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of the third in January, 1581. All attempts to establish his constituency upon this occasion have so far failed. In 1571 he represented Plymouth, but there does not seem to have been any vacancy in that borough between 1572 and 1583 which he could have been called on to fill. Nor can I trace, with any degree oi probability, any other Devonshire seat which fell vacant within the time, and for which the sitting member is not known. The session of Parliament in which he sat closed on 24 April, 1581, and two years later Sir Humphrey sailed on his final and fatal voyage. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newbon-le- Willows.

SHELLEY FAMILY. The 'D.N.B.,' Hi. 41, recognizes only four sons of Sir William Shelley, viz. (1) John, (2) Sir Eichard (3) Sir James, and (4) Sir Edward. It appears from Laderchius's continuation of Baronius, vol. iii. p. 199, that he had a fifth son, Thomas, who was an exile for his faith in 1570. Nicholas Sanders ('De Visib. Mon.,' vii. 704) says that this Thomas was a J.P. for Hants, and went into exile with his three sons, one of whom was a Carthusian. One of Sir William's daughters was the mother of Sir Thomas Copley (' D.N.B.,' xii. 189).

William Shelley, of Michel Grove, succeeded his father, Sir William's eldest son, John, in 1550. In 1564 he was one of the Justices of the Peace for Sussex notified by the Bishop to the Privy Council as being " myslykers of religion and godlye proceedings'"'; and again in 1576 his name is among those of justices suspected of recusancy, together with J. Shelley of Patcham, Esq., and Richard fehelley, late of Worminghurst, gent. William Shelley died in 1597, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John.

I presume that the Thomas Shelley who entered Winchester College at the age of twelve in 1555 from Michelgrove, Sussex was the son of William. This Thomas was lellow of New College in 1563, and was deprived "for refusing to attend divine service ' in 1567. He went abroad before 29 January, 1576/7 (unless it be the older ihomas to whom reference is made, Strype Ann.,' II. ii. 596), and, as the ' Douay Diaries ! tell us, arrived at the English College Rheims on 22 September, 1584, and left on the following 11 February for Paris to join the Jesuits. His subsequent history is unknown to me.

Sir Richard Shelley and his nephew Kichard (? great-nephew) were both in Rome m February 1570, giving evidence against Queen Elizabeth (Laderchius, op. cit*. In

May, 1583, the queen sent both him and his "nephew Shelley of Michel Grove" passports enabling them to return. Sir Richard apparently made no use of his, but his nephew Richard did, for in 1585 we find him presenting a petition (cf. Strype, 'Ann.,' III. i. 185, 432), in consequence 'of which he was brought to trial, and as he refused to disallow the deposing power of the Pope, he was com- mitted to the Marshalsea, where he eventually died.

Another member of the family was the venerable martyr Edward Shelley, described by Challoner as being " of the family of the Shelleys of Sussex," who suffered at Tyburn 30 August, 1588.

It may not be amiss to note (1) that the ' D.N.B.,' Hi. 40, gives the date of Sir Thomas Tresham's death wrongly (it should be 8 March, 1558/9, and is rightly given 'D.N.B.,' Ivii. 204), and (2) that it erroneously implies that Sir Richard Shelley was never in England after Queen Mary's death. It is clear he was in England for a time, and went abroad in 1559, either, as he tells the Pope, to avoid having to take the oath contained in the Supremacy Act (Laderchius, op. cit. p. 198), or, as he tells the queen, to recover a debt of 3,000 crowns (Strype, 'Ann.,' I. i. 261 ; III. i. 185). JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

"Do YOU KEN JOHN PEEL?" The Daily Telegraph of the 19th inst. records the death at the age of eighty-eight, at Greenrigg, Cald- beck, of Mrs. Richardson, the last surviving daughter of John Peel, the famous Cumber- land huntsman and hero of the well-known hunting song. N. S. S.

DR. D. DUNCAN. In Dr. Smiles's work The Huguenots: their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland,' it is stated that Dr. Daniel Duncan was the last pastor of the French Church at Bideford. This is erroneous, for Barnstaple was the bown in which he resided, ministering to the Huguenot congregation that had for three quarters of a century worshipped in an ancient chapel which was used as the Grrammar School in Dr. Duncan's time, as it is still. In it John Gay received his early education. This domicile of Dr. Duncan is established by the following entry in the Barnstaple parish register : ' " Rev. Dr. Duncan buried June 10th, 1761," and by a nonument erected to his memory, now un- mppily missing, but in existence " within the Communion, against the north wall " of Barn- staple parish church, in 1769, the inscription on which commenced, " Reconditur in Cceme- terio ad orientern plagam quidquid mortale