J.M.

Oxford, Feb. 5.


_Sir William Rider_.--In reply to the queries of "H.F.," No. 12. p.
186., respecting Sir William Rider, I beg to say that among the many
MS. notes which I have collected relating to the Rider family, {269}
&c., I find the following from the _Visitation of Surry_, 1623, and
from a MS. book of _Pedigrees of Peers_ in the Herald's College, with
additions.

"Thomas Rider married a daughter of ---- Poole of Stafforde,
by whom he had Sir William Rider, born at Muchalstone, co.
Stafforde, Sheriff of London, 1591, Citizen and Haberdasher,
Lord Mayor, 1600. Will dated 1 Nov., and proved 9 Nov.
1610, 8 Jas. I. (94 Wood); buried at Low Layton, Essex, &c.
Sir William married Elizabeth, da. of R. Stone, of Helme,
co. Norfolk; by whom he had, besides other children and
descendants, Mary daughter and coheiress, who married Sir
Thomas Lake, of Canons, Middlesex, from whose issue descended
Viscount Lake."

S.S.


_Pokership_ (No. 12. p. 185., and No. 14. p. 218.).--It is to be
regretted that no information has been supplied respecting the meaning
of this remarkable word, either from local sources or from the surveys