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p. 32, line 22.

An explanation of the circumstance that the Sheriff of the County was collecting the scutage from the sub-tenants of the Stafford Barony in this year, is afforded by an entry in the Pipe Roll of 3 H. 3, which shows that this was done at the request of Hervey Bagot and Millicent de Stafford, his mother. The entry in the Roll is as follows:

Milisent de Stafford and Hervey, her son, give £15 to be quit of all arrears of the scutages of King John of the fee of Hervey Baghot, the husband of Milisent, so that the King may receive all the arrears by hands of his bailiffs from those who had not paid or made fine for them.

p. 53. line 27, for " £20," read " £80."

p. 216, line 26, for " Emma," read "Anne."

p. 229,

p. 246.

Sir Walter Wrottesley and the King Maker.

Richard, Earl of Warwick, derived his wealth from his great English estates,
consisting of the Honors of Clare, Gloucester, Despencer, and Warwick;
but his political power arose from his command of the garrison of
Calais, and his possession of the great Honor of Glamorgan and the
land of Morgan in Wales, and it will be noted that at the most critical
period of his fortunes, in 1470 and 1471, when he had determined to
dethrone Edward IV, he placed both these great posts successively
in charge of Sir Walter Wrottesley.

The possession of Glamorgan and Morgannok had always enabled
its ancient lords, the Earls of Clare and Gloucester, to take up a
position independent of the Crown, and the King Maker had succeeded
to all the prerogatives of its former Norman lords.
Mr. George Clark, in his account of the "Land of Morgan," says there
could not be a more complete "imperium in imperio" than the sway of the
lords of Glamorgan. The "Comitatus" was a Court of Chancery and
Record, composed of the lords, principal tenants, or barones Comitatûs,
presided over by the Vice Comes or Sheriff, from the decision of which
there lay no appeal to the Crown.

At Easter term, 22 E. 4, John Stanley, of Elford, sued Richard Wrottesley, of Wrottesley, armiger, and Robert Legh, of Adlyngton, co. Chester, armiger, for fabricating a false deed of feoffment at Lichfield, relating to the plaintiff's manors of Echeles, Aldeford, and Nether Alderley, and 80 acres of land in Echeles, Aldeford and Nether Alderley, in co. Chester, with a view of disturbing and destroying his title and possession of the said manors and land. For an account of this suit see pp. 140 and 142 of Staffordshire Collections, vol. vi, New Series.

p. 256, line 19. George Wrottesley was grandson, not son, of the Thomas Wrottesley named here. His father was also named Thomas. See p. 392.

pp. 257, 400. The daughter of Richard Wrottesley, who married James Leveson, was named Alice, and not Margery or Margaret. She was his first wife, and mother of his three sons, Sir Richard Leveson, Walter Leveson and Edward Leveson, of Perton. See a note to the Pedigree of Offley, printed in The Genealogist, New Series, vol. xix. (April, 1903.)

p. 273. Matthew Wrottesley was a deponent in a Chancery suit (Harcourt versus Bekyngham) in 1558, when his age was stated to be forty-two.

p. 332, line 21, omit "Thomas Coyney of Weston Coyney," for he took up arms for the King, as shewn on p. 331.

p. 335. The will of Dame Mary Wrottesley was proved in 1665 on the oath of Dorothy Wrottesley, daughter and executrix named in the will, as follows:

"The will of Dame Mary Wrottesley declared to her sonne Walter Wrottesley and Thomas Greene 29 Dec. 1662. First she gives and bequeaths to Dorothy Wrottesley one hundred and fifty pounds. To Ann Wrottesley one hundred and fourty. To James Wrottesley two hundred pounds. To John Wrottesley fiftie pounds, and did then nominate and appoynt Dorothy Wrottesley to be her executrix by this her last will. Signed Walter Wrottesley and Thomas Greene." Prerogative Court of Canterbury (21 Hyde).

p. 338, for "Magdalen College, Oxford," read "Magdalen Hall, now Hertford College."

p. 340, note. The date on the Hopper Head of the rain water pipes was 1689, not 1698, as stated in the note.

p. 343. A search amongst the Registers of Theydon Garnon Church shews that Sir John Wrottesley, the fourth Baronet, was born in 1683. The Register states that John, the son of Walter Wrotchlay (sic), Esq., and Elianour his wife, of Theydon Garnon, was born 28th July and baptized 2nd August 1683.

p. 353, line 7 from bottom of page, for "the Baron," read "Baron William de Kutzleben."

