericis in curia Dni Majoris hujus civitatis Femina exemplaris virtutis et prudentiae Vixit in sanctissimo matrimonio xi annos Et obiit in flore aetatis Casibus puerperii. XVii die February A.D. 1677. et hinc juxta est sita expectans felicem resurrectionem per Jesum Christum. Amen. William died in 1699, and t his request was buried near his father in the Guildhall Chapel. His tombstone has not apparently been preserved, but Hetton's ' View of London ' describes it as a grey marble slab near the entrance, and inscribed with the words : Hie jacet Gu. Lightfoot Gen. quondam unius e quatuor Attorn, in curia Dom. Majoris infra hanc civitatem nuper Registrant Hospitii Tho. Button. Ar. qui obiit 2 die Jan 1699. Etat suae 67. Resurgam. Richard, the fifth son, became an Ex- chequer auditor, married Elizabeth Hatt, daughter of John Hatt, Bar. -at -Law, and had a son, Richard, born 1675. It would be interesting to know if this Richard wes the ancestor of the Lightfoots of Antigua mentioned in Miss Pendered's ' Hannah Lightfoot,' there being some reason to suppose he was. Edmund, the next son, became a merchant tailor of London, marrying Elizabeth Gawdren, daughter of Edward Gawdren, a clothworker of London, and they had a son, John, born 1672. Philip, the seventh son, was one of the early emigrants to Virginia, and was cer- tainly in Gloucester Co. in 1670, but history seems to have erred in stating that he was there with his brother John. Crozier's ' Virginia Heraldica ' is responsible for this, and goes on to give the names of the wife and children of this John, who became Audit or- General of Virginia and Commander- in-Chief of New Kent Co., dying in 1707. He was obviously not the naval captain who died in 1682. Philip became Justice of the Peace for the Upper District of James