s. vm. JA*. s, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 21 LONDON, JANUARY 8, 1521. CONTENTS. No. 143. 1NOTES: The Tempests of Holmside, co. Durham, 21 Atvorg the Shakespeare Archives, 23-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles. 25 The Prince of Wales in Australia : the Title Duke of Cornwall Pronunciation of Greek, 26 The Press and Christmas Madame de Sevign^ and Ma sson Tobacco : Returns Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Swords The A ntidote of Mithridates, 27. QUERIES : A Natural Daughter of George III. Cor- nelius Drebbel Matthew Paris Family of Dickson Samuel Dickson, M.D., 28' Qui Hi in Hindostan' 'Life in Bombay' "To Outrun the Constable" ' Franekinsence* The Green Man. Ashbourne Carlyle's French Revolution 'Spencer Mackay, Armiger The Glomery "David Lvall." Pseudonym, 29 Early Ascents of Mont Blanc by English Travellers Kensington Gravel at Versailles West-Country Place-names in the Seven- teenth Century Coats of Arms : Identification Sought " Meliora" Stevenson and Miss Yonge " Principal," 30 Thackeray : ' The Newcoines ' Barlow Family Mfljor-GeneralSir Robert Sale Chatterton's Apprentice- ship to Lambert 'Frankenstein,' 31. (REPLIES- A Note on Pepys's Diary. 31 Pamphlet on Kensington Square Kmerson's * English Traits ' 11 Fminere " Early Railway Travelling. 32 Lines on Nebuchadnezzar Beauclerc Denny, De Deene Jand Windsor Families, 33 Horseleperd St. Leonard's "Priory," Hants London Postmarks Notes on the >Early de Redvers RepresentativelCounty Libraries, 34 OBaternan Brown Kildalton Cross, Islay " Hun" The British in Corsica Warwickshire Folk Sayings, 35' Poor Uncle Ned ' Voucher=Railway Ticket Thomas Farmer Bailey, 36 Bottle-slider Nola Lady Catherine Paulet : Sir Henry Berkeley Peacocks' Feathers The Original War Office, 37 Heraldic Wool-Gathering French Prisoners of War in England Tercentenary Handlist of Newspapers The Hermit of Hertfordshire " Now, then! 38 John Wilson, Bookseller Danteiana Hook : Oxenbridge : Morton, 39. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Place-Names of Northumber- land and Durham ' ' The Story of " Our Mutual Friend." ' OBITUARY : Cecil Deedes. Notices to Correspondents. THE TEMPESTS OF HOLMSIDE, CO. DURHAM. IN vol xiii. of The Catholic Record Society's Publications at p. 117 (note 383) I- fell into some error about this family. Dodd ( ' Church History,' ii., Ill) seems also to have fallen into a similar confusion. Perhaps I may be allowed to rectify it here. (a) Robert Tempest, of Holmside, High Sheriff of Durham in 1561, married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Lesthall, of Lachford, Oxfordshire ; by whom he had five sons, Michael, George, Robert, William and Thomas. He and his eldest son Michael were attainted in 1569 for having taken part in the Northern Rebellion. He was specially named by Thomas, Earl of Sussex, in a proclamation dated Nov. 19, 1569. On the failure of the Rebellion he crossed the border into Scotland and on Jan. 7, 1570, was with the Lord of Buccleugh at Braiik- some. He and his son Michael embarked from Aberdeen, Aug. 23, 157.0. They were at Louvain in 1571. On June 11, 1571 one John Lea wrote to Lord Burghley from Antwerp that Robert Tempest and others had been earnest suitors at Brussels for pensions of which they were assured : but on Jan. 1, 1572 Michael Tempest wrote to his cousin Cuthbert Vasey from Brussels, that he and his father were both in health and living quietly with safety of conscience, without any relief as yet of any prince ; nevertheless they were expecting it shortly by the grace of God, and hoped to see a happy end of all their troubles. In another letter addressed to James Swynhoe, gentle- man of the English Countess (i.e. of Northum- berland), and dated from Louvain Mar. 4, 1572, Michael Tempest mentions his " cousin Swinburne." Robert Tempest the father died at Brussels. Shortly afterwards Michael went to Spain with one of his sons, probably William. They were in Madrid, May to July 1574, and received 300 ducats, with the promise of 35 ducats a month, or 40 ducats a month in Flanders. Michael's banishment from the Low Countries was demanded, Dec. 1, 1574 and July 3, 1575. He died abroad before 1588.* . (b) Robert Tempest, the third son of the above-mentioned Robert took the law as his profession, as his father, and as his brother Michael had done, and going abroad before the Rebellion took the degree of J.U.L. at some foreign university, probably either Louvain or Paris. He arrived at the English College at Rheims Dec. 24, 1583 and was ordained deacon by Cardinal de Guise (afterwards known as the Cardinal of Lorraine) in the chapel of St Cross in the Cathedral Church of Rheims, Mar. 31, 1584, and left for Rome, being then a priest, Jan. 17, 1585. In 1587 he was living in Paris. He returned to Rheims from Paris Sept. 18, 1590 but left almost at once for Paris returning again to Rheims, Nov. 8, 1590, and w r as appointed procurator to Dr. Worthington, the head of the College in
- ' Cal. S.P. Dom. Add.' 1566-1579, pp. 91,
95, 113, 117, 185, 352, 377, 386 ; ' Members of the Inner Temple ' (London, 1877), p. 32 ; Sharp, ' Memorials of the Eebellion ' (London, 1840), pp. 33, 264 ; Bridgwater, ' Concertatio Ecclesiae '- Proost, ' Messager des Sciences Historiques ' (Gand, 1865), pp. 284-6 ; Hamilton, ' Chronicle of St. Monica's, Louvain,' ii. 136 ; Surtees ' Durham,' ii. 327 pp. sqq.
