THE lFAMILY OJF WHAT'rON A Record ef Nine Centuries Being a reprint of articles by Henry Watkinson Whatton in TheGentleman'sMagazineof1825, with additions, continuations, and illustrative documents by J. S. Whatton, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, F.R. Hist. Soc., assisted by the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., St Edmund Hall, Oxford, F.S.A. Followed by a Little Autobiography by the former, and preceded by an Introduction by 0. F. Christie,M.A., Trinity College, Oxford, Author of The Transitionfrom Aristocracy, etc. PUBLISHED BY THE SYLVAN PRESS AND PRINTED IN ENGLAND BY HENDERSON AND SPALDING LTD SYLVAN GROVE CAMBERWELL LONDO:- SE 15 THE FAMILY OF WHATTON

For inquire, I pray thee, ef the former age, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out, for we are but qf yesterday, and know nothing. --- JOB viii, 8 (Revised Version).

WHATTON ALLIANCES From a coloured drawing by Harriet Sophia Whatton

TO MY vVIFE MY OKLY BOOK

When the making of this Book was undertaken, and until after the greater part of it had been written, and was in type, it was intended to produce it for private circulation only. When subsequently it was suggested to the author that it might be found of interest to others beyond his own circle, no change was made, and it appears as it was originally planned.

The Parish Church of St John of Beverley, Whatton-in-the-Vale. From a recent photograph

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Page 22, line 11, for 1765 read 1675. Page 46. Mrs Tacker. John Seddon had a daughter, who married~ Boardman, whose daughter married Col. Tacker.

CONTENTS PAGE Introduction by 0. F. Christie x1 Preface xm The Articles from The Gentleman's Magazine 1 Pedigrees registered and approved by the College of Arms: Royal Descen1 of Whatton from Charle­ magne, William the Conqueror, and Henry III 43 General Whatton Pedigree as from the Visitation ofLeicestershire in 1683 facing 48 Other Pedigrees: Pedigree showing Descent from four families in that Visitation. w. G. D. F... 45 Pedigree, Piercy-Ingle-Swift. J. s. w. 48 Pedigree, Seddon-Scott-Whatton. J. s. w. 46 General Notes on the Family 49 ME, an Autobiography 109 Miscellaneous Writings 121 Appendices- A. Whatton entries in Nichols's History of Leicestershire 14 I B. Extract from Burton's Leicestershire, 1 777 1 47 C. Further General Notes. . 148 D. Verses from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1818, by W. R. Whatton 152

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Whatton Alliances . . Frontispiece Facing page The Church of Whatton-in-the-Vale IX Tomb of John Whatton, St Martin's, Leicester XXl-· Brotherton, Kincardineshire .. XXV- Henry Whatton of Loughborough Parks •• XXVll = Tomb of Sir Richard de Whatton 7~ Tomb of Sir William and Lady Bagot 9 .• Tomb of Lady Whatton, Cheshunt 21.. - Rev. Henry Whatton 23. Elizabeth Watkinson 25 .. Loughborough Parks 27v Loughborough Parish Church .. 53 William Robert Whatton 57--· Children of John Swift .. 67- Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton 69- Rothley Temple .. 85~ Rackley Manor .. 91- East Tisted Rectory 97- Manormead, South Front 105- A Railway Conference .. 1 I I·· Sketch by Joseph Pennell I 13 _ Mrs John Whatton 117, Manormead, Rose Garden I 19- John Swift Whatton l20v Manormead, East Front 139-

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INTRODUCTION THE CELEBRATED Mrs Thrale once remarked that few persons, if asked offhand, could give the maiden names of their four great­ grandmothers. Doubtless very few, but probably any one of her acquaintance, who (like herself) belonged to an ancient family, could have answered the question after application to relatives or to family records. I am afraid that if this enquiry were made of any modern youth or maiden, it is unlikely that he or she would take the trouble of investigation. Members of the younger generation, with few excep­ tions, are singularly incurious about their forbears. ' Let the dead bury their dead! 'would be their private sentiment. Moreover, our country is so rapidly changing. Ruthless taxation is now daily evicting old families from their old houses. So documents are dispersed; books and portraits disappear into the maw of America. Not only is the impulse to preserve family tradition failing, and ancestor-worship generally on the wane, but the homes-the very storehouses of tradition-are passing into other hands. The man who sells his estate in order to live more modestly at Bath or Brighton ceases to become a depository of family lore. Old inhabi­ tants no longer tell him tales of his grandsires. And what becomes of the contents of his muniment room? Therefore whoever, despite these unfavourable conditions, sets himself to collect or complete the records of his family, is under­ taking a pious and worthy task, and setting a good example. But, if he have any sense of antiquity, he will be amply repaid. In old wills and deeds, letters and memoranda, he may come upon many a curious fact, or discover many a curious individual trait, that will add fresh meaning to his family portraits. He may find out the motives that prompted marriages, the reasons for migration, what impelled one ofhis ancestors to a life of adventure, or another, who began ambitiously, to an early retirement from the world. If he have the gift of self-knowledge, he may here and there recognize the traces of some predominant racial disposition, which he himself -for weal or woe-may have inherited. For there are families that transmit their peculiar characters as faithfully as their physical features. Such curious happenings and characteristics are not wanting to these chronicles of the family ofWhatton, for which the Author has asked me to write an Introduction. For this I have indeed no qualifications having no knowledge of heraldry and being quite Xlll unlearned in genealogical lore; but the Author is such an old and good friend that I would have done my best to comply with his request, if he had written a Treatise on Relativity, or on Chinese Porcelain, or on the Monophysite Heresy, or any other subject however technical or abstruse. Fortunately for me, family history is not quite such a recondite matter. For, as there are few indi­ viduals who would fail to excite interest if their whole lives and all their inner motives were revealed, so the story of a family, which can be traced back with more or less exactitude through its vicissitudes for 900 years, ought to make a sure appeal to the intelligent, 'Mentem mortalia tangunt' The Whattons are of great antiquity. We are apt now to regard families whose fortunes date from the Industrial Revolution as well-established. Of about the same standing are those Peerages which-according to Disraeli-Pitt lavished so freely on' bankers and graziers '. To a landed family with a tenure of 200 years or more is accorded, at least in the Home Counties, a rather excep­ tional status. If we go back another two centuries we come to those who owe their greatness to the acquisition of Church lands -Cecils, Cavendishes, Russells, and many houses of lesser note. Of the times antecedent to the Reformation there are few survivors. The Wars of the Roses made wholesale slaughter of the ancient nobility and gentry; but 400 years before the Wars of the Roses William the Conqueror landed in England, and with him came Robert de Watone from Picardy. The Whattons have not, indeed, retained the lands in Nottinghamshire which the Conqueror gave to Robert, nor those in Leicestershire where they were subsequently seated. It is perhaps all the more remarkable that they have pre­ served so much of the records of their race. Indeed, it seems to me almost a miracle, having regard to foreign wars and civi.l strife, and pestilences like the Black Death, and Chancery suits and South Sea Bubbles, and the hazards of the gaming-table, and the extravagances of proprietors and their heirs, not to speak of the frequent failure of issue, that there are still English families, however few, that have tenaciously endured since the Conquest, and even longer, without parting with their lands, still calling them ' after their own names '. The principal source of information about the descent of the Whattons appears to be three Articles contributed to The Gentle­ man's Magazine in 1825 by Henry Watkinson Whatton (b. 1782) of Osmaston Cottage, Derbyshire, the son of Henry Whatton of Loughborough Parks. These have here been supplemented by General Notes on the Family contributed by the Author, which continue the chronicle to the present day. XlV Robert de Watone, who came with the Conqueror, took his surname from the lands in Nottinghamshire that were granted him. To indicate how the family touched English history through subsequent centuries, it may be useful here, without instancing every generation, to give an abbreviated list of Whattons who followed, all in direct line from Robert down. to the Author of this book: Sir William de Waton (son of Robert), knighted by Henry I and benefactor to the Priory of Blythe. Walter, a knight of the second Crusade. Richard, a warrior in the Crusades (temp. Richard I). John, High SheriffofHerts and Essex (25, 6 Henry III). Richard, High Sheriff of Notts and Derbyshire (54, 5 Henry III). Sir Richard, a soldier who fought against Lancaster and the rebellious barons (14, 15 Edward II). Sir Richard (temp. Edward III). Sir John, of Long Whatton in Leicestershire (temp. Henry IV). John, M.P. for Leicestershire (38 Henry VI). Robert, of Long Whatton, whose grandson John passed his lands at Long Whatton to his cousin Robert. (Robert's line seems to have ended with heiresses.) John, of Raunstone, an Esquire of the Body to Charles I, High Sheriff of Leicestershire ( 14 Charles I), married a Babington of Rothley Temple, d. 1656, whose son, Sir John, of Chain Hall in East Sheen, a diplomat employed abroad, was knighted in 1662. William, of Newton Lynford, who also married a Babington of Rothley Temple. Henry, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vicar of Humberstone, d. 1704. William, of Lincoln College, Oxford, vicar of Loxley, Warwick­ shire (presented by the Lord Chancellor 1753). Henry, who took part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Henry, of Loughborough and Loughborough Parks, m. Eliza­ beth, daughter and heiress ofJohn Watkinson, and also succeeded to the Blunt Estates, whose son, Henry Watkinson Whatton, wrote the Articles in The Gentleman's Magazine. His third son, William Robert Whatton (1790-1835), F.R.S., F.S.A., was an Army Surgeon in the Peninsular War, and married Harriet Sophia Seddon. His son, The Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton (1827-1862) had been designated as the first Vicar of Christchurch, Mayfair, when he ~jed after a fall from his horse. His second son, xv John Swift Whatton (b. May 13 1861) is the Author of this book. The name has been thus variously spelt: Watton, Whathon, Waton, Watone, Whatton; also de Watton, Wooton, Wotton. About the time of Henry IV the family moved fromWhatton in the Vale (of Belvoir) in Nottinghamshire to Long Whatton in Leicestershire. But whereas Robert de Watone of Nottinghamshire called himself after the name of his lands, Sir John Whatton of Leicestershire gave his lands his own name, and the village of Long Whatton grew up round his seat. The reader will also note that the Whattons have intermarried with families of such historic names as de Mandeville, Bagot, Brabazon, Pierrepont, de Lovetot, de Heriz (Herries), de Staple­ ford, Babington of Rothley Temple, Rolleston, Dacre, Blunt (Blount), Ogle, Herrick, Staunton of Staunton, de Rempston. This is a bald catalogue of names and places; but the story of the Whattons as told in the following pages is enlivened by many picturesque touches. There is certainly no lack of variety in their careers and achievements, and, it might almost be added, in their vagaries. They have been Crusaders and warriors, High Sheriffs and l'vfembers of Parliament. One was a Prior, and one was a Chief Justice. In their personal records the human element is not want­ ing. What, for instance, could be more quaint than the letter written by John Whatton ofRaunstone to Sir William Herrick (a relative of the poet, and also of Myron Herrick, recently Ambassador to France from the United States, where the family continues to flourish). The writer had recently lost his first wife, and he desires to inform her uncle that he has chosen a second 'out of a dossen or more that were mentioned to me, both Knights' daughters, and Knights' and Baronets', meake, humble, and one that will be suteable to my conditions'. And the widower pathetically adds: ' I see to live unmarried will be a verie uncom­ fortable life for me, which I have had sad experience of since my wife died.' John of Raunstone lived to be 70, and the young wife survived him for nearly 20 years. It is pleasant to read in his Will that ' I have had longe experience of her wisdome and discretion and extraordinary love to mee (which I am fully persuaded to be unfeyned) '. The Will (proved July 1655) contemplates that she may marry again, 'which I am far from being against ', but since ' she and our children may bee wronged by her being deceived in her Marryage (as the best may bee), I desire such security as my overseers deem fit to be given by her before her seconde marryage.' Is this not a good example of how an old Will may throw light on the life of an ancestor? The lady was Catharine, daughter of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple. Her husband's epitaph is XVI printed in an Appendix, and I think the verses are very ingenious and charming. Among later members of the family there was a Whatton who was a diplomatist in the reign of Charles II, a Whatton-who became a Non-Juror and was Chaplain to the first Duke of Rutland (and it is curious that the Author's brother was Chaplain to the seventh Duke at Belvoir 200 years later), a Whatton who joined the Young Pretender, and a Whatton who, in 1779, eloped with an heiress, Elizabeth Watkinson, to Gretna Green. The son of the last-mentioned, Henry Watkinson Whatton, who wrote the Articles in The Gentleman's J1agazine, was evidently learned in heraldry and genealogy. He, like his father, married an heiress, Miss Daniel of Hassal Hall; but his life, says the Author, was 'far from prosperous '. The younger brother of Henry Watkinson Whatton, William Robert Whatton, F.R.S., F.S.A. (1790-1835), was the Author's grandfather. He was a man of note, and has found a place in the Dictionary of National Biography. As Army Surgeon he served in the Peninsular War, at Albuera and at the sieges of Badajos and Ciudad Rodrigo, and was afterwards Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He wrote the biographical portion of The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (by Edward Baines, M.P., 4 volumes, 183(:i). When the unfortunate Huskisson, on September 15 1830, met with fatal injuries at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, William Robert Whatton was the Surgeon who attended him, and Huskisson's widow presented him with a gold snuff-box in recognition of 'his skill and un­ wearied kindness ' on this tragic occasion. The reader will find an interesting letter from Peel on this sad event. He died at the age of 45; his son, the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, died in 1862, at the age of 35, from the effects of a riding accident. In Notes and Q,ueries, 1875, W. G.D. F. (the Rev. W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., F.S.A., who 54 years later has given the Author so much assistance), wrote of the Whattons: 'The family has now merged into obscurity.' But obscurity is a condition from which families have a way of emerging, ' Merses profundo, pulchrior evenit' There are families, some of great name, that have survived in obscurity for generations, even centuries, and then again become notable. The Cecils, father and son, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I, ruled England for 50 years, and then for more than 200 years were little heard of except for their eccentricities or extravagance-an eclipse to which Lady Gwendolen Cecil makes candid allusion in her Life of the third Marquess of Salisbury. In him another great Cecil appeared on the scene, preceded by an B XVll able father who was a Cabinet Minister, and followed by an able son who has been a cabinet Minister, and has led the House of Lords, and has three able brothers. Lady Gwendolen Cecil herself is a biographer of great distinction. Ability may be reborn. As for fortune, it may always be retrieved by brains, marriage, or good luck. When Mr Fletcher wrote the words quoted above, MrsArundell Whatton (a lady whom I have the happiness to remember), was devoting the years of her widowhood to bringing up her three sons, the records of whose lives will be found in the following pages. Of these, the eldest achieved great success and distinction as a solicitor, becoming head of a great City firm and the trusted adviser of Lloyds; he spent his years of retirement, unfortunately too few, on his estate in Wiltshire, devoted to country sports but giving generously of his time to the duties of a Magistrate and County Councillor. The second is the Author of this book. The third is a clergyman oflong and varied experience (including some years as Army Chaplain in the Great War), whose published ser­ mons have received high praise. Two of these brothers are fathers of sons, ofwhom one is a soldier who has won both the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. It is to be hoped that this younger generation ofWhattons will continue their race. The Author has concluded his book with his own Autobiography. If every collector of family records had taken the trouble to do the same, we should know much more, and be able to arrive at a much truer estimate of those that have gone before us. There may be Whattons a century hence, who will thank him not less for this intimate and self-revealing chapter than for his genealogical labours. As for the latter task, he has given the very best reason for under­ taking it: ' I possess a good deal of knowledge of family affairs which, unless committed to print, would die with me . . . some ofit being of the most trivial; but again I make no apology.' And then he adds an aphorism in which there is much truth:' Triviality is only a question of time.' For what seems trivial to us may be just what our grandsons would like to know. It is these very ' trivial fond records' that charm us when they come to light in old letters or diaries. As in book-keeping the smallest transactions are as important as the biggest, so in History or Biognrphy it is often a quite little personal detail, outwardly of no significance, that throws a searchlight on character or events. Of the Author himself this chapter adds a valuable self-portrait to the Whatton picture-gallery. 'I am minded', he writes, 'to give a lead to my successors, which may be of interest to them a hundred years hence '. Also he will have enabled them to realize XVlll how pleasant it was for a man of means with plenty of friends, and many interests-social, intellectual, athletic-to have lived his early years in the reigns of Victoria and Edward the Seventh. He describes himself as ' cursed with a competency '. The man thus 'cursed' (or, as most people would prefer to consider,' blest '), may indeed, as wanting the spur of necessity, neglect to use and develop the abilities with which Providence has endowed him. On the other hand, if he is a man ' of good will ' (as the saying is), he can devote his leisure and energy to the public benefit. My friend has certainly not wrapt up his earthly talent in a napkin, much less wasted it, but rather increased it to ten talents. So neither have his mental talents stagnated or slumbered. He has worked in the East End of London, and for many good causes­ the improvement of our roads, the Boy Messengers, Sailors' Rests, Hospitals-to name but a few. And he put his hospital experience to good account in the Great War, when he organized a motor Ambulance service for his district in Devonshire. Steele said of his life that it had been 'at best but pardonable'. My friend writes almost as modestly of his own:' I believe I have done no harm'. How many ofus must wish we could give even this negative testi­ monial to our own lives! Let me add a few reminiscences of my own concerning this Chronicler of the Whattons, and so make a small contribution to their family history. It is nearly forty years since we made each other's acquaintance as pupils in the chambers of a very famous Counsel, whose name in full was Wilhelm Otto Adolph Julius Danckwerts, but who was more conveniently known to the Bar as ' Danky '. Danckwerts was certainly not the least remarkable of the men whom the Author has met in his earthly pilgrimage. Perhaps he is now beginning to be forgotten in the Temple; but in the 'nineties', and later, he bulked very large, both in physique and forensic prowess, in all the Courts of Law and Equity. Kind­ hearted, honourable, generous to profusion and very learned, in combat he showed the courage of a lion. He was hot-tempered, and he had a foible which may have hindered his promotion, i.e., a lamentably poor opinion ofall his brethren at the Bar (including the Law Officers), and of all the Judges. I can't remember that he ever commended the legal knowledge of a single one. A great Common Lawyer, if he happened to plead in a Chancery Court, he never failed to show his contempt for Equity practitioners. And he never attempted to conceal these sentiments. Like the brother of Maud, he lacked ' the finer politic sense To mask, though but in his own behoof, With a glassy smile his lord!:J scorn '. B2 XIX His attitude to the Bench has lately been described by Sir Edward Parry, a retired Judge of County Courts: 'He was always conscientiously particular to share his superior learning with the subordinate knowledge of the Judges'. And naturally this was resented by the Judges, sometimes very hotly. Besides suggesting that they were ill-informed in the law, if he thought they were prejudiced he made no scruple about saying so. ' Pray try to do justice in this case, my Lords, even if it is a Revenue case! ' Thus I remember him addressing the Divisional Court, and I remember how the healthy cheeks of Wills J. flushed. The great practice of Danckwerts provided occupation for three' devils '-Lord Robert Cecil (now Lord Cecil of Chelwood), H. W. Loehnis who died early, and Hugh Fort (afterwards, I think, a Colonial Judge). The third pupil in our time was Graham, a very pleasant Etonian with a quiet sense of humour. The Author was then a vegetarian, and I can recollect Graham one Monday morning drafting ' Inter­ rogatories ' which he afterwards ' administered ', whose object was to enquire whether, and ifso where and under what circum­ stances, the Defendant]. S. Whatton had eaten a cutlet during the week-end. Whatton attended chambers pretty regularly, but I fancy that in the summer months he used to leave rather early in the afternoon for Lords, or the Queen's Club, or some other pleasanter scene. He never became a devotee of the law; perhaps he already heard Bow Bells calling-if their chimes can penetrate to King's Bench Walk. In those days his favourite diversion was to bicycle over all the roads of England; no one can have known them better. He introduced me to membership of the Cyclists' Club, which had a nice little house in Queen Anne's Gate. With my memory of this Club I always associate Archbishop Benson of Canterbury, for from its windows, which looked out on StJames's Park, I often saw his Grace cantering along on a white cob for his afternoon's exercise. A few years after his ' call ' the Author abandoned his prospects of becoming Lord Chancellor, thus following the example of a seventeenth century Whatton, Sir John the Diplomatist, who was admitted of the Inner Temple in 1660, only two years before Charles II knighted him at Whitehall, presumably for services rendered. I, too, left the law for business. Of those who are ' called' what is the percentage that perseveres and practises successfully? Our paths in life diverged, but we never quite lost touch. In the very early days of motoring, my friend took it up with enthusiasm. From Haileybury, his old school to which he is so greatly attached, he would sometimes come to Hoddesdon in his car to give me a ride. A hundred years ago Creevey and Greville were astonished to find themselves travelling on the railroad at twenty miles an xx The Tomb in the Church of St Martin, Leicester, of .John Whatton of Raunstone, Esquire of the Body to Charles I and High Sheriff of Leicestershire, with his two wives, Elizabeth Orpwood (nee Herrick), and Catherine Babington hour. I remember the surprising sensation of whirling along the Hoddesdon-Ware road nearly three times as fast, at a time when I believe the legal limit of pace was still twelve m.p.h. One day we came on a party of motor-cyclists who were unable to cross a flooded stream, and were making dismal gestures of impo­ tence. My friend made a very apt quotation: ' Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore '. And this I mention to show that he has not forgotten the Classics he learnt at Haileybury. I do not set down these recollections as being of any intrinsic importance, for we are both of us inconspicuous members of society. Let them be regarded simply as Whattoniana-trivial perhaps, but possibly not without interest to future Whattons. If my friend has been Vates Sacer to his family, he deserves that some one should act in the same capacity to himself. There are men who become immersed in a profession, not at first through love of it, but in order to earn a livelihood; afterwards, from use and wont, they get absorbed in their work. Those who inherit a 'competency' nearly always prefer freedom and leisure to increasing their inheritance, if this process involves daily toil in chambers or an office. But the pursuits of the leisured man tend to be expensive, and if he tries to make up any deficiency of income he is very likely to dissipate his remaining patrimony by ill­ considered speculation. My friend the Author seems to have been exceptionally fortunate. While escaping the drudgery of a business or profession, he has succeeded, probably better than any of his predecessor Whattons, by shrewdness and good judgment, but not without taking risks, in amplifying his estate. Meanwhile he has built and travelled and read, and enjoyed the pleasures ofrumina­ tion-surveying mankind, if not' from China to Peru', at any rate 'with extensive view'. And in case any future Whatton should enquire further what manner of man was the Chronicler, I would refer him to the epitaph of John Whatton of Raunstone. Like John of Raunstone, John of Manormead is free from ambition: ' .He shunn' d in public streams to swim '. He is a Churchman, and learned in Church history: ' To Schisme he never did incline, Yet was a compleat Lay Divine '. And, as for the general tenour and practice of his life: ' Tho' Balls ef Gold lay in his Race, They could not slack his holy Pace, Which, if sometimes he stoop' d to take, 'Twas chief{,y for the Needy' s sake '. 0. F. CHRISTIE XXI

PREFACE I MAKE NO apology for the re-issue of this essay by my grand­ father's brother, who was a very competent antiquary. It addresses itself, and will be of interest only, to members of the family, past, present, and future, to a small circle of friends, and to those few gentlemen of antiquarian tastes whose delight it is to amass, tabulate, and peruse, the records of individuals with whom they do not necessarily seek to establish any connexion whether personal or genealogical. And among the most eminent of such is my friend and helper, Mr Fletcher, to whom I desire to record my deep indebtedness. He happened, he tells me, to be living in Leicestershire for long periods during the 6o's and 7o's of the last century, where he knew several members of the Whatton family, and from that day to this he has continued to take notes of any matters relating to the family which have come under his notice, besides having been of the greatest possible service to me in regard to the establishment of the pedigree at the Heralds' College. Yet may I plead that these Articles are not everywhere as dull as they might appear at first sight. I might instance the account of Archbishop Cranmer, a gentleman born, or the episode of the Crusader returning from the East, who was captured by the Saracens, rescued by a Templar, 'et in suo itinere invenit Draconem cum Leone pugnantem in Valle, quae dicitur Saranell, percussitque Draconem usque ad mortem, et secutus est eum Leo in Angliam usque ad Gastellum de Rode.' Observe the emergence of the eternal spirit of warfare between the Knight and the Dragon, and how, immediately realizing the situation, the Knight percussit eum ( a very pretty word) just as in these days we deal promptly with wasps. On the whole, the affair of the Vale of Saranell (wherever that is) seems to be a variant of the Androclus legend. For such again as are masters of the dog Latin, a very simple tongue, there are the fortunes of Nigel (page r r), or if these narratives seem but exiguously collateral to the Family of Whatton, there is the very human story of XXlll John Whatton of Raunstone, when he 'pitched upon this gentlewoman', to be deduced from his letter to Sir William Herrick and his Will (pages 20 and 84). One notices also that he had no children by his Herrick wife, and was evidently desirous of continuing his line, which, though Catherine Babington bore him three sons and three daughters, nevertheless failed in the next generation, a fact which leads me to the observation that the same thing happened in the case of a good many of the more prominent Whattons; in the cases, amongst others, of the Prior of Ulvescroft and the Premonstratensian Canon of Welbeck (obviously) the latter of whom was Vicar of Whatton at the beginning of the fourteenth century, and of Sir Richard, both buried in that church, of Robert, Lord ofScarrington, of Sir John the French diplomat, of (so far as can be recorded) the Author of the Articles, and, among the Seddons, of Felix, the Orientalist Professor, and of General Seddon of Waterloo. And, coming to our own times, and stretching a point, there is the case of Hercules Scott of Brotherton whose name I may be allowed to mention as that of one who was not only in the very best sense a good man, but was much more eminent, both as scholar and administrator, than perhaps his public record would show. He was a son of Old Haileybury, the East India College which preceded my own Public School, and after retirement from the service and succession to the estate, became a person of great influence in his native county of Kincardine. Nor can there be any harm now in recording the fact that it was due solely to his·generbus financial assistance that my father, left in very poor circum­ stances as he and his mother were by the premature death of my grandfather, was enabled to proceed to his degree, and to take Orders, as was his most ardent wish*. Brotherton, in these changing times, is the only house I have known in­ timately all my life, and know still. Scotland, with more left of the old feudal spirit, is lasting better than England, but in * On further comparison of the material dates with my grandmother's correspondence, I have come to the conclusion that it must have been David Scott of Brotherton, father of Hercules, who did this good deed. He was born 1782, married Mary Seddon, sister to my grandmother in 1813, and died in 1859. She died in 1866. Hercules Scott was born 1823, married Anna Moon, daughter of the Chairman of the London and North Western Railway in 1857, and died in 1897. The correspondence speaks always of' Mr Scott', which does not sound like her brother-in-law. XXlV the course of a Scottish tour this year I have found myself very commodiously installed in the houses of the Duke of Fife and the Earl of Breadalbane, now hotels, and, indeed (magnis componere parva), my own house of Hennapyn went the same way when I sold it*. The rest of the book I have compiled, not in the least because I suppose I have the requisite qualifications, but simply because I felt it ought to be done; that there is no one else livingwhowould do it; and that I possess a good deal of knowledge of family affairs which, unless committed to print, would die with me. Consequently, the Notes following the Articles contain practically all I know or can learn of the past and present of Whatton, some of it being of the most trivial; but again I make no apology. Triviality is purely a question of time. Any one, I suppose, would like to know where Sir Richard de Whatton, temp. Rich. 1st, had his armour made before starting for Palestine, but few would excite themselves over the fact that my grandfather patronized Poole's of Savile Row. It will be observed that the branch of the family to which I belong is not the senior. The stock of J. W. Whatton is extinct in the male line, but I have been unable to learn any­ thing of the descendants of Henry Watkinson, the eldest son of Henry Whatton of Loughborough Parks, except that he had one son, Henry, who was married, and at one time lived in Birmingham. If this little book should chance to fall into the hands of any of his stock I should be glad to hear of it, for the Headship of the family, such as it is, is to be sought first of all in that direction. It might be worth their whilet. And I wish to make it clear that the genealogical investi­ gations of which it is the outcome do not extend further back than the date of the Visitation of Leicestershire in I 683, wherein it a pp ears that William Wha tton of Newtown L ynford established his pedigree, beginning with his grandfather. It may, I think, be presumed that this gentleman was not specially interested in such studies, and that he put forward only what was within his personal knowledge, and what he considered was sufficient to define his position in the County, and his right to bear Arms; and this was duly produced to us at the Heralds' College. * Page 107. t Page 50, Note 2a. XXV From that point we have taken on the descent to the present day, most of it having been well known, and only needing the requisite technical proofs for the Herald to pass it, though on certain points corrections have been found to be necessary. And here I must acknowledge how much I owe to the Rev. Frederic Augustus Homer, F.S.A., whose services we requisi­ tionedforthesomewhattedious and laborious taskofsearching for and copying records of all entries touching the family in a great number of localities in the Midlands and the North. The results he has been able to put before us are invaluable. The author of The Gentleman's Magazine articles must have collected an enormous mass of papers dealing with his subject, and it is an immense pity he did not at that time formally register the pedigree. All these papers, of course, passed to the elder branch, and may or may not still be in existence; in any case, the task of establishment would be much greater now, for the destruction both of tombs and records has been deplorable during the last hundred years*. As an example, I have printed in the Notest a letter describing the fate of the tomb of Robert Whatton of Long Whatton (ob. 1577), and we find that the tomb of Rev. Henry Whatton of Humberstone (ob. 1704) has entirely disappeared from that church. One would have thought that the monument of a predecessor in office would have been safe from the vandalism of his successors. It is also, I fear, necessary in the interests of posterity that I should tell what I know of the quarrel which separated the family on the death in 1815 of Henry Whatton. There were four sons. The eldest, Henry, was, I gather, brought up to no profession, though, as the author of the Articles, he must have devoted a great deal of time and work to researches into the family history. He had, of course, expectations, for he marriedi the daughter and heiress of a Mr Daniel of Hassal Hall, of whose success in commercial life he makes no secret, and from her he had land and presumably money. He was, however, evidently a spendthrift, and in his later life was, it seems, far from prosperous. John, the second son, was a solicitor, practising with his * It still proceeds. 'The ruinous loss of documentary records must be stopped'.-The Times Leader,June 26 1929. t Page 73, Note 35. ! At Sandbach, Cheshire, December 16 1806. My father was married by a later Vicar of Sandbach. Note 26, Page 67. XXVI Brotherton, Kincardineshire (from a photo by A. K. S.)

Henry Whatton of Lou~hborou~h Parks. Died 1815 From a portrait at Manormead brother George at Kegworth, Leicestershire, but, I have heard, more addicted to the pursuits of a country gentleman than to the prosecution of his profession. He married a daughter of a Mayor of Northampton, and had daughters only, two of whom were known to Mr Fletcher forty-five years ago, and were married by him locally. One of them may have been the wife of that innkeeper on whose fourteen quarterings Mr Fletcher has a note*. My grandfather was the third. At the time of his father's death he had returned from his three years as an Army surgeon in the Peninsular War, and was about to embark in private practice, as, in fact, he did in that same year of Waterloo. George, the youngest son, at some later period settled in London, and lived in rooms in the Temple, a bachelor as far as public knowledge went, but, in fact, married to someone of a considerably lower social status, for whom he had made a home in Brixton. I learnt this quite accidentally about thirty years ago. He had children, som~ of whom emigrated to Australia. There are others of the name in a good position in Canada, but I know nothing of them. I have printed Henry Whatton's will, the proving of which was followed by an interminable suit in Chancery, in the course of which practically all the estate was swallowed up. The story, as it has come down to me, is to the effect that the eldest son made claims to which the others strongly objected, and that my grandfather shook the family dust from his feet, and went off to l\!Ianchester to make his own career, in which he was eminently successful, and that subsequently he had, except from a merely business point of view, nothing more to do with any of them during his life, though my aunt, his daughter, had a kind letter from Henry's daughter on the occasion of her father's death. All this is, of course, purely ex parte. I once made a pilgrimage to Osmaston Cottage, Derby­ shire, to which Henry retired, and from which he dated the Articles. The only place I could find of that name was a small picturesque house in the middle of Osmaston Park, at that time owned by Sir Peter Walker, brewer, whose family is still seated there. I have no idea on what conditions he held it. It is curious that in the course of a letter which I have before me, dated March 29 1847, and addressed by George Whatton * Page 49, Note r. XXVll to my grandmother, he says that it would be well that Henry's children should be apprised of their father's death, but con­ fesses his inability to trace them. Henry, he says, was buried at Bunhill Fields Cemetery*. George was at that time the only survivor of the four brothers, being then in his 52nd year, John having died on December 16 1839, from which time onwards George was an executor. The fortunes of the family are at present in the hands ofmy three nephews, all of whom, I regret to say, are unmarried. There is in the Church of St Martin, Leicester, a very fine monument to the memory of John Whatton of Raunstone, mentioned above, who was quite an important personage in his county in the reign of Charles I, and who does not seem to have been disturbed in his possessions by the Commonwealth. Of this a photograph appears facing page xxi, and it includes, under the effigies of himself and his two wives, a set of twenty­ four verses, eulogizing their subject, but seeming to me of so deplorable a doggerel (worse than mille as set out hereafter in this miscellany) that I do not print themt. One wonders, in fact, assuming that the monument was not set up until after the Restoration when the Churches were restored to their proper uses, why SirJohn, the son and heir, who was knighted by Charles II at Whitehall in 1662, did not get Dryden, the poet, whom he must have known about the Court, to do them for his mother, and the more so as they were both Cambridge men:j:. One line, nevertheless, or so it has struck me, is rather characteristic of the family generally:- ' He shunned in public streams to swim,' for possibly to this tendency is due in part our survival through so many centuries, since I know of no one of them who was either decapitated or killed in the wars, and, indeed, beyond (as recommended by the French philosopher) the peaceful occupations incidental to the cultivation oftheir gardens, as when we read that Geoffrey Whatton in the 17th century, ' being a very rich man, and owner of above 100 * But see Note 2a page 50. t Since this was written, Mr Aubrey J. Toppin (Bluemantle) has been good enough to send me an Abstract of the Whatton entries in Nichols, in which the verses appear, and in view of Mr Christie's opinion of them I am glad to print them. t Page 52. (Peterhouse). XXVlll acres of enclosed land, where upon he keepeth a very great stock of cattle,' objected to paying his rates, they seem to have been largely concerned in securing heiresses. Bella gerant alii; tu, felix Austria, nube, as was somewhat savagely quoted of Woodrow Wilson when he married in the early years of the War. Nevertheless it is true that they took their part at least in the Crusades, the Rebellion of Thomas ofLancaster,Bosworth l'ield (in their own country), the Stuart Rising of I 745, the Peninsula, and finally the Great War, which added an' Old Contemptible' to the family record*. Nor must one omit the Rev. William Whattont, the Non-Juror. It may be forgotten perhaps that the Non-Jurors, who included in their ranks many of the best and most learned clergy of their day. having taken the Oath of Allegiance to James II, refused to transfer it to William the Dutchman. Among them were five of the Seven Bishops, ' the Immortal Seven, who had gone to prison rather than execute the illegal orders of James II, the aim of which, according to general belief, was to bring in Popery and Arbitrary Power.' So their historian Overton; and in fact the Whattons have always been good churchmen, for I cannot learn of any of them+ who relapsed into either Romanism or Nonconformity, though the Seddons were responsible both for a stout Cromwellian officer, and for a Nonconformist Divine who was ejected in 1662, but obtained

* Lest the passage of time should bring obscurity to the significance of this phrase I may record that the German Emperor issued an Order in August 1914 that 'General French's contemptible little Army' was to be forthwith annihilated. t Page 74, Note 36. t With one possible exception. The Will of Robert Whatton (see page 87) was made in the first year of Queen Mary Tudor, and in particular after the Laws against the Pope had been repealed, but before the Laws against heretics had been revived. I should opine he was a very cautious man, and a Conformist by natural disposition, and, if I am right in my estimate of his character, the situation was certainly a delicate one. He was depositing a document which would see the light at some unknown future date, and which he would wish to be not displeasing to the then authorities. The Protestant Edward was dead; the Romanist Mary, not as young as she had been, was just getting into her stride; and the Anglican Elizabeth was looming on the horizon. Was he, after commending his soul to the Almighty, to proceed 'beceching ower Blessed Lady and all the Sancts in Heyvyn'? He decided to risk it. An account of his ecclesiastical record in the previous reign would be very illuminating. XXIX a Licence to practise his heresy under the Declaration of Indulgence*. I should add that a great deal of most valuable technical information about the family is contained in Mr. Fletcher's manuscript Whatton Book. He tells me he has left it by Will, together with much other genealogical matter, to the Birmingham Free Public Reference Library, where it will always be available to students. J· s. w.

MANORMEAD, HINDHEAD Jnne 29 1929 * See Page 72, Note 34.

XXX THE ARTICLES from The Gentleman's Magazine 1825

Note-These Articles have naturally been reprinted exactly as they appeared in the Magazine. Certain errors which our investigations have revealed, not in the direct line of descent but within the period dealt with, are corrected in the Pedigree as approved by the College of Arms. I hope, ifl live, to accumulate such further evidence as will justify the College in recording the Descent as far back as at least the Long Whatton period, and I think I may say that Mr Aubrey.J.Toppin (Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms), whose very courteous co-operation I desire to acknowledge, is hopeful that, given time, this can be accomplished. Nevertheless, to be reasonably sure of a Family Descent is a very different thing to getting it ·established at the College.

THE ARTICLES from The Gentleman's Magazine MR URBAN January 5 The Topographical History of Whatton, and the ancestors and armories of the family, being in part deduced by your Correspondent D. H. in your Number for November 1792$ pp. 990-993, and your Magazine being the repository of Antiquarian subjects, I am induced to transmit you the genealogy of the family, corrected and revised. Yours, etc. H. w. WHATTON

DESCENT OF WHATTON ARMS-Quarterly, 1, 15, Argent on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, Whatton. 2 Azure, ten besants, 4, 3, 2, 1, Bisset. 3 Barry nebule of six Or and Gules, Basset. 4 Quarterly Or and Gules, a bendlet Sable, Malbanc. 5 Argent, a fret Gules, on a canton Gules a lion pas. gard. Or, all within a bordure ingrailed Sable, De Dunstanville. 6 Gules, two lions pas. gard. Or, with a baton sinister Azure, Fitzhenry. 7 Argent, a lion ramp. per fess Gules and Sable, Lovetot. 8 Sable, a chevron Or, between three crescents Argent, Le Palmer. 9 Argent, on two bars Azure three cinque-foils Or, 2, 1, Stapleford. 10 Per pale Gules and Sable, a lion ramp. Argent, crowned Or, Beler. 11 Azure, two bars dancette Or, De la Riviere. 12 Azure, three hedge-hogs Or, Heriz. 13 Barry nebule of six, Or and Sable, Blunt. 14 Or, a fess between three mullets Azure, Watkinson. Crest: an eagle Sable, beaked Or, rising out of a ducal coronet Argent. WILLIAM DE WATON, Lord ofWaton in Nottinghamshire (of Flemish extraction), flourished in the reign of King Henry I, who made him knight, and was a benefactor to the Priory of Blythe, founded for monks of the Benedictine order, and dedicated to St Mary*. Waton, the origin of which appellation historians impute to the Anglo-Saxons, is situated on the fertile banks of the river Smite, in the vale ofBelvoir, remarkable for the beauty of its surrounding scenery. Here was a strong castellated mansion> * For the earlier lineage see the Author's Appendix, page 33,-J. S. W. standing in the fourteenth century, the only vestige of which remaining is an elevated mound, encompassed by a fosse. The lordship is described in the Conqueror's Survey as follows: BINGAMESHOV W APENT'. :fvl. In W ATONE . h'b' Vlf. 11. car' t're et dim' ad g'ld' . T'ra. IX • car' . Ibi Rob't' ho' Gisleb'ti h't . III • car' . et xxvm . uill' et xn . bord' h'ntes . IX car' . et I . molin' . nu . solidor' . et q't' xx . ac' p'ti . Ibi una malaria ubi molre fodiunt . de . m . mark' argenti . T.R.E. ual' xx. lib' m' XVI. lib'. Roches SocA ej'd' M. S. In Holesuuorde . xm. bou' t're ad g'ld' . T'ra . III • car' . Ibi xx . soch' et I. bord' h'nt . IIII. car' et dim' . et xx. ac's p'ti. S. In Haslachestone . dim' car' t're ad g'ld' . T'ra. I. car' . et dim' . Ibi . IX soch' h'nt 1111. car'. William de Waton had two sons, Robert and Walter; Robert de Waton, the eldest, succeeded his father, and by Beatrix his wife, who gave to the Priory of Lenton three bovats ofland in Newthorpe, had a daughter, Adeline, who married William Lord Heriz, a potent baron, whose bearing was: Azure, three hedge-hogs Or, and who had his seat at Wiverton, and Gun­ nelveston, near Watton. ' Now the auncient Annales doe declare, how the sayd Lorde, by the consent of the Ladye Adelina, his wyff, and of Robert de Heriz, his brother, gave Arnalde, his man, or tennant, of Widmerpule, with his whole land, that is to say, iiii. bovats, and all customes and services thereunto belongeing, and his myllne at Widmerepule, and woode out of his woods at Huccanall, to make and mende ytt for ever, and half his mylln: at Gunnolvestone, and the lykP, power in his woodes ther, and divers other thynges, to God, and the Church of Lenton, upon the hygh auter of the holy Trinite, whereon this gift was offred by himselfe and his wyff, in the presence of very manny wittnesses.' The Ladye Adelina, in the tyme of Hen. II, gave to the Priory of Lenton her ii. men or tenants, Hugh and Henrye, with the iii. bovats oflande they held in Haslactone, likewyse the Church of Wattone to the Abbey of Wellebec, to mayn­ teyn the hospitallite thereof, for the soules of her father, her mother, and husband, who was then lately dead; also c. marks to the Kyng, that she might not be compelled to marrye any other than she herselfe pleased.' 2 The manor of vVatton ere long passed in frankmarriage to Adam de N ewmarche, mentioned among the Barons in Dug­ dale, nevertheless this family continued to dwell at their paternal mansion for many generations. Walter de Watton, or Wathon (son of William), a Knight of the second Croisade, had his seat at Watton, and carried: Argent, a bend Sable. He had three children: Richard, Robert, whose posterity were benefactors to the abbot and monks of Garendon; and Isabel, who married Reginald de Haslacton, with whom he had a gift of the manor, and hence derived his surname. The village of Aslacton is celebrated as the birthplace of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose great­ grandfather inherited the manor through an heiress of the Aslactons. 'Here may be traced several moats, islands, and pleasure grounds, formerly belonging to the worthy prelate; also a mount, thrown up by the Archbishop, on the summit of which, tradition says, he was wont to sit, and survey the face of the country.' From the Cranmers, whose coat of arms was: a chevron between three pelicans (substituted for cranes, in compliance with a Royal requisition), it devolved by an heiress to Sir John Molyneux of the county of Nottingham, hart., whose bearing was: Azure, a cross moline quarter pierced Or. This Sir John, who was a younger branch of the Lancashire family, now represented by the Earl of Sefton, sold the manor to the Marquis of Dorchester*. RICHARD DE vVATTON, or v\Tathon, warrior in the Croisades, eldest son of v\Talter and a knight, carried, Argent, a bend Sable, between six crosslets Gules, and was seated at \'Vatton, temp. Ric. I. He married Margaret, daughter of Ralph de ~fandeville, and Amicia his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Richard, eldest son of Nigel Lord Lovetot. De Mandeville had also two sons, Nigel and Elias, upon whose seal were three chevrons. It appears his part of the Lovetot possessions was sold to the Ayleston family. Richard de Watton had five sons and one daughter: William (who had a son Richard, Chief Justice of the Com­ mon Pleas); Amabilia; John; Bartholomew, Lord of Ridley, * Chron. de Blis, fo. 76, 77.-Chron. de Welb. fo. 139, 140. 225.-Lib. Dom. fo. 290.-Dug. Bar. v. I. p. 684.-Ex Rotulis 18, 20. 2:2. 26. Hen. II. Harl. MSS No. 1394. p. 324.-Chron. de Lent. fo. 51, 52. C2 3 55 Hen. III (ancestor of the Wattons of Addington, which manor the Twisdens ofBradbourne inherited from the heiress of the same branch); Brian, Subdeacon and Rector ofDesford 42 Hen. III on the presentation of the Abbot and Convent of StEbrulph in Normandy*; and Robert, who, with the Prior of Wimundley, held the manor of Beeston. It should be observed that the grandson of Richard de Watton, whose surname appears on record to have been written Whatton, had several children; Robert, Roger, John, and Richard, upon whom he entailed lands and rents, 3 Edw. II; and Agnes, whose marriage is noticed in Nichols's Leicester shire as follows: 'Sir William Brabazon, heir to Sir Roger, had issue by Jane, daughter of Sir William Trussell of Cublesdon, co. Stafford, Sir John Brabazon, knt. who by Agnes his wife, daughter of Sir Richard de Whatton (of Whatton in the vale of Belvoir), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, left an only daughter Joan, married to William de Woodford, whose descent is set down in Ashby­ Folevillet .' JoHN DE WATTON, or Wathon,second son of Richard, High Sheriff of the counties of Hertford and Essex 25, 26 Hen. Ill married Ella, the second daughter ofJohn Lord Bisset, Baron of Combe-Bisset, whose bearing was: Azure, ten besants, 4, 3, 2, I; by Alice his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Lord Basset, Baron of Heddingdon. John de Watton, who charged his paternal coat with three besants, by Ella his wife, had several sons and daughters: Cecilia, who married ... de Pierreponte; John, surnamed, Bisset, whose daughter Margaret had a third part of that baronial estate, which passed in marriage to the family of Romesey; Philippa, who married Sampson de Strelleye; Richard, a warrior, who flourished in the reign of King Edward I and his successor, at which periods the surname of the family was usually written Whatton; Roger; and Henry, whose son Richard settled by fine 3 Edw. III lands and rents on Henry his son, and Margaret the daughter of Hugh Saunsfaile. Lord Bisset was the son and heir of Henry Bisset of East Bridgeford, in Nottinghamshire, by Albreda his wife, daughter * But see Note 8, page 55. t Chron. de Lent. fo. 88, IOg.-Stem. Amundevilla.-Harl. MSS No.1189. (ult. pag.)-Notre Eccles. de Mav. Ridw. W. Knyv.-Phillipot.-Reg. de Gravesc. pont. 1.-Chart. 37, 4r Hen. III. 4 of Richard Fitz-Eustace, Baron of Halton. His ongm was illustrious; his castle the pride and glory of the Palatinate; its ruins, the extensive prospect, and delightful scenery, the admiration of the tourist. Being Chief Forester of England, Lord Bisset was in that great tournament held at Northamp­ ton, 25 Hen. III between Peter de Savoy, Earl of Richmond, and Earl Roger Bigod; after which, ere long, he departed this life, leaving three daughters co-heiresses, namely, Margaret, who married Richard de Rypariis; Ella,John de Watton; and Isabel, Hugh de Plessetis. Lord Basset, whose coat of arms was: Barry nebule of six Or and Gules, married Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of William de Malbanc, Baron of Wich-Malbanc, Nantwich, who had there a magnificent castle, and whose ensign was: Quarterly, Or and Gules, a bendlet Sable. The former Baron was the second son and next heir male (for Gilbert the eldest left only a daughter Eustachia) of Thomas Basset and Alice his wife, daughter and heiress of Alan Lord de Dunstanville, whose bearing was: Argent, a fret Gules, on a canton Gules a lion passant gardant Or, all within a bordure ingrailed Sable; Son of Walter de Dunstanville, Baron of Castlecombe, and Ursula his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Reginald Fitz­ henry, Earl of Cornwall, who used the arms of England; Gules, two lions passant gardant Or, with a baton sinister Azure. He was a natural son of King Henry I and half­ brother to the Empress Maud. 14, 15, Ed. II Richard de Whatton (second son of John), afterwards styled Knight (and he fairly won the title of Chevalier sans reproche), had summons to attend the King against his rebellious Barons, at that time in arms, whereof Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, was the chief; and having stoutly adventured his life for the royal interest, all the castles and possessions of that great Earl, who was beheaded at Pontefract, were committed to his custody. The mandate is in these words: 'Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod commisimus dilecto nobis Richardo de Whatton, custodiam omnium castro­ rum, terrarum, et tenementorum qme fuerunt Thoma: Comitis Lancastr', & aliorum inimicorum & rebellium nostrorum, nec­ non, & aliorum in comitatu Northumbr', & in episcopatu Dunolm'; & qme, per forisfacturam dictorum inimicorum nostro- 5 rum & quibusdam aliis de causis, in manu nostra existunt, vel qme ad manus nostras devenire contigerint, una cum omnibus bonis & catallis nostris existentibus in eisdem, habendum quamdiu nobis placuerit: 'Ita, quod in custodia castrorum, terrarum, & tenementorum pnedictorum, alios sub se deputet, pro quibus, si non sufficiant, respondeat; 'Et quod de exitibus inde provenientibus, per certum recep­ torem, per nos ad hoc deputandum, & per pnefatum Richard um inde onerandum, nobis respondeatur in cameram nostram. In cujus, &c. Teste Rege apud Pontem Fractum xxiiii die Martii. Per ipsum Regem.' 'Richardus de Whatton, de custodia manerii de Kneshale, ac omnium castrorum, terrarum, et tenementorum, qme fuerunt pnedicti Comitis, &c. in comitatibus Notyngh', Northt', & Rotel', ac feodorum Lane', & de Ferrariis in comitatibus prredictis, & comititabus Lincolnire & Notynhg,' & retro-vicecom' Lincoln', ita &c. In cujus, &c. Teste ut supra*.'

