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"If you mend what's on your back, You shall never trouble lack."

them). Will they now hear our cries ?-(answers from the crowd of No, no.) Have they not been supplicated in the language of men-in the language of forbearance and patient In other parts of England, indeed, it is said that if you suffering ?-(Yes, yes.) The Israelites were in a state of mend anything you have on, some one is, or will be, talking bondage for four hundred years; but we have been double against you. that time. Ever since the Norman Conquest kings and lords have been deluding you, they have in many instances converted you to their own wicked purposes; but this must last no longer." At this moment the inflammable younger Mr. Watson rose from the waggon, having been standing im mediately behind the elder Mr. Watson, and took his place.

(To be continued.)

WARWICKSHIRE BYEWAYS.

THE antiquities of Kenilworth and Stratford-upon-Avon have been worn threadbare; but the side of the country bordering on Staffordshire is less frequently visited, and yet contains much to interest. Magstock, with its noble monastic ruins, amidst which the present parsonage is built; Shustock, with its associations with the great antiquary, Dugdale; Middleton, with its ancient church, dating back to the reign of King John, in which edifice Ray the naturalist, who lived for some time with the Willoughbys of Middleton, was married; Dosthill and Bonehill, recalling by their names "The Hill of Dust," and "The Hill of Bones," the site of some great battle-field;* Sutton Coldfield, with its park, once a chase belonging to the Earls of Warwick, now a pleasure place for the inhabitants of Birmingham; and Tamworth, half in Warwickshire, half in Staffordshire, with its relics of the Marmions, and its beautiful church, dedicated to St. Edith, are all full of interest to the lover of antiquities. It is a region, too, full of folk-lore, and in which obsolete words and old proverbs, elsewhere forgotten, are retained. There is a weather proverb current at Dosthill

"A flood in March is a flood in May,
And a flood among the cocks of hay."

Such old English words as gleeds, for ashes or embers, and Terce in the sense of strong and vigorous, are still made use >f in common talk. A word for a small wood or coppice is pinney, perhaps from spines, in the sense of thorns. The lower star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum) is here called "good-night," from the early closing of its petals. A belief olds here that bees never prosper if they first rest when warming, upon dead wood; if they are to thrive, they must rst light upon a living tree or plant. In Shakespeare's ounty, the name Shakespeare is still not an unusual one: here is another not unlike it in signification-"Shakeshaft." I want Mrs. Shak's wench," was said by a little boy who ime in search of Mrs. Shakeshaft's daughter at the village

chool.

Among other pieces of Warwickshire folk-lore, we may uote the sayings told us by a native of Stratford-on-Avon, amely, that to find a mouse on the bed-curtain, or in any ay near to you, bodes death or some misfortune in the mily, and that apples do not ripen till christened by St. within's rain. A native of Atherstone also told us of a rious superstition current in that neighbourhood. It is the effect that for a woman to mend any article of dress e has on brings ill-luck, as expressed in the following >uplet :

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In Middleton Church, among the monuments of the Willoughbys, Earls of Middleton, are preserved, a helmet, a coat of mail, and a rusty weapon, said to be those of a fugitive cavalier, found drowned in the pool of Middleton Hall, after the Battle of Worcester.

In Hopwas Wood, between Middleton and Lichfield, there is a tradition of Henry VII. having lost his way the night before the Battle of Bosworth,

Middleton Church, which is now greatly improved, owing to the fine red-grey arches of the interior being cleared of the whitewash of centuries of churchwardendom, and to the addition of two stained glass windows by Hardman of Birmingham, contains another curious relic of the past-the stiff painted wooden figures of two men, in the costume of Queen Anne's time; tradition terms these figures those of the brothers White, whom it identifies with the generous bequeathers of the money for the Whitsuntide loaves. The story goes that these men, happening to travel through Middleton on Whit Monday, heard a child crying for bread, and declared that never again should any child in that parish lack bread on a Whit Monday, and accordingly they left a sum of money to enable every child in the parish to have a loaf given him or her, yearly, on that anniversary.

Between Middleton Church and Hall is a field, known, from time immemorial, as "The Lady Field." Popular belief connects the apparition of a lady as accounting for the name; but there can be little doubt of its being the corruption of "Our Lady Field." Probably some chapel or shrine to the Virgin once existed there.

