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6. Eric Skeffington Poole, born 20th January, 1885, at Stellarton.

7. Mary Evelyn Poole, born 12th May, 1887, at Stellarton.

APPENDIX.

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DISPENSATION OF THOMAS PULLE AND

ELIZABETH STANLEY.

WILLIAM by divine permission Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to our beloved in Christ Thomas Pulle entitled to bear arms and Elizabeth Stanley lady of our Diocese health grace and benediction the underwritten letters on your part directed to us we have lately received in these words: "To the "Venerable Father in Christ by the grace of God Bishop of "Lichfield or to his Vicar in Spirituals Jordan by Divine mercy Bishop of S. Alban's health and sincere esteem in the Lord : The prudent forethought of the Apostolic See sometimes tempers the rigour of the Law with gentleness and what the "provisions of the Sacred Canons forbid by favour of kindness "allows the quality as well of persons and times being weighed "that it knows how wholesomely to accomplish in the Lord. "Well then on the part of the noble Thomas de Pulle entitled "to bear arms and Elizabeth Stanley lady of your Diocese the "petition laid before us contained that for certain & reasonable causes they desire to be joined together in matrimony but *because they are related in the fourth degree of consanguinity they are not able to accomplish their desire in this matter the "Apostolic dispensation not having been obtained Wherefore "they have humbly prayed to be provided through the Apostolic "See with a suitable dispensation: We therefore being favour"ably inclined to their supplications in this behalf by the "authority of our lord the Pope the care of whose penitenciary "we have and by his special mandate in this matter given to us "We commit to your discretion how far if it is thus with the said Thomas and Elizabeth that notwithstanding the impedi"ment of consanguinity they may freely contract matrimony

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themselves and in it after it has been contracted may remain Provided only that the said Elizabeth shall ve been snatched away from anyone; decreeing any g of such marriage to be lawfully begotten. Dated at at the Holy Apostle's the 15th kalends of February in tificate of lord Martin the Fifth Pope the eighth year." to the Venerable Father in Christ by divine favour of Lichfield or to his Vicar in Spirituals Jordan by mercy Bishop of S. Alban's health and sincere esteem Lord: On the part of the noble Thomas Pulle and eth Stanley lady of your Diocese the petition brought us contained that they some time ago obtained certain in the usual and accustomed form of a commission d to you from the Apostolic See reciting that notunding that they are related in the fourth degree of guinity that they may freely contract matrimony between elves and in it after it has been contracted may lawfully

Nevertheless they fearing tha: these letters would be titious and invalid because one of them was distant in Ard but the other in the fourth degree from the common and because no mention was made in the said letters he other of them was distant in the third degree they

supplication to be humbly made for them on this nt through the same See: Therefore We giving heed to ct that Pope Clement the Sixth of happy memory declared Apostolic authority that certain letters obtained from the See in a like case were valid and sufficient and had full th though no mention was made in the dispensations elves about the omission of mention of the distance of ird degree by authority of the lord Pope the care of - penitentiary we have to commit to your discretion how cording to the Apostolic declaration the aforesaid letters mmission are valid as if mention had been made in them e distance of the third degree. Dated at Rome near the Apostles the sixth Nones of July in the eighth year of ontificate of the lord Pope Martin the Fifth."

refore We William the Bishop above mentioned inquiring tly into the statements contained in the said letters by oning those cited and by a true report in the prescribed of law have found that the letters themselves contain the

Moreover that you Thomas and Elizabeth are mutually I in the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity and cu Elizabeth have not been carried off from anyone but ou and the said Thomas honourably desire to be matriily united We grant our dispensation therefore that hstanding the said impediment of consanguinity it may

be lawful for you mutually to contract matrimony and in it so contracted freely to remain according to the exigence of the aforesaid letters by the tenor of these presents decreeing that any offspring to be begotten of the said marriage shall be legitimate.

In testimony of all and singular which things we have caused our Seal to be affixed to these presents. Dated in our mansion of Heywode the fifth day of the month of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand four hundred and twenty-five and in the sixth year of our Consecration.12

12 The above document reached the printers too late to be inserted in the paper and is therefore printed here as an appendix.

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THE HE geography of Ptolemy has fallen out of favour as a source of information. Some of his inland places are strangely misplaced, and a generally distorted appearance of his map of the British Isles has led it to be regarded somewhat askance. It does, however, supply a list of names to harbours and sites which probably had their representatives at the time the notes were made.

There is one place which a concensus of opinion has relegated to Lancashire, namely, Rigodunum. It appears to be so in the map which Mr. Bradley contributed to Archæologia, in vol. xlviii; nor has it been identified with any site outside the county, as, for instance, has Vinovium. It was once supposed to supply the original name of Ribchester, but an inscription has decided otherwise. When

the fort at Ribchester was shewn to have been called Bremetennacum, it became more easy to pick out from the lists of the Antonine Itinerary the names of the other Roman stations in that part of Britain. That at Manchester thus became identified with Mancunium, Wigan with Coccium, and Overborough with Galacum. The station at Lancaster is left without a name; so, too, is the small outpost on the Roman road that forded the Ribble at Walton-le-Dale, near to Preston. The latter, however, was never of first importance, and seems to have fallen into disuse with the completion of a more direct route through Ribchester, in the middle of the second century.

Since Mr. Bradley published his map, it has come to be thought that the Seteia Estuaria represents the bay into which flow the Dee and the Mersey, and not the mouth of one of those rivers alone. This hypothesis seems to better suit the situation, for on a modern map, of the same scale and projection, the two other inlets, called Belisama Estuaria

and Segantiorum Portus, fall relatively into position at the mouth of the Ribble and in the waters of Morecambe Bay respectively. In the accompanying sketch these features, as placed by Ptolemy, are indicated by a mark [<>]; in the absence of further information, the coast line is generally regarded as lying straight between them. The relative position

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of Rigodunum is shown by an asterisk. It is near to modern Lancaster. Had the two maps been superposed from a different basis, with the Seteia more centrally off the Wirral, and Belisama exactly in the Ribble estuary, then Rigodunum would have fallen directly over Lancaster, but in this case the

harbour of the Segantii would have landed in Furness. There is a slight general discrepancy; yet the map pictures the extreme case, and the connection is still close.

A possibility that Rigodunum was situated at Lancaster is thus suggested. Since there is no negative evidence apparent, it may be profitable to examine how far each satisfies the conditions of the other.

Etymology is in this instance of distinct assistance the name, says Professor Rhys, is derived from two Celtic ones, rix (rigos) a king, and dunon, a town or fortress. We must therefore seek in the representative of Rigodunum for the indications of

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