12 s. ix. DEC. 3, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 453 father's character. Many persons could not believe, until she confessed, that she had committed the murder. I think a rumour reached England long after her release that Constance Kent had died in one of the colonies. HARRY B. POLAND. Inner Temple. THE HOUSE OF HARCOURT (12 S. ix. 409). The answer to MR. W. HARCOTTRT- BATH'S queries are as follows : 1. Bernard was the Dane who fled from Denmark with his kinsman Rollo in 876, descended on Harfleur and gave the name of Normandy to the country they con- quered. Rollo assumed the title of Duke of Nor- mandy in 912 on doing homage to King Charles the Simple. 2. Bernard's great-granddaughter married the Comte d'Eu, second son of Richard I., Duke of Normandy. Only two Harcourts appear to have been present at the Battle of Hastings Errand, who commanded the Archer Guard at the battle, and his brother, Robert, who became the first Baron de Harcourt. Another brother, Arnold, was sent for out of Normandy by William the Conqueror, 1068, to oppose the invasion of England by the Danes, in an engagement with whom he was slain. 3. There is no trace of Errand de Har- court from the time of his return to Nor- mandy after the coronation of William the Conqueror. 4. Sir William Harcouct never claimed " descent from the Plantagenets " this was a newspaper invention, but he was in fact descended through his paternal grandmother from King Edward I., and through Sir Richard de Harcourt (1293) from Kenneth I. {MacAlpine) of Scotland. TI LEGAL COSTUME IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. ix. 407). I can only help RESTORATION with one authority and that not on " outside of the Courts." Roger North (' Examen,' c. iii., p. 195, ed. 1740) says : " Mr. Smith, a Barrister ... at the Trials [when Gates was a witness] stood in his Bar-Gown guarded with black velvet conspicuously at his elbow," &c. I hope RESTORATION will publish^what he collects. H. C N. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MILITARY SER- VICE : DRAX FAMILY (12 S. ix. 408, j 436). In the British West Indies there I were always regiments of militia, and the I officers, who were usually leading merchants I or sugar planters, were commissioned by the Governor and Council. I made the following note in 1914 in the Record Office of Barbados : " 200 acres, 50 by 40 chains, bounded out for Capt. James Drax, per me John Swanne, 21 Deer., 1636. Recorded 21 July, 1639" (vol. i., p. 736). In further deeds of 1641, 1643 and 1647 he was still styled " Capt." with " Esq." added. In 1647 Lygon in his History wrote, " that Col. James Drax from a stock of 300 had raised his fortune to such a height, that he said he would not go to England, till he were able to purchase an estate there of 10,000 per annum." He was one of the first planters to make sugar. In 1650, being a Parliament man, the Royalists fined him 80,0001b. of sugar, and he retired to England for a time. He was appointed a member of the Council of Barbados, January, 1654, and knighted by Cromwell, Jan. 6, 1657. He died in London, March 8, 1661, aged 52 ; m.i. in St. Anne and St. Agnes in Aldersgate Street. His eldest son James was also knighted, June 18, 1660, but died s.p. in March, 1663. The next son, Henry, was also a planter, Colonel and member of Council in 1667, and died s.p. in 1682. In the parish register of St. Michael, I Barbados, I saw the burial entry of another
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| Drax in ye Ch : " One of their sisters had ! a very unusual name, Phallatia or Palathia. Drax Hall, the old Cromwellian planta- tion house in St. George's parish, is still I standing. The Colonial State Papers and ' Cava- I liers and Roundheads in Barbados,' by my ilate friend Mr. Darnell Davis, C.M.G., should be consulted. V. L. OLIVER, F.S.A. Wey mouth. FAMILIES OF PRE -REFORMATION PRIESTS (12 S. ix. 290, 335). Perhaps MAJOR RUDKIN does not know Lea's ' History of Celibacy in the Christian Church,' published by Macmillan in 1907. C. E. S. BURIAL REGISTERS : ST. KATHARINE'S, LONDON (12 S. ix. 408). No doubt the Master of St. Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park (to which site the ancient charitable foundation was removed in 1825, when its original site was sold to the Dock Company ),
