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convicted at Dublin of high treason, an sentenced to be " hanged, drawn, an quartered," though the sentence was o course not carried out. I believe this wa the last occasion on which this phraseology provided by the Act of 1814, was utilized But the last sentence for high treason wa surely that passed on " Col." Lynch, wh was sentenced to death in January, 1903 but released after twelve months' imprison ment. WILLOTJGHBY MAYCOCK.

In reply to that part of K. P. D. E.'s query which refers to the " forty-five,' I may say that some of the condemned men were executed at Penrith and some a Brampton, as well as those at York, Carlisle and near London. In G. G. Mounsey's ' Carlisle in 1745 ' are lists of the persons executed in Cumberland ; but the lists in The Gentleman's Magazine of the time are not in all points reconcilable with those given by Mr. Mounsey. U. V. W.

Allow me to refer K. P. D. E. to the Owen Pike, 2 vols., 1876, where may be found many records of capital punishment and the mode of its infliction in its old savage form.
 * History of Crime in England,' by Luk

Ainsworth commences ' Guy Fawkes with an account of the execution of two seminary priests in the olden form at Man- chester, temp. 1604, and concludes with a description of the execution of Fawkes in Old Palace Yard, with an illustration by Cruikshank. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

THE BASTINADO AS AN ENGLISH MILITARY PUNISHMENT (10 S. x. 246). " Bastinade -or bastinado " is described in old Barclay's dictionary as

" the act of beating with a stick or cudgel ; the punishment inflicted by the Turks, of beating the soles of a person's feet with a heavy piece of wood, having a large knob or round head at the end."

I do not believe the punishment was ever inflicted on the soles of a soldier's feet out- side the dominions of the Sultan. As a small boy I often witnessed the administration of " well-counted twenty-five " strokes in the Austrian army, each time in the courtyard of the inn where we happened to be staying. 'The victim was lying full length on a low- bench, and the executioner was a corporal, armed with a pliable hazel stick. An old Austrian army pensioner told me that in his days, in the fifties, the hazel stick was regularly worn by the corporal as a sign of his -office and part of his accoutrements, and

that on march a big drum was used as a substitute for a bench. The maximum per- missible number of strokes was seventy-five, but that was always for some very grave offence ; twenty-five could be had for next to nothing, as Yellowblush would have said.

L. L. K.

THE NORRISES OF MILVERTON (10 S. x. 225, 316). It may interest COL. PARRY to have these details.

My ancestor John Norris, of Wincle or Winkley in Devon, married Agnes Gal- hampton, and had, with others, two sons, John and William. John married Petronell Paslew. William, always styled in the records of my family " of Milverton," married 19 May, 1550, Elizabeth Baker.

On 23 Feb., 1609, the register of the parish of Winkley (or " Wincle " or " Winck- leigh ") shows that " Izot Noris sepulta erat." The Christian name is curious, and very unusual. Who was she ? A daughter of William Norris and Elizabeth Baker ? Probably so, and christened with a name peculiar to the Bakers, for I never met with it in the Norris family.

Hugh, who married Esther Watson, and was the great-great-great-grandson of John Norris (father of William of Milverton), had two sons : Robert, who married Eliza- beth Coster, and from whom the Norrises of Rosecraddock descend ; and Henry, who married Elizabeth Brookes, from whom I descend. This Henry's grandfather Hugh (b. 1611) purchased an estate at Hackney, Middlesex, part of Lord Strafford's forfeited estate on his execution ; this now belongs to me. My grandfather, the Rev. H. Handley Norris, was Rector of South Hackney, and the church there.

As a boy I distinctly remember seeing

very old hatchment of Lord Strafford's, which was consigned to the hayloft over he stables at my grandfather's house !

The coat of arms and crest which I bear ,vas granted to Hugh Norris in 1573 ; see ecords of the College of Heralds.

H. C. NORRIS, Colonel, M.V.O. Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W.

ADDISON'S MATERNAL ANCESTRY (10 S. x. 201, 292). There are a number of pages n Henry Ecroyd Smith's ' Annals of Smith f Cantley, Balby, and Doncaster ' devoted o the Gulston family. His statements re, however, to be accepted with some aution, particularly in the earlier part, hough much of his matter may be useful

attempting to make a detailed pedigree