SIR EDWARD FREWEN (8th S. iv. 307, 412, 514). -Since writing on the above (8th S. iv. 514) I can partially answer my own query. I have come across a deed at the Ecclesiastical Commission, dated March 22, 1640, wherein the Bishop of London leaves to John Wolverstone eight and a half acres of land at Little Hurlingham. On Thomas Frewen's marriage with Edith, daughter and heiress of John Wolverstone, this estate, by an indenture dated October 14, 1661, passed to him. CHAS. JAS. FÈRET. 49, Edith Road, West Kensington. MR. PINK is right in stating that Sir Edward Frewen was not M.P. for Rye. To MR. RADCLIFFE'S reply might be added that Sir Edward Frewen was one of the canopy bearers sent by Rye to King James's coronation. The year of his birth THORNFIELD. was 1662. Miscellaneous. By One of NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Marchmont and the Humes of Polwarth. their Descendants. (Blackwood & Sons.) In the splendidly picturesque and diversified family history of Scotland which puts to shame most Southern annals, the great family of Hume, or Home, holds a prominent place. Their highest honours were obtained in periods subsequent to the Reformation, when the turbulence and rapacity of the nobles had toned down, and the most illustrious members of the family with whom Miss Warrender deals are distinguished by their defence of liberty and privilege, and their resistance to the illegal exercise of authority. Miss Warrender's delightful book is practically a history of three successive Earls of Marchmont. Incidentally it is a great deal more. It supplies the genealogy of many distinguished and noble houses, it recapitulates deeds of supreme heroism, it furnishes an inexhaustible stock of folk-lore, and it gives pleasant glimpses into London life in the period of Bolingbroke and Pope. Seldom, indeed, is erudition so charmingly conveyed, and still more seldom does a family chronicle possess so much that is interesting and stimulating. We should be surprised at owing a book of this class to a girl had we not known that Miss Warrender comes of a strain of which, as was said of the Lucases, all the sons were brave and all the daughters virtuous and, in this case, heroic. Perhaps the most distinguished member of the family is that Lady Grizel Baillie, who when her father, suspected of complicity in the Rye House Plot, was hiding in a vault in the church, used to abstract what food she could from her own meals without attracting attention and steal with it at midnight to her father's ghastly shelter. The child who thus braved real danger as well as the even years old and no more. She was then Miss Hume, her more disturbing influence of night fears was twelve father's title of Earl of Marchmont not having been granted until some years subsequently, after the accession of William and Mary. It was, moreover, while engaged on a task alike merciful and honourable that she met with George Baillie, of Jerviswood, subsequently to become her husband. Into the lives of the Earls of Marchmont there is no temptation to enter. These belong to history, and are conspicuous in the most interesting memoirs of the time. The Marchmont papers are accessible, and throw a valuable light upon the times. If, as is the case, Macaulay is unjust to the first Lord Marchmont, Pope made compensation by crystallizing Walpole, Lord Marchmont's arch enemy, bore splendid, that of the third in some of his best-known lines; while if reluctant, testimony to his ability and honesty. Miss Warrender's book, which is dedicated to her grandfather, Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., of Marchmont, begins by furnishing an admirably picturesque descripthree thousand acres, lying at the foot of the Lammertion of Polwarth, a Berwickshire parish of little over muirs, and for a spot so thinly peopled making a great name for itself in poetry. At Polwart-on-the-Green we know, on the authority of Allan Ramsay, that lasses do convene To dance about the thorn, Sir the praises of Polwarth, which assigned to the Humes Many subsequent and some preceding poets have sung and to the Scotts of Hardon, who intermarried with the Humes, the still existing barony of Polwarth. Patrick Hume, subsequently first Earl of Marchmont, was eighth Baron of Polwarth. Much of interest to antiquaries is said concerning the frightening bell, rung at a funeral in front of the coffin to scare away the evil spirits. A story is told by Miss Warrender of another Miss Hume, not less heroic than Lady Grisell, who also saved her father's life by disguising herself as a highwayman and robbing of the death-warrant the messenger entrusted with its conveyance. Pope, it is known, appointed the last Lord Marchmont one of his executors. The story of these and other lives is delightfully told by Miss Warrender, and a genealogical record of much importance and interest is supplied. Her volume, which is attractive and remunerative in the highest degree, is richly illustrated. There are portraits of the earls, one of Hugh, the third earl, coloured, and of their wives from the family collection. Polwarth, the first wife of Patrick, first earl, presents a One of Elizabeth, Lady face of singular sweetness and loveliness. There are also views of the family seats, and a very striking picture of Hugh and Alexander Hume, twins, the sons of the second earl. The resemblance between these is so strong as to defy detection. There are also some illustrations of existing antiquities, and an appendix of great value. Miss Warrender has, indeed, written an estimable English volume, which will be valued by the historian, the antiquary, the genealogist, and not least by the lover of literature. Testamenta Karleolensia. The