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MEMOIR 
 
 OF THE LIFE OF 
 
 LIEUT. GEN. DANIEL BURR. 
 
 He was born on the nineteenth 
 day of August, 1749, O. S. in the 
 house of his father, Daniel Burr, 
 Esquire, a gentleman of independent 
 fortune, then residing at Ramsey, in 
 the county of Essex. The grand- 
 father of General Burr was possessed 
 of very considerable landed estates 
 in Essex, with a revenue of eight 
 
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2 MEMOIR. 
 
 thousand pounds per annum. The 
 estates were formerly the property 
 of Sir Thomas Davall, of Yarmouth, 
 in the county of Norfolk, who mar- 
 ried a Miss Burr. Their son, Sir 
 Thomas Davall, Knight, married a 
 Miss Lydia Catharine Van Hatten, 
 and had by her two sons, who both 
 died in early age, in consequence 
 of which, the estates, by the Will of 
 their father, were bequeathed to his 
 cousin, Daniel Burr, Esquire, the 
 grandfather of the General, and a 
 respectable merchant in the city of 
 \ Amsterdam, in Holland. 
 
 The Davalls were descended from 
 an ancient and opulent family in 
 the north of England; and Sir 
 Thomas Davall, Knight, last nien- 
 
 
MEMOIR 3 
 
 tioned, served as one of the burges- 
 ses for the town of Harwich, in all 
 the parliaments which were held 
 during the reign of King William, 
 the royal consort of Queen Mary* 
 and in the two first Parliaments of 
 their successor, Queen Anne; he 
 was also Recorder of that borough. 
 Sir Thomas died in the month of 
 November, 1712, and his remains 
 were interred in the family vault in 
 the parochial church of Ramsey. 
 His wife survived him, and on the 
 thirteenth of April, 1736, was mar- 
 ried to the Duke of Chandos, and 
 by that marriage added seventy 
 thousand pounds to the fortune of 
 that nobleman. 
 
 Daniel Burr, Esquire, lord of the 
 
4 MEMOIR. 
 
 manor of Dovercourt, living in 1722, 
 the grandfather of General Burr, 
 married a lady of the city of Am- 
 sterdam, whose name was Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Frederick Danchert, of 
 Amsterdam, by Petronella his wife. 
 They had issue two sons, Frederick 
 and Daniel, and one daughter named 
 Sophia Rebecca ; the eldest son 
 married Miss Barton, sister of Colo- 
 nel Barton, a grand niece of Sir Isaac 
 Newton ; and the youngest son mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth Davall, the only 
 child of John Davall, Esquire, (cou- 
 sin to Sir Thomas, before noticed,) 
 who was the mother of General 
 Burr. The daughter married a gen- 
 tleman of the name of De Ron, re- 
 siding at Frankfort on the Maine. 
 
MEMOIR. 5 
 
 General Burr's paternal grand- 
 father was an unfortunate specula- 
 tor in the South Sea scheme of the 
 year 1720, which involved so many 
 in ruin ; and among the numerous 
 sufferers by the breaking of that ex- 
 traordinary bubble, he must be men- 
 tioned, as he lost by it almost the 
 whole of his ample fortune. The Ge- 
 neral's maternal grandfather resided 
 also at Ramsey; he had a brother, 
 Thomas Davall, Esquire, who left 
 a freehold estate which he possessed 
 in Essex, at Elmstead, near Colches- 
 ter, to the General's brother, Cap- 
 tain John Davall, of the Royal Navy, 
 which by his death fell to the Ge- 
 neral, and was sold in September, 
 1814, to General Rebow. General 
 
6 MEMOIR. 
 
 Burr had part of a copyhold estate 
 at Thorpe, in the county of Essex, 
 the joint property of himself and 
 his eldest sister, which was sold the 
 12th of August, 1803, to George 
 Garnett Haske Munnings. The Ge- 
 neral likewise shared in the pro- 
 duce of a freehold estate in Norfolk, 
 which was devised by his brother 
 Thomas, to his brothers and sisters, 
 and was sold. He had also a small 
 freehold estate at Ramsey, near the 
 vicarage, the place of his nativity, 
 which he sold to accommodate Na- 
 thaniel Garland, Esquire, in 1804. 
 
 The young gentleman, whose fu- 
 ture life forms the subject of this 
 Memoir, commenced his education 
 at the grammar school of Caven- 
 
MEMOIR. 7 
 
 dish, in Suffolk, which he afterwards 
 completed at an academy of repu- 
 tation at Dedham, in the county of 
 Essex. As he grew up, however, 
 it appeared that his mind was in- 
 fluenced by a strong predilection for 
 the Military profession, and accord- 
 ingly he was, in the year 1767, ap- 
 pointed a Cadet on the Madras 
 Establishment. He left England on 
 the second day of January, 1768 ; ar- 
 rived at Fort George on the sixth of 
 July following, and joined the army 
 then laying at Ouscotta, in the My- 
 sore country, on the twenty-third 
 of August, the day preceding the 
 memorable night in which Hyder 
 Ally, with a chosen body of six 
 thousand horse, stormed the en- 
 
8 MEMOIR. 
 
 trenchments of our allies, the Mah- 
 rattas, commanded by Morra-row> 
 an independent chieftain, whose 
 forces were encamped about a mile 
 on the right of the English line. 
 The British army was then under 
 the command of General Joseph 
 Smith, and in an actual state of 
 preparation for the siege of Ban- 
 galore. 
 
 A very few days after Mr. Burr 
 had joined the army as a Cadet, 
 Captain, now Lieutenant General 
 Sir Henry Cosby, who then com- 
 manded a battalion of Sepoys, paid 
 him a visit at his tent, and after some 
 introductory conversation, accom- 
 panied him to head quarters, and 
 presented him to the Commander- 
 
MEMOIR. 9 
 
 in-Chief, who, at the particular re- 
 quest of Captain Cosby, attached 
 him to his battalion ; the Captain 
 then conducted him to his own tent, 
 where he treated him with the most 
 friendly and hospitable attention; 
 and what was of unspeakable value 
 to a young man situated as Mr. Burr 
 then was, he added much admirable 
 advice and important counsel for the 
 regulation of his future conduct. 
 Indeed it must be here mentioned, 
 with those grateful sentiments which 
 such kindness will indelibly impress 
 on every well - constructed mind, 
 that, from this period, Captain Cos- 
 by was so invariably attentive to 
 Mr. Burr's interest and welfare, he 
 lost no opportunity of proving him- 
 
10 MEMOIR. 
 
 self an active and anxious friend ; 
 and in many subsequent circum- 
 stances of doubt and difficulty, Mr. 
 Burr derived instructive guidance, 
 effectual support, and heart-felt con- 
 solation, from his partial favour and 
 zealous protection. 
 
 But without appearing to lessen 
 the natural benevolence and well- 
 known generosity of Captain Cosby's 
 character, his conduct towards Mr. 
 Burr may be primarily attributed to 
 a family connection ; Major Burr, of 
 Bombay, who was a cousin of the 
 young Cadet, having married a sister 
 of that officer. To the personal 
 comforts and advantages which he 
 received from the patronizing regard 
 of his friend, it may be added that 
 
MEMOIR. 
 
 11 
 
 he derived no small advancement in 
 professional experience, from being 
 under the command of an officer, 
 whose military judgment, and dis- 
 tinguished bravery, were as generally 
 acknowledged, as they were duly 
 appreciated by the army of the 
 Carnatic. Mr. Burr remained with 
 his corps till appointed to do duty 
 with the third regiment of Euro- 
 peans, under the command of Co- 
 lonel Wood. 
 
 On the third of November, 1768, 
 Mr. Burr received an Ensign's com- 
 mission, and in a short time after 
 his advancement, he marched with 
 Colonel Wood's detachment to the 
 relief of Oussoor, and was near his 
 friend when he received a severe 
 
12 MEMOIR. 
 
 contusion in his side by a nine- 
 pound shot, at the cannonade of 
 Arlier. From this period, Ensign 
 Burr was employed in active and 
 continual service with the troops in 
 the field, and engaged in almost 
 all the actions, which were very fre- 
 quent, that took place, till the sign- 
 ing of the treaty of peace in 1769. 
 Ensign Burr says, that, to relate, 
 minutely, all the interesting parti- 
 culars which came under his obser- 
 vation, while serving with the army, 
 in the years 1768 and 1769, would 
 alone form a large volume. On first 
 joining the army in the Mysore 
 country, he had been advised and 
 instructed by his friend to keep a 
 diary of every day's transactions, 
 
MEMOIR. 13 
 
 which he most scrupulously attended 
 to, so that no circumstance escaped 
 his notice which was not recorded, 
 but unfortunately his labours were 
 all lost, as will hereafter be men- 
 tioned. 
 
 Peace being concluded, the army 
 separated and went into different 
 garrisons and cantonments. The 
 First European regiment, com- 
 manded by General Smith, to which 
 Ensign Burr was now attached, was 
 stationed at Tritchinopoly. 
 
 On the nineteenth of September, 
 1770, Ensign Burr received a Lieu- 
 tenant's commission, when he was 
 removed from the European regi- 
 ment to a battalion of native in- 
 fantry. 
 
14 MEMOIR. 
 
 In June, 1771, he was detach- 
 ed, by order of the Commander-in- 
 Chief, with a company of Sepoys, to 
 garrison Aylore, a small fortress, 
 forty-five miles west of Tritchino- 
 poly, on the banks of the Colaroon, 
 and the frontier of Hyder Ally's 
 country, with instructions to em- 
 ploy and send out active and well 
 qualified persons towards Carroor, 
 and other parts of Hyder Ally's ter- 
 ritories, that Chief being then at 
 war with the Mahrattas, to obtain 
 all necessary intelligence, and to 
 maintain a regular communication 
 with head quarters. 
 
 Lieutenant Burr conducted this 
 service so entirely to the satisfaction 
 of the General, that he honoured 
 
MEMOIR. 15 
 
 him with an assurance of his inten- 
 tion to recommend his conduct, in the 
 strongest manner, to the attention 
 and favour of the Board at Madras. 
 In the command of this station, 
 where he had so effectually exerted 
 his vigilance and activity, he re- 
 mained until the troops had as- 
 sembled on the plain of Tritchino- 
 poly, for the siege of Tanjore, when 
 he was recalled to join his battalion, 
 at that time, encamped with the 
 army. 
 
 All the necessary preparations 
 having been made, magazines estab- 
 lished, and every department amply 
 supplied, the army moved forward 
 early in September, and having re- 
 
16 MEMOIR. 
 
 duced Vellum, encamped before 
 Tanjore. 
 
 This important fortress, which is 
 very strong both by nature and art, 
 was taken by escalade, though a bat- 
 tery of six eighteen pounders had 
 been opened upon it the greater part 
 of the day, within two hundred and 
 fifty yards of the fausse-braie, by a 
 small party of Sepoys, led on with 
 irresistible bravery by Captain Cos- 
 by, for which hazardous and impor- 
 tant service, the Commander-in- 
 Chief appointed him to the com- 
 mand of the garrison. 
 
 The battalion to which Lieute- 
 nant Burr was attached, formed a 
 portion of the covering party at 
 
MEMOIR. 1 7 
 
 breaking ground on the night of 
 the twenty -ninth of September. 
 On the following day this small 
 force, under the command of Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Vaughan, was vigo- 
 rously attacked by the enemy, whose 
 cavalry, with undaunted courage, 
 rode up to the muzzles of our ar- 
 tillery, and cut down many of our 
 men, though opposed and harassed 
 by a destructive fire of grape. 
 
 Captain Mackenzie having re- 
 ceived a disabling wound, the com- 
 mand of his battalion devolved upon 
 Lieutenant Hamilton, the next in 
 seniority ; and Lieutenant Colonel 
 Vaughan requiring immediate suc- 
 cour, Lieutenant Burr was ordered 
 up with part of the battalion, which 
 
18 MEMOIR. 
 
 at that time was partially engaged 
 with the enemy's infantry on the 
 right, to his assistance, he being 
 very hardly pressed by a large body 
 of horse. 
 
 On the commencement of the 
 attack, a strong detachment was or- 
 dered down from camp to their sup- 
 port, in consequence of which the 
 enemy, after several hours of severe 
 contest, was repulsed at all points 
 with considerable loss. The British 
 army also suffered greatly ; for, in- 
 dependent of the sally, they were 
 almost wholly exposed to a galling 
 fire from the southern face of the 
 fort, as they had not yet made suffi- 
 cient progress in entrenching them- 
 selves, because such was the rocky 
 
MEMOIR. 19 
 
 nature of the ground, that the work- 
 ing party found it an impracticable 
 labour to cover themselves in the 
 course of the night, nor had the 
 troops any other shelter than what 
 was obtained from a water-course, 
 running in a parallel line with that 
 face of the fort, which offered them 
 only a very partial safe-guard, while 
 to the wounded it afforded but a 
 very inadequate protection. 
 
 The troops received their well- 
 earned share of praise from the 
 Commander-in-Chief, General Jo- 
 seph Smith, for their distinguished 
 conduct and irresistible bravery in 
 this hard fought contest; Lieute- 
 nant Burr was particularly favoured 
 
20 MEMOIR. 
 
 with the personal thanks of Lieute- 
 nant Colonel Vaughan, for the stea- 
 diness and gallantry displayed by 
 that part of the Carnatic battalion 
 which was under his command, and 
 injustice to them, it may be here ob- 
 served that they had certainly borne 
 their full share in the laborious con- 
 flict of that day. 
 
 After several weeks of extreme 
 fatigue, during which the rainy sea- 
 son had commenced, and the troops 
 were much reduced by sickness, a 
 practicable breach was effected, 
 when the Rajah of Tanjore offered 
 terms of peace, which, being accept- 
 ed, the army shortly after divided, 
 and marched to different stations. 
 
MEMOIR. 21 
 
 In the month of May, 1772, an 
 expedition was formed under the 
 command of General Joseph Smith, 
 for the reduction of the Ramanad- 
 porum and Shevagunga Pollams, 
 the former being called the Great 
 Marrawa, and the latter, the Little 
 Marrawa. 
 
 On the march to Ramanad, Lieu- 
 tenant Burr became afflicted with 
 a liver complaint, which was ac- 
 companied with such serious ap- 
 pearances, that Dr. Lucas recom- 
 mended his quitting the field, as a 
 step essential to the re-establishment 
 of his health, but such an absence 
 from his duty he did not for a mo- 
 ment hesitate to decline; he was 
 however compelled, from the pre- 
 
22 MEMOIR. 
 
 valency of the disease, to submit to 
 a temporary resignation of his com- 
 pany of grenadiers, but by the in- 
 dulgence of General Smith, through 
 the interposition of his ever kind 
 friend and affectionate relative, Cap- 
 tain Cosby, at that time aid-de-camp 
 to the Commander-in-Chief, he was 
 gratified in being permitted to vo- 
 lunteer with the storming party, 
 though, on account of the preca- 
 rious state of his health, the Gene- 
 ral wished him to check his ardent 
 zeal for service on this particular 
 occasion : accordingly, Lieutenant 
 Burr, whose active spirit of enter- 
 prize could not be controlled, even 
 by the humane and considerate 
 wishes of the General himself, 
 
MEMOIR. 23 
 
 joined the first division of European 
 grenadiers, commanded by Captain 
 Robert Godfrey ; and was actually 
 the fourth man who effected a foot- 
 ing on the breach of the fort ; not- 
 withstanding the powerful resistance 
 made to the attack, the nature and 
 spirit of which may well be con- 
 ceived, when it is stated that every 
 one of the enemy was killed, whose 
 courage defended the entrance which 
 the breach had effected. 
 
 After the reduction of the for- 
 tress of Ramanad, the troops re- 
 mained encamped for some days 
 about two miles from the garrison, 
 till the country was settled by the 
 ministers of the Nabob Mahomed 
 Ally; the army then marched into 
 
24 MEMOIR. 
 
 the Little Marrawa country, and en- 
 camped before the barrier, which 
 was defended by five thousand Poli- 
 gars, and led to the Rajah's strong- 
 hold of Callacoil. 
 
 A detachment had been formed 
 from the army for secret service, 
 and dispatched about six hours be- 
 fore the army itself had left its last 
 encampment, Shevagunga. This dis- 
 tinct corps was commanded by Lieu- 
 tenant Colonel Abraham Bonjour, 
 an able and enterprizing officer, 
 who made a daring, circuitous, and 
 most fatiguing march, through a 
 defile of jungle of many miles, which 
 would scarcely admit of two men 
 abreast, beneath a most scorching 
 sun, unrefreshedby a drop of water, 
 
MEMOIR. 25 
 
 and to whose overpowering heat 
 many of our people became the vic- 
 tims. This bold attempt, however, 
 was conducted with so much resolu- 
 tion and fortunate perseverance, that 
 the detachment having gained, un- 
 observed, the rear of the enemy, it 
 surprised the fort of Callacoil, the 
 gates of which were left unguarded, 
 as the Rajah's troops, not aware of 
 such a movement, were at the dis- 
 tance of three miles, defending the 
 barrier, which was attacked by Ge- 
 neral Smith. Thus, Colonel Bon- 
 jour's detachment possessed itself 
 of this important place, with an im- 
 mense booty in jewels and specie. 
 The army having made itself master 
 
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 26 MEMOIR. 
 
 of this place, and subjugated the 
 whole of these countries to the 
 Nabob's authority, which was the 
 object of the campaign, returned to 
 Tritchinopoly, where it separated, 
 and the different corps marched to 
 their respective cantonments. 
 
 The grenadier corps being dis- 
 banded, Lieutenant Burr was, at the 
 request of his friend, appointed to 
 his battalion of Sepoys, fifth Carna- 
 tic, which was at this time in the 
 field, but ordered to Amboor, and 
 the command of the garrison given 
 to Captain Cosby. Here Mr. Burr 
 observes he lived with his generous 
 patron, in the highest degree of 
 happiness, while the various inesti- 
 
MEMOIR. 27 
 
 mable proofs of his friendship im- 
 pressed upon him the most affec- 
 tionate sentiments. 
 
 In April, 1773, orders were issued 
 by government to assemble an army 
 on the plains of Tritchinopoly, under 
 the command of General Smith, for 
 the final reduction of the Tanjore 
 country ; upon this occasion Captain 
 Cosby was called to Madras, and 
 appointed Adjutant General, with 
 the rank of Lieutenant Colonel ; and 
 the fifth Carnatic battalion, then 
 under the command of Lieutenant 
 Sale, the next senior officer, was 
 ordered to march to Carongoly, 
 to escort the battering train and 
 stores from that depot for the siege 
 of Tanjore; and the whole of those 
 
28 MEMOIR. 
 
 immense stores were conducted in 
 perfect safety, and joined the army in 
 the month of June, which had taken 
 up its position before the town ; the 
 strong fortress of Vellum, on the 
 frontier of the enemy's territory, 
 having been ceded to the British 
 government by the last treaty, was 
 now occupied as a magazine for 
 provisions and stores, and as an 
 hospital for the sick and wounded. 
 
 On the night of breaking ground, 
 a select body of troops, the whole 
 corps of grenadiers of the army to 
 which Lieutenant Burr was attach- 
 ed, was ordered to storm the ene- 
 my's cavalry camp on the eastern 
 face of the fort, in which our soldiers 
 succeeded, at the same time taking* 
 
MEMOIR. 29 
 
 as well as destroying, a great num- 
 ber of the Tanjorines and their 
 horses, and dispersing the rest, 
 though night attacks are in general 
 attended with considerable disad- 
 vantages, unless the ground has 
 been well reconnoitred, and the 
 troops conducted by experienced 
 guides. 
 
 This attack afforded an excellent 
 opportunity for our workmen to 
 proceed with dispatch on the op- 
 posite side of the fort, and greatly 
 accelerated their approaches by the 
 construction of trenches, parallels, 
 and batteries ; and in the course of 
 the night such progress was made 
 in this important service, as almost 
 to exceed belief. 
 
80 MEMOIR. 
 
 In the course of a few evenings, 
 the corps to which Lieutenant Burr 
 was attached, received orders to act 
 as a covering party to the trenches, 
 and on the succeeding day the ene- 
 my made a formidable sally with all 
 his force upon our entrenchments. 
 The British troops on this service 
 were commanded by Colonel Tho- 
 mas Fletcher, who in the early part 
 of the day received a wound in the 
 mouth from an arrow. During the 
 attack, Lieutenant Burr was order- 
 ed out of the trenches with a party, 
 to dislodge a considerable body of 
 the enemy that greatly annoyed the 
 left flank of the besieging forces. 
 This, though after a severe loss, was 
 completely effected, and Lieutenant 
 
MEMOIR. 31 
 
 Burr received the Colonel's thanks 
 for his conduct on this occasion. 
 Notwithstanding the extreme fa- 
 tigue of the day, the greater part 
 of Lieutenant Burr's corps was eight 
 and forty hours in the trenches be- 
 fore they were relieved. In the 
 night, when the sap battery was 
 erected, Lieutenant Burr had the 
 command of the covering party, in 
 which hazardous service he lost 
 many of his men ; and on the day 
 of general assault, he commanded 
 his company of grenadiers in the 
 storming party. 
 
 Shortly after the reduction of 
 the Tanjore country, Lieutenant 
 Burr accompanied the army to Ne- 
 gapatam, a Dutch settlement, on 
 
32 MEMOIR. 
 
 the coast of Coromandel, and con- 
 tiguous to the country that had just 
 been subdued, before which the 
 troops encamped. The garrison 
 being summoned, and having an- 
 swered in the negative, after some 
 days parley, during which time the 
 Dutch appeared refractory, prepa- 
 rations were immediately made, and 
 hostilities just upon the eve of com- 
 mencing, when the Dutch governor 
 thought proper to surrender the 
 garrison and district to the British 
 arms. This service being finally 
 effected, the fifth Carnatic battalion, 
 to which Lieutenant Burr belonged, 
 was stationed at Madura, and Cap- 
 tain Macdougall being under the 
 necessity of proceeding to Bombay, 
 
MEMOIR. 33 
 
 for the re-establishment of his health; 
 and Lieutenant Sale, the next senior 
 officer, being on furlough for Eng- 
 land, the command of the battalion 
 devolved upon him, as the next 
 subaltern in succession, in which he 
 had the honour to continue until 
 he was appointed to the adjutancy 
 of the 4th Circar battalion, station- 
 ed at Aska, in the Ganjam district. 
 This took place in October, 1774. 
 
