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Edward Kempe fforty shillings and noe more, for that I have taken him a lease in reversion after my decease of the farm called Cletter- house where in I now dwell," &c.; he also mentions his son-in-law William Marsh, husband of his daughter Rose. In 1610 several persons were convicted for stealing a shawl and other articles from the house of this Edward Kemp (vide Middlesex Session Rolls). His will was proved 1649 (P.C.C. 184, Fairfax), and his son Thomas then held Clitterhouse till 1667 (will P.C.C. 170, Carr). The latter mentions three sons, all of whom succeeded him. Edward, the eldest, was shot by James Slader, the highwayman, while attempting to stop a gang who were eventu- ally brought to justice and executed at Harnpstead in 1674 (vide 'The Confession of Four Highwaymen,' 1674). He was buried at Hendon, and his will was proved the same year (Commissary Court, April). Thomas Kemp, the second son, died a few months later, leaving a son Thomas, who was a major in the army, of whom see later. Daniel Kempe, the third son, also succeeded to Clitterhouse in 1674. He purchased Goodyers, Hendon, in 1698, and added considerably to his freehold, copyhold, and leasehold lands. By his will, proved 1712 (Commissary Court, August), he bequeathed his lease of Clitter- house (and other lands enumerated) to his son Daniel Kempe. The last named died in 1747, and his will (proved that year in Commissary Court, May) mentions three sons : first, Daniel, who died in 1763 with- out issue j second, John Kemp, who suc- ceeded ; and William Kemp. This John Kemp was an apothecary who lived chiefly at Dover Street, Piccadilly, and Knights- bridge, but retained Clitterhouse till the time of his death in 1795 (will P.C.C. 696, Newcastle).

Major Thomas Kempe, of the Tower of London, died in 1727 (will P.C.C. 16, Brook) leaving six children, viz. :

John Kemp, who lived to ninety years of age, and was buried at Hendon in 1788.

The Rev. Thomas Kemp, D.D., Rector of St. Michael's, Crooked Lane, and of Cheam, Surrey, who married Lady Mary Banff, and was buried in Cheam Church in 1769 (will P.C.C. 285, Bogg), leaving no issue.

Daniel Kemp, of the Mint, Provost of the Company of Money ers, and of the Ordnance Office, who died at Great Ormond Street, Bloorasbury, in 1797 (will P.C.C. 172, Exeter), leaving no issue, his son having been shot by a footpad in Marylebone.

Elizabeth Kemp, buried at Kingsbury, Middlesex, 1782 (will P.C.C. 138, Gostling).

Ellin Kemp, who married Edward Short, the secretary of the Ordnance Department.

Mary Kemp, who died unmarried in 1763 (will P.C.C. 135, Csesar).

Of this family also was William Kemp, who converted the Perilous Pond into the Peerless Pool, which for many years was a fashionable resort. He died in 1756 (will P.C.C. 339, Glazier), leaving five sons and two daughters.

The arms used by the family during the eighteenth century were Sable, three garbs or, but the earliest silver bears Gules, three garbs or, within a burdure engrailed, and the crest of the Kemps of Ollantigh is shown on the family tombs at Hendon ; but whether Richard Kempe of "Wilsden," above men- tioned, was of the Kentish stock, there ap- pears to be no proof pro or con.

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP.

Beechfield Road, Catford.

MOATED MOUNDS (9 th S. v. 309). I did not see the contribution sent by the late G. T. Clark to the Archaeological Journal of Sep- tember, 1889. Thus I have no means of know- ing whether it contains though MR. J. A. RUTTER'S list of additions does not any mention of the following example. Close to the village of Seckington, co. Warwick, in a field adjoining the turnpike road from Tarn- worth to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, and about two miles from the point at which that road passes Statfold (my native place), is a very large mound, known to all the people about as Seckington Mount, surrounded by a very well-marked moat, and having close to it a second and smaller mound. This mount is indicated, and by that name, in the Ordnance maps. " EDWARD P. WOLFERSTAN.

p.S, I have searched the Journal of the Archaeological Association of the date given, but do not find the contribution, &c., mentioned by MR, RUTTER, and I therefore conclude that he refers to some other pub- lication.

"No DEAF NUTS" (9 th S. v. 316). M. C. L. desires to know what these words mean. The expression would seem to have been employed, at many times and in many languages, to denote anything of little value. Sir Walter Scott makes use of it, not only in his 'Journal,' but also in the twenty-fourth chapter of the ' Pirate,' where old Swertha, talking of the mysterious gold chain worn by young Mordaunt Mertoun, says that its value might "mount to a hundred punds English, and that is nae deaf nuts."

Again, Lessing employs the same ex-