[The notorious impostor noticed in the communication of our
correspondent, performed her surprising feats of hazardous
versatility between the years 1765 and 1768. On different
occasions she assumed the names of Wilson, alias Boxall, alias
Mollineaux, alias Irving, alias Baroness Wilmington, alias Lady
Viscountess Wilbrihammon, alias Countess of Normandy. In 1766 her
ladyship, "with gentle mien and accent bland," received for her
dextrous lubricities something like a whipping at Coventry. In
1767 she was adjudged a vagabond at Devizes, and in the following
year sentenced to transportation at the Westminster assizes.
Alderman Hewitt of Coventry, in 1778, published some memorabilia
of her ladyship in a pamphlet entitled, _Memoirs of the celebrated
Lady Viscountess Wilbrihammon, the greatest Impostress of the
present age_. The alderman does not notice the tract mentioned by
our correspondent, so that it still remains a query whether it was
ever issued, although it may have been advertised.]
_Early Visitations._--In Noble's _College of Arms_, it is stated, p.
25., that--
"Henry VI. sent persons through many of the counties of England to
collect the names of the gentry of each; these lists have reached
our time. It is observable, that many are mentioned in them who
had adopted the meanest trades, yet were still accounted gentry."
Where are these lists to be found?