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 xii. NOV. 21, 1903.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 21, 1903.

CONTENTS. -No. 308.

NOTES : Fawkener and Crewe, 401 Jonson. Harvey, and Nashe, 403 Penkill Castle -Pontius Pilate : Theodoras " Bethluisnion," 405 The Founders of the Alpine Club "Number Eleven "=Umbrella The Fish a Symbol of Christ " Tacamahnca," 406 Survivors of Queen Vic- toria's Second Parliament Buonymus Margaret Finch, the Gipsy Queen Madame Humbert and the Crawfords, 407.

QUERIES : Neapolitan Marvels Thomson : Thompson- House of Commons, 1640 St. Bees College, 408 Epitaph at Qravesend Clement's Inn Kingsley's 'Farewell' Ivory Sceptre of George I. Gould Public and Grammar School Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, 400 Wymond- ham Guilds Game Muir Family Mrs. Anne Bradford Leeuwenhoek, 410.

REPLIES : Queen Elizabeth and New Hall, Essex, 410 'The Abbey of Kilkhampton' Shakespeaie and Lord Burleigh, 411 "Tabby all over "Col. Horton Primrose Superstition "Clameur de haro" Pews attached to Houses Bull Plain, Hertford Basilicas, 412 General Francis Nicholsi-n Folk-lore of Childbirth Epitaph at Doncaster, 413 Bath and Buxton Animals in People's Inaides, 414 Privy Council under James I. "Parting of the ways" The "Ship," Greenwich John Dowland Count Szapary, 415 Evil Spirits and Irikbottles Origin of the Turnbulls, 416 St. William of Aquitaine Man- gosteen Markings "Lord Palatine," 417 Mrs Jordan in Dublin Lady Arabella Stuart : Dr. Fulton, 418.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations' ' Edinburgh Review 'Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

FAWKENER AND CREWE.

IN a letter to Thomas Wharton dated 22 April, 1760 (edit. Gosse, 1884, iii. 33), Gray relates the following pleasant anecdote :

" I could repay you with the story of my Lady F 1 ', but (I doubt) you know my sow already, especially as you dwell near Raby. However, I'll venture: it may happen you have not heard it. About two months ago Mr. Creswick (the D. of Cleveland's managing man) received an anonymous letter as from a lady, offering him (if he would bring about a- match between her and his lord) 3,000/. to be paid after marriage out of the estate. If he came into the proposal, a place was named, where he might speak with the party. He carried the letter directly to the old Lady Darlington, and they agreed, he should go to the place. He did so, and found there a man, agent for the Lady: but refusing to treat with any but principals, after a little difficulty was conducted to her in person, and found it was my Lady F. (S r . Ev. F.'s fine young widow). What passed between them I know not: but that very night she was at Lady DarKs Assembly (as she had used to be) and no notice taken. The next morning she received a card to say, Lady D. had not expected to see her, after what had passed : otherwise she would have ordered her porter not to let her in. The whole affair was immediately told to everybody. Yet she had continued going about all public places tete levee, and solemnly denying the whole to her acquaintance. Since that I hear she owns it, and

says her children were unprovided for, and desires to know which of her friends would not have done the same? but as neither of these expedients suc- ceed very well, she has hired a small house, and is going into the country for the summer."

The audacious young widow who thus set her cap at an elderly duke in a gallant attempt to provide for her fatherless children was Harriet, a natural daughter of General Charles Churchill, and relict of Sir Everard Fawkener, Knt. The object of her pursuit was William FitzRoy, third Duke of Cleve- land and second Duke of Southampton, who was born 19 February, 1697/8, and was con- sequently in his sixty-third year at the date of this assault. He died 12 'May, 1774, and his dukedoms expired with him. The " old Lady Darlington" was his sister Grace, the wife of Henry Vane, Lord Barnard, who was created Earl of Darlington in 1754. The Dukedom of Cleveland was revived in the person of their grandson in 1833, and has again become extinct.

Sir Everard Fawkener was a well-known character in the days of George II., and is frequently mentioned in the 'Letters of Horace Wai pole,' who was connected with him in a left-handed manner, his natural sister Lady Mary Walpole having married a brother of Lady Fawkener. Sir Everard belonged to a merchant's family in London, and was born in 1684. Up to his fiftieth year he was engaged in commerce. In 1735 he was knighted, and nominated ambassador to Constantinople. In 1745 he was appointed secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, and accompanied him to Scotland when the duke proceeded to that country in command of the troops employed in the suppression of the Rebellion. The Gentleman's Magazine records that on 19 February, 1747, he married Miss Churchill, daughter of the late General Churchill, with 30,000/. About a month afterwards he gave evidence at the trial of Lord Lovat, and, as Walpole records, when the latter was asked if he had anything to say to Sir Everard. he replied, "No; but that he was his humble servant, and wished him joy of his young wife." Lady Fawkener was born about the year 1726, and was therefore twenty-one at the time of her marriage, but she had entered society some years previously. Walpole, in a letter to Sir Horace Mann dated 2 November, 1741, when she was only fifteen, said of her that she was prettyish and danced well. She was therefore about thirty-four when she made her advances to the Duke of Cleveland, and doubtless merited Gray's description of her as a "fine young widow." Sir Everard had been appointed Joint Postmaster-General with the Earl of