Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 by Various
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[Footnote 1: _Journal des Savans_, MDCXCIV, p. 331.; _Niceronii Memoir.,_ tom. vii. p. 64.] T.J. _Mrs. Tempest_ (Vol. ii., p. 407.).--In reply to your correspondent requesting information respecting this lady, I have much pleasure in sending you the following particulars, which I leave obtained through the kindness of Colonel Tempest of Tong Hall, the present representative of the ancient family of Tempest of Tong. Henry Tempest, the oldest son of Sir John Tempest, Bart., of Tong Hall, by Henrietta his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Cholmley of Newton Grange, married Alathea, daughter of Sir Henry Thompson of Marston, county of York, and had two daughters, Alathea and Henrietta; one of these ladies was celebrated as Pope's Daphne. Henry Tempest died very young, before his father Sir John; the next brother, George, succeeded to the title and Tong estates. Daphne was on the point of being, married very highly, tradition says to the Duke of Wharton, but died of the small-pox before the celebration. In the library at Tong Hall there is a painting, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of Pope's Daphne. OLIVER THOMLINSON WYNDOWE. _Cardinal Allen's Declaration_ (Vol ii., p. 497.).--I am happy to inform H.P. that the _Declaration of the Sentence and Deposition of Elizabeth, the Usurper and pretended Queen of England_, alluded to in his note, is in the Bodleian Library; where, a few days since, I saw Dr. Cumming poring over it; and where, I have no doubt, he, or any friend, can easily obtain a |
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