(52 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. jAS. 25,191* first, on 25 June, 1755, to Sarah Eddowes (who was buried 31 May, 1760), and secondly, on 6 Nov., 1768, to Jane Bayley, who is said to have been the daughter of a clergy- man, and who died shortly before her hus- band, and was buried 27 March. 1796. By his first wife he had two children :— (1) Isabell, baptized 1 April, 1756. (2) Mary, baptized 17 April, 1759; married 13 Nov., 1780, to Moses Sillitoe of Edgmond, and buried there on 16 May, 1786. By his second wife, Jane Bayley, Thomas Hoggins had ten other children :— (3) John, baptized 1 Jan., 1770, and buried the same year. (4) Ann, baptized 7 July, 1771 ; buried 12 July, 1772. (5) Sarah, baptized 28 June, 1773, Countess of Exeter. (6) William, baptized 29 Jan.. 1775, Captain in the 26th Regiment, and after- wards in the 92nd Regiment; lost on the Aurora, transport No. 229, with troops going to Holland, on the Goodwin Sands in 1805. (7) John, baptized 25 May, 1777; edu- cated at Bridgnorth, School; a farmer at Micklewood, Shropshire, 1801 to 1850, and afterwards of the Abbey Foregate, Shrews- bury. He married at Wistanstow. on 27 May, 1802. Ann, daughter of Thomas Beddoes of Cheney Longville (she died 7 Aug.. 1846. aged 66, and was buried on the 11th at Wistanstow), and had issue ten children, all baptized at Lcebotwood, and all now deceased. He died at Shrewsbury 15 March. 1857, and was buried on the 19th at Wistanstow. (8) Ann. baptized 13 March, 1779; married A. Hodge, and died at Tortola 29 Nov., 1808. leaving three children. (9) Thomas, born 1 Nov. and baptized 4 Nov.. 1781. Captain in the 84th Regiment; died about 1810. (10) Jane, baptized 3 July, and buried 6 July, 1783. (11) James, born 2 Dec. and baptized 5 Dec. 1784 ; educated at Shrewsbury School and St. John"s College, Cambridge. B.A. 1811; Vicar of Elham, Kent, 1834; died at Micklewood whilst on a visit to his brother John, 10 Aug., 1845, and was buried on the 19th at Wistanstow. (12) Richard, baptized 11 March, and buried 15 May, 1787. All these baptisms, marriages, and burials took place at Bolas, except where otherwise stated. There were, then, living, when Mr. " John Jones" came to Bolas in 1788 or 1789, Sarah, the eldest child, then scarcely 16, and five younger children, James, the- youngest, being but 5 years old. Thomas Hoggin's, Sarah's father, was buried at Bolas on 1 May. 1796, and ad- ministration of his effects was granted by the Bishop's Registry at Lichfield on 27 May, 1796, to his daughter S.irah, Countess of Exeter, " who resided within the diocese of London." The sureties wer? Evan Foulkes of Southampton Street, Covent Garden, gentleman (the Earl's solicitor), and Thomas Walford of Bolton Street, Piccadilly, gentle- man. There are no tombstones or memorial tablets to the Hoggins family now existing in the church or churchyard of Bolas. W. G. D. Fletcher, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury. (To be continued.) "CASERE WEOLD CREACUM" r 'WIDSITH,' ll. 20, 76. All students of ' Widsith' assert that " Casere " is the same word as casere^ " the Emperor," in the translations made by King Alfred at the end of the ninth century. The rule-right dialectal form of the Latin Cossar in O.E. is CasSr, and we get its diminutive in Cdsrring, "a coin bearing Caesar's image." This form shows i-umlaut of a?. " Casere " can no better equate Cascer than Ccesurius can equate Cmsar. The connexion is quite clear: C«suri-> *Casseri> Casere. Widsith tells us he was mid Casere se |>e Winburge geweald ahte Wiolan e ond Wilna ond Walarices. " (I was) with Coesarius who had the rule of Winburg,* of Willa's Island and the Willas, and of Gaul." The O.E. names of Gaul were *Wdlland (Anglian) and Wealkmd (West Saxon). Cf. Chron. 1040C, where we are told that Edward the Confessor came " of Weallande " (ea), i.e., from Gaul. Wala-rice is an Anglian form showing gen. pi. of wnlh. The Old High German was Uutflholant..
- The scribe of the Exeter Book preferred the
Scriptural reference conveyed by the plural, and miswrote winburga, "of the joyous cities." Win- burg is Binohestcr, the Vinovium of Antonine and the Joyous Garde of Arthurian legend, sc. Corbin.
