Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Temple Lands in Scotland_ (Vol. viii., p. 317.).--Your correspondent
ABREDONENSIS, upon a reference to the undernoted publications, will find
many interesting particulars as to these lands, viz.:
1. "Templaria: Papers relative to the History, Privileges, and
Possessions of the Scottish Knights Templars, and their Successors the
Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, &c. Edited by James Maidment. Sm.
4to. 1828-29."
2. "Abstract of the Charters and other Papers recorded in the
Chartulary of Torphichen, from 1581 to 1596; with an Introductory
Notice and Notes, by John Black Gracie. Sm. 4to. 1830."
3. "Notes of Charters, &c., by the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Melrose,
afterwards Earl of Haddington, to the Vassals of the Barony of Drem,
from 1615 to 1627; with an Introductory Notice, by John Black Gracie.
Sm. 4to. 1830."
4. "Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica: Memoir of what has been already done,
and what Materials exist, towards the Formation of a Scottish
Monasticon; to which are appended, Sundry New Instances of Goodly
Matter, by a Delver in Antiquity (W. B. Turnbull). 8vo. 1842."
The "Introductory Notices" prefixed to Nos. 2. and 3. give full particulars
of the various sales and purchases of the Superioritus, &c., by Mr. Gracie
and others.
T. G. S.
Edinburgh.
_Lewis and Sewell Families_ (Vol. viii., p. 388.).--Your correspondent may
obtain, in respect to the Lewis family, much information in the _Life and
Correspondence of Matthew Gregory Lewis_, two vols. 8vo., London, 1839,
particularly at pp. 6. and 7. of vol. i. He will there find that Matthew
Lewis, Esq., who was Deputy Secretary of War for twenty-six years, married
Frances Sewell, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell; that
Lieut.-Gen. Whitelocke and Gen. Sir Thos. Brownrigg, G.C.B., married the
other two daughters of Sir Thos. Sewell; and that Matthew Gregory Lewis,
who wrote the _Castle Spectre_, &c., was son of Matthew Lewis, Esq., the
Deputy Secretary of War.
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