Cowgill.
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Minor Queries.
_Sir Walter Raleigh._--In the discussions on the copyright question some
years ago, Sir Walter Raleigh was mentioned as one of the authors whose
posterity is totally extinct; but in his Life, as given in _Lodge's
Portraits_, his descendants are given as far down as his
great-grandchildren, of whom many were still living in 1699, at which
period, says Mr. Lodge, my information ceases. It seems unlikely that a
family then so numerous should have utterly perished since, both in its
male and female branches; and perhaps some of your correspondents may be
able to trace their subsequent history: the _name_ is certainly not
extinct, whether its bearers be his descendants or not.
Is the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert descended from one of Sir
Walter's half-brothers?