Series of Wills from the Præ-Reformation Registers of the Bishops of Carlisle, 1353-1886. By R. S. Ferguson, M.A., LL.M., F.S.A., Chancellor of Carlisle. (Kendal, Wilson; Carlisle, Thurnam & Sons; London, Stock.) THIS valuable little volume forms a very suitable companion to the other publications in the "Extra Series" of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archæological Society, in which it appears. Four out of the previous eight works so issued have been edited by the President of the Society, Chancellor Ferguson, to whose untiring zeal we owe the present volume. The early wills which form its subject are of great interest to the student of mediaval genealogy as well as of mediæ val manners and customs. They are, of course, full of bequests for "superstitious uses,' "such as obits and trentals, the latter being by some testators, as, e. g., by Thomas de Sandforth, dat. Decollation of St. John Baptist, 1380, directed to be celebrated as quickly after testator's death as conveniently might be. In his glossary Chancellor Ferguson seems to cater, under some headings, for readers very unacquainted with ecclesiastical Latin, as when he translates for them the terms "missa,' "missale," "monialis," "tunica," and the like, which we should have thought hardly needed explanation for the kind of persons who are likely to own the learned Chancellor as their President. Some of the Christian names and surnames here re corded are of interest in various ways. Thus the old Scandinavian name Orm, familiar to many through the Great and Little Orme's Heads in North Wales, appears in these pages as part of the surname Ormysheved or Ormesheved, i. e., Orm's head, an exact reproduction of the name of the headlands near Llandudno, from whose neighbourhood the Ormshead family of the Test. Karl.' may possibly have come. The rather crude form "Agid" as a female Christian name, on p. 187, in the will of Thomas de Anandale, Rector of Askeby, should, we can scarcely doubt, be Agidia, for Ægidia. The rector's own sur. name is evidently from beyond Solway, one of a certain number of Scottish names which are represented in the Test. Karl.,' just as they are in the Yorkshire Fines' and other Northern English records of the Middle Ages. To this category, we apprehend, belonged Walter de Corry, mentioned on p. 53, n. 1, circa 1332, as having sided with the Scots and so forfeited his lands in Kirklinton; and Thomas Olifant, p. 29, a legatee of William Nelson (or rather, as he calls himself, De Appilby), Vicar of Doncaster, 1360. Some quaint and rare early forms of surnames may be noted, such as Prestmanwyf, Prestonson, le Parsonman, the first named having, we presume, originally been the wife of the priest's manservant, the second the priest's son, an English parallel of the Scottish Macpherson. Life and Times of the Right Hon. William Henry Smith, M.P. By Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P. 2 vole. (Blackwood & Sons.) WE mean no disrespect to the eminent man whose life Sir Herbert Maxwell has written in these two pleasant volumes when we confess that in reading them our thoughts have sometimes recurred to that Industrious Apprentice of Hogarth's who by homely and commonplace virtues rose from a humble calling to the highest civic dignities. Mr. Smith was a bourgeois John Bull of the best type, endowed with such sterling qualities as enforced respect even from those who differed from him. He was essentially the plain man whom Englishmen understand and delight to honour. Though not possessed of the gifts of brilliancy and oratory, he had in a high degree what is in the long run infinitely more influential-character. No one ever doubted his sincerity and conscientiousness. His watchword in things great or small was "duty." He was genuinely and unaffectedly religious. His simplicity and integrity were set off by a winning courtesy and tact. He was singularly free from ambition and self-seeking, so that greatness was rather thrust upon him than courted. Here are all the elements of a noble character. When it is added that in all the relations of life-as a son, a husband, an employer, a churchman, and a statesman-he seems to have been equally faultless, it will be seen that such a life was well worth writing. It would have afforded an ideal theme to Dr. Smiles, but it has not suffered in the hands of his actual biographer, who has treated his subject with perfect sympathy and good taste. It is a book, indeed, for our rising young men to ponder and assimilate. It is well to be thus reminded that integrity and high principle are still more potent factors in public life than a shifty opportunism and versatility however brilliant. To be critical: it looks like etymological affectation when the writer chooses to render Mr. Smith's characteristic motto, "Deo non fortuna fretus," by the certainly not obvious English, "Freighted not by fortune but by God" (i. 84); and the same may be said of "rolster" (i. 88) for roster. The Bishop of Colchester's initial is not "F." (i. 106), but A.; and "Lefarrin" (ii. 58) we take on internal evidence' to be a misprint for Lefanu. It is curious, too, that Archbishop Trench is here no more than a dean (i. §0). English Writers. By Henry Morley, LL.D. Vol. Shakespeare and his Time: Under Elizabeth. (Cassell & Co.) THE first volume of this laborious and conscientious "attempt towards a history of English literature" was published in 1887. Though ten volumes have now appeared, Prof. Morley has still a long story to tell, especially if he still keeps to his original idea of including in his work notes of the literature of all the offshoots of the English race. 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