[Footnote 3: [One of these places, namely, that on the road from Kingston
to Ditton, is, we believe, known as Gig's Hill.--ED.]]
_Sir John Vaughan._--In the patent under which the barony of Hamilton of
Hackallen, in the county of Meath, was granted on the 20th of October, in
the second year of the reign of George I., to Gustavus Hamilton, he is
described as son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, Knt., by Sidney, daughter and
heiress of Sir John Vaughan, Knt.; and that the said Dame Sidney Hamilton
was descended from an honourable line of ancestors, one of whom, Sir Will
Sidney, was Chamberlain to Henry II., another of the same name Comptroller
of the Household to Henry VIII., &c., &c.
Can any of your genealogical friends inform me who the above-named Sir John
Vaughan married, and in what way she was connected with the Sidneys of
Penshurst, as the pedigree given by Collins contains no mention of any such
marriage?
The arms of Sir John Vaughan, which appear quartered with those of Hamilton
and Arran in the margin of the grant, are,--Argent, a chevron sable between
three infants' heads coupled at the shoulders, each entwined round the neck
with a snake, all proper, thereby intimating his descent from the Vaughans
of Porthaml Tretower, &c., in the county of Brecon.