great distress, informed Ensign Murray that his piece had gone off accidentally, and that a man had been killed. "D-you!" cried the ensign; "who gave you orders to fire?" "Nobody," replied the soldier; "the piece went off entirely by accident." It was also proved that Maclane had never entered the cow-house, and that his musket, on the 10th of May, was found after the riot, bright polished, and free from smoke and dirt. It was also shown that the ensign, Murray, had found Maclane's musket at full cock, and took it out of his hand to see if, as the man said, the flint was too large, and at half cock rubbed out the priming. Some persons seeing the ensign reproach Maclane, denounced him as the murderer, and the officer, then alarmed for Maclane's safety, removed him from the ranks, soon after which he was arrested. Moreover, to crown other proofs, MacLoughlan had since deserted. The jury, after half an hour's discussion, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty." The Government, emboldened by this verdict, were foolish enough to send 30l. to Maclane, and 10l. to his comrade Maclaurey, though thousands of angry eyes were turned upon their every movement. In the meanwhile Wilkes, in prison, was more glorified than ever. His partisans lavished on their idol every offering their fancy could suggest or party feeling rake together. In a few weeks £20,000 was raised to pay his debts and discharge his fine. One society alone gave £300. Turtle, wine, and plate were constantly sent him. Medals were struck in his special honour. One enthusiast and patriot sent him 500 guineas in an embroidered purse. A delighted chandler forwarded him a box containing forty-five dozen of the best candles. His portraits were innumerable. He was modelled in china, bronze, and marble, and half the inns in the suburbs adopted Wilkes' Head for a sign. The jewellers also made trinkets for patriots to wear, with caps of Liberty over the crest of Wilkes; or a bird hovering over a cage, with the motto, "I love Liberty." A long and careful dredging of four months' London papers brings to the surface a curious string of facts all tending to show the overwhelming popularity of the great demagogue. We append a few of the most curious: "A gentleman this week, travelling in Kent, happened to put up at the same house as one of the Dover machines. The travellers were all Frenchmen. The gentleman saluted them in English, and welcomed them here, but all the answer he could get from them (for it was all they could speak of our language) and they had learned it since they turned their backs on Calais, was Sir, Wilkes and Liberty -Wilkes and Liberty!"" "On Saturday last, an honest sailor presented Mr. Wilkes, on his return to the King's Bench prison, with a fine large salmon, weighing 30 lbs." "We are well informed that on Sunday last there were not fewer than 200 coaches that brought visitors to the King's Bench prison." "Some tradesmen who usually spent their evenings at the Pig and Beehive, in Honey Lane Market, as a perpetual testimony of their gratitude to Mr. John Wilkes, Esq., have caused his picture to be set up in the tap-room of the said house. Some of the gentlemen were for having the battle of Culloden set facing it; but a youth present observed, that as that glorious battle did not prove the entire overthrow of Scottish power, it would be best postponed till that should be completed, which he hoped would not be long first. To which the company answered Amen forty-five times." "On Wednesday last Mr. Wilkes was presented in the King's Bench with an elegant medal of silver, having his own bust on one side, and the Genius of Liberty, with the cap and staff; underneath the latter the following words :--- Elected Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, MDCCLXVIII, around it, Genius of Liberty." "A few days ago, one Baker Brown, of Speenhamland, Berks, an honest and respectable master baker, remarkable for selling pure bread, and full weight, having only one apple tree in his garden, had the curiosity to count how many apples there was thereon, when, to his great surprise, he found the number to be exactly forty-five, on which he was so exceedingly rejoiced, that he called in many of his neighbours to view them, and then went to a neighbouring public house and drank a jug of beer to the success of Mr. Wilkes, the apple-tree, and the apples; at the same time declaring that he would not take forty-five pounds for one of the apples, as he intended to send them as a present to that gentleman, when they were fit for use, together with forty-five biscuits, made with his own hands, of the purest flour." "On Saturday evening an ordinary gold watch was raffled for at a