Warwick cannot be termed "off the beaten track," but it is a place of inexhaustible interest. Independently of the castle, said to be the most interesting specimen of a feudal castle still existing in England, the church of St. Mary, especially that portion of it known as the "Beauchamp Chapel," is almost worth a journey from London to see. contains one of the most interesting tombs in England, namely, The chapel is a very gem, rich in elaborate fan-tracery, and that of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth's most able and accomplished courtier, and the ambitious aspirant to her hand. The recumbent figure of Leicester realizes the description of his person given by Sir Walter Scott, in "Kenilworth.” "The face has, indeed, no defect, save the princely one of too high a forehead." Leicester's last wife, Lettice Knollys, is also buried in the Beauchamp Chapel. the ambitious, and, it is generally thought, unscrupulous, It is said that she amply avenged Amy Robsart by poisoning in the most laudatory strain even that that age could produce. her husband; but the epitaph over the Countess is couched One seems to wonder, when reading it, whether the author had the least idea what rumours were afloat respecting the object of his panegyric.

Close by is a little monument to the memory of the Countess's child, who was poisoned by its nurse. Poisoning the close intercourse with Italy, in which country it was at seems to have been a prevalent crime then, perhaps owing to that time so fearfully frequent.

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A most charming excursion from Warwick is Guy's Cliff, On an eminence not far from the the seat of Lady Percy. entrance to Guy's Cliff grounds, a monument has been raised commemorate the tragic fate of Piers Gaveston, Edward II.'s favourite, who was beheaded here, after being One could tracked to his hiding-place by bloodhounds. scarcely believe in the truth of such mediæval atrocities when driving through those pleasant lanes on a June morning, the hay-makers just beginning their fragrant work. The Guy, after whom Guy's Cliff is named, is the famous Earl of Warwick, who finished his varied career as a hermit in these

woods.

a friend :

We give his legendary history, procured for us by

"Guy, Earl of Warwick, was one of the most perfect knights of Christendom. His lady-love, the fair Felice, sent him on many toilsome and perilous adventures, to make trial of his love. The most noted was his battle with the wild and monstrous Dun Cow, of Dunsmore Heath, which ravaged all the country round, till slain by him after a fierce conflict. At the beautiful church of St. Mary Redcliffe, at Bristol, there is shown, what the legends of the place declare to be, the rib of the Dun Cow. After this proof of his prowess, Guy was married to the fair Felice, and lived for some years in great prosperity; but in the height of his splendour, he resolved to turn his back on all earthly state and riches, and go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He met with many adventures there, and remained abroad, redressing grievances and protecting the weak, till, becoming an old man, he wished to return to England and die in the land of his forefathers. He arrived in the midst of the Danish invasion, and was instantly chosen to fight with the Danish champion, Colbrand, who had called on the English to decide the war by a single combat. The battle took place on Magdalen Hill, near Winchester, the mighty Colbrand was slain, and the Danes immediately retreated. Ethelstane wished to reward the brave Guy, but he answered, My lord, I am a mortal man, and have set the vain world at defiance.' He then went in his pilgrim's garb, and took up his abode in a solitary cave where he lived an hermit's life, only going now and then to receive alms at the gate of his own castle, from his wife, Felice, who since his departure had lived in close retirement and devotion, and gave more in alms than any lady in the country. After some years, finding his end approaching, he sent a gold ring to Felice; she came to him in haste, he died in her arms, and she only survived him fifteen days.'

J. Y.

SHEPHERD RULE IN LOWER EGYPT.

(Continued from p. 92.)

