BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI, this excellent introduction to the facts of astronomy to be brought up

W. C. BENNETT'S POEMS. DAVID DOUGLAS'S LIST.

Atheneum:-"These ballads are spirited and stirring: such are The OOR AIN FOLK: being Memories of Manse

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as well as for conveying, on trustworthy authority, a fair idea of the social status of the family, for it is quite evident that they were all of the same stock.

NOTES:-Ancestry of Southey, 241-Aylesford Registers, 243-Lving for the Whetstone-Alleviation of Penal Laws -The Pharaoh of the Oppression, 245-A Lady BarberSo far I have found no armorial seal attached to A "Phrontistère"-Breakfast in 1738-Hartfield Church-any of their wills; and in those that occur hereafter it will be seen the arms are different from those

American Vehicle, 246.

QUERIES:- Icon Basilike'-Holiday Festivities Fog claimed by the poet as those of his family.

chelsea-End-leaves of Books, 248-Daniel Hodson

Smith on Bacon, 249.

Science, 250-Thos. Miller-Portrait of Countess of Bles

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Woodward's Treatise of Ecclesi-
astical Heraldry'-Knox Little's à Kempis's ' Imitation of
Christ'-Fryer's 'Llantwit Major.'
Notices to Correspondents.

throttled "-Watts Phillips-John, Earl Carysfort-March The Weather-lore-Auster Tenements-Composer Wanted-earliest Southey will having an armorial seal is Nicholls Family - Author of Saying-Claybroke, 247Longevity of a Horse- Niveling" Military Etiquette that of Edmund Southey, of Chard, mariner, who, Exits-Exit-Ailments of Napoleon I.-Trocadéro-Swift's by his will, dated Sept. 4, 1732, leaves his wearWorks-Hammersley-Chesterfield: Monmouth: Win- ing apparel to his brother-in-law, Henry Bovett, Antigropelos "-Song-Title of Prince George II.-The and the residue of his effects to his wife, Sarah Curlew As they make them"-Turner's Pictures- Southey, who is appointed executrix, and who proved the will on May 14, 1733. To this will is REPLIES:-Quaker Dates, 249-Earliest Weekly Journal of affixed an armorial seal, which, from its style, was sington, 251-Cross-legged Effigies-Sir Eustace d'Aubriche- cut some seventy or eighty years before the date court-Cat's Brains-Jay"-"Dearth"-Dearness, 252- of the will, the arms being three bars. The crest "Whips" in the House of Commons-Strachey-Stanton Harcourt-Pentelow-To hold tack""To swilch," 253 is too defaced to decide what it represents. As "Gay deceiver"-The House of Yvery'-Burial by usual with seals of that date, there is no indication Torchlight-Benet Hall-Epigram, 254-White Jet of the colours, so that it is difficult to say to what Burial in Point Lace-Starch used for Paste-Author of Quotation, 255-Astragals-Golf, 256-Lincoln's Inn Fields family it belonged; but we shall probably be corSt. Oswyth-Hughes and Parry-Dean of Balliol Col-rect in concluding it was accidentally in the posseslege-Name of the Queen-"The Buddle Inn"-" Smore," sion of the testator or some friend ('Wells,' Bishop's 257-"No Vacations"-Accurate Language-Residence of Mrs. Siddons, 258. Court, 1733, No. 28). Though there is no evidence at hand to prove any connexion between this Edmund and the family at Wellington, it seems desirable to include it, for the sake of completeness; and the same may be said of the next one in my enumeration, although the latter has the name spelt with a slight difference, which it would appear likely is due to an error, for there are no other examples of the name. The will is that of Robert Southray, of Frome Selwood, yeoman, and is dated Oct. 16, 1743. To sons John Southray and Samuel Southray, also to son-in-law John Dibbons and Robert Carpenter all one shilling each. The residuary legatee and executrix is his wife, Joan Southray; but at her death half the goods are to go to their son Samuel Southray. The will was proved Sept. 12, 1751. The seal to this will is also armorial, namely, Within a bord. eng. a lion ramp. The crest is obliterated. The seal itself dates back to the middle of the seventh century, and the arms are those of the Champeneyes of Orchardleigh, near Frome (Arg., a lion ramp. gu. within a bord. eng. sa.); one of the witnesses, Mr. Whitchurch, clerk, was connected with the Champeneyes.

Fotes.

THE ANCESTRY OF THE POET SOUTHEY. (Concluded from p. 203.)

The will that I am about to give is evidently that of the widow of the brother George named in the will of Lawrence Southey, of Wellington, above, namely, Faith Southey, of Wellington, widow, dated Aug. 14, 1730. She mentions a settlement of 2001. on her marriage with her late husband George Southey, which sum of 2007. she leaves to her son Thomas Southey, while to his daughter Sarah Southey she devises a certain messuage, with lands, tenements, and garden, called Haynes, with houses in Wellington, near the late horsepool. To her son George Southey a guinea for a ring. Her nephew Thomas Cook ley, surgeon, and cousin Peter Southey, of Beckenham, in Kent, each to have half a guinea for a ring, which, allowing for the great value of money at that time, was not a large sum, especially as they were directed to act as trustees. The poor of Wellington were to have twenty shillings; the residuary legatee and executor being her son Thomas Southey, who proved the will on Sept. 19, 1730 ( Wells,' Bishop's Court, 1730, No. 92).

