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He also describes the family arms, crest, and motto. It would seem, therefore, that he was of ancient lineage and gentle birth. Berry states that NOTES:-J. Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh, 1-The the archbishop's eldest son, James, of Cherry Ancestry of Agatha, 2- Mrs. Sophia Williams, 3-Dr. Baillie-Thomson, 4-"Jymiams"-A May Custom-Hinton, co. Cumberland, was buried Oct. 7, 1660. S. T. Coleridge-Members of Parliament, 5-Anachronism I find that Margetson had two sons named James, In Apple-pie Order "-Merks-Sterne's Plagiarisms and if Berry's statement is correct, both of them Triplets-Wise Women in Norfolk'-'The Imitation of were alive at the same time. Christ,' 6. QUERIES:-Sussex Court Rolls-Dictionaries-Isabella of France-"Pin"-"The Oath of Varges'- HaymarketThe King's Head"-Rolland-"Morphil"-Riding of

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JAMES MARGETSON, ARCHBISHOP OF

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In the 'Dictionary of National Biography' there is an account of this prelate by Mr. Richard Bagwell, which I have read with interest. I should like to add some particulars of him and his family in the pages of ' Ñ. & Q.'

In a courteous letter which I received in 1883 from the Incumbent of Drighlington, Yorkshire, the birthplace of the archbishop, he mentioned a tradition existing there that Margetson was of humble birth, and began life as a gyp in Cambridge, but having attracted the attention of one of the Fellows, he was educated, and afterwards matriculated in Peterhouse College.

Now, in his 'Surrey Pedigrees,' Berry gives an extensive account of his family, beginning with John Margetson, of Wakefield (A.D. 1400), whose son Richard, of Rotherham (1430), was father of Thomas, who was buried in January, 1540, aged eighty-one. Thomas was father of John, of Wakefield, buried at Birstall in October, 1580, whose son Thomas (buried Feb. 1, 1589) married, in 1560, Mary Lowther, and their son John, married at Birstall, Nov. 9, 1589, Mary Layton, and was father of James, born 1600, the fature archbishop. Berry adds in a note :—

"The family possessed lands in the county of York in the latter end of the reign of Richard II. or beginning of that of Henry IV. before 1400."

Mr. Bagwell, following the example of other writers, calls Major John Margetson the eldest son of the primate-a mistake, beyond a doubt, as I shall presently show.

John and James, twin sons of the primate, entered Trinity College, Dublin, on the same day, May 27, 1672 (or more correctly 1673, as the college year began on July 9), aged sixteen their next birthday, and were therefore born in 1656-7. Both of them graduated B.A. in 1676, and James became M.A. in 1679. There was a third son, Robert, who entered April 6, 1677 (1678), ætatis sixteen, and therefore born in 1661/2. But there was an elder son then alive, in the person of Thomas Margetson, M.D., who in 1666 was elected M.P. for the city of Armagh, and in 1670 became Regius Professor of Physic in the Dublin University. He married on Aug. 31, 1667, Mary, second daughter of Sir George Carr, Knt., of Southey Hall, Yorkshire, Clerk of the Council of Munster (she married, secondly, Dr. Michael Ward, Bishop of Derry), and had issue one daughter, Mary, born Nov. 6, 1668, who married, in 1684, Maurice Keating, Esq., of Narraghmore, co. Kildare, and their daughter Anne was second wife to Dr. Charles Carr, Bishop of Killaloe, grandson of Sir George Carr. Dr. Thomas Margetson died March 17, and in 1676 his widow had a grant of lands in co. and was buried in St. Patrick's March 19, 1673; Clare. He was baptized (as hereinafter mentioned) at Thornton Watlass, Bedale, Yorkshire, in 1631. In the Fun. Ent. Ulster Office his arms are given, identical with those of the primate, with a crescent for cadency, showing that he was a second son, and that he had an elder brother then living or who had left issue. The arms of the primate, confirmed by Roberts, "Ulster," in 1649, were Sa., a lion pass. arg., armed and langued gules; a chief engrailed or almost the same as those described by Berry.