It is evident that Josephus, in recounting, direct from Manetho (v. Apion, book i. sect. 15), the names and reigns of the Egyptian monarchs from Amosis to Amenophis (Menepthah), the successor of Rameses Miamun (Rameses II.), omitted the reign of Sethosis (Seti I.), with his reign of fiftynine years and some few odd months, because he states immediately afterwards (sect. 16) that the sum of the reigns which he had given amounted to 393 years, whereas, without this reign of Sethosis, the total of the several reigns given by him is only 333 years and a few months, the fifty-nine years in question being exactly the sum that is wanting to make up his own estimate of the interval. He then proceeds (v. Apion, book i. sect. 15 and 26,) to supplement this omission by confounding Sethosis (Seti II.) the successor of Amenophis (Menepthah) with the king whose name and reign he had already neglected to supply in its proper sequence, and gives to this Sethosis not only the fifty-nine years' reign, but also attributes to him all the actions of his ancestor. He then brings in, as his successor, Rameses (Rameses II.) | again with the same reign of sixty-six years, and, not content with this further misrepresentation, introduces Amenophis (Menepthah) anew, and proceeds to coolly inform us that Manetho did not give the number of years Amenophis reigned, because he durst not in consequence of the incredible fables he had related concerning him; while, on the contrary, it is evident that Manetho had already not only given the duration of his reign, but that Josephus had likewise quoted it in its correct order of succession (sect. 15) as ninteen years and six months.

That Manetho, in his work, indicated a difference between

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the name of this king, whom Josephus, in dealing with the extracts relating to the Exodus, invariably styles Amenophis, and the other monarchs who bore that name, may reasonably be surmised from the version which Africanus (quoting from the Epitomizer) gives of the name, when inserting it in its proper place in the nineteenth dynasty, viz :-Ammenepthes, probably a Greek rendering of the Egyptian Menepthah.

Josephus then goes on to say that the interval of time from the expulsion of the Hyksos by Tethmosis to the introduction of this fictitious King Amenophis by Manetho was 518 years, a sum which he himself, it is apparent, made up in the following manner :

Amount of reigns from Tethmosis (Amosis)
to Amenophis (Menepthah), including
fifty-nine years and odd months of
Sethosis (Seti I.) omitted from list
Reign of Sethosis (Seti I.) introduced
again in lieu of that of Sethosis
(Seti II.).

Reign of Rameses (Rameses II.) repeated

393 years

59

66

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Total 518 years

It is palpable, therefore, that Josephus had not the shadow of a reason for insinuating that the Amenophis in question was a fictitious king of Manetho's own creation, and it is manifest that he has grossly misrepresented the statements of the Egyptian writer by giving the reigns of Seti L, Rameses ÏÏ., and Menepthah twice over.

The only excuse I can offer for him is that, probably in his zeal for the identification of the Jews with the Hykes, he was tempted to disparage what he might have seen, by the exercise of a little discrimination, was the authentic Egyptian version of the Exodus of his countrymen under Menepthah, the son of the great Rameses; and hence the pointed manner in which he impugns the veracity of Manetho's account.

Josephus also, it will be observed, persists all along calling Amosis, the chief of the eighteenth dynasty, Tethmosis, and placing the departure of the Shepherds in Es reign, whereas Amosis only commenced the Shepherd war, the Hyksos, it is true, having been eventually driven out by a Tethmosis; but he, as Josephus himself tells us else where, quoting from Manetho, was the son (sic) of ΜΙΣΦΡΑΓΜΟΥΘΩΣΙΣ (not ΑΛΙΣΦΡΑΓΜΟΥΘΩΣΙΣ, as it er neously stands in the text now), a name Josephus gives s his subsequent complete list of the kings of the eighteenth dynasty as ME PAMOTenziz, long after the time of Amosis It is hard, therefore, to understand how Josephus cold have made such a mistake, unless, indeed, he here agai wilfully misrepresented Manetho, in order to still further raise the antiquity of his nation by placing their presume departure as the Hyksos some 150 years before even the latter were expelled, thus throwing a still greater amount of reproof on the damaging assertions of the malicious Apion. This innate desire on the part of the Jewish author may also have been his chief inducement for repeating the reigns of Seti I., Rameses II., and Menepthah, since, by so doing, he obtained considerably more than another century of time is excess of the period which elapsed, according to Manetha, between the departure of the Hyksos and Danaus' flight to Argos, which period forms the most important feature i his argument against the Alexandrian philosopher. B at the same time, it is, of course, just possible that ha inaccuracy in the latter instance simply arose from shee carelessness on his part in mistaking Seti II. for Seti L and then unsuspectingly following up his error, when a moment's careful consideration must have apprised him o his mistake. Anyhow, he relates of the Sethosis, whom places after Amenophis (Menepthah), that he was also called Ægyptus, and reigned at first conjointly with his brothe Rameses, but soon after killed him, and then appointes another of his brethren, Armais (or as he has it in anothe