To illustrate the present narrative, some of the armories of the family will now be introduced, though it may be interesting first to proceed with the description ofWhatton Church: 'This venerable pile, dedicated to St John of Beverley, consists of a body, two ailes, a chancel, and a tower at the angle of the North aile and chancel; the nave rests on three pointed arches on a side, with octagonal pillars; the font is octagonal, adorned with roses, tulips, and fleurs de lys; the East window of the North aile chapel is of a rich qua trefoil pattern; the North window is fine, as is another of the North aile; two North windows of the chancel are lancet fashion, and a third of two bays; its South windows are also rich. In the North wall of the North aile are two arches; one empty, under the other a priest in curled hair; the top and bottom of two niches are to be seen over the figure of the priest: under which are carved David playing upon his harp, and an angel holding a shield with an inclined cross. The style of the Church bespeaks it of the reign of one of the Edwards'. In the North aisle, upon a raised tomb, finely sculptured, is a figure in chain mail, with a pointed helmet, his head re­ clining on a double cushion (see Plate I). His shield bears: * Chaunc. Herts, p. 23; ex ejusd. Fam. Stem. de Basset; Shaw's Staff. II 1, 12; Dugd. Bar. I 111, 383, 591, 632; Thor. Nott. 149, 150, 338; ex Rotulis, 14, 15, ed. 2 m. 10. in Turr. Lond.; ex Mon. apud Mav. Ridev.; Harl. MSS No. 1394, page 324. 6 The Tomb of Sir Richard de Whatton, to whom, after the unsucces;ful rebellion of Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster, was given, apud Pontem Fractum xxiiii die Martii per ipsum regem, the custody of all his castles. The Earl was beheaded at Pontefract in 1322

a bend between six cross crosslets, charged with three bes ants; over his mail, richly bordered at the knees, is a mantle falling back at the crossing of his legs; on his hands, gauntlets; his sword is on the left side; the right leg crosses the left; at his feet a lion, whose tail curls on his back; in the circumference: 'Priez pur l'alme de Sire Richard Whatton, Chivaler'. This beautiful specimen of ancient sculpture was removed from the North aisle to the vestry several years ago, previous to the repair of the Church, and is now in good preservation, though the original tomb is entirely destroyed. 'In the windowes: Argent, on a bende Sable, between six crosse crossletts Gules 3 besants, Whatton; Argent, 5 fusells in fesse Gules, on each an escallop Or, Aslactone; Argent, 5 fusells in fesse Gules, Newmarche.' The armories of Pierreponte and Whatton: a lion rampant among cinquefoils, impaling a bend between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants, are represented upon a monu• ment of the Pierrepontes, on the South side of the Church at Holme Pierrepoint, of which an engraving is given by Thoroton. RoGER DE WHATTON, Lord of Scarrintone (Scarrington), near Whatton, third son of John and Ella, called in several records Roger de Skerrington, and whose bearing was: Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, married Joan, one of the daughters of Oliver de Lovetot, Lord of Colestone (Kercolston), whose ensign was: Argent, a lion rampant per fess Gules and Sable; by whom he had a son, Richard, and a daughter, who married into the baronial family of D' Ayencourt. In 27 Edw. I Roger de Whatton, and Joan his wife (relict of Robert Moryn, ofMoryn Hall), and the other daughters of Oliver de Lovetot, with their husbands, did homage, had livery of their lands, and divided them. Roger afterwards passed all the lands he had in Kercolston and Screveton, of which he was enfeoffed by Oliver de Lovetot, to the Moryn family. The family ofLovetot, who came over to England with the Earl of Normandy, possessed a magnificent seat and park at Worksop, in this county; William, the first Lord Lovetot, had two sons: Richard, Baron of Sheffield, whose representative is the Duke of Norfolk, and Nigel, Baron of Sutho, whose seat 7 was at Wishow, and from whom the Lovetots ofKercolston are descended. John de Lovetot, son and heir of Oliver, died seised of the manor of Kercolston, a capital mansion and lands at Flint'aam, &c.; these, says Thornton, Joan, the wife of Roger de Whatton, brought by inheritance from her brother John de Lovetot, and passed to the Whatton family, who had a confirmation of them ro Edw. III. At Kercolston Church, in an upper window: Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, Whatton; and Argent, a lion rampant, per fess Gules and Sable, Lovetot*. RICHARD DE WHATTON, Lord of Scarringtont, son and heir of Roger and Joan, and who had his seat at Whatton, married Agnes, daughter and heiress ofJohn le Palmer, Lord of Alga­ thorp, whose bearing was: Sable, a chevron Or, between three crescents Argent, and of Alice,. his wife, who survived him, sister and heiress of Hugh de Stapleford, whose coat of arms was: Argent, on two bars Azure, three cinquefoils Or, 2, I. Hugh de Stapleford possessed a vast estate; he was High Sheriff of the counties of Nottingham and Derby, 54, 55 Hen. III and held the honour of Peverel, by the Charter of King Henry, for life. Richard de Whatton, who sealed with a bend, between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants, succeeded to the possessions of Lovetot, Le Palmer, Stapleford, and Idonea, one of the sisters and co-heiresses of Sir Richard de Wyverton, and by Agnes, his wife, had two sons: John, and Richard, afterwards a Knight; and four daughters: Agnes, who married John de Knyveton, Joyce ... de Plumton, Maud, and Margeryt' JOHN DE WHATTON, Lord of Scarrington, eldest son of Richard and Agnes, married ... Beler, by whom he had children: Alicia, Robert, called Robert Skipwith, who suc­ ceeded his father, and died issueless, leaving his sister, Margaret, his heir. Margaret de Whatton married Sir William Bagot, of Bagington Castle, in Warwickshire, by whom he had a son, * Chart. 46 Hen. III ex ejusd. Fam. stem. de Lovetot.-Ex Rotulis 27, 28, 31 Edw. I; 19 Edw. II; Harl. MSS No. 1394, p. 324. t Scarrington is the next village to Aslacton, north of Whatton.-J. S. W. +Esch. 8. Edw. III n. 44. 57.-Thor. Nott. p. IIg. 121. 121. 122. 124. Chart. 31 Edw. III. 8 Monument in Baginton Church near Coventry to Sir William and Lady Bagot, Domina de Scarrington, of Baginton Castle, quorum animabus propicietur Trinitas Sancta, unus Deus in Majestale. She was Margaret de Whatton, sister and heiress of Robert, Lord of Scarrington, and was apparently hostess to the Duke of Hereford, afterwards Henry IV, before his tournament with the Duke of Norfolk. See Shakespeare, Rich. II, and page 89, Note 49

Thomas, who died young, and a daughter, Isabel, who mar­ ried Thomas Stafford, of Pipe, son of Sir Thomas, nephew and heir of Edmund de Stafford, Bishop of Exeter. Thomas Stafford was Lord of Wapenbury, and Eathorpe, in Warwickshire, which manors came to him through the Whatton family, being part of the Beler estate; IO Hen. VI. Ralph Beler, of the county of Leicester, and Richard Stafford, son and heir of Thomas, were joint Lords thereof; afterwards they were sold by Ralph Beler, who obtained the whole interest. The Church of Baginton contains the monument of Sir William and Lady Bagot. The knight is in mail, he has a sword and a dagger, and his coat of arms in front: a chevron between three martlets, which are also over his head; Lady Bagot is in the rich costume of those days, with two dogs at her feet, over her head the shield of Whatton: a bend between six cross crosslets, charged with three besants. In the circum­ ference: 'HicjacentWill'musBagot quondamMiles ... quadringente­ simo vn VI die Sept. . . . et Margareta uxor ejusdem Willielmi que obiit anno millesimo quadringentesimo . . . quorum anima­ bus propicietur Trinitas Sta. unus Deus in Majestate'. In the windows: Argent, a chevron Gules, between three martlets Sable, Bagot; impaling Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, Whatton, and the shield of Whatton single*. SIR RICHARD DE WHATTON, youngest son of Richard and Agnes (and whose bearing was: Argent, on a bend Sable, between six crosslets Gules, three besants), had his seat at Whatton in the reign of King Edward III and married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Beler (youngest son of Roger, lineal descendant of the Lord Hamon Beler, son of Nigel, Lord D' Albini) by whom he had children: Sir John; Robert, whose daughter, Margaret, married Robert Farnham, of Quorndon Hall, in the County of Leicester; Hugh, Privy Counsellor to King Henry IV; and Margaret, who succeeded to the manor of Scarrington, with other possessions adjoining, and who married Sir Thomas de Rempston, Knight of the Garter, Constable of the Towert, * Dugd. Warw. p. 125. 198, 199. 1" Note 60, page 1 50. Rempstone is a village a few miles north of Lough­ borough.~J. S. W. 9 concerning whom mention is made in Thornton's .Nottingham­ shire, as follows: 'The manor of Skeryngton, with the appurtenances, 18 mes­ suages, 1 toft, 46 bovats ofland, 140 acres of meadow, £13 4s. 8d. ob. rent: the rent of a pair of gloves, and 3 grains of pepper in Skeryngton, Bingham, Kercolston, Wyverton, Tytheby, Knyve­ ton, Aslacton, and Whatton, were by fines, IO Hen. V 2 Hen. VI by Margaret, who had been the wife of Sir William Bagot, Knight, and sister and heir of Robert Whatton, passed to Margaret, who had been the wife of Sir Thomas de Rempston, Knight, and her heirs. John de Knyveton, and Agnes his wife, held one part, and Joyce de Plumpton, another for life; there is mention also of Maude, and Margery, after whose decease all should come to the said John and Agnes, if they chanced to over-live the said Joyce, Maude, and Margery, for their lives; the reversion to Lady Bagot, who conveyed i.j: to the Lady Rempston, before named, who it seems had a son, besides Sir Thomas Rempston, called Robert Rempston, Esq., who died seised of these lands about the 16 Edw. IV Thomas Cheyne, Esquire, then aged above 26, and Isabella Stapleton, aged 50 years, being at that time his cousins and heirs. The manor of Skeryngton was of Stapleton's part. The lands of Kercolston, of the soc of Orston, of which the heirs of Thomas Cheyney, whose land was formerly Whattons, and descended from the family of Cheyney, which had it by inheritance from that of Rempston, to William, Lord Vaux, of Harrowdon.' Thomas Beler (whose sister Avice married Ralph Lord Cromwell) used the same coat of arms as his father, namely: per pale Gules and Sable a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or; and for crest, an eagle Sable, beaked Or, rising out of a ducal coronet Argent. Margaret, his wife, was the youngest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de la Riviere, whose ensign was: Azure, two bars dancette Or; by Matilda, his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir John de Heriz, of Widmerpool, and Gunnel­ ves ton; whose bearing was: Azure, three hedge-hogs Or; and whose sister, Sarah, married Sir Robert de Pierreponte. 'Sir John de Heriz settled by fine, r8 Edw. the manors ofWid­ merpool and Gunnelveston, in Nottinghamshire, and Winfield and Tibshelf, in Derbyshire, on himself for life; then on Roger Beier for his life; afterwards on Sir Roger, the eldest son of Roger Beier, and Margaret, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard de la Rivere, and the heirs of their bodies; then on Thomas Beier, youngest son of Roger, and Margaret, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard de la Rivere, and the heirs of their bodies; remainder to the right heirs of Sir John de Heriz.' IO Roger Beler purchased the manors of Cryche, in Derby­ shire, and Bunney, in Nottinghamshire, from Ralph Lord Freschville, and 19 Edw. II held the manor of Cryche, the seat of the barony, of the King, in capite, for a knight's fee, and had summons to Parliament among the barons; he also became possessed of the manors ofWidmerpool, Gunnelveston, Winfield, and Tibshelf, by the preceding settlement; all which estates passed to Sir Roger, the eldest son, who died without issue male. Nigel, Lord D'Albini, the idol of his prince, carried: Gules, a lion rampant Argent; he was the youngest son of Roger D'Albini and Amicia his wife, sister of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, nephew and heir of Geoffrey, Bishop of Constance. This Nigel, by his second wife only, Gundred de Gurnay, had children: Roger, who took the surname of Mowbray, and Hamon, that ofBeler. She was the daughter of Hugh, Earl of Gurnay, by Editha his wife, daughter of William, Earl ofWarenne, and Gundred his wife, daughter of King William I by Maude, daughter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, whose mother, Alice, was the daughter of Robert, King of France, son of Hugh Capet. 'Tempore Regis Henrici primi, filii Conquestoris, erat quidam juvenis de familia Regis, Nigellus de Albeneyo nomine, portans arcum Regis, cujus fratres fuerunt duo Milites, strenui viri, de Curia ipsius Regis, videlicet, Comes de Clara, et Comes de Arun­ del!. Ex parte Matris de Mowbray erat ille Nigellus. Cum vero commissum fuit bellum inter Regem Henricum, et Robertum Curthose, qui fuit Dux Normanni~,frater pr~dicti Regis Henrici, apud Tengchebray, in Normannia, quia dictus Robertus voluit in Regem Angli~ coronari, statuit secum Robertus de Mowbray pr~liari, et dictus Nigellus de Albeneyo dextrarium ipsius Roberti occidit, et ipsum Robertum Curthose Regi Henrico duxit. Tune autem Rex dedit eidem Nigello totam terram Roberti, Baronis de Frontebovis*, scilicet, Stutfeld in Anglia, quod se converteret ad Robertum Curthose, contra Suum Regem, quasi falsus proditor. Illo autem tempore per consilium Regis Henrici idem Nigellus capit in uxorem Gundredam, filiam Domini Hugonis de Gurnay, in Normannia. Dum autem obsedisset quoddam Castellum in trans­ marinis partibus, in Normannia, idem Dominus Nigellus de Albeneyo primus intrans, cepit, et Regi reddidit. Tune apposuit Rex eum ditare amplius, et dedit ei totam terram pr~dicti Roberti * This is clearly the origin of Sir Walter Scott's Front-de-Bceuf in Ivanhoe. He was well read in the old chronicles.-]. S. W. II de Mowbray, in Normannia et in Anglia, cum omnibus pertinen­ tiis, qui Robertus fuit Comes de Northumbria, et statim feoffavit eum de omnibus Costellis, et de Bajocis, ac cum suis omnibus pertinentiis. Cum Henricus Rex dedisset Domino Nigello de Albeneyo prredictam terram Roberti de Mowbray, prrecipit ut hreres. Filii ergo Nigelli de Albeneyo et Gundredie fuerunt, ut dictum est, Rogerus nomine, qui cognomen haberet de Mowbray, et Hamo nomine, qui cognomen haberet de Bellario. Tune ipse Rogerus, cruce signatus, ivit in Terram Sanctam, et ibi in magno prielio captus a Saracenis, redemptus est per militiam Templi, et diversis prielisi fatigatus, reversus est in Angliam; et in suo itinere invenit Draconem cum Leone pugnantem in Valle, quie dicitur Saranell, percussitque Draconem usque ad mortem, et secutus est eum Leo in Angliam usque ad Gastellum de Hode. Vixitque postea xv annos, et mortuus est senectute bona, et sepultus in Bellalanda, in quadam fornace in muro capituli ex parte Australi juxta Matrem suam Gundredam, et supra sepulchrum ejus depictus est gladius lapide insignatus, ubi nemo positus est in pra:sentem diem.' 'At Kirkby,' says Camden, 'a seat of the Bellers (sometimes so written), there was a priory, having that addition of the Bellers, a respected, rich, and noble family in their time; by Brokesby, a seat now of the Villiers, of an old Norman race, and descended from an heir of Bellers.' 'In Melton Mowbray Church, under a round arch, a cross­ legged figure in a round helmet of mail, with a bend; his shield on his left arm bearing a lion rampant, his sword is under it, his belt is plated, and there is a dog at his feet; over him is inscribed in modern characters: This is the Lord Hamon Beler, brother to the Lord Mowbray.' 'A beautiful pedigree of the family ofVilliers preserves a drawing of Ralph Lord Beler, grandson of Lord Hamon; his figure is placed on the tomb in a coat of mail, his legs cross each other, and on his left arm a shield bears: per pale a lion rampant.' The 'Harleian Manuscripts', in the British Museum, give the following armories: 'In the Church of Whatton, in com'. Nottinghamire, in the glasse windowes there: I . Azure, a bar dancette between ten billets. Or. -2. -3. -4. Argent, on a bend Azure, seven cross crosslets Or.-5 ... a bar dancette between ten billets.-6. Argent, two chevrons Sable, within a bordure ingrailed Sable.-7. Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants Or.-r. Argent, 12 five fusils in fess Gules.-2. Per pale Gules and Sable a lion ram­ pant Argent, within a bordure ingrailed Argent.-3. Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants Or.- 4· Sable, a chevron between ... cross crosslets Argent.-1. Argent, on five fusils in fess Gules, each an escallop Or.-2. Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants Or.-3. Barry nebule of . . . Gules, and Or.-Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants Or, Whatton impaling, per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, within a bordure ingrailed Argent, Bellers; Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants Or, Whatton; impaling, per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, on his shoulder an annulet Gules, Bellers; the latter coat is also single with the crest; an eagle Sable beaked Argent, rising out of a ducal coronet Argent; another shield bears: per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, (without the annulet), and over it a helmet, mantle Gules and Sable, and the like crest, with the eagle beaked Or. 'An ould Knight lying upon a toombe with these arms on his shield: on a bend between six cross crosslets three besants, and about it written thus: pray for the soule of Sr. Richard Whatton, knt.: written in Frenche.' Dr Thornton notices the following coats of arms (including those of Wha tton, Aslacton, and N ewmarche), in the windows: 'Gules, a lion rampant, with a bordure engrailed Argent.­ Sable, a chevron between ten cross crosslets Argent.-Gules, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or.-Crest, an eagle's head, betwixt the wings Sable, coming out ofa crown Argent'. He observes: Sir Richard de Whatton lies buried in this Church, under a well-cut stone tomb, whereon is his portraiture, with his shield, having his arms embossed upon it, which the windows also show to be: Argent on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants; his name was on the side, where yet some gilding is visible'. Many shields of arms were beautifully delineated in the old mansion and manor-house at Whatton, none of which appear to have been described in any antiquarian collection. Reverting to the Newmarches (who acquired the manor of Whatton by their intermarriage) it seems that Thomas de New­ marche had free warren granted him here by Edward II and a market and fair by Edward III, but his descendants becoming extinct in a daughter married to Sir Willi;im Gas­ coigne in the reign of Henry VII, one of that family sold the manor to Sir Thomas Stanhope, grandfather of Philip, first Earl of Chesterfield. 'In the middle of the South aile at Whatton is an altar-tomb, and a figure of alabaster, which it is not improbable represents Thomas de Newmarche.-The Knight is in mail, close to his face, his helmet, pointed, has a frontlet of oak leaves, and on it in black letter: Adoramus de Xpe; on the left side, and on the right Ave Maria; at the joining of the frontlet a griffin sitting on a wheel. The figure has whiskers, a collar ofSS. buckled thrice in front, mail at his arm pits, and on the hollow of his arms, gauntlets with the knuckle part raised; his belt is sprinkled with butterflies, a flowing fringe to his coat of mail, on his breast five fusils in fess, hilt remaining at his right hand, a lion at his feet looking up.' On the sides, and at the ends of the tomb, are fourteen shields of arms*. S1RJOHN DE WHATTON (sometimes written Watton), eldest son of Sir Richard, used the same coat of arms as his father, and had his seat at Long-Whatton in Leicestershire, in the reign of King Henry IV (which manor belonged to the Basset family). He had several children: Robert, John, Professor of the Order of St Augustine; Alice; and Richard, whose sons Richard and Robert were feoffees with Sir Thomas Gresley and Sir William Basset, of the manors and lands of the last Lord Basset of Drayton, in the counties ofNottingham, Derby, Warwick, and Leicester. Alice, the daughter of Sir John de Whatton, married Sir John Woodford, Lord of Ashby-Folville, whose bearing was: Sable, three leopards' heads Gules, jess. three fleurs de lys Argent, and who impaled the shield ofWhatton, Argent, on a bend Sable, between six crosslets Gules, three besants. By her Sir John Woodford had a son, Sir Robert, who married Isabel, the daughter of John Neville, descendant of Sir William Neville, Lord of Rolleston, a branch of the Raby family, who derived their lineage from Cospatric, Earl ofNorthumberland, son of Maldred and Algith his wife, grand-daughter of King Ethelred II. The Nevilles of Raby had for their armorial ensign: Gules, a saltire Argent, and have given Earls to Salisbury, Westmorland, and Warwick. 'Memorand'. quod antedictus Johannes Wodford, Miles, desponsavit ... filiam Johannis Watton, militis, et habuerunt exitum inter ipsos, Robertum Wodford, Armigerum. Arms: quarterly, Woopford, Prest, Folvile, and Brabazon, impaling, * Chart. 31 Edw. III; Chart. 12 Hen. IV; Harl. MSS No. 1394, p. 324, Nos. 1088. 6033, p. 73, No. 2017, p. 232; Ord. 2 Hen. IV; Ex Collect. G. Lascels.; Chetwy. MSS; Vine. Vis. 1619. 127. p. 320.; Phillipot, fo. 20 b. 14 Argent on a bend Sable three bezants Or, betwixt sixcrosscrossletts of the second, Watton.' 'Mem.' quod antedictus Robertus Wadford, Miles, desponsavit Isabellam, filiamJohannis Nevyll, de Rolleston in com.' Notting'. et habuerunt exitum inter eos, I. Robertum Wadford, militem; 2. Joannam, uxorem Laurentii Berkly, militis; 3. Agnetem, uxorem Thome Chetwod, militis; 4. lsabellam, uxorem Laurentii Sherard. Arms: quarterly, Woodford, Prest, Folvile, and Brabazon, impaling Gules, a saltire Ermine, Nevylle.' 'Here may ye see and truly undeerstand a trewe pedegrewe of Sir Thomas Nevyll, knyet, lord ofRolleston, beside Newark, how he weddyd Dame Cecile, daughter of Sir Guy Blankminster, of Cornewyll, lord of the Isle of Sully, and other many fayre lord­ shipes in the same contrey; and the sayd Sir Thomas and Dame Cecile his wyffe hadde issu Sir Willia' N evyll, the gode knyet, and lord of Rolleston.' 'At Osweston, in the church windowes there, Sable, three leopards' heads Gules, jess, three fleurs de lys Argent, Woodford, impaling Argent on a bend Sable, three bezants Or, between six cross crosslets Gules, Whatton*. ROBERT DE WHATTON, eldest son of Sir John, and who had a capital mansion at Long-Whatton, married Katharine, one of the daughters of . . . Leeke, of the county of Nottingham. and had several children: John, Richard, Philip, and Agnes, John Whatton, the eldest son, represented the county of Leicester in Parliament (with Wm. Feldyng), 38 Henry VI and married Margaret, daughter of Robert Woodford, where­ upon he impaled, Sable, three leopards' heads Gules, jess. three fleurs de lys Argent; he had six children: Robert, 14 Edw. IV; Geoffrey, 16 Edw. IV; William, Elizabeth, Ambrose ,and Mary. Geoffrey, the second son, was father of another Geoffrey, 23 Hen. VIII, then about 24 years old, ancestor of the Whattons of Mapplewell, in the forest of Charnwood, noticed by Nichols, at which Hamlet they had a good stone mansion, defended by a moat, surrounded by hills, wood, groves, rocks of stone, granite, and dells of slate. The descrip­ tion introduced by Marshall, though perhaps rather a digression, is worthy of remark. 'The Charnwood Hills,' he says, 'seen obscurely, appear as an extensive range of moun­ tains, much larger, and, of course, much more distant than

* Chart. 12 Hen. IV.-Ex collect. R. Bellers.-Notre Eccles. de What. Longa ex collect.Joh. Knyv.-Ex Mon. in Eccles. de What. Longa.-Excerp. de Stirp. de Woodf.-Ex Coll. Comitis Harb.-Chart. I 2 Hen. VII.-Chartulre de Woodf. in Bibi. Cot. Claud. A XIII.-MSS P. Le Neve. hey really are. When approached, the mountain style is still preserved, the prominences are distinct, sharp, and most of them pointed with ragged rock. One of these prominences, Bardon Hill*, rises above the rest, and may be styled the Olympus of Leicestershire, and perhaps of this country; for it is seen in more directions, if not further, than any other eminence in England. It sits among mountain forms about it, with the most venerable aspect, bearded with the bramble, wild thorn, and the oak, a cover for birds of the finest plumage, and the most delicious taste. The woodcock and the pheasant inhabit where it is said was the abode of the ancient Druids, of whom there are apparently some remains on the North side of the hill.' Resuming the subject in progression, it will be proper by way of illustration, to set down the armories hitherto at Melton Mowbray and Whatton. 'At Whatton Church, in com' Lestria:: I. Argent, a chevron Sable.-2. Azure, three hedge hogs Or.-3. Sable, six annuletts, Or.-4. Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three bezants Or, In Melton Church, Argent, on a bend Sable three bezants Or, between six cross crosslets Gules, impaling Sable three leopards' heads Gules, surmounted by as many fleurs de lys Argent.' Vincent's Visitation gives the intermarriage ofWhatton and Leeke: in Ecc'la de Whatton Longa, Argent, a chevron Sable, between three boars, erroneously designed for Whatton,­ Sable, six annulets Or, 3, 2, 1, Leeke. The Harleian Manu­ scripts shows the alliance of the Whatton family with that of Woodford, Holme, Dep. Chester Herald, in his Notes, June 8 1583, describes the shield of Whatton, impaling Woodford as follows: 'In Grene's house, the Swane, at Melton, theise cotes: Argent, on a bend Sable between 6 cross crossletts Gules, three bezants; empaling Sable, 3 leopards' heads Gules, gess. three fleurs de lys Argent.' The Swan Inn at Melton Mowbray abounded with traces of antiquity, and was also the repository of the remnants of the arms formerly belonging to the trained bandst.' * It has given its name to a modern novel, King's Bardon, by Bernard Rolt, brother to a very old friend ofmine.-J. S. W. t Chart. 25, 26, Hen. VI.-Nota: Eccles. de What. Longa.-Vinc. Vis. Lestr. 1619, 127, p. 293.-Ex Rotulis 38 Hen. VI.-Harl. MSS No. 2017, p. 84.­ Ex Collect. R. Holme. 16 joHN WHATTON, second son of Sir John, was Prior of Ulvescroft, in the reign of King Edward IV, a religious house which displayed for its armorial ensign, Gules, seven mascles Or, and subsequently, Argent, a saltire between in chief a ducal coronet, and in fess two mitres Or. Among the records of the convent is a memorial in these words: 'Habemus ex remissione, relaxatione, et quieta clarnatione Joh'is Whatton Prioris de Ulvescrofte, et ejusdem loci Conventus, totum jus suum et clameum que unquam habuerunt, ha bent, seu quovis modo in futuro habere poterint de et in certis parcellis terre, pasture, et prati, in Charley, vocat' le Oldefeld, et Long­ wong, cum fessis et sepibus, &c. Dat' xxvi die Septembris, anno regni Regis Edwardi quarti vi ut in Carta v libri de Chartwary* .' The Priory is situated in a valley in the forest ofCharnwood, adorned by high eminences and fine woods ofoak, and appears to have been founded by the Earl of Quincy, or, as some affirm, by Robert de Bellamont, Earl of Leicestert, surnamed Blanchmaines, under the patronage of the holy Trinity and blessed Mary, for Friars Eremites of the order of St Augustine. These Friars, Polydore Vergil affirmeth, for their habit wore in their cloister a white garment close girt, and when they went out, a black one over it, with a broad leathern girdle, and a black cornered cap. 'The Priors had a stately mansion, called Charley, with waters, royalties, &c., and kept their houndes, greyhounds, and hawkes of their own, and did hunte, course, and hawk, throughout all the forrest, that is to saye, fallow, deer roe, foxes, hares, and likewise did hawke at the partridges and pheasantes; thus in these days a religious life appeared so innocent and so beautiful, that many embraced it. The storey goes, that once upon a time Thomas Lord Marquess of Dorset was offended at the said hunting, which the Prior understanding, went to Bradgate with a grant from Roger, Erle ofQuincy:j:, one of the ancestors of the said lord, of the liberty ofhuntinge at pleasure, by these wordes, usque ad saltum, the which being produced the Marquess sayd, Well Prior, I have put my red deer forth lately, spare them I pray thee, and spare not the fallow deer.' * Ex Rotulis de Ulv. t Copious memoirs of him and his numerous religious foundations may be seen in Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. I General Index, p. 60. t The noble families ofQuency, Earls of Winton, and Ferrars, lords of Groby, were liberal benefactors of Ulvescroft Priory. In 1465 the priories of Charley and Ulvescroft, both in the same county, were united by consent of their respective patrons, Sir John Bourchier, knt. and Dame Elizabeth his wife, grand-daughter and heiress of Wm. Lord Ferrars of Groby. D 17 Of the ruins of the Convent, a lofty tower, standing on two elevated pointed arches, a high mouldering wall, with large Gothic windows, and other fragments, still remain, presenting a fine delineation of monastic grandeur, and the rude luxury of those remote times. The engraving (see Plate I) is taken from Nichols, who observes: 'Ulvescroft is the most pure and best preserved religious ruin in the county, and though but little known or noticed by tourists, is well worthy of attention.' RoBERT WHATTON, of Long Whatton, eldest son of John and Margaret, whose bearing was: Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants; quartering Azure, three hedge hogs Or; married ... daughter of William Kendal of Smithesby and Twycross, esq., a family maternally descended from the Fitzherberts, and whose ensign was: Gules, a fess cheeky Or and Azure, between three eagles displayed Or. From this Robert the lineage is continued: 'Robert Whatton had three children, Robert, the eldest dyed in 1554, being about the age of 48 yeares; by Alice his wife, who sur­ vived him, he left one daughter Elizabeth, and a son John, who wrote himself of Thurnby, and who marryed Sence Penburye. This John Whatton, who owned a fair estate, passed all his lands at Whatton to Robert, his cousin, who had issue George, Phillippa, Ellen, Anne, Thomas, Katharine, Mary, and Robert; George, the eldest, departed this life about the yeare 1590, leaving two daughters his heyres'. On an inquisition taken at Leicester in 1590, it was found that George Whatton, gent., died in the month of April 1586; that he held nothing of the King in capite, and that his dau­ ghters, Anne and Elizabeth, were his co-heirs. The marriage between William Eyre and Elizabeth Whatton appears in the Register in 1594; the interment of Robert Whatton and Margaret his wife is also noticed, but further with that branch the Register does not proceed. The Priory of Ulvescroft was returned to the Commissioners to be worth, according to Dugdale, £83 IOs. 6½d.; according to Speed, £101 3s. rn½d. It was suppressed in 1534, among the religious houses. It was, however, especially re-founded by King Henry VIII; but in 1539, the Prior again surren­ dered it into the King's hands. In 1534 the priories ofUlvescroft and Charley, with all lands belonging to them, were granted to Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland, who passed them to Sir Andrew Judd, Lord Mayor of London in 1540; and he alienated them the same year to Henry Duke of Suffolk. At his attainder the site of the priory again reverted to the Crown. It was afterwards granted to the Strelley family. Ulvescroft has since passed through the families of Wilson and Style, to that of Bosvile ofRavensfield Park, Co. York, the present owners.-EmT. 18 'In Long Whatton Church, on a broken blue flat stone, upon a brass plate, this inscription: Pray for the soule of Robert Whatton, arm', whych decessed the v day of March, anno Dom.' MCCCCCXLII. On whose soule I.H.U. have mercy, amen. Armes: on a bend betwene six cross crossletts three bezants, quartered with three hedge hogs.' Nichols introduces engravings of the following coats of arms, in the windows: Argent, on a bend Sable between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, and the same quartering, Argent, a chevron between three hedge hogs Sable. The tombstones which commemorated the different persons of the family, were many years ago removed from their burial places to other parts of the church, where some may still be recognized*. JOHN WHATTON of Thurnby, son and heir of Robert and Alice, married Sence, daughter of ... Penbury of Loseby, esq., son of ... Penbury of Northamptonshire, and Eliza­ beth his wife, daughter of William Ashby, Lord of Loseby; which Elizabeth, it should seem, was also the wife of William Waryng, a merchant of the Staple of Calais. In the Harleian Manuscripts, the alliance is noticed as follows: 'William Ashby, grandson of Thomas Ashby of Lowesby, by Agnes, daughter of Sir Richard Illingworth, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, had a daughter Eliza­ beth, uxor --- Penbury de com.' North'ton.' This William Ashby, whose coat of arms was, Argent, a lion rampant Sable, a chiefGules, derived his descent from Richard de Ashby and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress ofJohn Burdet, lord of Loseby, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Roger de la Zouch, of Lubbesthorpe, whose ancestor Sir Alan de la Zouch, lord of Ashby, had his origin from Alan, Viscount of Rohan, and Constance his wife, daughter and heiress of Conan, Earl of Bretagne, and Maud his wife, natural daughter of King Henry I. In Loseby Church a tombstone has this inscription: 'Hie jacet Agnes, quondam uxor Willi' Ashby, arm'. Domini de Lowesby, filia D'ni Ricardi Illingworth, militis, capitalis baronis scaccarii Domini Regis, obiit r 492-3.' *Vine.Vis. Lestr. 1619, 127, p. 322.-Chart. 15 Hen. VIII-Ex ejusd. Fam. Stem. per W. Wyrley.-Chart. 25 Sept. 1 7 Eliz.-Reg. de What. Longa.-Inq. p. m. 32 Eliz.-Ex Mon. in Eccles. de What. L.-Harl. MSS Nos. II89, 6590, p. 95. D2 19 John Whatton and Sence his wife had two sons, William, and John, of Raunstone, High Sheriff of Leicestershire, 14 Car. I. The following curious Letter was written by the latter to Sir William Herrick, jeweller and goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth and to King James the First, upon the decease of his wife, Sir William's niece: 'Raunstone', the 2nd of August, 1639 'Goon SIR,-I receaved your letter, and should have bene verie glad to have had your company at the Assizes, which if I had known of your being in towne, I should have sent to desire it; but yt seemeth you had other occasions hindred your cominge. For the other business you write of, yt is indeed likely that I shall marrye a young daughter (in comparison to my yeares) of Mr. Babington's, being betweene five and sixe and twentye yeares old: yet ofa dossen or more that were mentioned to me, both Knights' daughters, and Knights and Baronets' daughters, and some of greater birth, and others ofverie good fashion and quality, before I pitched upon this gentlewoman, and divers since, there hath not bene above two above the age of this, but divers of them younger. I did not hastily resolve on this, but with good considerations, and the approbation and verie good likeing of a verie worthy divine, and did think that, all thinges wayed well, she would be the fittest of any that I heard of, and so I think still, of others that have been motioned since; she is commended to be verie meake, humble, and one that will be suteable to my conditions, which I am assured of by a neer freind of mine that hath bene in house with her from her birth, and she hath made as great shew in her words and carriage to me and others that she can affect me, and will carrie herselfe in such a loveing manner as is fittinge as I can desire; which indeed I have bene doubtfull of, whomesoever I should roach withall in respect of my age; but if I doe marry at all, I must make a hazard, and this waye is as likely a waye to prove well as any I can goe, for greater hopes I cannot have; and that was it which I aymed at rather than greatness of birth, friends, or portion, she being one that feareth God, and is of verye good report. I see to live un­ married will be a verie uncomfortable life for me, which I have had sad experience of since my wife died; and having, I hope, per­ formed those thinges for her which were fitting, both in her life, at her death, and since, yt is neither unlawful nor discommendable for me to marrye againe, which indeed she on her death-bed did wish and desire. I did seeke to God for his blessing and direction in this business, of so great weyght to me; and I hope his blessing will goe along with me, and make it good and comfortable both for 20 The Tomb in Cheshunt Parish Church of Lady Whatton, daughter of Sir Thomas Dacre of The North, and wife of Sir John Whatton of Chain Hall, East Sheen, Surrey, a diplomat in the reign of Charles II. soule and bodye. And thus, good Sir, giveing you thankes for the love and good you write you have and wish to me, I take leave, and rest your verie loveing kinsman, JoHN WHATTON 'To the right worshipful his verie loveing unkle Sir William Heiricke, Knight, at his house in Beaumanor; present these*.' John Whatton occasionally resided in the Newark, Leicester. He was an esquire of the body of King Charles,Justice of the Peace for the County, &c., and subsequently married Catharine, the daughter of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, esq., by whom he had children, three sons, John, William, and Thomas, and three daughters, Catharine, Mary, and Sence. He purchased the Thurnby estate for one of his younger sons; and dying February 16 1656t, was buried in St Martin's Church, where a monument is erected to his memory, an engraving and description of which appear in Nichols's History of Leicestershire=!:. WILLIAM WHATTON, of Newton Lynford, in Leicestershire, eldest son of John and Sence, married Anne, daughter of Tildesley Monk, by whom he had a son William, and a daughter Mary, who married William Rolleston, esq. descendant of Sir Benedict de Rolleston, of the county of Nottingham, and whose bearing was: Argent, a cinquefoil Azure, on a chief Gules a lion passant Or. William Whatton the elder died in 1642. His nephew, Sir John Whatton, of Chain Halt near East Sheen, in the county of Surrey, was employed in a diplomatic quality abroad, and married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Dacre, of St Andrew le Mott in Hertfordshire; he was a branch of the noble family of Dacre, of the North, and used these arms: Argent, a chevron Sable between three Torteaux, on each an escallop Argent. Her monument in Cheshunt Church has the following inscription: · 'To the dear and precious memory ofMargaret, second daughter of Sr Thomas Dacres, jun. and the dearly loving and as dearly beloved wife of Sr John Whatton, Kt. She was: 'Fair as an Angel, virtuous as a Saint, Whose beauty and whose grace noe art can paint, * See his Will, page 84, and engraving of the tomb, facing page xxi. t The Author takes the date from Nichols, but according to the entry in the St Martin's Register it should be 1654, and this is confirmed by the Will, which was proved July 2 1655. J. S. W. :/: St Geo. Vis. Lestr. 1683, K. 2. p. 234, 235.-Stem. W. Waryng.-Chart. 15 Hen. VIL-Stem. W. Ashby.-Ex Mon. apud Loseb.-Vinc. Vis. Lestr. 1619, 1 27, p. 73. 21 Highly belov'd by all, and so admir'd, As much bewail'd, when she from hence retir'd; Her Soul too pure for Earth, ·to Heaven soar'd, There to injoy the God she here ador'd. Her body sleeps within th' adjacent vault, For ever freed from pain, and grief's assault; Both shall at the last trump's awakning sound Unite, and with immortall bliss be crown'd. 'She had issue only two daughters, Angelia, born in France, and Margaret, of whom she died in child-bed, July 24th, anno r 765, retatis 23.' Ann Whatton, niece of Sir John, who reposes with his wife and children, succeeded by bequest to part of his estates, and married Trafford Smyth, eldest son of Sir Robert Smyth, of Upton in the county of Essex, bart., whose ensign was: Azure, two bars wavy Ermine, on a chief Or a demi-lion rampant Sable. His first wife was Conway, daughter and heiress of Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor, by whom only he had children*. WILLIAM WHATTON of Newton Lynford (son and heir of William and Anne),Justice of the Peace for the county, and in commission for assessing the subsidies; married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, esqt., whose bearing was: Argent, ten torteaux, 4, 3, 2, r, with a label in chief of three points, Azure. This ancient seat of the Babingtons is memorable in the county, being the site of a preceptory belonging to the Knights Templars, 'a species of mongrel monastics, who attempted to blend the different a~d opposite characters of soldiers, devotees, and gallants.' William Whatton had eight children: William, who died issueless at London; Thomas, who died in his infancy; John, who died without issue; Matthew, who died an infant; Babing­ ton; Tildesley, who died an infant; Henry, a student inTrinity College, Cambridge; and Catharine. Babington Whatton had a son William, who had several children: William, and Babington, who died issueless ; Elizabeth, who married Thomas Hunt; Lucy, and Sence, who died unmarried; and Mary, who by her first husband, George Abel, had a daughter Elizabeth, and by her second * Vis. Lestr. 1683, p. 234,235. Ex Mon. apud Chesh. Chaunc. Herts. pp. 298, 3or, 302. See also Page 40. t In 1884 a large part of Newton Lynford was absorbed by the village of Rothley Temple. The Babingtons and Whattons were very near neighbours. 22 J. s. w. R ev. H enry Whatton, Vicar of Hamberstone. Died 1 704 From a portrait at Rackley Manor

husband, Thomas Cheetham, a son, Thomas, who died without issue; Elizabeth Abel marrying Thomas Aspinshaw, his son the Rev. John Aspinshaw (or Staunton), D.D.* of Staunton Hall in Nottinghamshire, succeeded to the remain­ ing property of the Whatton family, at Newton Lynford, of which he is the proprietor at this day. In Newton Lynford Church is a mural monument in memory of Mary, the daughter of William Whatton, and her second husband. She died 23 March 1777, aged 65. It appears from the Visitation of 1683 that the former Wil­ liam Whatton set forth his genealogy, commencing with his grandfather, and gave for his crest, a boar, and alleged his arms to be (as his uncle had done) Azure, three boars Or; whereupon he was required to bring better proof, before he could be allowed the bearing of the same. The error is attri­ buted to Heriz'st coat of arms: Azure; three hedge-hogs Or, quartered by Whatton, being inadvertently selected and transformed into boars. A pedigree of the Farnhams, which deduces their descent from Robert Farnham and Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Whatton before alluded to, quarters: Azure, three boars Or, which are depicted upon the monument of Sarah Farnham, Countess of Denbigh, in Quorndon Church. This erroneous allegation, however, has afforded several indubitable proofs of descent and affinity, and its rejection in 1683 was a complete confirmation to the family of their ancient and proper shield, which (except in the instances quoted) they have invariably hornet. HENRY WHATTON, Vicar of Humberstone in Leicestershire, son of William and Lucy, whose bearing was: Argent, on a bend Sable between six cross crosslets Gules three besants; quartering, Azure, three hedge-hogs Or, which he had em­ blazoned, by Mary his wife had three sons: Henry, William, and Samuel;,and two daughters; Henry, the eldest, who used the same coat of arms as his father, married Elizabeth, daughter of Arundel Blunt of Nottingham, esq., and impaled, Barry, nebule of six Or and Sable; by her he had several * See Burke's Landed Gentry, 1914.----J. S. W. t The Anglo-Norman family of Heriz derived their origin from a son of the Count of Vendome in France, whose arms, three hedge-hogs, were used by them. According to Chalmers, a branch of this family, who had their chief seat at Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, settled in Scotland during she reign of King David I; they were Barons of Terreagles, and carried three hedge-hogs Sable, by the name of Herries. ! Vis. Lestr. 1683, pp. 234, 235.-Ex Rotulis, 3 Jae. 11.-Ex adm. W. Wh. apud Lond. 2 3 children: Henry, Elizabeth, who died in her infancy; William, Babington, and James. Henry and William, intended for the University*, were sent to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School at Mansfieldt, where they acquired the rudiments of their education; Henry, the eldest, of mean fortunes, in his youth espoused the interest of the Stuart family, celebrated for their ineffectual struggles to recover the crown of England, and hence may be attributed the vicissitudes of his life; on his seal, noted in Nichols's Leicestershire, are these arms: on a bend between six cross crosslets three besants, quartered with three hedge-hogs. By Christian his wife (improperly called Catharine), whose beauty, tradition says, was all the family inheritance, he had children: Elizabeth, Henry, William, and James, who died young. William Whatton, brother of the former Henry, was Vicar of Loxley, in Warwickshire; he was a man of very con­ siderable talents, erudition, and taste, and married Elizabeth de la Mayne, but died issueless. The Whatton family have (amongst others) a fine portrait of the Rev. Henry Whatton, and a silver cup, of curious work­ manship, upon which are engraved: Argent, two bars Gules within a bordure ingrailed Sable; and this inscription: 'Giuen by Eliz. Blunt to her grand-daughter and god-daughter Eliz. Whatton, 1715, March r.' The family of Blunt, or Blount, derive their origin from Robert le Blund, Baron of Ickworth in the reign of King William I and Gundred his wife, daughter of Earl Ferrers; from them sprung Sir John Blunt, or Blount, who by Isolda his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph Montjoye, had Sir John, who by Eleanor his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Lord Beauchamp, had Sir Walter Blunt, Standard Bearer to King Henry IV. This Sir Walter, whose paternal coat was: Barry nebule of six, Or and Sable, married Donna Sanchia D'Ayala, of a very noble house, of the blood royal of Castile, and quartered Argent, two wolves sejeant Sable, on a bordure Or sixteen lions' paws crossed Gules, D'Ayala; and Argent, a tower Azure, Castile; his crest, a wolf passant, Sable. From them descended Lord Montjoye (who used those bearings, having the same crest on a ducal coronet), the Mapledurham, * See Note 4a, page 52. t Founded 156r. Rebuilt 1705. There were four scholarships to Cambridge University, and among famous alumni are counted Halifax, Bishop of Gloucester, and Sterne, Archbishop of York. J. S. W. 24 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of .John Watkinson, who was married at Gretna G reen to Henry Whatton of Loughborough Parks in 1779. From a portrait at Manormead

