Baderon and the two distinct families. The first derivation is

this:

BALLADEN from Baladon (sic), a castle in Anjou. Drogo de Baladon held a Barony in the Welsh Marches, 1086, and from him descended the De Baladuns or Balaons, Barons of Monmouth. From a younger branch descends the existing family of HUNTLEY.

The facts are that no such barony was held in 1086 by Drogo de Baladon (whose very existence indeed appears to be fictitious), and that the De Baladuns or Balaons' had nothing to do with Monmouth. Under Huntley' we plunge into the other family, as 'Huntley or Fitz Baderon,' lords of Monmouth. No proof of the alleged Huntley descent is given, but the author hurries on to the desired conclusion, namely, that the ancestor of this house, William Fitz Baderon or Baldran, appears to have been a scion of the lords or princes of Jarnac in Angoumois or Saintonge, probably of Gothic race.' A few lines further on he is definitely made the son of Baudran, 'Prince of Jarnac.' The true origin of the house in a village near Dol has been elsewhere established by me.1 With 'Trelawny' we return once more to the house of Ballon.

It is presumed that this family descends from Hamelin de Balaon, baron of Abergavenny, who had vast grants in Cornwall.

To Wynebald, brother of this Hamelin, are assigned three sons, from one of whom the Trelawneys are derived. But the full pedigree of Hameline and Winebald has been worked out by me, and all these three suppositious sons can be clearly proved to be inventions. And Hamelin de Ballon was quite distinct from Hemelin the Domesday under-tenant in Cornwall.

Enough has been said, perhaps, by this time to give the reader a true idea of this misleading book. It is the combination of reckless assertion with perfectly sound criticism that forms its most singular and its most dangerous feature. The criticism, for instance, of the received origin of the Windsor and Fitzgerald families (pp. 62, 63) is absolutely sound; but when we turn hopefully to the author's own version, we start 'about A.D. 660' with 'Aother or Other,' for whom the reference is 'Bouquet x. 342.' We turn to it, only to find that it refers to an Otherius' living about A.D. 1000, whom the author makes the second of the name and dates circ. 987.'

1 Studies in Peerage and Family History, p. 121.

2 Ibid. p. 195.

This Other is made the father of another for whom no reference is given or can be discovered, but of whom we read that he was Lord of the Castle of Mortaine, Aquitaine, circ. 1030, and had issue Gilbert, Lord of Mortaine (Gallia Christ. ii. 48 Instr.), and Walter Fitz Other' (p. 243). This gives us the following pedigree:

Wearily we turn to Gallia Christ. ii. 481 (not 48) Instr., and there discover Gilbert de Mauritania' as witness to a charter, with nothing whatever to connect him either with Other or with Walter. Nor can I connect Other with Mortaine, wherever in Aquitaine' it was. His land was 'Sacerge,' which was 'finibus Biturigum situm Lemovicinis contiguum (Bouquet), while Gilbert occurs in a charter of the church of Saintes.

Those who have striven to trace the origin of our great families can hardly write calmly of a book which, while professing to provide pedigrees based on evidence and proof, indulges in utterly baseless statements and 'wild cat' genealogy. Everything is sacrificed to the one determination to find a 'Norman ancestry. Even the author's criticism on others -'Such theories as these only tend to show the influence which pre-conceived notions are capable of exercising on the strongest minds'-will not explain or excuse the astounding methods he employed in what he was pleased to term his unbiassed' inquiry.

J. HORACE ROUND.

1 See p. 123.

THE HUGUENOT FAMILES IN ENGLAND

I. THE TRYONS

N the first rank of the Huguenot families settled in England were the Tryons, rich merchants in London, baronets in Essex and great squires in Northamptonshire. Their founder, PIETER TRIOEN, a merchant, was born at Wulverghem in Flanders, and holding the reformed doctrine was so well advised as to remove himself and his family out of the reach of the claws of Inquisitor Titelmann. Coming to London he had letters of denization granted to him 4 Feb. 156, as 'Peter Tryoen, from the dominion of the King of Spain." He was a deacon of the Dutch church in London in 1580, and dwelt in a house called the 'Worm on the Hoop,' in the parish of St. Christopher-le-Stocks, which he bought of Henry Becher, esquire, and William Becher his son. William Camden, Clarencieux, granted him on 1 July, 1610, the arms -azure une fesse embattellee entre six estoiles de or, with a crestcaput ursi nativo colore septem stellulis aureis aspersum. By an inquest taken after his death 6 Dec. 1611, it was found that he died 29 March, 1611, and that his son and heir Moses was aged 30 years and upwards. He made a will 20 Jan. 160, describing himself therein as 'Peter Trioen borne at Wulverghem in Flaunders in the partes beyonde the seas now dwelling in the parishe of Sainct Christofer nere the Stockes in London and free denizen of England.' By it he made his son Moses his heir of all his lands in Flanders and gave him 5,000l. He gave to his sons Samuel and John 5,000l. each, and to his daughters Mary, wife of Mr. Sebastian Harvey, and Hester, wife of Mr. William Courten, 4,000l. each. He gave to his grandson Peter, son of Moses, 300l., with remainder to the rest of Peter's brothers and sisters. He gave to Peter, Mary and Sara, children of David le Maire by testator's late daughter Sara, 4,000l. amongst them, with 100l. more to Peter, who was his godson. To his god-daughters Sara Trion, daughter of the said Moses, and to Hester Courten, daughter of the said 1 Pat. Roll 4 Eliz. P. II m. II.

