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of Mathew Lightfoot will account for her
residence with her uncle, Henry Wheeler
(a linendraper of Market Lane as early as
the year 1735), who died of consumption
at St. James's, aged fifty-four, on 22 Jan.,
1758. She is the only Hannah Lightfoot
mentioned in the registers whose age coin-
cides with the requisite dates, and she was
reported to a meeting of the Society on 1 Jan.,
1755, after having been married by a priest.
The register of marriages at St. George's
Chapel, Mayfair (Keith's), contains the
following entry :
"Dec. 11, 1753. Isaac Axford of St. Martin's, Lud^ate, and Hannah Lightfoot of St. James's, Westminster."
Taking all these facts into consideration, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that Hannah Lightfoot, the niece of Henry Wheeler, linendraper, of Market Street, St. James's, the bride of Isaac Axford, and the renegade Quakeress, was the same lady for whom George, Prince of Wales, was believed by many of his contemporaries to have had a serious admiration.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
(To be continued.)
ROTHWELL PARISH REGISTER.
THE restoration of the earliest parish register of Rothwell, in the county of North- ampton, which had been missing for more than half a century, is worthy of being recorded in ' N. & Q.' This took place on 16 September last, when it was handed over to the vicar, the Rev. J. A. M. Morley, by Mrs. Newsham, whose grandfather, a former Churchwarden (buried at Rothwell), had died possessed of it in 1869. It extends from 1614 to 1708, the first entry, 29 March, 1614, being the burial of " Francis Parsons, Viccar of Rothwell." It is in good preserva- tion, save for the loss of a few pages of the baptisms, 1625-7, 1636-8, and 1700-2. An elaborate account of this volume (with some extracts therefrom), by " Fredk. Wm. Bull," entitled ' An Interesting Find,' is given in The Kettering Leader for 25 October.
It is curious that, a few months previous to this restoration, there had appeared in ' The Report of the Northampton and Oakham Architectural Society ' an interest- ing article entitled ' Parish Register Extracts from Barby, Maidwell, Pytchley, and Roth- well, co. Northampton,' commencing " earlier than the date of the now (1907) existing registers." This was contributed by the Rev. Henry Isham Longden, the extracts
(which as to Rothwell end in 1706) having
been taken by his ancestor, Sir Justinian
Isham, 5th Baronet, who was born 1687,
and died 1737. Of the nineteen children
of Edward Hill, lord of the manor of Roth-
well, by Susan, daughter of John Maunsell,
of Thorpe Malsor, the baptisms (1667 to
1689/90) of seventeen are extracted ; but,
oddly enough, that of Nathaniel, who suc-
ceeded to the Rothwell estate in 1709, is
omitted. This is given in the original
register as " Nathaniell, ye son of Mr.
Edward Hill and Susanna his wife, born
May 21 and bap. July 11, 1671," he being
mentioned in the Heralds' Visitation of
Northamptonshire in 1681 as the fourth
son, and then " set. circa 10." He died
28 April, 1732, and was succeeded by his
son George Hill (bap. 27 Sept., 1715, at
Waddington, co. Lincoln), the King's
Ancient Serjeant-at-law (well known for
his learning and eccentricity), who died
without male issue, 22 Feb., 1808, aged
ninety-two, being the last heir male of his
race. See an account of this family of Hill
in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. xv. (1899).
Another somewhat important omission in the Baronet's extracts is that of the burial of " Mr. Edward Lambe," 21 Nov., 1626. He was brother of Sir John Lambe, of Rothwell, Dean of the Arches (1633-47), to whom the above-named Edward Hill (in right of his mother, Susan, wife of the Rev. John Hill, vicar of Rothwell, and daughter of the said Edward Lambe) was, 19 April, 1673, " great-nephew and next of kin," and from whom he and his mother (who died May, 1665) inherited considerable property at Rothwell. G. E. C.
LEWIS CARROLL'S SOURCES : BURKE.
Perhaps even more remarkable than making
immortal fun out of nothing at all is making
it from the blank cartridges or the heavy
artillery of other men's matter ; and I think
the process is more interesting to watch.
The ' Ingoldsby Legends ' is a case in point.
Lewis Carroll's work would richly repay
more study in this line than seems to have
been given to it. I have before called
attention to his indebtedness to Nodier for a
few germinal suggestions ; here I will point
out a more striking one. In the ballad of
' Peter and Paul,' in ' Sylvie and Bruno,'
Paul agrees to lend Peter fifty pounds,
takes a short-term bond for the money,
then finds it " not convenient " to spare the
cash, and in fact never gives him a farthing
of it, but holds him to the bond, and throws
