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(there is no date on its title-page), price 2Z. 12s. Qd. This bulky volume contains many illustrations. At p. 64 is a facsimile of the 'Muster Roll of the Waterloo Men, 2nd (or R.N.B.) Regiment of Dragoons. Rouen, llth September, 1815.' It includes the names of nine officers and eighty-four non-commissioned officers and men. At p. 69 is a facsimile of fifteen ' Signatures of Officers present of the 2nd (or R.N.B.) Regiment of Dragoons entitled to share of Prize Money granted for the Waterloo Campaign. Canterbury, 29 May, 1817.' At p. 155 begins an alphabetical list of officers of the regiment, past and present, with personal notes.

In the Army List dated " War-Office, 10th March, 18l7," of the thirty-five officers then in the regiment, twenty-one have the capital letter W prefixed to their names.

W. S.

A list of officers present -at the engagements on 16, 17, and 18 June, 1815, is given in the appendix of Siborne's ' Waterloo Campaign,' new edition, Constable, 1904. A. L. O.

HORSEFLESH (10 S. x. 245). The objec- tion of the Church to the eating of horseflesh was of course due to the fact that the custom was connected with paganism. Thus Menzel, .speaking of the Blutmdnner, or German priests, says :

" As they generally sacrificed and ate horses, the eating of horseflesh became a mark of distinction between heathen and Christians. A Christian king was forced by the pagan Swedes to eat horseflesh in
 * sign of apostasy."' Hist, of Germany,' i. 50.

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Sibson Rectory, Atherstone.

SHOREDITCH FAMILY (10 S. x. 369).
 * Some information may be found in J.

Timbs's ' Curiosities of London,' chapter on
 * Shoreditch. I write from memory.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

ANCASTER (10 S. viii. 130). Ancaster .stone is one of the best known in England. It is of a warm cream colour, readily worked, ^and very durable. The actual quarries .are situated in the neighbouring parish of Wilsford. Although this material has been continuously used ever since the time of the Normans, the supply is apparently inexhaustible. In mediaeval days as at present it was largely used for ecclesiastical purposes, more especially in the Midlands -and the Fen Country. It will probably be found mentioned in numerous Fabric Rolls

in those districts. The late Lord Grim- thorpe selected it as, in his opinion, the best stone obtainable, for his extensive, though not always judicious work at St. Alban's Abbey. Ancaster itself stands upon the line of the old Roman Ermine Street, and is said by some to have been originally known as Causennse.

Ancaster formerly gave the title of Duke to the Bertie family. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

Ancaster, which occupies the site of a Roman station on Ermine Street, and which Horsley conjectured to have been the Roman Causennse, is stated to occur in the ' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ' as " Andred's- cestre," which Flavell Edmunds takes to be the camp or fortified town of Andred or Andrew. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

MITRED ABBOTS (10 S. x. 410). The following list will give the principal abbeys in England so dignified. MRS. COPE will find a list of abbots in Browne Willis's ' History of the Mitred Abbies,' &c. (1718- 1719). Abingdon. Bardney (Lines). Battle. Canterbury. Cirencester. Colchester. Crowland. Evesham. Glastonbury. Gloucester.

Hyde (near Winchester). Malmesbury. (?) Merton (Surrey). Middleton (Glos.)

Reading.

St. Alban's.

St. Benet's-in-Holme

(Norfolk).

St. Edmund's Bury. St. John's of Jerusalem. Selby.

Shrewsbury. Tavistock. Tewkesbury. Thorney (Cambs). Waltham. Westminster. Winchcomb (Glos.). York (St. Mary's).

R. B.

Peterborough. Ramsey (Hunts).

Upton.

SAMUEL FOOTE, COMEDIAN (10 S. x. 109). I sent the inquiry at this reference to the editor of the " Notes and Queries " column of The Cornish Telegraph, in which it duly appeared. The following reply from Mr. Thomas Foote of Trenwheal, Godolphin, was published in the issue of 12 November, and is worth reprinting in ' N. & Q.' :

" As I have in my possession the pedigree of

the Foote family from the year 1550 (earlier genea- logy not preserved, and relationships until about 1665 conjectured only), together with the Foote family coat of arms and its motto (Spes Una Deus), I thought it might be of interest to some of your readers.

" In the first place I may say that there is no doubt the Rev. Dr. Chafy's surmise is right, that the Truro and Veryan family are the same to which the Rev. Francis Hendra [sic] Foote belongs.