place Hermens), to be his viceroy, while he departed on an
expedition of foreign conquest. This Armais, he says, was
known to the Greeks as Danaus, and having during his
brother's absence abused the confidence reposed in him
was, on the return of Sethosis, driven out of Egypt and fled
to Argos.
Now, it is evident, that this relation in Manetho's work
really applied to the Sethosis, whom Josephus has omitted
before Rameses Miamun, because immediately preceding
that king's name in his list, as it stands at present, are the
very names, Armais for four years and one month, and
Rameses for only one year and four months, names which
would, of course, come before that of Sethosis (Seti I.),
when the latter is inserted in its proper place, a reinstation
which both the testimony of Manetho and the records of
the monuments unhesitatingly requires.

become subjected to a repetition of the shepherd occupation of Lower Egypt. That such an event was very nearly consum mated, we gather from Manetho. His statements (Josephus v. Apion, Book i, sec. 26) lead us to infer that the Jews, having found a talented agitator and leader in Moses, openly revolted from under the weight of the persecutions heaped upon them by the Egyptians, and that the magnitude of the insurrection was such as to even endanger the safety of the empire. He adds that Moses was originally a priest of Heliopolis, and had changed his name from that of Osarsiph; and, indeed, there is nothing very improbable in Moses having ultimately chosen the priestly office as a profession, which circumstance would not only account to a great extent for his having been "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," as stated in The Acts (chap. vii. 22), but it would likewise throw a light upon the marvellous manner in which he built up a religious code, and social constitution for the then but crude Jewish nation.

Queries.

THETA.

It is obvious, too, that, after all, there is a latent meaning in Eusebuis's reign of fifty-five years, for this king, Sethosis, whom he, probably following the lead of Josephus and Africanus, places after Menepthah, because it would appear from Manetho that the single year of Rameses and the four years of Armais are to be included in the fifty-nine years' reign of Sethosis, although detailed separately by Josephus; and this would, of necessity, give Sethosis a sole reign of only fifty-four years and some odd months, or fiftyfive years, in round numbers, as Eusebuis has it in his version of the lists. It is worthy of note that Josephus seems never to have imagined for a moment (possibly he had no desire to do so) that any of the reigns he was recapitulating from Manetho could be other than successive, and his, perhaps intentional, inaccuracy in this particular is | I am informed, on very good authority, Sir Bernard was a clearly manifested in the instance cited.

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That the shepherds who left Egypt under ". Amenophis' (Menepthah) were the Jews, is supported by several very important facts. In the first place, in describing their migration, Manetho mentions the identical name Moses, as that of their leader (Josephus v. Apion, book i. sect. 26). Again, the interval which he gives between the first and second expulsion of shepherds, is, as we have already seen, 251 years. Now the Jews, we know, must have been in Egypt about 200 years, because, at any rational rate of increase, that sum of years, at least, must have elapsed before they could have so far multiplied in numbers as to arouse the suspicions of the powerful and victorious ruler Rameses II., during the latter years of whose reign there is every probability for supposing that the persecution of the Jews in Egypt commenced. Further, it is apparent that Jacob and his family settled in Goshen subsequently to, although possibly not very long after, the departure of the shepherds, because we gather from a stray remark in the book of Genesis (chap. xlvi. 31-34) that the circumstances of the Hyksos barbarities were, during the government of Joseph, still so fresh in the memory of the Egyptians, that they cherished a bitter and excusable hatred against all who followed the calling of a shepherd. The spot, too, allotted by Pharaoh as the residence of the patriarch was evidently a portion of the territory originally occupied by the shepherds, and which had probably lain waste since their departure.