 In January, 1778, a detachment 
 was formed at Aska, to take pos- 
 session of the Gumsoor country, on 
 which service Adjutant Burr re- 
 ceived a wound through both his 
 legs by a musket ball. 
 
 In the December following, whilst 
 in the command of the garrison of 
 
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34 MEMOIR. 
 
 Ganjam, he was directed by the 
 Chief and Council of that subordi- 
 nate settlement, at the request of 
 the commanding officer of the dis- 
 trict, to proceed to Aska, to under- 
 take the escort of four hundred bul- 
 locks, laden with provisions and 
 stores, for the relief of the garrison 
 of Gumsoor, at that time surrounded 
 by the peons of the Rajah Vickerum 
 Bungee, and to take upon him the 
 command of the troops in that 
 Zemindary. 
 
 Adjutant Burr having reviewed 
 his men, and made the necessary 
 arrangements, left Aska with the 
 escort, about eleven o'clock at night, 
 and fortunately succeeded in con- 
 veying the whole of these supplies, 
 
MEMOIR. 35 
 
 in perfect safety, though under the 
 greatest disadvantages ; for, from 
 the dawn of the morning of the 
 twenty-fifth of December, when he 
 entered the Gumsoor country, he 
 was attacked by upwards of three 
 thousand of the enemy ; the truth 
 of this was obtained of the prisoners, 
 and afterwards confirmed by the Ra- 
 jah Letchmere Bungee himself; to 
 oppose whom, his detachment con- 
 sisted of no more than eighty-four 
 Sepoys, and three European Ser- 
 jeants. He lost in this march twelve 
 veterans in killed and wounded, 
 and it is more than probable that 
 his small force would have suffered 
 a still greater diminution, had he 
 not received a reinforcement, which 
 
36 MEMOIR. 
 
 arrived when within two miles of the 
 garrison; and when his men, as may 
 be supposed, were extremely ex- 
 hausted, having been upwards of 
 sixteen hours under arms, without 
 taking any refreshment, it being 
 half past four in the afternoon when 
 they arrived at the termination of 
 this toilsome and distressing jour- 
 ney; for the enemy continued to 
 harass them till they had reached 
 within half a mile of their destina- 
 tion. Indeed such was the nature 
 of the country through which they 
 had to pass, with respect to jungles 
 and water courses, that it was not 
 practicable to have taken post, had 
 the service proved to be such as to 
 require it. 
 
MEMOIR. 37 
 
 The following evening, Adjutant 
 Burr, with a detachment of two 
 hundred chosen men, a provision 
 of three barrels of musket ammu- 
 nition, and accompanied with ten 
 Doolies, and an intelligent guide, 
 made a night attack upon the enemy, 
 who was encamped about five miles 
 from the garrison ; took one hun- 
 dred and thirty-seven prisoners, 
 destroyed many, and dispersed the 
 rest. This service was honoured 
 with the thanks of the commanding 
 officer, and with the full approba- 
 tion of the Chief and Council in the 
 Ganjam district. 
 
 The insufficiency of troops at 
 this period, rendered it difficult to 
 keep open the communication be- 
 
SS MEMOIR. 
 
 tween Aska and Gumsoor, and was 
 attended with great interruption and 
 distress until the return of the other 
 battalion, which had been sent from 
 the Ganjam district to the Vizaga- 
 patam Circar upon special service, 
 when the Gumsoor country was 
 subdued, and put under the ma- 
 nagement of the Rajah's brother, 
 Letchmere Bungee. 
 
 On the eighteenth of July, 1779, 
 Adjutant Burr was promoted to the 
 rank of Captain, and in March 1780, 
 was appointed to the command of 
 the Sibbendies in the Ganjam dis- 
 trict. On the fourth of April, 1782, 
 he was removed from thence, and 
 in the following month joined the 
 army under General Sir Eyre Coote. 
 
MEMOIR. 39 
 
 Vellore being in want of provi- 
 sions, the army marched to its relief, 
 and having deposited an ample store 
 of rice, &c. in that garrison, it re- 
 turned to Madras, and shortly after 
 proceeded to the Red Hills, near 
 Pondicherry. General Sir Eyre 
 Coote had previously concerted with 
 Admiral Hughes the means of at- 
 tempting the recapture of Cudda- 
 lore, but from a failure in the store 
 of provisions for the maintenance of 
 the troops, and the impracticability 
 of the squadron continuing on the 
 coast at that advanced season of 
 the year, the army was under the 
 necessity of returning to Madras, 
 and the approaching monsoon ex- 
 cluding all hopes of success in its 
 
40 MEMOIR. 
 
 operations, it marched into canton- 
 ments, when Captain Burr was ap- 
 pointed to the first company of the 
 first regiment of European grena- 
 diers. 
 
 At this period, General Sir Eyre 
 Coote embarked for Bengal, as well 
 for the change of air, in the dubious 
 state of his health, as to concert 
 measures with the supreme govern- 
 ment respecting the future pro- 
 ceedings of the army, but he died 
 soon after his return to Madras, and 
 the command of the forces in the 
 Carnatic consequently devolved on 
 General James Stuart. 
 
 On the fifteenth of January, 1 783, 
 the troops having quitted their can- 
 tonments, a march was undertaken 
 
MEMOIR. 41 
 
 for the purpose of advancing provi- 
 sions to the first depot, and when 
 that essential service was accom- 
 plished, operations were renewed 
 against Cuddalore. In May the 
 troops moved forward for the siege 
 of that place ; and on the thirteenth 
 of June, Captain Burr was engaged 
 with the gallant Colonel Cathcart, 
 who commanded the whole grena- 
 dier corps of the army, in storming 
 the French outworks, on which ser- 
 vice one half of his company was 
 killed or wounded, which may be 
 seen by a reference to the returns 
 in the Adjutant -General's office of 
 Fort George. The total loss of 
 that day amounted to one thousand 
 and thirty men. During the night of 
 
42 MEMOIR. 
 
 the twenty-fifth of the same month, 
 he was on duty with his grenadiers, 
 when the enemy made the memor- 
 able sortie with their whole force 
 on our trenches, on which occasion 
 we made nearly one hundred and 
 fifty prisoners. 
 
 Among the wounded in this con- 
 flict, was a young French Serjeant, 
 whose interesting appearance, and 
 engaging manners, so particularly 
 attracted the attention of Colonel 
 Wangenheim, Commandant of the 
 Hanoverian troops in the British 
 service, that he ordered the young 
 soldier to be brought to his own 
 tent, where he was treated with 
 every necessary attention till he had 
 recovered from his wounds and ob- 
 
MEMOIR. 43 
 
 tained his release. This circum- 
 stance is not mentioned as a mere 
 act of spontaneous humanity to a 
 conquered enemy, but from the ex 
 traordinary fortune of the prisoner, 
 who was afterwards the celebrated 
 Marshal Bernadotte, and who now 
 so distinguishingly sways the sceptre 
 of Sweden. 
 
 On Captain Burr's return to 
 Madras, Lord Macartney, then Go- 
 vernor, was pleased, in council, to 
 appoint him, on the tenth of Sep- 
 tember 1783, to the command of 
 Ganjam. From this station he was 
 removed in April, 1787, to the 
 European regiment, doing duty at 
 Vellore. It is here very feelingly 
 remarked by Captain Burr, that 
 
44 MEMOIR. 
 
 from the period of his duty in the 
 Ganjam district, he passed some of 
 the happiest years of his life ; as he 
 was then so fortunate as to become 
 connected with characters of ge- 
 nuine worth, with whom he occa- 
 sionally shared his more serious, as 
 well as his gayer hours. How often 
 has Captain Burr regretted the loss 
 of those papers which, in the hours 
 of relaxation from duty, he had se- 
 lected with great care and accuracy, 
 as interesting memorials relative to 
 others as well as to himself. On the 
 ninth of September, 1789, he receiv- 
 ed the commission of Major in the 
 King's and Company's service ; and, 
 for a short period, he commanded 
 the garrison and troops at Vellore. 
 
MEMOIR. 45 
 
 On the sixteenth of July, 1791, 
 Major Burr was appointed to the 
 command of the troops in the Gun- 
 toor Circar, which respectable sta- 
 tion he retained to the twentieth 
 of February, 1794. On the first 
 of March following, he was ho- 
 noured with His Majesty's com- 
 mission, advancing him to the rank 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel; and on the 
 twenty-fourth of January, 1797, he 
 was appointed to the command of 
 Condeypillah. 
 
 By a commission, dated the thir- 
 teenth of July, 1797, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Burr was promoted to the 
 rank of full Colonel ; and being soon 
 after appointed to the command of 
 
46 MEMOIR. 
 
 the 10th regiment of native in- 
 fantry, he resigned that of Condey- 
 pillah, in the month of November 
 in the same year. 
 
 On the twentieth of January, 
 1798, Colonel Burr embarked for 
 England, in the Lord Macartney 
 Indiaman, Captain James Hay ; 
 touched at the Cape and St. Helena ; 
 landed at Weymouth on the thir- 
 tieth of the following July, arrived 
 in town on the first day of August, 
 and enjoyed the inexpressible hap- 
 piness of again seeing his beloved 
 family after a separation of thirty 
 years and seven months, the whole 
 of which prolonged period may be 
 said, without the shadow of osten- 
 
MEMOIR. 47 
 
 tation, to have been passed by him 
 in a succession of active, arduous, 
 and successful service. 
 
 But this delightful visit to his 
 native country was of short dura- 
 tion, for, on the second of April, in 
 the following year, he left England 
 in the Boddam, Captain Palmer, 
 and arrived in Madras Roads on 
 the fourth of August, after an ab- 
 sence from India of no more than 
 seventeen months and ten days, the 
 greatest part of which he passed on 
 the ocean. 
 
 On the thirteenth of April, 1800, 
 he was appointed to the command 
 of the troops in the Molucca Is- 
 lands ; sailed on that service on the 
 twelfth of the following August, 
 
48 MEMOIR. 
 
 and arrived with the relief at Am- 
 boyna on the 21st of November. 
 
 On the 15th of December, 1800, 
 Colonel Burr, in concert with the 
 Resident, Robert Townshend Far- 
 quhar, Esq. projected the enter- 
 prize of subjugating Ternate, the 
 principal of the Molucca Islands, 
 to the British dominion. It would 
 be failing in a requisite act of justice 
 if it were omitted here to represent 
 this gentleman as possessing all the 
 qualities which characterize the 
 friend; every grace that gives a 
 charm to social and domestic life ; 
 with a superiority of talent, under- 
 standing, and attainments, which 
 rendered him equal to the duties of 
 any public situation, whatever it 
 
MEMOIR. 49 
 
 might be, which he might be called 
 to fill. 
 
 But abilities, and even wisdom 
 itself, cannot always command suc- 
 cess ; this was proved, in a great 
 measure, by a failure in the first 
 attempt on the Island of Ternate. 
 When, however, such a mind as his, 
 suggested to him to persevere in 
 attaining an object, there could be 
 little doubt that his penetrating 
 genius and sound judgment inspired 
 a commanding impulse to proceed. 
 
 Accordingly a second expedition 
 was undertaken against this island, 
 and crowned with success. Though 
 Mr. Farquhar had not at this time 
 reached his twenty-eighth year, 
 Colonel Burr saw at once the value 
 
 E 
 
50 MEMOIR. 
 
 and extent of his superior qualifica- 
 tions, which fully justified the entire 
 confidence he placed in his assist- 
 ance for arranging the important 
 expedition, wherein it was their 
 mutual duty, as it was their firm and 
 decided disposition, to co-operate. 
 Of the early and accidental failure, 
 as well as of the final success of this 
 expedition, some brief notice may 
 here be offered. 
 
 As Resident of Amboyna, a very 
 high responsibility was attached to 
 Mr. Farquhar in discharging the 
 various functions of that important 
 station; to its arduous duties he 
 was beyond all challenge fully com- 
 petent ; and in the official perform- 
 ance of them were combined honour 
 
MEMOIR. 51 
 
 to himself, and advantage to his 
 country. 
 
 The expedition being planned 
 against Ternate, and Colonel Burr 
 being appointed, as already men- 
 tioned, to the command of the troops 
 in the Molucca Islands, the military 
 conduct of it was consequently in- 
 trusted to him ; and every arrange- 
 ment being completed, he sailed on 
 the twenty-second of January for 
 Amboyna. 
 
 On the tenth of the following 
 month, the British armament arrived 
 in sight of Ternate, and as soon as 
 the fort and batteries were in view, 
 a boat, with a flag of truce, was dis- 
 patched from the Virginie frigate, 
 with a summons to the Governor 
 
52 MEMOIR. 
 
 from the commanders of the mili- 
 tary and naval forces, allowing him 
 no more than two hours for de- 
 liberation. The propositions being 
 refused, the troops landed on the 
 north side of the island, and at- 
 tacked the enemy's battery of Te- 
 looke, but were repulsed with loss ; 
 and the enterprize having failed for 
 want of a due co-operation of the 
 two services; the assignable rea- 
 sons for which, future success ren- 
 ders it unnecessary to mention, and 
 professional delicacy would wish to 
 bury in silence. On the nineteenth 
 the army returned to Amboyna. 
 
 This failure, however, did not dis- 
 courage Mr. Farquhar and Colonel 
 Burr from engaging in a second ex- 
 
MEMOIR. 53 
 
 pedition, which was forwarded with 
 the greatest possible assiduity and 
 dispatch. It accordingly sailed on the 
 second of April from Amboyna, and 
 on the twenty-third reached Tidore. 
 Here Colonel Burr had an interview 
 with the Sultan and his chieftains, 
 who engaged to assist him with a 
 considerable force, which joined him 
 in a few days, when the armament 
 quitted Tidore ; and on the thir- 
 tieth the whole fleet anchored in a 
 bay opposite the town, and in view 
 of Fort Orange. On the third of 
 May, Colonel Burr landed to re- 
 connoitre. A detachment of troops, 
 under the command of Captain 
 Walker, disembarked on the fourth, 
 and on the eighth Colonel Burr 
 
54 MEMOIR. 
 
 landed with his staff, and the rest 
 of the troops. On the following 
 morning Kiameera was given up ; 
 and on the twenty-first of June, the 
 Island of Ternate, with its depen- 
 dencies, surrendered to the British 
 arms, after a succession of difficul- 
 ties which it is not necessary to de- 
 tail ; and in surmounting which, 
 Colonel Burr was bravely and uni- 
 formly supported by the officers 
 and small body of troops under his 
 command. This is the proper place 
 to notice an officer belonging to the 
 Madras army, to whom Colonel 
 Burr was warmly attached— and 
 that was Captain, now Colonel, 
 Thomas Boles, who, at his parti- 
 cular request, was appointed by 
 
MEMOIR. 55 
 
 the Commander in Chief, and con- 
 firmed by the Government of Fort 
 Saint George, to be his Brigade 
 Major and Secretary during the pe- 
 riod of the Colonel's command in 
 the Molucca Islands. Indeed, it 
 would be difficult to find terms 
 sufficiently expressive of the high 
 esteem which the Colonel enter- 
 tained for him, whether as a soldier 
 or a gentleman, or as contributing 
 so greatly to the endearments of 
 social life in the circle of friendship ; 
 and it is known that the Colonel 
 had acknowledged himself to have 
 been much indebted to the judi- 
 cious conduct of this accomplished 
 officer. 
 
 On the sixth of July, Colonel 
 
56 MEMOIR. 
 
 Burr embarked on his return to 
 Amboyna, where he arrived in due 
 course ; and on the seventeenth of 
 January, 1802, he resigned the 
 command to Colonel Oliver. On 
 the eighteenth of April, he embark- 
 ed for India, in command of the re- 
 lieved troops from Amboyna ; and 
 on the eleventh of June, arrived 
 at Madras, where he landed under 
 a salute from the battery. 
 
 On the twentieth of December, 
 1802, he wrote for leave to return 
 to Europe, but was informed by the 
 Adjutant- General, Lieutenant- Co- 
 lonel P. Agnew, that if his health 
 permitted him to take the field, he, 
 Lieutenant-Colonel P. Agnew, was 
 authorized to say, it was the inten- 
 
MEMOIR. 57 
 
 tion of the Commander in Chief, if 
 the army should move, to employ 
 him in a station such as his rank 
 and services entitled him to expect. 
 Such, however, was the state of 
 his health, that he was under the 
 necessity of declining the honour 
 which his Excellency, the Com- 
 mander in Chief, had so handsomely 
 meditated in his favour ; though in 
 his application to Government, he 
 avoided mentioning that the state 
 of his health was the principal mo- 
 tive for his desire to go to England. 
 Colonel Burr accordingly em- 
 barked on board the Dover Castle 
 Indiaman, Captain Sampson, on the 
 twenty-eighth of February, 1803 ; 
 sailed from Madras Roads the se- 
 
58 MEMOIR. 
 
 cond of March ; arrived at St. He- 
 lena the fifteenth of May ; left that 
 island on the twenty-second ; ob- 
 tained sight of old England the 
 twenty-seventh of July ; and landed 
 at Seaford on the thirtieth of the 
 following month. 
 
 Colonel Burr having now com- 
 pleted his military career in India, 
 it would not be doing justice to his 
 protracted train of active, unremit- 
 ting, and successful services, if the 
 opinion entertained of them were 
 omitted to be mentioned ; the fol- 
 lowing is a Minute in Council. 
 
 " We have to inform you, that in 
 proposing the appointment of Mr. 
 Farquhar to this trust, Commis- 
 sioner on the part of the British 
 
MEMOIR. 59 
 
 Government, for delivering up to 
 the Batavian Republic, the eastern 
 possessions, taken during the war, 
 &c. &c. &c. the claim of Colonel 
 Burr to the notice of our Govern- 
 ment did not escape the observa- 
 tion of our President. Referring 
 you to his Lordship's Minute for 
 our unanimous opinion of the merit 
 of that officer, we beg leave to recom- 
 mend his services to the due consi- 
 deration of your honourable Court." 
 In September, 1803, a short 
 time after his return to England, 
 Colonel Burr was honoured with 
 an invitation by the Chairs of the 
 Honourable Court of Directors, 
 to dinner, at the Crown and An- 
 chor Tavern, in the Strand ; and 
 
60 MEMOIR. 
 
 in the following year, they were 
 pleased to present him with the 
 sum of eight hundred pounds, as an 
 additional remuneration for his table 
 expenses while he was prosecuting 
 the siege of Ternate. 
 
 It may be here proper to men- 
 tion, though not without serious 
 regret, the loss which Colonel Burr 
 sustained of a great variety of me- 
 moranda respecting his services in 
 India ; which were calculated to 
 have given an historical account of 
 the different engagements, sieges, 
 and expeditions, in which, during 
 such a long course of years he was 
 actually employed.* But these in- 
 
 * The loss of these manuscripts, embracing, 
 as has been already observed, a period of many 
 
MEMOIR. 61 
 
 teresting documents have, by the 
 chance of war, been placed beyond 
 
 years of his military life, is surely the more to 
 be regretted, when it is considered, that they 
 had been submitted to the revision and ar- 
 rangement of his most excellent and ever to be 
 lamented friend, Mr. George Binny, whose 
 affectionate, never-failing, and most honourable 
 regard, it is his pride to acknowledge. Among 
 other numerous instances of his kindness, he 
 employed no small portion of his invaluable 
 time in improving and elucidating his faithful 
 narrative of these transactions, in which his 
 successive situations in the army of India called 
 him to take a part. Through such prolonged, 
 various, and active services, he recorded the 
 truth with honest simplicity, and his friend 
 gave it the additional interest, which could not 
 fail to proceed from his superior mind, and in- 
 comparable judgment. Here, indeed, Lieu- 
 tenant General Burr could wish to enlarge on 
 the many and rare virtues of Mr. Binny's 
 highly distinguished character, but it is already 
 done in the Epitaph inscribed on his monu- 
 ment, which will be found among the sup- 
 plementary papers of this little volume. 
 
62 MEMOIR. 
 
 his reach. They were shipped with 
 his baggage at Ganjam, in order to 
 meet him at Madras, but the vessel 
 was captured by a French privateer 
 in January, 1802, and the whole of 
 his property on board lost for ever. 
 All the papers, however, relative to 
 the subsequent expedition against 
 the Island of Ternate have been 
 carefully preserved, and may give 
 some idea of the accuracy and fide- 
 lity which would have distinguished 
 the narrative of his former services, 
 had not the chance of war snatch- 
 ed them from him ; nor will it be 
 saying too much to presume that 
 the papers lost would have con- 
 tained the most authentic materials 
 for a very interesting and, consider- 
 
MEMOIR. GS 
 
 ing the periods and events which 
 they embraced, a very useful epi- 
 sode of the history of British India. 
 Colonel Burr received his com- 
 mission of Major-General on the 
 first of January, 1805, and was ad- 
 vanced to the rank of Lieutenant- 
 General on the twenty-second of 
 April, 1815. He was married on 
 the twenty-sixth of April, 1804, to 
 Lucy, second daughter of Thomas 
 Parry, Esquire, of Banstead in the 
 county of Surrey, and one of the 
 Directors of the Honourable the 
 East India Company, which lady 
 died at Flushing, in Cornwall, on 
 the seventeenth of November, 1805, 
 in her thirty-second year ; leaving 
 issue one daughter, Lucy Mary 
 
64 MEMOIR. 
 
 Anne. The General afterwards 
 married at Bristol, September the 
 twenty-ninth, 1808, Mary, youngest 
 daughter and coheiress of the late 
 James Davis, Esquire, of Chepstow, 
 in the county of Monmouth, by 
 whom he has had two sons and 
 three daughters. This lady, by the 
 maternal line, in consequence of the 
 death of the Duke of Norfolk, be- 
 came joint heiress with her own 
 sister, Ann Susannah Davis, to the 
 estates of the Duchess, with Sir 
 Edwin Francis Stanhope, Bart, and 
 her cousin, John Parsons, Esq.* 
 
 On Thursday, the eighteenth of 
 January, 1810, General Burr had the 
 honour of being presented to Her 
 
 * See Supplement, p. 93. 
 
