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 Devon Notes and Queries, 95 made a C.B. I have the diary that he kept thsoughout the two campaigns, which is very interesting. I have also his Waterloo medal and his Peninsular medal with twelve clasps (a very unusual number) for Rolliz, Vimiera, Busaco, Orontes, D'Onoz, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Victoria, Pyrenees, Novelle Nive, and Toulouse. He died about 1857. William Elford, who was a F.R.S. and a great authority on ornithology and many scientific subjects, died many years before, and at George's death the Leach family, as far as Devonshire goes, came to an end, and as £ar as I know I am their only representative. I have remarkably good portraits of his father and mother by Northcote. Exmautk. H. C. Adams. [If Col. Adams will refer to my first note again (or better still to Vivian^s Visitations) he will find his queries clearly answered with no discrepancies. Col. Adams traces his Leach pedigree from John the brother of Simon the blacksmith, and it is Simon who is the progenitor of the Cadeleigh family, not John. Hence Col. Adams finds no Leach knights (there were no Leach baronets in either line) in John's pedigree, for these knights were all descendants of Simon and collateral to John. The facts in connection with their knighthoods are as I give them. The blacksmith came to be a memt)er of the Leach family by being bom the brother of John, and the blacksmith's son, the first Sir Simon, erected the tomb as (in his will) he says he did. This Sir Simon died in 1637. It was his great-grandson, the second Sir Simon, who died in 1708. I think CoL Adams will find on enquiry that there are others living who trace their descent from the original John Leach of Crediton.] — Arthur Fisher. 68. Forkiston, Forston, Lukbham (II, p. 25, par. 23). — Lukeham alias Luccombe, so far as I am aware, is the name of a family which gave its name to Stockleigh Luccombe in Cheriton Fitzpaine. There is a parish of the name of Luccombe in Somersetshire. Can Forston be an alias for Forsham which is in the parish of Drewsteignton, or for Fursden which is in the parish of Cadbury, or for La Furze which is in the parish of Shobrook ? There are many places called Forkis, usually written Forches, for instance in Sandford. Without further par- ticulars it is dii&cult to hazard a conjecture, but the spelling of all these words— if Forches, Fursden and Luc- combe in Somerset are intended — suggests an up-country and not a West-country scribe. The nature of the document in which they occur and the ratifications of the superior lords would probably settle the localities. Oswald J. Reichel.