Orleton, and Nottingham branches, which is confirmed by the similitude of their arms; and upon a copper-plate fixed to a tombstone in the middle aisle of St Peter's Church, at Nottingham, are engraved: 'Barry, nebule ofsix Or and Sable, crest, a wolf passant Sable'; and this inscription: 'MrArundell Blunt departed this life the 7th day of Septbr. I 7 I 8, aged 63.' At Humberstone Church a tombstone bears these inscrip­ tions: 'Here lyeth the body of Mr Henry Whatton, Master of Arts, of Trinity College in Cambridge, and seventeen years Vicar of this Church, who departed this life October the 2d, Anno Domini I 704, aged 44 years.' 'Also the body of Mary Whatton his wife, who died March 29 1728, aged 70 years*.' HENRY WHATTON, of Loughborough and Loughborough Parks, eldest son of Henry and Christian, and the next heir male, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Watkinson, gentleman, grandson of the Rev. Henry Watkin­ son, Vicar of Beeston, in Nottinghamshire, whose bearing was: Or, a fess between three mullets Azure. This divine was descended from the Watkinsons of Ilkley, in the county of York, of which family were several persons of eminence, and Henry Watkinson, LL.D., Chancellor of that Diocese, who used a distinct coat: Quarterly Argent and Azure, on a bend Gules, three roses Argent. Her property, by subsequent acquisitions, exceeded £20,000. The union, unhappy in the sequel ( and verily, 'The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon.') was solemnized on July 31 1779, at Gretna Green, on the borders of Scotland, famous for the clandestine connexions of young persons from England, whose parents or guardians disapprove of their alliances. It is, says Pennant, distinguished from afar by a small plantation offirs, the Cyprian grove of the place, a sort ofland-mark for fugitive lovers. From this affair arose a contest in Chancery between Mr Whatton and his wife's trustees, namely, Nathaniel Palmer Johnson, esq., the Rev. William Farnham, Rev. James Bickham, D.D., and William Cradock, gentleman, the latter of whom opposed the * Vis. Lestr. 1683, pp. 234, 234.-Ex Mon. apud Humb.-Reg. de Humb.­ Reg St. Petri apud Nott.-Reg. de Cuckn.-Reg. de Mansf.-Stem a de Bl.­ Ex Mon. in Eccles. Sti Petri apud Nott. 25 match, from disparity of fortune; but upon the testimony of Sir John Danvers, of Swithland Hall, bart., William Pochin of Barkby, esq., Member of Parliament for the county, Edward Dawson of Long-Whatton, esq., William Clayton of Ravenstone, esq., one of the Justices of the Peace for the county, and William Pochin of Loughborough, esq., who deposed that they had known the said Henry Whatton many years, and that he was a person ofgood reputation and esteem, an affectionate and good husband, and maintained his wife in a style suitable to her fortune and expectations in life, and that he and his said wife, as these deponents believed, lived happy together, and had one son born, the quarrel for the most part was adjusted. Eventually, however, in a series of years, destiny doomed those halcyon days to perish. A memorial of the marriage ceremony is as follows: 'These are to certify all person or persons whom it may concern, that Henry Whatton of Loughborough, in the County of Leicester, gentleman, and Elizabeth Watkinson of the same place, spinster, who came before me, declaring to be both single persons, were lawfully married by the way of the Church of England, and agreeable to all the Laws of the Church of Scotland. Given under my hand at Grattna Green, the thirty first day ofJuly, one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. *'Witnesses, T. Har­ 'John Percefield. desty, of Carlisle. 'Hen. Whatton. Esther Willimott, of 'E. Watkinson.' Loughboro'. Mr Whatton, become heir and representative of the Blunt family, succeeded to the estate of Miss Sarah Blunt, under a bequest contained in her will, dated October 2 1782. This gentlewoman dying soon afterwards, was interred in the family vault, in the middle aisle of St Peter's Church, Not­ tingham; she was the grand-daughter of Arundel Blunt, Esq., before mentioned, and had two sisters, Elizabeth, who died in her infancy, and Mary, who married William Davies of Leighton Beaudesert; also two brothers, Charles and Arundel, who died young. It should be remarked that the collateral branch of the Whatton family, the owners of the Thurnby estate before noticed and other property, becoming extinct, the same was disposed of by the last possessor to charitable uses, and being *Fora modern Gretna Green certificate see page 77, Note 44--J. S. W. 26 ~fo ifrr!ICYR T 'YY lfl!A'T'TO!~ 'I~ .'> Q. /:l/{0 "· 1::::n.,--y' r//,,. ,,,/4/ , ,,/f..,,,,,.1t.:w

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' Since the publication of that engraving the place has been considerably improved by the acqms1t10n of a new front.'-H. W.W. in the Articles. From an engraving in the possession of the Rev. W. G.D. Fletcher. Mr Fletcher's three engravings, h ere reproduced, were published originally in Nichols' History of Leicestershire

thrown into Chancery, the principal part, by an order of that Court, enriched several of the public institutions in this county. Loughborough Parks, to which it may not be unacceptable to allude, was formerly a good old mansion, surrounded by a moat, whose winding stream is now appropriated to the purposes of a fish-pond; the situation is near the Outwoods, in a rich vale, exceedingly picturesque, and on the borders of Charnwood Forest. The park, of which this domain formed a part, contained about 1,000 acres; Leland says: 'Lughborow Park was a mile from Lughborow toune, and on the very borders of the forreste, and came to the Marquis ofDorsete, in exchaunge oflandes with the Kinge.' It was the residence of John Oldershaw, Esq., who was in the Commission of the Peace for this county, in the reign of King William Ill and Queen Anne; and subsequently of William Busby, Esq., who married Catharine, daughter of Sir Henry Beaumont, bart., of Stoughton Grange. Among the local peculiarities, it appears that the gate-house, being the entry at a drawbridge over the moat, a large hall, containing two fire-places of considerable dimensions (denoting the hospitality of days gone by), a few smaller apartments and offices were all the vestiges of this ancient structure standing in the last century. The dilapidated state of the building accelerated its destruction, and upon the site of it a farmhouse was erected, an engraving of which is given in Nichols's Leicestershire, and dedicated to Henry Whatton, with his paternal bearing, Argent, on a bend Sable between six cross crosslets Gules, three besants, quartering Azure three hedge-hogs Or. Since the publication of that engraving, the place has been considerably improved by the acquisition of a new front, beautified with shrubs and other appendages, and forms upon the whole a pleasing abode*. Throsby's Nottinghamshire concludes the family descent in the following manner: 'Henry Whatton, the eldest son, married Eliz. daughter and heiress of John Watkinson, gent. by whom he has issue: Henry Watkinson Whatton, born Dec. 18, 1782; John Watkinson What­ ton, born 22 Aug. 1785; (William and Robert, both died infants); and William Robert Whatton, born 17 Feb. 1790.' John, the second son, married Mary Ann, daughter ofJohn Matthews Hopkins, formerly Mayor of Northampton; * Page 78, note 44a. William Robert Whatton, F.S.A., the fifth son, married Harriet Sophia Seddon, niece of Major-general Seddon, upon which he impaled, Or, three cinquefoiles, 2, r, within a bor­ dure ingrailed Sable. The Seddons originate from Peter Seddon of Outwood and Kersley in the county of Lancaster, esq. temp. Philip and Mary, and with their paternal bearing, use for their crest two paws erased, holding a cinquefoil. At Beeston Church, in the middle aisle, is a tombstone with this inscription: 'Henry Watkinson, upwards of ... years VicarofBeeston, was interred here Octob. 13, A.D. 1711. Integer vita: scelerisq' purus. Mary Watkinson, his widow, was here interred Septemb. 14, A.D. 1719. This done at the expence of Henry, their youngest son.' Loughborough Church contains the burial-place of this family. On the tomb are engraved these arms: on a bend, between six cross crosslets three besants, with several inscrip­ tions, and one in memory of Henry Whatton, who departed this life the 31st day ofjuly 1815*. HENRY WATKINSON WHATTON, ofOsmaston Cottage in the county of Derby, eldest son of Henry and Elizabeth, bears: Argent, on a bend Sable between six cross crosslets Gules three besants; and for crest, an eagle Sable, beaked Or, rising out of a ducal coronet Argent. He married Nancy, daughter of Walter Daniel ofHassal Hall, in the county of Chester, esq., and by his deed, dated at Osmaston the r 3th day ofDecember, r 806, entailed the dwelling house and 130 acres of land, in Loughborough Parks and Charnwood Forest, upon himself for life, then to his wife for her life, and to their children, and remainder to his own right heirs. On Mr Daniel's decease a moiety of the manor of Hassal Hall, and demesne lands at Monks Coppenhall and Burslem, passed in settlement to the Whatton family by his last will and testament. It may be mentioned that the manor ofHassal belonged to the Malbancs before noticed. On the division of their immense estate amongst the co-heiresses of the last Baron, Hassal fell to the share of Eleanor, whose lands were granted by her to the Audley family, of whom Adam Wood and Richard Hassal * Reg. de Lough.-Ex Rotulis cancellariis-Reg. de Beeston.-Test. S. Bl. apud Ebor. 28 held the same by the third part of a knight's fee. Lysons's Cheshire contains this passage: 'The manor ofHassall was in moieties in the reign of Edward II between the families of Hassall and Wood; it was afterwards wholly in the Hassalls, till it was sold by Ralph Hassall, Esq., to William Leversage, Esq., of Wheelock; from the Leversages it passed by successive sales to Thomas Stephens, Esq., the families of Powis, and Lowndes, and Walter Daniel, Esq., who is the present pro­ prietor, and resides at Hassall Hall.' Mr Daniel acquired his property by industry and mercantile pursuits, and formerly resided at Newport in the Potteries, where he erected an elegant mansion. It is said he was descended from a collateral branch of the Tabley family, whose armorial ensign was: Argent, a pale fusile Sable. Ormerod observes: 'The hall ofHassal is a very respectable residence, finished with gables, and surrounded with anti­ quated gardens and offices. The situation is on an elevated knoll, where the neighbouring country undulates agreeably, and the circumstances of the term* interest of the possessor, witht impeachment of waste, have already ornamented the pleasure grounds and hedge-rows with trees of growth and proportions strikingly distinguished from those of the adjacent townships+.' HENRY W. WHATTON

May30 MR URBAN On referring to my original MSS a mistake has occurred in preparing the transcript for your Magazine, and which relates to Babington Wha tton ( the fifth son of William and Lucy), page 305. He had one son only, called Babington Whatton, baptized July r5 1690 (who died in the East Indies un­ married§), and two daughters: Sence, baptized April r 1 1693, whose interment is thus expressed: 'Sence Whathon buried October 27 1722'; and Mary, baptizedjuly 12 1696, interred February 4 following, as in the Register of Newton Linford may be seen. * The grant is for 500 years (of which a very small proportion is expired), at a nominal rent, with power to cut down timber ad libitum, for any purpose incidental to the estate. The manor and other lands are freehold. t Surely without impeachment.--]. S. W. ! Reg. de Lough.-Reg. de Sandb. See also Note 62, page 151.-J. S. W. § Whether or not he returned from the East, he left a son, Babington, who was living in Leicester in 1 735. See Pedigree.-]. S. W. 29 The Rev. William Whatton (a youngerbrotherofSirJohn)*, Rector of Knaptoft and Moseley in Leicestershire, being issueless, adopted and educated Babington Whatton the younger as his son, intending he should have inherited, had he returned from abroad, the whole of his property at Thurnby and elsewhere. The Rev. Mr Whatton at length became exceedingly infirm, and totally blind, and died in I 735, at the advanced age of go years, leaving his estate, which was considerable, to charitable purposes. This bequest being to the poor indefinitely, nullified his will, and it is said, from the circumstance ofno heirs being found, fell into Chancery, and was sold, and part of the purchase money was given by the King to the Leicester Infirmary and Trinity Hospital. It is true the brothers of Babington Whatton the elder were dead, and all of them without issue, except Henry Whatton, the Vicar of Humberston, who had several children. Henry, his eldest son, who settled at Nottingham, was also dead, leaving his wife and his two children, Henry (my grandfather) and Elizabeth, him surviving, which the wills of Arundel Blunt, Elizabeth, his widow, Henry Whatton, their son-in-law and Sarah Blunt, the grand-daughter of Arundel Blunt, dated respectively July 17 17r8, September 15 1727, Decem­ ber 22 r7r6, and October 2 1782, proved at York, the registers, and other testimony quoted, clearly demonstrate. William Whatton (in page 305 erroneously represented as the son of Babington Whatton the elder) was ofUlvescroft; he was a branch of another family, and had one son only, William, and three daughters, Mary, Lucy, and Elizabeth; and being possessed of a small freehold in that lordship, con­ sisting of a dwelling house and about 40 acres ofland adjoining the village of Newton Linford, besides other property, the same passed to the Aspinshaws and the Hunts. This communication being connected with some baronial and other claims, induces me to request it may be recorded in your valuable Miscellany. Yours, &c. HENRY w. WHATTON

ERRATA.-P. 37, for Chron. de Elis, read Chron. de Blia.- P. 306,for Elizabeth, daughter of Arundel Blunt, read Margaret. -for copper plate, read brass plate.-H. w. w. * From the pedigree it seems not.---J. S. W. 30 December 14 MR URBAN I must again trespass upon your patience for the purpose of recording in your Magazine, perpetuis futuris temporibus, the result of my researches and inquiries relating to the surname ofJohn de Watton, the husband of Ella Bisset, and their eldest son, dictus Bisset, described in Part i p. 38, to obviate any mis­ interpretation the variation of it might in future engender, from the circumstance of that appellation (which has also been written Wathon) having been expressed at least half a dozen different ways. The families of Watton, Heriz, Mandeville, Newmarche, and Bisset, were all seated in the county of Nottingham, a few miles asunder, as in Thornton may be seen, and hence they became connected by marriage. These branches of the Bissets and Wattons in a series of years removed, the former into Wiltshire, the latter into Hertfordshire, and, according to Sir Henry Chauncy, p. 23,John de Watton was High Sheriff 25, 26 Hen. III. Richard de Rypariis married Margaret, the eldest daughter ofBisset,John de Watton 'Ellam secundo natam', and Hugh de Plessetis, Isabel the third daughter; see the pedigree of Basset (whose daughter Bisset married), Shaw's Staff. II 12; Clutterbuck's Herts, I xxix; Salmon's Herts, 362 App.; and the Topographer, II 318. The family of Watton derived the three besants in their escutcheon, which they bear at this day, by marriage with Ella Bisset, being the second course ofbesants in Bisset's arms, Azure, ten besants, 4, 3, 2, 1; the rest of their armorial bearing from their ancestors, especially Guillaume, surnamed De Watone, a cadet of the house ofTyrel*, Seigneurs de Poix, in Picardy, and of Flemish extraction by the mother's side; which is confirmed by the similitude of their arms, described in the Diet. Geneal. Herald. de France. Resuming the explanation of the point in view, it appears by a deed, 'Carta Johannis de Rypariis de Terris in Kede­ ministre', thatJohn de Wutton was a witness. Mon. Angl. II 409. In the Harl. MS No. 2038, p. 150, the name is written Sir Jo. Wooton. In the Black Book, at the Heralds' College, it is written Wotton, and so is the son's surname. This ancient * In Cartulario antiq. Eccles. de Watuna. Ex autog. pen. Johis de Knyveton. Chron. de la Trin. du Mont l'Rou Reg. de Elia, g.c. 31 memoir exhibits the Bissets as Barons of Kidderminster, and remarks that the son was living 31 Ed. I. The former were not Barons of that denomination, but of Combe-Bisset in Wilt­ shire; and the latter was dead 28 Ed. I according to the inquisition. There is a memorandum, 'Q'.odam memorial', relating to Wich-Malbanc, where the name is Wotton. In Fines, 17, 18 Ric. II by Walter Romesey, in Madox's Bar. Angl. the father and son are called Wotton; Ella Bisset is also described as the third daughter. By the inquisition on the death of her mother, Harl. MSS 2038, p. 149, 1967, p. 121, and Dug. Bar. I 632, she was the second daughter. It is evident, however, that the surname was neither Wooton or Wotton, for no person of either denomination appears on record contemporary with John de Watton first mentioned, who could by any possibility have been the husband of Ella Bisset. The assimilation of these surnames was not unusual, for the village of Watton in Hertfordshire had four divisions, accord­ ing to Domesday Book. In the fourth, the name is written differently from the rest, viz. Wodtone, which being famous for its timber, was called Wood Town. Salmon's Herts, p.216. But the etymology of words is, 'Levis et fallax et plerumque ridicula, for, srepenumero ubi proprietas verborum attenditur, sensus veritatis amittitur'. In a licence to enfeoff lands at Kidderminster, 27 Ed. I. the son is called Wotton, and in the Inquisition on his death, 28 Ed. I, it is the same; but the definition of the son makes nothing against the father, and the diversity is immaterial, for every Antiquary knows the frequency of change of surname in olden time. There is an inquisition of 16 Ed. I which mentions only two daughters of Basset, though the fact of there being three is indisputable; for Alice, one of the daughters, married Bisset, 5 Hen. III (Ormerod, III 218), a glaring blunder in a record of that description, to which much confidence is usually assigned. Upon the whole, the contiguity of residence, the identity of the family connexion, the circumstance of Watton, Wooton, and Wotton, being here one and the same person, videlice, the identical John de Watton first named, appear to me, Mr Ur~an, with all due respect to the judgment of your impartial 32 and intelligent readers, decidedly to establish my antecedent communications on the subject of this descent. It should be observed, however, that in allusion to the elder branch of the family of De Dunstanville, detailed in page 417, their arms are variously expressed, but the greater probability is that they were-Argent, a fret Gules, on a canton of the second a lion of England, and that the bordure ingrailed Sable was assumed for distinction sake by January, a collateral descendant of John de Dunstanville, a younger son of Walter, the second Baron of Castlecombe. The same arms appear to have been quartered by Thomas the fourth Earl of Southampton (the representative of that younger branch), who died about the year 1667, without issue male. The family of Helligan of Devon, who carried, Or, three Torteaux, a chief Azure, derived their lineage from the heiress of William de Dunstan­ ville, the descendant of another junior branch; and ... Basset, who married the heiress of Helligan, at one time quartered the same bearings. In conclusion, permit me to add that in Harl. MS 5801, p. 59, are noticed the marriages of the two sisters of Sir John Whatton of Leicester-Town, afterwards of East Sheen in Surrey, who is mentioned in part i p. 305. The eldest sister, Catherine, married Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor; the youngest, Sence, Sir Thomas Ogle, Governor of Chelsea Hospital. HENRY W. WHATTON

APPENDIX TO THE DESCENT OF WHATTON, CONTAINED IN THE 'GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE', VOL. XCV.-ANN. 1825 SIR WILLIAM DE WATON, pp. 36, 37. Pt. I, No. 1 GUILLAUME, a cadet of the House of Tyrel, Seigneurs de Poix, in Picardy, being Lord ofWaton, (Whatton) in Notting­ hamshire, assumed that surname: he died temp. Hen. I. leaving two sons, Robert and Walter de Wathon, from whom the lineage is continued; Cartul. antiq. Eccles. de Watuna. Ex autog. pen. Johis de Knyveton. Chron. de Blia, g. e. Nobiliaire de France, T. vii. p. 4 70. The bearing of the family, of which Gautier de Tyrel was the first of the name, and flourished in the year 1030, appears to have been: 'De gueules a la Bande d'argent, accompagnee de six croix recroisettees d'or,' and to have been varied E 33 frequently by the different branches, an incident not unusual in a chivalrous age.

BASSET, p. 38. Pt. I, No. 1; AND DE DuNSTANVILLE Thomas Basset, Baron of Heddingdon, temp. Hen. II, married Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Dun­ stanville, Baron ofCastlecombe, and Ursula his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Reginald Fitzhenry, Earl of Cornwall and Baron of Castlecombe. Walter de Dunstanville carried: Argent a fret gules, on a Canton gules a lion of England; the bordurc ingrailed sable should therefore have been omitted in p. 36. Alice de Dunstanville is inadvertently represented to have had a sister Cecilia, married to - Basset, from the circum­ stance of William Basset, Lord of Stoke-Basset and Ipsden, having married Cecilia, daughter of Alan de Dunstanville, a distinct branch of the family. Lyson'sMag. Brit. Cornw. p. 76.

BELER, p. 106. Pt. I, No. 2. CROMWELL AND HERIZ Roger Beler, Baron of Grich, in Derbyshire, was the son of William de Beler, ofKirkby-Beler, in Leicestershire, 14 Ed. I, son of Roger, high sheriff of Lincolnshire, 40 Hen. Ill, son of Ralph Lord Beler, son of Sampson de Albeneio or Beler, son of Hamon, son of Nigel Lord D'Albini. Roger Beler, first mentioned, and Alice his wife, had issue, viz. Sir Roger, Thomas and Avice, who married Sir Ralph Cromwell, of Tateshall Castle, father of Ralph, Baron of Tateshall. Upon the marriage of Margaret the elder, and Margaret the younger, daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Richard de la Rivere, by Matilda his wife, daughter of Sir John de Heriz, of Winfield, in Derbyshire, the former with Sir Roger Beler, and the latter with Thomas Beler, Sir John de Heriz settled by fine, 18 Ed. II, the manors of Widmerpool and Gunnel­ veston, in Nottinghamshire, and Winfield and Tibshelf, in Derbyshire, on himself for life; then on Roger Beler, for his life; afterwards on Sir Roger, the eldest son of Roger Beler and Margaret the elder, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies; then on Thomas Beler, youngest son of Roger, and Margaret the younger, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies; remainder to the right heirs of Sir John de Heriz, who died 2 Ed. III, leaving Matilda, his daughter and heiress. 34 PIERREPONTE Sarah, the sister of Sir John de I:Ieriz, married Sir Robert de Pierreponte, a kinsman of whom had married Cecilia, the daughter of Sir John de Watton, (whose surname is sometimes differently written) Lord of Rokeburne, in the county of Southampton, high sheriff of the counties of Hertford and Essex, 25 and 26 Hen. III. Suppl. to vol. xcv. Pt. II. No. 7 pp. 487, 8. The family of Pierreponte are now represented by Earl Manvers, of Thoresby Park, in the county of Nottingham. 'Johannes de Watton mil tenuit manerium de Rokeburne in com. Suthamptonice. I tern tertiam partem terrarum in Wychemaubank in com. Cestrice, et tertiam partem manerii de Kyderminstre in com. Wygornice. Item manerium de Combe, in com. Wiltesice, de Dno Rege in capite, per medie­ tatem baronice de Byset.'

HERlZ, p. 107. Pt. I, No. 2 Sir John de Heriz, Baron Heriz, carried, azure three hedge­ hogs, or, 2 and 1, Trois Herissons; with three Foxes, one for crest, and two for supporters; he was the son ofJohn, 27 Ed. I, brother and heir of Henry, and son oflvo, IO Hen. III, who held Winfield, Tybshelf, and Orcroft, for two knight's fees, son of Robert, brother and heir of William Lord Heriz, of Wiverton, in Nottinghamshire, who married Adeline de Watton, p. 37. Pt. I. No. I. The family ofHeriz derived their origin from a younger son of the House of Vendome, the first of which appears to have been Bouchard, Comte de Vendome, de Melun, de Corbeil, and de Paris, and who died in roo7. Some writers allege that the ancient House of Vendome used porcupines for their armorial bearing, aµd, the hedgehog, being a resemblance of the porcupine, that the three were borne by the family of Heriz and the Barons of Terreagles, of the name of Herries, who were descended from them.-Thoroton's Nott. p. 273; Inq. 2 Edw. III; Nicola.s's Synop. Peer. vol. I, p. JI9; Dudg. Bar. vol. I, p. 684; Nisbet, vol. I, p. 336.

FRESCHEVlLLE AND BELER Ralph, Lord Frescheville, son and heir of Anker de Fresche­ ville, baron of Grich, 53 Hen. III, sold the manor of Grich to Roger Beler, to whom he conveyed it by a fine, 18 Ed. II, E2 35 ' habendu et tenendu eidem Rogero et hreredibus suis de Dno Rege et hreredibus suis per servitia qua: ad prredictum manerium, sicut prredictum est pertinent in perpetuum. Hrec concordia facta fuit per prreceptum ipsius Dni Regis.' After the sale of this barony, the family of Frescheville, in a few generations, became extinct. The manor of Bunny, in Nottinghamshire, was also con­ veyed by Lord Frescheville to Roger Beler, by a separtae fine, and which Manor he likewise held of the king in capite. I 8 Ed. II, Roger Beler held the manor of Grich of the king, for a knight's fee, as tenant in capite, by barony, whereupon, doing his homage, he became Baron of Grich. 'Anno Mcccxxvr, quarto Kal. Februarii occisus est Dominus Rogerus Beler in comitatu Leycestrie. Iste Rogerus fundavit cantariam secularium sacerdotum apud Kyrkeby­ Beler, in comitatu Leycestrie; quam post multos annos uxor ejusdem Rogeri, cum concessu Rogeri filii eorum, transtulit in usus canonicorum regularium, instituens ibidem primum priorem loci de Abbathia de Olvestone. Hie Rogerus occisus est a quodam Eustachio de Foleville, ac fratibus suis, quibus prius minas ingesserat et injurias; interfectus erat a tribus fratribus in quadam valle juxta Reresby. Hie oppressor fuit ecclesiarum et aliorum vicinorum religiosorum, pro cupiditate possessionum, quas, cupierit ad donationem cantarie sue.' Roger Beler died, seised of very large possessions, including the manors of Grich and Bunny, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Roger, who doing his homage, had livery of , his inheritance. Harl. MSS No. I4II, p I9, Inq. 53, Hen. III. No. 20, and I9 Ed. II, No. 98. Thoroton' s Nott. p. 44. Dodsw. MS Bodl. Lib. vol. lxxxviii. p. rg.

BELER Sir Roger Beler, Baron of Grich, married Margaret the elder, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de la Rivere, by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, the wife of Sir Robert de Swillington; secondly, Margaret, daughter ofJohn Lord Grey, of Codnor, by whom he had no issue; thirdly Catharine, by whom he had a daughter, Thomasine, who died 5 Rich. II, sine prole; and fourthly, Mary, who had the manor of Grich for her dowry, and by whom he had no issue. Sir Roger Beler held the Manor of Grich of the King, as tenant in capite, 36 by barony; he was styled' Monseigneur Roger Beier le Fitz,' and died 3 Ric. II, seised of the manors of Grich and Bunny, etc. Mary, his fourth wife, afterwards married Sir John St Clair, and died r4 Ric. II. lnq. 4 Ric. II. Harl. MSS, No. 2087, p. r93; and No. r r8g, 6590, p. 42.

BELER, p. 106. Pt. I, No. 2 Thomas Beier, the youngest son of Roger Beler and Alice, his wife, was Lord of Gunnelveston (by the concession, it should seem, of his brother, Sir Roger) and held the manor of the King, as tenant in capite, per servitium militare; he died r 7 Ed. III, leaving by Margaret the younger, his wife, the daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard de la Rivere, by Matilda his wife, the daughter and heiress of Sir John de Heriz, two daughters and co-heiresses: Elizabeth and Alice, the wife of Sir Richard de Whatton. The Visitation of Yorkshire, taken by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, in 1584-5, Harl. MSS, No. r394, p. 324, shows the marriage of Whatton and Beler, as follows: Argent on a bend sable, between six cross crosslets gules three besants, Whatton, impaling, per pale gules and sable a lion, rampant argent, crowned or, on his shoulder an annulet gules, Beler.-Inq. I7, Ed. 111. Harl. MSS No. 2087. p. w4, and Nos. w88, 6033, p. 73, Thoroton' s Nott. p. 300. Alice Beier, the relict of Roger Beier, held lands and rents, in Holwell, 4r Ed. III, of Alice Driby or Dreby (daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Driby, Lord of Somerby) by the service of a rose flower. The families of Driby and Beier, were connected by marriage, through Elizabeth de Dreby, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Thomas Beier, and who died sine prole.-Inq. 35 Ed. III. Harl. MSS. No. 2087, p. I 40. SwrLLINGTON g Ric. II, Sir Robert de Swillington and Margaret his wife levied a fine of the manors ofWidmerpool and Gunnelveston, and Winfield and Tibshelf, to the use of themselves and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the right heirs of Margaret. Sir Robert de Swillington died r 5 Ric. II, leaving a son, Roger. The widow of Sir Robert afterwards married John de Aylesford, and, with her husband, by deed 20 Ric. II, granted the manor of Grich to Roger de Swillington, whose son and heir John, was seised of it at his death, 6 Hen. V, leaving Margaret, his sister and heiress, the wife of Sir John Gra. 37 MARGARET GRA 1 Hen. VI, Sir John Gra and Margaret his wife intailed the manors of Gunnelveston and Widmerpool, by fine, upon themselves and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the heirs of the body of Margaret, remainder to the family of Pierreponte. Margaret Gra died 8 Hen. VI, sine prole, according to the Inquisition, and the lineage of Sir Roger Beler, the eldest son, having become extinct, a compromise took place, respecting the Beler estate; upon which occasion Grich, Winfield, and Bunny passed to the family of Cromwell and Widmerpool, Gunnelveston and Tibshelfto the family of Pierreponte. That part of the Bel er estate, consisting of the manors ofWapenbury and Eathorpe, which passed tothefamilyofWhatton,was after­ wards purchased by Ralph Beler, of the county of Leicester. GRICH The family of Cromwell sold this manor to John Talbot, second Earl of Shrewsbury. By successive sales it has become the property of several persons, who still hold the Court, or Jurisdiction. Grich is an inconsiderable market town; within the manor, in the time of the ancient barons, there was a magnificent castle, not a vestige of which apparently remains. The church contains an old tomb, and upon it an effigy, according to tradition of the place, of Roger Beler.

WINFIELD, OR WINFIELD MANOR In the reign of Hen. VI, Lord Cromwell, treasurer of England, erected a splendid castellated mansion here, after ' which it was sold to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The unfortunate Mary, the Scottish Queen, was imprisoned at Winfield, anno 1569, in charge of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, being con­ sidered a more eligible abode than Tutbury Castle. This stately edifice was dismantled in the time of the civil war; and its extensfve and interesting ruins, the grandeur of its woodland scenery, their solemn and impressive effect, and the good preservation in which they are maintained, excite the admiration of every tourist. Winfield now belongs to Colonel Halton, who has an elegant house within the manor.

WooDFORD, p. 201. Pt. II, No. 3 Sir Robert Woodford, Knight-banneret, warrior a,t Agincourt, married Isabel, the daughter of Sir William 38 Neville, of Rolleston, by Elizabeth his wife, the daughter of Sir Thomas Fencotte, ChiefJustice of the Common Pleas.

BRABAZON, WHATTON, WoooFORD, AND HARBOROUGH The genealogical history of the family of Sir William John Brabazon, of Brabazon Park, in the county of Mayo, Baronet, printed at Paris, by J. Smith, Rue Montmorency, in 1825, mentions that Sir William Brabazon, son of Sir Roger le Brabazon of Moseley and Eastwell, in the county of Leicester, by Beatrix his wife, had a son, Sir William Brabazon, who married Jane, daughter of Sir William Trussell of Cublesdon, by whom he had two sons: Sir John le Brabazon, ofSproxton, who married Agnes, the daughter of Sir Richard de Whatton, (p. 38. Pt. I, No. r.) whose daughter and heir Joan, married William de Woodford, to whom she carried large estates, and from whose heiress, after some generations, are descended in a direct line the Sherards, Earls ofHarborough. From Thomas le Brabazon, of Moseley, the other son of Sir William and Jane, Sir William John Brabazon, the present baronet, and the Earls of Meath, are descended. In page 5, the arms of Brabazon and Whatton are depicted:-Gules, on a bend or, three martlets sable, impaling, argent on a bend sable, b~!ween six cross crosslets gules, three besants. Plate, No. Vlll. The Harl. MSS. Nos. u89, 6590, ult. pag., contain a pedi­ gree, in which the families of Brabazon, Whatton, and Wood­ ford, are further described.

ROBERT WHATTON, p. 203. Pt. I, No. 3 Alice, the wife of this Robert, was the daughter of John Curteys, nephew of Peter Curteys, member of parliament for Leicester, 17.22 Ed. IV. the armorial bearing of which family was: or, three rowels, gules. Robert Whatton, mentioned in the text, and who sometime resided at Raunstone, passed lands at Long-Whatton to Robert his cousin, who by Margaret his wife had issue: George Whatton, the eldest son, who had two daughters and co-heiresses, Anne, and Elizabeth, the wife of William Eyre, of Belton, Esq. Robert, the father of George, was the son of Robert, a younger brother of John Whatton, member of parliament for Leicestershire, 38 Hen. VI, p. 201, who married Margaret, daughter of Thomas, son 39 of Sir Robert Woodford, and who besides Robert, had another younger brother, Thomas, resident at Mountsorrell, 6 Hen. VI. Memorand' de familiaJohis Curteys.

DE LA ZoucH, p. 204. Pt. I, No. 3 Sir Roger de la Zouch, of Lubbesthorpe (from whom the Whatton family are descended, through the marriage of their ancestor with Sence Penbery, whose family appear from the Vis. of Leic. Harl. MSS. No. I 180, p. 10, to have been connected by marriage with the Ashbys of Loseby) derived his origin from Sir Alan de la Zouch, Baron of Ashby, and Helen his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincie, Earl of Winchester, and Helen his wife. Sir Alan was the son of Roger, son ofAlain, son ofGeofroi, son ofEudon I, Vicomte de Porrhoet and de Rennes, 1066. Nicholls's Leic. Vol. iii. Pt. 2, p. 635. Archives de la maison de Rohan. Roger de Quincie who died 48 Hen. III, was the son of Saier and Margaret his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Blanchmaine, Earl of Leicester (by Petronilla his wife, daughter of Hugh de Grentemaisnell), son of Robert, Earl of Leicester (by Amicia his wife, daughter of Ralph de Waer, Earl of Norfolk), son of Robert, Earl of Melleant, and Eliza­ beth his wife, daughter of Hugh, Comte de Vermandois, son of Hen. I, King of France. Helen, the wife of Roger de Quincie, was the daughter and co-heiress of Alan, Lord of Galloway, and Margaret his wife, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, and Maud his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Hugh Kevelioc, Earl of Chester; which David was the son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon (by Matilda his wife, daughter of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey), son of David I, King of Scotland (by Matilda, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland and Hunt­ tingdon), son of Malcolm III, King of Scotland, and Mary, daughter of Edmund II, King of England.-Geneal. Hist. of Brabazon, Table ii.

HACKETT, p. 305. Pt. I, No. 4. OGLE AND WHATTON Catharine, the eldest daughter of John Whatton, of Raun­ stone, High Sheriff of Leicestershire, 14 Car. I, married* Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor, by whom he had a daughter, Conway, the wife of Trafford Smyth, eldest * Page 54, Note 5.-J. S. W. 40 son of Sir Robert Smyth, of Upton, Baronet. Sence, the youngest daughter of John Whatton, married Sir Thomas Ogle, Governor of Chelsea Hospital*. A fine portrait, by Rubens, of Sir John Whatton, son ofJohn, was some time in the collection of Sir George Beaumont, of Coleorton.-Harl. MSS. No. 58or, p. 59. The Rev. William Whatton, Rector ofKnaptoft and Mose­ ley, in the county of Leicester, second son of John, and who died in 1735, at the advanced age of go, without issue, adopted Babington Whatton, of the elder branch of the family, who, it appears, died abroad; the disappointment which he experienced from that event, and the extinction of the junior branch, which he represented, induced him to bequeath all, or the greatest part, of his property, to the poor indefinitely; a circumstance which threw his estate into Chancery, and nullified the will. Nichols's History of Lei­ cestershire, Vol. II. Pt. 2. p. 846-7, contains this memorial on the subject:-' One large house, now in ruins, (atThurnby) was built under the direction, and from a plan of the Rev. Mr Whatton, who at that time was totally blind, and intended for a relation of his, named by his desire, Babington Whatton, who went to the East Indies, and never having been heard of, the estate was directed to be sold in Chancery; £600 of the purchase money was given by the King, in 1776, towards the rebuilding of Trinity Hospital, in Leicester, (and subsequently £2,000 to the Infirmary.) There are also several ruined cot­ tages in the lordship, whence naturally arises the recollection of Goldsmith's Deserted Village.'

BABINGTON WHATTON, p. 305. Pt. I, No. 4 Babington, the fifth son of William Whatt:m and Lucy his wife, the duaghter of Thomas Babington, ofRothley Temple, in the County of Leicester, Esq., had one son and two daughters only, viz.: Babington, who went to the East Indies, Sence, and Mary; the son and daughters died sine prole.-Register of Newton Lynford. A collateral branch of the Whatton family, namely, William Whatton, who also held lands at Newton Lynford, and in the vicinity, had issue; William; Elizabeth, who mar­ ried Thomas Hunt; and Mary, who, by her first husband, George Abel, had a daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas * Died at Chelsea 1702. Marriage Licence Dec. 2 1668.~J. S. W. Aspinshaw, father of the Rev.John Aspinshaw, or Staunton, D.D., of Staunton Hall, in Nottinghamshire.

BLOUNT, p. 306. Pt. I, No. 4 The families of Blount, or Blunt, and Whatton, were con­ nected by marriage, according to the Register of St. Peter, Nottingham, through Margaret, the daughter of Arundel Blount, whose lineage from Sir Walter Blunt, and Sanchia D'Ayala his wife, a branch of the royal family of Castile, is shown in the same page.

ARMORIES OF WHATTON Argent, on a bend sable, between, six cross crosslets, gules, three besants.-Q,uarterry, p. 36, Pt. i, No. I; p. 308, Pt. i, No. 4; Plate ii, Pt. I, No. iv. Crest: An eagle sable, beaked or, rising out of a ducal coronet argent. Supporters: Two foxes, borne by the family ofWhatton, by inheritance from the family of Heriz, which they represent. Motto: Fidei coticula crux. HENRY W. WHATTON.

42 PEDIGREES

THE ROYAL DESCENT OF JOHN SWIFT WHATTON from Charlemagne, Emperor of the \\Test

Charlemagne, King of France, Italy, and Germany, and Emperor of the West. Died 814.=Hildegardis. Died 783. 1 wife. I I Louis the Pius and Debonnaire, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from=Judith the Fair, daughter ofWelphus, Count of Altorfin Suavia. Married 814 till his death in 840. / 819. Died 843. I Charles the Bald, King of France 840. Emperor of the Romans 875. Born at Frankfort on the Main 823. Died 878.=Richildis. 2 wife. I I Baldwin, 1st Count of Flanders.=Judith of France, widow of Ethelwolf, King of England. Married 862. ------'I Baldwin, 2nd Count of Flanders. Died circa 918.=Elfrida, daughter of King Alfred. Married 889. I I Arnulf, Count of Flanders. Died 964.=Adela, daughter of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois. Married 923. I I Ealdwin, 3rd Count of Flanders. Died 961 .= Michtild, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. Married 951. ~,------I . Arnulf, 2nd Count of Flanders. Died 988.=Rosala, daughter of Berenger 2nd, King of Italy. I I Baldwin Barbatus, Count of Flanders. Died 1036.=Cunigunda, daughter of Frederick 1st, Count ofLuxemburgh. I------' Baldwin V, surnamed of Lisle, Count of Flanders, Died 1067.=Adela, daughter of Robert, King of France. -, I William the Conqueror, King of England. Died 1087.=Maud, Married at Eu in Normandy, 1053. Died 1083. I ! Henry I, King of England, Died u35.=Maud, daughter of Malcolm, King of Scotland. Married 1 roo. Died JI 18. I I Geoffrey Plantagenet, Earl of Anjou. 2 husband=Maud, the Empress. Died 1167. ,---···------I Henry II, King of England. Died 1189.=Elenor, daughter of William, Duke of Acquitaine. Died 1204- Buried in Fontevraud Abbey. ______I I John, King of England. Died 1216. =Isabelle, daughter and heir of Aimer, Count of Angoulesme. Died at Fontevraud, France. ~-----'I Henry III, King of England. Died 1272.= Eleanor daughter of Berenger IV, Count of Provence. Died 129r. I I Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Died 1296.=Blanche, daughter ofRobert I, Count of Artois, Queen Dowager of Navarre. 2 wife. I I Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Died 1345.I Maud, daughter and coheir of Sir Philip ChaworthofKidwelly, Co. Carmarthen, Knight. Married 1298. I John, Lord Beaumont, of Folkingham, Co. Lincoln. 22 years old at his=Eleanor, fifth daughter (married Richard, Earl of Arundel), and died father's death, 1335-6. Died 16 Edward III. I Jan. 12 1373-4. Buried in the Abbey of St Pancras, Lewes, Co. Sussex. I Henry, Lord Beaumont, of Folkingham. 2 years old at his father's death. Died 43 Edward III.= Margaret, daughter of John Vere, Earl of Oxford. I I John, Lord Beaumont, K.G. Died at Striveline in Scotland, 20 Richard II=Katherine, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Everingham of Laxton, Co. (1397) I Kottingham, Knight. Died 4 Henry VI. 1st wife. I Henry, Lord Beaumont. First son. Knighted 1 Henry IV. Died 1 Henry V.= Elizabeth, daughter of\Villiam, Baron Willoughby ofEresby. Died 6 Henry VI ------' I Sir Henry Beaumont of\Vednesbury,=Joan, daughter and heir of William Leventhorp by Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Co. Stafford, Knight. Second son. / Heronville, Lord ofVfodensbury, the heir general ofTinmore ofTinmore. I Sir Henry Beaumont ofWednesbury and ofTinmore, Co. Stafford, Knight, Sheriff of Staffordshire,= Eleanor, daughter of John Sutton, Lord Dudley. II Edward IV. Died November 16, I 1 Edward IV (Inquisition 12 Edward IV). / I Sir John Beaumont ofWednesbury· afsd. Knight. r st son aged 12 vears, 18 Hen.,-- VII.-ElizabethI daughter ofJohn Mitton ofv\'eston super Lizard, Co. Stafford Humphrey Babington of Temple Rodeley=Eleanor, third daughter and C)heir. agei 3 years, 1 8 Henry III. I Thlmas Babington of Rothley, or Rodeley. = Eleanor, daughter of . . . Humphrey of Barton. ~------___J' Humihrey Babington, of Rothley Temple afsd.= Margaret, daughter of Francis Cave of Bagrave, Co. Leicester. I I Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple aforesaid= Catherine, daughter of George Kendal of Smithesby, Co. Derby. I I 'William Whatton, of Newtown Linford, Co. Leicester. Aged 66 in 1683. Buried at Newtown Linford January 28= Lucy, sixth daughter. Buried at Newtown 1701-2. \Vill dated October 18 r 700, proved in the Peculiar Court of Groby, Co. Leicester, May 24 I 702. I Linford aforesaid September 26 r698. I Henry \Vhatton, Clerk in Holy Orders, Vicar ofHumberstone, Co. Leicester. Seventh son. Baptised=Mary, widow of Thomas Wilson of Humberstonc at Newtown Linford aforesaid November 13 1660. Admitted Sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge aforesaid. Married secondly at Evington, Co. Leices­ January 14 1679-80. Matriculated 1680. Scholar 1683. Bachelor of Arts 1683-4- Instituted Vicar ter March 4 1687-8. Died March 29 1728 and buried ofHumberstone August l r687. Died 2 and buried October 4 1704 at Humberstone. :t-.1.I. there. at Humberstone, aged 70. Admon. at Leicester Will dated January 25 1701-2, proved October 14 1704 at Leicester. Second husband. May 13 1728. M.I. at Humberstone, Executrix to her husband. I Henry Whatton of the Town of Nottingham. Eldest son. Baptised at Humber-= Margaret, daughter of Arundel Blount of Nottingham. Baptised at St stone December 3 1688. Buried at St Peter's, :Nottingham, December 31 1716.1 Peter's there June 18 1686. Married April 16 1713 at Sneinton, Co. Not­ \Vill dated December 22 1716, proved November 18 1717 at York. :t>.1en- tingham. Buried at St Peter's, :--.rottingham, September 23 1727. Executrix tioned in his father's will. of her husband's will. I Henry Whatton of Mansfield, Co. Nottingham. Baptised at St Mary's,= Christian, eldest daughter of John James of Mansfield aforesaid. Baptised at Not~ingham, January 25 1713-4. Mentioned in his father's will 1716, 1 St Peter's _there June 3 1723. Mar~iage Licence (Nottingham) dated March 31 Burred at Mansfield March 1 1769. -----~ 1 746. Buned at St Peters aforesaid December 1 7 1754. I - - Henry Whatton of Loughborough Old Parks, in the Parish of Loughborough, Co. Leicester. Baptised at St= Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John \\Tatkin­ Peter's, Mansfield aforesaid, March 28 I 748. Buried at Loughborough August 4 I 815, aged 67. M.I. Will j son of Loughborough. Baptised there Novem­ dated July 4 (codicil dated.July 5) 1815, and proved December 1 1815 (P.C.C. 631 Packenham). / ber 301765. MarriedatGretna GreenJuly31 ------' l 779• \\'illlam Robert Whatton of Portland Place, Manchester. Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the= Harriett Sophia, youngest daughter of William Royal College of Surgeons and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London and Scotland). Fifth son. Seddon of Acres Barn in the township of Born 17 and Baptised February 18 1790 at All Saints', Loughborough aforesaid. Served in the Peninsular Pendleton, Co. Lancaster. Born April 25 1797. \Var Battles of Albuhera, Badajos and Ciudad Rodrigo. Mentioned in his father's will 1815. Died Married August 8 1822. Died April 2 1805 December 4 1835 and buried at Eccles, Co. Lancaster 11 same month. Adman. to Harriett the relict at Acacia Place, St John's ,vood, London. June 4 1836.