MEMOIR. 6'5 
 
 Majesty, on his marriage, by Lord 
 Rolle,who was intimately acquainted 
 with his amiable and highly respect- 
 ed friend, Miss Knight, daughter of 
 Sir Joseph and Lady Knight, with 
 the latter of whom the General's 
 mother had been in close connection 
 from early life. At the same drawing 
 room, Mrs. Burr was also presented 
 by Lady Rolle ; and on the Wed- 
 nesday following, being the twenty- 
 fourth of the same month, the Ge- 
 neral was presented, by Lord Rolle, 
 to His Majesty, on his return from 
 India. 
 
 This Memoir of General Burr's 
 public and professional life, has 
 been given from his own memoran- 
 da, assisted by the communications 
 
66 MEMOIR. 
 
 of a gentleman who was a principal 
 actor in the same service. It may, 
 however, be mentioned with a scru_ 
 pulous adherence to truth, that this 
 faithful narrative has not been sug- 
 gested by any incitement of per- 
 sonal vanity, or ostentatious feel- 
 ing, but at the desire of friends who 
 have known him long and loved him 
 sincerely, as well as at the earnest 
 request of his family, who may be 
 naturally anxious to be informed of 
 every circumstance of a life so dear 
 to them ; and of which it is hoped 
 the more they know the more they 
 will find it display those examples 
 of virtuous and honourable conduct, 
 which it must be their wish, as it 
 will prove their happiness, to imi- 
 tate. 
 
MEMOIR. 67 
 
 It may here be observed, with 
 justice, that General Burr made his 
 way along the path of duty by suc- 
 cessive gradations in the perform- 
 ance of it, no superior interest, no 
 interposition of power were em- 
 ployed in his advancement. Pro- 
 motion waited upon service, and it 
 may be seen that he had always won 
 his reward before he received it. 
 This Memoir will prove that from 
 the time he landed as a Cadet on 
 the shores of India, to the hour that 
 he bade them a final adieu, being a 
 course of thirty-five years, his life 
 was a long, various, and almost un- 
 remitting scene of active and toil- 
 some duty, accompanied by a pro- 
 gressive acquisition of advancement, 
 
68 MEMOIR. 
 
 obtained by his own efforts, and that 
 due sense which the commanders 
 under whom he served, entertained 
 of them. And it may be also con- 
 fidently asserted that during the 
 long period of his service, he was 
 never absent a single day from the 
 calls of it, except once on furlough, 
 and in cases of extreme illness ; nay, 
 that he has resisted medical advice, 
 as well as the recommendation of his 
 friends and superior officers, by con- 
 tinuing on duty. It may likewise be 
 added that he never failed, most 
 conscientiously, to adhere to that 
 subordination which he considered 
 as the essence and commanding 
 principle of military discipline. 
 This little volume offers apor- 
 
MEMOIR. 69 
 
 trait, not of his person, but of his 
 life, not of his features, but of his 
 actions, not of his form, but of his 
 mind. It is not given to the world, 
 but to those alone, who are, as it 
 were, a part of himself, and to 
 whom his parental duty and affec- 
 tion calls upon him to disclose every 
 thought that may be useful to them, 
 and will be conveyed with an in- 
 terest and an authority which it is 
 hoped will accompany whatever 
 instruction, whether by words or 
 example, emanate from him. Nor 
 can any vanity be justly imputed to 
 him in exercising the duty and pri- 
 vilege of a parent, while he points 
 out the path in which he wishes 
 that his children should tread, when 
 
fO MEMOIR. 
 
 he calls their attention to any part 
 of his own conduct, which he con- 
 scientiously believes may be bene- 
 ficial to them to look up to and 
 imitate, when the voice of instruc- 
 tion can be heard no more, and filial 
 remembrance influenced by filial ve- 
 neration must supply its place ; what 
 an affecting impression will surely 
 accompany his declaration in the 
 minds of those to whom it is par- 
 ticularly addressed, when he most 
 solemnly avers, according to his best 
 recollection, that he never omitted 
 to offer up his morning and evening 
 praises to God, as the giver of all 
 good things, for the many bless- 
 ings bestowed upon him, as well as 
 to implore his divine protection, and 
 
MEMOIR. 71 
 
 assistance in all his humble but sin- 
 cere endeavours to walk in the way 
 most agreeable to his good will and 
 pleasure ; and when he further 
 adds that he never laid himself down 
 to rest, amidst the hard and revolt- 
 ing trials which he has suffered from 
 ingratitude and unkindness in the 
 course of his life, without addressing 
 the Father of mercies to forgive, as 
 he sincerely forgave those who had 
 designed, or done him any evil, and 
 to turn their hearts, beseeching, at 
 all times, the Giver of all good to 
 continue to him what he considered 
 the greatest of all sublunary pos- 
 sessions, a truly compassionate and 
 feeling heart, which necessarily 
 produces a genuine and unalterable 
 love of human kind. 
 
72 MEMOIR. 
 
 General Burr was never disposed 
 by his natural character and turn 
 of mind, to what is called the so- 
 ciety of the world, but in every 
 part of his long and active career, 
 he was always looking with an anxi- 
 ous but pleasing hope, to a state of 
 seclusion and retirement in the 
 country, as the favourite object and 
 final reward of all his labours. But 
 it has pleased God in his providen- 
 tial dispensation to order it other- 
 wise, and to that inscrutable Being 
 who knows best what to give and 
 what to withhold, he with the 
 utmost chearfulness and humility 
 resigns himself. Nevertheless, it 
 becomes him most gratefully to ac- 
 knowledge the happiness he has ex- 
 perienced in his own domestic circle, 
 
MEMOIR. 73 
 
 as well as in the society of select 
 and sensible friends, all of which 
 he still continues to enjoy. 
 
 To the above hasty and faint 
 sketch of the military career of Ge- 
 neral Burr, we think it right to an- 
 nex the following Letters, Extracts, 
 &c. which will form a proper Sup- 
 plement to the narrative of his 
 life. It was not thought advisable 
 to attach more than two or three 
 copies of documents relative to the 
 expedition against Ternate, to this 
 Memoir, but to have them printed 
 in a separate work, properly cor- 
 rected. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
I/* 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Correspondence relative to the Island of 
 Ternate. See Memoir, p. 48-56. 
 
 Amboyna,) November 6', 1801. 
 
 My dear Farquhar, 
 
 I shall be extremely happy to hear that you 
 are arrived at Ternate, where I know your 
 presence is so much required, and at which 
 place there are multifarious political arrange- 
 ments to occupy your time and thoughts upon, 
 but however difficult and delicate your situa- 
 tion is, I likewise know your talents are equal 
 to the greatest affairs, and that you will readily 
 penetrate into all the objects which the con- 
 tending parties will study to accomplish ; but 
 as I do not conceive any apprehensions can be 
 entertained for the tranquillity of the island 
 
78 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 being disturbed by any of them, I hope you 
 will be able to place the Honourable Company's 
 interest in the highest point of advantage; and 
 although some discontents and bickerings may 
 naturally be expected in adjusting the claims 
 of the various parties concerned, who are each 
 jealous of the other, and between whom the 
 most rooted enmity exists ; yet I shall flatter 
 myself, your firmness and conciliatory deport- 
 ment will reconcile them all to the measures 
 you adopt for their general good and happi- 
 ness, and at the same time give the utmost de- 
 gree of stability to the Honourable Company's 
 possessions in this part of the world. 
 
 The policy of the Dutch has always dictated 
 the expediency of fomenting quarrels between 
 the Tidorian and Ternatian Princes, and 
 they have in consequence been in a per- 
 petual state of alarm, or warfare, but I trust 
 on your pointing out the evil consequences 
 arising from such a state to the welfare and 
 peace of their respective subjects, they will 
 naturally embrace a wiser and more peaceable 
 line of conduct. 
 
 You have, my friend, a very nice card to 
 play, and should remember that all eyes are 
 directed towards you; and be assured our ene- 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 79 
 
 mies will take every advantage of us, and be 
 apt to say, " if the tree should not bring 
 forth good fruit," where are the solid advan- 
 tages that have arisen to the Company, or 
 what will compensate for our justification in 
 presumptuously undertaking the expedition. I 
 therefore exhort you to exert all your great 
 abilities to prove to the world, that our con- 
 quest is an acquisition of real and great im- 
 portance to the state. You know how severely 
 I have been handled for my " ambitious ex- 
 ploits,''' but even though I may have failed in 
 doing as much as I wished, yet I have done 
 my best for my country, and from the con- 
 sciousness of which my mind is perfectly tran- 
 quil. You may expect a rub, but I shall 
 hope, nevertheless, you will be applauded, 
 when the result is known and felt. 
 
 I have now only to assure you, with the 
 purest sincerity, that my best wishes shall ever 
 attend your pursuits, and that I impatiently 
 look for your return. May health and perfect 
 felicity be your constant companions through 
 life. Always 
 
 your sincere Friend, 
 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 Robert Townshend Farquhar, Esq. 
 fyc. 8fc. Sfc. 
 
80 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Victorious, Trincomalee, June 27, 1802" 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I consider myself indebted to your kind at- 
 tention for recalling the Albatross to you, for 
 the sake of the opportunity of forwarding 
 your letters from our friends at Amboyna. 
 Am much obliged to you likewise for the in- 
 formation respecting the state of affairs at the 
 Molucca Islands settlements when you left 
 them, and am concerned to observe you com- 
 plain of bad health, which I trust the tran- 
 quillity of living ashore, with other attendant 
 comforts, will speedily reinstate. 
 
 I congratulate you very sincerely on your late 
 success at Ternate, so amply merited on your 
 part, and remain with every respect, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your very faithful, humble servant, 
 
 (Signed) Peter Rainier, 
 
 To Colonel Daniel Burr, 
 late commanding at the Molucca Islands. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 81 
 
 St. Thome, November I, 1802. 
 Dear Sir, 
 I return you herewith my best thanks for 
 the perusal you have indulged me with, of the 
 copies of Mr. Farquhar's Diary, and the Malay 
 treaties, which I read with great attention, and 
 no less admiration of my young friend's acti- 
 vity and abilities in the management of such 
 various and extensive public concerns, at so 
 early a period of his life and services. Yet 
 cannot help expressing to you my regret, as 
 things have happened, and might have been 
 expected, that those treaties were not made 
 provisionary with respect to the Dutch being 
 reinstated in those possessions, as the introduc- 
 tion of that provisional circumstance might 
 have contributed to have abated the keeness of 
 the resentment that revengeful and cruel peo- 
 ple may be provoked to execute on the parties 
 concerned, when in their power, for their con- 
 duct in these negotiations, in what concerns 
 themselves. I remain, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 Your very faithful, humble servant, 
 
 (Signed) Peter Rainier. 
 
 To Colonel Daniel Burr, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 G 
 
82 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Madras, 
 Tuesday Evening, November 2, 1802. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your favour of yesterday's date, together 
 with the papers, were duly received by me, and 
 I now have the pleasure of sending, for your 
 perusal, what, for many reasons, I think can- 
 not fail to interest, the translation of a public 
 dispatch from the government of Batavia, to 
 the Governor of Ternate, which was intercept- 
 ed by us during the siege of the island. The 
 private letters taken at the same time, I sent in 
 to the Governor by a flag of truce. 
 
 With regard to the treaties not being made 
 provisional by Mr. Farquhar, under the im- 
 pression of what doubtless could not but have 
 been expected, that of the Dutch being again 
 reinstated in their former possessions, I con- 
 fess I do not see in the serious light in which 
 it appears to you. It certainly is to be la- 
 mented that any individual should suffer for 
 his attachment to our country or cause, but 
 the people in question must be considered as 
 included equally with those of the islands 
 which previously fell to us in the general treaty 
 of peace, a particular article of which, your 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 83 
 
 Excellency may remember, is very explicit, in- 
 deed, on that head ; taken, however, in a more 
 general point of view, between you and me^ 
 does it not appear in itself to be a grand po- 
 litical stroke of our young friend, who has by 
 this shook, to the very foundation ^ the autho- 
 rity of the Dutch in those islands for ever. In 
 my opinion, he has thus established throughout 
 the Moluccas, the superior influence of the 
 British character, derived from the acknow- 
 ledged justice and liberality of our nation. I 
 have perused, with much gratification, your 
 commendations of my young friend Farquhar. 
 Indeed these extensive and important treaties, 
 in which he was concerned, required uncom- 
 mon abilities, zeal, and activity, and such as he 
 possesses in a very eminent degree. 
 
 I beg leave to assure you, I have the honour 
 to be with the most perfect respect and esteem, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your obliged and faithful servant, 
 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 To His Excellency, 
 
 Vice Admiral Peter Rainier, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
84 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Madras, November 5, 1802. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I have the honour to submit, with great re- 
 spect, to your Excellency's perusal, the accom- 
 panying book, containing the first and second 
 expedition against Ternate, with a request that 
 your Excellency will not detain it longer than 
 is necessary. And should any part of the cor- 
 respondence relative to Ternate affairs give 
 you an idea that I have thrown out a reflection 
 on your service, I hasten to do away any im- 
 pression of the kind in your mind. My cor- 
 respondence on the operations of the Navy and 
 Army, could only relate to the particular divi- 
 sions of them employed on that service, for, in- 
 deed, I should be more sorry than I can express, 
 that any misconception of my specific meaning 
 should be construed into a general censure 
 on that service, which all the nations of Europe 
 acknowledge, and have experienced to their 
 cost, to be the most glorious in the known 
 world. I must, after this assurance, request that 
 your Excellency will not cherish any opinion 
 contrary to my true meaning and intent, when 
 I wrote the letters now respectfully submitted 
 for your Excellency's perusal, and at the same 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 85 
 
 time, that you will please to consider the cor- 
 respondence I now submit to your perusal as 
 an act of friendship, accompanied by a request 
 on my part of secrecy on your's. 
 
 I have the honour to be, with unfeigned 
 esteem, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your very obedient, humble servant, 
 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 To His Excellency, 
 Vice Admiral Peter Rainier, 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 St. ThomS, 
 Saturday Morning, Nov. 6 9 1802. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I am this moment favoured with your letter 
 of yesterday, with the roll of paper accompa- 
 nying it. Your observation on my remark re- 
 specting the provisionary article which appeared 
 to me to be necessary in the treaties with the 
 Malay Princes, to conciliate the future regard 
 of the Dutch, are very judicious, but I enter- 
 tain a very different opinion of the Dutch cle- 
 mency, therefore could have wished they had 
 
86 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 been drawn, up with that restriction, though it 
 might possibly have operated but little in their 
 favour, yet it would be interpreted to their ad- 
 vantage, if ever those treaties should, hereafter, 
 become a subject of European discussion. » It 
 will, I really believe, be a work of time and 
 difficulty to obliterate the favourable impres- 
 sions the kind conduct and treatment of Mr. 
 Farquhar, and all our countrymen in general, 
 have wrought in the minds of those Malay 
 Princes, but the effects of the Dutch ven- 
 geance, armed with the usual instruments of 
 torture and sanguinary execution, are wonder- 
 ful in introducing change of opinion in men's 
 minds, when formed even of the best materials. 
 I shall look over the contents of your roll, 
 and return them to you. I have no doubt of 
 their being very interesting. 
 
 I remain, most respectfully, 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Your very faithful, humble servant, 
 
 (Signed) Peter Rainier. 
 
 To Colonel Daniel Burr, 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 87 
 
 Vice Admiral Rainier returns Colonel Burr 
 the papers he received from him, and thinks 
 
 his animadversions on conduct, very 
 
 proper. Vice Admiral Rainier confides in Co- 
 lonel Burr's goodness to excuse his not having 
 paid Colonel Burr a conge visit, on his depar- 
 ture for Bombay, being much pressed for 
 time, and having none to lose, on account of 
 the condition of the ship, and advanced state 
 of the season. 
 
 St. Thome, January 2 , 1803. 
 
 Correspondence alluded to in Memoir, 
 p. 56. 
 
 Fort St. George, Madras, 
 December 2, 1 802. 
 
 My Dear Colonel, 
 
 You know that preparations are going on 
 towards forming an army for the field, but 
 it is yet uncertain if the troops will or will not 
 be actively employed. In this state of affairs, 
 
88 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 it may be worthy of your consideration, whe- 
 ther or not you should press your application 
 for leave. If your health permits you to take 
 the field, I am authorized to say, that should 
 the army move, it is the intention of the Com- 
 mander-in-Chief to employ you in a station, 
 such as your rank entitled you to expect. To 
 enable me to know your wishes, your letter has 
 been detained till Friday^ Council. 
 
 Yours, my dear Colonel, 
 
 Very truly, 
 
 (Signed) P. A. Agnew. 
 
 To Colonel Daniel Burr, 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 (Private.) 
 
 Madras, December 22, 1802. 
 
 My dear Agnew, 
 
 I have been favoured with your confidential 
 note, which is highly satisfactory and very 
 pleasing, and for which I am much indebted 
 to both his Excellency the Commander-in- 
 Chief and yourself, and in confidence I tell 
 you that my health is in that wretched state, 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 89 
 
 from a complaint I have long laboured under, 
 and which is daily gaining ground on me, that 
 it drives me home as the only source from 
 which I am likely to find a remedy ; I have 
 not asked for a sick certificate, but this, on my 
 honour, is the real fact, and thus circum- 
 stanced, you will see how indispensibly neces- 
 sary it is for me to deny myself the honour 
 which his Excellency has so handsomely de- 
 signed for me, and for which I am most truly 
 grateful. 
 
 I remain, 
 
 My dear Agnew, 
 
 Most sincerely yours, 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 Madras, December 24, 1802. 
 My dear Agnew, 
 
 Lest, notwithstanding my asseveration on 
 my honour to you, relative to the real wretched 
 state of my health, his Excellency the Com- 
 mander-in-Chief may not be satisfied, I will, 
 if necessary, withdraw my application in its 
 present form, and return it to you, accom- 
 panied by a surgeon's certificate, agreeably to 
 prescribed form. 
 
90 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Be fully persuaded that nothing but the 
 most pressing necessity could possibly have in- 
 duced me to wave on this occasion the hand- 
 some offer made to me by General Stuart. 
 Such, however, is the real state of my case, 
 that I could not attempt to ride upon horse- 
 back, and my duty could not be discharged in 
 a Palankeen; it is necessary, therefore, only that 
 I should add, that were it possible for me to 
 get on, I would attempt any thing, but as such 
 attempt would, without doubt, in the opinion 
 of medical men, place my complaint beyond 
 the reach of cure, however repugnant to my 
 feelings, I must go home, as the only hope I 
 have left of re-establishing my health. 
 
 Yours, my dear Colonel, 
 
 very truly, 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 Fort St. George, 
 Friday, December 24, 1802. 
 
 My dear Colonel^ 
 
 There can be no possible necessity for your 
 obtaining the certificate you mention. The 
 General regrets the cause which, in event of 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 91 
 
 field operations, will deprive him of your ser- 
 vices, but is perfectly aware that absolute ne- 
 cessity alone would induce you to return to 
 Europe, while your presence in this country 
 would be useful to the public. 
 
 I am extremely sorry that this has been the 
 case, and hope you may derive every advan- 
 tage from the climate and medical skill of Eu- 
 rope. 
 
 I am, 
 
 My dear Colonel, 
 
 truly yours, 
 
 (Signed) P. A. Agnew. 
 
 To Colonel Burr. 
 
L 8»» ] 
 
 The following- Extract respecting the 
 Heirs to the Estates of the late Duchess 
 of Norfolk, will form no inappropriate 
 introduction to the Documents which 
 ensue on that subject. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant James 
 Davis, 33c? Regt. to his Brother, the Revd. 
 Francis Davis* Chepstow, Monmouthshire, 
 June, 1797« 
 
 On my return from Bristol to Chatham, I ac- 
 cidentally dined in town in company with Mr. 
 Dalloway, of the Herald's Office, who is prin- 
 cipal Secretary to the Duke of Norfolk (the 
 President). I had the curiosity to enquire if he 
 was at all acquainted with the inheritance of 
 the estates belonging to the present Duchess. 
 He in a very satisfactory manner proved to me 
 the propriety of Parsons*, and your claims to 
 the Holm-Lacey , and Lanthony estates (of about 
 
 * The brothers of Miss Ann Susannah Davis, 
 and of Mrs. General Burr. See the Inscriptions, 
 p. 176. 
 
SO* SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 the annual value of £8000), as to a fourth part. 
 These estates belonged to four sisters Coparce- 
 ners, from whom they have regularly descend- 
 ed to the Duchess. No act whatever has been 
 done to affect the descent, and the Duchess is, 
 and ever will be, incapable of disposing of them. 
 Parsons has, in consequence of the noise he has 
 made at public places, of being heir to the 
 Duke of Norfolk, caused the Duke, (who is not 
 a little irritated at his exaggerated representa- 
 tions) to trace his (Parsons's) claim. The re- 
 sult is that the Duke admits, and is well per- 
 suaded of your being entitled, in conjunction 
 with the descendants of the four Coparceners, 
 to the estates in question. The difference is, 
 (and to be sure it is a great one,) that instead 
 of Parsons and yourself possessing the whole 
 of the property after the decease of the Duchess, 
 you will put in your claim to a fourth part, as 
 being the representatives of one of the Copar- 
 ceners. In a business of this grand nature, 
 where there are many descendants, and of 
 course many claimants, you will require the 
 aid of the Court of Chancery, where if you 
 come forward properly you will not experience 
 much delay. Mr. Dalloway offered to shew 
 me all his papers relative to your descent, but 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 91* 
 
 I could not wait on him by reason of my being 
 so particularly engaged. I hope you will not 
 think that Mr. Dalloway has made these cir- 
 cumstances known to me with any mercenary 
 views, or that I am endeavouring to fill you 
 with delusive hopes. I can have no other in- 
 terest than for your welfare, and if you will 
 take my humble advice, you will cause this 
 business to be fully investigated immediately. 
 I shall not wish you success ; you are already 
 certain of it. The grand object is the speedy 
 possession. If you confer with Mr. Dalloway 
 upon this subject, you may make use of my 
 name, and of my having communicated to you 
 the conversation that passed between us. I 
 have explained myself to you in the best way 
 I can, and I hope I have sufficient influence 
 with you, to induce you to consider this mat- 
 ter in a serious light. A thousand a year 
 would be a pretty addition to your income. 
 But I will say no more to you on the subject. 
 