public-house near Ludgate Hill, by forty-five persons, at three shillings and nine pence (forty-five pence) each, and was won by a man aged forty-five, by casting the number forty-five." "On Sunday last, the new-born sons of David Sinclair and James Donaldson (both Scotchmen), were respectively baptized at the lodgings of Sinclair, in Earl Street, Seven Dials, by the names of John Wilkes." "There were great illuminations and rejoicings in the King's Bench prison on account of Mr. Wilkes having obtained the reversal of his outlawry." along Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, he was met by six or "Last night as a lieutenant of the navy was coming seven bloods, who insisted on his crying out, 'Wilkes and Liberty,' which he refused, declaring he was no party man; on which one of the bloods drew his sword and run him through the hand, when the watchman coming up they thought proper to disperse." Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, as a poor man was going, somewhat in liquor, through Bond Street, and happening to cry Wilkes and Liberty for ever,' a gentleman made several thrusts at him with his sword, the last of which would in all probability have killed him, had he not evaded it by stooping down very low, when the gentleman's sword was broken against the wall. The poor man was wounded in the hand and side, and had his clothes cut in several places." "Several of Mr. Wilkes' friends have ordered tankards to be made, not of tin, but of true English heart of oak, with the head of the patriot curiously engraved thereon. But the enemies of that gentleman say, with a sneer, that these tankards ought not to be used till porter is reduced, by his means, to threepence the pot." "A tin-plate worker, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, has received orders from a famous and polite city in the west, to make twelve dozen quart tin pots, as many pints, and three-dozen half-pints, on the lids of which is to be engraved the head of Mr. Wilkes, and round the pots the words' Wilkes and Liberty.' 999 He The end of Wilkes's career can be briefly traced. In November, 1769, he obtained a verdict of 4,000l. against Lord Halifax, for false imprisonment, and the seizure of his papers. April, 1770, Wilkes was discharged from the King's Bench, and on the 24th of the same month was sworn as Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon Without. became Lord Mayor in 1774, and on October 20, of the same year, was allowed, without molestation, to take his seat in the House, as member for Middlesex. In 1779 he was elected Chamberlain of the City, and after that ceased to be an active politician. In 1782 the obnoxious resolutions against him were expunged from the journals of the House of Commons. The burnt-out demagogue now attended the court leveés, and became intimate with the Prince of Wales, He died in 1797, aged seventy, at his house in Grosvenor KINGTON THEATRE IN THE KEMBLES' skittle-alley. Surely, then, the horrid catastrophe of this infatuated Ye slaves of passion and ye dupes of chance, - (the Gamester) ... and Sukely THE following are verbatim copies of two playbills printed For the Benefit of Mr. Davies and Mr. Hill. Theatre, Kington. Edgar (disguised as a woman) (From the Prologue.) Mr. Thomson. Mr. Hinde. "Edgar and Emmeline." Mr. White. ... and Florimond (a coxcomb) To begin at Six o'clock. Tickets to be had at the Coffee House, and at the White Talbot. The Talbot Inn, at Kington, referred to in the preceding notice and play-bill, afforded shelter to King Charles II. in his flight from the Battle of Worcester. When residing at Kington, forty years since, I saw enclosed under a piece of glass, in the barn attached to the Talbot, a bill of the first appearance of Mrs. Siddons in that town. It will be interesting to the readers of the Antiquary to know that the Kemble family were natives of Hereford, where also Garrick and Nell Gwynn were born. Mr. and Mrs. Kemble, the father and mother of Mrs. Siddons, resided in Bye-street, Hereford. It was a mere accident that Miss Kemble (afterwards Mrs. Siddons) was born at Brecon whilst her mother was on a visit to a friend at that town. John Philip Kemble and Charles Kemble were born in Hereford; and the family house was partially destroyed by fire, and a female servant unfortunately lost her life in the conflagration. The house was afterwards known as "The Burnt House; " upon its site was erected a house, recently occupied as an office by Mr. Alderman James Jay, a leading solicitor in Hereford. The little theatre at Hereford, which was pulled down to make way for the Corn Exchange, situate in Broad-street, about twenty-five years since, was the School of Histrionic Art in