Amidei Blount Whatton of Weymouth Street St Marylebone, Co. Middlesex. Clerk in= Maria Elizabeth, daughter of John Swift of Portland Place, St Holy Orders. Senior Curate of St George's, Hanover Square, Co. Middlesex. Born Marylebone aforesaid, Solicitor in the Commission of the Peace September 22 1827 at Manchester aforesaid. Educated at King \Vil1iam's College, Isle for Co. Sussex. Born in Liverpool, Co. Lancaster, October 25 of Man and King's College, London. Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws of the 1833. Married at Holy Trinity ChurC:h, ~tMarylebone, February University of London. Died :VIay 18 1862. Buried in Paddington Cemetery, Co. 16 1858. Died December 4 r 906. Burred m Paddington Cemetery Middlesex. aforesaid. I I I Hugh de Heriz What-= Marian Stewart, daugh­ John Swift Whatton of=Mabe!AgnesLucie Arundel Blount William= Violet Alice Cholmley, ton of Rackley Manor, ter of Montagu Cleugh Manormead in the Parish daughter of Euan Whatton ofBarnesClose, [ daughter of Alfred Marlborough,Co.\•Vilts. Wilkinson of Gloucester of Hindhead, Co. Surrey, :VIacLaurin Euan­ vVinchester, Co. South- , John Chatfield, Com­ Solicitor. Born January Terrace, Paddington and of Lincoln's Inn, Bar- Smith of Cromwell hampton. Clerk in Holy panion of the Most 23 1859 in Weymouth aforesaid, East India rister at Law, Master of Road, Co. London. Orders, Master of Arts Honourable Order of Street, London. Bap- :Vferchant. One of His Arts of the University of Born at George­ of the University of the Bath, Vice-Admiral tised at Holy Trinity Majesty's Commission­ Cambridge (Trinity Col- town, Demerara. Cambridge(TrinityCol- in the Royal Navy, Church, St Marylebone ers for executing the lege). Born in Weymouth Married at St lege). Hon. Chaplain to Knight of Grace of the aforesaid, in the Com- Lieutenancy in and for Street aforesaid May 13 Mary Abbots, Ken- H.:VL Forces. Born at Order of the Hospital mission of the Peace for the City of London. 1861. Baptised at Trinity sington, Co. Lon­ Eastbourne, Co. Sussex, of St John of Jeru­ Co. Wilts. Educated at Born at Gloucester Ter­ Church, St Marylebone. don, July r6 1902. October 5 1862. Bap- salem. Born at Rams­ Repton School. Died race and baptised at Educated at Haileybury tised at Holy Trinity, St gate, Co. Kent. Kovember 4 1926. Bur- Holy Trinity Church, and Trinity College, Cam- Marylebone, February Married July 8 1896 at ied in the Parish Church Paddington. Married bridge. A Member of the 16 1863. Educated at St Mathew's, Bays­ of St Catherine, Saver- there April 30 1892. Council of Haileybury Marlborough College, water, London. nake Forest, Co. v\'ilts. College 1929. 1877-80 and Trinity Co1lege, Cambridge. I I I Richard Arundel Hugh Whatton Stewart Montagu de Heriz \¾"hatton, Geoffrey Arundel Chatfield \Vhatton of = Joyce Dorothea. Born of Rackley Manor 2.foresaid. Born Companion of the Distinguished Service Barnes Close, \Vinchester aforesaid. Clerk at l\,fontpelier Square, Somers Place, London, May 26 Order, upon whom has been conferred in Holy Orders. Born at the Vicarage, Knightsbridge, Co. 1893. Baptised at St Michael and the decoration of the Military Cross. Burseldon, Co. Southampton, February London. All Angels', Paddington aforesaid, Captain, Royal Horse Artillery. Born at 19 1898. Baptised at St Leonard's there. ..is. ..is. June 24 1893. Educated at Har­ Somers Place, London, l\1ay IO l 894. Educated at Radley College, Keble Col- row 1907-1909. Baptised at St Michael and All Angels' lege, Oxford, Chichester Theological Col- aforesaid. Educated at Repton. lege and Durham University. Licentiate of Theology in that University.

DESCENT OF WHATTON FROM FAMILIES WHOSE PEDIGREES WERE ENTERED AT THE LEICESTERSHIRE VISITATION BABINGTON BEAUMONT CAVE KENDALL vis. Leic. 1619 vis. Leic. 1619 vis. Leic. 161 9 vis. Leic. 1619 and Derby 1662 Humphrey Babington=Eleanor, third daughter Richard Cave of Stam-=Margaret, Bartholemew Kendall=Margaret, daughter of Rothley Temple, cl. I of Sir John Beaumont, ford, Northants \ daughter of of Twycross I and heiress of Nov. 22 1544 Kt.,grandson of Henry, I Thos. Saxby John Shepey fifth Lord Beaumont of Smithesby ~------I . I Thomas Babington of=Eleanor, daughter of Francis Cave of Bar-=Margaret, Christopher Kendall= Rothley Temple, cl. I Richard Humphrey of grave, D.C.L. daughter of of Smithesby, d. 1615 I Oct. 27 1567. Will dated Barton Segrave, North- Thos. Lister Sept. 27 1 567 ants. Buried at Rothley of Surrey I I Temple, June 7 1578 John Kendall =Margery Sadler ofSmithesby, d. 1615 I 1---- I Humphrey Babington=Margaret, daughter of I of Rothley Temple, d. Francis Cave, D.C.L. Humphrey Kendall=Margaret,daughter June 27 1610 Buried at Rothley of Blaby, Leic. I of Augustus Sway­ Temple, Sept. 20 1629, field of Branson, aged 84 \ Rut. ------I I Thomas Babington of=Katherine, daughter of Rothley Temple, d. Humphrey Kendall, Sept. 17 1 645 aged20 at the Visitation of Leic. 1619. Buried Sept. I 7 I 645 WHATTON vis. Leic. 1683 -~I ,.. William Whatton of=Lucy, sixth daughter of (JI Newtown Lynford,Leic. / Thomas Babington of Entered his pedigree at Rothley Temple, aged vis. Leic. 1683, then I at this Vis. Leic. aged 66. Buried Jan. 28 1619. Buried Sept. 26 1701 at Newtown 1698 at Newtown Lynford Lynford (24) SEDDON-SCOTT-WHATTON For "Seddon" see· note 58. John Seddol of Acres Barn d. 1800 (Will proved Consistory Court, Chester, June z7, 1800)

I I General Seddon ofWaterloo=Mrs Methold (secondly), eldest daughter of \,Villiam (picture infamify=Penelope d. 1839 (miniature infamiry) Sir John Eden, Bart., :V:LP., and had daughter, d. 1808 and miniature) I Watson ,------,---M_r_s_T_o_c_k_er~(P,_t_·c_tu_r_e_in~fi,_a_m_i--"'b"')-~J------' (miniature) 1 Felix d.s.p., Orientalist and Pro- Morgan of Ravensdale, Ireland=Eliza fessor, King's College, London. J 14 1865 Spoke languages, d. vmliam Sed~on LoLisa Miller=Ha1rriet (portrait W. R. Whatton=Harriet Sophia in family) (portrait in family) I (miniature)

Arundell Blou~t (miniature)=Maria Rev. Augustus Hewitt=H~rriet Elizabeth Elizabeth (portrait) l Swift (portrait) Hug~ de Heriz=Marion Stewart J oJn Swjft=Mabel Agnes I I Wilkinson. Lucie Euan-Smith I ~-----~--- ki cha rd Arundell Hugh \ Arundell Blount William (Rev.)=Violet, daughter of Vice-Admiral \ StewartMontagu de Heriz, Chatfield, C.B. D.S.O.M.C. I I Geoffrey Arundell Chatfield (Rev.) Joyce Dorothea David Scott of Brotherton=Mary I

I I Rev. Vl'.=Wallace daughter m. ciapt. George I daughter m! Porteous I daughter m. Lane I . Butler \ Tayler, R.N. of Lauriston daughter m. Anna Moon=Hercules of Brotherton Farquhar 1-.~---j (Banker) David Hercules I daughter m. Yates I (Rev. Canon) I I (County Court Judge) Two sons d.s.p. Anna Katherine Margaret Rose de Noel I of Brotherton Mrs ixon .-I------,--1 -----,--1 ---:-,------,I ----1 Maghull Diana=Hibbert Oswald Hercules Augusta=Sladen Walter Mrs Fitzsimons,I afterwards 11:rs Andrews Note.-John Seddon and his son William had each fourteen children. For Scott of Brotherton see Burke's Landed Gentry. For Yates see Diet. Nat. Biography.

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PIERCY-INGLE-SWIFT Ingle=wife, born 1742, died 1826 Piercy I I

I I • i lngle=Anne Sw1ft=daughter J (doctor) I . ~I~---~-~~~~~~-! I John Kirshaw=Ellen Maria=John Swift (solicitor) (chi! enginm) ob. 1877 I ob. 1887 I I I Arundell Whatton=~faria Elizabeth Herbert Henry=Ada Caroline Little Georgina ob. 1862 I ob. 1906 (barrister) ob. 1907 ob. 1916 ob. r913 I . I I Hugh de Henz John Swift Arundel! B. W. ob. 1926 Lionel (and six others) JOHN WHATTON, of :'fewtown Linford, in the County of Leic1ster= S;,nce, daughter of .. , Pen bury, of Lowes by, Co. Leicester. WiH{am Whatton of New--~ Ann, daaghtcr ofTildesley James Robert Orpwood. Citizen and Goldsmith of London. Buried at St Martin's,~ Elizabeth, daUtgh~er-of AldermanRobertHerri;k, so~:i~e Mayor of the City ofLeic-...ter. Married secondly=John Whatton of the Kewark, Leicester, Esquire of the Body to Charles I in the Commi_ssion for the P~ace= Cath~rine, 5th daughter of Thomas Babington of Roddy, Co. Leicester. town Linford aforesaid. I Monk nf Whitwick,· Co. Leicester, Au~sts7 1609. M.I. in Her~ickChapel there. Wifl dated August 18 7 Jam~s I al St M:"rtin's, Leicester, 1627. Died August 17 1638, aged 64, and buried at StMartin'sin the Herrick Chapel [ for Co. Leicester, and in 1649 Sheriff of Leicester. Died February 16 1654-5, and burred at St Martm's, Married there Se_J)tember 18 1639 . .Mentioned in her husband's will Died circa 1642, aged 74- Leicester. Died circa 1632. and proved Sent. 7 1609. P.C.C. by Elizabeth Orpwood, widow, relict and executrix. aforesaid. :\,LI. there. Mentioned in tJ-.e will of her second lmsband,John Whatton, 1653-4, and then deceased, I Leicester. M.I. there. Will dated January 13 1653-4, proved July 2 1655, P.C.C. 55 Aylett, aged 70. dated 1653-4. Buried June 22 1673 at St Martin's, Leicester. I I I I I 2 "~fr. I I William \Vhatton, of Newtown Linford afsd., aged 65 in 1633.=Lucy, sixth daughter of :\,fary, wife SirJohnWhatton, of East Sheen, Co. Surrey, Knight. Admitted Fellow Com-=Margarct, second daughter of Sir Thomas Dacres of William Whatton of St=Elizabeth Blew of Thomas =Katherine,_ Mar- Thomas Vl'hatton, hap- Sir Thomas Ogle of .Pinchbeck, Co.= SeEce. Marriage Assessed for 4 Hearths in Hearth Tax, 1666. Buried at Newtown Thomas Babington of Rode- of William rnoner at Peterhouse, Cambridge, July 2 1,G58. Matriculated 1658, aged 18. I St Andrew le Mutt, Co. Hertford. Marriage licence lvlary le Buwe, Loudon. Windsor, Co. Berk,. Hackett, I riage Licence t1zed at St Martm'_s, Lmcoln, Knight, Colonel H.M.'s I Licence (Vicar LinfO"d January 28 1701-2. Will dated October 18 1700, proved ley Temple, Co. Leicester. Rolleston of Admitted to the Inner Temple Oct. 31 1660. Knighted Dec. r8 1662. Died ' (Vicar General) dated Aug.21 1668. Married at Citizen and Draper. Marriage Licence Bishop of (Faculty Office) Leicester, aforesaid Holland Regiment. Sometime Go- I General) dated May 24 r 702, Peculiar Court of Groby, Co. Leicester. Buried at Newtown Linford De!ton, Co. s.rs-, buried in the Dacre Tomb at Cheslhunt, Co. Hen:Ord, June 15 1723. : Thallwc_>rth, Co. Hertford. Died,July 24 r675, aged Administ~ation Nov. 30 (Vicar General) da- D?wn and I d~ted Nov. 16 May 14 1646. Buried verno' r of Chelse_a Hospital. Buried I D_ecember 2 aforesaid Sept. 26 1698. Leicester. ¼ill dated Dec. 21 1721, proved June 25 1723. P.C.C. 23, burred at Cheshunt aforesaid. M.l. there. 1700. P.C.C. ted Nov. 17 1673. Conuor. 1676. there Nov. 8 165G. at Chelsea Hospital Nov. 23 1702_ ibo8.

I I I I I ------fhusband_----- I 2 h11Sband. I I [ . ~dJ·o1hn- "'l1atton-,--1 2 wile Il wife, I "\Villia1n \.Vhatton, Citizen Thomas J1hn Wbatton. Mathew Babington Vihatton of=Mary, buried Tildeslev What- Thomas Wilson of=- Mary, married secondly at Eving---Henry Vihatton, Clerk in Holy Orders, Vicar of Catherine uf Hurnberstone Angelia. Born Margaret, Lapl!ze n Ann, baptized= Trafford Smyth ofW~st= Conway, Thomas Q 5Je.=HenriettaBruce, daugh- and Silkman of London. Whatton. Third son. Whatton. :r·,cwtown Linford afore- I at :\"ewtown ton, sixth son. Humberstone, Co. ton, Co. Leicester, Mar_ 4 1687-8 Humbcrstone, Co. Leicester. Seventh son. Rap- aforesaid. late of Kewtown in France. at St .James's, Cler- baptized at St at St Mar)' le Mowsley .(son c,f Sir daughter Only son. I tee of Robert, ISi Earl Eldest son. Living in 1683, Secom.! son. aged about :28 Fourth son. sad. Fifth sou. Living Linford afore- Baptized al Leicester. Buried (licence dated 1687). Executrix of tized at Newtown Linford aforesaid Nov. 13 Linford aforesaid. Spinster. Died in in- kenwell, London, Mary le Bowe Bowe afore- Robert Smith ofL pton, and heir. Styled ' Cap- of Aylesbury and 2nd aged about 40. lvientioned Died young. and unmar• Died y,3ung. with theEarlof Stamford I said Feb. 6 Newtown Lin- there Jdy 16 1685. her husband. Died Mar. 29 1728. 1660. Admitted Sizar at Trinitv College, Cam- Iluried at Humberstone fancy. Buried July 25 q65. Buried aforesaid Octo- said July l Co. Essex). Admon. tain' Novem- Earl of El.,in bv Diana in his father's will dated O ried in 1682. in r683, then aged 24 .. 1699-1700. ford aforesaid, \\'ill dated July 14 Buried at Humberstonc aforesaid. bridge,Jan. 14 1679-80. Matric. 1680. Scholar August 5 1705. Will date:! at Cheshunt at Cheshunt afore- ber 5 1676 and 1~81. £xec:1-- FeL. I_j '7}':2 to son, ber , 5 1702, Idaughter of· Henry'. October 18 1 700. lluried at Newtown Lin- Feb. I 5 1656-7 1685, proved at Lei- Adman. at Leice.ster Mar 13 J 728 1683, 11.A. 1683-4. Instituted Vicar of Hmnber- July 27 1705 and proved aforesaid. M.I. said. M.I. there. buried tbere tnx of the will Trafford tim1tb (Ann late of Pinch- Earl of Stamford. ford Mar. 14 1715-6. Died young. cester Sept. 21 1685 to her daughter Mary, wife of stone Aug. I 1687. Died2 and buried Oct. 1, 1704 December '4 1706 at March 4 1678-9. of her uncle Smith the relict re- beck. Sole exewlor of his I by Mary Wilson, Ralph rarleby, M.I. at Humber- at Humberstone M,I. Will dated Jan. 25 Leicester. Sir John nO'~ncing). father's will. widow and relict. stone, aged 70. Ij □ t-2, proved Oct. 14 1704 at Leicester. Whatton. ~-----I I I J ---T -- I husband. 2 husband. I J I J • J I husband. j 2 husband. l\1artha, men• Viilliam Wbatton of Cl-= Cassandra, Lucy, hap- Sence of Newtown ... =Lucy, baptized~John Hewett BaLinglon Whatton of the Henry Whatton of the town of= Margaret, daughter of Arun- John What- Catherme, bap- Samuel Whatton of the Borou,,-h of William Newby,~ Mary, baptized at Hum•= Ralph Parle by William Wbatton, Alderman of Leicester. Bap-=Ann Edens ofDur- tioned in the verscroft, Co. Leicester. Buried at ti:,ed at Linford aforesaid, Lydall at Kcwtown of ,',hepshead Borough of Leicester. Bap- Nottingham. Eldest wn. Bap-1 del Blunt of Nottingham. ton, baptized tized at Hum- Leicester. Baptized at Humbe;stone Married at Dur- hers tone aforesaid April I of Tee (Tigh), tized at Humberstone aforesaid August 2 8 1592. ton o,,erv, Co. Lei- will of her Buried at Newtown Lin- Newtown Newtown spinsLer. Baptized Linford afore- Co. Leices- tized at NewtownLinf::,rd tized atHumbcrs·tone aforesaid Baptized at St Peter is there at Humber- berstone afore- aforesaid December 20 1693. Men- ton Overy: Co. 1696. Mentioned in the Co. . Rutland. Made free of the BoroughofLeicesterjt.:.ne 23 171 6 cester. 'l\-1arriage grandfather, ford aforesaid May 3 1741. Linford Linford there April 12 1693, Sept. 26 1698. ter. Will aforesaid July 15 1690. December 3 1688. Mentioned June I B 1686. :\1arriedApril stone afore- said July 1 1691, tioned in his father's will 1701-2 and Leicester, Janu- wills of her aunt Cathe- Menuoned in as son of Mary Whatton, widow. Mentioned in the Licence Leicester William Mentioned in the wills of aforesaid aforesaid and buried thex Execu:rixofhcr datcdJuly21 '.fade free of the said in bis [aLher's will and in the (j 1 713 at Sneinton, Co. said Feb. 6 and buried there in that of his aunt Catherine, 1 705. uarv i 1715-6. rine Whatton July 27 the Admon. of wills of bis father 1701-2, his aunt Catherine What- 171 7, a; Leicester'. Whatton,Oct. hissister, Sence v\lhatton, April 13 July 12 1696 Oct. 27 1 722. Wt'.! husbaod, John 1723, proved IloroughJanuary4 1720-1. wills of his aunt, Catherine Nottingham. Buried at St 1689-90. January 1 4 Buried at Humberstone July 31 1716. · 1 705, her brother his mother-in- ton_ 1705 and brother Samuel Wharton qi 6. Buried at St Mar- 18 .i/00. 1722, and brother-in-law 1726. and buried dated Oct. 8 1722. Hewett's, will. January 29 Mentioned in the will of Whatton 1705 and brother, Peter's, Nottingham, Sep- Buried there 1692-3. M.I. M.I. Will dated June 4 and proved Samuel WhattonJune 4 law Mary Buried at St Martin',,Leicester,Auf{llst 27 1755 tin's, Leicester, John Hewett, I 723. I there Feb- and prnved in the 1729-30 at RobertRolleston of Groby Samuel Whatton q 16. Buried tember 23 1727. Executrix Au1;. 5 1690. there. September 15 1716(by Mary Whatton, 1716 and her father Jan- Whatton 1728. aged 63. Viill dated October zs i 754, proved December 22 1752, , ruary 4 Pernliar Court of · Leicester. Lodge August 12 1706. at StPeter's,Nottingham,Dec. of her busband's will. mother and executrix). uary 25 1701-2. Ad- September27 1755 at Leicester. aged 53, 1696-7. Groby aforesaid 311716.WilldatedDec.221716 ministered her mother's / Feb. 28 1722-3. proved Nov. r8 1717 at York.~------will 1728. I 1 husband. I 2 husband. J [ --;-l------;------;------'---~1------;------~;------:------,---'-----,-I I I William ½'hatton. Lucy, baptized Lucy of Beaumanoir, Co. George Abell ofUlve:-s-=Jl.fary, married firstly at=Thomas Cheetham Thomas=Eliza:>eth._ men- Babington Whatton HenryWhattonofMans-=Christian, eldest daughter of Elizabeth. bap- JohnWhat- Ann, baptized Hester, bap- William Whatton, Clerk in Mary, bap- Anne, bap- F.!izabeth, Hester, bap- Edward Eaden I\,fentioned in the at NewtJwn Leicester. Baptized at New- croft, Co. Leicester and [ :'fewtown L,nford, of Newtown , Lin- Hunt of tioned in, the of the Borough of field, Co. Nottingham. John James of Mansfield afore- cized at St Mary's, ton, Bap- at St Martin's, tized at St Holy Orders. Baptized at St foed at St tized at St baptized tized at St Whatton, bap­ wills of his aunt Linford afore­ towa Linford aforesaid, Dec. of Ke1.vtown Linford - December 29 1737. ford aforesaid. >lewtovvn wills of heir sister Leic~ster. Apprf':n- Baptized at St Mary's, sald. Baptized at St Peter's there Nottingham, Feb- tizcd at St Leicester, Feb- Martin's, Lei- Ntarrin's, Leicetiler~ December Martin's, Lei- ~1artin's, Lei- at St 1-1artin's. Lei- tized at St Sen cc VVhatton, said, January 24 Ti21. ~Ientioned in the aforesaid. Buried ther~ Ivientioned in the will of Burie,d there Sep~. Linford Lucy \.Vihatton, ticc:i to Joseph Cole- Nottingham, J anuar)' QS June 3 1723. N1arriage licence ruary 17 I 714-15. ~fartin's, ruary2 I 720-1 ~ cester, August 5 17:23. Matriculated as of Lin- ceHer, Febru- cetitt:r, , nee- :rvCartin's, cester, ,Nov- 1'-Iartin's, Lei- 1 77'2, and his sister 31 1_717-18. will of Sence Whatton, 1722. Aug. g r 744. Will dated Sence Whatt:m 1722. 8 1775 aged 71. afore- 1758, ancd bro- man of Leicester May r 713-4. Mentioned in his (Kottingham) dated ~larch 31 Mentioned in her Leicester, and buried 22 1 722 and coln College, Oxford, April g ary 17 1 724-5, ember 1 1 726, Leicester, ember241728, cestcr, Novem- Lm:y VVhattun, Died u1 JII­ Died April 9 1758, buried at Aug. 9 1744, proved Died March 23 and :\1.I. will dated said, I ther-in-la,w 3 :735 as son of father's will December 1746. Buried at St Peter's, fatber's will De- 12 and there Septem- buried there 1746 .. Aged 22. 13.A. 1749-50. and buried wifeofTlromas July g and buried her 1 1730 an

Trinity Church,St Marylebone, aforesaid._ Educated at Repton School, _m the missioners for cxcutrn,a; the L1cutena::icy m and for the City of London. Ca;" hnd,ge ( Tnmty Ce;Hege). Born m Weymouth Street, London, May 13 London. Born at Georgetown, _Demcra~a. Chaplain to H.M. s Forces. Born at Eastbourne, Co. ~ussex, October 5 1862. 1 l\avy, Kmght of Grace of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St Commission of the Peace for Co. Wilts. Died November 4 1926, burred m lhe I Boru at Gloucester :errace, bapt_1z~d at lloly Tnmty Church, Padcmgton. 18b,, bap:t1zed at Ho)~, ~ rrwly Church, St _M_ aryle~~ne, aforesaid. Educated :\,farned at St llfary Abbo_ls, Kensmgton, Cu. Baptized at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, aforesaid. Educated at M~rl- John ofJersualem in the British Realm. Born at Ramsgate Co. Kent. Parish Church of St Katherine's, Savernake Focest, Co. Wilts. Married there A.pril 30 1892. L1vmg 1929. at Haileyrbury and Trrn1ty College, Carr.bridge. L1vmg 1929. London,July r6 1902. L,vmg 1929. borough College (1877-1880) and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Living 192~- Married July 8 1896 at St Mathew'.,, Bayswater, Co. London.

Ricl{a~~~~~ndel Hugh Whatton, of R,xkley Manor aforesaid. Burn al Somers Place, Ste,J.art :Vfontagu de Heriz Whatton, Companion of the Distiinguished Service Order, upon whom has been conferred Geoftrey Arundel Chatfield Whallon of Barnes Clus~:-;l'ind1ester, aforesaid. Clerk in Holy Orders. Born at tbe Vicarage, Joy~c Dorothea. Born at :Vfontpelier Square, Co. London, May 26 1893, baptized at St Michael and All Angels', Paddington, the Decoration of the :\,lilitary Cross, Captain Royal Horse Arrtillery. Born at Somers Place, Co. London, '.lay IO 1894. Bursledon, Cc,. Southampton, Febraary 19, 1898. Baptized at St Leonard's there. Educate,d al Radley_Coll~ge, Keble College, Knight.,bridge, Co. London_ Living unmarried aforesaid, June 24 ,893. Educated at Harrow (1907-09). Living unmarrieci. 1929. Baptized at St Michael and All Angels' aforesaid. Educated at Repton School. Living unmarried 192fl. Oxford, Chichester Theological College and Durham University. Licentiate in Theology in that Umvernty, at Barnes Close, Wincbester, 1929.

GENERAL NOTES ON THE FAMILY

GENERAL NOTES ON THE FAMILY (r) From Notes and Q,ueries 1875 WHATTON FAMILY. This ancient family trace their descent from William de Waton, Lord of Waton in Notts, temp. Henry I. There is an excellent pedigree in Nichols's Leicester­ shire, vol. iii, part ii; also in Burke's Commoners and Landed Gentry; but the best account of the family will be found in a 'Descent of the family of Whatton' given in the Gentleman's Magazine far 1825, where are some notices of the Newtown Lynford branch. The family has now merged into obscurity. In a public-house at Leicester is hung up a shield of arms containing fourteen quarterings, to which the innkeeper's wife (formerly a Miss Whatton) is rightfully entitled. I believe that Mr Henry Whatton is the present representative. W. G.D.F. Note.-This was written, as appears above,in r 875, that is before Mr Fletcher had become acquainted with the fortunes of the third branch. (2) NAME AND ARMS The family took its surname, as was common, from the place at which it settled at the Conquest. See the Articles*. When the move was made to Long Whatton in the adjacent county, it seems, conversely, to have given its name to the locality; presumably by way of a village growing up in the vicinity of the mansion house. I do not know of another instance of this, but it can probably be paralleled. The Arms depicted on the cover of this book are those borne by my grandfather, who was no mean authority, but as we placed no evidence before the College of Arms prior to the Visitation of Leicestershire they have not the imprimatur of that institution. It seems strange that the Royal Descent from Henry III, through the Babington marriage, was apparently not realized by the Author of the Articles, though he mentions a Descent from Reginald Fitzhenry, Earl of Cornwall, a natural son of Henry I, connecting with a much earlier Whatton, and this accounts for the Bar Sinister which appears in my grand­ father's Alliances. We owe the former to Mr Fletcher. * Appendix, page 33. F2 49 (2a) THE FATE OF THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLES George Whatton is quoted in the Preface* as writing that his brother Henry was buried in Bunhill Fields Cemetery. On visiting the place I was referred to the City Surveyor at the Guildhall, where I found that the Cemetery had been acquired by the Corporation of London in r 869 for an open space, and that they had thereupon caused to be compiled a list of decipherable inscriptions on the tombs. He was not there, though the interval was little more than twenty years, but I thought it not unlikely he was nameless, as he had quarrelled with his kinsmen, and his children did not know he was dead. The Surveyor passed me on to the Guildhall Library, where they preserve the old records of their pre­ decessors in title, including a full list of all interments, which I carefully searched. He was not there. It would seem that George was mistaken. It strikes one as a sad instance of the irony of Fate that the man who recorded the lives and deaths of so many others should himself go out in a mist of obscurity. (3) PUBLIC SCHOOL REGISTERS REPTON. Whatton, Hugh de H. Came September 1872. Son of the late A. B. Whatton, g Somers Place, Hyde Park, W. Born January 23 1859. Left 1877. House: Hall. Business: r Bedford Row, W.C. HAILEYBURY. Whatton, John Swift. Born May 13 1861, Second son of late Rev. A. B. Whatton of 39 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, W. Highfield 1875 2 L.M.II.-1880:t VI2. Second to R. V. Steward in racquets in 1880, but as the Public School Racquets fell in term time the pair could not enter. Presented Racquet Challenge Cup r88r. Trinity College Cambridge B.A. (2nd Class History Tripos) 1884. M.A. 1885. Captain C.U.Bi.C. 1883-4. Rode v. Oxford 1882-83-84. Won five miles Amateur Championship of United Kingdom 1882. Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn 1890. Clubs: Oxford and Cambridge, Bath, Royal Torbay Yacht Club. Married July 16 1902 Mabel, eldest daughter of E. M. Euan-Smith, M.D. Address: J. S. Whatton, Chilworth, Torquay. * Page xxviii. MARLBOROUGH. Whatton, Arundell Blount William. Entrance April 1877. Son of the late Rev. A. B. Whatton, c/o Mrs Whatton, 9 Somers Place, Hyde Park, London. Born October 5 1862. Left Easter 1880. Cotton House. Trinity College Cambridge B.A. 1884; M.A. 1885. Rev. A. B. W. Whatton, 16 Montpelier Square, Knightsbridge, S.W. HARROW. Whatton, Richard Arundell Hugh. Entrances January and Easter 1907. Son of H. de H. Whatton, Esq., Littlecott House, Enford, Wilts. Left r 909. R. A.H. Whatton, Esq., as above, and 14 Hyde Park Square, W. RADLEY. Whatton, Geoffrey Arundell Chatfield (Mr Wharton). Son of Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton. Rector of East Tisted, Hants. Left 19 r 62 • Keble College, Oxford 1918-19. L.Th. (Durham) 1921. Chichester Theological College 1919-21. Curate of St Dyfrig, Cardiff, 1921. The Revd. G. A. C. Whatton, St Dyfrig's Clergy House, Cardiff. w. G.D. F. (4) UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS, ETC. From Admissions to Trinity College Cambridge, vol. ii ( r 546- 1700). Henry Whatton 1679-80. Of Leicestershire. School: Tam­ worth, Warwickshire. (Mr Antrobus.) Age about 19. Sizar January 14 1679-80. Tutor Mr Battely. Matriculated 1680. Scholar 1683. B.A. 1683-4. Thomas Whatton 1637. From Queen's College. Sizar June 15 1637. Tutor Mr Sackville. Matriculated 1637. Did not graduate. William Whatton 1670. Sub-sizar May 15 1670. Tutor Mr Gale. Matriculated 1670. Scholar 1674. B.A. 1674-5. M.A. 1678.

From Matriculations and Degrees, Cambridge University Press. Whatton, Geoffrey. King's, Sizar. L. 1579-80. Whatton, John, Peterhouse, Fellow Commoner, E. 1658. Whatton, Thomas, Magdalen, Sizar, E. 1614. Whatton, Thomas, Queen's, Sizar, E. 1636. Whatton, Thomas, Trinity, Sizar, M. 163'7. [A.B. 1640. A.M. 1662.] 51 From Graduati Cantabrigienses. Thos. Whatton, Queen's A.M. 1662. Francis Whatton, Caius A.B. 1663. A.M. per lit. reg. 1671. William Whatton, Trinity A.B. 1674*. A.M. 1678. Henry Whatton, Trinity A.B. 1683.

From Peterhouse Admission Book 1912. 2-7-1658. Johannes Whatton, gen: Leicestriensis anos 18 natus exam: et approbat: admissus est in Sociorum convictum sub tutela Magistri Daintrie. Fellow Commoner.

(4a) THE CLERGY AND UNIVERSITY DEGREES; LEARNING AND LONG LIFE It is stated in the Articles that Henry and William, grand­ sons of Henry, Vicar of Humberstone, who was himself a Scholar of Trinity, Cambridge, were 'intended for the university.' Henry's name does not appear in the Alumni Oxonienses, or the corresponding Cambridge book, but I have a recollection of having seen it in some List of Admissions, though I cannot trace it. If so, he may have gone down because, as was the case, the family fortunes were at a somewhat low ebb, or just because he was of an adventurous disposition, and preferred the service of the Young Pretender. His younger brothert William, who matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, ,in 1746, and died Vicar of Loxley, 'a man of considerable talents, erudition, and taste ' according to his grand-nephew of the Articles, had necessarily to proceed to his degree as he intended to take Orders, it being, then and until recent days, practically essential for the clergy to be graduates. Adopting for once, as a proof of this, Mr Christie's admirable method (see the Transition from Aristocrary passim) of quoting examples from fiction to illustrate contemporary social customs, one may instance the ReverendsJackBrindlecombe, Tom Tusher, and Obadiah Slope, all of whom were University men, though of no family at all. * Page 74, Note 36 and Note 59, Page r 50. t See page 75, Note 37. 52 LorGHB ORO l: GH s.J~.

Loughborough Parish Church, circ. 1800. From an engraving in the possession of the Rev. W. G.D. Fletcher

I take note that this William is the only person mentioned in the Articles as having been of learning. I fear we have produced few such, though there was a Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of an early vintage, a grandson of one of the family Crusaders. Another thing I find is that ,the family has not been a long-lived one, to which I note three exceptions: William, who was Rector of Knaptoft, and died at the age of go, leaving his possessions to charitable uses, through which inter alia the Trinity Hospital, Leicester, was partly rebuilt, and the Leicester Infirmary got £2,000; Robert, whose burial is entered in the Register of St Michael's, Stamford, as that ofan 'ancient gent', and who was, no doubt, that Robert Whatton given in the Visitation of Lincoln 1634 as having '2 sonne now living'; and Sir John the Diplomatist. His will was made in 1721 and proved in 1723, and he must have lived for more than 80 years, and have seen something of the reigns of Charles I and II, James II, William and Mary, Anne, and George I. Would that in his years of retirement he had set down his recollections! [ See also Appendix B, Burton, for another case, though not in the family.] According to the Articles Sir John was painted by Rubens, the picture having been in the collection of Sir George Beaumont of Coleorton Park, his kinsman, who had a well known gallery of examples of that painter and other of th.e old masters. But Rubens died in 1640. Sir John was also admitted a member of the Inner Temple, but I do not know that he proceeded to a call. (4b) THE BEGINNING OF THE F AMILy Sir William de Watone 'Dominus Willielmus de Watuna' was Lord of Whatton-in-the-Vale in Nottinghamshire tern­ pore Hen. I, where he had a strong castellated mansion (the only vestige of which is an elevated mound encompassed by a fosse) with jurisdiction over the Lordship, and the vills and hamlets adjoining; he was the son of Robert, who took the surname of De Watone, a younger son of Gautier de Tirel, Seigneur de Poix in Picardy. Robert came over to England with the Duke of Normandy, and fought under his banner at the battle of Hastings, and at the time of the Survey held Watone under Gislebert de Gand. Burke's History ef the Commoners, 1838. 53 (5) Marriage Licence. 1676. Nov. 16. The Right Rev. Thomas Hackett, Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, widower, and Catherine Whatton, spinster, 30, her parents dead. -Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury. W. G.D.F. This was the eldest daughter of John Whatton of Raunstone, the High Sheriff. Marriage Licence. 1668, August 2r. Sir John Whatton, Knight, of Cheshunt, Herts, bachelor, about 27, and Mrs Margaret Dacres, of same, spinster, about 17. Consent of mother, Dame Margaret Dacres, of same, widow. At Thallworth*, Herts. -Vicar General of Archbishop of Canterbury. W. G.D. F. (5a) HERRICK AND HERIOT Sir William Herrick was Jeweller to Queen Elizabeth, for whom he went on a Mission to the Grand Turkt, bringing home with him a Turkish lady whose portrait, with his own, was formerly at Beaumanor Park, Leicestershire:j:. On the accession of James I he was appointed, May 3 1603, his principalJeweller, George Heriot, of whom below, apparently serving as one of the two under him. One of their principal functions was to lend money to the King. He was knighted at Greenwich in 1605, and having sat more than once in Parliament for Leicestershire, was buried in 1652 in St Martin's, Leicester. He quarrelled with Charles I, refused to pay ship-money, and suffered greatly in his estate during the civil wars, which possibly accounts, if he took the side of the Parliament, for his marriage-nephew, John Whatton, escaping the attentions of that faction when it came into power. George Heriot, the wealthy and munificent benefactor of Edinburgh, came to England with James VI as his Jeweller, and died in 1623. He was one of three persons appointed as Jewellers to the King in 1603. In 1609 he is officially styled ' His Majesty's Jeweller'. * I cannot find this place. Perhaps it was a house with a private chapel, t Treaty of Commerce with England made in 1579. Mentioned in West­ ward Ho! i The Herrick seat, 54 For most of these facts, confusing perhaps, but not altogether inconsistent, I am indebted to the D.N.B. The Herricks were a well-known Leicestershire family, and of them, in addition to Sir William, were Robert Herrick the poet, Abigail, the devoted mother of Dean Swift, and Myron Herrick, the late United States Ambassador to France. Elizabeth Herrick, by her Will, after expressing a desire to be buried' in the Library in St Martin's Church', left, inter alia, after a life interest, Sir William's picture to the Town of Leicester. I do not know if they still have it.* (6) IN ST MARTIN'S CHURCH, LEICESTER Hie jacet Elizabetha uxor Roberti Orpwood generosi predicti defuncti necnon Johannis Whatton Corporis Regiae Majestatis Armigeri relicti quae migravit in aeternitatem decimo septimo Augusti anno Domini r 638 aetatis suae 64. A special benefactrix, and of sacred memory in this Corporation wherein few if any parallel her. w. G. n. F. (7) A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR (One hopes it was Ship-money.-J. s. w.) In r6** the inhabitants of Woodhouse presented a petition to Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire (who died 1645) against Geoffrey Whatton, of Maplewell. They complained that he, ' being a very rich man, and owner of above r oo acres of enclosed land, whereupon he keepeth a very great stock of cattle,' was in arrear for levies, which he refused to pay. -Nichols's History of Leicestershire. W. G.D. F. (8) Brian de Watton, sub-deacon, t was presented in 1246 to the Church of Desford, on the presentation of the Prior of Ware.-Lincoln Episc. Ref. w. G. n. F. * See also Appendix B, Burton. t' Sub-deacons, and even "first tonsure" men, were often instituted to livings, and had to appoint chaplains, who were always in priest's orders, to serve their churches. Licences would be given for non-residence for study at Oxford, etc., until the priesthood was attained.'-The History of the Parish and Church of Kilkhampton, by Rev. R. Dew, M.A., F.S.A., Keble College, Oxford. The perusal of this admirable little book, full of interest and scholarship, leaves me acutely conscious ofmy own deficiencies in a somewhat similar field of work. Even the 'Oxford, etc.' tends to awaken a kind of inferiority complex. But I had to do it. 55 Brian de Whatton, sub-dean of Lincoln, was presented in I 258 to the Church of Syston, co. Leic., by R. de Quincy, Earl of Wynton, which was vacant by the promotion of R. de Mullent to the Bishopric of Coventry, being dispensed for three benefices by the Pope.-Lincoln Episc. Ref. W. G.D. F.

The de Mellents (Contes de Meulan) were Earls of Leicester, temp.Henry I. One ofthemfounded theMonasteryofStMary de Pratis,near that town. J. s. w. (9) LOUGHBOROUGH REGISTER 1764 May 27, Mary, wife of Mr John Watkinson, buried. 1765 May 6, John Watkinson and Eliz. Wilmot, both of this parish. 1765 November 30, Eliz., wife of John Watkinson, buried. 1765 November 30, Eliz., daughter of John and Eliz. Watkinson, baptized. 1782 December 25, Henry Watkinson, son of Henry Whatton and Eliz., baptized [born December 18]. 1785 August 22, John Watkinson, 2nd son, born and baptized. I 790 February 18, William Robert, 5th son, born February I 7, baptized. 1795 June 7, George, 6th son, baptized. 1815 Henry Whatton of Loughborough, aet. 67, buried by Revd. R. Younger, Curate. 1839 John Watkinson Whatton, Loughborough, aged 54, buried by Josiah Place, Curate.

At the end of the Loughborough Registers is a copy of a Faculty granted to Henry Whatton in I 788 for a burying place in the Vestry, with some memoranda as to the burying places of the Whattons in Loughborough Church*. W. G.D. F. (ro) WILLIAM ROBERT WHATTON Born February 17 1790 Indenture of Apprenticeship made between Henry Whatton and his son W. R. Whatton of the one part and Benjamin * For the Faculty see page 79. 56 Bust at Manormead of William Robert Whatton, M.R.C.S., F.R.S., F.S.A. Died 1835

Maddock, Surgeon and Apothecary, of the town of Notting­ ham,of the other part for five years. Consideration r oo guineas. Dated August 3 1804. Witnessed by Saville John Hyde and John Watkinson Whatton. Certificate of admission M.R.C.S. dated March 16 r8ro. In the Peninsular War, 181 r-1813. His father Henry Whatton died at Loughborough Parks, July 31 1815. Paper on the Etymology of Lichfield, Gentleman's Magazine, 1818. Verses in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1818. Married Harriet Sophia Seddon (born April 25 1797), August 8 1822. Freedom of the City of Cork, April r 7 1826. His daughter Harriet Elizabeth, born June r r 1826, after two children who died in infancy. His son Arundell Blount, born September 22 1827. Publication of the History of Manchester School r 828. Elected F.R.S.,June 5 1834. Memoir of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., for the National Portrait Gallery. Fishers 1834. British Association paper, September 1835. Death in his 46th year, December 4 1835. Letter ofJ. Bower Harrison, 'Lancashire Astronomers'. History of Lancashire, Baines and Whatton, published I 836. His 'Life of Horrocks', published by his son 1859. Article in Cornhill Magazine December 1913 entitled 'The First Railway Accident'*.

(II) From the Dictionm:_y of National Biography, Vol. Ix, 1899. WHATTON, WILLIAM RoBERT (1790-1835), surgeon and antiquary, son of Henry Whatton, by Elizabeth, daughter ofJohn Watkinson, was born at Loughborough, Leicester­ shire, on February 17 1790. He was admitted a member of the Royal College ofSurgeons on March r 6 r 8 r o, and settled at Manchester about r 8 r 6, where he was afterwards surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. In January 1822 he joined the * Page 61, Note 15. 57 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and was elected Librarian in 1828. To the 'Memoirs' of that Society he contributed in 1824 'Observations on the Armorial Bearings of the Town of Manchester and on the Descent of the Baronial Family of Gresley' (printed for the author, Manchester, 4to). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on June 5 1834, and was F.S.A. of London and Edinburgh. To'Archaeologia' (xxx595) hesentan 'Account of the Discovery ofan Ancient Instrument of Brass at Roch­ dale', and to 'Archaeologia Scotica' (iv 1) an interesting paper on certain furniture at Speke Hall, Lancashire. In r 828 he wrote 'The History of Manchester School', and in 1833 'A History of Chetham Hospital and Library', which together form the third volume of Hibbert-Ware's 'Founda­ tions in Manchester'. He projected a work on the worthies of Lancashire; but when Edward Baines announced his 'History of Lancashire' he handed over his biographies, in completed form, to be incorporated in that work. In 1829 he published two pamphlets proposing the establishment of a university for Manchester to be engrafted on the Royal Institution of that town. This scheme of a Manchester University was again brought forward by Harry Longue­ ville Jones in 1836, but not finally carried out until the Victoria University was founded in 1880. His professional papers were confined to a contribution on 'Spinal and Spino-ganglia! Irritation' to the 'North of England Medical and SurgicalJournal' (1830), and 'An Address to the Pupils of the Manchester Infirmary' (1834). He died at Manchester on December 5 1835. By his wife Harriet Sophia, daughter of William Seddon of Eccles, near Manchester, whom he married in 1822, he had a son and a daughter. His son, Arundel! Blount Whatton (born September 22 1827, died at Middlesex Hospital on May 18 1862), became a clergyman, and published in 1859 a 'Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox' (2nd edit. 1875). [Gentleman's Magazine, 1825 I, 308, 1836 II, 661; com­ munications from Mr Edward Trimmer, Secretary to the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mr R. Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society.] ( I2) THE PENINSULAR wAR Cheltenham DEAR WHATTON April r7 r8r7 I received your letter of the gth inst; a day or two since, and sincerely rejoice at your prospects of success in private practice, and shall feel truly happy if any testimony of your good conduct can in the least acclerate your views. On our arrival at Lisbon in r8r r I was appointed Surgeon of the Da Graca Hospital, and I had six assistants placed under me, where I shortly admitted, betwixt the wounded from Albuhera and medical cases, about 600; the greater part of the former were in a dreadful state from the excessive heat of the weather, bad conveyance, and, I am sorry to say, also neglect. The sores soon put on a sloughing appearance, and hospital gan­ grene was the consequence, which spread most rapidly and to an alarming extent. From observation of your former conduct and professional abilities I selected you to attend upon that division of the Hospital, and it is barely doing you justice to say that through the whole of that arduous and disagreeable duty you uniformly showed the greatest zeal, humanity, and attention to the poor sufferers, and the favourable termination of that disease was not more pleasing to me than honourable and creditable to yourself. You were shortly afterwards appointed to take charge of sick and wounded in England, and at my request the Inspector of Hospitals again placed you under my directions, when, during a voyage ofa month, your attention to them was unremitting, and I firmly believe many limbs were saved in consequence. You afterwards did duty in Deal General Hos­ pital, and in these situations I think you have seen more service than most of your contemporaries, and gained much useful information. In short, I ever looked upon you as an officer of superior talent, and for the sake of the Service regret that you have withdrawn yourself from the Army. Mrs D. is but poorly; she unites with me in kind regards, and, wishing you every success, believe me, dear Whatton, Most faithfully yours THOMAS DRAPER W. R. Whatton, Esq. (Deputy Inspector of Hospitals) 59 (13) Extract from letter of application for the post of Surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary by W. R. Whatton, dated July 31 1830 I received my Diploma as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons ofLondon in March 181 o, passed the usual medical examinations before the Army Medical Board the same year, and joined the troops in.the Peninsula early in 181 r. I was present with the Army in Portugal and Spain during the most sanguinary period of the War, viz. 181 r, 1812, and 1813, and had most ample opportunities of improving my professional knowledge by a constant and laborious attendance on the wounded in the battle of Albuera, and the sieges ofBadajos and Cuidal Rodrigo. I volunteered my services to the Head of the Medical Department, and attended upon the sick and wounded soldiers on board ship to England on two different occasions, and afterwards took charge of them for a considerable period in the General Militia Receiving Hospitals at Ospringe and Deal in Kent. I came to Manchester in 1815, and was immediately elected Resident Surgeon of the Poor House from among the unusually large number of 72 candidates, which situation I held during the well-known period of depression in 1815, 1816, and 1817. Since that time I have resided here as a Private Practi­ tioner, and have been honoured with a fair share of the public confidence. W. R. WHATTON 5 Portland Place Manchester Note.-It is a curious coincidence that both my grandfathers lived in Portland Place: one in Manchester and one in London.