DOCUMENTS 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE 
 
 SUCCESSION TO THE ESTATES 
 
 OP THE LATE 
 
 DOWAGER DUCHESS OF NORFOLK. 
 
 See Memoir, p. 64. 
 
 13th May, 1817. 
 
 In the Matter of the Most Noble FRANCES 
 FITZROY HOWARD, Dowager Du- 
 chess of Norfolk, a Lunatic. 
 
 To the Right Hon. JOHN LORD ELDON, 
 
 In pursuance of an Order made in this 
 matter on the 22nd day of June, 1816, where- 
 by I am at liberty to make a separate Report 
 of any of the matters thereby referred to me, 
 as I should see occasion, I have been attended 
 
94 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 by Mr. Arthur Clarke, as the Solicitor for Ro- 
 bert Jackson, Ann Jackson, Spinster, Carey 
 Maria Jackson, Spinster, and Mary Phillips, 
 (on whose petition the said Order was made,) 
 and by Messieurs Collett, Winburn and Col- 
 lett, as Solicitors for Sir Edwin Francis Stan- 
 hope, Baronet, and by Mr. Turner, as Solici- 
 tor for John Parsons, Esquire, Lieutenant Ge- 
 neral Daniel Burr, and Mary his Wife, (late 
 Mary Davis,) and Ann Susannah Davis, Spin- 
 ster, and by Mr. England, as Solicitor for John 
 Jones, Gentleman, and by Messieurs Darke, 
 Church and Darke, as Solicitors for John Scu- 
 damore Lechmere, Esquire, and by Messieurs 
 Bateman and Jones, as Solicitors for Wrothes- 
 by Digby, Esquire, the Reverend Noel Digby, 
 William Mills, Esquire, and Elizabeth his Wife, 
 (late Elizabeth Digby,) Charles Mills, Esquire, 
 and Jane his Wife, (late Jane Digby,) Anne 
 Dolben, Spinster, and Jane Mackworth, Spin- 
 ster, and by Messieurs Goodeve and Ranken, 
 as Solicitors for Henry John Kearney, Esquire, 
 Arabella Cartwright, Widow, (late Arabella 
 Kearney,) Frances Baldwin, Widow, (late 
 Frances Kearney,) Henrietta Catherine Fair- 
 fax, Widow, (late Henrietta Catherine Kear- 
 ney,) and the Reverend Edmund Cartwright, 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 95 
 
 and Susannah his Wife, (late Susannah Kear- 
 ney,) and in their presence I have proceeded 
 to enquire who is or are the heir or heirs at 
 law, and next of kin of the said Lunatic ; and 
 I have considered the Claims of the said seve- 
 ral persons, and the Evidence produced before 
 me in support of the same, and upon conside- 
 ration of the matter, I am of opinion, that the 
 said Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and the said 
 John Parsons, Mary the Wife of the said Da- 
 niel Burr, and Ann Susannah Davis, are the 
 Coheirs at Law of the said Lunatic. The 
 said Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, being the 
 eldest Son of Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, 
 Baronet, who was the only Son of Lady Ka- 
 therine Bridges, by Edwin Francis Stanhope, 
 Esquire, her second Husband, which Lady 
 Katherine Bridges was the eldest daughter of 
 the Honourable John Bridges, commonly called 
 Marquis of Carnarvon, (and Lady Jane, her 
 youngest Sister, having died without issue,) 
 who was the eldest Son of James, the ninth 
 Lord and first Duke of Chandos, and which 
 James Duke of Chandos was the eldest Son of 
 James, the eighth Lord Chandos, who was the 
 only Son of Sir John Bridges, Baronet, who 
 was the eldest Son of Sir Giles Bridges, Baro- 
 
96 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 net, and Dame Mary his Wife, which Dame 
 Mary was one of the Sisters of John, the first 
 Lord Viscount Scudamore, who was the Great 
 Grand-father of James the last Lord Viscount 
 Scudamore, and which James Lord Viscount 
 Scudamore was the Grand-father exparte ma- 
 terna of the said Lunatic, whose Father Charles 
 Fitzroy Scudamore was illegitimate. And the 
 said John Parsons, Mary the Wife of the said 
 Daniel Burr, and Ann Susannah Davis being 
 the Great-Grand Children and Coheirs of 
 James Higford, who was the only surviving 
 Son and Heir of William Higford, who was 
 the eldest surviving Son and Heir of John 
 Higford, and which John Higford was the 
 eldest Son of John Higford of Dixton, and 
 Frances his Wife, who was another Sister of 
 the said John the first Lord Viscount Scuda- 
 more, and I find that the said Wrothesby 
 Digby, Noel Digby, Elizabeth the Wife of 
 the said William Mills, Jane the Wife of the 
 said Charles Mills, Anne Dolben, and Jane 
 Mackworth are the next of kin of the said 
 Lunatic, they being the only surviving Great- 
 Grand Children of Kildare Lord Digby who 
 was the Grand-father of Frances Digby the 
 Wife of the said James, the last Lord Viscount 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 97 
 
 Scudamore, and the Grand-mother exparte ma- 
 terna of the said Lunatic. 
 
 All which, &c. 
 
 (Signed) J. S. Harvey. 
 
 (Copy Bond.) 
 
 The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, a Lunatic. 
 
 Know all Men by these Presents, that We, 
 The Right Honorable Edward Earl Digby, 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope of Stanwell, in 
 the County of Middlesex, Baronet, Daniel 
 Burr of Upper Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, 
 in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, Henry 
 Bateman of Lincoln's Inn, in the said County 
 of Middlesex, Esquire, and Rowland Wim- 
 burn of Chancery Lane, in the said County of 
 Middlesex, Esquire, are bound and firmly 
 obliged to our Most Serene Lord George the 
 Third, by the Grace of God, of the United 
 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, 
 Defender of the Faith, in Three Hundred 
 Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great 
 Britain, to be paid to the same Lord the King, 
 his heirs or successors : to which payment well 
 and truly to be made We bind ourselves, and 
 H 
 
98 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 every of us jointly and severally, our Heirs, 
 Executors, and Administrators, and the Heirs, 
 Executors, and Administrators of each of us, 
 firmly by these presents, Sealed with our seals. 
 Dated the twenty-third day of September, in the 
 Fifty-seventh year of the Reign of our said now 
 Lord the King, &c. and in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. 
 
 The Condition of the above written Obli- 
 gation is such, that Whereas the Right Ho- 
 norable John Lord Eldon, Lord High Chan- 
 cellor of Great Britain, hath given directions 
 that the above bounden Edward Earl Digby, 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and Daniel Burr, 
 shall have a Grant under the Great Seal of 
 Great Britain, of the Custody of the Person, 
 and management of the real and personal 
 Estate of the Most Noble Frances Fitzroy 
 Howard, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, a Lu- 
 natic, she being unable to govern herself or to 
 manage her Estate during the continuance of 
 her Lunacy. If therefore the said Edward 
 Earl Digby, Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and 
 Daniel Burr shall yearly, or oftener if they be 
 thereunto required, make a just and .true ac- 
 count of all and singular the Rents, Issues, and 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 99 
 
 Profits of the real Estate of the said Lunatic, 
 and also of her personal Estate, and the profits 
 thereof as now are or hereafter shall come to 
 their hands, custody, Or possession, or which 
 they may receive out of or concerning the said 
 Estate, and shall carefully observe, perform, 
 and keep the orders and directions of the 
 Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, Lord Keeper 
 or Lords Commissioners for the custody of the 
 Great Seal of Great Britain for the time being, 
 made or hereafter to be made, touching or 
 concerning the said Lunatic and her Estate, 
 and touching all such Monies as shall yearly 
 remain due upon the foot of their Account 
 duly taken by one of the Masters of the High 
 Court of Chancery, and filed in the Office for 
 that purpose appointed ; and shall be careful 
 to see the Houses, Buildings, and Structures 
 of the said Lunatic to be well and sufficiently 
 repaired, and so kept and maintained during 
 the continuance of the said Grant ; and shall 
 carefully preserve and keep all the Deeds, 
 Evidences, and Writings touching the Manors, 
 Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments 
 and Estate of the said Lunatic, as now are or 
 hereafter shall come to their hands, custody, 
 or possession ; and shall carefully provide for 
 
100 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 the person of the said Lunatic, and for her 
 safety and for her family (if any be or shall 
 be) during the continuance of the said Grant, 
 and shall bring the said Grant to the Clerk of 
 the Custodies and Post Mortems within one 
 month or sooner next after the same shall be 
 passed under the Greal Seal of Great Britain 
 to be there inrolled ; and shall not sell or alien 
 their Interest in the said Custody or Grant to 
 any person or persons whomsoever, without the 
 Consent or Agreement of the Lord Chancellor 
 of Great Britain, Lord Keeper or Lords Com- 
 missioners for the Custody of the Great Seal 
 of Great Britain for the time being, but shall 
 in all things demean themselves as careful and 
 faithful Grantees or Committees of the Person 
 and Estate of the said Lunatic, That then the 
 said Obligation to be void, or else the same to 
 stand, remain, and be in full force and virtue. 
 
 Digby. L. S. 
 
 Signed, Sealed and De- 
 livered by the above- 
 namedED w ardE arl \ 
 Digby, in the pre- 
 sence of us, 
 
 E. F. Stanhope. L.S. 
 Daniel Burr. L. S. 
 H. Bateman. L. S. 
 Row.Wimburn. L.S. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 101 
 
 Signed, Sealed and Delivered by the above- 
 named Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, in 
 the presence of 
 
 G. W. Parkinson, of Malaga, Merchant. 
 Jeremiah Parkinson, of Lime-street Square 
 in the City of London, Gent. 
 
 Signed, Sealed and Delivered by the above- 
 named Daniel Burr, in the presence of 
 
 Sharon Turner, of Red Lion Square, Gent. 
 Alfred Turner, son to the above. 
 
 Signed, Sealed and Delivered by the within- 
 named Rowland Wimbujin, in the pre- 
 sence of 
 
 John James Webb, l Clerks to Mr. Wim- 
 M. H. Gregory, j burn. 
 
 This is the Bond referred to by Mark Henry 
 Gregory in his Affidavit, sworn before me 
 the 4th day of November, 1817- 
 
 Sam. C. Cox. 
 
102 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Letters from General Burr to Sharon 
 Turner, Esq. 
 
 Upper Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square, 
 Thursday, 4th December, 1817- 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 Although we have at different times ex- 
 pressed how much we stand indebted to your 
 exertion and minute attention to bring forward 
 every evidence that would tend to manifest with 
 clearness our Interest in the Hom-Lacy Estate ; 
 we are desirous of testifying still farther the 
 high sense we entertain of your valuable ser- 
 vices in this concern.— We therefore request 
 you will draw up Two Bonds, subject to pay- 
 ment one month after we shall have come into 
 the full possession of our several shares of that 
 estate ; one on the part of John Parsons, Esq. 
 his heirs and assigns, for the sum of One 
 Thousand Pounds, payable to you, your heirs 
 and assigns, without interest ; and the other, 
 on the part of Miss Ann Susannah Davis, her 
 heirs and assigns, jointly with General Burr 
 (on the part of his wife Mary Burr, their heirs 
 and assigns), for a like joint sum of One Thou- 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 103 
 
 sand Pounds, also payable to you, your heirs 
 and assigns, without interest. 
 
 We wish it to be understood, that we consider 
 these two bonds to be entirely distinct from, and 
 not including a discharge of any expense that 
 has arisen, or may arise in the farther prosecu- 
 tion of our rights. With every sentiment of 
 esteem, and every wish for. your health and 
 happiness, 
 
 We remain, Dear Sir, 
 
 most faithfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) John Parsons. 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 Sharon Turner, Esq. 
 
 Answer. 
 
 32, Red Lion Square, 
 4th Dec. 18 17- 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I am sensibly affected by the kindness of 
 yourself, Mr. Parsons and Miss Davis, in de- 
 siring me to prepare the Bonds you mention. 
 Nothing can be more gratifying to me than 
 such a liberality so handsomely conferred. I 
 
104 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 beg to return through you to Mr. Parsons and 
 Miss Davis, as well as to your amiable Lady 
 and yourself, my sincere thanks, and not merely 
 for the pecuniary benefit intended, which fully 
 equals my wishes, but for the approbation which 
 has accompanied it. 
 
 Nothing shall be left undone by me that can 
 substantiate your rights and interests ; and 
 indeed, quite independent of your handsome 
 present, nothing would really give me more 
 pleasure than to put you into full possession of 
 the property to which you are now so fairly 
 entitled and so justly declared to be so. 
 
 I am, Dear Sir, with every sentiment of 
 regard to yourself and family, and to Mr. 
 Parsons, 
 
 Yours most faithfully, 
 
 and much obliged, 
 
 {Signed) Sharon Turner. 
 Lieut. Gen. Burr. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 105 
 
 Upper Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy- square, 
 Thursday, Uth Dec. 1S17- 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 The importance attached to the final settle- 
 ment of my family claims upon the Duchess 
 of Norfolk's estate, has pressed very forcibly on 
 my mind, and led me to a serious consideration 
 of the present state of the business, as detailed 
 in the several particulars of your account : and 
 I assure myself of your readiness to pay full 
 attention to what I may suggest in relation to 
 the subject. It appears to me, something 
 more efficient than has already been done, is 
 absolutely necessary to secure us in the posses- 
 sion of our rights. — I think there should be a 
 kind of Historical Detail of Facts, drawn out 
 with reference to every Document used in evi- 
 dence ; and that this Detail of Facts, with the 
 several Documents, should be lodged in the 
 Bank of England. 
 
 I trust you will believe I have not in the 
 least degree lost sight of your laborious exer- 
 tions in bringing the business to its present 
 happy issue — my object is to establish, in the 
 most secure manner, what has been effected, by 
 
106 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 being prepared to bring forward evidence 
 which no future claimant can possibly set aside. 
 It may so be that neither yourself, Mr. Par- 
 sons, or I, may be living at the time when the 
 final adjustment of this business takes place. 
 Under such a circumstance, what I have point- 
 ed out will afford the greatest security to my 
 family — because the Documents being lodged 
 in the Bank, we may consider them safe from 
 fire and depredation. 
 
 I remain, Dear Sir, 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 (Signed) Daniel Burr. 
 
 Sharon Turner, Esq. 
 
 32, Red Lion Square, 
 23d Dec. 1817- 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 In answer to your Note, I beg to inform you 
 that your Claim and Descent, and also the se- 
 ries of Facts, Registers, Documents, and Evi- 
 dences, illustrating and proving each part, were 
 taken in by me to the Master's Office, and left 
 there with the other papers, and will there 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 107 
 
 remain, as is usual with his other Documents, 
 in safe custody. 
 
 I have a Box of Deeds, which, at a future 
 period, may be deposited at your Banker's in 
 the joint names of Mr. Parsons, Mrs. Burr, 
 and Miss Davis. I may yet have some occa- 
 sion to refer to them. 
 
 I am, Dear Sir, 
 
 Yours most faithfully, 
 
 (Signed) Sharon Turner 
 
 Lieut. Gen. Burr. 
 
 Copy of what passed before the Chan- 
 cellor on ordering the Possession. 
 
 Court of Chancery, February 1, 1821. 
 In re Duchess of Norfolk. 
 
 Mr. Hart. —My Lord, you said you would 
 take the Lunatic Petitions in the Case of the 
 Duchess of Norfolk this morning; your Lord- 
 ship will recollect they were the Petitions of 
 the several Heirs at Law, Mr. Heald was 
 Counsel on part of the defendant Mr. Jack- 
 
108 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 son, who appeared before the Master under a 
 preceding order of your Lordship, and the 
 Master has reported they were the Heirs at 
 Law, and these Petitions therefore are merely 
 as matters of course for the Heirs at Law to 
 be put into possession. Mr. Jackson has pro- 
 ceeded to inspect the papers, he has been be- 
 fore the Master and has made several inspec- 
 tions, and has ceased to do so. A letter was 
 written on his part, dated January 15 th, in 
 which he expresses himself in these terms : — 
 " Pressed before the Master, I am sorry I am 
 unable to attend the appointment of the 
 Master this day. I shall see my client on the 
 result of that investigation, and will then inform 
 you without delay if I shall make any farther 
 search among the papers. r> And he has made 
 no farther search. He has had a full oppor- 
 tunity, and he does not mean to make any 
 farther search. At least I am not instructed 
 that he does. Mr. Heald had his brief, I do 
 not know that he has any fresh instructions to 
 state any thing farther to your Lordship on the 
 part of his client. In consequence of the sus- 
 pense there has been in this business many 
 persons in this country have taken a fancy that 
 no heirs are to be found. Addressing himself 
 to Mr. Heald, Have you any instructions? 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 109 
 
 Mr. Heald. — I do not know any thing new 
 having occurred since this case was last before 
 the Court. I understood that your Lordship 
 intended to put these parties into some mode 
 of trying their respective rights. 
 
 Lord Chancellor.— \ allowed this to stand 
 over, to give you an opportunity of inspecting 
 the papers in the Master's Office, and to let me 
 know what your client would have done. There 
 is a letter from your client, dated the 15 th 
 January, stating that if he wished to take any 
 farther part, he would inform them without 
 delay. 
 
 Mr. Hart.— I have an affidavit of that fact. 
 
 Mr. Heald. —My client is advised his client's 
 title is the best, but I understand from him he 
 does not think of making any farther search 
 in the Master's Office, because in truth all the 
 search was made before. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — It was permitted to stand 
 over for the express purpose of giving your 
 client an opportunity of inspecting the papers 
 in the Master's Office, and of informing me 
 what he would have done. 
 
 I must bring it to a conclusion one way or 
 another. 
 
 Mr. Heald. —He was perfectly aware of all 
 
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 the papers in the Master's Office, and every 
 thing to be found in those papers. And there- 
 fore it was not necessary to make any farther 
 search, I was not aware it was necessary to lay 
 that fact before your Lordship. We are pre- 
 cisely in the same situation in which we were 
 when this business was last before the Court. 
 There is nothing in favour of your claim more, 
 than that of my client, but that the Master 
 has found them Heirs at Law, though the 
 Master stated he would not prejudice any party. 
 
 Mr. Hart.—l should be glad to know 
 whence Mr. Heald has found these facts. He 
 now says his client was as well aware of the 
 facts before as he is now. He formerly said 
 he was not acquainted with them, and request- 
 ed your Lordship to let this stand over till he 
 had an opportunity of inspecting those papers 
 which he now says his client was acquainted 
 with before. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — Let this stand over per- 
 emptorily till Saturday morning, and then I 
 will hear what Mr. Heald's client has to state. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — Your Lordship is not aware of 
 all the inconvenience to these parties arising 
 from delay in this case. 
 
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 Court of Chancery, February 3, 1821. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — Your Lordship was pleased to 
 say that the Petitions in the Case of the Du- 
 chess of Norfolk's Lunacy should come on 
 peremptorily this morning. 
 
 Mr. Heald. — I trust it is now convenient for 
 me to state to your Lordship what instructions 
 I have received since this matter was last before 
 your Lordship, and which I should have done 
 at the sitting of the Court, if your Lordship 
 had delivered no judgments. 
 
 The case I am instructed to represent is this: 
 that Mr. Jackson has been considered by the 
 family, and I can have an affidavit stating it, 
 if necessary, that he was considered by the late 
 Duke of Norfolk, as Heir of the Duchess, 
 that, however, does not prove that Mr. Jack- 
 son was the Heir at Law of the Duchess. At 
 the death of the Duchess, Mr. Jackson was at 
 Buenos Ay res, engaged in affairs of import- 
 ance. A letter had been received from him 
 prior to the death of the Duchess of Norfolk, 
 who died in the month of October last, by his 
 sister Miss Jackson, which induced his sister to 
 believe, though not stated in express terms, 
 
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 that he would shortly arrive in this country, 
 and in consequence of that, an application was 
 made, though he had no intimation of her death, 
 to suspend the hearing of the Petition till the 
 16th of December last, as in the opinion of the 
 parties he would arrive by that time. He did 
 not arrive at that period, neither has he yet ar- 
 rived, and I thought it right to ask what com- 
 munication was made, when it was made, and 
 when it was probable he would arrive, &c. I 
 am informed that on the very day the Duchess 
 died, or at least on the very day her death 
 was known in London, a letter communicating 
 that fact was dispatched to Mr. Jackson. A 
 letter was immediately written. But there is 
 no packet for sending letters to Buenos Ayres, 
 and in consequence of that there is no way of 
 sending a letter to that part of the world but 
 by merchant vessels, and that it could not ar- 
 rive in less than three months. The Duchess 
 died in the latter end of the month of last Oc- 
 tober, and the letter that was written to him on 
 that event, could not arrive till about a fort- 
 night or three weeks ago. There is every rea- 
 son to believe that letter has reached him, and 
 the parties in this country not having any in- 
 structions from him as to the course to be 
 
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 taken the Solicitor does not feel himself in a si- 
 tuation to submit to any order for Mr. Jack- 
 son's title with Sir E. Stanhope and others, 
 and he leaves it to your Lordship to decide 
 whether it should be decided upon till he has 
 an opportunity of being heard, or in any other 
 way your Lordship shall think right. Whe- 
 ther your Lordship, if his arrival in this country 
 is too late, whether your Lordship would order 
 the possession of the Estates should be deli- 
 vered to Sir E. Stanhope and the others or not, 
 is not for me to say. All I have to state is 
 the absence of Mr. Jackson, and the utter im- 
 possibility, from the time that has elapsed, to 
 have received any order from him for the trial 
 of his title with the different claimants. As I 
 have said, there was reason to believe, from, a 
 letter received, written by him, before he could 
 receive any tidings of her death, which could 
 only arrive two or three weeks ago, and which 
 letter induced his sister and the Solicitor to think 
 that he would soon arrive here, and that he 
 had not as yet arrived, in consequence of en- 
 gagements that detained him there ; and he has 
 made an affidavit that he believes he will come 
 over the moment he has received that letter 
 written to him since the Duchess's death. 
 I 
 
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 Mr. Hart.— The question is whether a 
 statement without the shadow of evidence to 
 support it is to entitle him to that possession, 
 which his Counsel says he is entitled to. 
 