Margetson had been rector of Thornton Watlass, and the present rector, the Rev. J. D. Anderson (like the great majority of incumbents to whom I have had occasion to apply), most courteously and kindly took the trouble of searching the almost illegible parish records, and informed me that James Margetson's name, as rector, first appears in 1627; in which year, on March 20, his wife Ann was buried, apparently immediately after the birth of twin sons, who were baptized on the 16th of the The latter, same month as James and Francis. Francis, died young, and was buried on March 31,

1630, and as he died before he grew up his brother Thomas took his place as second son, heraldically. And soon afterwards the rector was married a second time, for his son Thomas (no doubt identical with Dr. Thomas, mentioned above) was baptized "in Bedall" in 1631, but the month and day are omitted; and on Nov. 17, 1633, another son John was baptized. In that same year Margetson resigned the rectory, and accompanied Lord Wentworth (afterwards the ill-fated Earl of Strafford) to Ireland as his chaplain.

Mr. Anderson could not find any entry of Margetson's second marriage, nor is his second wife's Christian name mentioned; but from the facts I have given it seems clear that he was married no fewer than three times. His eldest son was, I presume, the James given by Berry. His second son, Thomas, was, doubtless, the M.D. and M.P., and the third son, John, probably died young.

Besides the seven sons named, the archbishop had a daughter Anne, married in 1678 to William, Viscount Charlemont, and she died in 1729. Margetson's first wife, Ann, was buried March 20, 1627; his second wife remains unknown; and his third wife, to whom he was probably married during his life in London in poverty, under the Commonwealth, was Anne Bonnett, sister of

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From the History of the Church of Scotland' (Spottiswoode Society Publications, vol. i. p. 60):

"This Edmund left two sons, Edwin and Edward, whom Canutus in the beginning entertained very kindly, but afterwards, seeking to establish the crown in his own posterity, he sent them to Volgarus, the governor of Swain (Sweden), to be murthered. The governor, pitysecretly unto Solomon, King of Hungary, giving out to ing the state of these innocent youths, conveyed them Canutus that they were made away. Edward (surviving Edwin his brother) married Agatha, sister to the Queen of Hungary, and daughter to the Emperor Henry II., by whom he had a son called Edgar, and two daughters, Margaret and Christian."

From Buchanan's History of Scotland,' vol. i. bk. vii. p. 346: Volgar, governor of Sweden, "sent them to Hungary to King Solomon. After being there royally educated, Edward displayed so amiable a disposition that the king chose him, in preference to any of the young nobility, as a busband for his daughter Agatha." A note added to this by a later compiler says: "The genealogy of the lady copied by Buchanan from the English historians is doubtful" (see Hailes's 'Annals,' vol. i. p. 1).

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From Lord Hailes's 'Annals of Scotland,' 1797, note, pp. 13, 14:

"This Margaret was the grand-niece of Edward the Confessor. The English historians unanimously assert that Edward, the father of Margaret, was educated at the court of Solomon, King of Hungary, and that Solomon gave his sister-in-law Agatha, the daughter of the Emperor Henry II., to him. But this account is inconsistent with the truth of history. Edward, the son of Edmund Ironside, returned to England in 1057 (Chron. Sax., p. 169). At that time Solomon, born in 1051, was but six years old. He did not ascend the throne of Hungary till 1062. Five years after the death of Edward, he married Sophia, daughter of the Emperor Henry III. It follows that Solomon could not receive Edward at his court, and could not give his sister-in-law in marriage to him.

"Besides, Agatha, the wife of Edward, could not be the daughter of the Emperor Henry II.; for Henry II. had no children. We all know his unnatural crime, termed sanctity by a superstitious age, and the declaration which he made to the parents of the virgin Cunegonda."

Papebrock, Ad Vit. S. Margaretæ,' June 10,

p. 325, has endeavoured to reconcile this genealogy with historical truth. He says

"that Solomon is an error of transcribers for Stephen, and that Edward may have been received at the court of Stephen I., King of Hungary, who began to reign in 1001. Stephen married Gisela, the sister of the Emperor Henry II. Henry had a brother Bruno, who rebelled against him in 1003. This Bruno may have gone into Hungary, may have married, may have had a daughter Agatha, who may have been given in marriage

to Edward."

Aldred, 'De Genealogia Regum Anglorum,' p. 366, says: "Rex Hungarorum Edwardo filiam Germani, sui Henrici imperatoris, in matrimonium junxit." Papebrock, by an ingenious conjecture, instead of "Germani sui Henrici" reads "Germani sancti Henrici." There is another passage in the same page of Aldred which cannot be cured by this critical application: "Imperator Edwardum cum uxore Agatha, generi sui filia, ad Angliam mittit." The hypothesis of Papebrock is, shortly, this, and without it we can have no genealogy of Agatha and her daughter Margaret: "That instead of Agatha, the daughter of Henry II. and sister-in-law of Solomon, King of Hungary, we ought to read Agatha, daughter of Bruno, and niece of Gisela, the wife of Stephen of Hungary." It is not worth while to devote much attention to Papebrock, as he has been effectually riddled by Prof. Freeman and others. Let us look into Hungarian history a little further, for some dates.