( 14) FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF CORK There is in the family a silver-gilt box containing a parchment in these terms The Right Worshipful Thomas Harrison, Mayor. Be it remembered that on the 27th April in the year of Our Lord 1826 by the unanimous consent of the Mayor, Recorder, Sheriffs and Commonalty of the City of Cork, William Robert Whatton Esquire, Manchester, and a member of the 60 Royal College of Surgeons, London, was admitted a Freeman at Large of the said City of Cork. Dated as above WILLIAM JONES (Town Clerk) Note.-I have been unable to discover for what services, or in what connexion, this Freedom was given, except that from an allusion in a letter which happens to have been preserved I gather there was some personal connection through the Morgans of Ravensdale, Co. Cork (see page 46). A letter to the present Town Clerk has elicited no reply, but I understand that most of the municipal records were burnt during the recent troubles. ( 15) THE FIRST RAILWAY ACCIDENT DEATH OF HusKrssoN, SEPTEMBER 15 1830, AT THE OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY Sir Robert Peel (the Prime Minister) to W. R. Whatton Drayton Manor Sm, September 18 1830 I request that you will accept my best thanks for your attention. The melancholy details you have sent me have been very interesting to me, particularly after the contra­ dictory statements which I had previously received respecting the nature of the wound which proved fatal to Mr Huskisson. I am glad that he escaped the pain of an amputation. I have the honour to be Sir, your obedient servant ROBERT PEEL Note.-See Cornhill Magazine for December 1913: 'William Huskisson. The first railway accident. A letter written to Mrs Gaskell of Thomas House, Wake­ field, by Dr J. P. Brandreth, with a Note on the medical aspect of the case by S. Squire Spriggs, M.D.' The writer concludes that Mr Whatton did wisely in not attempting to operate, a question upon which there appears at the time of the accident to have arisen a rather furious controversy, and that this was also the opinion of Mr. Huskisson's widow in indicated by the fact that the family possesses a gold snuff-box presented by her to him, the inscription within which reads as follows : Presented to W. R. Whatton Esq. by Emily Huskisson in grateful recollection of the skill and unwearied kindness exercised by him on the 15th of September 1830. There were of course no amesthetics. Huskisson, with other 'Canningites' had resigned his position as President of the Board of Trade shortly before this. He was Member for Liverpool, and a street there is called after him. ( 16) BRITISH AssocrATION Meeting at Dublin, September 1835 On the same day in the anatomical section, Mr W. R. Whatton read a paper on a new method of performing partial 61 amputation of the foot. Mr Whatton exhibited casts of the amputations, and took with him a patient, who had been operated upon by him in our royal infirmary, in November 1833. The principal advantages attendant on these operations consist in their being performed longitudinally, instead of transversely, according to the old method: by this means the whole length of the patient's foot is preserved, the square of the base in standing is retained, and the insertions of the tendons of the remaining portion, both above and on the sole, are uninjured, and are amply sufficient for supporting the weight of the body and for progression. The man who was exhibited can walk twenty miles a day with perfect ease and convenience, and shows no lameness whatever; and his un­ looked for appearance in the section, realizing so exactly what the cast of the foot had previously represented, together with his walking so steadily down the table, gave to the accuracy of the statement a more than common interest, and was received with enthusiastic applause. The opinion was universal in the section that, had these operations been known during the period of the late war, many limbs might have been saved, and many pensions spared to the country. The favourable impression which the reading of this paper has left upon the minds of the faculty of Dublin generally appears to have been highly complimentary to our towns­ man; a vote of thanks to him was unanimously passed, proposed by Dr Granville of London and seconded by Mr Carmichael, the eminent surgeon of Dublin, with a recom­ mendation of the immediate publication of the essay. -Manchester Paper (17) Extract from Preface of History ef Lancashire: Some years before the publication of this work was com­ menced, William Robert Whatton Esq., F.S.A., announced a biographical work under the tide of Lancastres ]!lustres, or Historical Memoirs of Illustrious Natives ef the County Palatine of Lancaster, with Genealogical and Heraldic Observations; but professional engagements having prevented Mr Whatton from prosecuting his design to maturity, he generously transferred his ample collections, contained in four manu­ script volumes, to the appropriate depository, the general history of the county. In the progress of this work through 62 the press, literature and science were suddenly deprived by the strokeofdeathofthis accomplished man; but fortunately his biographical labours were completed before that calamity befell his family and friends. The Manchester Grammar School DEAR SrR, December 29 r 920 . . . Dr Mumford has just written a monumental History of the school, building gratefully on foundations well and truly laid by your Grandfather. We are grouping together in our library several old books and other mementos in connection with the old days, and we will find an honoured place in this collection for the MS if you will be good enough to make us the possessors of it. Besides, we are just moving the school to a new site, and I want everything I can get to link on the days to be with the traditions of the past, And for that reason am More than ever gratefully yours J. S. Whatton, Esq. J. L. PATON

The Manchester Grammar School 1922 DEAR MR WHATTON, The MS has arrived, and again I give you our best thanks. I am sending it to the librarian at Chetham's Hospital. I believe it will be a real help to our arch~ologists in future. Faithfully yours, ]. L. PATON Note.-1 presented the MS of my grandfather's Work on this subject to the School. The following extract is taken from a letter from his widow, my grand­ mother: 'The Chetham Library was a daily resort for his leisure hours'.

( 18) Leeds December 20 1835 My DEAR MADAM, It was with the deepest emotions of sorrow that I received your letter informing me of the ever to be lamented death of your excellent husband and my valued co-adjutor. Litera­ ture has lost in him a scholar; science a zealous and devoted G 63 friend; and society a gentleman in the highest sense of that term. I will not mock your sorrow by attempting this early to administer consolation, though I may be allowed to say that his Family and Friends, and none so strongly as yourself, must in the midst of their grieffeel that his life was distinguished by an active career of beneficence to his fellow-men, influenced by a wish to discharge his duties to his Maker. Believe me, my dearest Madam, with unfeigned sympathy with you and with your family, · Yours very sincerely, EDWARD BAINES Note.~History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, by Edward Baines, M.P. The Biographical Portion by W.R. Whatton, F.S.A. In four Volumes, 1836. ( rg) LANCASHIRE ASTRONOMERS To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian Sir, I have just read in your valuable paper of the r8th inst. some extracts on the subject of the Lancashire astronomers. I think it only just to the memory of our late lamented towns­ man, Mr Whatton, to state that he had for years been making collections for the publication of the life ofJeremiah Horrox; and it will be in the memory of some of the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society of the town that many years ago he read a paper before them on that subject; his notice, in the county history, of that great astronomer was , therefore brief, not only on this account, but that the limit afforded him for his biographical notices was altogether insufficient to do justice to this illustrious individual. Mr Whatton and the late Professor Rigaud were personally acquainted, and the former was greatly indebted to the latter for the readiness with which he transmitted such information relating to Horrox as was to be obtained in the University, yet the friends of Mr Whatton must still feel regret that his pre­ mature death set a seal upon his reaping the reward due to his labours on this, as on many other literary subjects. It would have been gratifying also to have had the life and writings of Jeremiah Horrox recorded by a townsman. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Broughton, October 26 ]As. BoWER HARRISON 64 The Times, January 4 1922 'A NEGLECTED ENGLISH GENIUS' Sir, Observing that your Correspondent states that Jeremiah Horrocks' treatise on The Transit ofVenus was never actually published, and is preserved in MS at Greenwich, may I be allowed to say, in the interests of accuracy and filial piety, that my grandfather, W.R. Whatton, F .R.S., F .S.A., shortly before his death had completed a Life of Horrox (so spelt) with a translation of the treatise, which was subsequently published by my father, Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, through Messrs Wertheim, Macintosh and Hunt, London 1859, a second edition of which book, after the death of the latter, was issued by my mother in 1875 (William Hunt and Coy. Holles Street, Cavendish Square)? I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Hennapyn House J. S. WHATTON Torquay (20) FATHER AND SON LrFE OF HoRRox Dedication of the First Edition In memoriam Patris dilectissimi Gul: Rob: Whatton F.R.S., F.S.A., etc. Viri literis humanioribus eximie eruditi Has egregii adolescentis reliquias, Quern vivus ipse est miratus, Cum quo mortuus, fas est credere, consors, Colligendas et in lumen proferendas curavit Filius Amantissimus 1859 A. B. W.

Dedication of the Second Edition To the dear Memory of My husband Arundell Blount Whatton, B.A., LL.B. and of his Father William Robert Whatton, F.R.S., F.S.A., etc. 1875 M. E.W. (2 l) SON AND GRANDSON A PLAIN SERMON The Death of the Duke of Wellington by the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton of King's College, London, and Curate of St Philip's Church, Sheffield. 'Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel ' Published at the request of the Congregation November 16 1852

The Evidential Value of the Example of Christ by Arundell Whatton ' A heart settled upon a thoughtful understanding is as an ornament of plaister on a polished wall.'-Eccles. xxii 17. London 1909

From The Times, April 1865 On the 2nd inst., at 5 Acacia Place, St John's Wood, after severe suffering, patiently borne, Harriet Sophia, widow of the late William Robert Whatton, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A., and youngest daughter of the late William Seddon Esq., of Acres Field, Lancashire. Note.-The property known as Acres Field, or Acres Barn, was in the neighbourhood of Eccles, co. Lanes. It is not now in the possession of the Seddon family. (23) A F AMIL y BIBLE Copy oflnscription in flyleaf of Scott's Bible (4 vols., 1832), in the handwriting ofmy Grandfather,John Swift, and dated at the top of the page by him on December 27 1832, the day of his wedding, subsequent entries having been made as the events took place.

[He died June 20 1887.] John and Maria Samson Swift married at Claines near Worcester 27th December 1832. I Maria Elizabeth Swift, born Oct: 25th 1833. Christened at St Bride's Church, L'pool. 66 On the sands near Liverpool. The children of John Swift. Left to right: Georgina, Maria Elizabeth, Herbert Henry. From the original at Manormead

2 A boy, who survived his birth only about an hour, and was buried in the Cemetery, Liverpool. 3 Herbert Henry, born 27th April 1836. Christened at St Bride's Church, L'pool. ·· 4 Georgina, born 3rd January 1840. Christened at St Bride's Church, L'pool. Maria Elizabeth Swift married 16th Feb: 1858 to Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton at Trinity Church, Marylebone, London. Hugh de Heriz, their son, born 23rd January 1859; Christened at the same Church. John Swift Whatton, born 13th May 1861; Christened at the same Church. Arundell Blount William Whatton 5th October 1862. Arundell Blount Whatton died 18th May 1862. Buried at the Paddington Cemetery. Correctly copied by me this 28th November 1921, and signed J. s. WHATTON Note.~A. B. W.W. was christened at Holy Trinity,Marylebone,on the 16th Feb. 1863. (25) THE SWIFT MEMORIAL All Saints' Church, Eastbourne, in the building of which my grandfather was greatly interested, was almost totally destroyed by fire some years ago. It contained a Brass to his memory set up by his three children, which in the new church ( 1928) was replaced by a stained glass window to the memory of their grandparents and their Aunt Georgina, who lived and died at Eastbourne, given by the present Swift family. Georgina Swift, ob. 4th Feb. 1916, aged 72, and was buried at the Cemetery at Ocklynge. (26) From The Times, February 17 1858 On the 16th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, by the Rev. John Armitstead, M.A., Vicar of Sandbach, Cheshire, the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, B.A., LL.B., Curate of St George's, Hanover Square, only son of the late W. R. Whatton Esq., F.R.S. and S.A., etc., to Maria Elizabeth, elder daughter of John Swift, Esq., of Madehurst Lodge, Sussex, and Portland Place, London. 67 From The Times, May 1862 On the 18th inst., in the 34th year of his age, at the Middle­ sex Hospital, from injuries received by a fall from his horse, the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, B.A., LL.B., Senior Curate of St George's, Hanover Square, only son of the late W. R. Whatton, Esq., F.R.S. and S.A. (28) REVD. ARUNDELL BLOUNT WHATTON Born September 22 1827. Educated at King William's College, Isle ofMan,St Bee's Theo- logical College and King's College, London, B.A , LL.B. . d f Deacon, December 21 1851. 0 r d a1ne Pnest,. Decemb er r 9 18 52. Married Maria Elizabeth Swift at Holy Trinity, Marylebone, February 16 1858. Sons bornJanuary23 1859, May 13 1861, and October 5 1862. Licensed to St Philip's, Sheffield, December 21 1851. Published a volume of Anthems with Henry Theophilus Monk, 1853. Licensed to St Thomas, Ardwick, September I I 1855 Licensed to St George's, Hanover Square,February 24 1857. Published his father's Life of Horrocks 1859. Designated as Vicar of Christchurch, Mayfair, 1862, but Died May 18 1862, and was buried at Paddington Cemetery. His widow, born October 25 1833, died December 4 1906, and was buried at Paddington Cemetery. Harriet Elizabeth, his sister, born June r I 1826, died October 29 1901, aged 75 years; married Revd. Augustus Hewitt, who died December 4 1885, aged 88 years: both buried at Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath. (29) A FAREWELL ST PHILIP'S CHURCH.-On Sunday last the quarterly sermons for the choir and wardens' fund were preached. In the morning the Rev. A. B. Whatton made a powerful appeal to the generous sympathy of the congregation, to sustain the choral worship of the church, which has been for so many years so well solemnized at St Philip's. In the course of his sermon Mr Whatton announced that that probably would be the last 68 Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton. Died 1862 From a photograph at Manormead

appeal he should make to them as curate of St Philip's. We learn that Mr Whatton will leave Sheffield at midsummer, and we feel assured that among those with whom he has laboured the feeling will be one of universal regret. 'His pulpit ministrations,' says a correspondent, 'have been distinguished as well by their eloquence and deep learning as by sound church doctrine and true evangelical spirit. His gentlemanly bearing and generous catholic sentiments have endeared him to all classes of the congregation among whom he has laboured; as proof of which we may refer to the handsome testimonial presented to him at Christmas last.' In the evening the rev. incumbent preached, and announced that owing to the burial ground of St Philip's being ordered to be closed, the churchwardens' fund would suffer so serious a diminution as to make it extremelv doubtful whether the choral service could be carried out i{nless the congregation aided it by largely increased subscriptions. We learn that this appeal will not have been without its effect; one lady, a member of the church, having very generously promised an annual subscription of five guineas, to start a fund for the sustentation of the choir solely. This example has since been followed by others; and we doubt not that a service, beautiful in character and unique ofits kind in Sheffield, will receive that amount of support as to enable the wardens to preserve it in all its beauty and efficiency.-From a Sheffield Paper.

(30) THE NEW CHURCH IN MAYFAIR At a meeting of the' Committee for promoting the building of a Church in Mayfair ', holden in the School Board room, South Street, on Tuesday, May 27 1862. Present: The Lord Calthorpe (in the Chair). The Earl of Bess borough. The Earl of Powis. The Lord Foley. Hon. P. Pleydell Bouverie, M.P. Capel Cure, Esq. Joseph Bonsor, Esq. William Brewer, M.D. John Murray, Esq. Joseph William Thrupp, Esq. 69 The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, It was moved by Lord Foley, Seconded by Hon. P. Pleydell Bouverie, M.P., and unanimously RESOLVED: That the Committee, at their first meeting after the sudden and mournful calamity which by the will of Providence has deprived them of their Honorary Secretary, and this Parish of an acceptable and talented spiritual Pastor, in the person of the Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton; feel it due to his memory to record their sense of the zeal and efficiency with which he furthered their views in regard to the building of a Church; and the hopes they had entertained for him of a lengthened and useful career as its first appointed Minister. And the Committee request the Rector to convey to Mr Whatton's widow and his family the expression of their deep sympathy in this unlooked for and overwhelming affliction.

(3 I) CORONATION OF GEORGE IV To General Seddon,* July 6 r82r MY DEAR GENERAL I see by the Durham papers that you are to be President at the Celebration of H.M. Coronation on the rgth. It would have been a high gratification to me to have been under your command on that day. This I cannot accomplish, but I have ordered my keeper to select the best buck in Brancepeth Park for your table. Believe me, my dear General, Very truly yours, M. RuPELL (32) SOCIAL LIFE : DINNERS FOR SIXTY Extracts from letter September 29 1827 from General Seddon to W. R. Whatton MY DEAR WHATTON I duly received your letter dated 23rd on my return from Wynyardt ... I could hardly have answered it sooner as my time for the whole week has been so completely occupied. * See Note .~8, Page 149. t Lord Londonderry. 70 On Monday I had to present an address to the Duke of Wellington ... after which I went with the party to Wynyard, and did not get home till last night. . . . I never saw such a display of nobility, fashion, and ele­ gance, both of company and entertainment, than there was at Wynyard at any private house in my life. We dined at least sixty every day, and at the Ball on Wednesday night there were upwards of 200. Mrs Seddon joins me in the sincerest congratulations on the birth of your little boy*, and of Harriet's well doing ... On Wednesday I am going to dinewith our Bishop to meet the Duke ofWellington, and on Thursday I meet him again at a public dinner at Sunderland, Lord Londonderry in the Chair. My old friend Lord Beresford tis staying at Wynyard, and is a great inducement to my going to so many gay parties. I fear I cannot get off going again to Wynyard before the party leaves. My wife joins me in most affectionate regards to Harriet and yourself, and with our kindest love to the Scotts, t believe me, my dear Whatton, Yours very truly, D. SEDDON (33) AN INDIAN APPOINTMENT Extract from letter from Prof. Felix Seddon to Mr Scott of Brotherton I am happy to say that my nomination as Head of the pro­ posed College to be founded by the King of Oude under the King of England's approval for instructing the natives of Oude in the English language and in the Arts and Sciences of England was put to the vote on Wednesday last, and carried through the Court of Directors without a division. I get £1,200 a year together with £300 for an outfit, and six months' advance. I saw Sir John Cann Hobhouse§again on Thursday, who told me he was very glad to hear ofmy welfare, and heartily wished me success. The King of England had expressed his satisfaction that the Ambassador had selected a man of * Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton, September 22 1827. t See Note 57, Page 149. :j: Of his nieces, Mary married Scott of Brotherton, and Harriet, W.R. Whatton. § A Cabinet Minister under Lord John Russell in 1846. 71 learning, and expressed himself to Sir John very graciously on the occasion. (34) THE DECLARATION OF INDULGENCE Middleton, near Bakewell SIR January 8 1826 Seeing a notice of an interesting work which you are pre­ paring for publication, I take the liberty of sending you a copy from an original document in my possession, which, as relating to your county, may perhaps be worth your attention, especially, as I believe it is the only memorial of the kind extant for Lancashire: CHARLES R. Charles by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all Mayors, Bayliffs, Constables, and other our Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, whom it may concern Greeting. In pursuance of our Declaration of the 15th of March 1672, We have allowed, and We do hereby allow of a Roome or Roomes in the house of Peter Seddon in Prest­ wich parish in Lancashire to be a place for the use of such as do not conform to the Church of England, who are of the Perswasion commonly called Presbyterian to meet and assemble in, in order to their publick Worship and Devo­ tion. And all and singular our Officers and Ministers, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, whom it may concern, are to take due notice hereof: And they, and every of them, are hereby strictly charged and required to hinder any tumult or disturbance, and to protect them in their said Meetings and Assemblies. Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the 5th day of September in the 24th year of Our Reign, 1672. By His Majestie's Command ARLINGTON* The house for which this 'Indulgence' was granted is a leasehold property under Lord Derby, denominated Top o' th' Brow, in the township ofOutwood, about half a mile north of Kingley, and is still occupied by the descendants of Peter Seddon the grantee, who had been a captain in the parlia­ ment's army-but the License was more particularly obtained * Two years later Arlington was impeached as a Papist, and as the ' conduit­ pipe' of the evil-doing of the king. Died 1685. The case was dropped for the captain's younger brother, Robert Seddon, M.A. of Christ's Coll., Camb., who had been ejected in 1662, by the 'Act of Uniformity' from his living in this County (Derby), the rectory of Langley-See Nonconformists' Memorial, vol. I, p. 4.1 I-also his gravestone in Kingley Chapel yard­ (Both the captain and the clergyman were born at Top o' th' Brow). The following sketch of pedigree I have gathered in the neighbourhood of Bingley. I am, s·ir, Your obedient, humble servant, To W.R. Whatton Esqre. WILLIAM BATEMAN Manchester

Peter Seddon, ob. 15 Apl. 1663, aet. 84, buried at Kingley Co. Lane. I I I Captn. Peter Seddon, died 30 Nov. Robert Seddon M.A. of Christ's 1697, & burd. in Kingley Chapel, Col. Camb. ejected from the rectory 4 Dec. followg. aet. 82. of Langley Co. Derb. buried at (Oliver Heywood MS.) Kingley 25 Mar 1696, aet. 66.

P.S.-If you would like to see the original License, I shall have great pleasure in sending it to you.-W. B. Note.-For Peter Seddon see the Articles, and Note 58, Page 149. The Declaration of Indulgence was passed on March 15 of this year of 1672.

(35) VANDALISM Extract from letter from Rev. W. Lockton, Principal of Chichester Training College, to Rev. A. B. W. Whatton dated September 18 1902. I may mention that a white alabaster tombstone to Robert Whatton and Margaret his wife has been unearthed at Long Whattonduringrecentalterations. Itissomewhatmutilated, and I think part is missing. Part is however well preserved, and the de Heriz Arms are quite plain. It had been used to keep the pulpit in position, an iron bar having been driven through it for that purpose! It seems a pity however that it should be lost again. [And the more so as by his Will his kinsman and namesake had given iiis, /ivd. for the ' reypre­ tions of the sayd church.'-J. s. w.J 73 (35a) VANDALISM AND THE BETTER WAY I am informed that all the monuments in Long Whatton Church had been destroyed before the late Lord Crawshaw purchased the estate of Whatton Hall there, and restored the Church. Visiting it quite recently I found the tombstone inside it, leaning against the wall, but now practically illegible. I hope to be able to do something about it, to which end I am in communication with the Rector. Robert Whatton died September IO 1577, and his wife a week later. A worse thing, because more recent, happened at Lough­ borough in 1862, when the Church was cleared of them, and they were set up in rows, half buried in concrete, along the Churchyard paths. This was the case even with the mural tablets above Henry Whatton's Vault, the Faculty (see page 79), notwithstanding. I gravely doubt the legality of that proceeding. On the other hand, when a few years ago St Martin's became the Cathedral Church of the new diocese of Leicester, all the monuments were carefully renovated, donations being asked for from kinsmen, and though the authorities failed to find any such of John Whatton, they nevertheless recut and regilded the lettering on this gorgeous tomb at their own expense. On a recent visit to Leicester I discovered what had been done, and telephoned Canon Macnutt, the Vicar, whom I did not know, wishing to tender my thanks on behalf of the family, and something more solid therewith. I gave the name of John Whatton, and he told me, when we met, that he was not a little startled, regarding it as a voice from the tomb.

(36) A NaN JuRoR From The Non-Jurors, by ]. H. Overton, D.D. Smith Elder & Co. 1902 Name Preferment Diocese Whatton Chaplain to the Lincoln William Earl of Rutland Note.-First Duke of Rutland born 1638, died 1711. Succeeded as 9th Earh697. Created 1st Duke 1 703. Therefore the Chaplaincy must have been between the years 1689 and 1703. It is curious that my brother Arundel] was also Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland in 1892. Se, Note 59, Page 150, and, for the Non-Jurors, page xxix. 74 (37) A LORD CHANCELLOR'S LIVING The London Evening Post, from Tuesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 28 1753 A Presentation has passed the Great Seal to enable the Revd. Mr William Whatton to hold the Vicarage of Laxley in the County of Warwick, and Diocese of Worcester, being presented thereto by the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor. William Whatton, son of William Whatton of ... Co., Leicester, Gent. Lincoln College, matric. 9th April I 746, aged 22. B.A., 14th February 1749-50. Vicar ofLaxley, Co. Warwick, 1753.-Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886.

Note.-If the Author of the Articles is right ( and he must have known about his grandfather's brother) the entry in the Alumni should read:' son of Henry'. However, Mr Homer feels sure that this William was indeed a grandson of Henry of Humberstone, but a son of his second son W'illiam*.

(38) BRASS IN WHATTON CHURCH Sir Richard de Whatton; second son of Sir John de Whatton Lord of Rokebourne Co. Southampton, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex in the year I 24 I by Ella his wife second daughter and co. heir of John, Lord Bisset, Baron of Coombe Bisset, Co. Wilts: and of East Bridgeford in this County; was commissioner of Array in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the year 1316, and was summoned by King Edward II in the year I 322 to attend him against his rebellious barons, and had entrusted to his custody the forfeited castles and estates of their chief Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. He departed this life without issue. The Altar tomb in this North Chapel of the above Sir Richard, which formerly bore this legend 'Priez pur l'alme de Sire Richard Whatton Chivaler' was repaired, and this tablet set up, in the year 1892, by Hugh de Heriz Whatton;John Swift Whatton M.A. Trin: Coll: Camb: and Linc: Inn; Arundell Blount William Whatton, Clerk, M.A. Trin: Coll: Camb: his Kinsmen.

* Written before the definite pedigree had been received from the College of Arms, which settles the question in Mr. Homer's favour. 75 (38a) BRASS IN WHATTON CHURCH This tomb hereunder, believed to be that of one Robert de Whatton Canon of Welbec in this County, and Vicar of Whatton from the year 1304 to the year 131 o, was repaired, and this tablet set up in the year 1892, by Hugh de Heriz Whatton, John Swift Whatton, Arundell Blount William Whatton, his Kinsmen. Wonder not mortal at thy quick decay, See men of marble piecemeal melt away; When whose the Image we no longer read, But monuments themselves memorials need. -Crabbe Note.-This was my quotation. I hear that my brother the Rev. A. B. W. Whatton has accepted the charge of the Parish during the Vicar's summer holiday this year. It may be the first time that a member of the family will have Celebrated in Whatton Church since 13ro. (39) COCK-FIGHTING I have in my possession a square bag (24 inches by 29) of silk, lined with flannel, and showing traces of blood. In the centre in gold are the Arms of Seddon. This belonged to my great-grandfather William Seddon of Acresfield, and was used for the purpose of carrying his gamecocks to and from the arena of combat. (40) MY PARENTS-IN-LAW Euan Maclaurin Euan-Smith died July 31 1904.

From The Times EuAN-SMITH.-On Dec. 4th 1926 at Malling, Agnes Jane Euan-Smith of Chester House, Chard, Somerset, aged 85 years. R.I.P. Funeral 2 o'clock today (Tuesday) at West Malling. New Zealand papers please copy. (41) A LITTLE RELIC Engraved on a brooch in my possession: 'Maria Ingle ob: 25th Feb: 1846 aet. 64'. Sister-in-law to Ann Ingle, whose daughter Maria married John Swift. 76 (42) A F AMIL y PICTURE Extract from letter Harriet Elizabeth Hewitt (nee Whatton) to J. s. w. re picture of Mrs Tocker* 'She was niece to my grandfather Seddon.' Her son, Rev. J. A. Tocker, gave it to her (H. E. H.) to pass on to me, according to this letter. It is now at Rackley Manor.

(43) MY GRANDMOTHERS Written on the front page of a little book entitled A Tour throughout the whole ef France, by John Barnes, London, 1815, 'A merited reward for that little girl who during the last six months has shewn the greatest degree of Command of Temper. Maria Samson Ingle March 13th 1818 From her Friend E. Cooper '

This was my grandmother, Mrs John Swift, died 1877, whom I remember very well as of a most placid and tranquil disposition, which may have been due to Miss Cooper's influence, or, as I prefer to think, the development of an anima naturaliter Christiana. I remember also my grandmother Whatton as a handsome, proud, and dignified old lady, living out a long invalid widowhood in a small house in St. John's Wood, to which as children we were from time to time taken to visit her.

(44) GRETNA GREEN The Gretna Green marriage certificate issued in the case of my great-grandfather in the year r 779 is given in the Articles*. I append a copy (with acknowledgments to the Daily Mail) of the one used in the ' Mappin ' marriage of r 929, which shows that in the course ofjust I 50 years there has been very little change in the form. Before the passing of Lord Brougham's Act in 1856 there was no residential qualifica­ tion. It is as follows : * See Pedigree, page 46. t Page 26. 77 KINGDOM OF SCOTLAND. COUNTY Of DUMfRIES-PARlf,H Of' GRf.TNA.

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(44a) LOUGHBOROUGH PARKS Between Loughborough and Charnwood Forest (which was formerly usually known as Loughborough Forest) lie Loughborough Parks and Loughborough Outwoods, the same being a park, imparked according to Burton, by Hugh le Despenser, and disparked in 1630. Part of it lies on hilly ground, and is covered with wood; whilst other parts are converted into tillage and pasturage. This parkland contains about 1 ,ooo acres and eleven farm houses, also about 150 acres of wood, the greatest portion belonging to the Herrick family. Through these grounds runs the Wood Brook, which passes through Loughborough, and runs into the Soar.-W. G. D. FLETCHER in the Historical Handbook to Loughborough. Note -Loughborough Parks came to Henry Whatton by his marriage. See page 27. 78 (44b) ,, COPY OF A FACULTY GRANTED TO HENRY WHATTON "GENT: FOR A BURYING PLACE IN THE VESTRY I 788 " ( Copied from the Faculty by Joseph Webster.) EDWARD TAYLOR ESQUIRE Bachelor of Laws Official of the Archdeaconry of Leicester lawfully constituted. To all and singular the faithfull in Christ to whom these our present letters testimonial shall come Greeting; Whereas Henry Whatton of Loughborough in the County and Archdeaconry of Leicester Gentleman hath (by his proctor) humbly prayed that we would be pleased to grant our License and faculty to him for the purposes and to the Effect herein after mentioned and Specified AND We being willing to comply with his request so far as in us lies and by Law we may or can and having by our citation with Intimation duly cited all persons in this behalf to be cited and observed the order of Laws in all things SO by these presents grant our License and ffaculty to the said Henry Whatton to make and build within the Vestry Room of or belonging to the Parish Church of. . . . . Loughborough aforesaid towards the South East corner of the said Vestry Room a vault or burying place containing in Length from East to West ten feet clear and exclusive of the wall at the east end thereof and in breadth from the South wall of the said Vestry Room six feet eight inches including the wall to be made on the North side thereof and in depth eight feet or thereabouts as and for a burying place for the Interment of the Bodies of him the said Henry Whatton and his family and such others as he or his heir for the time being for ever shall consent or permit to be Interred and placed therein exclusive of all others whomsoever paying to the Rector or Churchwardens of Loughborough aforesaid and his or their Successors such and the same fees for Interring the body of any person within the said vault or burying place as have been heretofore been usually paid to the Rector and Churchwardens of Loughborough aforesaid for breaking up the Ground and pavement for the Interment of the bodies of such persons respectively as have been heretofore buried in the said Church, And also to remove or cause to be removed the body of his late Son William Whatton an Infant deceased now lying ..... Interred in the said H 79 Church and to place the same in the said vault or burying place when made And we do hereby further grant our leave license and faculty to the said Henry Whatton and to his heir for the time being for ever to erect and affix Monuments with Inscriptions to or against the inside of East wall of the said Vestry Room or lay down Stones with Inscriptions thereon in memory of the said William Whatton deceased and of such other person or persons as shall be Interred or placed in the said vault or burying place provided that the usual fee for erecting any Monument or laying down any Gravestone as aforesaid shall be paid to the Rector of Loughborough aforesaid as heretofore. In Testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our Office to be hereunto affixed the fourteenth day of ffebruary in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith and so forth and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and Eighty eight.

John Stockdale, Not: Pub: By Decree. 8

This and the writing contained on the other side} of this leaf is a True copy of the original £faculty having carefully compared therewith by us the twenty eighth day of ffebruary 1788. JosEPH WEBSTER Tos: CAUTRELL 1 Clerk for Mr. WhattonJ Henry Whatton Gent: Bur: Augst 4th 1815 in the North East Corner 7 feet deep. MEMORANDUM That Willm. the 3rd Son & Robt. the 4th Son of Henry Whatton Gent: are both Burd. in the South East Corner of the above mentioned burial place at a Depth of 7 feet below the Surface. 80 (45) THE NAME 'SENCE' I find that we have common ancestors, through Sir Walter Blount, slain at the battle of Shrewsbury, who married Donna Sanchia d'Ayala. Sence (a frequent Whatton name) is the common form of Sanchia. Donna Sanchia came to England in the train of Constance ofCastile,John ofGaunt's second wife. F. A. H. to J. s. w. Note.-John of Gaunt went to Spain for three years in 1396. Died 1399. Battle of Shrewsbury, at which Hotspur also was killed, 1403

(46) SELECTED WHATTON WILLS (ABSTRACTS) 'Cut off with a shilling' In the name of God, Amen, I SENCE WHATTON, of Newton Linford, Co. Leic, single woman being very sick & weak of body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament (that is to say) principally & first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christianlike & decent manner at the discretion of my exors, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the Mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise & dispose of the same in the following manner and forme. I tern I give & bequeath to my Brother William Whatton the sum of one shilling oflawful money of Great Britain. Item I give to my cousen William Whatton, sone of my Brother William Whatton one shilling. I give to my coysen Mary Whatton, daughter ofmy Brother William Whatton one shilling. I give to my cousen Lucy Whatton daughter ofmy Brother William Whatton one shilling. I give to my sister Lucy Hewet ofShep­ shed one shilling. I give to my cousen Thomas Lydall son of Sister Lucy Hewet one shilling. I give to cousen William Hewet son of Sister Lucy Hewet one shilling. I give to Mary Johnson wife of Thomas Johnson of Newton Linford my best gown & H2 81 petecote. I give to Thomas Hunt son of Thomas Hunt of Newton Linford one silver Seal, one pair of silver Buckles one gold Ring one Barrell in the possession of William Johnson. I give & bequeath to Elizabeth Hunt daughter of Thomas Hunt of Newton Linford one gold Ring, one pair of Gold ear Rings. All the rest ofmy houses, lands and money undisposed of, Cattle & Chattle whatsoever I give to Francis Doleman & Thomas Hunt both ofNewton Linford equally upon Condition they pay all my debts & legacies & defray my funeral charges, and I make them exors of this my last Will and Testament To which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8th day of October Ano. Dni. 1722. SENCE WHATTON Witnesses Robt. Hind Jane Roberts Elizabeth Lovet Proved at Leicester 28 Feb. 1722-3 by both exors. Inventory 15 Nov. 1722 by Stephen Johnson and William Johnson. Total £ 17-0-7. N-ote.-This is probably not so bad as it looks. The lady, according to tradition, was an heiress, and the settled estates would devolve without reference to the disposition of her own property. But I should like to know more about the 'Barrell', and what was in it. FoR LAWYERS Elizabeth Whatton, late of Newtown Linford, Co. Leic., single woman, deceased, did about a moneath ago before her death being sicke wch. was about Michelmas in the year of our Lord God 1586 utter these words or the liike in effect, viz. I will that William Evington my father-in-law and Geffery Whatton my brother shall have all that my porcon wch. was gyven unto me in the Last will and testament of Ambrose Whatton my father equally betwixt them, in the presence and hearing of George Newby and A via Hodge. Probate granted at Leicester 30 March 1588 to William Evington and Geffrey Whatton. Note.-This seems to me legally interesting. Her brother and exor. was at King's College, Cambridge, in 1580. He may have been the Geoffrey of Note 7. MY GREAT GRANDFATHER HENRY WHATTON of Loughborough, Co. Leicester, Gent. To be privately buried in my Vault* in the Vestry room where two of my dear children now lie in the prsh Church of Loughborough, afsd. With as little expense as may be. After * See the Faculty for the vault, page 79. 82 my funeral charges & the expes of proving my Will in the Commons be paid, I give to my son Henry Whatton the sum of rs. he having been provided for and the same is all the benefit I mean him by virtue of this my Will. To my sons John Watkinson Whatton & George Whatton all my Messue's Cottages farms Lands Closes Tenements & heridits rever­ sions & remainders in expectancy & Real Estate & also my household Goods Cattles Chattels ready money & Securities for money terms for years book debts & Personal Estate In Trust to sell & dispose of the same & thereby & thereout pay my funeral expes & debts & after the Trust performed then I give & bequeath all such Trust Monie, Estates & premises to my sd Trees or the Survivor of them. In Trust to pay thereout unto my sd son George Whatton £200 and after the Trust performed I give all my Real & personal Estate so remaining and in the hands ofmy sd Trees unto my Sons the sdjohn Watkinson Whatton, William Robt Whatton & George Whatton equally-I appoint the sdJohn Watkinson Whatton & George Whatton joint exors. In Witness, &c. 4July 1815. Witnesses: Edward Fowler, Mary Fowler, John Fowler. Codicil. I Henry Whatton do declare this writing to be a Codicil to my last will & Testament. Whereas I am bound in a written bond or obligation with my son William Robt. Whatton to Saville John Hyde of Quarndon, Co. Leic., Esqr. dated about 22 Oct. 1814 in the sum of £500 for the paymt of £250 & Interest which sd debt is the proper debt of my sd Son Wm. Robt. Whatton & whereas in & by my sd last Will & Test. I have given the remainder of my Real & personal Estate after the paymt of Debts & of a legacy of £200 unto my 3 Sons ].W.W., W.R.W., & Geo. W. equally I do hereby direct by this my Codicil that my sd Trees shall pay the sd sum of £250 & the Interest thereof unto sd Saville J. Hyde & deduct the same out of the share my Son W.R.W. shall or may derive and be paid under or by virtue of my sd last Will & Testament. And I do hereby ratify & Confirm my sd last Will & Testament by this Codicil. In witness &c, 5 July 1815. Witnesses: Joseph Jones, James Ensor, Edward Limbert. Proved at London with Codicil r Dec. r 8 r 5 by the exors. named in the Will. A VERY FINE WILL In the Narne of God Amen. I John Whatton of the Newarke neare the Borrough of Leicester being in good health both in body and mind (praised be God). Will dated r3Jan 1653. My body to be buried at the discretion of Katherine my Deare wellbeloved wife. To the poor-in Leicester and the N ewarke £10, of the oulde Hospitall £5, of the Newe Hospital r2d. a piece-to the widdows of St Jones 6s., to the poor ofHincley £5, Stoake Goulding XLS. Newtown Linford XLS., Thurnebye XLS. Barrowe XLS. Rothley XLS. I give out of rny Close called the Shirehall Close, Leicester v1l. yearly to be paid to the Mayor &c. of the Boro' of Leicester vJl. xs. for the mainten­ ance of one poore widdowe to be placed in one of the two houses in the Newe Hospitall called Wigstons Hospitall in Leicester, which Elizabeth my late wife did build there, and the other howse to be for her to lay fuell or other Necessaryes in. vs. for the Master to see she is not wronged and vs. for the Mayor and Justices to drink wine together. The widdowe to be chosen by my wife in her life time and afterwards by the Mayor &c. If default of payment is made for one whole year I give the sd. Close to the Mayor for ever. I make my wife Katherine, my sons John, William & Thomas and my daugh­ ters Katherine & Sense exors; and I give them the issues of all my Lands (except my wife's jointure) in Wicken, Co. Leier., in the tenure of Luke More, Edward Heawood, John Heawood, Edward Farmer, Wm. Nutt, Henry Firebrace, Wm. Chamberline, Underwood Palmer, Anne Palmer, ( ) , Lee, ( ) Samson, & in Stoake Goulding in the tenure cf ( ) Nutt, and in Thurnby, in the tenure of Henry Read, Wm. Atkins & Edwd. Actori, in Barrowe upon Soare, in the occupation ofWrn. Loane, till my heire male of my body is 2 I -then I give to my younger children Wm., Thomas, Katherine & Sense all those Closes &c. in Thurnby about 3 yards land and a half purchased of Thomas Read-also other Closes in Thurnby. Two yard land and a quarter pur­ chased 0f Mr William Watts, and all my parsonage tithes in Thurnby-If my wife has any further child by me this child to have an equal share-my wife to manage these lands till my sons are 2 r & daughters r 8-Whereas I am fully persuaded that my said wife Katherine is one that truly feareth God and I have had longe experience of her wisdome and discretion 84 Tlol.IJI. Pl. CXLVJL p. 1101.

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Through a Babington marriage is to be traced the Royal descent of Whatton from H enry III. From an engraving in the possession of the R ev. W. G. D. Fletcher and of her very greate and Extraordinary love to mee (which I am fully persuaded to bee unfeyned) and of her great love & care shee hath of our Children I have therefore putt the fur­ ther & greater trust & confidence in her-yett considering that if shee doth marry againe (which I am far from being against) and thereby shee may putt the power out of her own handes-and she and our children may bee wronged by her being deceived in her Marryage (as the best may bee) I desire such security as my overseers deem fit to be given by her before her second marryage-I give her for life the profitts of my lands, in Little Glen, Co. Leic, the meadow between the Bridges, in the tenure of Mr Ward, & the Butt Close in Leices­ ter in the tenure of Wm. Noone, but ifshee remarry without giving security as above, this last device to cease, & then or at death these to go to my younger children. If any of my younger children die before my heir is 2 1 their portion to be divided between my wife & the survivors; if after my heir is 21 then among the survivors only-To Mary & Frances Rogers of Blaby, daughters of my brother Rogers 20 marks each provided they give my exors a discharge for legacies given them by the will of their grandfather & grandmother Robert & Elizabeth Herricke of Leicester, to be paid out of the £170 owed me by my Nephew William-the residue of the £170 I give to my daughter Katherine-To Dorcas Collier £3 p.a. for life. If there be no issue of my body living to the age of 21, my wife to have for life all my lands in Wicken, Stoake Goulding & Thurnby, paying to the poor of the Old Hospitall £10 yearly 60 widdows xs. apiece. To my wife for life my iron chest, my greate cipresse chest & the light arras hangings in the Red chamber in my now house in the Newarke, then to be heirloomes in the house-My coatch and all my horses for life all plate &c. & household goods then to dispose of among my children as she thinks fit. My wife to reward my servants according to their several deserts and their carriage toward mee & her-Overseers: my uncle Wm. Babington, Esq., my brother Matthew Babington, Esq., Wm. Danvers, Esq. Major Thomas Babington, Cousins Theophilus Cave, Esq., Wm. Sherman, Esq., Col. Henry Danvers, Wm. Whatton of Newtowne, gent, & Thomas Whatton of Betts­ worth, Clarke, to each a gold ring of xxs. I will that once a year they meet lovingly at my house in the Newark to advise 85 my wife-not only costs but good recompense to be allowed them. To godchilde William Whatton, of Newton, £10. Witnesses, William Sherman, Ann Stanly, Wm. Whatton, Nicho Johnson, Elizabeth Thornton, Thomas Smallwood, Thomas Page. Proved 2 July 1655 by John, William, Thomas, Katherine & Sence Whatton, exors power reserved to Katherine Whatton, the relict. P.C.C. (55 Aylett). Note.-My own Will, made long before I had seen this, provides that my Trustees shall meet periodically, and receive ' not only costs but good recompence ', and I hope they will meet 'lovingly', but one of them is a Limited Company. The wife to whom the Testator refers in his Will was that 'young daughter of Mr Babington's' who is the subject of the letter to Sir William Herrick, given in the Articles, ' being then between five and sixe and twentye yeares old'*. The Will forms an interesting supplement to the letter, as showing that the husband's choice of his second wife was thoroughly justified. He lived to be 70, and his wife survived him for nearly 20 years. One may note also that, being an Esquire of the Body to Charles I, he was the first of three generations in the direct service of the Stuarts, the second being his son Sir John, who was knighted by Charles II, and served diplomatically in France, where one of his daughters was born, and the third Henry of Mansfield, father of Henry of Loughborough Parks, who was out in the Forty Five. Catherine's younger sister, Lucy Babington, born December 26 1618, married William Whatton, nephew of this John ofRaunstone, and through her is to be traced the Royal Descent of Whatton. Likewise through this marriage I may call myself cousin (more than once removed) to Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, the historian. The Newark, where John Whatton of Raunstone had a town house, and from which he dated his Will, a wide street or open space in the vicinity of St Martin's, takes its name apparently from the adjacent Hospital and College, founded by the Dukes of Lancaster, and called the New Work, or Collegium Novi Operis. Wigston's Hospital, which in part was built by his first wife, Sir William Herrick's niece, is still in existence, and has, I read, a rent roll of over £9,000 a year.

