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This legend is still given to visitors of this fine old church. Will
some of your antiquarian correspondents throw some light on the
obscurity?
C.
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?
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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 perantiqua Prosapia oriundi, Qui post Septennem
Peregrinationem animi excolendi gratia per Italiam, Graeciam,
Palaestinam, Arabiam, Persiam, in solo natali in bonarum
literarum studiis consenescens morte repentina obiit Londini
mense Aprilis Ao. D. MDCXIIIC, aetatis 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.
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