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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10 s. XL FEB. 6, 1009. 4. For New Style add 11 days from 1700 to 1799; 12 days from 1800 to 1899; 13 days from 1900 to 1999.

Now I have worked out a number of dates by this formula, and compared them with the table in Socin's 'Arabic Grammar.' The result in most cases is a difference of two days. Can any one explain the cause of error?

—Can any of your correspondents who are interested in place-names tell me the origin or meaning of Corsley (spelt, I am told, Corslie in Domesday Book), the name of a parish in Wiltshire? B. D.

—Visitors to St. Michael's Church, Winterbourne, in Gloucestershire, are informed that Hugo de Sturden (he was Hickonstern, the hero of Gloucestershire legend) died all but excommunicated, receiving the Communion only at the point of death, and that he was for his sins buried half within and half without that church. Are there similar instances recorded?

, was printed in America for private circulation, in the early part of last century. Can any correspondent of 'N. & Q.' tell me where I can see a copy of this book? I am told that it contains an account of Westminster School written by General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; but it is possible that the title of the book is not absolutely accurate G. F. R. B.

of Clare Coll., Camb., graduated M.A. in 1792. Particulars of his career, and the date of his death, are desired.

matriculated at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 15 Oct., 1816, aged eighteen. I should be glad to obtain information concerning his career and the date of his death.

, married first Elizabeth Louches, and secondly Elizabeth Mortimer, widow of "Hotspur" (who died 1403). He died 1421, leaving a daughter Alice, wife of Sir Leonard Hastings and a son Richard, who had three children Margaret (born 1397), Eleanor (born 1403) and Hugh (born 1414). Were Alice and Richard of the whole or only half blood? If the latter, which wife was mother of which? Cokayne, Clarenceux King-of-Arms, one of the best authorities, says Richard was son of the first wife. The late Ambrose Truswell Turner, a genealogist of repute, was of opinion that Alice was daughter of the second wife; and the present Lord Camoys supports this view, on what grounds I know not. Can any readers of 'N. & Q.' throw light on this point?

.—I should be glad of information as to the motto of the family of Sir Thomas Warner, first English Governor (appointed by Charles I.) of Antigua, West Indies. My grandfather, Dr. George Robertson Baillie (H.M. Inspector of Hospitals), married in St. Vincent Jane Ann Warner, the heiress of a planter and slaveowner, Charles John Warner.

My uncle Dr. George Baillie, Government surgeon, lived with his uncle Steadman Warner, who was magistrate of Bequia, St. Vincent.

I should like to know whether this family of Warner was connected with that of Sir Thomas Warner. Where can I get a full pedigree of the family?

—Is anything known of the history of this extensive structure? Locally it is regarded as something of an imposture, and is spoken of as a shooting-box built on a mediæval pattern. It appears to have been built in a somewhat flimsy manner. A writer in the local paper refers to Cromwell as its builder. Its situation is so commanding and picturesque that it may well stand on the site of an earlier castle.

—Can any one tell me, with something like certainty, who is the author of the Sunday hymn or prayer of two verses, commencing as above? I believe it is attributed to the late Dr. Newton, a Wesleyan minister of about fifty years ago; but my father always maintained it was written by my grandfather, with whom Dr. Newton was on terms of intimacy.

His story is that he one Sunday morning repeated the verses at family prayers, and continued to do so every Sunday afterwards. He was a man of great reticence, and when asked as to the authorship declined to answer. Years afterwards it was (with, of course, an "improvement" in the first line)