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he had the honour of receiving it.... In addi-
tion to his half pay, Captain Hill had a pension of
three hundred a year from King William, a singular
instance of Royal bounty, but I have heard my
father say ib was in consequence of some display
of merit at the siege of Derry."
Can any of your readers tell me whether there is a record of those to whom such medals and pensions were granted, and of the causes for their bestowal, in order that I may verify the above ?
Richard Hill died 1747 in Carlow, and his will is in the Diocesan Registry of Ferns and Leighlin. E. E. HILL.
Maycliff, St. Luke's Road North, Torquay.
DUKE OP ORMONDE'S FOLLOWERS. In the most interesting ' Life of the Duke of Ormonde,' by Lady Burghclere, it is said the Duke's followers went with him to France. Is there any record of who these were, or of those, if any, who died in France ? If so, where is it ? E. E. COPE.
Finchampstead Place, Berkshire.
RETFORDE : DERLEE : OFFICIALS OF ED- WARD TIL The letters patent of Edward III., 18 Jan., 1340/41, giving licence to Robert de Eglesfeld to found Queen's Hall, Oxford, are countersigned Retforde. Is this a known name of one of that King's officials ?
The same King's letters patent. 28 Feb., 1349/50, giving licence to the Provost and Scholars of Queen's Hall, Oxford, to build a chapel, and to John de Stouford to contri- bute thereto, are countersigned Derlee. Is anything known of this person ?
JOHN R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
SIR BEAUCHAMP ST. JOHN, Knt., M.P. in the Long Parliament, was the sixth son of Oliver, third Baron St. John of Bbtshoe, and was M.P. for Bedfordshire in 1621-2, and for Bedford Town in 1626 1628-9, April-May, 1640, and in the Long Parliament from November, 1640, unti secluded in Pride's Purge, December, 1648 Is the precise date known when he died ' Collins's ' Peerage ' erroneously gives it as 1631, and this date has been copied by al the Peerages, being accepted by the Vic toria County History, of Bedford 'upon the authority of Lodge's ' Peerage 'in the account given of the descent of the manor o Tilbrook, to which estate Sir Beauchamr succeeded in 1625 by the bequest of his father-in law, William Hawkins. He, how ever, certainly survived the Restoration being one of the secluded members whose return to Westminster was enforced b 1 General Monck in Feb.-March, 1660. Th
atest reference I have to him is 2 June, 1662,
when power was reservedto him as co-executor
prove the will of his nephew, Sir Oliver St. John, first Baronet of Woodford. At
hat date he would be about 70 years of age, and probably died shortly afterwards at L'ilbrook, where he may have been buried.
W. D. PINK. Lowton, Ne\s ton-le-Willows.
" IEBIE HORSE." What can this be? Possibly a variant of " hobby-horse," though I doubt it.
" He hath some smacke of iudgement in vawting, tumbling, and in dauncing xvith the !ebie horse." Barnaby Riche, 1606, ' Faultes, faults,' fo. 8 verso.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
"ACT OF PARLIAMENT CLOCK." In the Bruce Chapel in SS. Peter and Paul's, Picker- ng, is suspended a large, ugly clock of mammoth warming-pan shape the pendu- lum or weight-box representing the handle which is said to have been made at some period when a tax was laid on time-keepers.
1 should like to know something about this fiscal scheme, and to learn what there was peculiar in the make of clocks such as that at Pickering which made them legal.
ST. S WITH IN.
JAMES WM. GILBART. I am anxious to ascertain the date and place of marriage of the Rev. Francis Gilbart, the father of the famous banker, and also to know the full maiden name of Mrs. Francis Gilbart. I am in possession of Francis Gilbart's Cornish ancestry back to 1677.
J. H. R.
HOLCROFT OF VALE ROYAL. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me particulars of the ancestry of Sir Thomas Holcroft, or Henley, of Vale Royal, Cheshire, or Blackheath ?
Was he identical with Thomas Holcroft of Battesby, Surrey, whose daughter Elizabeth married William Ayloffe, King's Serjeant in 1577, who died 1585?
WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.
Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain any informa- tion concerning the following Old West- minsters : (1) Frederick Cope, admitted 1723, aged 12. (2) John Coppendale, admitted 1731, aged 11. (3) Richard Corbet, admitted 1748, aged 10. (4) Thomas Corbet, admitted 1716, aged 11. (5) William Cornish, admitted 1719, aged