* Page 20. 86 A CAUTIOUS MAN In the Name of God the 26 Oct. 1554 I RoBERT WHATTON of Long Whatton Co. Leicester, Gentleman being of holle mind and in good & perfect remembrance do make & ordeyn thys my present testament & last wyll In maner & forme follow­ ynge, that ys to say ffyrst I comend my soulle unto almyghty god my maker & redemer beseching ower blessed lady and all the sancts in heyvyn to pray for me &c. and my body to be buryed In the pish churche of long Whatton afsd. at the dyscretyon and mynds off myne executors & administrators. To thereyprationsofthesayd Churchoflong Whattoniijsiiijd. Ty my fyve chyldren, viz Henry Whatton, George Whatton, Colette Whatton, Elesebeth Whatton & Margaret Whatton xl apese, to be paid by the handes of Phillippe Whatton my wyfe & Robert Whatton my sonn. To Alys Whatton my syster the howse yt she dwelleth In duryng her lyfe, with evry yeer a lode of cowles and another off wode to be brought home to her house at the chost and charges of the seyd Robert Whatton. Also I gyve to the seyd Alys vjs viijd evry yere duryng her lyfe and to Mary Elton her doughter a ewe and a lame & a yonge heyfer of ij yers olde. To the reyparying of the hye ways wt yn Longe Whatton vjs viijd if the towenshyppe wyll helpe to brynge sande & stones or elles nothyng. The Reysydew of all my goods cattels & detts unbequethed after my detts be payd my funerall exspences performed and thes my legases conteyned In thes my present Testament fulfylled I gyve unto Philippe my wyffe & to Robert my sone whom I ordeyn & make my full executors. And I make Edward Nedam and GorgeJeynn supervysors. Witnesses: Sr Edward buxn pson of the same town Edward Nedam GorgeJeyne Thomas Masn wt other more. (No Probate act) Proved at Leicester.

THE DIPLOMATIST John Whatton, of East Sheen, Co. Surrey. To be privately buried in the Dacres vault in the Chancell ofCheshunt Church in Hertfordshire where my dear wfi'e and two children lye. My niece Mrs Anne Whatton to be sole executrix. To my friend Mrs Anne de Bert widow £80 a year for life-for security I have given to Mrs de Bert all the evidences of my 87 Estate in the tenure of John Hunt at Wykin in Hinkly, Co. Leic. which Estate I give to her if my niece fail to pay the annuity, but if the annuity be justly paid I give the evidences to my sd Neice on the death of Mrs Anne de Bert and the said Estate. To the said Mrs Anne de Bert £20, my silver tankard and large English History of the Bible. To the poor of Mort­ lake£20. Residue ofallmyEstaterealand personal to my said Niece Mrs Anne Whatton. In witness &c. 21 December I 721. Witnesses: John Rutton John Bissell Benjamin Fielder. Pr. 25.June 1723, by Anne Whatton, Spr. (P.C.C.) (per B. M.) Note.-His possession and bequest of his ' large English History of the Bible ' seems pro tanto to show that he had not, like so many about the court of Charles II, fallen into Romanism. I find that there was published in 1690 a History and Mystery of the Old and New Testaments; logically discussed and theologically improved. By Christopher Nesse. I have not read the book, but it sounds rather latitu­ dinarian. And see page 53, Note 4a. (47) HuMBERSTONE REGISTER Commences 1557 1584. Jeffery Whatton &Joan Simpkin, Nov. 29. 161 I. John Whatton, Oct. 25. 1688. Henry, s. Henry Whatton Vicar of Humberstone and Mary his wife bapt. Dec. 3. 1689-90. John, s. Mr Henry Whatton & Mary his wife bapt. Feb. 6. 1690. John, s. Mr Henry Whatton & Mary his wife buried Aug. 5. 1691. Catherine, d. Mr Henry Whatton, Vicar of Humber­ stone & Mary his wife, bapt. July 1. 1692. William, s. Mr Henry Whatton & Mary his wife bapt. Aug. 28. 1692-3. Catherine, d. Mr Henry Whatton & Mary his wife, buried.Jan. 14. 1693. Samuel, s. Mr Henry Whatton & Mary his wife, bapt. Dec. 20. 1696. Mary, d. Mr Henry Whatton, Vicar of Humberstone & Mary his wife, bapt. Apr. I. 1704. Henry Whatton, late Vicar of Humberstone, buried Oct. 4. 1705. Catherine Whatton, spr., bur. Aug. 5. 1716. Samuel, s. Rev. Mr Henry Whatton, quonda Vicar of Humberstone & Mary his wife, buried July 31. F.A. H. 88 (48) A LosT BoY Portrait of John Wynne (among the family portraits) ' He was stolen by gypsies on Bristol Common, and never restored to his parents. They had pictures painted of him in the hope of his being traced. Bought at a sale in Cheshire by Mrs Whatton in 1839.' (Note by Harriet Elizabeth Whatton, her daughter.) (49) A SHAKESPEARE NOTE Baginton Castle was memorable on the occasion of a joust between the Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk, 20 Rich. II, the former nobleman being entertained there with great magnificence; whence he proceeded on the morning of the contest, mounted upon his white courser, and armed at all points, to Coventry, the place of trial.-Burke's History of the Commoners, 1838. See engraving, page 9. The tournament was in l 398. Sir William died in 1407, and she in 14 ..... the rest being not decipherable on the monument. In Shakespeare'sj>lay there is a Bagot, who, in the Play Bill, is bracketed· with Bushy and Green as ' Servants to King Richard '. I had hitherto hardly thought of them as gentlemen, but it would seem I was wrong*. (50) DoGs I am afraid I am without knowledge of the significance, if any, of dogs on tombs and brasses. Sir Richard at Whatton Church has one, and Margaret de Whatton at Baginton no fewer than two. Both my wife and myself have been pictured with dogs, and one wonders if the Lady of Scarrington just shared our love of them. But hers are much too fat, and that particular breed, I hope and believe, is extinct. (5 l) MINIATURES AT MANORMEAD 1 Wm. Robt. Whatton. 2 Mrs W.R. W. 3 Lieut.-General Daniel Seddon. * See also Note 60, page 150. 89 4 Mrs Seddon (Penelope Watson). 5 Ann Ingle, whose daughter Maria married John Swift. 6 James Ingle, husband of the above. 7 MrsPiercy, 'Grandmothertomyfatherandmother'.M.E.w. 8 Wm. Robert Whatton as a young man AT ROCKLEY MANOR r William Seddon, son ofJohn Seddon of Acresfield. 2 Mrs Tocker, wife of Col. Tocker, and a granddaughter of John Seddon. 3 Louisa, daughter ofJohn Seddon. 4 General Daniel Seddon, son ofJohn Seddon. 5 Dorothea, his wife, daughter of Sir John Eden, Bart. AT BARNES CLOSE, WINCHESTER Paintings on ivory of the Misses Swift (Maria Elizabeth Whatton and Georgina Swift).

(52) HUGH DE HERIZ WHATTON Born January 23 1859 at 39 Weymouth Street, W. Christened at Holy Trinity, Marylebone At Repton, 1872-7. Articled to Messrs White & Borrett. Court Clerk to Messrs. Gregory Rowcliffe & Co. Married 30 April 1892 to Marian Stewart, daughter of Montague Cleugh Wilkinson, DL for the City of London, at Holy Trinity, Paddington. Member, and eventually Head, of the Firm ofWaltons & Co., Leadenhall Street. Solicitor to and Hon. Member of Lloyd's. Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. Member of Wiltshire County Council. Treasurer and Chairman ofWest Committee of the Tedworth Hunt. Died November 4 1926, and buried at St Katherine's, Savernake Forest. Lived at g Somers Place, W. 14 Hyde Park Square, W. Littlecott House, Enford, Wilts. Rockley Manor, Marlborough. go Rockley Manor (H. de H. W.)

WHATTON-On Thursday, November 4 1926 at Rockley Manor, Marlborough, very suddenly, after a short illness, Hugh de Heriz Whatton in his 68th year.-The Times, November 6 1926.

DEATH OF MR H. DE H. WHATTON, OF RocKLEY MANOR Prominent Local Resident Sudden Death after Return from Scotland We regret to announce that Mr Hugh de Heriz Whatton, of Rockley Manor, Marlborough, d1ed suddenly at his residence yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Mr Whatton had been in Scotland for the past few weeks, whither he had gone for the shooting. While in Scotland he had not been in good health and was unable to shoot during his visit. He returned to London with Mrs Whatton on the night of the 3rd November, and motored from there to Rackley on the morning of the 4th. Almost immediately on his arrival he was taken ill, and died shortly afterwards. He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom is in the Army. Mr Whatton, who was 67 years of age, was a solicitor by profession, and up till his retirement three or four years ago was senior partner in the well-known city firm of solicitors of Messrs Walton. He was also legal adviser to Lloyd's. Mr What­ ton was interested in farming, and before coming to Rackley he had a farm on the Pewsey Vale, living at Littlecott House, Enford. He bought Rockley Manor from the Tanner family in 1913, and has lived there since. Interested in cattle breeding, Mr Whatton established an excellent herd of Dairy Shorthorns among his other farming pursuits, and of late years he had been successful with his Shorthorns in a good many shows Both he and Mrs Whatton have taken the greatest interest in the parish since they have lived there, and have been active supporters of Church work. The little chapel of ease at Rockley they regarded as their responsibility and they have been untiring in their work for it and extremely generous towards its funds. Mr Whatton was also a manager of Rackley School. By the death of Mr Whatton the Tedworth Hunt loses an old and a keen supporter. For very many years he had been 91 Treasurer of the West side of the country, and Chairman of the Committee for the West side. He was a regular rider to hounds, and his keen interest in the Hunt was shown in innumerable ways. In local government Mr Whatton took his share, represent­ ing the Preshute division on the Wilts County Council for a number of years until his retirement in 1925, when he was succeeded by Mr C.R. E. Powell of Mildenhall. As a magis­ trate Mr Whatton was regular in his attendance on the Marlborough County Bench, and his legal knowledge, coupled with a kindly disposition and a rare knowledge of human nature, made him an ideal magistrate. The funeral will be at St Katherine's, Savernake Forest, on Monday, at 3.15 o'clock. -Afarlborough Paper

THE LATE MR H. DE H. WHATTON Funeral at St Katherine's, Savernake Forest The funeral of Mr H. de H. Whatton, of Rockley Manor, whose death was recorded in these columns last week, took place on Monday at St Katherine's, Savernake Forest, the service being attended by a large number of people, including many London friends of the deceased. The service was conducted by the Vicar of St Katherine's (the Rev. A. L. H. Selwyn) and the Vicar ofOgbourne (the Rev. J. C. B. Eaton). The goth Psalm was chanted and two hymns were sung: 'Christ will gather in His own' and 'Now the labourer's task is o'er'. Mr James Belton was at the organ and as the cortege left the church he played Simper's Funeral March. The coffin was borne by men employed on theRockley estate, Messrs Jacob Caswell, James Caswell, W. Caswell, W. Harris, A. Oram and C. Read. The family mourners were the widow, Mr R. A. H. Whatton and Capt. S. M. de H. Whatton (sons), Mr J. S. Whatton, and the Rev. A. B. Whatton (brothers), and General Wilkinson (brother-in-law), Mrs Wilkinson, and Miss Wilkin­ son. Others present included Mr Perry and Mr G. F. Hotblack (partners in the firm of Messrs Walton & Co., with which Mr Whatton was connected until his retirement, a few years ago), the Marquess of Ailesbury, Lord Essex, M.F.H., Mr A. Kenneth Kemble, M.F.H., General Rennie, Mr Charles 92 Soames, Mr W. J. Yorke Scarlett, M.F.H., Captain Formby, Mr A. W. Heymer (representing Mr Justice Wright), Mr H. R. Giffard, Mr G. H. Hughes, Mr J. C. Porter, Dr W. B. Maurice, Mr T. W. Edwards, Mr J. A. Lloyd, Mr H. V. L. Kellam, Mr E. Meyrick, Mr J. D. Best, Mr J.E. Thorold, the Rev. A.H. Smith (Ogbourne St George), Mr and Mrs Charles Moir and Miss Moir, Major G. L. Buxton, Mr Charles Maurice, Mr G. M. Powell Cotton, Major J. A. Davenport, Mr A. F. Bruce, Dr A. S. Gedge, Mr Martin Hartigan, Commander Codrington, Mr and Mrs G. T. K. Wasey, Mr F. C. Giddins, Admiral Hyde Parker, Mr R. B. Butler, Mrs and Miss Soames (representing the Rev. Gordon Soames, of Mildenhall, who was ill), Col. and Mrs T. E. Fowle, Mr C. Ashworth James, Capt. Vigors, Mr E. McNiven, Mr H. McNiven, Mr W. E. Tanner, Mr W. J. Rogers, Mr D. Blan­ chard, Mr H. Bain, and Inspector J. J. Meaney (representing the police). There were on duty at the church the Church­ wardens of St Katherine's, Messrs C. A. Baker and S. R. Day. There was a large number of floral tributes. -Marlborough Paper

Lloyd's, London, E.C.3 DEAR SrR April r r 1929 I am in receipt of your letter of April 7 in which you make enquiry regarding the Honorary Membership of Lloyd's which was conferred upon the late Mr H. de H. Whatton. The Honorary Membership of this Corporation is bestowed as a mark of appreciation only in cases of very exceptional and valuable services to Lloyd's or the Nation, and you will see from the attached list that, since the first Honorary Member was elected in r 824, there have been only nineteen such elections. You may also be interested to note from this list that this honour has been conferred upon three members of the Firm of Messrs Waltons. In case you have not among the late Mr Whatton's papers the letter which the then Chairman of Lloyd's addressed to your brother at the time of his retirement from active business, I send you herewith a copy of the same. It may also be of interest for you to have the following copy of the Minute of the 93 Committee of Lloyd's electing Mr Whatton an Honorary Member: 'That, as a mark of appreciation of professional services rendered to Lloyd's, Mr Hugh de H. Whatton be and is hereby elected an Honorary Member of Lloyd's.' Yours faithfully, J. S. Whatton Esq. W. S. BoxFORTH Manormead Clerk to the Committee Hindhead, Surrey

Lloyd's, London, E.C.3 DEAR MR WHATTON July 27 1922 I read your letter of the 24th instant to the Members of the Committee at our Meeting yesterday, and need hardly say that the news of your proposed retirement was received with universal regret. Perhaps it would be neither considerate nor useful for us to try to persuade you to reconsider the decision, but I was asked to endeavour to convey to you as far as possible an expression of our feelings on the subject. To do so would indeed demand a very long letter, and even then much would remain unsaid. We must ask you to accept our most sincere thanks for the invaluable assistance and support which you have during so many years given to the interests of the CorporationofLloyd's. We have never found your Firm wanting in season and out of season in the loyal service which they have rendered to this Institution. May I add that your genial personality has become so intimately connected with 'the Room' that you will be very much missed, and the fact that in future when we are faced with a difficult situation we shall not be able to dispose of it by saying with confidence 'refer to Whatton', means a great deal to us all. Thirty-two years is a long time to look back upon. We all hope that you have at least thirty-two years of health and happiness to look forward to. Yours sincerely (Signed) A. L. STURGE P.S.-Will you kindly let me know when your retirement is publicly announced. H. de H. Whatton Esq. 94 HONORARY MEMBERS OF LLOYD'S (Past and Present) James William Freshfield, Esq., M.P. (Solicitor to Lloyd's. Died June 27 1864.) Elected July 28 1824.

James William Freshfield Esq., Junr. (Died May 19 1857.) Elected July 28 1824.

Sir William Tite, C.B., M.P., F.R.S. (Architect of the Royal Exchange, 1841-1844. Died April 20 1873.) Elected February 19 1845.

Edwin Freshfield, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A. (Solicitor to the Corporation of Lloyd's. Died September ISt, 1918.) Elected June 14 1871.

Charles Walton, Esq. (Solicitor to the Corporation of Lloyd's. Died July 17 1893.) Elected June 14 1871. Viscount Goschen. (Chairman of Lloyd's from 1869-1886. Died February 7 1907.) Elected January 30 1889.)

Sir William Walton, K.B.E. Elected January 7 1891. Sir Henry Montague Rozier, K.C.B. (Secretary of Lloyd's from April I 1874 to October l 19o6. Died February 28 1907.) July 12 1906. Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, G.C.V.O., LL.D., D.Sc. Elected April 9 1919.

Admiral ofthe Fleet The Earl Beatty, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. (Elected an Underwriting Member, September 24 1919.) ElectedJuly 16 1919. Field-Marshal The Earl Haig, K.T., G.C.B., O.M.~ G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E. (Died January 30 1928.) Elected February 25 1920.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, Bt., G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O. (Died May 7 1925.) Elected February 25 1920. I 95 Samuel Garrett, Esq. (Late of Parker, Garrett & Co., Solicitors. Elected an Associate in 191 I. Died April 22 1923.) Elected July 6 1921. Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield, K.B.E. (Secretary of Lloyd's from October 1 1906, to October 31 1921.) Elected January 25 1922. Hugh de Heriz Whatton, Esq. (Late of Waltons & Co., Solicitors to the Corporation of Lloyd's. Died November 4 1926.) Elected August 2 1922. Sidney Alexander Boulton, Esq. (Chairman of Lloyd's in 1920 and 1921.) Elected November 7 1923.

William Clifton, Esq. (Partner in the firm of William A. Crump & Son, Solicitors. Elected an Associate in 1911. Died September 25 1925.) March 26 1924. Sir Joseph Lowrey, K.B.E. (Secretary, The Salvage Association, London.) Elected October 1 1924.

Sir Edwin Cooper, F.R.I.B.A. (Architect of Lloyd's New Building, 1924-1928.) Elected April 25 1928.

The Committee Room, Lloyd's Royal Exchange, London, E.C.3 November 5 1926 DEAR MADAM It was with very great sorrow that the news was received at Lloyd's this morning of the death of your Husband, and I hasten to express on behalf of the Committee and Members of Lloyd's our sincere sympathy with you and the other members of the family in the irreparable loss which you have sustained. Your Husband, who acted as Solicitor to this Corporation for many years, and was elected an Honorary Member in 1922, enjoyed in an extraordinary degree the confidence of the Insurance community, and, combined with that confidence, the affection of all those with whom he came in contact. Believe me, dear Madam, Yours sincerely, EUSTACE R. PULBROOK (Chairman of Lloyd's) 96 The Rectory, East Tisted (A. B. W.W. 1921-1926)

County Justices' Clerk's Office Marlborough, Wilts DEAR MRS WHATTON November 15 1926 I am directed by the Bench to send you the enclosed copy of a Resolution passed at a Sitting of this Court on Saturday last. May I be allowed to add my personal condolences, and to say what a great loss his lengthy experience in legal matters will be to me as Clerk to the Magistrates, and how much I shall miss him in this and other connections, Yours sincerely, J. C. PORTER Marlborough and Hungerford Petty Sessional Division, Wilts. Resolved unanimously on the proposition of the Chairman, Mr Henry Ryecroft Giffard, J.P. That the Justices for the Marlborough and Hungerford Petty Sessional Division of the County of Wilts wish to put on record their deep sense of regret in the loss of their esteemed colleague, Mr Hugh de Heriz Whatton, and to express their sincere appreciation of the services rendered by him as a Justice of the Peace for the County, and desire to convey to Mrs Whatton and the Family their warmest sympathy in their bereavement . .November 13 1926. Note.-I think my brother Hugh was one of those of us who (see page xxviii) 'shunned in public streams to swim'. He lived a happy, steadfast, and straight­ forward life, enjoying it equally throughout as lawyer, administrator, and sportsman. He did much quiet good work in the county of his adoption, and, being quite at the top of his profession, was from time to time consulted by the Government during the War about matters upon which he had special knowledge. (53) From Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1927-28 WHATTON, ARUNDELL BLOUNT WILLIAM 9 Barnes Close, Winchester, and Oxford and Cambridge Cluj), S.W.1. Trinity Coll. Camb. B.A. (3rd class Theol. Tripos) 1884, M.A. 1888. Deacon 1885, Priest 1886 Hereford. Formerly Curate of All Saints', Hereford, 1885-6; St Andrew's, Nottingham, 1886-88; StBarnabas, Kensington, 1 2 97 1889-90; All Saints', Notting Hill, 1893-94; Organising Chaplain London Diocesan Deaconesses' Institute, 1893-95; Vicar of Bursledon, Hants, 1896-99; Permission to officiate at St Michael's, N. Kensington, 1899-1910; Curacy of Chislehurst, 1911-13; Vicar of Butleigh, 1913-16; Tempor­ ary Chaplain to Forces, 1916-21; Rector of E. Tisted, 1921-26. From the same WHATTON, GEOFFREY ARUNDELL CHATFIELD Nashdom Abbey, Bucks. Keble Coll. Oxford, 1918. Chichester Theological College, 1919. Deacon 1921, Priest 1922, Llandaff. Formerly Curate of St Dyfrig, Cardiff, 1921-24. REV. G. A. C. WHATTON (After Cardiff; see Crockford) Anglican Benedictine Community at Pershore and Burnham, 1923-1927. Assistant Curate, St John's, Limehouse, 1927. Chaplain to the Community of St Mary at the Cross, Edgware, 1929. REV. A. B. w. WHATTON Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland 1892 Married July 8 1896 at St Matthew's, Bayswater, to Violet, daughter of Vice-Admiral Chatfield, C.B., Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Commission as Chaplain to the Forces (Land),January7 1916. Acting Senior Chaplain, Oxford Neighbourhood, June 21 1919. Senior Chaplain, Isle of Wight, 1920. Honorary Chaplain to the Forces, September 27 1921. Present address: 9 Barnes Close, Winchester.

A BOOK OF SERMONS From a Publisher's Circular WHATTON (REv. A. B. W.). Doctrine and Duty, Sundry Sermons. Cr. 8vo cloth Is. 6d. Skeffington, 1896. 'Much above the average in thoughtfulness and well-used culture.'-The Guardian. 'These sermons are of a high order both of thought and 98 · of expression, and are worthy of close attention.'-The Church Times. 'We desire to commend these earnest sermons. They are of more than ordinary thoughtfulness.'-The Church Quarterly. REV. A. B. w. WHATTON (Testimonials) From Rev. W. Cunningham, D.D., Professor of Economics at King's College, London; University Lecturer, Cambridge; Author of 'The Influence ef Descartes on English Metaphysical Speculation', 'Politics and Economics', 'S. Austin and his Place in the History ef Christian Thought', etc. Trinity College, Cambridge December 4 r goo I have very great pleasure in testifying to the high qualifi­ cations of the Rev. A. B. W. Whatton for the important post of Preacher at Gray's Inn. I am able to speak, not only from my own personaljudgment of him as a preacher, but from the impressions his sermons made upon some of my friends who had the opportunity of hearing him frequently. W. CUNNINGHAM Vicar

From Rev. Professor Henry Melvill Gwatkin, M.A., Hon. D.D. Edinburgh, Author of 'Studies in Arianism', 'Early Church History', Gifford Lectures, The Knowledge ef God, etc. Cambridge December 5 I goo Mr A. B. W. Wh~tton, of Trinity College, was a private pupil of mine, and I have seen and heard from him since at intervals. I should say he has grown more than most men since he left Cambridge. On some of his qualifications as a preacher I am hardly competent to speak; but he is certainly a man of pleasant address and thoughtful temper, a clear head, and much familiarity with the deeper questions ofour time. He has done a good deal of thinking for himself; and, so far as I can judge, has in him the makings of a good preacher to a highly educated audience. H. M. GWATKIN Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History 99 From His Grace the Duke of Rutland, formerly Lord John Manners Langshaw Lodge, Sheffield September I 9 I 892 DEAR MR WHATTON Your four months' duty as Chaplain at Belvoir Castle having drawn to a close, I think you may like to have in writing an expression of my entire satisfaction with the manner in which you discharged the somewhat delicate duties of that post. Whether in the Reading Desk or Pulpit, or in other spheres of ministerial usefulness, you won the liking and esteem of those among whom you laboured; and I feel confident that you will succeed, health being given you, in any position requiring energy and tact, devotion and forbearance. Believe me, Yours sincerely RUTLAND

From Arthur Tilley, Esquire, Lecturer in Modern Literature, Cambridge University King's College, Cambridge November 17 1892 GENTLEMEN My friend, the Rev. A. B. W. Whatton, informs me that he is a candidate for the vacant Readership at the Temple Church. I was at St Moritz for 4½ months during his chap­ laincy there in the winter of 1890-91, and was a regular attendant at the services. I have much pleasure in testifying to Mr Whatton's qualifications for the post. He has a good and clear voice, and reads the service with reverence, force, and intelligence. He is an interesting preacher, with not a little capacity for discussing difficult theological problems, and he takes pains to make himself acquainted with modern theological development and controversies. Of his personal character I know nothing that is not good and honourable and manly. I am, Gentlemen Your obedient servant ARTHUR TILLEY (Barrister of the Inner Temple, Fellow and Lecturer of King's College, Cambridge) 100 From Rev. Lenthall Dickenson, D.S.0., S.C.F.: Headquarters, No. 5 Area, Durrington Camp Salisbury MY DEAR WHATTON January 23 I9I9 I am enclosing your Movement Order. In case I do not see you before you go, I send you this line to tell you how very sorry I am that you are leaving. I feel it as a personal loss. I want to thank you for your good work, so patiently done, and carried on in the face of bad weather and trying and cold journeys to and from Tilshead. I also want to thank you for your great loyalty to me the whole way through. I hope that although we are parting we shall not forget one another-at any rate, I shall not. Perhaps­ probably-we shall meet again, often, I hope, in the future, and be able to resume our friendship, and talk over old days on the Plain. Good luck to you, and God bless you. Believe me alwavs Yours si~cerely LENTHALL DICKENSON

From the Assistant Chaplain General, Rev. J. G. Tuckey, M.A., C.B.E. Headquarters, Southern Command Salisbury MY DEAR S.C.F. January I I92I The last time I shall so address you, alas! I cannot let you go without expressing not only my own personal thanks, but also the grateful appreciation of these Headquarters, in view of the able, devoted, and loyal service which you have so ungrudg­ ingly and unselfishly rendered for so many years in this Command. You have helped ' with both hands ', and we are most grateful. I am glad that you have held on as S.C.F. right up to the end. You will feel leaving it all intensely, I am sure; but I trust that the new life may be full of happiness and blessing for you. May God be with you and yours in work and home. Yours very sincerely and gratefully J. G. TUCKEY

IOI (53a) Note.-My brother Arundell, who represented his University in cycling and succeeded myself as Captain of the bicycle club, was more notable as one of the very first motorists in England, owning, as he did, a Daimler car in 1897, on which I was often a passenger; for I held to the bicycle for several years longer than he did. He still has two large yellow cardboards, issued by the Automobile Club of Great Britain, now the R.A.C., which were hung out on the car when the Club took members of the London County Council for the experimental drives which were part of their propaganda. I remember, too, starting on a tour with him one year, he on a motor tricycle and I on a pedal safety, but the former broke down hopelessly at Weymouth, and he finished on a man-power hireling. I may add here that I have always kept a mileage record of bicycling and motoring. The former reached over 50,000 miles; the latter has run up to over 300,000 miles at present. I have just taken delivery of a 30-H.P. Straight Eight Lanchaster car, which I believe to be the best thing of the kind one can have, It is my fourth of the breed. (54) Richard Arundell Hugh WHATTON Born May 26 1893, at 9 Somers Place, London, W. At Harrow, 19071 to 19092. In the War 1914-1918. In France 1915-1917. Served in the 16th (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regiment, and the A.S.C. (Mechanical Transport). Rank of Hon. Lieut. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War, Allied Victory. Director of Burrup, Mathieson & Co. Ltd. Present address: Rackley Manor, Marlborough, and Conser­ vative Club. Also of Pratt's Club and the M.C.C. His father and great grandfather,John Swift, also belonged to the Conservative Club. (55) STEWART MoNTAGU DE HERiz WHATTON From the Army List, December I 928 Royal Regiment of Artillery At[jutants Date of Appointment Whatton, S. M. de H., D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery, Captain 7 /II /1928 Captains Whatton, S. M. de H., D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery, Adjutant 3/1 I /1917 FURTHER DETAILS 1894. Born May ro at 9 Somers Place, London, W. 1907. Went to Repton. Served in O.T.C. and passed through various ranks to Colour Sergeant. 1912. Left Repton. Commissioned as Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve). l02 1913-14. Attached 33rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery' on probation'. August 3 1914. Mobilized and posted to 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column at Bulford. August 1914 to May 1919. On Service in France, Flanders, and Germany, as under:- Given Regular Commission (R.F.A.) on August 12. Went overseas with 3rd Division, August r 8. Posted from 3rd Division A.C. to 23rd Brigade R.F.A., October 1914. Promoted Lieutenant, June 1915. Appointed Adjutant with acting rank as Captain, November 1915. Promoted Acting Major, and given Command of ' C ' Battery 23rd Brigade R.F.A., October 1917. Promoted Substantive Captain to retain acting rank of Major whilst commanding a Battery, November 1917. June 1919. Posted to 24th Brigade R.F.A. and reverted to substantive rank of Captain. September 1919 to May 1926 in India as follows : Second in command of a Battery, September 1919 to March 1921. Appointed Adjutant 21st Brigade R.F.A., March 1921. Appointed Chief Instructor Royal Artillery School of Equitation, India, February 1922. Appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, to remain seconded whilst employed, February 1922. Appointed Assistant Instructor in Equitation to the Cavalry School, India, on the Amalgamation of the Cavalry and Artillery Schools, September 1922. Appointed Chieflnstructor in Equitation at the Cavalry School, India, September r 924. Posted to ' B ' Battery R.H.A. on return to England, October 1926. AppointedAdjutant 1stBrigadeR.H.A.,November 1928.

HONOURS, ETC. Mentioned in Despatches January I 1916 January 4 1917 July 7 1919 M.C. April 1916 D.S.O. May 1919 103 MEDALS r9r4 Star with Clasp. British War Medal. Victory Medal. Club. Naval and Military.

(56) JOHN SWIFT WHATTON Born May r3 r86r at 39 Weymouth Street, W. Christened at Holy Trinity, Marylebone. At Haileybury 1875-1880. Trinity College, Cambridge, October 1881 Second Class Historical Tripos 1884. Represented Cambridge against Oxford in bicycle races 1882-3-4. Won 5 miles Amateur Bicycle Championship 1882. B.A. 1884. M.A. 1885. Travelled in the East r888-g. Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn 1890. Married July r6 1902 at St Mary Abbotts, Kensington to Mabel, eldest daughter of Euan Maclaurin Euan-Smith. Member of the Council ofHaileybury, March 18 r929. Owned, and lived at Turret Lodge, Frinton-on-Sea. Chilworth, Torquay. Hennapyn House, Torquay. Grayswood Place, near Haslemere. Manormead, Hindhead. Also of Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.r. Note.-We bought the ground, and built the house, at Manormead, and I hold an Absolute Title from the Land Registry 'with fixed boundaries' of which there are not a dozen in existence. We lived for about 15 years in Torquay.

Cliff House, Torquay MY DEAR WHATTON January 21 r919 Now that training in the Battalion is suspended I take this opportunity to say how much I appreciate your goodness in placing yourself and car at my disposal for visiting the outlying detachments. ro4 South front of Manormead, 1929

For more than three years now you have done this, turning out at all times and in all weathers, often, I know, at great personal inconvenience. You have never let either your indifferent health or the heavy demands made upon you by your other voluntary War work prevent you coming to our assistance, and it is not too much to say that you have contributed materially to the efficiencv of the Battalion. Since I have relinquished the command you have continued to drive the Adjutant, and sometimes Colonel Downing also. Will you please accept the thanks and good wishes of us all? Yours very truly, G. STOVELL (Hon. Commandant 3rd Vol. Batt. Devon Regiment) J. S. Whatton Esq.

WAR v\7:0RK Extract from Report of ' The Mayor's Torquay Hospitals Fund for Wounded Sailors and Soldiers', rgrg During the earlier part of the War the arrangements for bringing the sick and wounded from the trains to the Hospitals were by no means satisfactory, consisting, as they did, of private cars for sitters and horse wagons with mattresses for lying-down cases, each Hospital finding its own transport. In consequence of this, at a meeting of the Committee held on the rSth day of January rgr 7 a request to take up the work was received from the Hospitals, and Mr J. S. Whatton was thereupon asked to organise it and to be responsible for carrying it on. He appointed Mr W. R. Cutchey as manager under him, and made a successful appeal to car owners and others for their assistance and the pooling of their resources. Two complete motor ambulance cars were presented to the Committee by Mr Whatton and Mr G. H. Earle respectively; one was purchased by Mrs Rolleston and lent to the Committee, she driving and maintaining it; one was purchased from the funds; and Councillor Towell's car, presented by him as it stood, and for some time so used, was at a later date converted by fitting an ambulance body. One trailer was purchased, and has been used in connection with Mr Cutchey's car. During the first year many owner drivers and owners employing chauffeurs, lent their cars, but nearly all of these 105 eventually dropped out owing to the petrol restrictions and to the men being taken for the Army. Mr Whatton's car has been in the service throughout the War, and Mrs Miller, Mrs Rolleston, and Mrs Nash, among others, have done conspicuously valuable driving work. The Committee have to record with very deep regret that Mrs Miller died within a week of the signing of the Armistice. Some of the trade motor vans have also been very helpful, notably that of Messrs Durbin. The duties undertaken have been primarily, as has been stated, the conveyance of the wounded soldiers from Station to Hospital, but much useful work has also been done in carrying patients, unable to travel by train, to outlying Hospitals, and in some cases to their homes. Among localities so visited were Newton Abbot, Totnes, Brixham, Exeter, Plympton, Devonport, and other places further afield. For some of these special services the Fund received recoupment of expenses. In addition, crippled officers have been taken to and from their hospitals for electrical treat­ ment, and Army Medical Inspectors have been taken on their rounds. A more painful but very necessary duty has been the transport to the Mortuary or to the Torbay Hospital of bodies brought into the harbour from torpedoed ships, a warning by wireless being arranged for with the naval authorities so that the cars were usually ready at the quayside for their reception. During the last year of the War a certain amount of civil ambulance work has been pressed upon the Committee, and though, under the circumstances, they felt it impossible to refuse this, yet in view of the fact that the funds were subscribed for purely war purposes they felt it right in all such cases to make a charge for services rendered sufficient to cover all expenses, including depreciation of the cars, and this has been willingly paid. It may be added that reciprocal arrangements were entered into with the American Hospital at Paigntonforthe loan of ambulances in cases of very large convoys for either destination. The Transport has been worked throughout in full harmony with the officers and men of the St John Ambu­ lance Corps, and their cordial co-operation, as well as that 106 of the Station Masters of Torquay and Torre, is gratefully acknowledged. Since the Committee took over the Transport there has been no accident to any patient, though over 6,000 cases have been dealt with. It may be interesting to place on record that the Sleepers to the end of October were: Torbay Hospital, 88,172; Western Hospital, I I 1,178; Town Hall Red Cross and The Mount, 232,272; a total of 431,622

OuR HousE IN DEVON From The Times, 1922 Hennapyn House, one of the finest residences in the neighbourhood of Torquay, and at one time occupied by Lord Stamfordham, * is for sale privately by Messrs. Gifford and Sons (North Audley Street). Hennapyn has an outlook across Torbay and the Cockington Valley, and the grounds of nine acres, full of named varieties of coniferae, with vineries, include a rockery, lily pond, and tennis court. The house was built 45 years ago, at a cost of over £20,000. With £10,000 expended in improvements a few years ago, and a large additional sum since, the outlay represents in all probably some £10,000 more than the price which would probably be accepted for the property at the present time. Mr J. S. Whatton, the owner, retained as his adviser in the improvement of Hennapyn Mr E. H. Harbottle, F.R.I.B.A., architect to the Dean and Chapter of Exeter and to the Standing Committee of Devon. Hennapyn is a finely proportioned house, built of the local stone, red Devon conglomerate, with Bathstone dressings. It is lighted by electricity, and has central heating, and the lightning protection system was installed by J. W. Gray and Son, who carried out similar work at Windsor Castle and elsewhere. The freehold is for sale. Land in the neighbourhood has lately realized more than £1,000 an acre. The illustrated particulars show details such as one of the bathrooms, and the picture is worth giving as an illustration of what a bathroom may be like. There is a garage for four cars, and a view is given of that. Hennapyn House stands in a situation unsurpassed for beauty and health. * I bought it from Lord Stamfordham. 107

THE OTHER MAN Je donne a l'oubli le passe, Le present a l'indiiference; Et, pour vivre debarrasse, L'avenir a la Providence.

ME

ME Ifeach of the Whattons of bygone days who had lived a full tale oflife had left behind him a little manuscript autobiography,* I should have had a wonderful book to edit, but, as they did not, I am minded to give a lead to my successors, which may be of interest to them a hundred years hence, when perhaps everybody may be doing his turn at the Municipal Sewage Farm, Cinemas may be free, but very informative, and no one be possessed of more than a shilling a day to lay out at his own discretion. I am minded then to write about myself, and, though I realize that it might be a considerable handicap to a man of middle age that he should go about for the rest of his time with an Obituary Notice tied round his neck, yet in my own case I take myself to be sufficiently old and sufficiently inde­ pendent of other people to be entirely careless of any contemporary qu'en dira t'on. I have had a career ofno distinction whatever. I found my­ self with a mind historical, critical, fastidious; I had brains enough, but no ambitions; I had tastes, but no talents; and I was ' cursed with a competency'. Dean Inge says that any dead dog can float with the stream, and I did that, with the reservation that, being full ofcuriosity, I took note, as I floated, of what was doing on the banks at either side. Yet the strange thing is that, contrary to the universal expectation, I made good in the world's sense before I was done with it. I was born at 39 Weymouth Street W., my father being senior Curate of St George's, Hanover Square, and Vicar Designate of Christ Church, Mayfair, which was then building, and one of my earliest recollections is of being often taken there by my mother, and seeing the old Duke ofCambridge, who was regu­ lar in his pew of a Sunday morning. She was the eldest of the three children ofJohn Swift,J.P. for the County of Sussex and son of a Liverpool doctor, who, embracing the profession of Law, became Solicitor to many of the early Railway Com­ panies, including the London &North Western, and identifying himself with their fortunes (even borrowing considerable sums * e.g., Sir John. See page 53, Note¥, or the Non-Juror Note 59, page 150. K 109 from his partners to take up stock) transferred his headquarters to London, and died, greatly respected, on June 20 1887, leaving a very large fortune. I believe he refused both a Baronetcy and a Railway Commissionership, and he was a Director in early days of the Grand Trunk Railway and of the Powell-Duffryn Steam Coal Company, the early history of which latter is perhaps worth recalling as a striking example of the advantages of the system, now so roundly abused, of private enterprise. The Company was registered in 1864 by a group of three or four gentlemen of whom my grandfather was one, and the first Lord Brassey another, and all the shares were held by them privately, they finding all monies necessary for development, and I suppose they so found hundreds of thousands without getting any return. At his death, twenty­ three years later, his interest in the concern was valued for Probate at nil, but in after years, held by his Trustees, it came to be worth a great deal of money, and the Company is now one of the largest coal companies in South Wales, giving employment to thousands of men. No socialistic government, using public funds, would have dared to see the thing through. In this way some money came into the Whatton family where it had been much needed ever since the death of my great-grandfather Henry Whatton at his place in Leicester­ shire, leaving his affairs hopelessly involved, though he had married an heiress at Gretna Green. When I was a year old my father was thrown from his horse returning from a ride in Regent's Park, and died a few days later in the Middlesex Hospital, whereupon my mother returned to live with her parents at 49 ( now 5 r) Portland Place, where she remained till her three boys were of school age, devoting the rest of her life to their upbringing*. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond was next door with grand­ children, and we were often there. The Headmaster of my preparatory school prophesied that I should come by success unusually late in life, and, broadly speaking, he was right. My mother, who, following the example of a greater Mother, kept all these sayings in her heart, told me this long afterwards; and it has always struck me as rather a safe and useful hint to schoolmasters generally, because in the event of its not coming off the prophet would be long since * The Font in Christ Church, Mayfair, was given by her to his memory. I IO This picture, which was exhibited at the Academy, and entitled 'A Railway Conference', was a commission from Mr Carter to his son Hugh. The figures, left to right, are Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of several Railway Companies; Mr Samuel Carter, Solicitor to the Midland Railway; Mr W. Wagstaffe, of the firm of Swift and Wagstaffe; and John Swift

beyond thereachofhostilecriticism, and in the meantime some ray of hope and consolation as to the possible career of a not too promising boy is afforded to his parents. After private schools, where I was as nearly as possible carried off by pleurisy and double pneumonia,* I was sent to Haileybury, rather as a weakling. I never played football at school, but I was keen on other games, and was second in the school racquets. In the course of five happy years I drifted up into the sixth Form,just doing enough work, aided by a facility in Latin verse, to kick myself clear of the snags which would have hindered a remove. Dr Bradby was Master, a disciple of Arnold of Rugby, respected rather than loved, except amongst a few of the head boys to whom he unbent. Among my contem­ poraries were Sir Rennell Rodd, Lord Allenby, t Sir Henry McMahon, Mr Justice Hill, R. C. Gilson of Birmingham, John Bailey, Author, and Chairman of the National Trust, H. M. Innes,:j: Senior Bursar of Trinity, Alexander Nairne, Regius Professor of Divinity, many other eminent soldiers, and half a dozen Bishops. I loved Haileybury, and one of the things that I contemplate with satisfaction is that the school will benefit some day not inconsiderably by my passage through life. I still sit in a chair, bought in Hertford, which I had in my study there more than 50 years ago. I have always regarded Dr Bradby's later years as the Augustan age of Haileybury, and I recall that he was of Rugby and of Dr Arnold, so that we got the public school self-government idea pure from its source. I think all the * Some years later I had it again with a temperature of 106 on a chart which I still have, but in the interval I won an Amateur ~icycle Championship and a lot of other races. I also held for a time the Quarter Mile Flying Start Record, and, though only unofficially and f,x my own satisfaction, beat the best time for 20,) miles on the open road. See Badminton Library, vol. on Cycling, 1889. To be exact the illness years were 1875 and 1893. The former was George Frederick's year. What stupid things one remembers[ And see note 63, p. 151. t Lord Allenby, though he is probably unaware of the fact, has reached the supreme distinction of having a Boarding House named for him ( as the Americans say) at Scarborough, which reminds me that there is a well-known Private Hotel in Eastbourne-the Mostyn-which takes its name from James Mostyn Ede, whom I remember as butler to my grandfather (John Swift) some sixty years ago. He went into the hotel business on retirement from service, and I daresay the goodwill of the name is worth now as much as the butler was. :j: Hugh Innes is the only one of my friends who has had precisely the same education as myself; Bengeo (preparatory School) Haileybury, Trinity and Lincoln's Inn, and yet there are observable dissimilarities in the finished product. Moreover he is Senior Bursar of Trinity, a very big job, whereas I have been but a butterfly with a bit of brain.

