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 9*8. vii. APRIL 6, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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This was a sort of mixture of " happenings " in houses, for often the phrase was used in this way, "Yes ! she's made a nice devil's broth of it ! " The comment on this would run, " Ah ! you might as well eat th' owd devil as taste his broth ! "

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

WEEKES : CATLIN : BROCAS. In Col. Vivian's 4 Visitations of Co. Devon ' will be seen the statement that .Richard Weekes, of Hather- leigh, Gentleman Pensioner of Charles II., married Dorothy, daughter of Philip Catelyn, Esq., of Woolverston Hall, Suffolk. I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could supply the date and place of such marriage or any particulars concerning the said Dorothy and her immediate connexions. I have a satisfactory pedigree of her ancestry thanks to Davy's Suffolk Collections (Add. MS. 19,122), wills, inquisitions, and other reliable sources and I find Philip's children recorded as Dorothy, born 1618 ; Robert, born 1616 ; John, born 1619 ; and Mary, who married Thomas Brpcas, ESQ., of Beaurepaire, and was buried in Sherborne St. John's Church, Hants, in 1693 (aged 72-3), her son Thomas giving her a most eulogistic epitaph. One of Dorothy's uncles was Sir Nathaniel Catlyn, Knt., Recorder of Dublin. Another, named in an inquisition, but not in the pedi- grees, was Thomas, who was " son and heir " and aged nineteen years in 1601, but must have died young.

Some very early Catelyns, not given in the pedigrees, but presumably ancestors of the Richard, Sheriff of Norwich in 1531, with whom these begin, are to be found in a list of freemen of Norwich printed in vol. iv. of East Anglian Notes and Queries, viz., Stephen Catelyn (mercer), 2 Henry IV. ; Henry Cate- lyn, 2 Henry V. ; Richard Catelyn (mercer), 3 Henry VIII. * ' Richard the younger, gentle- man and lawyer," 36 Henry 111., is presum- ably identical with the sheriff above named. Philip Catelyn, of Woolverston, married (according to Blomfield, Davy, &c.) Dorothy, daughter of - Lawrence, of - , co. Cam- bridge. Among administrations at Somerset House is one, dated 1632, of Philip Catelyn, " nup. de parochia Scti. Egidii extra Cripple- gate," by his widow Dorothy ; but I can find

no Catelyns in St. Giles's registers at that time. I learn, however, from a Coram llc^c Roll of 22-23 Charles II., that either Richard of Hatherleigh or his son Richard did on 29 July, 19 Charles II., in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, become bound to one Wm. Jolly by a deed obligatory for 40/. An entry in Hatherleigh Church registers, "January 26th, 1707, bur. Mrs. Dorothy Weekes," probably refers to Richard's wife his widow, rather, for he died in 1670.

Suffolk being as far from Devon "as the east is from the west," I have wondered whether the journeying was Richard's or hers. On the one hand, Killigrews of Corn- wall intermarried with Catlyns of Suffolk, and may have taken members of the family back with them ; indeed, there is an adminis- tration, 1636, of Elizabeth Catlyn, of Launce- ston, spinster, by her mother Francisca Couch al's Catlyn. On the other hand, I have just seen in the East Anglian Notes and Queries (vol. ii. p. 125), among 'Notices from the Great Court of the Borough of Ipswich,'

1652, a "complaint against Jas. Cooper,

Win. Baker, Saml. To veil, and Richard Weekes, for that they, being forrainers, and notfreemen of this town, do nevertheless hold free trade in open shop as free men of this town." I do not know whether, even as an unfortunate Royalist, Richard would have condescended to "keep shop" gambling was more in his line but the entry affords at least a curious coincidence of name and date. I may add that the Richard's first child was buried at Hatherleigh, 1653, though its birth is not recorded there.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

Leafy Nook, Caroline Terrace, Brook Green, W.

APPARITION. In Mr. William S. Childe-Pem- berton's interesting book ' The Baroness de Bode,' 1900, I find at p. 29 a note of a curious nature, which seems worth further inquiry. It is as follows :

" The editor has a picture of the beautiful Molly Davenport, his great-grandmother. She had been ' agreeably married ' to his great-grandfather Mr. John Shakespear (a member of Warren Hastings's Supreme Council of India) on May 9, 1782. On their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shakespear proceeded to Calcutta, where a strange and supernatural in- cident soon afterwards befell Mr. Shakespear, which was witnessed by the Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and the other Members of the Supreme Council. While sitting in conclave in the Council Chamber, Mr. Shakespear, suddenly looking up, ex- claimed, ' Good God ! there 's my father ! The whole Council then saw the figure of a person, un- known to them, glide through the Chamber, which had no outlet, and disappear. What, moreover, attracted the attention of the Council was the fact that the figure appeared wearing a hat of a then un-