CONTENTS.-No. 254. NOTES:-Colonel Robert Phaire, Regicide," 143 QUERIES:-Flying Machine in 1783 I-slip ": Dorset Historian-A. L. M.. Early Victorian Rostand: Les deux Pierrots, 150 Mary his land. He was an officer with Inchiquin in that In company with the famous seaman, Blake, Colonel Phaire returned to Ireland in 1649, in command of the Kentish Regiment ('Cromwelliana,' folio 1810), and was an Irish campaign, though he does not appear active helper of Cromwell during the latter' to have been present at the taking of Drogheda, Wexford, or Clonmel. In Whitelocke's Memoirs we learn of the escape of the notorious Wogan from his prison in Cork (1649), Phaire's marshal having been corrupted by him, of Phaire's appointment as Governor of Cork, of his pursuit and slaughter of some of the enemy, and of his capture of the Castle of Kilmorry with 82 prisoners besides officers. When the rebellion broke out in Munster (November, 1641) William Jephson, afterwards Major-General William Jephson and Cromwell's Envoy to Sweden, being in residence at Mallow, promptly raised a troop of horse which, we conjecture, Robert Phaire, then about 22 years of age* joined. His military progress was rapid, for on 17 Sept., 1646, a commission, on the The Calendar of State Papers has frequent mendation of Sir Hardress Waller, mention of him also. He became a Justice made out to him as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Peace for co. Cork in 1654. But the (C.S.P.-Irish Series). We cannot be certain that before 1648 he saw service in Eng recom was * His age is derived from a Deposition made by him in Cork in 1654, quoted in Caulfield's Council Book of the Corporation of Cork,' pp. 1164-5. Also Gent. Mag., 1863. hands and seals to it, directing it to Colonel From the inscription on the Monumental Phaire had been directed to This is one of the few references we have met with to Phaire's first wife, and it is plain that he had not been married for long-since 1649 probably. But the name of his first wife has never been certainly determined. excellent series of some sixty manuscript alive in London. can The Egmont MSS., too, contain several references to Colonel Phaire, whose importance in Co. Cork during the period of the Commonwealth scarcely be overestimated. No record reveals any trace of harshness or tyranny in Phaire's character. He seems to have earned the confidence and esteem of his neighbours of every creed, e.g., we find Cahir O'Callaghane, a Catholic gentleman of Curra, Co. Cork, entrusting £100 to his safe keeping (Prerogative Will of Cahir O'Callaghane, pr. 12 July, 1680). The Egmont MSS., however, contain one reference to Phaire which has more than a passing interest: it is a letter written 1653, July 29, by Colonel John Jones to Phaire, in which the writer protests against "the countenance and favour " shown by the latter to Mr. Royle who is come back to Cork." The letter mentions Phaire's wife and little babes." Incidentally it may be explained that Royle, a preacher in Cork, had married one Margaret Seney, her former husband Seney being reported § Chancery Bill: Stampe v. Yate: 19 July, 1673. It has been surmised that she was a relative of George Gamble, a Quaker and merchant of Cork. It has also been surmised that she was a sister or a daughter of Onesipherus Houghton of Ballingarry, Co. Cork. Indeed in the pedigree of Phaire to be found in the Office of Arms, Dublin Castle, her name is given as Houghton, but no decisive evidence can be adduced on the point. Phaire's eldest (surviving) son and heir was baptized Onesipherus, and that fact seems to be the strongest known evidence in favour of a Houghton marriage. His granddaughter Henrietta Phaire married Draper, and Houghton-Draper marriages are recorded.** We know that much inter-marriage of kindred went on in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and I think therefore that these facts may have a certain significance. On the other hand, if it be true that Colonel Phaire's first wife was buried at Gloucester a statement attributed to the late Mr. CrawleyBovey-then some connection with the Gambles is not improbable since the particular family in question seems to have had its origin in, or near, Gloucestershire, migrating thence to Kinsale and Cork.