1666, probably March 1665-6.

The last Lord Carrington died 17 May, 1706: the estates of Wotton came
to Lewis Smith, who married Eliz., daughter of William Viscount Monson,
and relict of Sir Philip Hungate. His son Francis Smith Carrington died
in 1749, and left one daughter and heir. What relation was Lewis Smith
to the Smiths Lord Carrington? No pedigree gives the connection.

Dover, May 4. 1850.

["J.M.W." has kindly answered this Query; so also has "W.M.T.,"
who adds, "Lord Carrington, previously Sir Charles Smith,
brother to Sir John Smith, who fell on the King's side at
Alresford in 1644, being Commissary-General of the Horse. By the
way, Bankes says it was his _son_ John who fell at Alresford,
but it is more likely to have been, as Clarendon states, his
brother, unless he lost there both a brother and a son."] {491}


_Esquires and Gentlemen._--I would ask your correspondent (No. 27. p.
437.), whether he has ascertained _the grounds of distinction_ made in
the seventeenth and in the early part of the eighteenth century, between
_esquires_ and _gentlemen_, when both were landed proprietors? We find
lists of names of governors of hospitals, trustees, &c., where this
distinction is made, and which, apparently, can only be accounted for on
this ground, that the estates of the gentleman were smaller in extent
than those of the esquire; and, consequently, that the former was so far
a person of less consideration. Had the bearing of coat armour, or a
connection with knighthood, any thing to do with the matter?