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 460 NOTES AND QUERIES. P* s. iv. dec. 2, m The second piece of evidence is a memo- randum said to be by Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, amongst the Carte MSS. in the Bodleian Library, stating (as a correction to Dugdale's ' Peerage ') " that the Peerage of Wharton was founded by Patent, and not by Writ." The paper is certainly not in Lord Wharton's writing, but was wrongly attri- buted to him by the compiler of the MS. index to the volume, which dates from about 1750. It is significant that the correction is not adopted by Carte himself in some MS. corrections he made in a copy of Dugdale's ' Peerage' now in the Bodleian Library, although several other statements contained in the paper are. On the whole, therefore, it seems safest to conclude that no " patent" for the Wharton peerage ever existed, but that, like Lords vaux of Harrowden and Windsor, Lord Wharton was summoned to the House of Peers by writ, and, consequently, the barony goes in the female line. It is im- probable that many private papers of Philip, Duke of Wharton, are still in existence. Some are to be found in the MSS. Depart- ment of the British Museum. May I venture to suggest that if the patent ever existed, or if it be still in existence, it might be in one or other of the following libraries or muniment rooms: Duke of Buccleuch's ; Earl of Ancaster's, representing heirs of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, by his first wife Elizabeth Wandesford ; Sir Simon Lockhart's, representing the Lockhart family, into which the Hon. Philadelphia Wharton married ; those belonging to representatives of Lord Protector Seymour, such as the Duke of Somerset or Lord Hertford ? Finally, con- sidering how many of the Hertford papers found their way into the Hamilton collec- tion, I should be very sorry, were I claiming the peerage, to leave the papers sold from that collection to the German Government, and now, I believe, at Berlin, uninvestigated. I may add that Philip, fourth Lord Wharton, was evidently a great student of peerage law, as long^ notes taken for him of trials relating to claims for titles exist in the Bodleian Library. It would be interesting to know if Philip, Duke of Wharton, thought any of his titles could go to females. In a paper in the MSS. Department of the British Museum, purport- ing to be a "copy" of his letter of June, 172G, from Madrid, to his sister Lady Jane Holt, written to explain his conversion to Jacobitism, he speaks of " all the honours of our family " becoming extinct with him; but such a random assertion is of lit'ile value. It is, of course, possible that the patent for the Wharton peerage found its way with him to Spain, as ne seems to have had several family valuables with him, in which case it probably was with him when he died in 1731 at the convent of Poblet in Catalonia, so that even now it might turn up amongst the relics of convent libraries and muniment rooms pre- served at Madrid, Barcelona, and elsewhere in Spain. As he was colonel of the regiment of Hibernia in the Spanish service and a person of great notoriety, his death was cer- tainly reported officially to the authorities at Madrid, and, as usual in such cases, precau- tions would be taken for the preservation of his papers, some of which are now amongst the Anglo - Spanish MSS. in the British Museum. But, as the case stands at present, the barony of Wharton must be held to be a barony by writ, as it was declared to be by the House of Lords in 1845. W. H. "Tiffin" (9th S. iv. 345, 425).—In my note at the first reference I did not claim that I had made a discovery ; but I was not aware that it had been noted before. The word is in Grose's ' Dictionary,' where it may have been seen by very many people. Prof. Skeat tells us that he has said this twice," that the word " is Anglo-Indian, but it was taken to India by Englishmen, being of provincial English origin. 1 do not know where he has " said this twice," for, on looking into his 'Etymological Dictionary,' I.fail to find "tiffin" at all. Referring to the 'Supple- ment,' however, I find it with a quotation from Wedgwood, who cites Grose, on which Prof. Skeat remarks, "I cannot find it in Grose (ed 1790)." Well, I have now given him the correct reference to Grose's edition of 1785 ; and the same explanation is to be found in that of 1823. If it does not occur in the intermediate editions, it is a strange thing. Julian Marshall. Churches washed away by the Sea (9th S. iv. 249, 330. 426).—Four or five years ago I saw a church standing in the sea, close to Happisburgh, in Norfolk. One could walk to it at low tide. It has, I believe, since fallen down. I fancy the ruins of another church in the sea were visible in the same neighbourhood, but the names of the places escape me. H. K. H. The Saxon princess Eanswyth founded a priory upon the cliff at Folkestone, and dedicated its chapel to the honour of St. Peter. She was, in due course, buried within its walls. The old historian Lombard records that the encroaching sea destroyed