Genealogy of European Sovereigns.
Sir,—Can you or any of your correspondents tell me of one or two of the best works on the "Genealogy of European Sovereigns?" I know of one,—Anderson's Royal Genealogies, London, 1732, folio. But that is not of as late a date as I should wish to see.
Q.X.Z.
Duke of Ashgrove.
At p. 14. of Doctor Simon Forman's Diary (edited by Mr. Halliwell, 1849), mention is twice made of Forman being engaged as "Scholmaster to the Duke of Ashgrove's Sonnes." Who was the person thus alluded to?
P.C.S.S.
Sir William Godbold.
Mr. Editor,—In the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1842, occurs this:—
"In the parish church of Mendham, Suffolk, is a mural monument bearing an inscription, of which the following is a transcript:
"'M.S.V.Cmi Doctissimique D. Gulielmi Godbold Militis ex illustri et perantiquâ Prosapiâ oriundi, Qui post Septennem Peregrinationem animi excolendi gratiâ per Italiam, Græciam, Palæstinam, Arabiam, Persiam, in solo natali in bonarum literarum studiis consenescens morte repentinâ obiit Londini mense Aprilis Ao. D. MDCXIIIC, ætatis LXIX.'
"One would presume that so great a traveller would have obtained some celebrity in his day; but I have never met with any notice of Sir William Godbold. I have ascertained that he was the only son of Thomas Godbold, a gentleman of small estate residing at Metfield, in Suffolk, and was nephew to John Godbold, Esq., Serjeant-at-Law, who was appointed Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely in 1638. He appears to have been knighted previously to 1664, and married Elizabeth daughter and heir of Richard Freston, of Mendham (Norfolk), Esq., and relict of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Gillingham, Bart., whom he survived, and died without issue in 1687. I should consider myself under an obligation to any of your correspondents who could afford me any further account of this learned knight, or refer me to any biographical or other notice of him."