the eighteenth century. The two Kembles and Mrs. Siddons, Powell and Betterton, and other eminent actors, played on its boards. During the early portion of the present century Mr. John Crisp and Mr. Charles Crisp were the lessees. Mr. George Crisp, James Vining, and George Shuter, with Mrs. Shuter, were of their company. Subsequently to the time of the Messrs. Crisp, the theatre was under the management of Miss Woodfall (a former prima donna at Drury-lane Theatre), who was then married to Mr. McGibbon, who became lessee. The family of Crisp were highly respected at Hereford; and Miss Eliza Crisp, and Miss Cecilia Crisp (daughters of Mr. Charles Crisp) were clever actresses; George Crisp and George Shuter were noted low comedians. John Crisp and Charles Crisp ranked first in the provinces as playing the principal parts in tragedy and high comedy. Mrs. Crisp, wife of Mr. Charles Crisp, was niece of the late Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., M.D. HEREFORDIA, 1 Lineally descended from Sir George Oxenden, Bart., by Elizabeth, elder daughter and co-heir of Edmund Dunch, Esq., of Little Wittenham, Berks, descended from Edmund Dunch, Esq., and Bridget Hungerford, daughter and heir of Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Down Ampney, co. Gloucester, the lineal descendant of Sir Edmund Hungerford and Margery Burnell. Descended from the 3rd Duke of Manchester and Harriet, younger daughter and co-heir of Edmund Dunch, Esq., of Little Wittenham. Probably sole heir-general of John Ratcliffe, 8th Baron Fitzwalter, grandson and heir of Sir John Ratcliffe and Katherine Burnell. By another account, the 2nd Baron left but one daughter: Maud, married 1st, Sir Richard Vernon, and, Sir Richard Stafford. A third account gives five daughters:-1, Mand, married Sir William Vernon; 2, Isabella, married Sir Richard Stafford; 3, Eleanor; 4, Nichola, married John St. Clere; 5, Catherine, married Robert Gresley-Burke's "Extinct Peerage.' Thomas, grandson of 1st Baron Stafford, of Clifton, left a sister and heir, Katherine, wife of Sir John Arderne, whose daughter and heit, Maud Arderne, married Sir Thomas Stanley, of Elford (uncle to 1st Baron Stanley), and left a son, Sir John Stanley, of Elford and Pipe, ob. 1447, leaving a daughter and heir, Maud Stanley, married to William Staunton, Esq. (Query issue.) Existing Representatives. (Line extinct.) Sir Henry Oxenden, Bart.1 (Not ascertained after 15th century.) Duke of Rutland. (Not ascertained.) Duke of Bedford." (Not ascertained.) }, (Not ascertained since 16th century.)" (Line extinct.) Lineally descended from Sir John Manners, by Dorothy, eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir George Vernon, of Haddon, the lineal descendant of Sir Richard Vernon and Margery Camville. Representatives of Thomas Stanley, of Tong, by Margaret, second daughter of Sir George Vernon. The 3rd Baron, ob. 1355, leaving two grandsons (neither of whom was summoned to Parliament). The last, Sir William Cantilupe, ob. circa 1391, s.p., when probably the entire descendants of 1st Baron failed. Lincally descended from 4th Earl of Bedford, by Katherine Brydges, daughter and heir of Giles, 3rd Baron Chandos, of Sudeley, the lineal descendant of Thomas Bruges and Alice Berkeley. 10 It is doubtful if an hereditary peerage were created, one summons to Parliament only having been issued to the 1st Baron, whose direct male descendants continued for nearly two centuries. The co-heirs of Chaworth are, however, co-heirs to one section of the Baronies of Basset, of Drayton, and of Engaine. 11 Anthony Babington, of Dethick, co. Derby, the great-grandson of Sir Anthony Babington and Elizabeth Ormond, was attainted and put to death in 1586, for conspiracy to murder Queen Elizabeth. He left issue. It has recently been contended, upon very strong grounds, that the proper designation of this Barony should be Powys only. John, 1st Baron Cherleton, succeeded to the feudal Barony of that name, by marriage with the sister and heiress of the last of the old Welsh Princes and Barons of Powys, and was summoned to Parliament as "Dominus de Powys."