++ The name Onesipherus occurs in the Gamble family, too, but only after George Gamble mentioned above, married, as his second, or third, wife, a daughter of Colonel Phaire,‡‡ ། The Puritans in Ireland,' Rev. St. John D.Seymour, B.D., and Commonwealth Book A.90 **Roger Houghton to Rachel Draper, of Kinsale (Cork, M.L.B., 1698). An earlier Roger Houghton was Collector of the Fort of Baltimore, Co. Cork, 1656-Commonwealth Book A.20. tt At the time of Domesday, one Gamel held lands at Gamelston, now Gamston, near Nottingham, and Gamble is still found as a surname in that town (Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, v. 121.n.) Richard Lane's Will, 1662, mentions his son-in-law, George Gamble; we have the Cork M.L.B., 1664, of George Gamble and Elizabeth Sach well; and we have the marriage of George Gamble and Mary Phaire. 、. Luffe This curious name occurs twice in the New Testament. Bardsley in Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature' gives three instances of it, viz. :--(1) Onesipherus on a halfpenny token, 1686; (2) Onesipherus Albin, 1692, C.S.P.; and (3) Onesipherus Dixey. It appears at least four times in the pedigree of Phaire and at least twice in that of Gamble (descendants of the GamblePhaire marriage). We read also (c. 1689) of Anesepherus" Houghton of Ballingarry, Co. Cork, and there is a Cloyne, M.L.B., 17 Jan., 1667 of Onesipherus Houghton of Ballygarry, Co. Cork, and Mary Evans of Kinsale. We do not know the date of death of Phaire's first wife, but we do know that he married again in 1658, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Herbert, a Yorkshire man of good education who had travelled in Persia and in Europe in his youth, the personal attendant of Charles I, 1645-1649, to whom Charles presented a first folio (1623) copy of Shakespeare now in the Library of Windsor Castle, and also a large silver watch. Charles's cloak worn on the day of his execution fell to Herbert, too, as a perquisite (see 'Dict. Nat. Biography' and Article in The Yorkshire Journal by Robert Davies, F.S.A.). At the Restoration Herbert received a Baronetcy, and was subsequently known to history as Sir Thomas Herbert of Tintern, Monmouth, where he had estates. It is important that this Thomas Herbert should not be confounded with Colonel Thomas Herbert, Clerk to the Council in Ireland, 1654-1660 (knighted 1658, July 26, at Dublin Castle, by Henry Cromwell), a Monmouthshire man§§ also, and probably a relative of the Baronet. Herbert's will; signed 20 Dec., 1679, and proved 31 March, 1682, bequeathed to his son-in-law Robert Phaire Esquire and Elizabeth, his wife, £300. It would be idle to speculate as to how Robert Phaire made the acquaintance of Elizabeth Herbert. She may have been a visitor at the house of her relative in Dublin and his wife Lucy, and we know that Phaire was well acquainted with Colonel Thomas Herbert. At all events it may reasonably be inferred that her mar Shaw's Book of Knights.' $$ "You may send to Colonel Herbert, whose house lieth in Monmouth "-Cromwell to Thomas Saunders at Brecknock, 17 June, 1648. riage took place from Colonel Thomas Herbert's house. As a reward for his services in Ireland, lands in Co. Cork and in Co. Wexford were allotted to Phaire. ¶¶ At one time it was intended to assign him lands in Co. Kildare also.*** To him and to his officers, Majors Barrington, Wallis and Dennison, and Captain Gale fell the lands of Monart, etc., in the Barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford, i.e., near Enniscorthy. In 1656 came hither Timothy Stampe of Enworthy,+++ also of the Middle Temple, to report for the Earl of Strafford, who had property hard by, as to the prospect of founding an English colony at Enniscorthy and of being able to work successfully an iron mine and smelting furnace there. No doubt the facilities for water transport afforded by the river Slaney, which flows by Enniscorthy into the sea at Wexford, were an important factor in the project. Stampe's report was favourable, and a company was thereupon formed in London, the chief partners being John (afterwards Sir John) Cutler, Edward (afterwards Sir Edward) Heath of Cottesmore, Robert (afterwards Sir Robert) Clayton, subsequently M.P. and Governor of the Bank of England, Thomas Yate, D.D., Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, Didier Fouchant of Covent Garden, Apothecary, Bethiah Abbott and John Chapman. Smelting began, the iron being apparently a surface deposit and easily mined, but it was soon found that the woods of Monart close by must be purchased for the successful continuance of the scheme. Accordingly, in 1657, Colonel Phaire being then in London, perhaps to press his suit for the hand