K2 II I men whose names I have mentioned were prefects, members of the Upper Sixth being such ex officio; of the Lower Sixth a certain number were appointed quamdiu se bene gesserint, and of them I was one. I am sure for my part that that system is the finest kindergarten of character that the world has ever known. My brother Arundell, who was to take Orders, was going up to Trinity, and as I had no plans or projects I went there too, and, having a feeling that the fates, or the powers that were, were kind to me in this respect, it got into my head that I was bound to endeavour to make a respectable showing by way of gratitude. I read for a year for the Classical Tripos, and then changing over for my last two years to the Historical Tripos, and reading steadily, though not to the exclusion of oi:her pursuits, I took in 1884 a place well up in the second class, which was certainly all I was worth. Austen Chamberlain took an almost identical place in the following year in the same Tripos. During this period I read widely if rather aimlessly in general literature, chiefly in the library of the University Union, and I began too to write (merely fugitive and ephemeral letters and papers) on the subjects which from time to time interested me. My great-uncle, grandfather, and father, as well as my brother and nephew,have all been more or less authors, and, as I have not, I have ventured to append to the notes in this volume a few pieces of writing of mine of various dates, some of them very early efforts, if only to indicate thereby the general trend of my mind; and the more so as I shall never again be concerned with any book. If I have been a little too unmindful of the Horatian apothegm Delere licebit quod non edideris, I may perhaps be excused. It is possible that all my life I have been an unconscious sufferer from suppressed cacoethes scribendi. The first thing I did when I came down was a bit of work in the Reading Room of the British Museum for one of the Cam­ bridge professors, which took about three months, and I was then offered a University Extension Lectureship by Professor Stuart, the founder and life and soul of that movement, which I did not accept. In fact, I came down, as I had gone up, with no definite object in life,* and itwas decided I should be called to the Bar. I knew perfectly well that I lacked the * I think I might have made a fair Boswell, but, if so, my case was the con• verse of the ' caret quia vate sacro ', insomuch as no friend of mine happened to be a proper Hero. II2 Sketch by J osEPH PENNELL This was done one evening on a half sheet of paper in a French cafe during a tour. It illustrates the period of transition between the old high bicycle and the safety

two most essential qualifications for that career, having neither a mind of quick decision nor a facility of public speech, but it suited m.e well enough, and I have never regretted a know­ ledge, so gained, of the general principles of law. It was afterwards very useful in the City. I read in chambers with Thomas Willes Chitty and W. 0. Danckwerts. Of the men I met daily with the former no one, so far as I remember, attained to any particular eminence with the exception of Ernest Pollock, now Lord Hanworth and Master of the Rolls, with whom as a Trinity man and member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club I have kept some acquaintance; among the latter were Lord Robert Cecil, who was acting as Danckwerts' 'devil', and 0. F. Christie, both of whom in due course abandoned the Bar, the one for politics, the other for the family Brewery, and subsequently for literature, and he has sealed our friendship of nearly forty years by acceding to my request that he should write an Introduction for this little book. Danckwerts was a great character, whose name will recall many stories to all who moved in legal circles in those days. He enjoyed a very large income, mostly spent on salmon and grouse in the two months of autumn, and lef~ but little behind him. At the same time I took an opportunity ofliving in a French family and learning the language. I found, then and later, that one of the best ways of improving one's French was attendance at the Theatre Fran~ais. It was the period of Got, the two Coquelins, Mesdemoiselles Bartet and Reichemberg, and a little later of Mounet-Sully, whose Hamlet, I really believe, was the finest I ever saw. I wish I had done the same thing in Germany. I also began to travel largely. Not only, being the only unmarried son, did it fall to my lot to take my mother abroad most winters, but I accompanied my brother Arundell in a long tour in the Middle East, Rome, Venice, Egypt, Palestine, Athens, Constantinople, Damascus, Buda­ Pest, Vienna, and so forth, and I made many other journeys, at first by bicycle*, which I mastered in 1877t, and of which * One such, very pleasant, I remember in France in the company of Harold Cox, the economist, Joseph Pennell, author of Sketching and Pen Drawing, Sir George Radford, M.P., author of Shylock and Others, and A. W. Rumney, author of Fifty Years a Cyclist. Radford and the late Lord Donoughmore were the two wittiest men I ever knew. t Sir Henry McMahon reminded me the other day that he and I, with, we thought, three others, constituted the first unofficial Bicycle Club at Haileybury. 113 I remained a devotee till cars came in, but also in all other ways in which travel was then possible; in ocean liners, river steamers, canal boats, and caiques; by horse, camel, and donkey; in stage coaches, Swiss diligences, and Norwegian carrioles; by Grands Express Europeens, and Dutch steam tramways; but I like better than anything else the wheel of a motor car. Of submarines and aeroplanes I have had no experience, but of the rest, camel-touring is by far the most curious. In all other modes of travelling one seeks a definite halting place-an inn or a suitable camp site-but in the desert one continues to move along at three miles an hour till the sun sets, and then one stops, all places being alike, short of a con­ venient oasis. Even your roadside tramp looks out for a hedge or a haystack. And though sublimely monotonous, yet this highway between Egypt and Syria, perhaps the oldest road in the world, is brimful of interest by reason of the passing cara­ vans of nearly all the Eastern peoples. Or at least it was then; since the war the desert is bridged by a railway. I put in at this time a good manyyears' work on the Council of the Cyclists' Touring Club and the Executive of the National Cyclists' Union, where, for example, I drew the official definition of an amateur which stood for many years, and may do still; and I was on the first Committee of the Roads Improvement Association, which has since come to be of considerable weight and importance. We took this thing very seriously. We provided ourselves with metal rings of, if I remember rightly, a diameter of r i inches, and we used to dismount at the sight of a heap of stones by the roadside, and take note if any of them would not pass through the ring. If not, as was very commonly the case, we would sigh heavily, and address to the Local Authority a pamphlet setting forth Macadam's doctrine that all granite should be broken to a uniform size, which should not exceed the measure of our standard. I am sure we did some good, for in those days the normal ratepayer cared not a fig for the condition of the country roads. And yet the car was coming*. * Here is heredity. Robert Whatton of Long Whatton, by his Will made October 26 1554, left, subject to certain shrewd provisions, 'or elles nothyng ', he being evidently a very prudent and meticulous person, the sum of 6s. 8d. for the repair of the parish roads, which, though it may seem (even bearing in mind the very different value of currency) a somewhat inadequate amount for a road scheme, was at all events twice as much as he left for the repair of the Church, and I feel sure he did the best he could (page 87). II4 I also interested myself in work in the East End under the guidance of Dr Billing, Rector of Spitalfields, and afterwards Bishop of Bedford. In fact, somewhat later I applied for the Under-Secretaryship of the Charity Organization Society, and got into the final, but was rejected on an oral examina­ tion as being a vegetarian, which I was for seven years*. They had no use for faddists, and perhaps it was just as well, for, had it been otherwise, my life might have been a very different one. I am by nature a faddist, believing, as I do, that there is a germ of truth embodied in almost every fad. I was also in at the birth of the Boy Messengers. Their founder, Richard King, was a fellow Bar student, who formed a small private company for the purpose, in which several of us were shareholders. Benjamin Oakes of Trinity, who was one of them, put in a vast deal of time and work in drilling and generally looking after the welfare of the lads, and so did Patrick Bowes-Lyon, who was later on responsible for an off­ shoot, ' The District Messengers ', which is, I believe, the presently existing company. King was a Leading Case of sorts. He had been a fully qualified solicitor, and had got himself struck off the Rolls with a view to a call to the Bar. Before, however, that happened, he applied for re-admission, and returned to his old love, with whom he is still living in amity. Between r 890 and the end of the century, rather late in life, I went a good deal into Society. Things were very different in those days for the young bachelor. Provided he could dance well and liked it (for many men were very slack, and thought only of supper), was of decent appearance and address, and not transparently impecunious, he could dine and dance every night of the season at no expense except for cabs, as he was not expected to entertain in return, and was passed on from house to house, except, of course, to the very arcana of Society. It was just the beginning of the age of the plutocrats. And here I can not forbear a tribute to the gracious hospitality of Lady Milman at the Palace of Westminster, where, Sir Archibald being Clerk to the House of Commons, they had an official residence which came to be the natural centre of an excep­ tionally pleasant and cultivated group of people, to which society I am proud to have had the entree. She long survived * On the other hand, I have smoked nine pipes a day for more than thirty years, keeping forty in commission, and using them in turn. A Health Hint. her husband, and died only last year. She was the last chatelaine there, the unceasing pressure upon the available accommodation within the precincts of the Palace having necessitated the conversion of this residence to more utili­ tarian purposes, leaving only, I rather think, Speaker's House. Then, too, I served my time on the Committee of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, where I made many good friends, almost all of whom I have survived*, and I used to be a good deal at Queen's Club playing lawn tennis and racquets, the latter sometimes with the great Peter Latham; but the open road remained, as it still does, my great joy, and after twenty­ five years of cycle touring and rather more than that with cars, I think I know as much as most people of the more accessible roads of Europe-France and our own islands intimately. In my sixty-eighth year I can still do my 200 miles a day between breakfast and dinner for as long as I wish, and I have more than once made money by betting that I would give the name of the principal inn in any town in England. And the mention of lawn tennis, going a long way back to the time when I was quite a lad, recalls to my mind what may be described as my first public appearance at that game, which was at a Garden Party at Compton Place, Eastbourne, in Lady Fanny Howard's time. She was a Cavendish, and had a life tenancy from the Dukes of Devonshire, who own more than half Eastbourne. Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Alice of Hesse, was staying there with her family, and I re­ member being mightily concerned as to an appropriate costume in view of the conflicting claims of Royalty and tennis. Nor was I in any way relieved, though it did seem right to be in flannels, when I was told off to open the ball as * Getting to be old gives one curious shocks sometimes. When I was living at Grayswood Place the Bishop of Winchester came to the church there for some ecclesiastical function, and I was able to recall that I well knew his grandfather, Edward Woods, a civil engineer, who was one of my grand­ father's trustees. (I induced them to sell their holding of consols at 113.) His son was Frank Woods, vicar of a church at Nottingham, where my brother served him as curate, and his son again is the present Bishop. It is curious, too, to look back and recall that one has enjoyed life through periods when there were no bicycles or motor-cars, no wood pavement, and no electric light, bells, or telephones; when there were no bathrooms, and no hot water except straight from the kitchen boiler, and when, I suppose, there were hardly any plumbers. Nevertheless the Balance of Nature was preserved, for until 1871 there were no Bank Holidays, occasions when subsequent experience has shown that we have so often vainly sought their aid. JI6 Mrs John Whatton. From a portrait at Manormead the partner of one of the Princesses (but whether it was that one who was afterwards the ill-fated Empress of Russia I am, at this distance of time, not quite sure) against the Grand Duke, her father, and one of Lord Gage's daughters from Firle. We won the game all right, the Grand Duke being middle-aged and somewhat corpulent; but I was glad enough to get back home, and feel that the day was over. The thing was arranged, of course, as a compliment to my grandfather, who was a neigh­ bour and friend of the Howards, and for that reason I men­ tion it. He also was a tenant for life under the Duke, and had a place at Eastbourne which immediately after his death became part of the town. We always used to go there for holidays, and consequently I well remember Eastbourne in the early sixties as a place which barely existed at all except for the old downland village away from the sea, from which it took its name. On July 16 1902 I was very happily married at St Mary Abbotts, Kensington, my wife being the eldest daughter of a doctor having a large practice in Kensington, and coming of a fine old stock with special distinction in colonial administra­ tion. His younger brother, Colonel Sir Charles Euan-Smith, C.S.I., K.C.B., of the diplomatic service, and a personal friend of Queen Victoria, was better known to the world at large. He was finally Chairman of the Marconi Company, and his widow was given Apartments in Hampton Court Palace. The family has now reverted to their original name of Maclaurin. A few years after our marriage we went to live at Torquay, where I soon began to take a hand in various philanthropic activities, such as hospitals*, Sailors' Rests, Housing, R.S.P.C.A., and so forth, and there, too, the War found me. I organized, and had charge of, the Motor Ambulance arrangements for that part ofDevon, which, as we had several 'Class A' Hospitals taking stretcher cases direct from the front, and consequently daily ambulance trains arriving and needing distribution, meant a good deal of work at all times of the day and night, mostly about 4 a.m. We carried many * As an instance, I originated, and had most of the responsibility for carrying through the Charity Commission, a Scheme for the Regulation of the Western Hospital, Torquay, my co-Trustees being Lord Hambleden, Sir John Kenna­ way, Bart., Sir Robert Newman, Bart., M.P., and Major Kitson. There was considerable local opposition. 117 thousands of patients without an accident, and I also had the job of driving officers about, which was pleasant enough in the summer but quite otherwise in Devon lanes on winter nights without lights. Still, I got a very warm testimonial from my Colonel. I was, of course, over age. I remember that I was so full, like everybody else, of work and the war that I let my fire insurance lapse for two years, but fortunately nothing happened. On December 4 I 906 my mother died, and I inherited from her under my grandfather's will. For several years previous to this I had been interesting myself in a small way in limited companies and the share market, and I now begun to take more seriously to the one thing for which I discovered, thus late in life, that I had an aptitude. I had no introductions to the City, and so I got to have a passing acquaintance with persons of all gradations of righteousness. I knew, among others, several of the Whittaker Wright directors, among whom the Chairman, Lord Dufferin, with his great record as a servant of the Empire, to which he was adding no lustre, was in his old age rather a pathetic figure. Whittaker Wright him­ selfin my judgement was more sinned against than sinning, but the fact is that he, an outsider, had beaten the Stock Exchange at its own game, and, good sportsmen though the majority are, some of the less reputable never forgave him. My wife, though no cynic, has been heard to say that the only people who can be counted upon not to let one down are dogs, but I hope she really means me and dogs. To explain my methods would be impossible. It must suffice to say that I came in the end to regard myself as a sort of Managing Director of an Investment Trust; that twice at least I dropped round about £10,000 when I ought long before to have cut a loss*; but that in the long run experience, and a certainfiair for these things, which I think must be born in some people, prevailed, till I can now say that for every sovereign that came to me I can show something a pproaching four. One hears people say, 'Oh yes, I have bought * Once was when with a few friends I took over a group of West India islands producing coconuts and sisal, which after 15 years of worry, I only sold this year. On the other hand, I have in my possession stocks held for more than 25 years, which have doubled or trebled in value. I imagine I was among the first of private investors who bought steadily for capital increase, not for yield, a thing which is common enough now, though I am afraid many do not regard theii; profits strictly as capital. as they should do. 118 Manormead Rose Garden .(Photo by M. A. L. W.) my experience; nowadays I never do anything of that sort.' I bought mine, but I said to myself, ' If I buy a horse, I don't put it away in a stable and think no more of it; if I buy a chair I don't leave it at a furniture depository; if I buy experience, hadn't I better try to put it to some practical use? ', and that was the beginning of it. And it is to be noted that this applies as much to my Marriage Settlement Trust as to what I kept in my own name, for my Trustees,* after a few years' experience, left the manage­ ment practically to me, with the result that the original £30,000 trebled itself, a thing which I should opine is unique among pre-war Trusts. I had drawn the investment clause of the Settlement myself. In this connection, too, I am glad to think that I have gathered a little flock of people in all stations of life whom I advise on their investments, and they have all profited, some very largely. Many are grateful; some think they did it themselves. The Times has said: 'There are many thousands of investors who think they can buy a security and forget all about it; there is no more certain way oflosing money. The retention of wealth requires as much care, foresight, and energy as the acquisition of it.' Saving money must be a tedious business, but making it is a fascinating game, and it has the great advantage that it can be done in one's own home at one's own time, and leaves plenty of opportunity for travel, sport, reading, or any other recrea­ tion, and though from one angle it may perhaps be considered as a somewhat ignoble occupation, still I always think of what Dr Johnson said that 'a man is seldom more harmlessly occupied than when he is making money'. Nevertheless I do not by any means recommend it as a career to the average young man commencing life. I never had an office, or partners. And that is about all. Alfred de Musset has this verse: Ce qu' on Jait de nos jours on le dit, et la cause En est bien excusable; onfait si peu de choses. And so he did; though he saw four political revolutions, and finally died miserably of drink and dissipation. The parallel therefore is not at present complete, but many great things in the world's history have come into my time,

* They were two solicitors, and a stockbroker who had been a solicitor. II9 upon which I have been an onlooker only for the most part, thereby seeing perhaps more of the game. Anyhow I have had so far a full and happy life, which it has amused me to recall, and, though it will interest no one now, it may do so, I dare say, a hundred years hence. And I believe I have done no harm. J. s. w. MANORMEAD .New rear's Eve, I 928

POSTSCRIPT It has come to me, since writing this account of my actions and thoughts, that I have a duty to place on record my sure acceptance of the greater part of that somewhat ill-defined corpus of belief which passes under the name of Spiritualism. I am thankful to have had many opportunities of investiga­ tion, and I realize that the majority of us who have not been so fortunate are driven to arrive at their standpoint, when such problems are under consideration, by the crude process of counting the heads of those who, having antecedently exhibited some signs of intelligence in other walks of life, and then made study, have come down on the one or the other side. Mr. James Douglas, writing recently in the Sunday Express of the late Sir Edward Marshall Hall, K.C., says 'He was a crypto-spiritualist, but he told me it would be madness to make known his experiences as it would damage him as an advocate. The late Sir Frank Dicksee was also a firm believer in spiritualism, and so was Lord French. There are more mystics among our great men than anybody suspects'. And so there surely are among those of lesser stature. A hundred years hence there will be no more question. I must add finally that I do not, I am thankful to say, find my position inconsistent with continued adherence to the Church of England, in which I was born, and which I have always loved. I hope, in fact, that the process already begun of its gradual penetration by these beliefs will in due time lead to the open admission that there may be found here the only force which is capable of demonstrating to a large number of modern thinkers the essential reality of supernatural religion, and the life of the world to come. 120 John Swift Whatton. From a portrait at Manormead

MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS

[Verses written at sea for the Christmas number of the P. and 0. Chusan Week(y. This issue was illustrated by Alfred East, R.A., and was sold by auction for charity for a very large sum. 1888.] A FAREWELL TO EUROPE J'aime qu'un Russe soit Russe, (lu'un Anglais soit Anglais. -Beranger We see the golden sunlight fall To meet the water in the West, A daily harbinger of rest From work and pleasure to us alJ, To-day, to-morrow; yet to-night Our eyes are doubly Westward bent; The traces of a Continent Are fading with the fading light. And now for month and month again, For many a month, for many a year, The spot on earth to each most dear Is but a picture on the brain. In quest of health or pleasure sent We leave the Tiber for the Nile, Or press for many a thousand mile To the extremest Orient; To destinations each our own The Chusan ploughs her ocean way, Yet every traveller may say The place of our return is one. And so, before we turn our gaze To greet the Asiatic shore, Let us have time for one thought more For England, and the byegone days; The dying year, the dying day, The shadowed outline of the height Where Etna's glory crowns the night, And all the rest is passed away! We look not to thy history, To Tyre and Carthage, Greece and Rome, Thou art for Europe and for home, OCloud-encircled Sicily! J. s. w. December 23 1888 121 From The Vegetarian, r 888 (Note. -The following lines, written after a bicycle run in one of those lovely spots with which the Home Counties abound, and which are known only to cyclists, were suggested by Sir William Grove's lecture on ' The Antagonism of Nature ' at the Royal Institution, and The Times' leading article thereon, April 23 1888.) Ut prisca gens mortalium.-Horace Yesterday careless on a moss-grown bank I lay within a wood, and dreamy thoughts Went drifting through the channels of the brain Unbidden, not unwelcome, like the breeze That softly stole among the swelling buds, As in the early summer April grew. Excelsior! that is the cry of all, The hackneyed cry of men of all degrees, Forever clutching at a further joy, Teaching content is but a slavish thing. So comes it each against his neighbour works, And fierce Ambition works against them all. And this is Nature, so the wise men say, Antagonism is but Nature's Law, A Law relentless and beyond repeal, And all-embracing; yet there are who think The Christian Golden Age is yet to come; Who cry, Then let it be a Law to beasts, Call it not human, call it not humane. For shall there never be a time of peace, A time of gentleness and end of wars, Peace by the hearth and on the frontier line? And will the hunter, weary of his task, Not ever turn, and seek a nobler food, Reaping the sun-fed grain along the field? We cannot choose but think it, and to hope And glory in the destiny of man. Thus musing, I lay back among the ferns Until the red rays of the dying sun Beckoned me out on the white road again. And then between the twilight and the moon, Borne high upon the silence of the wheel,* * Of course, the high bicycle. 122 I set my face to seek the hive of men By the long lanes and through the villages. Beatus ille! Yes, the poet knew The moral beauty of the life he sang, And yet he turned again to luxury. So is it ever! So we are but few, And so the world despises and derides, Unheeding us. Yet shall the future come, And greater possibilities arise, And destiny more lovely. Brothers, come, And let us smooth the path of destiny! J. s. w.

From The Vegetarian 1889 SIR,-I am sorry to see that The Vegetarian, in the person of its 'Occasional Noter' is being carred away by the hysterical utterances of that well-meaning paper the Pall .Mall Gazette. War is a fearful thing, and Humanitarianism is a thing most excellent, nor is Arbitration an impossible hope as the world civilizes. But it is the characteristic of the professional humanitarian on the search for a cry that, having discovered what seems a cruelty, and whilst en­ larging upon it, he forgets that it may be undertaken in the interests of civilization, and to prevent a greater calamity to an innocent weaker side. It is the same generous impulse, as I see things, which makes some Englishmen Home Rulers in Ireland, from the most eminent of them, Mr Gladstone, downwards, and it is one to which a vegetarian, as a righter of wrongs, is I am afraid peculiarly liable. To return to Egypt, it is only necessary to mention a few facts to alter entirely the complexion of the case. Firstly, the Dervishes of the Soudan are not ' patriots laying down their lives in the defence of their country ' as the P.M. G. has it. Egypt is not their country. They are an invading horde, totally different in race and every other pecu­ liarity from the native Egyptians. The native Egyptian is a harmless, timid, inoffensive, hard-working peasant, happy and well governed, thanks to England, but still oppressed with a sense of past wrongs (like the Irishman), whilst the Dervish is a fierce, useless, non-working fanatic, who would, if we abandoned the Egyptians, render all civiliza­ tion and peace and quiet impossible, and bring about as L 123 great, or a greater, condition of anarchy than that which prevailed prior to the European protectorate. Secondly, the home of the Dervish is in Nubia and the Soudan, through which country the Nile flows. It is not true to say that he 'lies perishing within the steel-girt, fire-flaming cordon of our troops ', or that we are ' watching the dying agonies of a wild beast caught in a steel trap '. Let the wild beast, which is a true enough description of him, return to his forest, and to the river which runs through it, a course which is entirely open to him at any moment, and let him give up his bloodthirsty attempt to spoil the Egyptians. It is our disagreeable duty to prevent him. I think there is among the English of to-day, and I think it is the product of our wonderful if somewhat unregulated advance in the path of liberty, progress, and right feeling, a certain ' flabbiness ' of national character, a certain want of stern reasonableness, a certain bowing down to maudlin sentimentality, which, if persisted in, reduces liberty to anarchy. The P.M.G. is the apostle of this new religion; do not let us make The Vegetarian its acolyte. Yours, etc., j. S. WHATTON From a Cycling Paper, 1894 LORD BOWEN By the death of Lord Bowen, which occurred at I a.m. on Tuesday, 10th inst., cyclists, though probably the mass of them are unaware of the fact, have lost one of their best friends amongst the intellectual aristocracy of the country. It was never in the nature of the character of the late Lord Justice (if one may use the style under which he was long known, and will be best remembered by members of the Bar) to take a prominent lead in any popular movement outside the duties of his office, or to appear before the public, as other judges have from time to time done, as the champion of any popular cause, but his influence, which was none the less great on that account, was always steadily exercised in favour of moderation and that 'sweet reasonableness' for which there is ample scope in connexion with the prejudice still existing against cycling in the country mind. The writer is able to say that Lord Bowen was largely instrumental, though his name never appeared in the 124 matter, in obtaining some years back the right of admission for cyclists to Richmond Park, and in various other times and places (before the Act) in preventing the imposition of oppressive bye-laws; nor should it in this connexion be forgotten that at Colwood, his country seat, situate almost upon the Brighton Road, his Lordship was in close and continual contact with just that particular variety of exube­ rant half-holiday clerkdom which, however innocently, does more perhaps than any other to bring upon us the odium of the carriage-using community. Another kindly action was the erection, after correspondence with the Sussex Magistrates, and at his own charges, of the N.C.U. notice board on Handcross Hill. Lord Bowen, though his younger son is a well-known member of the London Bicycle Club (not the only judge's son in that Club), was himself never a cyclist, but his attitude towards the sport was such that the writer, who as a mem­ ber of the Bar has had opportunities of observing the affectionate respect in which he was universally held by that body, and as a guest at Colwood and in Albert Hall Mansions of seeing something of the beauty of his character in the family relation, cannot feel it unfitting that the cycling press should give expression to even his own very inadequate tribute to the great man who has passed from among us. Of his greatness itself, of that intellect perhaps unequalled in England, and of that universal culture which assisted in procuring for him the close friendship of Mr Gladstone and others many years his senior, and holding in many cases entirely different views on important subjects, it is unneces­ sary to speak here, but it is surely well that we cyclists, who throughout his life have had the benefit of his disinterested sympathy, should not quickly let go the memory of the gentle, chivalrous courtesy, inbred characteristic as it is of the gentleman whom it proverbially takes three genera­ tions to make, which was extended to all, whatever their worldly position, with whom the late Lord Justice at any time came in contact. Simplex munditiis we may well say of him in regard to his mental gifts and acquirements, and his last words as to his 'abject unworthiness as about to enter the presence of his L 2 125 Maker' are words which in these days of careless, unreflecting negation may well be taken to heart by many of us. J. s. w.

Note.-The inter-connected families of Egerton Hubbard, Lord Rendel of Hatchlands, and Lord Bowen were among the life-long friends of my Mother. I remember one year lunching at Lord Rendel's magnificent Chateau de Thorenc at Cannes when the Gladstones were there, but the man I most wanted to see was too unwell to appear, and I never had another chance. I may record, too, that a year or two ago I attended the Fiftieth Annual Dinner of the London Bicycle Club, when covers were laid for over roo members and friends, Lord Justice Scrutton, a former Captain, in the Chair. The Club has long since laid aside its practical activities. Last year also I was obliged to decline the office of President of the Fellowship of Old Time Cyclists.

From The Haileyburian 1889

To X. ON THE NrLE. A RETROSPECT

Let us set Time's dial hand To the far Egyptian land, Upper land and Nether, Where the yellow river ran, Where amid prima'.val man Our acquaintanceship began, You and I together.

In the valley more and more How the rest were on before, Broken stirrup leather; And regardless of the place In the calm Colossus' face How we made our donkeys race, You and I together.

How I listened to the tales Of the distant home in Wales, Land of harp and heather, As upon the deck we lay Talking matters grave and gay In the waning of the day, You and I together. How we got to Assouan, And the journey back began Ending of our tether; Where in Phylae's winsome isle You consented to a smile, Which I photographed the while, You and I together. Or to rougher ruins strayed How you took the proffered aid Lighter than a feather; And in Karnac's Pillared Hall How the moonbeams lit the wall On that last night of them all, You and I together. Though the memory linger yet, You may like enough forget Egypt's sunny weather; But for my part I would fain Cherish aspirations vain We may one day meet again, You and I, together. J· s. w.

From the London Bicycle Club Gazette, I 895 THE CLUB RuN (To our Prose Poet) Sombre statisticians Set the numbers down: '7th-Run to Slushbridge, Present, Jones and Brown'. Baldly brief the telling, Nothing what they saw; Nothing if they found it Worth the going for. You, in sweet meander Like a summer's day, Tell a tale of-nothing Quite another way. Daintily descriptive Flows the story on Down the thirsty columns Till a page is gone. 127 May you ever warble Just as hitherto, For no other have we Is a patch on you, Thus so deftly gracious To record a run; Tell us, gentle Gruggen, How the thing is done. J· s. w.

From the Church Times, 1912 'The Vulgar Tongue' S1R If a plain layman may make a suggestion, the change from the 'English' of the previous Books to 'vulgar' was (whether the compilers knew it or not) more than a mere verbal amendment. In my copy of the Channel Islands Prayer Book, 'selon l'usage de l'Eglise d' Angleterre et d'Irelande', I read 'il est necessaire que le bapte:rne soit administre en langue vulgaire'. English? And there is Wales, and there is the Mission Field. In short, 'vulgar' means more than English; it means locally vulgar. J. S. WHATTON P.S.-I have a Latin Prayer Book in which the words are 'vernaculo idiomate', only, of course, a translation, but it covers the full meaning.

From the Sunday Times, October 14 1917 DR MERCIER's Lome S1R Whoever may be right as to spiritualism, surely the Doctor's reasoning is curiously weak. Sir Oliver says that certain events are produced by spiritualistic agency, and Dr Mercier says: 'I have suggested very simple natural means by which these events could have been produced'. Therefore, he says, and this is the great argument 'to which they won't attend', if they can be produced in my way they can't be produced in his. But why in the world not? What suggestion of proof is there that the two means are mutually exclusive? 128 If scientists have discovered, or do discover, a means of making synthetic or artificial rubber, am I expected to believe that there is no such thing as natural rubber? J. s. WHATTON

From the Financial Times, July 26 1925

A SOUND THEORY SIR I have always thought, though I never remember to have seen it set forth definitely in print, that the theory of your leader this morning is perfectly sound. I think indeed that it can be carried a step further by the dictum that it is never right to average a stock held too high, unless, which is very seldom the case, it is absolutely the cheapest stock of its class available at the moment. That one holds it already should not be a factor. I admit, however, that I do not always observe this rule, for it is very pleasant to average out of a stock held too high, and there is this consideration that one knows more of the true value of a stock, held it may be for some years, than of that of something new. I have done this many times, and I am almost inclined to advance another provocative proposition, to the effect that a speculative investor who confines his attention to a few good stocks, things that go up and go down, but do not go bust, and averages opportunely, should never in the long run lose any money, though he will not make it so fast as some others may do. I am, etc., J. S. WHATTON Grayswood Place, Haslemere

From The Auto, April 5 1923 ALL-THE-YEAR USE OF ROADS Sm, I notice that in your last issue you attribute the increasing all-the-year-round habit to the improvement of cars. I think it has more to do with the improvement of roads. Those of us who were accustomed to get about on bicycles 40 odd years ago will remember that a winter road usually 129 meant two deep ruts filled with water, and divided by a ridge of loose stones or gravel. They have been improving from that time to this, and nowadays we should hardly recognize a rut ifwe saw one. J. s. WiIATTON

From the Farnham Herald

'LET THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BE FREE' To the Editor SIR I observe that it has become the fashion for persons possessing no particular locus standi in the matter to set out, with your consent, in your columns their opinions on the Prayer Book Measure, and therefore I, having none such, except so far as a good education goes (the Cambridge Historical Tripos and the Bar), together with a detached interest, extending over more than 40 years, in Church history and Church affairs, propose to follow what seems to me rather a bad example. I I think it is idle, if not even disingenuous, to attempt to slur over or ignore the fact that the Church, as shown by overwhelming majorities, elicited by means of the very care­ ful and elaborate machinery set up for that very purpose within the last few years, desires the Measure. 2 It was not unnatural, therefore, that there was a majority for it in the English constituencies, where alone the Church of England is in existence officially. That merely confirms the other vote. 3 Regarding the rest of the House, be it noted that any persons they represent who may be in communion with the Anglican Branch of the Church-that is for Northern Ireland the Church of Ireland, which has been disestab­ lished in our time, and for Scotland the Scottish Episcopal Church, which has been unestablished for hundreds of years-are not concerned doctrinally, any more than the Presbyterians, or the devotees of any other religion are, whilst territorially, like them, they do not live under the shadow of the Church of England, and its doings only concern them if they claim to coerce it to beliefs and practices which are repugnant to it. 130 4 Now I am careful to exclude the quiet and moderate majority of the Evangelical Party (I was brought up in it), when I say that this is exactly what they desire to do. They justify that desire, which seems to me wholly immoral, by the claim that the Church is not a Divine Institution, but merely a Department of State, and that it must be made to believe whatever the State thinks it should. Of course, I know that nothing will be gained by my saying that in my opinion that is very false history, but I ask to be believed when I say that it is not the opinion of any reputable writer on Church history, and that those who have neither the time nor the opportunity to study originals have got to take it from somebody. I do not, of course, deny that some indi­ vidual writers and politicians have held some such view, as indeed they do to-day; I merely say that those who do would not be admitted as unbiassed and dispassionate authorities on any ecclesiastical question. 5 Finally, and this is a matter which closely concerns us all, if the Measure is finally rejected by the House of Com­ mons, I believe, and I hope, that the Church will not take it lying down. It would, I think, come into violent conflict with the State ( even the cautious Archbishop has hinted as much), and if Disestablishment followed I doubt if the present Comprehensive, Catholic, Reformed Church, loosely held together, as it is by its connexion with the State, would not break away into several separate communities, each probably holding on to Episcopacy, and then not only would an enormous influence for good be lost to the nation but the gain would be almost wholly to the Romans, both from the number of Catholic clergy, who would say, as Newman said, that here was proof that God was not with the Church of England, but also from a very large number of educated lay people who, sitting lightly, as they doubtless do at present to some part of the body of Church doctrine, would prefer to sit lightly (as it is perfectly possible to do) in the same way within the pale of the Church of Rome. The only difference would be that they would have to hold their tongues, and their influence (let Dr Marie Stopes think of it) would .be lost. 6 In conclusion, I believe that the English Church has something still to assimilate from the Anglo-Catholics, the r3r Evangelicals, the Modernists, the Spiritualists, the Evolu­ tionists, and I daresay from other movements yet to appear, and that ifit goes under, perhaps there goes with it the only possible chance of the Re-union of Christendom. In the words of Magna Charta, 'Let the Church of England be free'; let her mark out her own boundaries of doctrine and herself deal with her own transgressors. You cannot peg down a living body. Yours, etc., ]. S. WHATTON (M.A., F.R.Hist.Soc.) Manormead, Hindhead January 3 1928 P.S.-One word as to Dr Marie Stopes's letter, which is very curious, because she has apparently a standpoint all her own. At the one end of the scale she has the war-cry of the old hard-baked No-Popery Covenanters, which one had expected to hear, if at all, from a remnant of aged people in remote country places, and on the other, she would admit, to be believed and preached as de fide, any of the current and fluctuating theories of natural scientists such as would represent the very Devil himself to her other sympathisers. I do not think she will found a school of theology.

From the Farnham Herald THE PRAYER-BOOK MEASURE MR WHATTON REPLIES TO MR Guy ELLIS To the Editor SIR, I had not intended to write to you again, but Mr Guy Ellis brings me out. The fact that I have not long been a resident here must be my excuse and apology for never having heard of him, and I owe him a further apology if I am mistaken in assuming, solely from the internal evidence of his letter, for he does not say so, that he is a Roman Catholic*. On that assumption I am clearly entitled to treat him, as the lawyers say, as a hostile witness, and not to accept all his statements au pied de la lettre, and I turn, therefore, to examine them in the light of my own knowledge * I heard afterwards that Mr Ellis was a highly respected Roman Catholic Solicitor. and reason, and of such authorities as happen to be to my hand. Mr Ellis quotes the Title of the Act of Elizabeth ( 1558), 'An Act to restore to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the estate ecclesiastical and spiritual, and abolishing all foreign powers repugnant thereto', and says in effect that the Act established the present Church of England, and that the old Catholic Church thereupon ceased to exist in this country. Now to me this statement of intention proves exactly the opposite. Certain powers of control over the Church were taken by the Act from certain bodies, and were given to certain other bodies, from which it seems quite clear that the 'Estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual' remained in being as before. If jurisdiction over the roads of a district were taken from the parish and vested in the County Council, it would seem to me that the roads would not cease to exist, nor would they become different roads. And observe that the Act was to restore the ancient jurisdic­ tion of the Crown, though Mr Ellis, on his brief, must deny that there was, or ever had been, any such jurisdiction. Nevertheless, there was. Not to go back beyond the con­ quest, I take from a recognised authority a summary of certain Norman legislation touching the Church. 1 The King would not suffer any one settled in the whole of his kingdom to receive as Apostolic Pope the Bishop of Rome, unless at his command, or to receive letters from the Pope on any account, if they had not been previously shown to him. 2 The King did not permit the Primate of his Kingdom, that is to say, the Archbishop of Canterbury, ifhe assembled and presided over a Council General of Bishops, to enact or forbid anything except what was agreeable to his will and had been previously ordained by him. And one may find other such things all through our history right up from Saxon times. One is indeed forced to the conclusion either that the Church has never been estab­ lished at all, or has been so from the dawn of our Christian history. Mr Ellis, I note, does not believe, as ordinary Churchmen do, in the validity of Anglican Orders, but rather in the Nag's Head Fable. Parker was consecrated Archbishop on 133 the death of his predecessor, Reginald Pole, by Barlow, assisted by three other Bishops-Coverdale, Scory, and Hodgkin-the 'Conge d'elire' reading, ' Since the afore­ said Church is now vacant by the natural death of the Most Reverend Father and Lord in Christ, Reginald Pole, and is deprived of the comfort of a pastor . . . therefore we give you our licence as Founder to proceed to a new election, and recommend accordingly', etc. Great care was naturally taken to preserve the succession, in the necessity for which I think I am right in saying that the Queen was a firm believer, especially as seven sees were vacant by death. In fact, I read that at the time of Parker's consecration the only Marian Bishops who were canonically in possession of their sees were Bonner of London, Kitchen ofLlandaff, and Stanley ofSodor and Man, of whom the two latter accepted the changes and remained in their sees till their death. Barlow and Coverdale had been deprived of their sees by :Mary, and the other two consecrators were Suffragans of Bonner, who allowed them to act. Yet Mr Ellis declares that 'the Catholic hierar~hy was swept away' t As a matter of fact, large numbers of the Roman Catholic laity found it within their conscience, stimulated, possibly, by the fear of fines, to worship regularly at the Parish Churches, ceasing only to do so when the Church in England was excommuni­ cated by the Pope in 1570, twelve years later, which definitely separated them from it. If I had to choose any particular date when the 'Papist' Catholics separated them­ selves from the Church, this would be the one. Finally, as I am going abroad very shortly, and do not in any case wish to write again, may I be allowed to repeat what I said in my previous letter, that there is no room in the public Press to go into details, or quote authorities, though one may cite a few facts. The alternative is left to the reader to believe what is written on the authority of the writer, or to look up the subject for himself. Yours, etc., j. S. WHATTON Manormead, Hindhead January 16 1928 P.S.-On reading this over, I see I have not dealt with Mr Ellis's comment in his penultimate paragraph, but your space is limited. The question is one purely of argument, not 1 34 of fact, and I do not therefore propose to embark upon it. So far as it is based upon facts, it is answered above. Mr Ellis, I see, speaks of Barlow as a notorious Protestant, just as I might speak of Cardinal Pole as a notorious Papist, but he must surely be aware that from any Catholic point of view these little errors of theirs would not have the least effect upon their capacity to pass on the succession.

From Farnham, Haslemere, and Hindhead Herald, February 4 1928 THE PRAYER-BOOK MEASURE To the Editor SIR Once one has embarked on a newspaper controversy, it seems difficult to get out of it. However, Mr Guy Ellis writes a courteous and temperate letter, for which I am grateful to him, just re-stating his point of view, and needing no further reply. I did not suppose I should convert him, nor, I apprehend, was he any more sanguine regarding myself; in fact, the only utility of such a correspondence as this, if it has any, is to clarify opinions hitherto nebulous, and perhaps we have done a little of that. And now I find 'W.H.O.' asking me to solve two conundrums for him. 1 'Will anyone be so bold as to deny that the Roman Catholic Church is the oldest Christian Church in the world at the present day, and therefore the only Church which can trace its origin right back to the twelve Apostles themselves?' I do, for one; but if it be so, what then? If I am the oldest member ofmy family, is that a really satisfactory proof that there is no-one else in the direct descent from my grand­ father? 2 'What was the faith of this England of ours before the so-called Reformation? My answer is absolutely Roman Catholic, and I defy anyone to contradict that. The plain unvarnished fact is that the people were robbed of their faith by a most wicked and licentious king, who rejected the Pope's spiritual authority because the Pope would not allow him to divorce his first and lawful wife, and marry another, which is contrary to the law of God.' 135 We all agree that the English Church was Catholic before the Reformation. What I understood we were discussing was whether it continued to be so, which does not depend upon the merits of the dispute between the Pope and Henry VIII as to the validity of the King's marriage (not as your correspondent inaccurately calls it, 'divorce'), with Cathe­ rine of Aragon, a question of a like nature with several that have cropped up quite recently in the Roman Communion, the facts as to which dispute are in all the books. Inter alia 'W.H.O.' would discover the opinion of that very judicious historian Hallam: 'It by no means follows that according to the casuistry of the Catholic Church, and the principles of the Canon Law, the merits of that famous process were so much against Henry as, out of dislike to him and pity for his Queen, we are apt to imagine, and as writers of that persuasion have subsequently assumed'. Of course, no one denies that the King broke with the Pope, and (to quote again Mr Ellis's statute) 'restored to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the Estate Eccle­ siastical and Spiritual', but why he did so is no more material than why King John accepted the Great Charter, which laid down that the Church of England should be free, though he had become a vassal of the Pope only two years before. Doubtless he was a villain, and when he was free from the nation's compulsion relapsed into Popery, but Shakespeare puts some fine words in his mouth in one ofhis better moods: '. . . no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions; But as we under heaven are supreme head, So, under him, that great supremacy, Where we do reign, we will alone uphold Without the assistance of a mortal hand: So tell the Pope.' Your correspondent will bear in mind that this was more than three hundred years before Elizabeth.took in hand to restore to the Crown the ancient jurisdiction over the Estate Ecclesiastical and Spiritual. May I conclude, sir, my contributions to this discus­ sion with a quotation from the present Book of Common Prayer, which I commend to all Protestants and Roman 136 Catholics, and even to such members of the English Church as may find it more unfamiliar than they should: 'And in these our doings we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe anything but to our own people only; for we think it convenient that every country should use such cere­ monies as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's glory and honour, and to the reducing of the people to a most perfect and godly living without error or superstition. And that they should put away other things which from time to time they perceive to be most abused, as in men's ordinances it often chanceth diversely in diverse countries.' That, I venture to say, is a fine and thoroughly English and Catholic attitude of mind, and one which expresses very concisely the central idea of the Anglican Branch of the Church. Yours, etc. J. S. WHATTON Manormead, Hindhead January 30 1928 P.S.-If I may add my usual postscript, which I admit to be a slovenly habit, it shall take the form of another extract from the same Preface to the Prayer Book: 'And therefore of the sundry alterations proposed to us, we have rejected all such as were either of dangerous consequence (as secretly striking at some established doctrine or laudable practice of the Church of England, or, indeed, of the whole Catholic Church of Christ), or else ofno consequence at all, but utterly frivolous and vain'. Our Protestant friends will observe the Catholic claim, nor will they find the word Protestant anywhere in the said Preface, nor indeed anywhere, so far as I know, within the covers of the Prayer Book.

DANGEROUS CORNERS From The Times, June 26 1928 S1R, Your correspondent suggests a red flag round the corner to prevent him from running into a previous breakdown. It is quite unnecessary if people would drive as they should, that is, if they would rigidly follow a rule, of which doubtless they have never heard, but which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be safe. That rule is that a car should 1 37 be driven at all times in such a way that at any moment it can be brought to a standstill within the limit of the driver's vision. I have adhered to it for 25 years with the best results, though I own a fast car, and drive it accordingly. J. S. WHATTON

From The Times, November 23 1928

DAG AND DAGGER SIR, Anatole France uses the old French word dague in one of the 'Contes de Jacques Tournebroche', the one entitled 'Le roi boit '. 'Pierrelot tirade sa ceinture unepetitedague,etjura qu'il l'enforcerait clans la gorge de quiconque approcherait.' This was no hatchet. ]. S. WHATTON Manormead, Hindhead

LAUDABUNT ALII (A lament at the Steinbock (Chur). Written on leaving St Moritz) 0 long and melancholy way! 0 lonely dinner at the inn! 0 railway journey to begin! 0 prospect the reverse of gay!*

0 traveller, no longer keen, Weary of what the world can show, Go there, and class the rest below St Moritz in the Engadine!

0 Invalids, and worn with strife, 0 Sick in body and in brain, Go thither, and rejoice again To taste the appetite of life!

0 friends that we have left behind Between the sunshine and the snow No token ask we, for we know The contact of a kindred mind. * One used to go by sleigh over the mountain to Chur, sleep there, and go on by train in the morning. It may not be so now. 138 East front of Manormead, I 929

Blest destiny of those who roam, That fashions in so brief a space A friend of an indifferent face, And of a mere hotel a home. For when the crisp and silent air Rings with the sharp toboggan cry,* And when the lesser light is high, We know you wish that we were there. Yet are we other whither bound; Suspended is the midnight talk, Spoke the last words, and drawn the cork Of the last bottle circling round. But, as we pace with sadder mien The mighty city sun-bereft, We'll breathe a wish for those are left Up at the Kulm of Engadine! The Steinbock, Guy Fawkes Day, 1890. -St. Moritz Post * Achtung!

THIS is the .end of the Book. My kinsmen of the future will bear in mind that all the rhymes they have just skipped were written when I was comparatively a young man; indeed, the Divine Afflatus, except, it would seem, in the case of Poets Laureate, commonly evaporates with the oncoming of middle age. It was a phase in my life as it was in my grandfather's, and therefore it is here, insomuch as I look upon the Book as one primarily for my own reading. Professional authors, I believe, seldom read their own productions again, once they are written, the assumption of course being that other people will. I make no such assumption. The Book is, I have said, pri­ marily intended for my own reading, because anything which relates to the family, including my own past doings and sayings, interests me; beyond that, I hope it may be a Refe­ rence Book for Whattons to come, and that they will value it, not for itself, but as their own Record of Nine Centuries, remembering that for good or evil each one of them has his page to add, and that not only Noblesse Oblige. PERMITTE DIVIS CAETERA M 139

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A WHATTON References to this name in Nichols's Leicestershire, extracted by A.J. T. Vol. I, Part 2, page 447.-William Watton, elected one of the Chamberlains (of the City of Leicester) September 2 1 1739. Vol. I, Part 2, page 486.-Elizabeth, wife of John Whatton, of the Newark, a benefactor to the Wigston's Hospital at her death in 1638. Extract of the above John Whatton's will relating to the above benefactions. Testator refers to Elizabeth his late wife, deceased, and to Katherine his ' now wife '. Vol. I, Part 2, page 597 (Saint Martin's, Leicester).-' A very curious monument, about the middle of the north-west wall, close to the Arch, has the busts of John Whatton and his two wives (fig. 15). On this tomb are the following coats (figs. 16-18): 1. Azure, three hedgehogs passant Or. Whatton. 2. Whatton, impaling, Argent, a fess Vair Or and gules; Heyrick. 3. Whatton, impaling, Argent, ten torteauxes, 4, 3, 2, 1; over all a label of three points; Babington. Mr Whatton has whiskers on his upper lip, and a picked chin beard, his own hair. The second wife has her hair curled but flat, like his at top, beads round the neck. The first wife has an hand­ kerchief, with a rose tie on the stomach, head covering like a capuchin. The breasts of both are covered. This monument is thus inscribed: 'John Whatton, of the Newark, neare Leicester,an Esquire of the body of the late King Charles, Justice of Peace for the County of Leicester. His first wife was Elizabeth Orpwood, widow, daughter of Mr Robert Heyrick, Alderman of this town. His second wife was Katherine, daughter of Thomas Babington of Temple Rodeley, Esq.; and by her only he had children, viz., three sons, John, William, and Thomas, and three daughters, Katherine, Mary and Sence. He died Feby. 16 1656; in memory of whom his dear surviving wife erected this monument: 'Thus stands the triumph of Death's dart, That in him wounded many a heart. His children's tears, his sad wife's groanes, The widows' and the orphans' moans. His friends' complaints that laid him here, Best spake his proper character. So good, so just, so gracious, that All did admire, none imitate. Virtues heap'd up in him did lie All open by humility. He shunn'd in public streams to swim, He sought not honour, it found him. Though balls of gold lay in his race, They could not slack his holy pace, Which if sometimes he stoop'd to take, 'Twas chiefly for the needy's sake. To schisme he never did incline, Yet was a compleat Lay Divine, Whilst Scripture was his doctrine laid, His holy life the use he made, A stranger's life i' th' world he spent, Till to his glorious home he went; Where now to him the freedom's given, To be a denizen of Heaven '. A footnote gives the verbatim contents ofa letter from the above John Whatton to Sir William Heiricke, Knight at Beaumanoir, dated Raunston, August 2 1639, with reference to his proposed marriage to 'a younge daughter (in comparison to my years) of Mr Babington's, being between five and sixe-and-twentye years old ...' (In 1637, Mr Whatton was resident in Leicester; and at that time had a sister Collier, who had then two sons, one of them an apprentice in London.) Vol. I, Part 2, page 601 (Saint Martin's, Leicester).-M.I.S. to Robert Orpwood, Citizen and Goldsmith of _London, died August 23 1609. He married Elizabeth Heyricke daur. of Robert Heyricke of this parish. . . Also M.I. to above Elizabeth who died August 17 1638 aged 64. She married afterwards John What­ ton ' Corporis regiae majestatis armigeri' ... Vol. I, page 125, Parliamentary return of Charitable Donations 26 George III. Saint Martin's, Leicester-

For Whether When Whether what in land In I Amount i Annual given. by will purpose or whom i if in ) produce. or deed. given. money. vested. money.

