J. S. B.

Compositions during the Protectorate (Vol. iv., p. 406.).

—W. H. L. will probably find what he wants in a small volume, easily met with, entitled A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen that have compounded for their Estates, London, 1655, 12mo.; or another edition, enlarged, Chester, 1733, 8vo. (See Lowndes, vol. i. p. 363.)

H. F.

General Moyle (Vol. iv., p. 443.).

—Major General John Moyle, who died in 1738, and was buried at Rushbrooke, near Bury St. Edmund's, was the son of the Rev. John Moyle, of Wimborne Minster, co. Dorset, by Mary his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Giles Eyre, Kt., one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. General Moyle, by his wife, who was Isabella daughter of Sir Robert Davers, of Rushbrooke, Bart., had a family of five sons and one daughter; the latter married Samuel Horsey, Bath king-at-arms.

G. A. C.

Descendants of John of Gaunt (Vol. iv., p. 343.).

—A. B. may be right as to there being "some little confusion in Burke's excellent work." There certainly is no "little confusion" in A. B.'s communication.

Margaret Beaufort, successively Countess of Richmond and Derby, the mother of King Henry VII., was the only child of John Beaufort, the first Duke of Somerset.