Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"_Salusbury Welsh Pedigree Book._"--Having sometimes occasion to
investigate the lineage of Irish families derived from Wales, I am very
anxious to learn, through your valuable oracle, where may now be that
genealogical collection. According to the notes I have of it, it
contained "the pedigrees of all the gentlemen in North Wales, and of
some adjacent counties, with their arms finely illuminated;" and took
its name from the compiler, John Salusbury, Esq., of Erbistock, who
lived about the middle of the seventeenth century, and is reported as
having executed the labour with great accuracy. Does its actual scope
justify the above description, and where is it now? About the year 1780
it was in the possession of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the very surname
on which I am at present engaged.
JOHN DALTON.
48. Summer Hill, Dublin.
[In all probability, the present Sir W. W. Wynn could give some
information upon the subject if applied to.]
_The Earl of Erroll._--I have somewhere seen it stated, that in virtue
of his distinguished office as Great Constable of Scotland, which was
granted to his ancestry by King Robert Bruce, in 1312, his lordship is
by birth the first subject in Scotland; and in right of this privilege,
on all state occasions, where the sovereign is present, appears at his
or her right hand, and takes precedence of the entire peerage of
Scotland. Is it so?
PETROPROMONTORIENSIS.
[His Lordship cannot be by _birth_ entitled to precede the whole
peerage of Scotland, though as Lord High Constable, when attending
the sovereign, he may have that precedence.]
_Heraldic._--A friend has sent me the following Note "from a local
paper:"
"In the hall, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, is an escutcheon,
containing no less than 334 quarterings."
Can any of your correspondents verify this statement, or refer me to any
other example of so full a blazonry?
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.
[The shield is probably that of _Knightley_, whose quarterings are
very numerous. We do not know where to refer our querist to an
emblazoned shield, but there are other families whose quarterings
would be as numerous, viz. _Howard Percy_, and Brydges Chandos,
Duke of Buckingham, &c.]
_Family of Grey._--Thomas, second Marquess of Dorset, had four sons;
Henry, Thomas, Leonard, and John. Henry was created Duke of Suffolk, and
was with his two brothers, Thomas and Leonard, beheaded in 1555, for
taking part in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. John was ancestor of the
Earl of Stamford. The Queries I wish to make are, were Thomas and
Leonard, or either of them, married? If they were, what were the _names_
of their wives, and did they leave issue? And most particularly did
Thomas?
C. DE D.
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