GORDON AND FRENCH FAMILIES: GORDON RIOTS.As Mr. Walter Thornbury appears to be treating the "London Riots" in a most exhaustive manner, he may perhaps be able to inform me if, in his researches into the History of the Gordon Riots, he has ever discovered any allusions to a Sir Bernard Gordon, of Aboyne, of the House of Gordon, Duke of Gordon, Earl of Aboyne, &c. ?

participator with his relative Lord George Gordon in the "No Popery" Riots, and that in consequence his property and title were confiscated. He left an only son, Bernard Gordon, who, "on obtaining his majority, petitioned the Crown for a restoration of his rights, which, after months of trial, he succeeded in obtaining. He sailed for the West Indies for the purpose of purchasing an estate in Barbadoes, when he unhappily broke a blood vessel on the passage and died. It was his intention to have constituted his nephew, Sebastian Gordon French, Ensign of the 5th Foot, his heir. His title became extinct, it only being on the male side." It is not known whether Sir Bernard Gordon was knighted on some special occasion, or inherited the title; but, considering the comparative uncertainty attending the succession of Baronetcies, even at the present day, it is not impossible he may have had some good reason for assuming the prefix to his name. This, however, is to be regarded simply as a suggestion for want of positive evidence.

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Sir Bernard Gordon had, beside his son Bernard, four daughters, and eventually co-heiresses-1. Mrs. Ann Shiel, of the Grange, Roehampton, and 40, Clarges Street, Piccadilly; 2. Mary Gordon, twice married, first Capt. Forbes, killed in St. Vincent's Island, West Indies, and secondly, to Captain John Barrett, commander of the 74-gun frigate "Minotaur," and who was lost at sea, with 359 others, when that vessel was wrecked, Dec. 22, 1810, on the Haak Sands at the mouth of the Texel-Capt. Barrett was on his return to England to be promoted an admiral when this event took place; 3. Elizabeth Gordon, ob. t. 49, at St. Vincent's, and the wife of Lieut.-Col. "Sebastian French, of St. Vincent's Island, my great-grandfather; and 4. Harriette Gordon, died unmarried, having been engaged to Capt. Johnson, an officer in the army, who was killed in a duel.

Again, there is the significant statement (Exod. i. 11) that the Jews built Rameses for Pharaoh, one of the kings of that new House, be it observed, "who knew not Joseph' (Exod. i. 8); and, bearing in mind that Seti I., the first king of the Epitomizer's nineteenth dynasty, and the founder of the House of Rameses, which succeeded to the distinguished family of the Thothmes and Amenophs, just answers to this notification of a change in the Egyptian succession, it appears almost certain that the Pharaoh referred to in the above quotation was none other than Rameses II., and the city constructed by the Jews so named in honour of him. Rameses II. would seem, therefore, to have been the chief author of the persecution of the Jews, a course which he was no doubt constrained to adopt lest in time the country might

Many cadets of more or less well-known families of the name of Gordon appear to have been settled in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Gordons of Earlstown intermarried in Jamaica with the Scarletts and other good families. A Sir Robert Gordon had estates in the island; as had also the Gordons of Blelack, co. Aberdeen; the Gordons of Auchendolly; the Gordons of Croft Barn, Glenlivet; and the Gordons of Edinburgh

and of Bristol. There was also another family of Gordon intermarried with the Taaffes and Lawrences, &c. (vide Notes and Queries, Aug. 23, 1873). In St. Vincent's there were Gordons intermarried with Frenches and other well-known families; and Chief Justice Brebner married a Gordon of Knokespoch, co. Aberdeen, to which estate his son, Colonel Harry Gordon, eventually succeeded, and thereupon assumed his maternal surname; but his male issue dying out, the succession devolved on the father of the present Sir Percy Gordon (paternally a Grant). Some curious coincidences, if no more, are noticeable amongst these Gordons. Thus the Gordons, connected with St. Vincent's, were allied to the Jacksons, as were also those of Jamaica. Colonel Harry Gordon, son of Chief Justice Brebner, married a New England lady, and died in 1788, leaving three children in infancy. Harry Gordon, of Jamaica, was married to the daughter of a New England gentleman, and also died in 1788, leaving children in infancy. The Jacksons of Jamaica were also connected with the Smarts and Dallases, and through them with Lord Byron, with Sir William Stevenson, Governor of Mauritius, Sir John Arwell, K.C.B., Sir W. Fielden, &c. They claim to have been descended from Archbishop Juxon, which, of course, is a pure fable; they appear to have come from Yorkshire, and bore sheldrakes in their arms.