King Geisa (972-997) was the first pacific ruler of pagan Hungary; from 972, Duke of Hungary; baptized by Bruno, Bishop of Verdun, ambassador to Geisa, sent by Otho I. Geisa married a Christian princess as his second wife, a sister of the Duke of Poland, Mieczyslaw; her name was Sarolta, and she was the daughter of Gyulas, one of two Hungarian princes baptized at Constantinople 948; the other prince, Bolusudes, however, relapsed into barbarism. Geisa and Sarolta had a daughter who married Boleslau the Brave, Duke of Poland; a daughter who married Urseolus, Doge of Venice; and Waik, son and heir, who was baptized by Adalbert of Prague with the baptismal name of Stephen, when he was four years old, 983 or 984. He succeeded his father Geisa in 997, and reigned forty-one years, and died Aug. 15, 1038 (just thirty-eight years after his coronation to the very day, according to another authority; this is accounted for by the fact that he really began his reign 1000 or 1001). Stephen married Gisela, daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, while through the alliances of his father's family Hungary obtained a recognition among European nations. When Stephen came to the throne, Otho III. governed Germany; Boleslaw III., Bohemia; Boleslau the Brave, Poland; Vladimir the Great, Russia; and Basil II., Constantinople. Emmerich, or Henry, son of Stephen and Gisela, died before his father, in 1031. Stephen chose for his succes

sor his nephew Peter, son of the Doge Urseolus ; but this prince made himself unpopular. After various changes a popular assembly declared in his stead for Andrew I., son of Ladislaw the Bald, in 1046. This Andrew was nearly related to Stephen, and by some said to be a cousin. I should like to know if he was a cousin. He was forced to yield to his brother Bela in 1061, who, however, died in 1063. Then came Solomon, son of Andrew I. W. FARRAND FELCH.

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MRS. SOPHIA WILLIAMS.-This lady, whose death, June 25, 1823, at the Dowager Viscountess Sidney's house in Chapel Street, South Audley Street, is announced in the Gentleman's Magazine, Supplement i., 1823, vol. xciii. pt. i. p. 651, was the only daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Thersea Cornelys, a native of Germany, who once held a distinguished station in the regions of fashion. Her mansion was called Carlisle House, in Soho Square. The premises were very extensive, and reached to what is now known as Crown Street. The rooms in this capacious mansion were numerous, and were laid out with considerable taste. The fashionable world in general warmly patronized Mrs. Cornelys, and the proceeds of concerts, balls, and masquerades enabled her to live in luxurious style. She kept carriages, and had a villa at Hammersmith. At length, however, the eminent architect, Mr. James Wyatt, erected that beautiful and classical mansion the Pantheon, in Oxford Street, and the tide of fashion turned in its favour. Unluckily about this period (1771) Mrs. Cornelys attempted to introduce the performance of Italian Operas at Carlisle House, and thus placed herself in an attitude of direct hostility to the Italian Opera House, then under the superintendence of the Hon. George Hobart (1732-1804), afterwards third Earl of Buckinghamshire. He applied to the magistrates to prohibit the entertainments, and was so far successful that Sir John Fielding ordered the arrest of Guadagni, the chief singer at Carlisle House, and fined Cornelys and the other organizers of the "harmonic meetings." An indictment of Mrs. Cornelys for keeping a common disorderly house was brought before the grand jury on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1771. The elegance of the Pantheon, the institution of "The Coterie," by certain of the "Society of Carlisle House," and the influence of Mr. Hobart resenting the attempt to injure his interest in the Opera House successfully combined to withdraw the fashionable world from Mrs. Cornelys, and her fall (in November, 1772) naturally followed. As late, however, as 1777, we find Mrs. Cornelys still organizing masques at Carlisle House. In 1785 the property was in Chancery, and the house sold under a decree of the Court, and Mrs. Cornelys retired into private life at Knightsbridge, "the world forgetting, by

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the world forgot." After remaining in great obscurity for many years, under the name of Mrs. Smith, she was eventually compelled to seek refuge in the rules of the Fleet Prison, where she died on Aug. 19, 1797, aged seventy-four (Gent. Mag., October, 1797, vol. lxvii. pt. ii. p. 890).