 Mr. He aid. — I mention an affidavit. 
 
 Mr. Hart.— I never knew that a court heard 
 the case and afterwards the evidence. 
 
 Mr. Heald.— Where you have been I do 
 not know, because it is done every day. It is 
 sworn he is at Buenos Ayres. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — It stood peremptorily for this 
 morning. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — The Court is under very 
 great difficulty in such a case. As to my au- 
 thority it is quite gone as Chancellor in lunacy. 
 I have nothing more to do with it. It does 
 appear to me as a general principle, I must 
 consider the persons traced as Heirs at Law 
 are entitled to possession. 
 
 Mr. Heald. — If your Lordship should de- 
 liver possession to the persons who have been 
 found by the Master to be the Heirs at Law, 
 you should take care that it should be delivered 
 to Mr. Jackson, if he makes any case after his 
 arrival in this country. Both parties in this pe- 
 digree claim down to a certain degree in the 
 same way. A great number of persons are 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 115 
 
 disposed of, and it would be extremely diffi- 
 cult, now, if Sir E. Stanhope gets the posses- 
 sion without any further evidence, it would be 
 hard if Sir E. Stanhope were to say, Possession 
 is nine-tenths of the law ; it is not necessary 
 for me to give further evidence ; and he might 
 throw every difficulty in the way of Mr. Jack- 
 son's title. I suppose you meant something of 
 this kind, when you said you would take care 
 that the difficulties that arose from Mr. Jack- 
 son's absence should be guarded against. 
 
 Lord CJianceUor. — After the best conside- 
 ration I have been able to give this subject, I 
 have no jurisdiction in the world in this, none 
 at all. I have no objection to its being stated, 
 on its being moved, that possession should be 
 delivered to those persons who were reported 
 to be Heirs at Law. Let the possession there- 
 fore be delivered to them, without prejudice 
 to the right of any other person. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — I certainly cannot resist it. Your 
 Lordship recollects, when this case was first 
 stated, it was alledged though they have per- 
 sonally attended the Master through the pedi- 
 gree, the result was, it was found to be in fa- 
 vour of my clients. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — What Mr. Harvey said 
 
116 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 is material for both, Mr. Jackson declined any 
 further contest. Mr. Harvey thought it was 
 a question between them. But on the other 
 hand he thought the question was in favour of 
 vour client and against Mr. Heald's. 
 
 Mr. Hart His person is not that which 
 
 can introduce any thing like a right. It must 
 be through the medium of investigation, and 
 when it was to stand over, it was stated, that 
 Mr. Jackson's Solicitor had not an opportunity 
 of searching all the pedigree and deeds in the 
 Master's Office. And when that opportunity 
 was given to him, lie abandoned it as hope- 
 less. 
 
 Lord Chancellor.— Mr. Jackson's Solicitor 
 is under this difficulty : he knows the late 
 Duke of Norfolk was a great pedigree man, 
 and considered Mr. Jackson as Heir at Law ; 
 but what these conversations were, or what 
 they would lead to, he did not know till he saw 
 Mr. Jackson himself. 
 
 Mr. Heald. — If they can get into posses- 
 sion on the title as it now stands, they will have 
 considerable advantage over Mr. Jackson. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — I do not mean to give 
 any opinion that he is not the Heir at Law, 
 but simply to say that I must consider the 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 117 
 
 persons, who appeared before the Court as the 
 Heirs at Law. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — Ignorant persons do not read 
 your Lordship's orders as more intelligent men 
 do. And we are only apprehensive the mo- 
 ment that any reservation is stated, half the 
 country will think that reservation applied to 
 them, as in the Angel Case. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — Let the possession be de- 
 livered to your clients. 
 
 Mr. Heald. — The Angel Case might have 
 been obviated at once. Indeed I have seen 
 Miss Jackson, and had a long conversation 
 with her, and I have strong reason for think- 
 ing that Mr. Hart's client is not entitled ; but 
 at the same time it is quite another question, 
 whether we are. I think very probably that 
 neither of us is entitled. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. —That makes it more ne- 
 cessary I should be cautious. 
 
 Mr. Heald. — No doubt your Lordship will 
 be cautious, you are always so. This Angel 
 Case might be obviated by the clients of Mr. 
 Hart having a little forbearance, and just waiting 
 for three months, in order to hear whether Mr. 
 Jackson will or will not give them any trouble. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — I wish both of you to 
 
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 consider the situation in which I am placed. 
 If Mr. Wingfield keeps possession, Mr. Wing- 
 field is the only man with whom I could inter- 
 fere, because he was the Committee, and I 
 wish you only to consider what I could do with 
 third persons. 
 
 Mr. Hart. — You were peremptorily to de- 
 cide it this morning. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — I have disposed of it by 
 having ordered the possession to be taken. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield. — Of course, with a reserva- 
 tion to the Receiver. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — I shall make this Order. 
 The Court does not think proper to go into the 
 question, whether the one or the other is entitled. 
 But let the possession be delivered to them 
 who are reported Heirs at Law. 
 
 Mr. Hart.— Very well, my Lord, I am con- 
 tent with that. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — Mr. Wingfield must 
 have the possession so far as to receive the 
 rents. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield. — My Lord, with respect to 
 the Demesne Lands, I believe there is some 
 question whether the title of Lord Digby was 
 ever barred. It is proposed it should be left 
 in my possession till that point is settled. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 119 
 
 Lord Chancellor. —I have jurisdiction to de- 
 liver the possession of these Estates to the re- 
 ported Heirs at Law ; and then my power is 
 gone. I have jurisdiction to direct that the 
 Committee do receive all rents in arrear. But 
 I have no jurisdiction to decide about titles 
 gone. 
 
 Mr. Sugde7i. — My Lord, I appear for Ge- 
 neral Fitzroy, and the only question with re- 
 gard to him is, what portion of the Estate he 
 is entitled to. That it be referred to the 
 Master to ascertain what portion of the Estate 
 belongs to General Fitzroy. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — What jurisdiction have 
 I to do that ? 
 
 Mr. Hart. — I do not object to it. It is only 
 to decide on what parcel of the Estate belongs 
 to this gentleman. 
 
 My Lord, there is another question, and 
 that is the exoneration of the Estate from sums 
 charged. My Lord, with respect to the ques- 
 tion of Five Thousand Pounds your Lord- 
 ship suggested, it was probable that point 
 would be decided on a bill filed. But the par- 
 ties contending are very willing to have the 
 question decided by your Lordship on petition. 
 
120 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 We are perfectly satisfied on all sides to have 
 that part of the case heard and decided on 
 petition, if your Lordship pleases. I do not 
 mean that you should take it now. 
 
 Lord Chancellor. — I have no objection. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield. — Now? 
 
 Mr. Hart. — No, this is to stand over. 
 
 Order for giving Possession. 
 
 Saturday the 3rd day of February, in 
 the second year of the Reign of His 
 Majesty King George the Fourth, and 
 in the Year of our Lord, 1821, In the 
 matter of the Most Noble Frances 
 Fitzroy Howard, Dowager Duchess 
 of Norfolk, a Lunatic. 
 
 Whereas John Parsons, Esq. Daniel Burr, 
 Lieutenant General of His Majesty's Forces, 
 and Mary his Wife, and Ann Susannah Davis 
 of the City of Bristol, Spinster, did on the 
 1 7th day of November, last, refer their peti- 
 tion to me, stating that the said Dowager Du- 
 chess of Norfolk above-named, was before her 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 121 
 
 marriage with the late Duke of Norfolk, seized 
 and possessed of divers Manors, Messuages, 
 Parks, Lands, Tenements, Woods, Tithes, 
 Advowsons and Her edits in the several Counties 
 of Hereford, Buckingham, Gloucester, Mon- 
 mouth and Surrey and elsewhere, and that by 
 certain Indentures of Lease and Release and 
 Settlement, bearing date respectively the 22nd 
 and 23rd days of March, 1771? the Release being 
 made between the said Dowager Duchess by 
 her then name of Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 Spinster, of the first part, the said Charles, 
 late Duke of Norfolk by his then name, of the 
 Honourable Charles Howard the younger, of 
 the second part, Joshua Sharpe and Henry 
 Mountfort, Gents, of the third part, Henry 
 Curwen and John Scudamore, Esquires, of the 
 fourth part, the Honourable Charles Fitzroy 
 and Samuel Lord Marsham, of the fifth part, 
 Herbert Westfaling, Esquire and Sir Chandos 
 Hoskyns, Bart, of the sixth part, Sir Francis 
 Charlton, Bart. Thomas Howard and Philip 
 Howard, Esquires, of the seventh part, George 
 Howard, Esquire of the eighth part, and 
 Charles Fitzroy Scudamore, Esquire, father of 
 the said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, of the 
 ninth part. After reciting amongst other 
 
122 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 things that a marriage was intended to be had 
 and solemnized between the said Charles 
 Howard and Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, It 
 was witnessed that in consideration of the said 
 intended marriage, and for other the considera- 
 tions therein mentioned, and for barring all 
 Estates, Tail and Reversions expectant there- 
 upon of and in the, Heredits and Premises 
 therein mentioned, and for settling and assur- 
 ing the same upon the trusts after-mentioned, 
 the said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore did grant, 
 release and confirm unto the said Joshua Sharpe 
 and Henry Mountfbrt and their heirs, the se- 
 veral Manors, Messuages, Parks, Lands, Te- 
 nements, Woods, Tithes, Advowsons, Heredits 
 and Premises therein particularly mentioned 
 and described in the several Counties of Here- 
 ford, Bucks, Gloucester, Monmouth and Surrey, 
 to hold unto and to the use of the said Joshua 
 Sharpe and Henry Mountfort and their heirs, 
 in trust for the said Duchess, until the solem- 
 nization of the said marriage, and afterwards, 
 to the intent that five several recoveries might 
 be suffered of the said Heredits and Premises, 
 and which, except the said Advowsons, were to 
 be thereby vested in the said Henry Curwen 
 and John Scudamore, and the survivor of them 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 123 
 
 and their heirs, upon and for the several uses, 
 ends, intents, and purposes therein, and in part 
 hereinafter mentioned and declared concerning 
 the same, viz. To the use that the said Charles 
 Fitzroy Scudamore and his assigns might re- 
 ceive an annuity of One Thousand Pounds 
 thereout for life, with power of entry and dis- 
 tress in case of non-payment thereof, and to 
 the further use and intent, that the said Charles 
 Fitzroy and Samuel Lord Mar sham and their 
 heirs might thereout yearly and every year 
 during the joint lives of the said Charles How- 
 ard, Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, and Charles 
 Fitzroy Scudamore, receive an annuity of Five 
 Hundred Pounds a year, upon certain trusts 
 therein mentioned, and to the further use and 
 intent, that in case of the death of the said 
 Charles Fitzroy Scudamore, during the lives 
 of the said Charles Howard, and Frances Fitz- 
 roy Scudamore, then that the said Charles 
 Fitzroy and Samuel Lord Marsham and their 
 heirs might receive an annuity of Seven Hun- 
 dred Pounds instead of the said annuity of 
 Five Hundred Pounds, which was then to cease, 
 during the joint lives of the said Charles How- 
 ard and Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, upon 
 certain trusts therein mentioned, with power of 
 
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 entry and distress for securing the same with 
 remainder to the use of the said Herbert West- 
 faling and Sir Chandos Hoskyns, their Executors 
 Administrators and Assigns for the term of Four 
 Hundred Years, upon the trust therein after 
 mentioned, without remainder to the use of the 
 said Sir Francis Charlton,Thomas Howard, and 
 Philip Howard, their Executors Administrators 
 and Assigns for the term of Five Hundred 
 Years, without impeachment of waste upon cer- 
 tain trusts therein after declared concerning the 
 same, with remainder to the use of the said 
 Frances Fitzroy Scudamore and her Assigns, 
 without impeachment of waste, with power of 
 leasing as therein after mentioned, with re- 
 mainder to the use of the said Henry Cur wen 
 and John Scudamore, upon trust to support 
 the contingent remainders after limited, with 
 remainder to the use of the said Charles How- 
 ard for life, without impeachment of waste, 
 with remainder to the use of the said Charles 
 Curwen and John Scudamore and their Heirs, 
 upon trust to support the contingent remainders. 
 And as to for and concerning the said Manors 
 and Heredits, except the said Advowsons, from 
 and after the determination of the several uses 
 therein before limited in use, It was declared 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 125 
 
 that the said five common recoveries should be 
 and enure to the several uses, and for the seve- 
 ral intents then following (that is to say), In 
 case there should be more sons than one of the 
 said Charles Howard and Frances Fitzroy 
 Scudamore, his said intended wife, who should 
 attain twenty-one years, to the use of such 
 son and to his Heirs male, as the said Charles 
 Howard and Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, or 
 the survivor of them, should jointly appoint, 
 and in default thereof and subject thereto 
 to the use of such son and his heirs male, 
 as the survivor of them the said Charles 
 Howard and Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 should apy :int as therein mentioned, with re- 
 mainder to the use of the first and other sons 
 of the said marriage severally and successively, 
 and their heirs male, and for default of such 
 issue, to such uses as the said Frances Fitzroy 
 Scudamore, whether covert or sole, should in 
 manner therein mentioned direct or appoint, 
 with remainder to the heirs of the body of the 
 said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, with remain 
 der to the use of the right heirs of the said 
 Frances Fitzroy Scudamore for ever. And it 
 was by the said Indenture of Release and Set- 
 tlement amongst other things provided and 
 
126 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 declared, that it should be lawful for the said 
 Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, but subject to 
 and chargeable with the payment of the said 
 several annuities or sums of One Thousand 
 Pounds, Five Hundred Pounds, and Seven 
 Hundred Pounds therein before charged and 
 made payable as aforesaid, and for the benefit 
 of the several persons therein named, and 
 without prejudice thereto from time to time 
 during the joint lives of the said Frances Fitz- 
 roy Scudamore and Charles Howard, from and 
 after the said several common recoveries to be 
 suffered as aforesaid, should be perfected by 
 any deed or deeds, instruments or instrument, 
 in writing so sealed and delivered, and to be 
 attested by two or more credible witnesses, by 
 and with the express concurrence, consent, and 
 good liking of the said Charles Howard, testi- 
 fied by his being a party thereto and sealing 
 and delivering such deed or deeds respectively, 
 to borrow and take up at interest on the credit 
 of, or to levy and raise, or direct to be levied 
 and raised out of all or any of the said Manors, 
 Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Tithes, Here- 
 dits and Premises therein comprized (other 
 than the said Advowsons and other ecclesiastical 
 benefices), any sum or sums of money not 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 127 
 
 exceeding the principal sum therein and after 
 mentioned, and for the purpose of securing the 
 money so to be borrowed and taken up at the 
 will of the said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 from time to time during such joint lives as 
 aforesaid, and with such concurrence, consent, 
 and good liking, as aforesaid, to subject and 
 charge all or any of the same Heredits and 
 Premises, but without such prejudice as afore- 
 said, with and for the payment of any princi- 
 pal sum or sums of money whatsoever unto or 
 for the benefit of any person or persons whom- 
 soever, and for such intents and purposes as to 
 her the said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, with 
 such concurrence and consent and good liking 
 as aforesaid, should seem meet, so as all and 
 every the principal sum or sums which the said 
 Heredits and Premises, or any part thereof 
 should be subjected to or liable to pay, or which 
 should be charged thereon, or on any part 
 thereof by virtue of any such charge, deed, or 
 instrument, being composed together should 
 not exceed in the whole the principal sum of 
 Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, with reason- 
 able interest for the forbearance thereof. And 
 to the end that the said sum and sums of 
 money so to be borrowed and taken up at inte- 
 
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 rest might be effectually secured, It was there- 
 by declared that it should be lawful for the 
 said Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, and that she 
 should have full power and authority, at her 
 free will and pleasure, by and with such con- 
 currence, consent and good liking as aforesaid, 
 (testified as aforesaid,) but without prejudice 
 to the said several annuities last mentioned, 
 and to the several powers, remedies and secu- 
 rities for the same as last was expressed, by the 
 same deed or deeds, instrument or instruments 
 or any other such like deed or deeds, instru- 
 ment or instruments so sealed and delivered 
 and attested as last mentioned, in order 
 to the purpose of securing any such principal 
 sum or sums so as not exceeding in the whole 
 the principal sum of Twenty-five Thousand 
 Pounds, with interest for the same, to limit or 
 create any term of years, or to make or execute 
 any demise or demises, lease or leases, by way 
 of mortgage of the Premises so charged or 
 any part or parcel thereof, for any term or 
 number of years whatsoever, without impeach- 
 ment of waste, so as- the Estate or Estates 
 which should be granted by all and every such 
 deed or deeds, instrument or instruments, de- 
 mise or demises, lease or leases, should be made 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 129 
 
 redeemable or defeasible in full payment of 
 such sum or sums of money not exceeding 
 in the whole the said sum of Twenty-five 
 Thousand Pounds, with reasonable interest 
 for the same, or so much of such principal 
 and interest as the said Premises or any part 
 thereof should be so charged with or made 
 subject or liable to pay and satisfy, by virtue 
 of the same power or proviso by the person or 
 persons, who for the time being should be next 
 entitled to the Freehold and Inheritance of the 
 said Premises so to be demised, and so as there 
 should be contained in the same deeds or in- 
 struments, express declarations and agreements 
 on the parts of the said Frances Fitzroy Scu- 
 damore and Charles Howard, respectively, 
 whereby they should undertake and agree to 
 pay, keep down and discharge the interest 
 which, from time to time, become due in re- 
 spect of the principal sum or sums of money 
 so to be borrowed, taken up or charged, as last 
 mentioned, and that the said term of Four 
 Hundred Years was created for the purpose of 
 better securing the payment of the several an- 
 nuities therein mentioned, which had long since 
 ceased, and of raising a sum of Twenty Thou- 
 sand Pounds, after the death of the said Charles 
 K 
 
130 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Howard, Duke of Norfolk, for the benefit of 
 the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, if she 
 survived him, and should so direct who had 
 4»ed without directing the same, and that the 
 said term of Five Hundred Years was created 
 for the purpose of raising portions for the 
 Daughters of the said marriage, and that five 
 common recoveries were suffered in pursuance 
 of the said Indenture of Release, and a sum of 
 Five Thousand Pounds was raised in May, 
 1774, in execution of the power given by the 
 said Indenture of Release by the said Dowa- 
 ger Duchess, with the consent of the said Duke, 
 which had not been paid off, on which proceed- 
 ings had been had before me, and a reference 
 made to the said Master thereon, whose report, 
 approving of the same being paid off, I had 
 confirmed. And that by virtue of an Order 
 made in the said matter on the 22d day of 
 April, 1816, upon the Petition of Robert 
 Jackson, Esquire, Ann Jackson, Carey Maria 
 Jackson, and Mary Phillips, a commission in 
 the nature of a Writ de Lunatico Inquirendo, 
 bearing date at Westminster, the 27 th day of 
 April, 1816, was awarded and issued, directed 
 to certain Commissioners therein named, to en- 
 quire of the Lunacy of the said Most' Noble 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 131 
 
 Frances Fitzroy Howard, Dowager Duchess of 
 Norfolk, and that the said Commission was 
 duly executed on the 5th day of June, 1816", 
 before three of the Commissioners in the said 
 Commission named, and it was thereby found 
 that the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk 
 was a Lunatic, and did not enjoy lucid intervals, 
 so that she was not sufficient for the govern- 
 ment of herself, her Manors, Messuages, 
 Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels, and 
 that she had been in the same state of mind 
 from the month of December, 1 782. And it 
 was by the said Inquisition further found that 
 whether the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, 
 being in the same condition, had alienated any 
 Lands or Tenements, as also what Lands and 
 Tenements, Goods and Chattels then remained 
 to the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, the 
 Jurors knew not, save that they found that 
 the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk had divers 
 Manors, Lands, and Tenements in the several 
 Counties of Hereford, Gloucester, Monmouth, 
 Buckingham and Surrey, but who was the 
 nearest Heir of the said Dowager Duchess of 
 Norfolk, the Jurors aforesaid knew not. And 
 that by an order made in the said matter on 
 the 22d day of June, 1816, upon the Petition 
 
132 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 of the said Robert Jackson, Ann Jackson, 
 Carey Maria Jackson, and Mary Phillips, it 
 was ordered that it should be referred to Mr. 
 Harvey, one of the Masters of the Court of 
 Chancery, to enquire and certify who was or 
 were the most fit and proper person or persons 
 to be appointed Committee or Committees of 
 the person and Estate of the said Lunatic, and 
 also who was or were the Heirs or Heir at Law 
 and next of Kin of the said Lunatic, it was 
 further ordered (under the particular circum- 
 stances of the case) that the said Master should 
 enquire and certify what was the situation of 
 the said Lunatic, and the nature of her Luna- 
 cy, and of what the fortune of the said Lu- 
 natic did at the time of issuing the commission 
 of Lunacy in this matter consist, and whether 
 any and what Rents and Profits of the said 
 Lunatic's real and other Estates and Property 
 had accrued due to the said Lunatic, and by 
 whom the same had been received and how the 
 same had been applied, and in what manner, 
 at what expence, and by whom the said Luna- 
 tic had thitherto been maintained since the 
 death of the said late Duke, and also to enquire 
 and certify what would be a proper plan for 
 her future maintenance and support, and also 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 133 
 
 what would be fit and proper to be allowed for 
 her maintenance and support for the time to 
 come, regard being had to her circumstances 
 and Estate. And it was further ordered that 
 pending the enquiries thereby directed, it 
 should be also referred to the said Master to 
 enquire whether it would be fit and proper to 
 appoint a Receiver or Receivers of the said 
 Lunatic's Estate, or of any part thereof, and 
 in case the said Master should be of that opi- 
 nion, then it was further ordered that the said. 
 Master should appoint a proper person or per- 
 sons to be a Receiver or Receivers of the ar- 
 rears and growing rents and profits of the said 
 Lunatic's Estates, with the usual directions. 
 And that the said Master by his Report in the 
 said matter, bearing date the 8th day of Au- 
 gust, 1816', made in pursuance of the said last 
 mentioned order, appointed William Wingfield, 
 of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, 
 Esquire, to be Receiver of such of the said 
 Estates of the said Dowager Duchess of Nor- 
 folk, as she was entitled to in fee, and the said 
 William Wingfield thereupon entered into such 
 security as was directed by the said last men- 
 tioned order, and to the approbation of the 
 said Master , and entered into the receipt of 
 