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few hours before her in Dawson Street, Dublin, Mrs. Margaret
Kelly-" these ladies had been nuns in the Convent of St.
Clare Citadella, at Minorca, where they were married in
1755 to two officers of the 22nd regiment-they passed a
long life in the most intimate friendship with each other,
and esteemed by all who knew them-Mrs. French shared
the fortunes of her partner in his campaigns, and was with
him at the taking of the Havannah in 1762 "—this Colonel
French was, I believe, Colonel Christopher French, of the
family of French of Cloonyquin. Martin French, Esq.
many years commander of a ship in the Antigua trade, died
July 26, 1800. William French, Esq., "lately from the
Island of Jamaica," died at his brother's house in Tower
Street, London, September 14, 1808. Brigadier General
Joseph French, second in command in the expedition
against St. Domingo, died July 26, 1809; "he was taken
in consequence of the extreme fatigue he underwent from
that activity and exertion mentioned by General Carmichae
in his letter in the Gazette concerning the attack on that
place;" he was carried back to Jamaica in hope of re-
covery, but scarcely survived his arrival two days. Nathaniel
Bogle French, junior, Esq., of Dulwich, Surrey, married,
January 5, 1811, Elizabeth, only child of the Hon. William
Jackson, Chief Justice of Jamaica. Mrs. French, daughter
of Thomas Nicholas, Esq., of Antigua, and great-grand-
daughter of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to
King Charles II., died in 1815, aged seventy-five, at Caven-
dish Parsonage. Mrs. French, widow of William French,
Esq., of the Island of Montserrat, died in Devonshire Street,
Portland Place, London, aged seventy-two, in 1818.

My great-great-uncle, George Maynard, of Kingston, Jamaica, died in the West Indies, August 4, 1803, and was buried at Kingston. He was born April 7, 1768, and was a son of George Maynard, of the parish of St. Dionis Back Church, in the city of London, merchant, by his wife Anr. the daughter of John Hirst, Esq., of Ginn House, Rotherham, Yorkshire, whose will, dated April 20, 1730, was proved in the Exchequer Court at York, August 28, 1738. George Maynard, of Kingston, was the maternal uncle of Henry John Hirst, Esq., who married Miss Frances Elist Jackson French, of St. Vincent's, above named.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sebastian French, a distinguished military officer, by his wife, Elizabeth Gordon, left issue four daughters-1. Eleanor French, married to son, Esq.; 2. Marianne French, the wife of Clifton Jackson, Esq., of Somerset House and Canada, Secretary to the Earl of Westmoreland, and a connection of his nephew, Colonel Fane, who married Marianne, eldest daughter of John Mills Jackson, Esq.-Mr. Clifton Jackson had two sons, Edward and Clifton, to whom their great aunt, Mrs. Barrett, left property in St. Vincent's ; 3. Frances Elise Jackson French, married in 1822 at St. George the Martyr, Southwark, to my grandfather Henry John Hirst, Esq., of Clough House, Howarth Grange, Kimberworth Hall, and Gilthwaite Hall, in the West Riding of the county of York; and 4. Indianna French, who was known among the friends of the family as "The Queen of the Carribs," from the circumstance of having been the first British subject born in the Carribean The great difficulty in dealing with many of these West Islands; she died in 1814, shortly after having been pre- Indian families is, that their traditions are so garble! sented at court. Lieutenant-Colonel French had an only besides which the richer branches on returning to England son, Sebastian Gordon French, who was killed in the manner and purchasing estates have, as a rule, mystified their preve narrated in the following account from the British Traveller ous connection with the colonies. I refer chiefly to the of April 19, 1826:-"FATAL DUEL.-Extract of a letter Jamaica families-for instance there are Barretts, Blakes from St. Lucien, West Indies. On the 28th of February, a and Houghtons now in England, who have studiously put duel took place between Ensign French, of the 5th Regi- out of sight" their West Indian kinsfolk. Of these laite ment of Foot, and Ensign Ward, of the 35th-the latter there is not a word in Burke's pedigree of Hewett of T regiment had arrived the day previously to relieve the 5th-mab-Ellis, and yet in Jamaica there are Hewetts, cousins in consequence of a quarrel which had occurred between them. They tossed up for the fire. Ensign Ward fired first, and shot Ensign French through the head; he died immediately."

