Minor Queries with Answers.
Done Pedigree.—A very old MS. pedigree of the family of Done of Utkington, in the county before me, connects with that family no less than twenty-three Cheshire families of distinction, viz. Cholmondeley, Egerton, Wilbraham, Booth, Arden, Leicester, and seventeen others. Now, as it appears by your note on the communication of a correspondent (Vol. vi., p. 273.), that there exists a pedigree of the family of Done, of Utkington, in the British Museum, Additional MS. No. 5836. pp. 180. and 186., perhaps you will be good enough to say whether that pedigree discloses the extensive Cheshire family connexion with the Done family above noticed.
T. W. Jones.
Nantwich.
[The following families connected with Done of Utkington occur in the pedigree (Add. MS. 5836. p. 186.) "Richard de Kingsley, A.D. 1233; Venables, Swinerton, Peter de Thornton, Lord Audley, Dutton, Aston, Gerrard, Wilbraham, Manwaring, Eliz. Trafford, widow of Geo. Booth of Dunham, Ralph Legh of High Legh, Davenport Thomas Stanley de Alderley, Thomas Wagstaff of Tachbroke, and Devereux Knightley of Fawsley." This pedigree was copied by Cole from an old MS. book of pedigrees formerly belonging to Sir John Crew. See also Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 133., for a pedigree of Done of Utkington, Flax-Yards, and Duddon, compiled from inquisitions post mortem, the parochial registers, and the Visitations of 1580 and 1664.]
Scotch Newspapers, &c.—What are the earliest publications of Scotland giving an account of the current events of that kingdom?
T. F.
[The Edinburgh Gazette, or Scotch Postman, printed by Robert Brown on Tuesdays and Thursdays, appears to have been the earliest gazette. The first Number was published in March, 1715. This was followed by The Edinburgh Evening Courant, published on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. No. 1. appeared on the 15th December, 1718, and has existed to the present time. There was another paper issued on May 8, 1692, called The Scotch Mercury, giving a true account of the daily proceedings and most remarkable public occurrences in Scotland; but this seems to have been printed in London for R. Baldwin. The earliest Almanack published in Scotland was in 1677, by Mr. Forbes of Aberdeen, under the title of A New Prognostication, calculated for North Britain, and which was continued until the year 1700.]
Dictum de Kenilworth.—Said to have passed anno 1266. What was the nature of it?
Abredonensis.
[It is a declaration of the parliament of Henry III., containing the terms on which the king was to grant a general pardon to the malcontents of Ely, namely, that all who took arms against the king should pay him the value of their lands, some for five years, others for three and for one. A copy of it is in the Cottonian Library, Claudius, D. ii., 119. b., and in Tyrrel's Hist. of England, p. 1064.]
Dr. Harwood.—Can you tell me in what year the Rev. Dr. Harwood of Lichfield, author of a History of that city, and other works, died? I
believe it was about 1849; but I have not been able to ascertain the exact date.
A. Z.
[Dr. Harwood died 23rd December, 1842, aged 75. For a biographical notice of him, see Gent. Mag. for February, 1843, p. 202.]