134 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 the Rents and Profits of the said Estates, 
 whereof he was so appointed Receiver. And 
 that by an order made in the said matter, bear- 
 ing date the fth day of August, 1816, it was 
 ordered that for the better enabling the said 
 Master to prosecute the enquiries directed by 
 the said order of the 2 2d day of June, 1816, 
 as to who were the Heirs at Law and next of 
 Kin of the said Lunatic, that the said Master 
 should be at liberty to cause advertisements to 
 be published in the London Gazette and such 
 other public papers as he should think fit for 
 all persons claiming to be the Heir at Law, or 
 next of Kin of the said Lunatic, or who 
 claimed to have any Estate or Interest in re- 
 version or remainder of the real and personal 
 Estate and Property of the said Lunatic, to 
 come in before him by a time to be limited, and 
 prove their claims, and in default thereof, 
 such persons were to be excluded the benefit 
 of the said order. And that the said Mas- 
 ter, by his further separate Report in the 
 said matter, bearing date the 13th day of 
 May, 1817, in further pursuance of the said 
 last mentioned order of the 2 2d day of June, 
 1816, certified that he had been attended by 
 Mr. Arthur Clarke as Solicitor for the said 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 135 
 
 Robert Jackson, Ann Jackson, Carey Maria 
 Jackson, and Mary Phillips, and by Messrs. 
 Collett, Wimburne and Collett, as Solicitors 
 for Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and by 
 Mr. Turner, as Solicitor for the Petitioners 
 John Parsons, Lieutenant General Daniel Burr, 
 and Mary his wife (late Mary Davis,) Ann 
 Susannah Davis, Spinster, and by Mr. Eng- 
 land, as Solicitor for John Jones, Gent, and 
 by Mesrss. Darke, Church and Darke, as So- 
 licitors for John ScudamoreLechmere, Esquire, 
 and by Messrs. Bateman and Jones, as Soli- 
 citors for Wriothesley Digby, Noel Digby, 
 William Mills, and Elizabeth his Wife, (late 
 Elizabeth Digby,) and Charles Mills and Jane 
 his Wife (late Jane Digby,) Ann Dolben and 
 Jane Mackworth, and by Messrs. Goodeve 
 and Ranken, as Solicitors for Henry John 
 Kearney, Esquire, Annabella Cartwright, Wi- 
 dow (late Annabella Kearney), Frances Bald- 
 win, Widow (late Frances Kearney), Henrietta 
 Catherine Fairfax, Widow (late Henrietta 
 Catherine Kearney), and the Reverend 
 Cartwright and Susannah his Wife (late Su- 
 sannah Kearney) and in their presence he had 
 proceeded to enquire who was or were the Heir 
 or Heirs at Law and next of Kin of the said 
 Lunatic, and he had considered the claims of the 
 
136 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 said several persons, and the evidence produced 
 before him in support of the same, and upon 
 consideration of the matter, he was of opinion 
 that the said Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope and 
 the said John Parsons, Mary the Wife of the 
 Petitioner Daniel Burr and Ann Susannah 
 Davis were the co-heirs at law of the said Lu- 
 natic ; the said Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope 
 being the only son of Sir Henry Edwin Stan- 
 Tiope, Baronet, who was the only son of Lady 
 Catherine Brydges, by Edwin Francis Stan- 
 hope, Esquire, her second husband,which Lady 
 Catherine Brydges was the eldest daughter of 
 the Honourable John Brydges, commonly 
 called Marquis of Carnarvon (and Lady Jane 
 the youngest sister having died without issue), 
 who was the eldest son of James the ninth 
 Lord and first Duke of Chandos, and which 
 James Duke of Chandos was the eldest son of 
 James the eighth Lord Chandos, who was the 
 only son of Sir John Brydges, Baronet, who 
 was the eldest son of Sir Giles Brydges, Baro- 
 net, and Dame Mary his Wife, which Dame 
 Mary was one of the sisters of John the first 
 Lord Viscount Scudamore, who was the Great 
 Grandfather of James the last Lord Viscount 
 Scudamore, and which James Lord Viscount 
 Scudamore was the Grandfather, ex parte ma- 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 137 
 
 terna, of the said Lunatic, whose father, Charles 
 Fitzroy Scudamore, was illegitimate. And the 
 said John Parsons, Mary the Wife of the said 
 Daniel Burr, and Ann Susannah Davis, being 
 the Great Grandchildren and Co-heirs of James 
 Higford, who was the only surviving Son and 
 Heir of William Higford, who was the eldest 
 surviving Son and Heir of John Higford, and 
 which John Higford was the eldest Son of 
 John Higford, of Dixton, and Frances his 
 Wife, who was another sister of the said John 
 the first Lord Viscount Scudamore. And the 
 said Master found that the said Wriothesley 
 Digby, Noel Digby, Elizabeth the Wife of the 
 said William Mills, Jane the Wife of the said 
 Charles Mills, Ann Dolben, and Jane Mack- 
 worth, were the next of Kin of the said Lu- 
 natic, they being the only surviving Great 
 Grandchildren of Kildare, Lord Digby, who 
 was the Grandfather of Frances Digby, the 
 Wife of the said James the last Lord Viscount 
 Scudamore, and Grandmother, ex-parte mater- 
 na of the said Lunatic. And that by an Order 
 made in the said matter, bearing date the 7 th 
 day of June, 1817, it was ordered that the 
 said Master's said Report should be confirmed, 
 and that the said Master, by his former sepa- 
 
138 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 rate Report, made in the said matter, bearing 
 date the 28th day of July, 1817, in further 
 pursuance of the said Order of the said 2 2d of 
 June, 1816', certified that he had been attended 
 by the Solicitors for Sir Edwin Francis Stan- 
 hope, and for the said Petitioners, which said 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope and the Petitioners, 
 John Parsons, Mary Burr and Ann Susannah 
 Davis were the Co-heirs at Law of the said Lu- 
 natic ; and by the Solicitor for the said Wrio- 
 thesley Digby, Noel Digby, William Mills, and 
 Elizabeth his Wife, Charles Mills, and Jane 
 his Wife, Ann Dolben and Jane Mackworth, 
 were the only next of Kin of the said Lunatic, 
 would be entitled in distributive shares to her 
 personal Estates, in case she were then dead 
 intestate ; and also by the Solicitors for the said 
 Robert Jackson, Ann Jackson, Carey Maria 
 Jackson, and Mary Phillips, and in their pre- 
 sence he had proceeded to enquire who was or 
 were the most fit and proper person or persons 
 to be appointed Committee or Committees of 
 the Person and Estate of the said Lunatic, and 
 a proposal having been laid before him on the 
 part of the said Wriothesley Digby, Noel Dig- 
 by, William Mills, and Elizabeth his Wife, 
 Charles Mills and Jane his Wife, Ann Dolben 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 139 
 
 and Jane Mack worth, the next of Kin of the 
 said Lunatic, whereby the said Edward Earl 
 Digby, Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and the 
 Petitioner Daniel Burr, were proposed as pro- 
 per persons to be appointed Committees of the 
 Person and also of the Estate of the said Lu- 
 natic. And upon consideration of the matter and 
 the said Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, and the 
 Petitioners having assented to the said proposal 
 he had approved thereof, and was of opinion 
 that the said Edward Earl Digby, Sir Edwin 
 Francis Stanhope, and the Petitioner, Daniel 
 Burr, were the most proper persons to be ap- 
 pointed Committees of the Person and Estate 
 of the said Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, the 
 Lunatic. And that by an Order made in 
 the said matter on the Petition of the Right 
 Honourable Edward Earl Digby, Sir Edwin 
 Francis Stanhope, Baronet, and Daniel Burr, 
 and dated the 13th of August, 1817, it was 
 ordered that the Master's said Report should 
 be confirmed ; and it was further ordered that 
 the custody of the person and the care and 
 management of the Estate of the said Lu- 
 natic, should be granted to the Petitioners 
 the Right Honourable Edward Earl Digby, 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Baronet, and 
 
140 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Daniel Burr, Esquire, they first giving se- 
 curity as therein mentioned. And it was there- 
 by further ordered that William Wingfield, 
 named in the said Petition, should be continued 
 the Receiver of such of the Estates of the said 
 Lunatic, whereof he had already been appoint- 
 ed Receiver, with under and subject to the se- 
 veral powers and directions in that behalf con- 
 tained, in an Order made in the said matter, 
 bearing date the 22nd of June, 1816*. And 
 that the said Frances Dowager Duchess of 
 Norfolk, departed this life on the 22d day of 
 October, last, without issue, and without having 
 made or executed any appointment or disposi- 
 tion of her real or personal Estate, and that 
 the Petitioners, John Parsons, Mary the Wife 
 of the Petitioner, Daniel Burr, and Ann Su- 
 sannah Davis, had been as aforesaid reported 
 by the said Master to be, together with the said 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Baronet, the Co- 
 heirs at Law of the said Frances Dowager Du- 
 chess of Norfolk, and were therefore as he 
 conceived entitled to be let into possession of 
 the said premises mentioned in the said Inden- 
 ture of Settlement, jointly with the said Sir 
 Edwin Francis Stanhope, whom the said Mas- 
 ter had reported to be the other Co-heir of the 
 
SUPPLEMENT. Hi 
 
 said Lunatic, The Petitioners therefore prayed 
 that the said William Wingfield, the Receiver 
 appointed in this matter, might be directed to 
 let the Petitioners, John Parsons, Daniel Burr, 
 and Mary his Wife, in right of the said Mary 
 and Ann Susannah Davis, into possession of 
 the said real Estates of the said Dowager 
 Duchess, comprized in the said Indenture of 
 Settlement of the 22nd and 23rd of March, 
 177 1 * and in the five recoveries suffered there- 
 on jointly with the said Sir Edwin Francis 
 Stanhope, as the Co-heirs of the said Lunatic, 
 or that I would be pleased to make such fur- 
 ther or other Order on the subject as to me 
 should seem meet. And whereas Sir Edwin 
 Francis Stanhope, Baronet, did on the 
 day of November last, prefer his Petition to 
 me, stating to the effect aforesaid, and pray- 
 ing that the said William Wingfield, the Re- 
 ceiver appointed in this matter, be directed to 
 let the Petitioner into possesion of the said real 
 Estates of the said Dowager Duchess, com- 
 prized in the said Indenture of Settlement of 
 the 22nd and 23rd of March, 1771, jointly 
 with the said John Parsons, Mary the Wife of 
 the said Daniel Burr, and Ann Susannah Davis, 
 as the Co-heirs of the said Lunatic, or that I 
 
142 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 would make such further or other Order in the 
 said matter as to me should seem meet; 
 whereupon I ordered all parties concerned to 
 attend me on the matter of the said Petitions, on 
 the then next day of Petitions, whereof notice was 
 to be given forthwith ; and the matters of the 
 said Petitions coming on to be heard before me 
 on this day, in the presence of Mr. Hart and 
 Mr. Shadwell, of Counsel for the Petitioners, 
 John Parsons, Daniel Burr and Mary his Wife, 
 and Ann Susannah Davis, Spinster ; of the said 
 Mr. Hart, and Mr. Wrottesley, of Counsel for 
 the Petitioner, Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, 
 Bart.; of Mr. Sugden, of Counsel for the Ho- 
 norable Charles Fitzroy ; and of Mr. Heald, of 
 Counsel for Robert Jackson, named in the Pe- 
 tition. Now, upon hearing the said Petitions, 
 and the several affidavits of Arthur Clarke, 
 Sharon Turner, Joseph Spencer, Judge Cary, 
 Maria Jackson, Rowland Wimburne and 
 Charles P ugh, read, and what was alledged by 
 the Counsel aforesaid, I do think fit, and here- 
 by declare, that I do not think it proper to in- 
 terfere in the question whether Robert Jack- 
 son, or the Petitioners, Sir Edwin Franci 
 Stanhope, John Parsons, Daniel Burr, anu 
 Mary his Wife, and Ann Susannah Davis, are 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 143 
 
 entitled to the real Estates of Frances, late 
 Duchess Dowager of Norfolk, as the Heirs or 
 Heir at Law of the said Duchess. And I do 
 think fit and hereby further order that William 
 Wingfield, Esq. the Receiver of the Rents and 
 Profits of the Estates of the said late Duchess, 
 do continue to act as Receiver of the Rents 
 and Profits of the said Estates of which he is 
 now Receiver, under the said Order made in 
 this matter on the 23rd of August, 1817 (ex- 
 cept as after mentioned), until the arrears of 
 such Rents and Profits due at the time of the 
 decease of the said late Duchess are fully paid 
 or satisfied. And upon receipt thereof, I do 
 hereby further order that the said William 
 Wingfield do deliver up the possession of one 
 undivided moiety of such Estates, except as 
 hereinafter mentioned, to the Petitioner, Sir 
 Edwin Francis Stanhope, Baronet, and of one 
 undivided one-fourth part thereof to the Peti- 
 tioner, John Parsons, Esquire, of one undivided 
 one-eighth thereof to the Petitioners, Daniel 
 Burr and Mary his Wife (in right of the said 
 Mary Burr), and the remaining undivided one- 
 eighth part thereof to the Petitioner, Ann Su- 
 sannah Davis, Spinster, which the said Master, 
 by his Report of the 13th day of May, 1817, 
 finds to be the Co-heirs at Law of the said late 
 
144 SUPPLEMENT 
 
 Duchess, and I do hereby further order that the 
 said William Wingfield do continue to act as 
 Receiver of the Rents, Issues, and Profits of 
 such parts of the Estates of the said late Du- 
 chess, as are or are supposed to be of the na- 
 ture or tenure of ancient Demesne or Gavel- 
 kind or Leasehold, and also such of the Manors, 
 Messuages or Tenements, Lands and other 
 Heredits mentioned and comprized in two se- 
 veral Indentures, the one bearing date the 2nd 
 day of December, 17 10, made between the 
 then Duke of Beaufort of the first part, Fran- 
 ces then Duchess of Beaufort of the second 
 part, Charles Cotes, the elder, of the third 
 part, Uvedale Price and Charles Cotes, the 
 younger, of the fourth part, and John Barnes 
 and John Hodges of the fifth part, and the 
 other Indenture bearing date the 20th day of 
 May, 1 749, and made between Charles Fitzroy 
 Scudamore and Frances his Wife, of the first 
 part, Uvedale Price (who had survived Charles 
 Cotes, the younger), of the second part, and 
 Thomas Fisher and John Boult, of the third 
 part, being the Manors, Messuages, or Tene- 
 ments, Lands and other Heredits to which the 
 Honorable Charles Fitzroy hath laid claim, 
 until further order. 
 
 Eldon. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 141 
 
 In pursuance of the preceding Order, the 
 Estate in Hereford and Monmouth, was 
 taken possession of, on April 28, 1821, by Sir 
 Edwin Francis Stanhope, Bart. John Parsons, 
 Esq. Lieutenant-General Burr, his Lady, and 
 Miss Davis, as the Co-heirs at Law of her 
 Grace, being the descendants of Sir James 
 Scudamore, from whom her Grace inherited 
 this fine property. 
 
 The following is the Rental of the Duchess 
 of Norfolk's Estate in the Counties of Here- 
 ford and Monmouth, under the collection of 
 Thomas Braithwaite, on the 2nd day of Fe- 
 bruary, 1816. 
 
Tenants Names. 
 
 Situations and Names of Farms. 
 
 Me 
 
 asure. Ann. Ren 
 
 
 HOM LACY. 
 
 A. 
 
 *. p. /. s. i 
 
 John Hudson, Jun. 
 
 Lower Bogmarsh Farm 
 
 46? 
 
 8 660 
 
 James Stevens 
 
 Hollenton and Gannah Farms - 
 
 406 
 
 2 11 506 
 
 Richard Prince 
 
 Upper Bogmarsh Farm 
 
 42? 
 
 3 21 462 
 
 John Smith - 
 
 The Bower Farm - 
 
 30C 
 
 3 6 444 
 
 John Jones - 
 
 Billingsley Farm - 
 
 354 
 
 2 29 290 
 
 Frederick Green - 
 
 The Tump Farm 
 
 3£ 
 
 21 40 
 
 Benj. Morris, Sen. 
 
 Shipley Farm and Fishery - 
 
 14 
 
 2 9 39 
 
 Messrs. Purchas's 
 
 Byefield Meadow - 
 
 S 
 
 210 26 5 
 
 John Hudson, Sen. 
 
 The Pound House and Land 
 
 1( 
 
 3 24 20 
 
 Benj. Morris, Jun. 
 
 Cournan Hill Cottage and Land - 
 
 K 
 
 23 18 
 
 Richard Walwyn - 
 
 Sundry Meadows 
 
 Jl 
 
 227 1710 
 
 George Cutter 
 
 Blacksmith's Shop, Cottage & Land 
 
 2 
 
 227 11 
 
 John Preece - - 
 
 Bower Cottage and Land - 
 
 S 
 
 2 20 8 
 
 Francis Ward 
 
 Hannah's Green Cottage and Land 
 
 £ 
 
 210 710 
 
 James Scudamore 
 
 Bogmarsh Lane Cottage and Land 
 Bogmarsh Cottage and Land 
 
 s 
 
 1 16 5 5 
 
 Cornelius Jones - 
 
 2 
 
 1 15 5 
 
 John Adams - - 
 
 Hill Bridge Cottage and Land - 
 
 1 
 
 212 4 
 
 John Thomas 
 
 Bower Cottage and Land - - 
 
 
 
 210 2 2 
 
 Thomas Parlor 
 
 Bowmarsh Cottage and Land - 
 
 1 
 
 3 2 11 
 
 Ann Pocknall - - 
 
 Hannah's Green Cottage & Garden 
 
 
 
 210 2 2 
 
 William Wellington 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 20 10 
 
 Fanny Preece 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 20 010 
 
 Thomas Bray 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 030 10 
 
 Thomas Hall, Jun. 
 Richard Andrews - 
 
 Bogmarsh Cottage and Garden - 
 Tars Mill Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 
 025 010 
 110 010 
 
 John Morgan - - 
 
 Tars Mill Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 20 10 
 
 George Seall - - 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 010 
 
 Richard Townsend 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 10 
 
 William Witherstone 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 10 
 
 P. Witherstone, Sen. 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 10 
 
 P. Witherstone, Jun. 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 010 
 
 William Thackway 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 10 1 
 
 James Harris 
 
 The Moat Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 10 1 
 
 John Cooper - - 
 Thomas Suff - - 
 
 Bogmarsh Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 10 10 ( 
 
 Hill Bridge Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 2 010 ( 
 
 Betty Grubb - - 
 
 Land at New Town - 
 
 
 
 2 10 ( 
 
 Edward Wargin - 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 10 10 ( 
 
 George Pocknal - 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 20 10 ( 
 
 Ann Prosser - - 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 - 
 
 025 10 ( 
 
 Betty Powell 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 10 10 C 
 
 Susan Wall - 
 
 Bower Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 010 10 C 
 
 Ann Saysell - - 
 
 New Town Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 10 010 C 
 
 Thomas Hall, Sen. 
 
 Hannah's Green Cottage and Land 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 Duchess of Norfolk 
 
 ( Sundry fields in hand, exclusive > ' 
 \ of the Deer Park - - f 
 
 2087 
 127 
 
 021 2579 4 
 1 10 190 
 
 
 1: 
 
 2214 
 
 131(276914 
 
Present Term. 
 
 Annual 
 Land Tax. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
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 n Lease for 10 years from Cands. 1814. 
 
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 \mount of Lands set 
 
 I 
 
 102 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 102 
 
 The whole of the Duchess of 
 Norfolk's Land Tax in Horn 
 Lacy is rated in one sum. 
 
 Ben. Morris holds about half an 
 acre of Meadow Land in Fown- 
 hope, at 20s. per annum, which 
 the late Duke of Norfolk pur- 
 chased of Mr. Stackhouse, 
 making his rent 40/. per an- 
 num. 
 
 A fee farm rent of 40s. per an- 
 num is paid to Guy's Hospi- 
 tal for Lands in Horn Lacy. 
 
 \nnual value of the Lands in hand exclusive of the Deer Park, about 450 Acres 
 
Tenants Names. 
 
 Daniel Pearce 
 Elizabeth Cooke - 
 Phillip Morgan 
 Joseph Cooke 
 James Morgan 
 James Morgan 
 E. B. Clive - 
 Mary Harper 
 Benjamin Cooke - 
 John Duncumb 
 Thomas Cotes 
 Ennice Barnett 
 Richard Morgan - 
 Ellenor Pritchard - 
 William Williams 
 Thomas Preece - 
 William Sayce 
 
 William Powell - 
 
 Parish of Dore 
 Ditto 
 Ditto 
 
 James Morgan 
 John Ekley 
 John Howells 
 William Cooke 
 Ditto 
 
 Richard Powell - 
 Phillip Lewis 
 John Lloyd - 
 Thomas Watkins 
 Richard Morgan 
 John Pugh - 
 Thomas Davis 
 William Seaborn - 
 Mary Meredith - 
 William Jones 
 William Watkins - 
 John Williams 
 John Dickins 
 Betty Griffiths 
 John Jones - 
 Ann Prosser 
 Thomas Meredith 
 Elizabeth Pritchard 
 James Davis 
 Ann Williams 
 Charles James 
 
 Situations and Names of Farms. 
 
 Measure. 
 
 ABBEY DORE. 
 