John not i by will for the in lviayor, £6 !OS. £7 Whatton known main- money bailiffs tenance and of I poor bur- widow in gesses Wigstons Hospital I

Vol. I, Part 2, page 305.-Collegiate Church ef St Mary de Castro.­ At the East end of the South Aile, near that called the Greater or 142 Trinity choir, a guild offraternity, called the Guild ofthe Holy Trinity, founded by Sir Richard Sacheverel, Knight, and the good Lady Hungerford; in which new desks were made in r495 . .. The officers were a steward and two wardens, but after 1511 four wardens. The first I have met with were Mr John Whatton, Steward, and John Chamberlayn and Richard Morgan, wardens. Vol. I, Part 2, page 306.-Fraternity of the Holy Trinity, above Mr John Whatton mentioned under date of 1509. He is mentioned again on the same page as ' Ironmonger '. Vol. I, Part 2, page 307.-Anno Dom. 1514. Feast of St Barnabas the Apostle on Holy Trinity Sunday. Sir Thomas Derby, dean, Mr Edward Booth, Mr John Whatton, stewards of the Trinity Gilde, made the dinner of their own costs. Mr John Whatton again chosen one of the stewards for the following year. Vol. I, Part 2, page 309.-John Whatton one of the stewards who made their accounts on the Vigil of St Swithin r498. Vol. I, Part 2, page 348.-John Whatton, Esq., of the Newark, died in 1656. Vol. I, Part 2, page 456.-Members of Parliament for the County of Leicester (38 Henry VI) William Feldyng, Esq., and John Whatton, Esq. Vol. I, Part 2, page 461. Sheriffs of Leicestershire only. 14 Charles I, John Whatton, of the Newark, Leicester, Esq. Vol. I, Part 2, page 506. The Town Library (Leicester). Cata­ logue of its Benefactors, Mr John Whatton of the Burrough of Leicester, Esquire, gave to this Library five great and large bookes in folio intituled: Concilia Generalia & Provincialia per Birrium. 5 Vols. (No date given.) Vol. I, Part 2, page 599. Saint Martin's Leicester.-On three gravestones* in the North corner: 1. ' Here lieth the body of John Whatton, Esq., whose age was 70 years (date of death not given). 2. ' Here lieth the body of Mrs Catherine Whatton, the wife ofJohn Whatton, Esq. She departed this life the 14 day of July in the year of our Lord 1673, her age 39.'t Vol. I, Part 2, page 469.-A list of Causeways which are to be repaired at the Charge of the Corporation, in and near the Borough of Leicester: 'All the pavement from the Corn Wall to Mr Whatton's ground.' * These, it is believed, are now covered with basses, forms, etc., etc. t This is a mistake for 59.-J. S. W. Vol. I, page 597.-See page I of these notes for ArmsofWhatton. Vol. III, page 100, footnote 6.-Re formerly of Farnham of Nether Hall:' The parlour window still contains three coats of the matches of the Farnhams of the Nether Hall; quarterly I and 4. Farnham; 2 Billington; 3 Whatton; with the 3 several impale­ ments, Chaloner, Nevill and--as engraved in Plate XI, Fig. 32, 33, 34 (see page 103). Vol. III, page 901.-Six Arms (in Loughborough Church) Azure, three hedgehogs Or;fig. 35:' In this vault are deposited the remains of William, the third son of Henry Whatton, gent, and Elizabeth his wife (daughter and. heir of John Watkinson, page g 12). He was born the 3rd day of August, 1787; and departed this life the 20th of the same month. Also are deposited the remains of Robert, fourth son, born the 20th day ofJuly 1788; and departed this life the 10th day of January following.' Vol. III, page 912.-Whatton pedigree-arms mentioned in the footnotes. Vol. III, page 1107.-(Monumental Inscriptions in Long Whatton Church.) Mr Burton did not observe any 'arms or monuments' in this church; but he must have overlooked a large blue flat stone (which still remains, though much damaged), and on a brass plate, the following arms and inscription: I and 4.-Argent, on a bend Sable, between six cross crosslets Gules, three bezants, Whatton. 2, and 3 Argent a chevron between three hedgehogs Sable, Heriz; fig. 5. ' Pray for the soule of Robert de Whatton arm' which decessed the V of March, Anno Dom. 1545; on whose soul I.H.S. have mercy Amen.' The Whatton pedigree also notices a large white alabaster, with the Arms of Whatton single, fig. 6. 'Here lyeth the bodies of Robert Whatton, gent. and Margaret his wyffe; which Robert deceased the IO of Sept. and she deceased the I 6th of Sept. I 5 77.' * Personal Index to 2nd, 3rd and 4th Volumes. Watton. Brian de, priest 1246. Vol. IV, 590.-Rectors of Desford. Brian de Watton, 1246 ( the first noted). (' Brianus de Watton, subdiaconus, ad ecclesiam de Desford. ad presentationem prioris de Ware, 1246.'-Footnote.) Whatton. Brian de, priest, 1258. Vol. III, 455.-Rectors of Syston Brian de Whattont sub dean 1258. * In the MSS of St Loe Kniveton this epitaph is said to be in Newark Church, Co. Nottingham. t (' Brianus de Whatton, subdecanus, praesentatus per dominum R. de Quincy, comitem Wyntoniensem ad ecclesiam de Sitheston vacatem per promo­ tionem d'ni R. de Malent ad episcopatum Coventr' dispensatus pro tribus beneficiis a Papa Reg. Gravesend. Pont I.') 144 Vol. III, Part 1, page 112 (Woodhouse).-At Maplewell, a small hamlet within the liberty of Woodhouse, Mr Geoffrey Whatton had, in the last century, a good moated mansion, and other con­ siderable property; concerning which we find this document: 'To the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Hastings, Botreaux, Molins, and Moiles, and Lord Lieutenant of His Majesty's Counties of Leicester and Rutland. ' The humble petition of the inhabitants within the Constabu­ lary of Woodhouse. 'Sheweth unto your Lordship that one Geoffrey Whatton, one of the inhabitants of the said Constabulary, being a very rich man, and owner of above 100 acars (sic) ofinclosed ground, whereupon he kepeth a very great stocke of cattle ... (complaining that he had not paid certain taxes) ... 'From the family of Whatton, Maplewell passed to that of Raworth; afterwards to Doctor Levet of Nottingham; from him to Mr Barber, who sold it to Mr Crumpton, Banker of Derby, the present owner. It contains only five houses; and the land is poor, and in some parts very rocky.' Vol. III, Part 2, page 1105.-(Long Whatton) George Whatton. 1587. 'On an inquisition taken at Leicester in 1590, it was found that George Whatton, gent, died April 29, 1587; that he held nothing under ,the King in capite; and that his daughters Anne and Elizabeth were his co-heirs (Esch. 32. Eliz.). Vol. III, Part 1, page 275.-(Vicars of Humberstone). Henry Whatton, Aug. 1, 1687. Died 1704. Vol. III, Part 2, page gn (Loughborough Old Parks).-Ofthe above property of Mr Busby, the first article passed to Mr Watkinson of Loughborough, by whose daughter it was brought in marriage to Henry Whatton Esq., attorney at law, the present owner; whose pleasant abode is here given in Plate CXXIII; and a pedigree of his family in page gr 2. The second and third articles passed also to Mr Watkinson, from whom they were purchased by the late Samuel Phillips Esg. of Garendon; and are now the property of Thomas March­ Phillips, Esq. John Whatton, 1466. Vol. III, Part 2, page 1089. Priors of Ulverscroft. John Whatton, 1466. John Whatton, 1625. Vol. III, Part r,page6g.-ParishRegisters ofBarrow-upon-Soar.-John, son of Jeffrey Whatton, ofMapple- well, baptized Nov. 13, 1625. , Mary,daughter of Geoffrey Whatton, baptized on Jan. 7, 1627. Margaret Whatton, daughter of Jeffrey Whatton, baptized April 10, 1632. 1 45 William Merwyn of Woodhouse, the son of Nicholas Merwyn of Thornton, Co. Leicester, married Margaret Whatton, daughter of Jeffrey Whatton, of Woodhouse, aforesaid, yeoman. Sir John Whatton, 1711. Vol. IV, page 721.-May 19, 1711, Sir John Whatton of East Sheen in the County of Surrey, Knight, sold lands in Wykin, to William Bacon of Hinckley. Lucy Whatton, Epit. of, 1758. Vol. IV, page 891.-(Not found.) Margaret Whatton, 1632. Vol. III, page 69 (given above). Robert de Whatton, Epitaph of, 1545. Vol. III, Part 2, page l 107. Robert de Whatton, Epitaph of, 1577. Vol. III, Part 2, page l 107. Rev. William Whatton, 1713. Vol. IV, Part 1, page 222.­ Rectors ofKnaptoft. Thomas Whatton, Aug. 5, 1662 bur. Oct. 19, 1670 Mowsley Reg.)* William Whatton, M.A., January 26, 1713-14 buried December 29, 1735, aged go. (On same page, but not in index: See a letter of Basil Earl of Denbigh to Mr Staveley in Vol. III, page 681, t dated January 11, 1668, on a matter then in dispute between Thomas Wha tton, rector of Knaptoft and the inhabitants and overseers of Mowsley.) William Whatton, 1719. Vol. IV, page 218. Knaptoft.-Five freeholders polled from Knaptoft in 171 g . . . and William Whatton: but more in 1775. William Whatton. Epitaph of, 1787. Vol. III, page 901. Given before. Whatton Family Epitaphs. Vol. III, Part 1, page 277. (Hum- berstone): 'Here lyeth the body of Mr Henry Whatton, Master of Arts, of Trinity College in Cambridge, and 17 years vicar of this Church; who departed this life October the 2nd, Anno Dom. 1704, aged 44 years. Also the body of Mary Whatton, his wife, who died March 29, 1728, aged 70 years.'

' Here lyeth the body of Catharine, daughter of Mr Henry Whatton, vicar of Humberstone; who departed this life January 12, 1692, aged 1 year and 6 months.'

' Also the body of Samuel Whatton, his youngest son, was here interred the 29th day of July, 1716, aged 22 years.' A.J. T. * Reference not found.-A. J. T. OTHER REFERENCES CHESTER MSS (28) (LINCOLNSHIRE REGISTERS): Grantham Par.: 1656.July 16. Thomas Whatton and Sarah Clipsham, Spr., both ofManthorpe (Marriage). Boston Par.: 1585-6. Feb. 14. Samuel Wotton and Jane Ashe (Married). Killingholme Par. (Chester MSS 29): 1589. May 3. Thomas, son of Humphrey Wotton (Baptized). Note.-There are many baptisms of Newmarch in this parish about this time. CHESTER MSS (30) (LINCOLN REGISTERS) : St George's, Stamford: 1656. Sept. I 1. William Wattone, Baily for ye Liberty for ye borough of Stamford (Buried). 1675. Sept. 3. William, son of John Wootton, gent. (Buried). 1700. Sept. IO. Tabitha ux.John Wotton (Buried). St Michael's, Stamford: 17n-12. Feb. 5. John Wyles and Mary Wotton (Married). 1671. Nov. 11. William, son of John and Tabitha Wotton (Baptized). 1690. June 30. Francis Wotton (Buried). 1628-9. March 12. Robert Whatton and AnneTate (Married). 1602.Nov.7. Anne, daughter of Robert Whatton (Baptized). 1646. Nov. 14. John, son of Robert Whatton (Baptized). 1629. Oct. 27. Alice ux. Robert Whatton (Buried). 1639. Dec. 12. Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Debora Whatton (Buried). 1643-4. March4.Debora, daughterofRobert Whatton (Buried). 1646. Sept. 20. John, son of Robert Whatton (Buried). 1648-9. March 27. John, son of Robert Whatton (Buried). 1648-9. Jan. 12. Rachel Whatton (Buried). 1653. April 23. Charles, son of Robert Whatton, gent. (Buried). 1655. Sept. 16. Alice ux. Robert Willshire, gent. (Buried). 1659-60. Jan. IO. Robert Whatton, an ancient gent. A.J.T.

APPENDIX B Burton's Description of Leicestershire, 1777 To this Second Edition Henry Whatton and John Watkinson, both of Loughborough, are in the List of original subscribers. In it, page 151, I find this entry: ' In the Church (St. Martin) is the following remarkable monu­ mental inscription of John and Mary Heyricke: "Here lyeth the body of John Heyricke, gent. of the parish of St Martin in Leicester, who departed this life the 2nd of April 1589, being about 147 the age of 76 years, who lived with the said Mary in one house full 52 years, and in all that time neither buried, man, woman, nor child, though there were 20 or more in their family. He had issue by the said Mary five sons and seven daughters, viz., Robert, Nicholas, Thomas, John, and William; and the daughters, Ursula, Agnes, Elizabeth, Ellen, Christian, and Alice. The said John was Mayor of Leicester A.D. 1559, and again A.D. 1572. And the said Mary Departed this life the 8th of December 161 1, being of the age of 97 years. She did see, before her departure, of her children and children's children, and their children, to the number of one hundred and forty-two."' I find, under the parish of Whatton: ' In this Church are no Arms or Monuments. '-This of course is Long Whatton. See page 74, Note 35a.

APPENDIX C FURTHER GENERAL NOTES (57) THE BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL IN r8ro Coimbra April 25 I8ro MY DEAR SIR I am just going to set out for Vizen, and have only time to acknowledge the receipt of your letter informing me of your pro­ ceeding* to Lisbon on your way to England, and offering to carry any dispatches for me. I would with pleasure have confided any to you, but do not officially correspond either with the King's Ministers, or the Commander-in-Chief, as anything official goes through Lord Wellington. I can assure you of the very great regard I feel as well for the cause as that you are leaving the Army for a short time, and I trust you will be able to return in the two months, as you will be aware of the critical situation of things in this country. I have no doubt you will make your stay as short as possible. I can only repeat to you what I desired Lieut.-Col. Arbuthnot to communicate to you, my full approbation of your conduct, and my sense of the benefits to the Brigade of Cavalry under your orders from your zeal and exertions. Believe me to be, My dear Sir, Yours very truly, Brig. Gen. Seddon W. C. BERESFORD * Note.-Observe the use at this early date of the word 'proceed'. Soldiers and police witnesses still 'proceed '.-J. S. W. 148 Note,-This William Carr Beresford is the same person of whom General Seddon writes some seventeen years later (page 71,Note 32) as 'my old friend Lord Beresford'. According to the D.N.B., where he has nine columns, he was an illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford, Earl of Tyrone and Marquis of Waterford. He served in the West Indies, Italy, India, Egypt, South Africa, South America, Portugal, Spain, and France. Created Lord Beresford of Albuera and Cappoquin, Co. Carlow, 1813, and Viscount Beresford of Beresford 1823. In 1832 he married the daughter of Archbishop Beresford of Tuan, his cousin, by whom he acquired a vast fortune. A. J. Beresford Hope, the well-known Churchman and M.P. for Cambridge University, was his step-son. The Duke of Wellington seems to have thought very highly of him, especially as a trainer and organizer of troops. Born 1 768; died 1854; aged 85. (58) GENERAL DANIEL SEDDON AND PROFESSOR SEDDON Lieut.-General Daniel Seddon, born r 763. Educated at the Manchester Grammar School. Served in India, Russia and Egypt, and in the Irish Rebellion. Imprisoned for thirteen months in the dungeon of Chittledroog by Tippoo Sultan, and was one of the few who escaped. Presented with a large silver salver by the inhabitants of Antrim for his gallant defence of the town. With only twenty-six dragoons he attacked and routed a body of 500 rebels, and escaped death with only two of his soldiers. Made Major-General on going out to the Peninsula to train Portuguese soldiers. Lieut.-General May 27 1825. Died in Paris May 18 1839 without issue, aged 78. His nephew, Felix John Vaughan Seddon, was born 1798, and educated at the Manchester Grammar School. He went to India in 1815, remaining there for fifteen years. He accompanied the British Army in the Burmese War in 1824 as Interpreter. In 1833 he was elected Professor of Oriental Languages in King's College, London, and in 1837 returned to India to take up his appointment as Principal of the new College at Oude,. to which his letter (Note 33, page 7 r) refers. During his voyage, however, the king died, and, his successor being opposed to the project of a college, the scheme was abandoned. He was subsequently Preceptor to the Nawab Nizam, and was pensioned. He died unmarried in Bengal in 1865. (See D. N. B.)

SEDDON F AMILy The Seddons were well-to-do people, ranking among the lesser gentry, and had been tenants of the Earls of Derby for many gene­ rations. Ralph Seddon had twins, born in 1604, and one of them, William, took his degree at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He was presented to the living of Eastham in Cheshire in 1637, holding it conjointly with another in the City of Chester, and, after suffering deprivation and imprisonment under the Crom­ wellian rule, was at the Restoration presented to the Rectory of 149 Grappenhall, in which parish he died in 1671.-County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, James Croston, F.S.A., London, 1887. Among Peter Seddon's Kinsfolk I may mention the Revd. Thomas Seddon, curate of Stretford and incumbent of Lydgate in Sadleworth, in 1 789. He was the author of several works, and in his "Letters written to an Officer in the Army" (viz.: his brother General Daniel Seddon), he says: "It is in my power to trace my pedigree up to the Conquest, for with the Conqueror, my ancestors first came into this country, as appears from the testimony of grants for service done in that successful enterprise, which are now in the possession of a distant relation, a gentle­ man of my own name. The Seddons lived at Prestoke, as tenants of the Earls of Derby for at least nine generations till the death of James Seddon in 1 546. The case of a family holding the same land of the same landlord for over 300 years is perhaps unique. From the correspondence of Nathan Walworth and Peter Seddon of Outwood (Chetham Society, Vol. I09, 1880). Note.-The Seddons were evidently sharply divided in their religious convictions. See page 72.-J. S. W. (59) THE WHATTON NoN-JuRoR William Whatton (see Note 4) was admitted of Trinity, Cambridge, 1670; scholar and B.A., 1678; ordained, 1677; Rector of Waltham, Leic., 1687-1689; and Rector of Knaptoft, 1713-1735, where he was buried. Assuming he was the Non-Juror in Overton's book, it would seem that he resigned Waltham for these reasons, took the Earl's Chaplaincy and shortly afterwards resigned that, and many years later, in the last year of Queen Anne, upon the passing in 1713 of the Treaty of Utrecht, in which ' the Jacobites saw the final destruction of all their hopes of a change of dynasty' (Bright), he took the oaths, and accepted Knaptoft. He lived on there until well into the reign of George II, corresponding, one may suppose, from time to time with Sir John, at East Sheen, with whom he would have political sympathies. Thomas Whatton was buried at Knaptoft in 1670, having been Rector there since 16foi. (60) LADY BAGOT AND LADY DE REMPSTON ENTERTAIN ROYALTY Mention is made in Note 49, and in the Footnote to the engraving facing page 9, of the tournament between the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Hereford, afterwards Henry IV, before which event Lady Bagot seems to have entertained the latter at Baginton Castle. Her cousin, also a Margaret de Whatton, married Sir Thomas de Rempston, K.G., Constable of the Tower 150 of London, where Richard II, who had presided at the tourna­ ment, was confined by Henry IV when the latter had ascended the throne, and the ex-king was presumably, therefore, her involuntary guest. Sir Thomas, who was Constable I 397- I 406, was drowned in the Thames, nearly opposite the Tower, but I do not think the date of his wife's death, which is not given in Thornton, is known. She brought him lands at Bingham, Notts, where he was seated.

(61) FURTHER RovAL DESCENTS Extract from letter A. J. T. to J. s. w. ' I enclose your Royal Descent from Henry III, which includes the Descent from two sons of Louis VIII, which is unusual. The Kings of Spain, Sicily, and Jerusalem are also your progenitors.' Or, as he might have said, atavis edite regibus.

(62) HAsSALL HALL (page 29) I learn from a correspondent that this house, which the Author of the Articles acquired through his marriage, is one of medium size and attractive appearance, built in the Queen Anne or early Georgian style, and having a little turret on the roof. The gardens are laid out in an old-fashioned manner with a number of yew hedges, and the owners for the last 70 years or more until recently have been the Lowndes family of Worcester­ shire. (63) THE HoN. loN KEITH-FALCONER This remarkable man, Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer, a brother of the present Earl of Kintore, who was second to me in the Five Miles Amateur Bicycle Championship in I 882 (page I I I), and won the Fifty miles in the same year, beating record, was (merely among other things) one of the most famous of long distance cyclists. He beat John Keen, the professional champion, and established the first record between Land's End and John o'Groats. He was (to use the proper style) of the same Royal and Religious Foundation of Trinity College as myself, .and in my time was a resident graduate studying Arabic; was subsequently Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University, succeeding the well-remembered Palmer of the Desert; and died a missionary in Aden in 1887. His Life has been written by Rev. Robert Sinker, Librarian of Trinity. He has more than two columns in the D.N.B. (64) JOSEPH PENNELL (page r r 3) 'Jo' Pennell, as everyone called him, whom I knew well, and with whom I more than once went cycling abroad, was a very pleasant companion, though possessing not a little of the artist's irritability of temperament; indeed, Eden Phillpotts, who was acquainted with him, told me once that somehow he could never get on with him. Like Ion Keith-Falconer, he was one of those men, very well known in early cycling circles, whose real and enduring claims to remembrance lay far outside the orbit of that pastime, in co;mection with which, nevertheless, he did much useful work as a pioneer tourist and member of the Council of the C.T.C. He produced the standard book on the technique of etching (1889), and his exquisite illustrations of several books, including Mrs Pennell's Unsentimental Journey in the manner of Laurence Sterne, which was an account of a tour in France on a very primitive tricycle, are well known. After living for many years in England, he returned to America, whence he came, and died there.

APPENDIX D FROM The Gentleman's Magazine, SEPT. 1818 Accendit lumina Vesper-Virgil 'Twas Even light!-more beautiful the star Did ne'er o'erflow its urn with gentle ray, The Western orb had now retir'd afar, And sunk beneath the blush of parting day. The zephyr hush'd, the whisp'ring leaves were still, In silent brake reclin'd the timid deer, Save when, at intervals, the distant rill, Or tinkling sheep-bell, struck her list'ning ear. The painted heath-broom hung its lovely head, The wild rose long had bid each flower good-night, And watchman glow-worm, creeping from his bed, Had lit his lamp!-And now 'twas Even light. Manchester, June ro. w. R. WHATTON

Nnte.-Then aged 28.-J. S. W. 152 INDEX (By 0. F. C.)

INDEX

A Bengeo, School, r I r Acres Barn, 66 Benson, Archbishop, xx Aiksbury, Marquis, 92 Beranger, 121 Allenby, Lord, 1 r 1 Beresford of Albuera, Lord, 71, 14,U, American Hospital, Paignton, 10G 14() Anatole France, 135 Beresford Hope,:\. J., q9 Androdus, xxiii Bigod, Roger, Earl, 5 Arbuthnot, Lieut.-Col., 148 Billing, Dr, Bishop of Bedford, I 15 Arlington, Cabinet Minister, 72 Birmingham, xxv, xxx Armitstead, Rev. .John, Vicar of Bisset, Albreda, 4 Sandbach, 67 Bisset, Ella, 5, 31, 32 Arnold, Doctor, r 11 Bisset, Henry, 4 Ashby, Thomas, 19 Bisset, Isabel, 5 Ashby, William, 1 g Bisset, John, Baron of Combe Bisset, 4 Aslacton, 3 Bisset, Margaret, 5 Aspinshaw, 23, 42 Blunt (or Blount), family of, '29 Australia, xxvii Blunt, Arundel, 23 Blunt, Sir Walter, 81 B Boars and hedgehogs, 23 Boswell, 112 Babington, Catherine, m. John What­ Bosworth Field, xxix ton of Raunstone, xvi, xxiv Bouchard, Comte de Vendome, 35 Babington, Lucy, m. William What- Bourchier, Sir John, 17 ton, 86 Bowen, Lord, 124-6 Babington, Thomas, xvi, 21, 22 Bowes-Lyon, Patrick, 115 Bagot, xvi Brabazon, xvi Bagot, Isabel, m. Thomas Stalford, g Brabazon, Sir John, ·1 Bagot, Thomas, g Brabazon, Sir William, 4, 39- Bagot, Sir William, 8 llradby, Dr, Master of 1:-Iaileybury, Bailey, John, 1 r r Ill Baines, Edward, author of History of Branccpeth Park, it provides a buck, Lancashire, 58, 64 70 Baldwin, Count of Flanders, 11 Brasses in Whatton Church, 75, 76 Bank Holidays, when instituted, r 16 Brassey, 1st Lord, r 10 Bardon Hill, 16 Breadalbane, Earl of, xxv Barnes, John, his book, 77 llrindlecombe, Rev. John, 52 Basset, Alice, 5 British Museum, 1 r2 Basset, Lord, Baron of Beddington, Brotherton, xxiv, 46 4, 5 Brougham, Lord, Marriage Act, 77 Basset, Thomas, 5, 34 Bunhill Fields Cemetery, xxviii, 50 Basset, Sir William, 14 Bath Club, 50 Beaumanor Park, the Herrick Seat, 54 Beaumont, Sir George, of Coleorton C Park, his pictures, 53 Cambridge, H.R.1:-I. Duke of, 109 Beier, Avice, 10 Canada, xxvii Beier, Elizabeth, g Cannes, 126 Beier, Lord Hamon, g Carter, Samuel, 11 I Beler, Margaret, IO Cecil of Chelwood, Lord, xx, II 3 Beler, Roger, 9, 10, 34., 36 Cecil, Lady Gwendolen, biographer, Beier, Thomas, IO xvii Bclvoir, Vale of, I Chain Hall, xv 153 Chamberlain, Austen, r r 2 De Knyveton, 8, ro Channel Islands Prayer Book, 128 De la Riviere, Richard, 10, 37 Charley Priory, described, 17 De la Zouch, 19, 40 Charnwood Forest, 17, 28 De Lovetot, xvi, 3 Charnwood Hills, 15 De Lovetot, Joan, 7 Chcshunt Church, 21, tomb of Lady De Lovetot, John, 8 Whatton De Lovetot, Nigel, Baron of Sutho, 7 Chesterfield, 1st Earl of, 13 De Lovetot, Oliver, 7 Chetham Hospital and Library, 63 De Lovetot, Richard, Baron of Shef- Cheyne, Thoma5, IO field, 7 Chitty, Thomas Willes, 113 De Lovetot, William, Lord, 7 Christchurch, Mayfair, xiv, 69 De Malbini, Eustachio, 5 Christie, 0. F., r 13 De Malbini, Gilbert, 5 Cock Fighting, 76 De Malbini, Philippa, 5 Cockington, w7 De Malbini, William, 5 Coimbra, 148 De Mandeville, xvi, 3 Compton Place, 116 Denbigh, Countess of, 23 Conservative Club, 102 De Pierreponte, 4, 35 Constance of Castile, Spanish wife of De Plessetis, Hugh, 5 John of Gaunt, 81 De Plumpton, r o Cork, City of, 60 De Quincie, 40 Corners, dangerous, 13 7 Derby, Earls of, 149 Cornhill Magazine, 61 De Rempston, xvi Cornwall, Earl of, 5 De Rempston, Sir Thomas, K. G., 9, x, Harold, 113, Economist,,~ 150 with a Shilling, 8 1 Dervishes, 123 frabbe, poet, 66 De Rypariis, Richard, 5 Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, De Savoy, Peter, Earl of Richmond, 4 xxiii, 3 De Stafford, Bishop of Exeter, g Crawshaw, Lord, 74 De Stapleford, xvi Crich, 38 De Stapleford, Hugh, 8 Cromwe!l, Ralph, Lord, JO De Strellige, Sampson, 4 Cunningham, William, D.D., 99 De Swillington, 37 Cyclists Touring Club, 114 De Tyre!, Gautier, 33, 53 De Woodford, William, 4 De Wyverton, 8 D Dew, Rev. R., F.S.A., 55 Dacre, xvi, 2 r, 54 Dickenson, Rev. Lenthal, D.S.O., JOI D'Albini, Nigel, Lord, g, 11 Dicksee, Sir Frank, 120 Danckwerts, W. 0., xix, 113 Disestablishment, 131 Daniel, Nancy, of Hassal Hall, m. District Messengers, formation of, xix, Hy. Watkinson Whatton, xvii, xxvi, ll5 28 Dogs, r 18; on brasses, 89 Danvers, Sir John, 26 Donoughmore, Lord, 113 D'Ayala, 81 Dorset, Marquis of, 27 D'Aynecourt, 7 Draper, Thomas, 59 De Bellamont, Robert, Earl of Lei- Driby (or Dreby), 37 cester, 17 Duffcrin, Lord, r 18 Declaration of Indulgence, 72 De Dunstanvillc, Alan, Lord, 5, 32 De Dunstanville, Urrnla, 5 E De Dunstanville, Walter, s East. Alfred, IL\., 121 De Haslacton, Reginald, ;l Eastbourne 67, 1 16 De Heriz (Herries), xvi Edinburgh, 54 De Heriz, Sir John, ro, 35 Emperor William, xxix De Heriz, Matilda, JO, 34 Essex, Lord, g~ De Heriz, Sarah, 10, 34 Ethelred II, 14 154 Euan-Smith, Agnes Jane, 76 Handcross Hill, Notice Board, 125 Euan-Smith, Sir Charles, r 1 7 Hanworth, Lord, Master of the Rolls, Euan-Smith, E. M., M.D., 50, 76 II3 Euan-Smith, Mabel (Mrs J. S. What- Harbottle, E. H., 107 ton), 50, r r 7 Harrison, J. Bower, 57, on Horrox, 64 Harrow School, 51 Hassal Hall, xvii, 28; Manor of, 29; F described, 29, 1 51 Family Bible, 66 Hastings, Battle of, 53 Farnham Family, 9, 23 Hennapyn House, xxv, 1 04, 107 Fellowship of Old Time Cyclists, 126 Henry I, xv, 5 Ferrars, Lord, 17 Hereford, Duke of, 89, I 50 Fife, Duke of, xxv Heriot, George, 54 First Railway Accident, 61 Heriz, see de Heriz Fitz Eustace, Richard, Baron of Hal­ Herrick, John, 147 ton, 5 Herrick, Myron, U.S. Ambassador, Fitz Henry, Richard, Earl of Corn­ xvi, 55 wall, 34, 49 Herrick, Robert (the poet), 55 Fitzherbert, 18 Herrick, Sir William, xvi, xxiv, 20, 54 Fletcher, Rev. W. G. D., xvii, xviii, Hesse, Princess Alice of, I 1 6 xxiii, xxx, 49 Hill, Mr Justice, I 11 Fort, Sir Hugh, xx Hobhouse, Sir John Cann, 71 French, Lord, xxix, 120 Hode, Castle of, the lion's home, xxiii Freshville, Ralph, Lord, I 1, 35 Homer, Rev. F. A., xxvi, 75 Hopkins, John M., Mayor of North- G ampton, 27 Gage, Lord, 11 7 Horrox, Jeremiah,Astronomer, 64, 65 Gascoigne, Sir William, 13 Howard, Lady Fanny, 116 Gentleman's Magazine, The (articles in), Hubbard, Egerton, 1 26 xv, xvii, xx.vi Humberstone, xv George Frederick, Derby Winner, l I I Humberstone Register, 88 George IV, 70 Hungerford, Lady, 143 Gilson, R. C., 111 Huntingdon, Earl of, 55 Gladstone, W. E., 125, 126 Huskisson, William, attended by Gra, Sir John, 37, 38 W. R. Whatton after his fatal Grand Trunk Railway, 11 o accident, xvii, 61 Grand Turk, Treaty with, 54 Gray's Inn, 99 I Gresley, Sir Thomas, 14 Illingworth, Sir Richard, 19 Gretna Green, 25, 78, 1 ro Inge, Dean of St Paul's, 109 Grove, Sir William, 122 Ingle, 48, 76, 77 Guildhall, 50 Innes, H. j\l[., Bursar of Trinity, 1 I I Gurnay, Hugh, Earl of, 1 r Irish Church, 130 Gwatkin, Professor, 99 Ivanhoe, 11 Gypsies, they steal John Wynne, 8!)

H J Jacobites, 150 Hackett, Thomas, Bishop of Down and James II, xxix Connor, 22, 33, 55 John of Gaunt, his Spanish wife, 81 Haileybury College, xx, xxi, xxiv, 111, Johnson, Doctor, 119 126 Hallam, judicious historian, 136 Hall, Sir E. Marshall, 1 20 K Halifax, Bishop of Gloucester, 24 Keith-Falconer, the Hon. Ion, 151 Hambledon, Lord, 117 Kendal, William, 18 Hampton Court Palace, 1 I 7 Kennaway, Sir John, 11 7 155 Kilkhampton, 55 Mumford, Doctor, 63 King, Richard, 115 Musset, Alfred de, I 19 Kitson, Major, 11 7 N Knights Templars, 22 Nairne, Alexander, Regius Professor, Ill L National Cyclists' Union, 114, 125 Lancaster, Thomas, Earl of, xxix, 5, 75 Nesse, Christopher, his book, 88 Lanchester Cars, 102 Neville, Sir William, Lord of Rolles- Land Registry, 104 ton, 14 Leeke, 15, 16 Newark, The, 85 Leicester, St Martin's Cathedral, Newman, John Henry, 131 xxviii, 55, 74 Newman, Sir Robert, 117 Le Palmer, Alice, 8 Newmarehe, Adam de, 3 Le Palmer, John,. 8 Newmarehe, Thomas de, 13 Lichfield, 57 Newmarehe, Thomas de, his alabaster Liverpool and Manchester Railway, tomb in Whatton Church, 14 xvii, 61 Newtown Lynford, xxv, 21, 22, 23, 29 Lloyds, xviii, letter from the Chair­ Nile, River, 126 man, 96 Non-Jurors, xxix Loehnis, H. W., 20 Norfolk, Duke of, 89, 150 Long Whatton, xiv, xv, xvi, 73, 74, Northumberland, Cospatric, Earl of, 144, 145, 148 14 London Bicycle Club, 125, 126, 127 0 Londonderry, Lord, 70 Oakes, Benjamin, r 15 Loughborough Church, 74 Ogle, xvi, 33 Loughborough Parks, 27, 28, 145 Oldershaw,John, 27 Lowndes family, 151 Orpwood, Elizabeth, m. John What- Loxley, xv, 75 ton, 141, 142 Orpwood, Robert, 55 M Osmaston Cottage, _xxvii IV!acadam, 114 Oude, King of, 7 1 Macaulay, Lord, cousinship claimed, Overton, History oftheNon-Jurors, xxix, 86 74 Maclaurin family, l l 7 Oxford and Cambridge Club, r 16, 50 Macnutt, Canon, 74 p Manchester Grammar School, 57, 63, 149 Pall Mall Gazette, 123 Manormead, 104 Palmer of the Desert, 77 Mansfield, Grammar School, 24 Parry, Sir Edward, on Danckwcrts, xx March-Phillips, Thomas, 145 Paton, J. L., of Manchester Grammar Marlborough College, 51 School, 63 Maud, Empress, 5 Peel, Sir Robert, xvii; letter to W. R. McMahon, Sir Henry, II 1, 113 Whatton, 61 Meath, Earls of, 39 Penburye, Sence, 18, 19 Mercier, Dr, 128 Pennell, Joseph, 113, 15L. Middlesex Hospital, 110 Pewsey, Vale of~ 91 Milman, Sir Archibald, Clerk to the Phillpotts, Eden, 15 r House of Commons, 1 15 Piercy, 48 Molyneux, Sir John, 3 Pierrepont, xvi, 7 Monk, Henry Theophilus, 68 Place, Rev. Josiah, 56 Monk, Tildesley, 21 Poets Laureate, 1 39 Montagu, Sir Ralph, 24 Pollock, see Hanworth Moon, Anna, xxiv Pontefract, 5 Morgan of Ravensdale, 61 Porcupines and hedgehogs, 35 Moryn, 7 Powell-Duffryn Coal Company, l!O Mostyn Hotel, r r 1 Pulbrook, Chairman of Lloyds' 96 Q Ship-money, 55 Queen's Club, r 16 Slope, Rev. Obadiah, 52 Quincy, Earl of, r 7 Smite, River, 1 Quorndon Hall, g Smyth, 22 Spiritualism, 120, 128, 132 R St Clair, Sir John, 37 St Moritz, I 38 Radford, Sir George, M.P., 113 Stafford, Richard, g Radley College, 5 1 Stafford, Thomas, 9 Raunstone, xv, 20 Stanhope, Isabella, IO Rendel, Lord, 126 Stanhope, Sir Thomas, 13 Repton School, 50, go, 102 Staunton of Staunton, xvi Richmond, Duchess of, r ro Sterne, Archbishop of York, 2°1 Rigaud, Professor, 64 · Sterne, Laurence, 151 Roads Improvement Association, r r 4 Stocks and Shares, ll8, 129 Roads, Use of, 129; Repair of, 87, r 14 Stovell, Colonel, 105 Rockley Manor, 91 Stuart, Prof. James, 1 r 2 Rodd, Sir Rennell, Ambassador, 11 r Stuart Rising, xxix, 86 Rolleston, xvi Swift, John, 48, 66, 67, 109, rro Rolleston, Mrs., 106 Swift, Georgina, 67 Rolleston, Sir Benedict, 2 r Swift, Maria Elizabeth, see Whatton, Rolleston, William, 2 1 M.E. Rothley Temple, xv, 22 Swift, Maria Samson, 66, 77 Royal Automobile Club, 102 Swift Memorial, 67 Rubens, 53 Rumney, A. W., r 13 T Russia, Empress of~ 1 1 7 Thallworth, Herts, Sir John Whatton Rutland, rst Duke of, xvii, 74. m. at, 54 /.- Rutland, 7th Duke of, xvii, 74, loo The Times, xxvi, rrg, 137, 138,-QJ Tillev, Arthur, Fellow of King's, 100 s Tocker, Mrs., her picture, 77 Sacheverel, Sir Richard, 143 Toppin, A. J. (Bluemantle), xxviii Salisbury, Earl of, xvii Torquay, 104, r r 7 Saracens, xxiii Trinity College, Cambridge, xv, 25, Saranell, Vale of, xxiii 50,51,52,97,99, 104, IIJ, 113,115, Sa1msfaile, Hugh, 4 146, 151 Scarrington, village of, 8 Trussell, Sir William, 4 Scott, David, xxiv, 46 Tuckey, Rev . .J. G., Assistant Chap- Scott, Hercules, xxiv, 47 lain-General, ror Scott, Sir Walter, r r Tusher, Rev. Thomas, 32 Scottish Episcopal Church, 130 Tutbury Castle, 38 Scrutton, Lord Justice, 126 Twysden of Bradbourne, 4 Seddon family, 28, 46, 149 Seddon, Prof. Felix, xxiv, 71, 149 u Seddon, Harriet Sophia, m. W. R. Ulvescroft Priory, r 7, 18 Whatton, xv, 28; death of, 66, 77 United States of America, xvi, 55 Seddon, Lieut.-Gcneral, xxiv, 28, 70, Utrecht, Treaty of, 150 71,149 Seddon, Mary, xxiv V Seddon, Peter, a Nonconformist, 72, Vandalism, 73 73 Vaux, William, Loni, IO Seddon, Robert, 73 \'izen, Seddon, William, of Acresfield, his q.13 gamecocks, 76 Seven Bishops, xxix w Shakespeare, Richard II, 89, r 50, King Wagstaffe, W., r 11 John, 136 Warenne, William, Earl ol; 11 157 Waring, William, 19 Whatton, Henry Watkinson, son of Watkin, Sir Edward, 111 Henry of Loughborough Parks, Watkinson, Elizabeth, m. Henry author of The Articles, xiv, xv, xvii, Whatton, xv, xvii, 25, 26 xxv, xxvi, 28, 5·0 \,Vatkinson, Henry, LL.D., Chancel- Whatton, Henry, 4 lor of York, 25 Whatton, Hugh de Heriz, xvm, 50; Watkinson,John, xv, 147 record of, go; death, gr; funeral, 92; Watton, Herts, 32 hon. member of Lloyd's, 93, 94--97 Wellington, Lord, 148 \Vha!ton, Hugh, Privy Counsellor, !J vVestern Hospital, Torquay, 117 Whatton, Isabel de, m. Reginald de Westward Ho!, 54 Haslacton, 3 Whatton, variously spelt, xvi Whatton, John de, High Sheriff of Whatton in the Vale, xvi, 1 Herts and Essex, xv, 5, 3 r, 35 Whatton, Agnes, m. Sir John Braba- Whatton, Sir John de, of Long What­ zon, 4 ton (temj,. Henry IV), g, 14 Whatton, Alicia, 8 Whatton; John, M.P. for Leicester­ vVhatton, Amabilia, 3 shire, xv Whatton, Ann, m. Trafford Smyth, Whatton, John, of Raunstone, High 22 Sheriff of Leicestershire, xv; letter to Whatton, Rev. A. B. W., Chaplain to Sir W. Herrick, xvi, xxi, xxiv, xxviii; 7th Duke of Rutland, xvii, xviii, 51, m. Catherine Babington, 20; Will, 7 5, 76; record, 97-w2 84-86; epitaph, 141; 74, 143 Whatton, Rev. Arundell B., xv; fatal Whatton, Sir John, of Chain Hall, xv, accident to, xvii; publishes life of xx, 21, 32, 53, 54; Will, 87 Horrox, 6 5; Sermon on Duke of Whatton, John Swift, author of this Wellington, 66; record, 68; work at book, xvi, xviii-xxi, 50, 75; record, Sheffield, 68, 69, 70 104; war work, rn5-107; at Hailey­ Whatton, Mrs Arundell B., xviii, 67; bury, I 11; at Trinity, Cambridge, death, 68 112; called to Bar, 113; philan­ Whatton, Babington, 29, 30, 41 thropic work, r 15; marriage, 1 17; vVhatton, Bartholomew, Lord of financial interests, 118; on spiritual­ Ridley, 3 ism, 120; verses and contributions vVhatton, Brian de, 55, 5G, 1 44 to Press, J2I-13') Whatton, Catherine, m. lo Bishop of Whatton, John (d. 1839), xxvi, xxviii Down, 54. Whatton, John, 3 vVhatton, Cecilia, rn. de Picrreponte, 4 \Vhatton, John (de Watton), m. Ella, Whatton, Elizabeth, her will, 82 daughter of Lord Bisset, 4, 31 vVhatton, Geoffrey, xx,·iii; refuses to Whatton, John de, m. Beier, 8 pay levies, 55, 145 Whatton, John, Prior of Ulvcscroft, Wha tton, Rev. Geoffrey A C., 5 I, ' his 16 record ', 98 Whatton, Margaret, m. Sir William Whatton, George, xxvii, xxviii, 18, 50 Bagot, 8, Hostess to Henry fV, 150 Whatton, Guillaume (de Watone), 31 Whatton, Margaret, m. Farnham, g 33 Whatton, Margaret, m. de Rempston, Whatton, Harriet Sophia, see Seddon g, Hostess to Richard II, 150 Whatton, Harriet Elizabeth, Mrs Whatton, Margery, 8 Hewitt, xxvii, 46, 76 Whatton, Maud, 8 Whatton, Henry, of Loughborough Whatton, Philippa, m. de Strelleye, 4 Parb, xiv, xv, disputes concernng Whatton, Richard (de Watton), xv, 3, his will, xxvii; m. Elizabeth Watkin­ 5, 7 son at Gretna Green, 25; faculty Whatton, Sir Richard (temj1. Edward granted to, 79 II), xv, 13, 37 Whatton, Rev. Henry, Vicar of Whatton, Sir Richard (temj1. Edward Humberstone, xv, xxvi, 23, 25, 30; III), xv, g epitaph, 146 Whatton, Richard (de Watton), Chief Whatton, Henry, in.Jacobite rebellion Justice of the Common Pleas, 3 of I 745, XY, 24,, 52 Whatton, Richard, 4- Whatton, R. A. H., his record, 102 Whatton, William Robert, F.S.A., Whatton, Richard de, Lord ofScaring­ F.R.S., xv; Army Surgeon, xvii; at ton, 8 Manchester Infirmary, ib.; attends Whatton, Robert, 'an ancient gent', Huskisson, 28; 56-65; m. ,Harriet 147 Sophia Seddon, 58; in Peninsular Whatton, Robert (de Watone), xiv, War, 59; letter from Sir Robert Peel, xv, xvi, 2, 15 · 61; archaeological knowledge, fo; Whatton, Robert, of Long Whatton, death, ib.; verses by, 151 xv, xxvi; Will, 87 Whatton, Rev. William, Rector of Whatton, Robert (called Skipwith), 8 Knaptoft, 30, 41, 43 Whatton, Robert, 9 Whatton, William, of Ulvescroft, 31 Whatton, Robert de, Canon ofWelbec, Wigston's Hospital, 86, 141, 142 75 William I, 11 Whatton, Roger (Roger de Skerring- William III, xxix ton), 4, 7 Wills, Mr Justice, xx Whatton, Sence, see Penburye, Sence Windsor Castle, its protection from Whatton, Stewart M. de Heriz, lightning, ro7 D.S.0., M.C., 102-104 Winfield, 38 Whatton, Walter de, a Knight of the Woodford, 38 2nd Crusade, xv, 3 Woodford, Sir John, Lord of Ashby Whatton, Sir William (de Watton), xv, Folville, 14 l, 49, 53 Woods, Bishop of Winchester, 1 16 Whatton, William, of Newton Lyn­ Wright, Whittaker, 118 ford, xv, xxv, 2 I, 22 Wynyard, 71 Whatton, Rev. William, Vicar of Loxley, xv, 24, 52, 75 y Whatton, Rev. William, non-Juror, Yates family,;(_ 47 xxix, 74, 150 Younger, Rev. R., 56

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