-Vide "Herald and Genealogist," Vol. vi., p. 97 et seq. "The Feudal Barons of Powys," by M. C. Jones. Lincally descended from Francis Curzon, Esq., of Kedleston, co. Derby, by Eleanor Vernon, daughter and heir of Thomas Vernon, Esq., of Stokesly, by Anne Ludlow, elder daughter and co-heir of Sir John Ludlow, of Hodnet, co. Salop, and Elizabeth Grey, the presumed daughter and eventually heir of Sir Richard Grey, Lord Powys, grandson of Sir John Grey and Joan Cherleton. Grandson of Thomas, 2nd Baron Lilford, by Henrietta Maria Atherton, eldest daughter and eventually sole heiress of Robert Vernon Atherton, Esq., of Atherton and Bewsey, co. Lancaster, lineally descended from John Atherton, Esq., of Atherton, and Elizabeth Cholmondeley, daughter and heir of Robert Cholmondeley, Esq., by Elizabeth Vernon, sister and eventually heir of Sir Thomas Vernon, Bart., of Hodnet, the lineal descendant of Humphrey Vernon, Esq., of Hodnet, and Alice Ludlow, the younger daughter of Sir John Ludlow and Elizabeth Grey. Childe, Esq., of Kinlet, co. Salop (representatives of the two surviv ing sisters of Sir Charlton Leighton, Bart., ob. 1784), who, if the claims of the Kynaston family be well founded, are co-heirs to one moiety of the Barony of Cherleton of Powys. Representatives of Thomas, roth Baron de Ros, by Philippa, eldest daughter and eventually co-heir of John, 1st Baron Tiptoft and Joyce Cherleton. Co-heirs to the Baronies of Bradeston and Nevill of Montacute. Representatives of the five daughters of John Nevill, Marquis of Montacute, by Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe, and Joanna, 2nd daughter and co-heir of John, Baron Tiptoft, and Joyce Cherleton. Co-heirs to the Barony of Dudley. Representatives of Sir Grey of Powys, possessed by the descendants of Sir John Grey and to be now vested solely, either in Lords Scarsdale and Lilford, or the The 2nd Baron Clavering left a daughter and heir, Ev1, who married three times, but is generally thought to have died s.p., when the right of succession passed to the descendants of her uncle, Sir Alan Clavering, Esq., ancestor of the present Edward John Glaver. ing, Esq., of Callaly Castle, Northumberland. The heirship of Sir John Grey and Joan Cherleton has been long contested and claimed by the Kynaston family, on the alleged ground that Sir Richard Grey, Lord Powys (the presumed father of Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Ludlow) had no daughter, and that his ultimate heirs were the descendants of his sister Elizabeth, wife of Sir Roger Kynaston. The lincal descendant and representative of this marriage, John Kynaston-Powell, Esq., claimed the Barony of Grey of Powys, in 1800, in opposition to Lord Scarsdale and the other co-heirs of Sir John Ludlow; but no formal decision upon the respective claims has ever been pronounced. Sir John R. Kynaston, Bart., the last male descendant of Sir Roger Kynaston and Eliza beth Grey ob. 1866 s.p., leaving, it appears, as his co-heirs, the Rev. George Augustus Salusbury, of Brynbella, co. Flint; Miss SmythePemberton; Rev. Frederick Leicester; Thomas CholmondeleyOwen, Esq., of Overleigh, co. Chester, and Condover, co. Salop; the Dorothy, Countess of Buchan, left a daughter and heir, children (if any) of the Rev. Charles Leicester and William Lacon | Dorothy, wife of - Walker, Esq., of Middlesex. (Query issue.) The Barony of Clifton, although unclaimed after 3rd Baron, should not have fallen into abeyance until 1699. Elizabeth, aunt and eventually sole heir of 3rd Baron, married Sir John Knyvet, of Buckenham, Norfolk, in whose descendants the Barony unquestionably vested until the death of Sir Robert Knyvett, Bart., in 1699, s.p. 1 Co-heirs to Barony of Burgh of Gainsborough. Representatives of four sisters of Edward, 7th Baron Burgh, ab. circ. 1600. The Barony of Cobham, of Sterborough, though unassumed after 2nd Baron, ultimately vested in the Barons Burgh, and did not actually fall into abeyance until the death of the last of that line. Co-heirs to the Barony of Basset, of Sapcote. The co-heirs to the Barony of Compton are also co-heirs to the Baronies of Ferrers, of Chartley and Bavent. Representatives of the three surviving daughters of 17th Baron de Clifford. Some doubt exists if the Barony of Cromwell, of Okeham, were a (Not ascertained.) Thomas Thorp, D.D. Thomas Strangwayes, Esq. (if living). Earl of Bradford. } 1 George Cornewall Legh, Esq., and a others not ascertained. (Not ascertained.) Marmion Edward Ferrers, Esq. Henry T. Boultbee, sq.3 Baroness de Cli ord. Hon. Robert Marsham. Earl of Albemarle. 3 } Thomas Thorp, D.D. Sir Joseph W. Copley, Bart." (Not ascertained since early part of 18th century.)7 WM. DUNCOMBE PINK, F.R.Hist.S. Barony in fee. The 1st Baron was summoned by writ in 1539, but it seems he did not sit in the House of Peers until created a Baron by patent the following year. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of the last Baron, was allowed the name and rank of Baroness Cromwell at the coronation of Queen Anne, but the title had not since been claimed. (Vide Courthope's "Historic Peerage.") Representatives of the (attainted) Barony of Bardolf. general of the two daughters of 5th Baron Bardolf. • Heir to one section of Barony of Bertram. ↑ Vested in co-heirs to Barony of Clifton. Heirs |