Like their relatives the Gordons, the Frenches were connected with the West Indies during the whole of the last century. I cite a few instances:-Captain Joseph French, of St. Michael's, Barbadoes, and Treasurer of the Island of Antigua, in his will, dated August 10, 1708, and proved in London, August 8, 1741, mentions his daughter Keturah French, who died in London, February 3, 1775, and was the wife of James Bruce, Esq., member of His Majesty's Council and Chief Judge of the Island of Barbadoes, where he purchased in 1719 from the executors of his uncle, Colonel Cleland, the estate of Bruce Vale, St. Andrew's parish. By this marriage the Frenches are connected with the Earl of Elgin, the Marquis of Ailesbury, and the Earl of Stair. Counsellor French, of Kingston, Jamaica, died there in January, 1759. On June 15, 1792, in the Edgware Road, London, "the lady" of James French, Esq., of St. Vincent's, gave birth to a son and heir. Mrs. French, widow of Colonel French, died in St. Andrew's Street, Dublin, in 1797, and a

theirs-I mean great-grandchildren and grandchildren a the former, who are disowned in the most absurd taste.

The West India local records are, I am told, full of thes surnames; but until they are thoroughly examined, it wo be premature to enter more fully into these genealogica questions. Perhaps in Captain Lawrence-Archer's ford coming work on the old families of these colonies, soc useful clues may yet be found. Meanwhile, any partical of the Gordon, French, and other families mentioned abort. will be received with thanks by

CHARLES SOTHERAN.

BARONY OF COLMOLYN.--I should be glad of inform tion relating to the Barony of Colmolyn, which fell abeyance between the two daughters of Sir Simon Cus Knight, who was summoned to Parliament as Bar Colmolyn 48 Edward III., and was a son of Sir Jo Cusack, Knight, Lord of Gerardstown, by Joan, his w daughter and co-heiress of Sir Simon de Geynville, Bar of Colmolyn in right of his wife, Joan Fitz Leons. One the daughters of Sir Simon Cusack was Johanna, the *** of Sir John Sotheron, Knight, Lord of Mitton, co. Yoss

who granted John de Tetryngton and others lands in Colmolyn and elsewhere, 11 Rich, II., by the following grant from the Close Rolls :

Translation:—""

"Know all men present and to come that we John son of Thomas Sotheron and Johanna my wife daughter and one of the heirs of Simon Cusak Knight have given granted and by these presents have confirmed to John de Tetryngton John Farleton William Bolton and Adam Chapman All our lands and tenements rents services and dues of all our tenants with all the appurtenances of which we are possessed on the day of the confirmation of these presents by right and inheritance belonging to the aforesaid Johanna after the death of the aforesaid Simon her father in all places that is to say in Calton COLMOLYN Dengyn and Bewrepayr and elsewhere in all towns and hamlets in which the aforesaid Simon at any time was seized To have and to hold all the aforesaid lands and tenements rents and services and all the dues aforesaid

with all the appurtenances aforesaid to the aforesaid John de Tetryngton John Farleton William and Adam their heirs and assigns of the chief lords of the fees by the services due and of right accustomed And we the aforesaid John son of Thomas Sotheron and Johanna my wife and our heirs Will warrant and defend to the aforesaid John de Tetryngton John Farleton William and Adam their heirs and assigns against all persons for evermore All the aforesaid our lands and tenements our rents and services and the dues aforesaid with their appurtenances In Testimony whereof we have affixed our seals to this present deed "Witnesses :-Walter de Cusak knight Thomas Flemyng knight Richard Talbot knight Nicholas Leynz Richard Stoke Philip Somer and others

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SPANISH AUTHOR WANTED.-In Cassell's Battles of England I find the following quotation given from some Spanish writer, whose name is not mentioned, but who is said to have written the following description of a detachment of Englishmen brought over to Spain by Lord Scales, in the reign of Edward IV. Speaking of Lord Scales, the writer says, "He brought with him a hundred archers, all dexterous with the long-bow and the cloth-yard arrow ; also two hundred yeomen armed cap-à-pie, who fought with pike and battle-axe, men robust of frame and of prodigious strength. "This cavalier was from the island of England, and brought with him a train of his vassals; men who had been hardened in certain civil wars which had raged in their country. They were a comely race of men, but too fair and fresh for warriors, not having the sunburnt, martial hue of our old Castilian soldiery; they were huge feeders also, and deep carousers, and could not accommodate themselves to the sober diet of our troops, but must fain eat and drink after

the manner of their country.

