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NOTES:-Sir John Pollard, the Speaker, 1-The Longmans, 2- Englands Parnassus, 4-Genealogical Circulating Library Orkney Hogmanay Song. 5-Latin Epitaphs-Befana: Epiphany-All Hallows E'en: Tokens -Bristol and the Slave Trade, 6-Cock Ale-"Cocoa

"To my wief 500 sheep of the best that shall be going at Newnham, Clyfton, or Baldry; also household staff at Newnham Courtney, and farm stock, and 1007. worth of plate, and 100%. money. The parsonage to Newnham Court to my brother nutti" Language-Dickens, Pickwick, and Bristol-The Anthony, and plate that was Sir William BarranMuffin Martyr-Sneezing Superstition, 7 QUERIES:-George Milton. Scrivener-Dickens's Bastille tyne's. To my brother Anthony Pollard all my Prisoner-Dickens's "Knife-Box"-Aerial Navigation books and farm stock, 201. of plate, and 207. in Fire Engines-Surnames ending in nell - Yorkshire money. Legacy to Joan Charlton. My Kinsman Hunting Incident, 8-Heraldry-Lord Melbourne and Sir James Pollard, present parson of Newnham, Baldock-Sir H. Walker: Boyne Man-of-War-Sulham- 57. to pray for me his masses. To my brother-instead Rectory Dunstable Authors of Quotations law John Studham 40%. To my mother 51. A Wanted-The Never Never Land, 9-'Village Blacksmith' Parodied-Cuthbert Shields-Travelling under Hadriansermon to be preached by a Catholic Doctor or 'Bride and Bridegroom at Church-"Master Pipe Maker" Bachelor of Divinity, 10s. Sir John Williams, -Capt. Rutherford at Trafalgar-"Brokenselde"-Ships | Knight. Lord Williams of Thame." renamed after the Restoration - Gower, a Kentish Hamlet, 10. REPLIES:-Mediterranean, 10-"Psychological Moment"William Blackborough, Miltons Relative-Queen Elizabeth's Day "Old King Cele," 13-Authors of Quotations Wanted The Promptorium-Italian Genealogy, 14Tolsey at Gloucester-Billy Butler the Hunting Parson -Caroline as a Masculine Name-"Cardinal" of St. Paul's, 15-Mitred Abbots and Priors-Le Blon Mezzos in Four Colours-Bishop Sampson of Lichfield-Bell Customs at Sibson-Joanna Southcott's Celestial Passports-93, Pall Mall, 16-Samuel Foote, Comedian-Rattlesnake Colonel -Military Bank-Note: Fort Montague-Parcel Post in 1790, 17-Henry Halliwell-Lights in Lyrics'-Manor House c. 1300-Truss-Fail-Harris, Silver-Buckle MakerFleet Prison, 18. NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Oxford Thackeray'-Swift's Prose Works. Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notes.

SIR JOHN POLLARD, SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Ir cannot be said that all difficulty as 'to the identity of this knight has been removed. Manning in his Lives of the Speakers' makes no attempt to specify his parentage; and the writer of the interesting article upon him in the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.,' while correctly stating that he was second son of Walter Pollard of Plymouth by Avice, daughter of Richard Pollard, of Way, Devon, seems also to be of opinion -though doubtfully-that he was the Sir John Pollard knighted on 2 Oct., 1553. Now while it is certain that a person of these names was among the Coronation knights of Queen Mary, it is equally clear that he I could not have been the man who was after

wards Speaker. Not only is the latter : an armiger " in the whole of his returns to Parliament between 1553 and 1555, but in the Journals of the House of Commons, at his election to the Chair in both 1553 and 1555, he is styled "John Pollard, esqre.' An examination, however, of his will puts this right. This is dated 2 Aug., 4 and 5

This is followed by another will, made. a few months earlier, but obviously ratified and confirmed by, and to be taken as part of, the above-mentioned later document:

"The last will and testament of one John Pollard, esq., made the first day of May, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary.

"To William Jenkins, my servant, an annuity out of Newnham Court. To my wife, my manor of Newnham Court. To my brother Anthony Pollard. William Pollard, son of Sir Richard Pollard. Knight, deceased. Phyllyp, daughter of William Sheldon, esq., wife of the said Anthony. Tenements in the City of London and in Kingston-uponThames, co. Surrey, in right of my wife, being one of the daughters of Richard [? Gray], late of London, deceased."

Both wills were proved 13 Oct., 1557, by
Anthony Pollard and Ralph Ferne.

From these two wills it is evident that the
ex-Speaker received knighthood between
buried 25 Aug., 1557, his enjoyment of the
5 May and 2 Aug., 1557; and as he was
knightly dignity was but brief. He died
he left a wife, who, if one of the daughters
s.p., though, as we gather from his will,
of Richard Gray of London, may have
been the Dame Mary Pollerd, al Norris,
administration
widow," to whose estate, on 21 Dec., 1608,
Grey, her next of kin. This last suggestion
was granted to Thomas
requires support, fifty years being a lengthy
time for a wife to survive her husband.