At the risk of being a little tedious, I have given abstracts of all Southey wills, for the sake of the genealogical information which they supply,

I will now return to the family at Wellington, one of whom, Mary Southey, of Wellington, in her will, dated March 24, 1753, names her two sisters, Ann Rogers and Joane Bryant, who are to have her wearing apparel. Susanna Rogers, probably a niece, has a guinea and sundry articles. Sarah Bryant, daughter of said sister Joane Bryant, a gold ring, a chest of drawers, and a looking-glass. Her nephew, Thomas Lockyer, alias Southey, son of the before-named sister Joane Bryant, to have a large tablecloth and napkins. Prudence Twoose,

daughter of William Twoose, of Wellington, to for mourning, and a silver half-pint cup with two have a gown of a dark coloured camlett. To handles. Law books, instruments for measuring brother-in-law Joshua Rogers, twenty shillings.land, &c., to Giles Bowerman. Residuary legatee The residue to the said nephew Thomas Lockier, and executor, brother John Southey. Proved at alias Southey. This will, the seal on which is not Wells, May 2, 1753 ('Wells,' Bishop's Court, armorial, was proved Oct. 11, 1753, one of the 1753, No. 96). witnesses being a John Norman, which indicates a near connexion with those named in the next will ('Wells,' Bishop's Court, 1753, No. 98).

There are two distinct seals to this will; the smaller is much more than a hundred years older than the other, which has the appearance of being I now come to the will that is of most interest comparatively new, say from ten to twenty years as evidence on the heraldic point, as it is also the old, and is exactly like the older one, except that longest and most important, consisting of several while the older one has the arms simply, a chevron sheets of foolscap, each sealed and signed. It is between three cross crosslets, the newer seal has also the first in which we find a Southey styling lines on the shield to represent that the field is red, himself "gentleman." It is that of Peter Southey, viz., Gu., a chevron between three cross crosslets of Wellington, gentleman, dated March 13, 1749. arg. Here, then, we find the first use of the arms It mentions the new estate, consisting of a mes- mentioned by the poet, only that the shield is red suage or dwelling-house, brewhouse, outhouses, instead of black. But it is particularly worthy of stables, garden, and one acre of land, called Bick-notice that one of the seals is so very much older hams, in his own occupation, also freehold messuages than the will, or even than the testator, and yet and land in the tything of Payton, in Wellington, we have no instance of any of the family using this called Coleman's, bought of John Twoose, and two seal or one with the same or any arms before this freehold meadows called Addicott's meadows, con- Peter Southey. We are, therefore, led to inquire taining ten acres, in the tything of Ham, in West if there was any family living in Somersetshire who Buckland, which he leaves in trust for the purposes used such a coat of arms as a chevron between named in his will, the trustees being Robert Were, three cross crosslets, when we soon discover that of Wellington, sergemaker; Giles Bowerman, of the family of Southworth, who used Argent, a Hemyock, yeoman; and his brother John Southey, chevron between three cross crosslets sable, were and their heirs. Leases in West Buckland, one in living in a good position in this county in the early the occupation of his kinsman Henry Southey as part of the seventeenth century, part of whose tenant. Brother William Southey to receive the property still continues in the possession of the rent of Skinner's, in West Buckland, and to have descendant of one of the two coheirs, H. Templer the best mourning ring he had for the Elwill family, Bull Strangeways, Esq., of Shapwick. Of this a single-handled silver cup, the green bedstead, family of Southworth there is a notice, with a with its furniture, that he lodges on, and the pedigree of their descendants, in a recent work on necessary furniture of a lodging room. Brother the monuments and heraldry of Wells Cathedral, John Southey to have lands called Sitterfins, or in a window in which are two shields of SouthChalcombs. Sister Joane, wife of William Chan-worth, with quartering and impalements, the arms non, to have eight pounds a year. Kinsman Peter, also being on monuments in the churches of Wyke son of brother William Southey, to have twenty Champflower and Shapwick, the quartering being pounds. Kinsman John, son of brother John Dayes, Sable, a chevron between three cross crossSouthey, to have forty pounds, a brass gun, and a lets argent. Henry Southworth, Esq., was Lord silver seal with the family arms; and his two of the Manor of Wick Champflower, near Bruton, sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, to have twenty pounds and left two daughters his coheirs-Jane, married each. Kinswomen Mary and Sarah Norman forty to William Bull, Esq., of Shapwick, co. Somerset, pounds each. Kinswoman Ann, wife of Peter and Margaret, married to Arthur Duck, D.C.L., Lapthorne, and her children. Kinsman John Chancellor of Bath and Wells and M.P. for MineChannon to have fifty pounds; and his father, head, of the family of that name near Exeter, in William Channon, what he owes to testator to be Devon. This Henry Southworth's will is dated forgiven. Kinswoman Mary, wife of John Gave-May 23, 1625, and was proved November 12 folrick, of Exeter, and her sister Margery. Kins-lowing, and in it he styles himself of Wells, woman Ann Carthew, widow, twenty pounds. Kinswoman Margaret Reynolds, ten pounds. Cousins Henry Southey and Thomas Southey, of Gorknell, five pounds each. Cousin Henry Southey, of Grosvenor Square, London, a guinea for a mourning ring. Twenty pounds Mary and Elizabeth Symons, two fatherless and motherless grandchildren of said sister Channon. Servant Jane Dickenson thirty pounds, and three pounds

esquire, but rightly citizen and mercer of London, and desires to be buried by his wife at Wyke Champflower. This Henry had a brother Thomas Southworth, a lawyer, Recorder of Wells, Somerset, who made a nuncupative will, dated Sept. 8, 1625, and proved Dec. 20 in the same year, in which he is styled of Wells. He was buried at Barrow Gurney (in which church is a plain floor-slab to his memory), he being half brother of Blanche,