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[John Pocklington was first a scholar at Sidney Sussex College, B.D. in 1621, and afterwards a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He subsequently became Rector of Yelden in Bedfordshire, Vicar of Waresley in Huntingdonshire, prebend of Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor; and was also one of the chaplains to Charles I. "On the 15th May, 1611, the Earl of Kent, with consent of Lord Harington, wrote to Sidney College to dispense with Mr. Pocklington's holding a small living with cure of souls.
See the original letter in the college treasury, box 1 or 6." (Cole's MSS., vol. xlvi. p.207.). Among the King's Pamphlets in the British Museum is "The Petition and Articles exhibited in Parliament against John Pocklington, D.D., Parson of Yelden, in Bedfordshire, anno 1641." The petition "humbly sheweth, That John Pocklington, D.D., Rector of the parish of Yelden in the county of Bedford, Vicar of Waresley in the county of Huntingdon, Prebend of Lincoln, Peterborough, and Windsor, hath been a chief author and ringleader in all those innovations which have of late flowed into the Church of England." The Articles exhibited (too long to quote) are singularly illustrative of the ecclesiastical usages in the reign of Charles I., and would make a curious appendix to the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe's article at p. 257. of the present Number. Having rendered himself obnoxious to the popular faction by the publication of his Altare Christianum and Sunday no Sabbath, the parliament that met on Nov. 3, 1640, ordered these two works to be burnt by the common hangman in both the Universities, and in the city of London. He died on November 14, and was buried Nov. 16, 1642, in the churchyard of Peterborough Cathedral. On his monumental slab is the following inscription: "John Pocklington, S.S. Theologia Doctor, obiit Nov. 14, 1642." A copy of his will is in the British Museum (Lansdown, 990, p. 74.). It is dated Sept. 6, 1642; and in it bequests are made to his daughters Margaret and Elizabeth, and his sons John and Oliver. His wife Anne was made sole executrix. He orders his body "to be buried in Monk's churchyard, at the foot of those monks martyrs whose monument is well known: let there be a fair stone with a great crosse cut upon it laid on my grave." For notices of Dr. Pocklington, see Willis's Survey of Cathedrals, vol. iii. p. 521.; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. p. 95.; and Fuller's Church History, book xi. cent. xvii. sect. 30-33.]
Last Marquis of Annandale.—1. When and where did he die? 2. Any particulars regarding his history? 3. When and why was Lochwood, the family residence, abandoned? 4. How many marquisses were there, and were any of them men of any note in their day and generation?
Annandale.
[The first marquis was William Johnstone, third Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, who was advanced 4th June, 1701, to the Marquisate of Annandale. He died at Bath, 14th January, 1721, and was succeeded by his son James, who died 21st February, 1730. George, his half-brother, born 29th May, 1720, was the third and last Marquis of Annandale. An inquest from the Court of Chancery, 5th March, 1748, found this marquis a lunatic, and incapable of governing himself and his estate, and that he had been so from the 12th December, 1744. He died at Turnham Green on the 29th April, 1792, in the seventy-second year of his age, and was buried at Chiswick, 7th May following. (Gent. Mag., May, 1792, p. 481.) Since his decease the honours of the house of Annandale have remained dormant, although they have been claimed by several branches of the family. (Burke's Extinct Peerages.) Before the union of the two crowns the Johnstones were frequently wardens of the west borders, and were held in enthusiastic admiration for their exploits against the English, the Douglasses, and other borderers. During the wars between the two nations, they effectually suppressed the plunderers on the borders; hence their device, a winged spur, and their motto, "Alight thieves all," to denote their authority in commanding them to surrender. Lochwood, the ancient seat of the Marquisses of Annandale, was inhabited till 1724, three years after the death of the first marquis, when it was finally abandoned by the family, and suffered gradually to fall into decay. In The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. iv. p. 112., we read "that the principal estate in the parish of Moffat has descended to Mr. Hope Johnstone of Annandale, to whom it is believed the titles also, in so far as claimed, of right belong, and whose restoration to the dormant honours of the family would afford universal satisfaction in this part of Scotland; because it is the general feeling that he has a right to them, and that in his family they would not only be supported, but graced." Some farther particulars of the three marquisses will be found in Douglass' Peerage of Scotland (by Wood), vol. i. p. 75., and in The Scots Compendium, edit. 1764, p. 151.]
Heralds' College.—Richard III. incorporated the College of Arms in 1483, and that body consisted of three kings of arms, six heralds, and four pursuivants. Can you inform me of the names of these first members of that Heraldic body?
Escutcheon.
—— Vicarage.
[Mark Noble, in his History of the College of Arms, p. 57., remarks, "There is nothing more difficult than to obtain a true and authentic series of the heralds, previous to the foundation of the College of Arms, or, to speak more properly, the incorporation of that body. Mr. Lant, Mr. Anstis, Mr. Edmondson, and other gentlemen, who had the best opportunities, and whose industry was equal to their advantage, have not been able to accomplish it; and from that time, especially in Richard's reign, it is not practicable. Some idea may be formed of the heraldic body at the commencement of this reign, by observing the names of those who attended the funeral of Edward IV. Sandford and other writers mention Garter, Clarenceux, Norroy, March, and Ireland, kings at arms; Chester, Leicester, Gloucester, and Buckingham, heralds; and Rouge-Croix, Rose-Blanch, Calais, Guisnes, and Harrington, pursuivants.">[