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some regiments of Foot all the men appear to have worn sashes in Charles's reign. There is nothing new under the sun, and the fashion introduced but a few years ago, of wearing the sash over the shoulder, was usual also in the beginning of the seventeenth century : during the latter half of the century, however, the custom was generally to wear it round the waist. The sash was commonly tied slightly in front of the left side ; although would-be dandies would often have the tassels quite in front, and the sash loosely knotted in a very ndglige style."

Clifford Walton's illustrations may be seen in the Royal United Service Institution. Bound with them are the 'Authorities and Notes' from which the details were drawn.

WILLIAM or WYKEHAM (10 th S. i. 222, 257). If he was the first of his family, how about those who from time to time have claimed to be of founder's kin? In the Herald and Genealogist for May, 1868, there is an article by Mr. C. Wykeham Martin, the vice-presi- dent of the Society of Antiquaries, entitled ' Who was William of Wykeham ? ' a supple- ment to one in the Topographer and Genea- logist^ vol. iii. Mr. Wykeham Martin states therein that he summed up " his argument by saying that William of Wyke- ham was known at least as early as his fifty-third year (1376) to the family of (Wykeham) Swalcliffe ; that he held personal intercourse with them, pur- chased the family living of Swalcliffe, and what had been a portion of the family property; that he settled his heir on this property, within three miles of Swalcliffe ; that one of the W 7 ykehams of Swalcliffe is recorded as founder's kin before his death, and a second about thirty-four years afterwards." Further :

"I have shown that the bishop had numerous relations of the same name with himself, one of whom at least bore the same coat of arms. I have shown that there were collaterals from whom he might have descended."

R, J. FYNMORE.

SAMUEL SHELLEY _ (10 th _S. i. 227). This eminent miniature painter died at his house in George Street, Hanover Square, 22 December, 1808. I would recommend the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxviii. pp. 1134, 1186, for any further information which may be required.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

THE COPE (9 th S. x. 285, 374, 495 ; xi. 93, 172, 335 ; 10 th S. i. 174). It may be not irre levant to these notes to mention that ] remember a visit to Mr. Hawker, the well known vicar of Morwenstow, in June, 1845 He showed me a chest in his study, in which was a new chasuble, and (I think) a colourec stole to match. I said, "Do you wear these

ihings 1 ?" He answered, "Not yet; but, )lease God, I shall do so on St. John's Day." ! do not know whether he did wear them ; )ut, if he did, I suppose it was the earliest eturn (or one of the earliest) to the rubrical irder on that behalf. ALDENHAM.

FIRST STEAM RAILWAY TRAIN (10 th S. i.

225). The high-pressure engine made by 1. Trevithick is now in the South Ken- ington Museum, among the collection of

machinery and inventions. There is an illus- ration exhibiting a side and an end view of ["revithick and Vivian's first locomotive in he ' History of the Steam Engine from the Second Century before the Christian Era to-

,he Time of the Great Exhibition,' published

by John Cassell, 335, Strand, in 1852 (p. 122).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

THE LAST OF THE WAR Bow (10 th S. i.

225). A far more striking instance of the ecent use of the war bow than that quoted jy MR. COCKLE is to be found recorded in

4 th S. viii. 485, and by one who is happily still iving, and able even to be present at the Tubilee dinner, on 19 March, of the London

Association of Correctors of the Press ; for Sir illiam Howard Russell, the doyen of special sorrespondents, wrote in 1871 : " It is quite certain that when the allies made a

reconnaissance of the Valley of Barder in the spring

of 1855, there were among the Russian irregulars

some horsemen armed with bows and arrows, who ised them without effect. I saw bows and arrows

which had been found in the Cossack camp, and

were brought back by our men."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

TlDESWELL AND TlDESLOW (9 th S. xii. 341 r

517 ; 10 th S. i. 52, 91, 190, 228). I am not sure bhat I understand PROF. SKEAT aright at the last reference. "The addition of a letter, excepting, of course, d after u, and similar well-known insertions due to phonetic causey is quite another matter " ; and he asks if it were possible to produce half a dozen ex- amples of modern place-names that represent real additions. There are plenty of instances of such additions made, either to indicate a mistaken meaning or a false analogy. The s in Carlisle is certainly not organic ; it has been inserted, I suppose, from false analogy with "isle," just as it found its way into "island." How did the p get into Hamp- stead ; the d into Tinwald in Dumfriesshire and the Isle of Man, and not into Ding wall and the Shetland Tingwall ; the second w into Wigtown in Scotland, which is pro- nounced exactly the same as Wigton in Cumberland 1 None of these redundant letters are sounded in local pronunciation,