Florence.
_Robert Brown the Separatist_ (Vol. ix., p. 494.).--MR. CORNER will
probably find an answer to his question in the _History of Stamford_, by W.
Harrod (1785), and in Blore's _History of the County of Rutland_, 1813,
fol.; Bawden's _Survey_, 1809, 4to.; Wright's _History of Rutlandshire_,
1687 and 1714. The last descendant of Robert Brown died on Sept. 17, 1839,
æt. sixty-nine, widow of George, third Earl of Pomfret; and as she had no
issue, her house and estate at Toltrop {573} (_i. e._ Tolthorp), in
Rutlandshire, about two miles from Stamford in Lincolnshire, probably
passed to his heir and brother Thomas William, the fourth earl.
At the time of her marriage, her servants (as was believed by orders from
their mistress) _persevered_ in chiming the only _two_ bells of the parish
church, to the hazard and annoyance of the vicar's wife, just confined of
her first child in a room hardly a stone's throw from it. His pupils were
so indignant, that they drove away the offenders and took the clappers out
of the bells: and the son of a near neighbour, then a member of St. John's
College, Cambridge (Thos. Foster, A.B., 1792), made it the subject of a
mock-heroic poem of some merit, called the _Brunoniad_ (London, 1790,
printed by Kearsley). So few copies were printed, that the queen and
princesses could not procure one; and a lady employed at Court requested a
young friend of hers, resident at Stamford, to make a transcript of it for
their use. This your present note-writer can aver, as the transcriber was a
sister of