of Elizabeth Herbert, met Dr. Thomas Yate by appointment and an agreement for purchase was concluded, July 8, 1657. ‡‡‡ Dr. Yate being unable to travel into Ireland in order to take over possession, Timothy Stampe was despatched for this purpose and soon overtook Phaire at Gloucester, the first meeting of Stampe and Phaire, whence they took their further TT C. S. P. *** Commonwealth Book, A.15 (P. R. Q., Dublin). ttt Chancery Bill: Stampe v. Heath, 10 May, 1671, and C. S. P. ‡‡‡ Chancery Bill: Yate v. Stampe, 26 April, 1672. journey together. The company found however, that their resources did not suffice for complete purchase, and they induced Phaire and the other owners to accept shares in lieu of part of the price agreed upon. By 1730 the family of Phaire had become sole owners of the works, out of which one of them is said to have made £17,000. The history of this company, its numerous lawsuits, the complaints of the English shareholders as to their losses, its import of iron ore from Lancashire when the Wexford supply got scanty, and the private Act of Parliament passed for the partition of the property might well form the subject of a special article. Suffice it to say that from the first the family of Phaire perceived the importance of the acquisition it had made. W. H. WELPLY. (To be continued). RICHARD BERESFORD, THE KEEPER OF HIS MAJESTY'S TENNIS COURTS. Among the Newcastle Papers at the British Museum (Add. MS. 33,056, f. 130) is a Treasury Memorandum of the appointment of Richard Beresford, Esq., to be Keeper of Tennis Courts." As this Court sinecure no longer exists, and as the memorandum is of interest in more ways than one,-Whitehall in 1765 would hardly be recognisable to-day-it may be worth while to give chapter and verse as follows:: October, 1765. Richard Beresford, His Majesty's grant Esq., Keeper of unto Richard BeresTennis Courts. ford, Esquire, of the Office and Place of Master or Keeper of His Majesty's Tennis Court, near the Cockpit, in Whitehall, and of His Majesty's Tennis Courts, and Tennis Plays, at Hampton Court, and elsewhere in England. To hold the same with the Wages and Fees of Eight Pence a Day, and One Hundred and Twenty Pounds a Year, payable quarterly at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, at Westminster, out of any His Majesty's Treasure there applicable to the Uses of the Civil Government, and all other Fees, Profits, and Advantages therunto belonging, during His An interesting letter (Lansdowne MSS. 821) from Phaire to Henry Cromwell, 15th Oct., 1657, was written from Rostelane immediately on his return: he had outstayed his leave in England, and he wrote to excuse himself; he had seen the great Oliver in London, and he ends his letter thus:-"I intend sudainly for the County of Wexford and Carlo." Richard Beresford, my great-great-grandfather, was baptised at Ashbourne on Mar. 17, 1731, and buried at Fenny Bentley on Oct. 5, 1790. His father was John Beresford, Esquire, of Ashbourne, and Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire, whose wife was Frances, daughter of Sir John FitzHerbert of Somersall Herbert, in the same county. Richard was the eldest lineal descendant of Thomas Beresford, Esquire, who had fought at Agincourt (1415), and whose tomb-with the life-size figures of himself and his wife Agnes recumbent thereon in their shrouds, sixteen sons and five daughters being_similarly depicted on the sides-is in Fenny Bentley Church. From the third son Hugh, Richard descended, and from the seventh son Humphrey the Irish Beresfords.* tinuous visitations of the Heralds from 1569 have recorded the generations, and even the eminent historian (rightly fastidious in matters of genealogy), Mr. J. Horace Round, accepts the documentary evidence of descent as far back as 1241.† Con By a curious coincidence the last holder of the office of Keeper of the Tennis Courts at Hampton Court was the right Hon. William Beresford, of the Irish branch of the family. who was Secretary of State for War in 1852. See Ernest Law's History of Hampton Court.' vol. iii, p. 487. I should estimate Richard's salary as Keeper in 1765 as equal to at least £700 per annum of present money. †The Ancestor,' No. 12, p. 170. See also Cox's Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire.' vol. ii, pp. 463-469. Glover's History of Derby. shire,' vol. ii (pedigree of Beresford at the end of the account of Ashbourne). Richard was a Justice of the Peace, and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Derby. I