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The heir of the Speaker was his brother Little Baldon, Anthony, who, as Anthony Pollard of made his will 20 Dec., 18 Elizabeth :

and Sanford, co. Oxford, 10%. To marriage portion "To repair of highways in Newnam Courtney of ten poor maids, 10., 208. apiece. To prisoners in gaol at Oxford, 208. To John Grene my servant, 107. [and several like sums]. To John Shakespeare my servant, 10. and a black coat. To Symon Alleine my servant, 10%., and a black gown. Leonard Wilmote, 67. 138. 4d. John Prince, Thomas Mosden, Robert Mair, 47. each. Gregory Teroll, 31. 6. 8d. Alis fferis, 57. if in my house at my death. To Eliza

sole exor.

beth Wynterfall, 51. on day of her marriage. To of them died very young. The Pollard' every of the children of Alice Toukis and Johan pedigree in Vivian's 'Visitations of Devon Charleton, my sisters, which shall be alive at my (the fullest account of the Pollards of Way decease, 5., to be paid within four years. To my cousin Thomas Ayshe all my books, apparel, &c. of which I have knowledge) gives to the To my cousin William Pollard, son of Sir Richard judge six sons and five daughters; while Pollard, a gelding, or 5. to buy him one. Residue in his will he mentions four sons only. to my well-beloved wife Phillipp Pollard, who is There is little doubt that the Sir John Pollard knighted in 1553, and mistaken for the Speaker, was one of the sons of Sir Lewis. I shall be glad if further light can be thrown upon the somewhat complicated Pollard lines, especially upon that represented by the Speaker's father Walter Pollard of Plymouth. Also, who was the Richard Pollard who took so active a part in the suppression of the monasteries? W. D. PINK.

Proved in London 26 Aug., 1577, by Phillippe,
relict and exor. This lady was daughter
of William Sheldon of Beslye, co. Worcester,
and survived her husband many years,
dying 23 Dec., 1606, aged seventy-four.
According to the 'Visitation of Oxfordshire
(Harl. Soc.), Sir John and Anthony had
three sisters: Alice, wife of T. Tonkes;
Jane, married to Robert Charlton; and
Margaret, wife of
Scudamore. As
will be seen, the two elder are named in
Anthony's will. The M.I. to Anthony at
Newnham styles him the third son of Walter
Pollard of Plymouth. The other older son
may have been the "Sir" James Pollard,
parson of Newnham, named in the Speaker's
will.

There is nothing in the will of either the Speaker or his brother to indicate their kinship with the better-known line of the Pollards of Way, Devon. Both Sir John and Anthony mention their cousin Wil

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

THE LONGMANS.

THE following events of interest in the history of the house of Longman, which appeared in the extra number of Notes on Books published by the firm on the 8th of December last, deserve, I think, a permanent record in N. & Q.' :—

UNDER SEVEN MONARCHS.
In the Reign of George I.

Esq., published.

In the Reign of George II.
Johnson's English Dictionary published.

liam Pollard, son to Sir Richard Pollard, 1724 The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle,. deceased." This Sir Richard was the head of the line of Way, but the cousinship may have been solely a maternal kinship, 1757 through the Speaker's mother Avice, who was daughter of Anthony Pollard of Way, and aunt of Sir Richard. So far as appears, the male line of the Speaker's family ended with his brother Anthony.

The Pollards of Way, while tracing back to the fourteenth century, were brought first into prominence, and their future greatness established, by Sir Lewis Pollard, Justice of the Common Pleas 1511 to 1526. In all notices of him a serious mistake is made as to the year of his death. Foss states that he retired from the Bench in 1526, but lived until 1540; and these dates have been adopted in 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' The will of Sir Lewes Pollard, militis, Justice of the King's Bench" [sic], is dated 4 Nov., 16 Hen. VIII., and was proved 2 Nov., 1526; so that it is evident that he retired from his judicial duties only through death. He was the founder of several lines of the Pollard family. Both the 'Dict. Nat. Biog.' and Foss state that he had no fewer than eleven sons and eleven daughters, four of his sons being knighted. This large family wants confirmation; possibly many

In the Reign of George III. 1788 Mr. Longman wrote to Mr. Charles Wentworth Dilke, desiring his support to a: periodical paper to be called The Times. Lyrical Ballads' by Coleridge and Words-1799 Acquired Lindley Murray's copyrights. worth published. 1800 Coleridge's Translation 'Wallenstein' published.

1798

of

Schiller's

1802 Edinburgh Review founded.
1805 Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel' published.
1809 Byron's English Bards and Scotch Re--
Southey's Madoc' published.

viewers' declined.
1814 Wordsworth's 'Excursion' published.
1817 Moore's 'Lalla Rookh' published.