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 9". S. IV. July 15,'99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 51 School 11 March, 1670/1, and elected thence to_ St. John's College, Oxford, 11 June, being matriculated 27 June (and subscribing 4 July), 1671, but did not graduate; admitted of the Middle Temple 12 Feb., 1672/3 ; called to the bar there 21 May, 1680, and made a bencher 1706; J.P., co. Surrey; elected M.P. for Reigate 22 July, 1698, 3 Jan., 1700/1, 21 Nov., 1701, 17 July. 1702, and 8 May, 1705; steward to the celebrated John ("Sylva") Evelyn, of Wootton, co. Surrey, at his first manorial courts in that county, September, 1701, when he was paid for the six days' attendance six guineas, and Mr. Martin, his clerk, three guineas ; in April, 1704 (and probably earlier and later), he had chambers in Brick Court, Temple ; made a Welsh judge (loco Wm. Peisley) 3 June, 1706 ; died 24 May, 1707, and was buried in his vault in the parish church of East Betchworth 26 same month; his will, dated 31 Aug., 1706, was proved 17 June following (P.C.C., "Poley," to. 143). He married, 15 Aug., 1693, his cousin, Anne Harvey, second daughter of John Harvey, of St. Mary-at-Hill, London, Turkey merchant and treasurer of the Levant (or Turkey) Company, by Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of John Bar- nard (or Bernard) of Stowford, co. Somerset, Esq. j and by her—who was born in St. Mary- at-Hill 21 (or 31) Jan., 1670/1, and buried at East Betchworth 17 Aug., 1744—had issue four sons, John (the Welsh judge), Stephen (bencher of the Middle Temple), Martin, and William (M.D.)—the two latter being twins— and four daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, Dorothy, and Frances. Concerning these children (with the exception of John, as below) I do not deem it necessary for your querist's pur- poses to state more. John Hervey, the eldest son, was of Essex Court, Temple, London, and of East Betch- worth. He was born in June, 1C96, and baptized at the latter place 25 same month ; admitted of the Middle Temple 17 May, 1709; called to the bar there; made a bencher 23 Nov., 1723 ; appointed a Welsh judge (loco Henry Proctor, deceased) 4 Feb., 1744/5 ; M.P. for Reigate 16 Feb., 1738/9, and for Walling- ford, co. Berks, 1754-64 ; died at his chambers in Essex Court 30 July, 1764, and was buried at East Betchworth 8 following month. His will, dated 5 Aug., 1763, was proved 2 Aug., 1764 (P.C.C., " Simpson," fo. 309). He married, e. 1731, Anne, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Des Bouverie, of Chart Sutton, co. Kent, and of London, Knt., by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of Ralph Free- man, of East Betchworth, Esq.; and by her (who died 1 April, 1757, and was buried at the latter place 11 same month) had issue two sons, Christopher and John—of whom I will only add that the last-named died vitd patris 9 Jan., 1758, under the age of twenty- one years. These Herveys (whose arms were Gules, on a bend argent three trefoils slipped vert, on a canton or a leopard's face or the field) certainly descended from the Harveys who were yeomen of West Walton, co. Norfolk, during at least some part of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; but they claimed earlier descent (the evidence in proof of which is, however, apparently wanting) from a family of the same name, lords of Thurleigh, co. Bedford. Among their ancestors were Stephen Hervey, of Cotton End, in Hardings- ton, co. Northampton, auditor of the Duchy of Lancaster to Queen Elizabeth and James I.; Sir Fras. Hervey, Judge of the Common Pleas, 1624; and Sir Stephen Hervey, made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. The Rev. James Hervey, author of ' Medita- tions among the Tombs,' was also their kins- man. W. I. R. V. Prickly Peae (9th S. iii. 469).—The Western Daily Mercury (Plymouth) for 19 June, in its Australian letter, dated Sydney, 9 May, under the heading of 'An Australian Vegetable Pest,' gives the following :— "An old lady died recently at Singleton, in New South Wales, who possessed the unenviable reputa- tion of having introduced the prickly pear, one of the most destructive vegetable pests in Australia, to the northern half of the colony. She used to boast that, over sixty years ago, she carried, a leaf of the pest in a riot to the residence of a medical man in the township, where she was employed. The plant was then regarded as a curiosity, and was used for hedges. Very quickly, however, it spread all over the district, and it is now hard to find an acre of land in these parts free from it, while hun- dreds and thousands of acres of the poorer classes of land are entirely overrun with it. It is stated that the work of eradicating and keeping down the pest has cost one landowner over 10,000/., and a couple of brothers engaged in pastoral pursuits a similar sum, while other large estates nave been proportionately handicapped. Harry Hems. Fair Park, Exeter. See 8th S. viii. 188, 254, at which references the same question is asked and answered. C. C. B. Poets and the Tender Passion (9th S. iii. 467).—The avowal of Pushkin, noted by Mr. Marchant, is certainly frank enough ; "but I should think it could be equalled. The first part quoted (" Le premier amour est toujours une affaire de sentiment Le second est une affaire de volupte, voyez-vous ?") had