 Lower House Farm 
 Upper House Farm 
 Tars House Farm 
 Jury Farm 
 Curn Farm 
 Quarrels Green Farm 
 Cock Yard Farm 
 Dore Bridge Farm and Inn 
 Dore Mills Cottage and Lands 
 Parson's Meadow 
 Jury Bridge Cottage and Lands - 
 Jury Little Meadow 
 Hill House Cottage and Lands - 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Lands 
 Quarrels Green Cottage and Lands 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Lands 
 Pound House and Garden - 
 ( DoreBridge Blacksmith's Shop, \ 
 \ Cottage and Garden - j 
 Jones's Cottage and Garden 
 Powell's Cottage and Garden 
 Williams' Cottage and Garden - 
 Quarrels Green Cottage and Garden 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden - 
 Stateham's Cottage and Garden - 
 Orchard by Dore's Lane 
 The Ark Cottage and Garden 
 Quarrels Green Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cross Ways Cottage and Garden 
 Curn Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Cock Yard Cottage and Garden 
 Jury Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Garden 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Garden 
 Forty Acres Cottage and Garden 
 Dore's Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Dore's Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Dore's Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Dore's Lane Cottage and Garden 
 Hollingwood Lane Cottage &Garden 
 
 A. 
 
 243 
 
 284 
 
 210 
 
 230 
 
 141 
 
 99 
 
 110 
 
 33 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 2 
 15 
 14 
 7 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ann.Rent 
 
 1434 2 4 1319 C 
 
Present Term. 
 
 at will 
 
 Lease for 14 years from Cands. 
 
 Lease for 14 years from Cands. 
 
 at will 
 
 [Lease for 14 years from Cands. 
 
 at will 
 
 1807. 
 1807. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Annual 
 LandTax 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 The whole of the Duchess of 
 Norfolk's Land Tax in Dore 
 is rated in one sum. 
 
 A fee Farm Rent of 39*. \^d- 
 per annum is paid to his Ma- 
 jesty for the Priory of Dore. 
 
 A fee Farm Rent of Is. \0^d. 
 per annum, is paid to Guy's 
 Hospital for Lands in Dore, 
 and for Kingston Grange 3s. 
 4d. ; Chappie Grange 2s. 6d 
 and for Arundel's Land 1*. per 
 annum ; query if they are in 
 Dore? 
 
 One half part (being an undivided 
 moiety) of Jury Bridge Cottage 
 and Lands, only belongs to the 
 Duchess ; the other half belong 
 to Mr. Cotes ; the whole is 23 
 
 43 
 
 18 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 !■ 
 
 Tenants Names. 
 
 Situations and Names of Farms. 
 
 Measure. 
 
 Ann. Reri 
 
 
 HUMBER. 
 
 A. 
 
 R. 
 
 P. 
 
 I 
 
 s. 
 
 William Symonds - 
 
 Humber Court Farm 
 
 254 
 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 213 
 
 
 
 Thomas Froysell - 
 
 Risbury Court Farm 
 
 228 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 165 
 
 
 
 Thomas Jay - - 
 
 Upper Priddleton Farm 
 
 223 
 
 2 
 
 27 
 
 178 
 
 
 
 Richard Olliver - 
 
 Lower Priddleton Farm 
 
 137 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 114 
 
 0. 
 
 Francis Knill 
 
 Risbury Wood Farm 
 
 56 
 
 1 
 
 30 
 
 48 
 
 0' 
 
 Edmund Coldcott 
 
 Risbury Mill Cottage and Land 
 
 12 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 DillyHill - 
 
 Twining Ways Farm 
 
 31 
 
 ] 
 
 17 
 
 24 
 
 o,; 
 
 Samuel Martin , - 
 
 Butoak Gate Farm 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 o 
 
 William Lane 
 
 Land near Docklow Church 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 3 
 
 o; 
 
 John Lewis - 
 
 Risbury Brook Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Parish of Humber 
 
 Two Cottages and Gardens at Risbury 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 William Symonds 
 
 Steen Bridge Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 Thomas Eckley - 
 
 Butoak Gate Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 William Thomas - 
 
 Butoak Gate Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 Richard Preece 
 
 Butoak Gate Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 Thomas Watkins - 
 
 Risbury Cross Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 Ann Bray 
 
 Butoak Gate Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 J 
 
 John Jenks - 
 
 Steen Bridge Cottage and Garden - 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 Thomas Preece - 
 
 Mawkin Field Cottage and Garden 
 
 
 
 125 
 
 
 
 2 J 
 
 972 
 
 2 
 
 27 
 
 [ 800 
 
 5 
 
 
 BODENHAM and MARDEN. 
 
 
 
 Thomas Bennett - 
 
 Fern Farm 
 
 265 
 
 112 
 
 415 
 
 
 
 Thomas Bennett - 
 
 Undivided part of the Fern 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 35 
 
 28 
 
 10 
 
 Sarah Patrick 
 
 Maund Court Farm 
 
 244 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 250 
 
 
 
 Edward Griffiths - 
 
 Derrydales Hope Farm 
 
 118 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 110 
 
 o 
 
 William Powell - 
 
 The Vauld Farm in Marden 
 
 75 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 10 
 
 725 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 887 
 
] 
 
 
 
 
 
 Present Terra. 
 
 Annual 
 LandTax. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 •j-j 
 
 1 
 
 .V. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 kt will 
 It will 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 It will 
 
 7 
 
 1!) 
 
 
 
 A chief Rent of 4.9. 6d. per an- 
 
 kt will 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 num is paid to Lady Rodney 
 
 it will 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 from Upper Priddleton. 
 
 it will 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 it will 
 
 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 it will 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 it will 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 at will 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 lat will 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 at will 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 •1 
 
 34 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Paid by the Tenants, and not al- 
 lowed in their rents. 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 12 
 
 8 
 
 A fee Farm Rent of Ad. per an- 
 num is paid to his Majesty from 
 this Farm ; this is one half part, 
 being an undivided moiety. 
 
 Pays 7*. 6d. chief Rent per an- 
 num, to the Lord of the Manor 
 of Marden. 
 
 Paid by the Tenants and not al- 
 lowed in their rents. 
 
Tenants Names. 
 
 James Smith 
 John Pearce - 
 Richard Andrews 
 Benjamin Prosser 
 William Townsend 
 James Stevens 
 Jeffry Pritchard - 
 Phillip Elliott 
 
 Thomas Powell 
 
 Ann Brace - 
 
 John Bennett 
 
 Jane Palmer 
 
 James Stedd 
 
 Richard Garrold - 
 Richard Apperley 
 
 James Gwillim 
 James Gwillim 
 William Brown 
 John Charles 
 Elizabeth Addis - 
 John Hill - 
 
 Henry Clifford 
 
 Henry Powell 
 John Webb - 
 Ann Bird 
 John Jenkins 
 Samuel Turner 
 James Bennett 
 John Newton 
 
 Jonathan Tourney 
 
 Joseph Jackson - 
 Sarah Davis - 
 George Scriving - 
 
 William Fencott - 
 
 John Thackway - 
 Elizabeth Davis - 
 William Davis 
 Richard Jones 
 
 Situations and Names of Farms. 
 
 BOLSTON, BALLINGHAM, &c 
 
 Bolston Court Farm 
 The Moors Cottage and Lands 
 Bolston's Cottage and Lands 
 Bolston's Cottage and Lands 
 Hancock's Cottage and Orchard 
 Snowden Cottage and Orchard 
 The Moors Cottage and Garden - 
 Ballingham Hall Farm 
 ( Rock and Carey Farms in Balling- \ 
 \ ham and Little Dewchurch - ) 
 Knap Green Farm in Little Dewchurch 
 i Lands at Although in Little Dew- ^ 
 ( church and Hentland 
 Lands at Tressack in Hentland 
 ( Weaven Little Orchard in Little \ 
 \ Dewchurch - j 
 
 Lands at ColdNose inLittleDewchurch 
 Little Ash Meadow in Fownhope - 
 
 YATTON and adjacent Farms. 
 
 Calborough Farm in Upton Bishop 
 Coppice Farm in Upton Bishop & Foy 
 Dean's Place and Prill Farms in Yatton 
 Wesmorsend Farm in Yatton - - 
 Yatton Chapel Farm 
 LowerHouse&Davis's Farms in Yatton 
 ( Lynedar and other Lands and! 
 \ Cottages in Foy - - J 
 Lands at the Hill of Eaton in Foy 
 Park Farm in Foy and Upton Bishop 
 Land at Old Gore in Foy 
 Old Gore Blacksmith's Shop and Land 
 Felhampton Farm in Upton Bishop 
 Townsend Farm in Brampton Abbotts 
 Monk's Grove Willow Bed in ditto, 
 f Cottage and Garden at the Hole ) 
 \ in the Wall in Foy - f 
 
 Cottage and Garden in Foy's Waste 
 Barrel Hill Cottage & Garden in Yatton 
 Barrel Hill Cottage & Garden in Yatton 
 J Perrystone Hill Cottage and Gar- \ 
 \ den in Yatton - - ) 
 
 J Perrystone Hill Cottage and Gar- ) 
 \ «den in Yatton - - f 
 
 Peartree Cottage and Garden in Yatton 
 JBaynham's Lane Cottage and Gar- 
 \ den in Yatton 
 Land at the Hole in the Wall in Foy 
 
 Measure. 
 
 Ann. Ren 
 1 
 
 A. R. 
 
 P. 
 
 /. 
 
 S. i 
 
 250 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 242 
 
 10 1 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 o 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 ) 
 
 1 
 
 .3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 1 
 
 1 it 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 5 it 
 
 417 
 
 3 
 
 25 
 
 416 
 
 oi 
 
 148 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 165 
 
 Mi 
 
 132 
 
 
 
 
 
 94 
 
 A 
 
 71 
 
 3 
 
 27 
 
 53 
 
 1 1 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 12 
 
 o , 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 t 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 1045 
 
 2 
 
 28 
 
 1008 
 
 4:1 
 
 256 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 330 
 
 
 
 104 
 
 3 
 
 8 
 
 197 
 
 
 
 219 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 214 
 
 
 
 It 
 / 
 
 120 
 
 
 
 195 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 142 
 
 
 
 179 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 120 
 
 
 
 100 
 
 2 
 
 16 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 40 
 
 2 
 
 20 
 
 56 
 
 
 
 403 
 
 
 
 
 
 354 
 
 16 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 193 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 217 
 
 8 
 
 106 
 
 
 
 21 
 
 124 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 ' 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 - 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 5 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 2031 
 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 18 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 1962 
 
 2 
 
Present Term. 
 
 jit will 
 at will 
 kt will 
 at will 
 kt will 
 kt will 
 kt will 
 Lease for 10 years from Cands. 
 
 [it will 
 
 kt will 
 
 kt will 
 
 Lt will 
 
 at will 
 
 it will 
 at will 
 
 I 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 Lease for 14 years, from Cands. 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 Lease for 20 years, from Cands. 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 it will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 at will 
 it will 
 at will 
 
 1814. 
 
 Annual 
 LandTax 
 
 /. s. d 
 
 17 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 1809, 
 
 1808. 
 
 A fee Farm Rent of 9*. lie?, per 
 annum is paid to his Majesty 
 for the Manor of Bolston. 
 
 fOther Lands purchased by the 
 < late Duke of Norfolk, are let 
 
 L with this farm at 51. 4s. per an 
 Ditto, ditto, at 13/. per annum 
 
 The sums for Land Tax, marked 
 with an asterisk are redeemed. 
 
 { 
 
 Paid by theTenants, and not al- 
 lowed in their rents, except 
 Bolston Cottage. 
 Pays 8*. per annum, chief rent 
 to Rowles Scudamore, Esq. for 
 Calborough Old Orchard. 
 A Cottage and Garden purchased 
 by the late Duke, let with Cop 
 pice farm at 3/. per annum. 
 
 About 29 Acres of this farm is 
 Leasehold, and pays 2l.\0s.8^d. 
 per annum rent, to Rowles 
 bcudamore, Esq. 
 
 Paid by the Tenants, and not al 
 lowed in their rents. 
 
Tenants Names. 
 
 Situations and Names of Farms. 
 
 Measure. 
 
 -i 
 
 Ann.Rent 
 
 1 
 
 
 DISPERSED FARMS. 
 
 A. 
 
 R. 
 
 P. 
 
 /. 
 
 *| 
 
 James Poole 
 
 Lands at Stretford in Leominster 
 
 17 
 
 2 
 
 31 
 
 17 
 
 10 L 
 
 John Carpenter - 
 
 Twyford Farm in Eardisland - 
 Swans ton's Court F. in Dilwyn&Burley 
 
 171 
 
 
 
 
 
 314 
 
 o 
 
 James Jay - 
 
 213 
 
 
 
 36 
 
 195 
 
 8 
 
 James Bennett 
 
 Burcott Farm in Holmer 
 
 127 
 
 
 
 22 
 
 240 
 
 o 
 
 Sarah Robeits 
 
 Lands in Kings Caple 
 
 27 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 63 
 
 o 
 
 John Cooke - 
 
 Lands in Kings Caple 
 
 87 
 
 1 
 
 19 
 
 144 
 
 o 
 
 Ann Harris - 
 
 Lands in Kings Caple 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 17 
 
 28 
 
 o 
 
 William Morgan - 
 
 Lands in Kings Caple 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 
 Joseph Wainwright 
 
 Cary Meadows in ditto & Fownhope 
 
 13 
 
 3 
 
 14 
 
 24 
 
 o 
 
 Thomas Prosser 
 
 Carey Wood Cottage and Lands in do. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 Richard Rideout - 
 
 Land in King's Capel and Cross 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 31 
 
 21 
 
 6 
 
 Thomas Bennett - 
 
 Newmills Farm in Little Birch 
 
 147 
 
 
 
 
 
 151 
 
 18 f 
 
 Thomas Bennett - 
 
 i Pothedar Farm and Mill in Dew- \ 
 \ church and Hentland - ) 
 
 115 
 
 2 
 
 17 
 
 124 
 
 2 \ 
 
 James Bennett 
 
 White House Farm in Tretire 
 
 210 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 200 
 
 1 
 
 Mary Sier - 
 
 Blewhenston Farm in Llanwarne - 
 
 50 
 
 3 
 
 39 
 
 50 
 
 2 
 
 Thomas Roberts - 
 
 The Hill Farm in Llanwarne 
 
 221 
 
 
 
 
 
 155 
 
 
 
 Richard Harris 
 
 TroughlandF.inSt.Weonards&Garway 
 
 122 
 
 3 
 
 27 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 
 Thomas James 
 
 (Welch Newton Farm in Welch \ 
 \ Newton and Llanrothel - J 
 
 76 
 
 3 
 
 20 
 
 58 
 
 Ann Gunter - 
 
 Tre Evan Farm in Llangarron 
 
 49 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 52 
 
 10 ( 
 
 Thomas Trouncer 
 
 Calow Farm in Walford 
 
 115 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 208 
 
 i 4 
 
 Richard Porter 
 
 Hope Style Farm in Walford 
 
 28 
 
 1 
 
 16 
 
 46 
 
 10 1 
 
 Richard Porter 
 
 Lands in Bridstow 
 
 11 
 
 2 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 
 io c 
 
 Thomas Bennett - 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 31 
 
 14 
 
 c 
 
 Thomas Protheroe 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 27 
 
 14 
 
 I 
 
 Charles Parlor 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 12 
 
 6 
 
 | 
 
 Edward Brace 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 34 
 
 3 
 
 10 c 
 
 William James 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 c 
 
 Ann Brooks - 
 
 Lands in Brockhampton 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 15 C 
 
 Thomas Preece - 
 
 Lauds in Brockhampton 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 10 c 
 
 Henry Piatt - - 
 
 Lands in Bridstow 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 38 
 
 1 
 
 5 C 
 
 Joseph Jordan 
 
 Land in Ross 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 16 
 
 3 
 
 4 C 
 
 James Frere - - 
 
 Land in Ross 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 4 
 
 c 
 
 Ann Palmer - - 
 
 Land in Ross 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 25 
 
 2 
 
 8 C 
 
 Amos Jones - - 
 
 Land in Ross 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 26 
 
 1 
 
 16 C 
 
 William Powell - 
 
 Tredumock Farm in Monmouthshire 
 CHARITY ESTATE. 
 
 116 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 175 
 
 C 
 
 1-998 
 
 _3 
 
 1 
 
 2433 
 
 18 6 
 
 Thomas Goode 
 
 Amberley Farm and Tithes 
 
 204 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 308 
 
 c 
 
 Thomas Henley - 
 
 A Farm in Westhide 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 46 
 
 
 
 Francis H. Thomas 
 
 Lower Hillin Farm in Much Cowarn 
 
 43 
 
 2 
 
 21 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 Robert Hathway - 
 Paid Annually to Cha 
 
 A Barn and Lands in Much Cowarn 
 rity 10/. each to ten decayed gent. ; ) 
 
 40 
 
 328 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 410 
 
 6 
 
 121. 2s. to Curate ; 
 
 51. to Steward, amounting to - J 
 
 117 
 
 2 C 
 
 Annual rece 
 
 ipts from the Charity Estate being 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 293 
 
 1 "o 
 
 Note, 50l. per annum is 
 
 paid from the Estate to five poor Widows 
 
 whic 
 
 'l the late Duke of 
 
 Norfolk used to say he 
 
 had returned from Lord Digby's Steward in 1 
 
 ^ondoi 
 
 i. 
 
 
 
 
Present Term. 
 
 Annual 
 Land Fax. 
 
 lilt will 
 
 lease for 13 years from Cands. 1813. 
 It will 
 
 (Agreement for 14 years from Can. 1815 
 "[it will 
 ] kt will 
 
 k will 
 
 'fit will 
 [at will 
 Jit will 
 |iit will 
 kt will 
 
 tit will 
 
 Lease for 7 years from Cands. 1810. 
 jat will 
 at will 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 lat will 
 |at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 at will 
 rat will 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 at will 
 
 jLease for 14 years from Cands. 1814. 
 
 'Lease for 99 years from Cands. 1744. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 A chief rent of 17*. per annum is 
 
 due from this farm. 
 Ditto of 40.?. per annum is due 
 
 from Burcot to the Bishop of 
 
 Hereford. 
 
 A chief Rent of 33s. per annum 
 is paid to Sir Hungerford Hos- 
 kyns for sundry Lands in the 
 Hundred of Wormelow. 
 
 A fee Farm Rent of 3s. per an 
 
 num is paid to his Majesty 
 
 from this Farm. 
 A chief Rent of 23*. 4d. per an 
 
 num is paid to E. Townley, 
 
 Esq. from this farm. 
 
 A chief Rent of As. per annum is 
 paid to the Dean and Chapter 
 of Hereford for Lands in Brock 
 hampton 
 
 The whole Land Tax to Ross. 
 
 A chief Rent of 4s. \0^d. per an 
 num is paid to Mr. Lee, of 
 Pontypool, from this farm. 
 
 Land Tax paid by the Tenants 
 and not allowed in their Rents 
 
 Said in the Lease to be 6 Acres ; 
 
 query if it is not as much as 
 
 40 Acres ? 
 Land Tax not allowed, except 
 
 Hath way's 21. 3s. Id. which is 
 
 allowed. 
 
ACCOUNT of Til 
 
 Names of Woods. 
 
 Situation. 
 
 When last cut. 1 
 
 Birch Grove 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1803 - - ; 
 
 Bowen's Coppice 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1812, 1813, 1814 J 
 
 Widow's Wood 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1814, 1815 - { 
 
 Ramsdown Coppice 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1808, 1809 - f 
 
 Moorland's Wood 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1812 - - j 
 
 Shepherd's Rough - 
 
 Horn Lacy 
 
 in 1805, 1806 - [ 
 
 Bolston Wood 
 
 Horn Lacy and Bolston 
 
 in 1801, 1802, 1803, 180 
 
 Kidley Hill 
 
 Bolston 
 
 in 1806, 1807 
 
 The Moors 
 
 Bolston 
 
 in 1806 
 
 Trilloe's Court 
 
 Bolston and Little Dewchurch. 
 
 in 1814, 1815 - ; 
 
 Ashen Coppice 
 
 Little Dewchurch 
 
 in 1815 
 
 Weaven Wood 
 
 Little Dewchurch 
 
 in 1810 - - 
 
 Smith's Hill Wood - 
 
 Little Dewchurch 
 
 in 1812 - - 
 
 White Thorn Wood - 
 
 Little Dewchurch 
 
 in 1810 - - 
 
 Ballingham Wood - 
 
 Ballingham 
 
 Little Birch and Aconbury 
 
 in 1808 
 
 Athelstan's Wood 
 
 in 1800, 1801, 1802, 18* 
 
 Gilbert's Hill Wood - 
 
 Abbey Dore - 
 
 in 1811, 1812 
 
 Cock Yard Wood - 
 
 Abbey Dore - 
 
 in 1798 
 
 Scudamore's Hill Wood 
 
 Llanwarne 
 
 in 1806, 1807, 1808 
 
 Troughland Lower Wood. 
 
 St. Weonard's - 
 
 in 1799 - - I 
 
 Troughland Middle Wood. 
 
 Garway 
 
 in 1799 
 
 Troughland Upper Wood. 
 Welch Newton Wood - 
 
 Garway 
 
 in 1799 
 
 Llanrothel 
 
 in 1799 
 
 Monk's Grove 
 
 Brampton Abbotts 
 
 in 1810 
 
 Lynedar Wood 
 
 Foy 
 
 in 1810 
 
 WesnorsendWood - 
 
 Yatton - N 
 
 in 1799 
 
 White Hill Wood 
 
 Yatton 
 
 in 1814 
 
 Yatton Wood 
 
 Yatton 
 
 in 1798, 1799, 1800 
 
 Cockshot Wood 
 
 Yatton 
 
 in 1804 
 
 Calborough Park 
 
 Yatton and Upton Bishop 
 
 in 1805, 1806 
 
 Butter Hill Wood 
 
 Upton Bishop 
 
 in 1806 
 
 Aramstone Wood 
 
 King's Caple 
 
 in 1803 
 
 Forge Meadow Wood - 
 
 King's Caple 
 
 in 1805 
 
 Carey Wood 
 
 Fownhope - 
 
 in 1807 
 
 Brintlen Wood 
 
 Brockhampton 
 
 in 1807 
 
 Lady's Ridge 
 
 Brockhampton 
 
 in 1807 
 
 Skyrms Capley Wood 
 
 Brockhampton 
 
 in 1B07 
 
CHESS OF NORFOLK'S WOODS, 
 
 R. P. 
 
 1 
 
 ' 38 
 
 I 6 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 
 207 
 
 138 
 
 | 10 
 
 ilOO 
 
 i 3 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 112 
 
 35 
 
 153 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 35 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 Annual 
 LandTax. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 The Woods and Farms in Horn Lacy are rated together to the 
 Land Tax, at 102/. 16*. per annum. 
 
