4 SHORT NOTES 1725-7 the sons of Stephen,8 , and continued there some months. The next summer, I had the same education at Twickenham,' Middlesex; and the intervening winters I went every day to study under Mr Weston at Lord Townshend's.10 April 26, 1727, I went to Eton school," where Mr Henry Bland," (since prebendary of Durham) eldest son of Dr Henry Bland,13 master letters, addressed to his mother and prob­ to stay at 'Twittenham' till the end of ably written during this or an earlier October, instead of moving to town, 'as it Bexley stay, mention visits to Mrs Selwyn. will be very inconvenient as long as my Both Thomas Townshend and his brother family continues at Chelsea for my boy Roger are buried in the church at nearby [Horace] to go and come every day' (Hist. Chislehurst, of which Thomas owned the MSS Comm. X, App. pt i. 240). If. as is manor, which had been conveyed to him likely, HW was again with his cousins, he by his father-in-law (Archceologia Can- and the young Townshends may have tiana xiii. 397, 400, xviii. 378n, 381; Ed­ stayed with their half-brother, the Hon. ward Hasted, History of Kent, 2d edn, William Townshend (ca 1702-1738: see 1797-1801, ii. 9, 172, 183; Daniel Lysons, post i. 7), who was living at Twickenham Environs of London, 1791-6, iv. 345. In about this time (R. S. Cobbett, Memorials preparing this note the editors received of Twickenham, 1872, pp. 51, 66, 67). the kind assistance of Mr W. Threlfall, 10. Lord Townshend's London house at Borough Librarian of Bexley). this time has not been identified; his official 7. Edward Weston (1703-70), second son letters 1724-9 are headed merely 'White­ of Bp Weston; Eton and King's. W. P. hall' (William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir Robert Courtney in DNB lists his various public Walpole, 1798, ii. 295, 328, 638). In 1720-1 employments, including his secretaryship he had a house in Paradise Row, Chelsea, to Lord Townshend at Hanover during the but seems to have left it before 1725 (W. H. King's residence there in 1729. A letter from Godfrey, Parish of Chelsea, pt i, n. d., 26: Stephen Poyntz to Weston shows that HW Survey of London ii). was in Weston's charge as early as 25 July 11. Only two lists of pupils have survived 1724 (Hist. MSS Comm. X, App. pt i. 239). for the period of HW's residence: for 1728 Although it would be reasonable to suppose and for 1732. In the latter the names are that Weston, a studious man who later not divided into forms; in the 1728 list wrote The Country Gentleman's Advice to HW's name appears among the oppidans his Son on Coming of Age and other im­ (the boys who, unlike the collegers on the proving pieces, had considerable influence foundation, lived in a boarding-house out­ upon HW at this time, he is unmentioned side the college) in the third form of the by HW in any other MS or letter which lower school. Two 'Mr Townshends' are has been seen. This is the more curious listed immediately above HW's name, pre­ since Weston received benefits from Bute sumably his cousins George and Augustus and George Grenville, recommended the (Eton Coll. Reg. pp. vii, 340; R. A. Austen- issue of a general warrant against Wilkes Leigh, Lists 1678-1790, Eton, in 1763, and was attacked by Junius. 1907, pp. xxi, 27, 30). 8. Stephen Weston (1665-1742), D.D., 12. Henry Bland (ca 1703-1768), D.D. was consecrated Bishop of Exeter in 1724 (1747), rector of Bishopwearmouth 1735-68 through the influence of Sir Robert Wal­ and of Washington, co. Durham, 1737-68. pole, whose master he had been at Eton. He became a prebendary of Durham in Weston's unsuccessful attempt at farming 1737 (Eton Coll. Reg. 32). by Virgilian rules is mentioned by HW in 13. Henry Bland (d. 1746), D.D., head­ his 'Epistle to Thomas Ashton' (Works i. master of Eton 1720-28; a friend of Sir 6). (COLE i. 52 n. 8; Works ii. 9. On 19 Sept. 1726 Sir Robert wrote to 238). Edward Weston from Chelsea asking him