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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. JAN. 3,
KHOJA HUSSEIN (11 S. viii. 232, 278).
I have seen the article in the September
number of The Cornhill Magazine and the
chapter in Matthew Arnold's ' Essays in
Criticism,' First Series, without being able
to find out how Khoja Hussein defrauded
his brother of a large part of his inheritance.
May the story claim a few lines in ' N. & Q.'?
I know nothing of Hussein which may not
be set to his credit.
PUNCTUATION SIGNS (11 S. viii. 409). Your correspondent might do worse than consult chap. i. of Mr. William Day's * Punc- tuation reduced to a System ' (London, Harrison, 59, Pall Mall), though I fear that it may be out of print. ST. SWITHIN.
ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS HOPSON, 1643-1717 (11 S. viii. 443). The Hopson, or Hobson, family was one of the leading families in the Isle of Wight for a century or more subse- quent to the reign of Henry VIII. At the Dissolution Ningwood was granted, with other Church lands, to Thomas Hobson in exchange for the Manor of Marylebone, co. Middlesex. Prior to their residence at Marylebone the Hobsons were at Scredington, in Lincolnshire. A pedigree of ' Hobson of Scredington ' is given in ' Lincolnshire Pedigrees' (Harl. Soc., p. 497); and the descent of the Hobsons of Ningwood appears in Berry's ' Hants Genealogies,' p. 269.
In 1627 John Hobson of Ningwood was appointed " to have the charge and leading of the company of Ningwood as their captain." This Capt. Hobson married in 1641, as his second wife, Lady Margaret Ley, daughter of the first Earl of Marl- borough. They were friends of the poet Milton, who is said to ha,ve frequently visited them, and who addressed one of his sonnets to Lady Margaret.
Sir Thomas Hopson was a nephew of Capt. John Hobson. On 1 June, 1680, " Captaine Thomas Hopsonn " was married at Brading, Isle of Wight, to " Mrs. Elizabeth Timbrell." She was a daughter of John Timbrell of Portsmouth (by his wife Ann, daughter of - - Benett of Fareham), and granddaughter of Alderman John Timbrell, Master Blacksmith and Anchor Smith of Portsmouth Dockyard, who served the office of Mayor of Portsmouth in the years 1650 and 1661. Lady Hopson was baptized at St. Thomas's Church, Portsmouth, on 27 June, 1660 ; and three of her children were baptized at the same church, viz Anne, 24 Oct., 1.681 ; Mary, 30 Dec., 1682 ; and Charles, 22 April, 1688.
Anne Timbrell (born 1657), elder sister of
Lady Hopson, was married to Capt. Charles
Skelton at Brading, on 5 May, 1679. Four
of their children were baptized at Ports-
mouth Church : Anne, 16 May, 1681 ;
Brigid (sic), 26 June, 1682 ; Bevill, 7 April r
1684 ; and Herbert, 30 Nov., 1685. Capt.
Skelton was a naval officer. In September,.
1690, being then in command of the Corona-
tion, under Admiral Russell, he was return-
ing to Plymouth, and was overtaken by a
violent storm, in which his vessel was cap-
sized and he was drowned with about 300-
of his men.
Sarah Timbrell (born 1669), a younger sister of Lady Hopson, was married at Portsmouth Church on 9 Jan., 1692, ta Capt. William Watkins. He was after- wards Brigadier- General, and one of the executors named in the will of Sir Thomas; Hopson ; he died in 1731.
Mary Timbrell (born 1667), another sister of Lady Hopson, was the second wife of Richard Bramble of Portsmouth. They" were married at St. Michael's Church, Win- chester, on 25 Oct., 1698 ; he died in 1701. ALFRED T. EVERITT..
Portsmouth.
- MEMOIRS OF SIR JOHN LANGHAM, BARO-
NET' (11 S. viii. 281, 351, 463). I have just seen * N. & Q.' for 1 Nov., 1913, and should like to make a few additions and correc- tions to MR. HUMPHREYS'S account of Sir John Langham's family and purchase of Cottesbrooke.
Tn 1550 the estate of Cottesbrooke be- longed to William Lane, Esq., a younger brother of Sir Ralph Lane of Horton. He died in 1570, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Peter, who was a " Lnnatick,"" and died without issue in 1584, when the estate passed to his two sisters. They were Maud, wife of John Bedle, Esq., afterwards Sir John Bedle of Hamerton, in Hunts ; and Isabella, wife of John Read, Esq. These two ladies were each possessed of a moiety of the manor and lordship. John Read died in 1605, and was buried at Cottes- brooke, where he has a monument. His moiety then passed to his seven daughters, and w r as purchased from the survivors of them in 1607 by Sir William Saunders, who in 1614 sold it to Sir John Carey, afterwards Baron Hunsdon and Earl of Dover, " who in the 13 Charles I. conveyed it for the sum of 18,000?. to John Langham, Esq., Alder- man of London." In the same year, 1638 r Sir Capel Bedle, who possessed the other moiety, sold it to Martin Hervey, Esq., " oi
