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 9* s. iv. SEPT. 193 NOTES AND QUERIES. August, 1701, the manor and castle of Hamburgh, and the manor of Blanchland and all the estates of their late father, Sir William Forster, descended to two females, viz., Dorothy, Lady Crewe, as sister and coheir of William and Ferdinando Forster, and to Thomas Forster, jun. (the rebel general), eldest son and heir of Frances Forster, the only and other sister of William and Ferdinando; and that Lady Crewe and her nephew were heirs general to Sir Win. Forster, knight, all the rest of his children being dead without issue. So that Lady Crewe took one moiety and her nephew Thomas the other—subject to debts. " In Hilary term, 1701, Lord and Lady Crewe and Thomas Forster, jun., exhibited a bill in Chancery, to have a rent charge of 5001. a year, which had been created out of the estates by William Forster, sold for the payment of specialty debts secured on the property. "In Feb., 1701, that was decreed to be done; and Lord Crewe became the possessor of it at 10,OOW. In Easter term, 1704, several creditors exhibited their bill in Chancery against Lord and Lady Crewe and Thos. Forster the younger, to have the estates sold for payment of the general debts, and on the hearing it was decreed that they should be sold. They were accordingly sold, and Lord Crewe became the purchaser at 20,679/. 10.9. He was reported by the Master to be the best bidder, and his report was confirmed by the Court. " This sum included the before-mentioned 10,000/., and besides it was subject to a rent charge of 3501. for Elizabeth, the widow of Wm. Forster, for her life. She afterwards married William, Lord Stawel, and is mentioned in Lord Crewe's will as then enjoying this 350/. a year. "By deeds dated 15 and 16 May, 1709 (enrolled in Chancery), in consideration of this sum the manor and castle of Bamburgh, the towns of Shoreston and Sunderland, the friar's cell of Bamburgh and tithes, Fleetham, the manor of Blanchland with the monastery, and the rectory of Shotley, and all the lands which belonged to Sir Wm., Wm., and Ferdinando Forster in the co. of Northumberland, and also the fishings in the Tweed, the manor and lands of Thornton, Edmund Hills, and other their lands in the county of Durham, were conveyed to trustees upon trust for Lord Crewe, his heirs and assigns for ever, as the purchaser thereof. " After payment of all debts and charges, there remained over for Lady Crewe and her nephew, as vendors, the sum of 1,0281. 15s. Id. only. " Thus it appears that Sir William Foreter and his sons William and Ferdinando had run through all these fine estates by reckless extravagance, and that in a very short space of time. Law proceed- ings began about 1701, and all the estates were sold before 1709 was out, thus proving conclusively that the estates were never forfeited by the rebellion, but sold in due course of law to pay debts by order of the Court of Chancery ; and that when the rebel general committed the act of treason by joining in the rebellion, all his lands had been sold aix years before to pay his debts, and he had not an acre left to bless himself with at the time he joined the Pretender in 1715." All these facts are embodied in the first volume of the new county ' History of North- umberland ' (which deals with the parish of Bamburgh), p. 165. RICHD. WELFORD. ENGLISH RIMES TO FOREIGN WORDS (9th S. iii. 287, 436).— As an example of the natura- lized French word beaux being made to rime with foes, we have the great Lord Kldon s jeu d'esprit on James Allen Park :— James Allen Park Came naked stark From Scotland : But he got clothes, Like other beaux, in England. It would be interesting to learn whether the famous Chancellor had ever by chance met with the subjoined lines of the French poet and dramatist Ponsard. If he had done so, he perhaps found in them— more or less unconsciously— the germ of his own wit- ticism : — Et Ton voit des commis Mis Comme des princes Qui jadis sont venus Nus De leurs provinces. E. M. S. Chichester. MOTTO POTTERY (9th S. iv. 128).— Some of the quaint pottery made of Devonshire clay, and sold at watering-places upon the south-west coast, &c., is fashioned from old designs, but more is not. Neither are many of the couplets, to which, however, ancient dates are added haphazard. The same sort of practice is general in Wardour Street, W., where modern antique furniture is largely sold. At the Chicago World's Fair Exhibition in 1893 a man from Shefiield exhibited much apparently ancient oak furniture with various dates— ranging from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century— cut thereupon. The American people patronized him largely, and all his exhibits might have been sold to United States customers many times over. The bluff Yorkshireman in ques- tion— with whom I had many pleasant chats during the World's Fair season— never pre- tended, at least to me, that his wares were old ; they were simply replicas from ancient models or sketches. HARKY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter. INSULANUS" (9th S. iv. 89).— I have a copy of ' A Treatise on the Second Sight, Dreams, and Apparitions,' <fcc., Edin- burgh, 1763, 12mo. On its title-page, above "By Theophilus Insulanus," a former pos- sessor has written in pencil, " By Mac Leod of Hammer"; and beneath the pseudonym, also in pencil, has added, " i. e., Mac Leod of Hammer." My copy contains the book-plate of Mary