M.D.
_Genealogical Query_ (Vol. ii., p. 135)--Sir Philip Courtenay, first of
Powderham Castle, fifth son of Hugh, the second of that name, Earl of
Devon, by Margaret de Bohun, grand-daughter of King Edward I., married
Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Wake of Bisworth, co. Northampton, son of
Hugh, younger son of Baldwin Lord Wake, and had issue three sons and two
daughters, of which Margaret was married to Sir Robert Carey, of
Cockington, Knt. See _Cleaveland's History of the Family of Courtenay_,
pp. 265. 270.
S.S.S.
_Richard Baxter's Descendants_ (Vol. ii, p. 89.).--Your correspondent
W.H.B., who wishes for information respecting the descendants of the
celebrated Richard Baxter, describes him to have been a Northamptonshire
man; now this (supposing the Nonconformist divine of that name is meant)
is a mistake, for he was, according to his own account, a Shropshire
man. In a narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and
times, by himself, and published soon after his death under the title of
_Reliquiae Baxterianae_, 1696, he says,
"My father's name was Richard (the son of Richard) Baxter; his
habitation and estate at a village called Eaton Constantine, a
mile from the Wrekin Hill, and above half a mile from Severn
River, and five miles from Shrewsbury in Shropshire. A village
most pleasantly and healthfully situate. My mother's name was
Beatrice, the daughter of Richard Adeney of Rowton, a village
near High Encall, the Lord Newport's seat, in the same county.
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