The following additional particulars of the descendants of the Baron von Kutzleben and Dorothy Wrottesley have been furnished by Mrs. Curtis, his granddaughter:

The Baron Christian von Kutzleben and Dorothy had issue

1. William Baron von Kutzleben born in 1785, Lt.-Colonel of the 44th Regiment of Madras Infantry; he died in 1836.

2.

Gertrude Philipine married Mr. W. King, by whom she had two children, Gertrude and Charles.

3. Charles von Kutzleben, of the 69th Foot, who died young in
India and left no issue.

William Baron von Kutzleben was twice married. By his first wife,
Susanna, whose maiden name is not known, he had issue-

By his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Knipe, Esq., of St.
Helena, and widow of William Lambe, Esq., he had issue-

1.

Elizabeth, born 1830.

2. Louisa, died an infant 1834.

The eldest daughter Gertrude, by the first wife, married Mr. Edward
Collins, and had issue by him-

Robert and Thomas, both of whom died in India of cholera whilst

under age.

The second daughter, Emma, was born in 1820 and died in 1872. husband, Captain Ralph Leicester, was killed in India in 1859 and left no issue.

Her

Elizabeth von Kutzleben, the eldest daughter by the Baron's second wife, was born in 1830, and married Mr. Moreton J. Walhouse, of the Indian Civil Service, by whom she had issue

1. Hervey James, born 1851.

2.

3.

4.

Helen Elizabeth, born 1853.

Moreton Edward, born 1855.

Charles Herbert de Kutzleben, 64th Staffordshire Regiment, born 1857, died 11 Nov. 1895.

5. Alice, born 1860, died 1872.

Louisa von Kutzleben, the second daughter, was born in 1832 and died in 1834.

The third daughter, Matilda Catherine Alicia von Kutzleben, was born in 1835 and married John Robert Lloyd Curtis, of the 8th Regiment Madras Army, by whom she had issue

Elizabeth Harriet, born 1859, now living in London in charge of one of the Queen's Nursing Homes.

Caroline and William Lloyd, both of whom died young.

p. 354. Harriet, the youngest daughter of Sir Richard Wrottesley, likewise figures in the Walpole correspondence. In a letter to the Countess of Upper Ossory of 31st April 1773, Horace Walpole describes a festival and fancy dress ball at Lord Stanley's, at which he had been present. He says "the Seasons danced by himself (i.e., Lord Stanley), the younger Storer, the Duc de Lauzun and another, the youngest Miss Stanley, Miss Poole, the youngest Wrottesley, and another Miss, who is likewise anonymous in my memory, were in errant shepherdly dresses without invention, and Storer and Miss Wrottesley in banians with furs for winter, cock and hen."

p. 355. In the quotation from George Selwyn's letters, the words "to the Duke his brother," should read “to the Dukes his brothers." These were the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland, the first of whom lived at Gloucester House (now Grosvenor House) and the latter at Leicester House. Ex. inf: Colonel W. F. Prideaux, who also informs me in reference to the footnote on this page, that the Princess of Wales had left Leicester House in 1766 for Carlton House (which had also belonged to her late husband), but she resided principally at Kew, where she was probably living when the news of her son's death would have reached England.

p. 361, line 21, for "blank," read "black."

p. 362. Lt.-Colonel Hugh Wrottesley died 18th October 1830.

p. 363. Edward Wrottesley was married to Ann Tringham at Gibraltar, by licence granted by His Excellency Lt. Governor Campbell, at the King's Chapel, Gibraltar, on the 1st of November 1812, in presence of Percy Fraser, Commissioner of H.M. Navy; J. J. Pechell, Captain H.M.S. "Cleopatra"; Martha Tringham, and others, the officiating minister being the Rev. Thomas Tringham, H.M. Chaplain, the father of the bride.

p. 366. At the period of the emigration of the French nobility owing to the revolution of 1792, Wrottesley, like many of the other large country houses, sheltered one of the emigrés. A Vicomte de Mauny, under the guise of a French tutor, lived there for several years.

p. 377. The "Rugby School Register" (printed) contains the following entries under the name of Wrottesley :

Entrances in 1699.

Wrottesley, John, eldest son of Sir Walter Wrottesley, Bart., Somerford,
Staffordshire.

Wrottesley, Hugh, second son of the above.