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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[12 S. V. DEO., 1919.
COURT OF ST. JAMES (12 S. v. 265). The
above term dates from about 1697, when
Whitehall was burned. The following ex-
tract is from Timbs's ' Curiosities of
London ' :
"On December 18, 1688, William, Prince of Orange, came to St. James's, where, three days afterwards, the peers assembled, and the house- hold and other officers of the abdicated sovereign laid down their badges. Evelyn says : ' All the world goes to see the Prince at St. James's, where there is a greate court. There I saw him : he is very stately, serious and reserved ' (' Diary,' vol. i. p. 680). King William occasionally held councils here : but it was not until after the burning of Whitehall, in 1697, that this Palace became used for state ceremonies, whence dates the Court of St. James's"
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
The phrase is said to date from the burning of Whitehall in the reign of William III., when St. James's became the royal residence. St. James's was once a part of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London. " In the reign of Queen Anne it had acquired the distinction of the Court quarter " (' Familiar Allusions,' by Wheeler, Chatto & Windus, 1882.) A. M.
RICHENDA : ORIGIN OF THE NAME (12 S. v. 237). Richenda is apparently a feminine form of Richard. The nearest approach I have found to it in Miss Yonge's ' History of Christian Names ' is Richenza ; other variants there given are Richarda, Richila, Richilde and Riciburga. The earlier forms of Richard are the Teutonic Richer, Rechiarius, and Riquier ; while the prefix portion of the name acts as a suffix in such forms as Erik, Hendrik, Theodoric, Osric, Ulrica, &c. N. W. HILL.
RICHARD WARNFORD (12 S. v. 266). This Winchester Scholar of 1560, one of seventeen boys who took the Scholar's oath here in the cloisters on Aug. 23, 1562, was a son of John Warnford of Sevenhampton or Senning- ton, a ty thing in the parish of Highworth, Wilts, by his marriage with Susan, daughter of John Yate of Lyford, Berks. Their eldest son, John Warnford, was Sheriff of Wilts in 1590-1. See the Warnford pedigree in ' Visitations of Hampshire ' (Harleian Soc., voh.lxiv., p. 191) ; and ' Warneford, late of Warneford Place ' (Sevenhampton) in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' (1914), p. 1966. See also ' Yate of Buckland,' and Warne- ford, of Buckland,' in ' Visitations of Berk- shire ' ( Hp.rleian Soc.,' vol. Ivi., pp. 60, 302).
The will, dated Feb. 1, 25 Eliz., of Richard's mother, Susan Warnford, widow,
was proved in London on April 22, 1583, bj
Edmund Barker, notary public, proctor fo*
John Warnford, the executor (P.C.C.
21 Rowe). She thereby desired to be burie<
in Highworth Church, " where the Warne
fords lie." Their chantry there is mentione<
in ' The National Gazetteer * (Virtue & Co,
1868), ii. 264.
According to some notes which I have c the will, the testatrix mentioned, f.mongs other persons, her " sisters " Pates an Marden, and her daughters Hinton, Baynarc and Loveden ; also her four sons, John (th executor), Richard, Thomas, and Olivei John had a family of at least eight childre: (Thomas, Anthony, John, William, Susar Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne) ; and Richar< had a daughter Susan, godchild to her grand mother, the testatrix. The will contain indications that the family had prospered b; breeding sheep.
Richard's younger brother Oliver becam a Winchester Scholar in 1569. Lancelo Warnford of Highworth, the Scholar of 1601 was presumably of the same family. In th 'D.N.B.' (lix. 378) there is a biography c William Warford, alias Warneford aix Walford, the Jesuit, who was born (so it i said) at Bristol in 1560, and who publishe his books under the name of " Georg Doulye." He was not, so far as I know, c the same family as Richard Warnford.
Richard was admitted Fellow of Nei College, Oxford, after the usual two year* probation as Scholar, on Sept. 3, 1565, bu vacated without taking a degree. H became a member of the Inner Temple i; 1567, his brother John having joined tha Inn in 1561. Richard is mentioned in th ' Victoria History of Hants,' ii. 86, as recusan , who in 1590 was " in arrears for hi non -churchgoing fines to the extent c 1,54<M." H. C.
Winchester College.
I should have added to my query at th above reference that the recusant we committed to the Wood Street Counter i London June 12 or 22, 1586, and was sti there on Nov. 30. At the end of 1595, h was in the Fleet for having heard Mass an neglected to pay his fine. His wife Mar was sent to the Wood Street Counter June 1! 1586, but discharged thence June 15. Mar and Elizabeth Warnford were committed t the Fleet Prison in 1591 and were still thei at the end of 1595. (See Cath. Rec. Soc vol. ii. passim.}
Oliver Warneford, Winchester Scholar, ( 1569, from Shenington (Kirby, ' Winchest< Scholars,' p. 142), is probably the perso