have in my possession the warrant of his appointment as Deputy Lieutenant, dated March 2, 1762, signed by the Duke of Devonshire as Lord Lieutenant. The warrant is a magnificent parchment document of considerable size, and must, I should think, have been delivered at Richard's door in an envelope of the kind handed by the Fish-Footman to the Frog-Footman, as depicted in a celebrated illustration in Alice in Wonderland.' I wish I knew more of Richard. That he married a lady called Miss Alice Garle, that he had a considerable family, that his eldest son Richard died without male issue and sold all the Derbyshire property, much to the annoyance of his brother Gilbert who had numerous sons, and who was a good pluralist parson of his day; all this I know. I also believe and possibly readers of N. & Q.' may be able to confirm my belief that he was painted by the wellknown portrait painter Wright of Derby, as was also his daughter Judith, afterwards Mrs. Dewes. He was depicted-the painting was a kit-cat-in small white wig, blue coat and yellow waistcoat, and white tights, standing. Judith was painted, full-length, in a white muslin dress and blue sash. These pictures owing to a blunder, were sold to dealers at a sale at Hoby Rectory, near Leicester, in February, 1899, and I have heard rumours that they emigrated to America. If any kind reader should meet my great-great-grandfather in his blue coat and yellow waistcoat, would he let me know? I am sure the Keeper of His Majesty's air Tennis Courts cannot find American congenial, as an old courtier of the King who insisted on fighting his American sub jects, and being beaten by them. 86, Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, W.11. JOHN BERESFORD. JAMES SIDEE (SYDA): BARNABY O'NEYLE (WILLIAM HALL). In the month of March, 1580, there were two Papal ships in the harbour of Ferrol on the North Coast of Spain. One of them was a Catalonian ship of about 216 tons, which had been purchased for 1,450 scudi (about £270), in January, 1579, at Lisbon, by Sebastiano di San Joseppi, who had been the pay-master of Thomas Stucley's ill-fated expedition. She had had a series of misfortunes. Detained by the Portuguese authorities at Lisbon, till a month after James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald and Dr. Nicholas Sander had sailed for Ireland in the middle of June, 1579, she arrived at the port of Noya before 29 July, where she was damaged by a storm to the extent of 1,000 scudi, and was still there on 14 Sept., and eventually arrived at Ferrol in December, in a most unwarlike condition. In fact she had to be beached in order to be put into repair. The arms which she carried had all suffered from neglect. The harquebuses had rusted and were unworkable, the morions had fallen to pieces, the gunpowder was so damp as to be useless. There were no provisions on board, and the sails and rigging were in a deplorable condition. However, she had been floated again, and some of the other defects had been remedied, though she still lacked proper sails, and at this time she had on board not only San Joseppi, and the nucleus of a crew, but also Conaghour or Cornelius O'Mulryan, a Franciscan Friar who had been provided to the see of Killaloe, 22 Aug., 1576. As to the second ship nothing definite is known, but she was probably one of the three ships that Fitzmaurice and Sander had sent back from Smerwick harbour on 26 July, 1579. On 18 March, 1580, Captain James Sidee or Syda, a skilful sailor, who had received the pardon of Queen Elizabeth in May, 1575, for some fault committed in her service, entered the harbour of Ferrol with two ships flying a flag of peace (con bandiera di pace), and came so close to the Catalonian ship, that Captain Sebastiano being doubtful of his safety turned his guns on them, till they withdrew to a distance at the other side of the harbour. At the same time he caused representations to be made to the Alcalde, Captain Juan Pita da Beiga, who went on board the English ships to reconnoitre and to insist on their departing "conformably to the capitulations made between the King of One Spain, and the Queen of England.' of San Joseppi's men accompanied the Alcalde, and ascertained that the ship had about 300 foot-soldiers on board, that Captain Sidee claimed to be a captain in the Royal Navy, and that he declined to depart, unless the English rebels (of whom he asserted there were some on the Papal ships) were handed over to him. |