 The whole of the Land Tax for Woods in Bolston. 
 
 The Land Tax for Woods in Little Dewchurch being 15s. per 
 annum is redeemed with Pothedar Farm. 
 
 The Land Tax is included in Ballingham Hall Farm. 
 
 The Land Tax to Aconbury redeemed, the Land Tax to Little 
 Birch is redeemed with Newmill's Farm, the Woods and 
 Farms in Dore are rated together to the Land Tax at 43/. 
 18*. &d. per annum. 
 
 This Land Tax is redeemed with Troughland Farm. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 This Land Tax is paid with Welch-Newton Farm. 
 
 This LandTax is paid withTownsend Farm in Brampton Abbotts 
 
 This Land Tax is paid with the Park Farm. 
 
 The Land Tax paid for all the Woods in Yatton. 
 
 The Land Tax for all the Woods in Upton Bishop which is 
 
 redeemed. 
 The Land Tax for all the Woods in King's Caple, is paid by 
 
 Mr. Cooke, with the lands he holds. 
 
 The Land Tax for the Woods in Brockhampton, 3*. Sd. is 
 redeemed. 
 
 .11469 9 11 5 The Land Tax unredeemed for Woods. 
 
RECAPITULATION of the DUCHESS OF NORFOLK 
 
 Measure^ 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To 
 
 ditto 
 
 To Farms and Lands in Horn Lacy, let to sundry Tenants 
 
 in Abbey Dore - 
 
 in Humber - 
 
 in Bodenham and Marden 
 
 in Bolston, Ballingham, &c. 
 
 inYatton, UptonBishop, Brampton Abbotts &Foy 
 
 in dispersed Farms - 
 
 from the Charity Estate 
 To two-thirds of the Corn and Hay Tithes of Witherstone in Little 
 Dewehurch - 
 
 Deduct the Land Tax of Horn Lacy, Abbey Dore and Bolston, which "1 
 are allowed out of the Rents j 
 
 Total of Rents received 
 To the Lands in Horn Lacy - - 
 
 To the Deer Park in Horn Lacy, is about - 
 To the Woods in hand, which at 12*. per Acre, per Annum, amounts to 
 
 2087 
 
 1434 
 
 972 
 
 725 
 
 1045 
 
 2031 
 
 1998 
 
 328 
 
 
 
 10624 
 
 
 efo 
 
 127 
 
 450 
 
 1469 
 
 12670 
 
SSTATE 
 
 j 
 
 IN 
 
 THE 
 
 Counties of HEREFORD & MONMOUTH. 
 
 bnual Rents. 
 
 Annual 
 Land Tax. 
 
 Remarks. 
 
 L 
 
 Si 2579 
 1319 
 
 t 800 
 
 J 887 
 1008 
 
 i! 1962 
 2433 
 
 j 293 
 
 ' 70 
 
 J 
 
 8. 
 
 1 
 
 
 5 
 10 
 4 
 2 
 18 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 
 (i 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 102 
 43 
 34 
 26 
 
 27 
 69 
 47 
 13 
 
 *1 
 
 366 
 
 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 377 
 
 S. 
 
 16 
 18 
 
 1 
 12 
 17 
 16 
 
 5 
 15 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 <l. 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 6 
 
 2 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 3 
 
 Total of the Land Tax unredeemed, and 75/. 5$. \^d. has 
 been redeemed. 
 
 1,353 
 150 
 
 18 
 10 
 
 8 
 g 
 
 1,203 
 
 190 
 
 
 
 881 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,274 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 ; 
 
 I 
 
 ! 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 159 
 
 On Thursday, the 30th of August, 1821, a 
 meeting of the several parties concerned, took 
 place at the house of Rowland Wimburn, Esq. 
 in Chancery Lane, Solicitor, on the part of 
 Sir Edwin Stanhope, Bart., to execute the 
 deeds, and pass the fines for a formal and final 
 conveyance and settlement of the lands, &c. of 
 the late Duchess of Norfolk, in order to pre- 
 vent all future controversy relative to that 
 large and important property. And it is the 
 object of this declaration to mention, that, 
 during the whole of the investigation of the 
 Holm-Lacey estates, the most honourable cor- 
 diality prevailed among the Coheirs. Nor is it 
 to be passed by without the most pleasing and 
 grateful acknowledgment, that in all those ob- 
 jects which were more distinctly attached to the 
 interest of John Parsons, Esq. and Mrs. Gene- 
 ral Burr, they felt how much they owed to their 
 Solicitor, Sharon Turner, Esq. to whose dili- 
 gence, integrity, and professional talents they 
 considered themselves as in a great measure in- 
 debted for the establishment of their claims on 
 the Holm-Lacey estates ; and to whose further 
 M 
 
160 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 able and impartial exertions, they looked with 
 the most perfect confidence, to such a partition 
 of the extensive property as would consist with 
 the interests, and consequently terminate to the 
 satisfaction of all the Coheirs. 
 
• SUPPLEMENT. 161 
 
 HOLM-LACEY. 
 
 Extract from the Beauties of England and 
 Wales. Vol. VI. 1805. 
 
 " Holm-Lacey is a venerable seat belonging 
 to Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, who ob- 
 tained it in marriage with Frances, daughter 
 and heiress of Charles Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 Esq. together with various other valuable es- 
 tates in this county and in Glocestershire. The 
 Scudamores came into England with the Con- 
 queror, and originally settled at Upton, and 
 Norton, near Warminster, in Wiltshire, but 
 removed to Holm-Lacey in the reign of Ed- 
 ward the Third, after the marriage of Thomas, 
 younger son of Sir Peter Scudamore, with 
 Clarice, daughter of Lady Clara, of the family 
 of the Lacies, to whom this estate had pre- 
 viously belonged. The Scudamores derived 
 their name from the Cross Patee Fitchee, the 
 Scutum Armoris Divini, which they originally 
 bore as their arms, and which is thought to 
 have been given them in commemoration of 
 some memorable action in defence of the Chris- 
 tian Faith. Many of this family have been 
 
162 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 employed in distinguished offices ; and some of 
 them had been recorded as eminent patrons of 
 literature. Sir James Scudamore, father of the 
 first Viscount Scudamore, is the legendary 6 Sir 
 Scudamore,' of Spenser, whose tale in the 
 fourth book of the Fairy Queen, is particular- 
 ly interesting. In the fifth Canto he is repre- 
 sented as lying down to rest in the house of 
 the blacksmith, Care. 
 
 " John, created Viscount Scudamore, by 
 Charles the First, was highly respected for his 
 piety and learning. He was the particular friend 
 of the Duke of Buckingham, and was so affected 
 at the untimely death of that nobleman, that he 
 relinquished his public employments, and re- 
 tired to Holm-Lacey, where he quieted the 
 emotions of sorrow, by attending to rural af- 
 fairs, and has been recorded by Philips, as the 
 first that brought the Red-Streak apple into ge- 
 neral esteem. In 1 634 he was called from his 
 retirement, and sent Ambassador to France, 
 where he continued several years, conducting 
 the business of his mission with much prudence 
 and effect. On the breaking out of the Civil 
 Wars, he took a decided part in favour of the 
 King ; and having been made prisoner by 
 Waller at Hereford, his estates underwent a 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 163 
 
 temporary sequestration, and he was himself de- 
 prived of his liberty for a considerable period. 
 He died in 1 670. His grandson, the last Vis- 
 count Scudamore, rebuilt the greatest part of 
 the manor-house at Holm-Lacey about a cen- 
 tury ago.* He was the friend of Pope, who 
 had been introduced to Lady Scudamore by 
 her relation, Mr. Digby : she was the only 
 daughter of Simon Lord Digby. 
 
 " The good taste of the Duke of Norfolk, the 
 present possessor of this seat, permits the man- 
 sion to remain unaltered, as a perfect specimen 
 
 * " The old house, probably of brick, by 
 " John Scudamore, Esq. within the last ten 
 " years of Henry the Eighth, as appears by 
 " the badges of Edward the Sixth, when Prince 
 " of Wales, with the initials of E. P. in painted 
 " glass about the house. The chapel was 
 " consecrated by John Skipp, Bishop of He- 
 reford, June 11, 1546; and when rebuilt 
 " was again dedicated by Philip Bisse, Bishop 
 " thereof, on Saint Luke's day, 1715. 
 
 " In the reign of King William the house 
 a was in a great measure rebuilt by John the 
 " second Viscount Scudamore, having two 
 " fine fronts of reddish stone, added to the old 
 " building, which remains in part for offices." 
 
 Brooke's MSS. in the Herald's College, 
 collected in 1784. 
 
164 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 of the style of building preferred by our im- 
 mediate ancestors: we can still survey the 
 apartments which Pope so frequently visited, 
 and where he wrote his ' Man of Ross,' in the 
 same state as formerly. The family portraits, 
 and the elaborate carvings by Gibbons, but 
 little inferior to those at Petworth and Chats - 
 worth, are still a part of their venerable orna- 
 ments. A mansion like this, preserved in a 
 complete state from the incongruities of modern 
 alteration, may be ranked among our national 
 curiosities. The apartments are decorated with 
 many valuable paintings, by Vandyck, Jansen, 
 Holbein, and other artists of eminent merit. 
 In the Saloon is a very conspicuous portrait of 
 Sir James Scudamore, equipped for a Tour- 
 nament, that splendid and frequent diversion 
 of the reign of Elizabeth. Here is also a very 
 capital picture, by Hamilton, of Solomon and 
 the Queen of Sheba, who are represented as 
 after their first interview, in a gorgeous palace, 
 attended by the High Priest; in the back 
 ground are several characteristic figures, with 
 a group of musical girls of truly eastern form 
 and elegance : a very rich arcade adds to the 
 magnificence of the whole picture. The subject 
 of this picture is happily chosen, the design is 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 165 
 
 correct, and the coloring is rich and transpa- 
 rent ; it has been exactly copied in stained glass 
 by Eginton, for a window in the superb Castle 
 at Arundel, which is now rising, under the 
 auspices of the Duke of Norfolk, to almost un- 
 exampled grandeur. 
 
 " Among the other pictures, are those of 
 Louis the Thirteenth, and his Queen; 
 the latter is depicted in the attitude of nursing 
 her infant, afterwards Louis the Fourteenth. 
 These were given to the Lord Scudamore, when 
 Ambassador in France, in the time of Charles 
 the First : they were executed by Beaubrun, 
 the court-painter of Paris, and the cotemporary 
 of Vandyck, but with few pretensions to rival- 
 ship. In the Cabinet is a sketch of the head 
 of the great Lord Strafford, copied in crayons 
 from Vandyck, by Pope, who not only amused 
 himself with poetry, when a guest at Holm- 
 Lacey, but also with painting."* 
 
 * The following pictures only were remain- 
 ing at Holm-Lacey, on possession being given 
 to the Heirs at Law : 
 
 1 . Three Cecils, brothers of the second Lady 
 Scudamore and Lord Exeter, by Vandyck; 
 over the door. 
 
 2. Sir John Packington; right hand of door. 
 
166 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 3 His Lady, sister of Sir James Scudamore ; 
 dining room. 
 
 4. St. Anne, (by Van Lint,) over other 
 door. 
 
 5. Sir James Scudamore in armour in the 
 time of Queen Elizabeth, full length ; right of 
 St. Anne. 
 
 6. Sir John Scudamore (three quarters), 
 who purchased considerable part of the estates 
 in Queen Elizabeth's time ; left of fire-place. 
 
 7- His lady, formerly Vaughan ; next. 
 
 8. First Lord Scudamore, (half,) over the 
 door in the dining room. 
 
 9. James Scudamore, son of the first, (in 
 black) ; between the windows. 
 
 10. Lady Scudamore, (full length), in blue ; 
 left of St. Anne. 
 
 11. Second Lady Scudamore, (three quar- 
 ters), between the windows. 
 
 12. Last Lord, in armour, (half length), 
 right of the fire-place. 
 
 13. Honourable John Scudamore, brother 
 of the last ; one of the Herefordshire Rakes ; 
 right hand of the last. 
 
 14. Sir Barnabas, who defended Hereford 
 for King Charles. 
 
 15. Sir Barnaby Scudamore, K. B. of Bal- 
 lingham. 
 
 With some few others of less note. 
 
INSCRIPTIONS, MONUMENTAL, 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 169 
 
 On a Tablet in the Parish Church qfBanstead, 
 in the County of Surry. 
 
 Near this Place 
 
 are deposited the Remains of 
 
 LUCY, 
 
 the Wife of Major General Daniel Burr, 
 
 and Daughter of Thomas Parry, Esq. 
 
 A Director of the East India Company. 
 
 She Departed this Life 
 
 the 1 7th of November, 1805, 
 
 in the 32nd Year of her Age. 
 
 Ah ! should Love's eloquence thy worth attest, 
 
 Could he who felt it deepest, paint it best, 
 
 The Stranger's eye might doubt the glowing line, 
 
 Nor deem the picture mortal, but divine : 
 
 But praise thou need'st not — the wide-flowing tear 
 
 Speaks words too strong to ask eulogium here. 
 
 R. P. 
 
170 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 On a Tablet in the Parish Church ofBanstead, 
 in the County of Surry. 
 
 1805. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Burr gave towards 
 
 the Relief of Poor Aged and Infirm 
 
 Inhabitants of this Parish, the Sum of 
 
 Five Pounds per Annum, for ever, to be 
 
 distributed on the Monday following 
 
 Advent Sunday in every Year, by 
 
 the Trustees in such manner as 
 
 they shall judge proper. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 171 
 
 Harwich, August 19, 1807- 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I was favoured with your letter to day ; the 
 little property which I have in the funds, is in 
 the 3 per cent. Consols ; and my name stands 
 there in this manner, viz. " William Whinfield 
 of Harwich, Clerk." 
 
 If it is the General's pleasure to invest his 
 benefaction to the poor of the Parish of Ram- 
 sey, in my name, I shall feel it my duty that 
 his benevolence shall have its effect according 
 to his wish ; and I will take an early oppor- 
 tunity of making, in the Parish Book, a full 
 entry of the purpose for which the money is 
 given ; and if the General should approve of 
 it, I shall have engrossed in a neat Tablet, and 
 placed in Ramsey Chuch, the intention of the 
 donor. 
 
 You will oblige us by presenting our most 
 sincere respects to General Burr ; and you, and 
 Mrs. Garling will be pleased to accept them. 
 
 Yours, very truly, 
 
 (Signed) W. Whinfield. 
 
 John Fred. Garling, Esq. 
 Red Lion Square. 
 
M2 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 On a Tablet fixed up in the Parish Church of 
 Ramsey, in the County of Essex. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Major General Burr, 
 
 in affectionate remembrance of his deceased 
 
 Parents, Daniel Burr, Esq. and 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Burr, who resided long in 
 
 this Parish, greatly esteemed and 
 
 respected, gave One Hundred and Sixty-six 
 
 Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four-pence, 
 
 3 per Cent. Bank consolidated Annuities, 
 
 the Annual Interest arising therefrom 
 
 being Five Pounds, to be applied 
 
 to the Relief of the Poor of this 
 
 Parish, under the direction of 
 
 The Rev. William Whinfield, Minister. 
 
 Mr. John Woodruffe,' 
 
 Mr. George Simpson, 
 
 and of the succeeding Ministers and Church 
 
 Wardens of this Parish in perpetuity. 
 
 > Church Wardens, 
 h J 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 173 
 
 Harwich, \$ih of February, 1821. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I am desired by the Committee superintend- 
 ing the rebuilding our Parish Church, to ac- 
 knowledge the receipt of your kind letter ad- 
 dressed to the Reverend William Whinfield, 
 announcing your very liberal subscription of 
 One Hundred and Five Pounds, in favor of 
 that desirable and important occasion. And 
 I have to assure you, that yourself with very 
 many others of the like generous inclinations, 
 have contributed in a manner, far exceeding 
 the most sanguine expectations, and but for 
 which, such an undertaking could not have 
 been ventured upon, with any fair view of suc- 
 cess; In proportion therefore, to your encou- 
 ragement, so equally are the Parishioners grate- 
 ful for the munificent services you have thus 
 rendered them, in the promotion of an object 
 which, it is hoped will hand to posterity a fa- 
 bric worthy of the British Constitution. 
 
 I beg leave to inform you, that Mr. Thomas 
 Cobbold, as Chairman of the Committee, has 
 this day drawn on Messrs. Willis and Co. your 
 Bankers, for the amount, to the order of Mr. 
 
174 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Anothy Cox, the Treasurer, in conformity, it 
 is hoped, with your intention. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Your very obedient humble servant, 
 
 B. Chapman, Secretary. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 175 
 
 On Tablets in St. Mary's Church, Chepstow. 
 
 Francis Davis, Esq. 
 
 Died 7th of August, 1 766, Aged 58. 
 
 In testimony of the highest regard to the 
 
 Memory of a most tender Husband, 
 
 kind Parent, 
 
 and sincere Friend, 
 
 this Monument is erected 
 
 by his afflicted Family. 
 
 Ann Davis, relict of the above Francis Davis, 
 
 and Daughter of James Higfo*rd, Esq. 
 
 of Dixton, in the County of Gloucester, 
 
 Died, 30th September, 1772, Aged 54 Years, 
 
 whose many virtues secured 
 
 the constant affection of 
 
 a worthy Man, 
 
 and claim the pious remembrance 
 
 and imitation 
 
 of her Children and Friends. 
 
 Susanna Higford, 
 
 Relict of James Higford, Esq. 
 
 Died 22nd of November, 1779, Aged 70 Years. 
 
 N 
 
17G SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 James Davis, Esq. Son of Francis Davis, 
 
 by Ann his Wife, Died January 8, 1780, 
 
 Aged 36, 
 
 Who by an exemplary behaviour 
 
 as a Gentleman and a Christian, 
 
 had acquired the character 
 
 of a truly good man, 
 
 and recommended himself 
 
 to the cordial esteem of all 
 
 who knew him. 
 
 James Davis, Esq. Son of the above J. Davis, 
 
 and late a Lieutenant in the 33d Keg. of Foot, 
 
 Died at the Cape of Good Hope, 
 
 August 22, 1798, Aged 24. 
 
 Rev. Francis Davis, LL. D. Son of the above 
 
 James Davis, who perfectly understood, 
 
 and conscientiously discharged with 
 
 fervour, prudence, and sincerity, the extensive 
 
 and important duties of a Clergyman 
 
 and a Magistrate, 
 
 He was of unshaken constancy and inflexible integrity, 
 his mind was upright and sincere, his understanding 
 comprehensive and steady, his manners, plain, pure, 
 and simple, with all these virtues, and fewer failings 
 than human life is generally subject to, he died much 
 lamented, the 24th of January, 1802, Aged 29.. 
 
 Multis tile quidem flebilis occidit. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 177 
 
 On a Tablet in Horn Church. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 
 Wife of Colonel Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 
 and the only Daughter and Heiress of 
 
 James theThird and lastViscouNT Scudamore, 
 
 who was Born 14 th August, 17 1 1, and 
 
 Died 27th February, 1749, O. S. 
 
 Aged 38 Years, 
 
 And of her Daughter 
 
 Frances, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, 
 
 Widow of the Most Noble 
 
 Charles, Duke of Norfolk, 
 
 who was Born 10th February, 1749, O. S. and 
 
 Died 22nd October, 1820, 
 
 Aged 70 Years. 
 
 This Tablet was erected by her Co-heirs, 
 
 Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Baronet, 
 
 lineal descendant of Mary, Wife of 
 
 Sir Giles Bridges, Baronet, 
 
 the eldest Daughter of 
 
 Sir James Scudamore, Knight, 
 
 and Sister of the First Lord Scudamore, 
 
 Viscount Sligo, and Baron of Dromore, 
 
 and John Parsons, Esq. 
 
 Ann Susanna Davis, 
 
 And Mary the Wife of 
 
 Lieutenant General Daniel Burr; 
 
1 78 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 the lineal Descendants of Frances, Wife of 
 
 John Higford, Esq. 
 
 another Daughter of 
 
 Sir James Scudamore, 
 
 and Sister of the first 
 
 Lord Scudamore. 
 
 On a Black Marble Tomb in Horn Church. 
 
 Sacred to the Memory of 
 
 Frances Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 
 Wife of 
 
 Colonel Fitzroy Scudamore, 
 
 who Died 27th February, 1749, O. S. 
 
 Aged 3S Years. 
 
 And of her Daughter, 
 
 Frances, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, 
 
 Widow of the Most Noble 
 
 Charles, Duke of Norfolk, 
 
 who Died 22nd October, 1820, 
 
 Aged 70 Years. 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 179 
 
 Died at Masulipatam, on the 20th May, 1793, 
 
 George Binny, Esq.* 
 
 A strong understanding joined to a kind heart, 
 rendered him an useful member of society, and 
 a blessing to all who wanted his assistance. 
 The firmest honor and integrity accompanied 
 with the mildest temper, drew the confidence of 
 all ranks, and his influence was always employed 
 in doing good. 
 
 To all he was a Benefactor. 
 His friendship was silent and watchful to serve. 
 
 His learning was solid and unaffected. 
 His conversation was pleasing, correct and in- 
 structive, and marked the superiority of his 
 mind. And the grateful impressions of Esteem 
 and Affection which he has left in the breasts 
 of all who had the honor of his acquaintance, 
 will long hand down the remembrance of his 
 inestimable worth. 
 
 * See Memoir, p. 61. 
 
180 SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 Inscription on a Silver Vase. 
 
 A Testimony of 
 
 Acknowledgment on the part of 
 
 Major General Burr, 
 
 to the truly disinterested and zealous conduct of 
 
 Captain Francis Lynch, 
 
 by his very useful Services in aid of the 
 
 Capture of the Island of Ternate, 
 
 which he volunteered under the loss of 
 
 great private advantages. 
 
 London : Printed by W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 
 Cleveland- row, St. James's.