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 9- 8. VL SEPT. 8,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 191 London. 5 Hen. VIII., whose son, Richard, was of Stapieton, Leicestershire, and was ancestor to those of that place. (Note.—The account from this Thomas Dawes. down to Sir Thomas Dawes, Km., who married the dau. of Sir Cuthbert Hacket, U from a copy of the Visitat. of Staffordshire, by Robert Glover, Somerset.) ''Thomas Dawes, eldest son and heir, m. Agnes, dau. of Raphe Rudyard, of Staffordshire, by whom he had John Dawes, of Staffordsh., ttmp. Hen. VIII. and Ed. VI., who had two sons: 1. Humphry, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of William Minors, of Blackenoll, co. Staff., by whom he had no issue; 2. Thomas, who m. the dau. of — Violet, by whom he had two sons: 1. Thomas Dawes, Rouge Croix, pursuivant-at-arms, 1570, who had two sous, Clement and Thomas; 2. John Dawes, who m. Jane, dau. of John Mitchell, of Dorsetshire, by whom he had four sons and three daus. : 1. Sir Abraham ; 2. Isaac; 3. James; 4. Joseph, which three last died unmarried ; Sarah, the eldest dau., m. William Blyth, of Warwickshire; Susan was wife to Anthony Fisher, of Carlisle; and Rebecca died iiiini. "Sir Abraham Dawes, eldest son and heir, was one of the farmers of the customs, temp. Car. I., and was one of the niost eminent men in his time ; he and Sir Paul Pindar, Sir John Wolstenholme, and Sir John Jacob, had assigned them from Philip Burlimachi, the impositions laid by way of subsidy on sugars, called Muscovadoes, St. Thomas's, White sugars, Ac., for which Burlimachi had a grant from Charles I. Sir Abraham was a very great royalist, and suffered greatly in the civil wars : he was styled of Putney and London : m. Judith, dau. of Thomas Wright, Esq., of co. Salop, by whom he had two sons: 1. Thomas, cetal. 26, 1630; 2. John, letal. 13, 1630; also one dau., Jane, m. to Elkin Wymonde- fold. of Southwell, co. Notts, Esq. "Sir Thomas Dawes, Knt., eldest son and heir, m. Judith, dau. of Sir Cuthbert Hacket, Knt., Lord Mayor of London, 1627, by whom he had : 1. Abraham, born Oct. 17, 1630; 2. John, Judith, and Jane (if not other children). Sir Thomas and his lady both lie buried at Putney, where, on a white marble pillar, is thus inscribed :— "'Sir Thomas Dawes, Knt., dyed Fry day, 5 December, 1655. Dame Judith Dawes, the 28th of January, 1637, slept here with her Husband ; to whose memory she erected this pillar.' "Sir John Dawes, of Putney, Knt., son and heir, was advanced to the dignity of a baronet, 15 Car. II. ; he m. Christian, dau. and sole heir of William Lyons, of Booking, Essex, Esq., by his wife, a dau. of John Hawkins, of Braintree, Essex, and Sarah his wife. (Note.—In the will of Sarah Hawkins, widow of John Hawkins, of Braintree, clothier, she calls Lady Christian Dawes her grand- daughter.) Sir John had three sons : 1. Sir Robert, his successor; 2. John, lieut. of a ship belonging to the squadron commanded by Sir John Nar- borough drowned much about the same time his elder brother died (both unm.); 3. William (third baronet), successor to his brother. Dean of Bocking in Essex, and afterwards Archbishop of Canter- bury. Sir John had also one daughter, m. to William Pierpoint, of Nottinghamsh. Sir John's lady, surviving her husband, was remarried to Sir Anthony Dean, of London, Knt. (Note.—Some pedigrees call Sir Robert Sir Thomas Dawes.)" The following account, printed in Wotton, is taken from the preface to Sir William Dawes's 'Works' (3 vols., 1733), written by the Rev. Mr. Stackhouse. This book is in the Brit. Mua. Library, where may be found various editions of the published writings of Archbishop Dawes, the list filling close on three columns of the Catalogue. "The family from whom he descended was once possessed of a very large estate. Sir Abraham, his great-grandfather, was accounted one of the richest commoners of his age; and in splendour and magnificence of housekeeping lived up to the port of any nobleman; but in the time of the great rebellion, the family, adhering to the royal cause, through the rage and violence of the adverse party, suffered great loss and depredations in their fortune Not long after the restoration the King created Sir John a baronet, in memory of the many services his ancestors had done and the many hard- ships they had undergone during the time of the civil confusion; and in acknowledgment of the several considerable sums of money they had annually transmitted to the royal family in order to support them with some tolerable decency during the time of their exile. "Sir John was a person of excellent qualities, every way suitable to the dignity whereunto he was promoted; but a considerable part of the family estate had been sequestered, to the value of 1.500/. per ann. in one county alone (Lincolnsh.), and the family seat, at Rowhampton, in Surry, where the furniture, of one kind or other, amounted to several thousand pounds, had been plundered; so that his exaltation to honour would not have so well become the depression of his fortune, had it not been his happiness to marry a lady of a very plentiful one." A life of Archbishop Dawes (b. 1671, 1663, ext. 28 May, 1741. Arms, Arg., on a bend az., cottised gu., three swans or, between six poleaxes sa. Crest, On a battleaxe or a newt, or serpent, winged, and the tail nowed sa., charged with bezants. HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. THE BIBLIOTHEQOE NATIONALE AND READERS (9th S. vi. 68, 111).—MR. MASON has well described the disabilities that are met with, but I may supplement them by adding that readers' tickets are not returned to them whether the book asked for is in the library or not. Though books can be reserved, readers have to write out a fresh ticket for each book each day. If the tickets of books they cannot find are kept by the librarian in order to show the deficiencies of the library, he must have a prodigious number. Great as are the deficiencies in the British Museum, they must be still greater in the Bibliotheque Nationale, for they do