Hester, he gave 100l. each. He gave to Anthony Trioen 50%. if he should be a bachelor at the testator's death. He gave legacies to the poor of the Dutch and French churches in London, and to the Dutch churches in Norwich, Colchester and Sandwich; to the poor of Rickmansworth and to the poor of St. Christopher's parish. He gave to his sons Samuel and John equally his capital messuage, etc., in St. Christopher's and St. Bartholomew's by the Exchange, his wife Mary dwelling there and taking the rents and profits. The residue of his estate he gave to his wife. He made his wife Mary and his sons Samuel and John his executors, who proved the will 30 March, 1611 [P.C.C. 24 Wood], after sentence had been promulgated in its favour on 28 March, 1611, following litigation between the exors. and Mary Harvey and Hester Courten [P.C.C. 49 Wood]. He was buried in the church of St. Christopher 15 April, 1611.

His wife Mary, who was probably a Fleming like himself, died 3 Jan. 161, in London, and was buried by her husband in St. Christopher's church 16 Jan. 1618. She made a will on 25 Sept. 1617, giving to her sons Moses Tryon and Sir Samuel Tryon, knight, 6,000l. each, to her daughters Mary, wife of Sir Sebastian Harvey, knight, and Hester, wife of Mr. William Courten, 3,000l. each, and to her grandson Peter le Maire 2,000l. Her other legatees included her grandchildren Samuel, son of Sir Samuel Tryon; Mary, John and James, children of her son Moses; Mary Harvey and William Courten. She also gave legacies to her cousin Anthony Tryon, who was then married to a wife named Jacomin, to the wife of Lucas Roberts of Sandwich, to Samuel Godscall of Sandwich, and to his two sisters (whereof one, Jacomyn Godscall, had been servant to the testatrix), and to her god-daughters Mary van Golgye, wife of Peter Richolte, a merchant, Mary Vaughan, daughter of Thomas Vaughan, and Mary Hellam, daughter of Jasper Hellam. She gave legacies for mourning to Peter le Maire's sisters Mary Swynnarton and the Lady Baesh. Her son Sir Samuel Tryon, knight, the residuary legatee and exor., proved the will 6 Feb. 161 [P.C.C. 19 Parker].

Of the children of Pieter Tryon and his wife eight sons and four daughters are known:

i. Abraham Trioen alias Tryon, who was a merchant of St. Mary Aldermanbury in London. He married at the Dutch church in Austin Friars, 16 Oct. 1599, Leonora

daughter of Adrian Vierendeels, a citizen of Antwerp,
who survived him. She married (ii.) Gregory Downe-
hall, a master in Chancery, and (iii.) Sir John Bennet of
Uxbridge, knight, whose third wife she was. She died
1638 and was buried in Uxbridge Chapel (M. I.). By
an inquest taken after his death 23 July, 1608, it was
found that he died 29 Dec. 1607, and that Moses his
brother was his next heir and aged 28 years and more.
His will dated 25 May, 1605, was proved 7 Jan. 160
[P.C.C. 7 Windebanck] by his brothers Samuel and
John Tryon, the executors.

ii. Moyses Tryon of Harringworth, co. Northants, esquire, of whom presently.

iii. John Tryon, who was christened 15 Sep. 1577, at the Dutch church in Austin Friars and died young.

iv. Sir Samuel Tryon of Halstead, co. Essex, baronet [see pedigree of TRYON OF HALSTEAD].

v. John Tryon, christened 19 April, 1584, at the Dutch church. He was an executor of his brother Abraham's will and was buried at St. Christopher's 14 Sep. 1612. vi. Daniel Tryon was christened 28 Aug. 1586, at the Dutch church and died young.

vii. Daniel Tryon was christened at the Dutch church 8 April, 1588, and died young.

viii. Peter Tryon was christened at the Dutch church 20 May, 1602, and died young.

i. . . . Tryon, a daughter, who was married before 1603 to Levinus Munke, a Dutch merchant in London, by whom she had issue. She probably died before 29 Dec. 1607.

ii. Sarah Tryon, married at the Dutch church 9 Feb. 1591, to David le Maire of London, son of James le Maire of Tournay. She left issue by him, who survived her. iii. Mary Tryon, christened at the Dutch church 25 March, 1575. She married (i.) Sir Sebastian Harvey of London, knight, Lord Mayor in 1619, by whom she left one daughter. She married (ii.) Sir Thomas Hinton of Wansborough, co. Wilts, knight, and dying about 1630 was buried at Wansborough. (M. I. Aubrey's Collections.)

iv. Esther Tryon was christened at the Dutch church 13 Dec. 1579, and was married there 17 July, 1604, to