Her son and daughter, who had received all the accomplishments suitable to the fortune which their mother was expected to acquire, were compelled to resort for support to the exercise of their talents. They both changed their names. The son-" le petit Aranda" of Casonova-an amiable and accomplished man, assumed the name of Altorf and became tutor to the Earl of Pomfret. He died a few years before his mother, for whom he had provided during his life. The daughter, Sophia Wilhelmina, who had been educated at the Roman Catholic nunnery at Hammersmith, after her mother's fall, adopted the surname of Williams, which she retained till her death. Under the name of Miss Williams, she was warmly countenanced by the families of the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Harrington, and also by the family of Mr. Charles Butler, well known and esteemed in legal circles. She afterwards acted as governess in several noble families, among whom were Lords Newhaven, Dormer, &c. At length she became companion to Lady Spencer at Richmond, who on her death bequeathed to her an annuity of 1001. In due time she obtained the patronage of Queen Charlotte and of the Princess Augusta, to whom she acted as a private almonress, pointing out fit objects for royal benevolence, and being the means of conveying it. She established the Adult Orphan Institution for the relief and education of those orphan daughters of the clergy and of military and naval officers who should be left friendless and unprovided to contend with the hardships and temptations to which they might be exposed. On June 24, 1820, the institution was actually opened in two houses, Nos. 32 and 33, Mornington Place, Hampstead Road, but it was afterwards removed to St. Andrew's Place, Regent's Park.

Miss Cornelys, or Williams, of whom an account appears in John Taylor's 'Records of my Life,' 1832, vol. i. pp. 267-271, was also instrumental in the first institution (in 1806) of the Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum, originally established as "The Old School of Industry," for the education of female under-servants, and acquired particular influence over her royal patronesses, especially the Princess Augusta. She was formerly a rigid Roman Catholic, but it is said that she eventually conformed to the Established Church:

"Nobody understood the world better, or could better adapt themselves to its weaknesses, passions, and follies. Her manners were mild and submissive. She possessed great musical talents in early life, sung with expression, and accompanied herself skilfully on the harp. She was low in stature, and by no means beautiful in features.

She must have reached her seventy-fourth year, when fate put a period to her eventful and variegated life." DANIEL HIPWELL.

DR. BAILLIE. (See 'Wells on Dew,' 8th S. v. 464.)-MR. NORGATE has called my attention to what he is so good as to name 66 of mine (ante, p. 464) in referring to Dr. Baillie a slight mistake" as the father, instead of the brother, of Joanna. In my young days, when the century was yet in its teens, anecdotes were afloat respecting the doctor similar to those which were afterwards current in the case of Abernethy. For example: a lady entered the consulting-room in Grosvenor Street and called the doctor's attention to a pimple on her arm. He said, "I am glad you came here this morning, madam." "What, it is dangerous then?" until to-morrow, it would have gone away of itself, "Not at all; but if you had waited and I should have lost a guinea!" C. TOMLINSON.

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THOMSON.-Thomson in his 'Seasons' seems to when he is in the mock heroic vein, to Philips, the me to be somewhat indebted for his style, especially author of 'Cider' and 'The Splendid Shilling.' He had read and admired him. I think that Cowper mentions Philips in his Autumn,' showing that he also owes something to this author or to Thomson. Philips imitated and parodied Milton, but Thomson and Cowper resemble Philips more than they In 'Spring' Thomson has these lines :Great Spring before Greened all the year, and fruits and blossoms blushed In social sweetness on the self-same bough. He may have been remembering Waller :For the kind Spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts them all the year. Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same tree live: At once they promise what at once they give. In 'Spring' also there are lines evidently taken from Ovid. whence they are derived. For in Ovid Pythagoras But Thomson half acknowledges is the speaker of the lines; and Thomson refers to the Samian sage :

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But you, ye flocks!
What have ye done? ye peaceful people! what
To merit death? you who have given us milk
In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat
Against the winter's cold? And the plain ox,
That harmless, honest, guileless animal !
In what has he offended?

Quid meruistis, oves, placidum pecus, inque tuendos
Natum homines, pleno quæ fertis in ubere nectar,
Mollia quæ nobis vestras velamina lanas
Præbetis, vitâque magis, quam morte iuvatis?
Quid meruere boves, animal sine fraude doloque,
Innocuum, simplex, natum tolerare labores?

Metamorphoses,' B. 15, lines 116-121.

and in Liberty' some absolute translations of He has also in 'Autumn' an imitation of Virgil, Horace. In 'Autumn' he has this verse on a hunted deer :

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