"They were often noisy and unruly also in their wassail, and their quarter of the camp was prone to be a scene of loud revel and sudden brawl. They were withal of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride; they stood not much upon the punitonor and high punctilio,

and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumacious. Though from a remote and somewhat barbarous island, they yet believed themselves to chieftain, the Lord Scales, beyond the greatest of our be the most perfect men upon earth, and magnified their grandees. With all this, it must be said of them that they and powerful with the battle-axe. In their great pride and were marvellous good men in the field, dexterous archers, self-will they always sought to press in the advance and take the post of danger, trying to outvie our Spanish chivalry. They did not rush forward fiercely, or make a brilliant onset like the Moors; but they went into fight deliberately, and persisted obstinately, and were slow to find out when they liked by our soldiery, who considered them staunch comwere beaten. Withal, they were much esteemed, yet little panions in the field, yet coveted but little fellowship with them in camp."

Vide the Antiquary, Vol. iv., 41, 83, and 96. In a power of attorney, in the Close Rolls, from Thomas Alyngton, of Harbro', to John Sotheron, of Medborn, and Richard Holcote, of Carlton, to deliver in his name, hereditaments and premises to Thomas and John Palmer, the date is expressed-"Datis vigessimo quarto dic mensis Aprilis anno regni regis Henrici sexti post conquestum Angli decimo septimo."

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HEROIC OLD MEN AT THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Alexander Dumas, in one of his novels ("Ange Pitou," Vol. i. p. 313), records that at the taking of the Bastile there were some old men who, "se plaçaient devant les jeunes gens qui appuyaient leurs fusils sur leur épaule, de sorte que la balle des Suisses venait tuer le vieillard impotent, dont le corps faisait un rempart à l'homme valide." Is this fact or fiction? If the former, by what historian is it mentioned ? H. FISHWICK, F.R.Hist. S.

OLD FRENCH LAW.-I find it stated in one of my books that an old French law ordered that any one who cut down a tree should be compelled to plant two. What was the date of this law? How long is it since it ceased to be acted upon; and does it still exist?

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THE FAMILY OF MILTON (Vol. iv. 32, 97).-Were not the arms borne by the poet Milton derived or adapted from those of the ancient family of De Mitton, Lords of Mitton, cos. York and Lancaster, "Per pale, az, et purp., an eagle displayed with two heads, arg. or from the coat armour of Mytton, of Mytton, in the parish of Fitz and Halston, co. Salop, "Per pale, az, and gu., an eagle displayed with two heads, or, within a border engr. of the last? family of De Mitton, co. York, it is believed (vide Whittaker's "Craven," and "Whalley,") the houses of Lanc.; Sotheron, Lord Bayley, co. of Mitton, co, York; and Sotherne, of Fitz, co. Salop, are descended, Arms of Bayley-"Vert, an eagle displayed arg. ;' in all of whose shields the eagle is the principal charge. Sotheron of Darrington, descended from Sotheron of Mitton-"Gules, on a bend indented, between six crosscrosslets argent, three eaglets displayed sable," and crest, "an eagle with two heads displayed, party per pale, argent and gules,” etc., etc. In the grant of these armorial bearings, in 1810, to Admiral Frank Sotheron, it is stated that this family “ had long borne for coat-armour, Gules, on a bend argent, three cagles displayed, and for crest, an eagle displayed sable; " Sotherne of Fitz-" Gules, on a bend argent, three eaglets displayed sable." This shield is described by Sir William Segar, Garter, A.D. 1628, in the grant of Sotherne crest, "an eagle displayed," &c., as Armes," which the family doe beare from theire generous

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