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MACNAB LEGEND. I remember reading some years ago an account of a feud between the MacNabs a branch of the MacAlpines and a neighbouring clan. The chief of the MacNabs had twelve sons, to whom he entered one winter's night, as they were sitting gloomily before the fire, and re- marked obscurely, " Bha'n oidhche an oidhche, na'm bu gillean na gillean " ("The night is the night, if the lads were the lads "). The hint was taken. The brothers slipped one by one from the room. Hours passed. Suddenly they burst in and threw before their father the heads of his enemies. The old chief delightedly exclaimed, " The night was the night, and the lads were the lads." Is this historical ? Where can I find an authentic version, with names and dates ? JAS. PLATT, Jun.

RICHMOND WEBB, son of Richmond Webb of Cork, was elected from Westminster School to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1767, aged eighteen. He appears to have been ad- mitted to Trinity as a pensioner on 17 June, 1767. 1 should be glad to obtain further information concerning him. G. F. R. B.

JAMES CORBRIDGE was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School, in 1748. It appears that he was never admitted to Trinity. Can any corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' give me information about him ? G. F. R. B.

LATON FAMILY OF YORKS. Would MB. FABBEB, who is an authority on Yorkshire families, or some other contributor, kindly say where an authentic pedigree of the Laton family of East Laton, Sexhowe, Bar- ford (or Barfrith), Winton, and Brafferton, may be found ? Sir Thomas Laton, Kt., who was born in 1597, married first, in 1613, Mary Fairfax, clan of Viscount Fair- fax. She died in 1636 and he married secondly Bridget Pudsey, nee Sandford. By his second marriage he had a dau. Bridget, who married in 1671 Thos. Frewen, M.P. for Rye. The Frewen family quarter the Laton arms, apparently, in right of this Bridget, and in the Frewen pedigree she is said to be daughter, and at length sole heiress, of Sir Thos. Laton ; but what be- came of the children of Sir Thomas by his first wife ? In a ' History of Yorks,' by Plantagenet Harrison, two other sons are given to Sir Thomas, viz., Sir Robert, Kt., and Brian. Winton, a small property con- sisting of several farms, once the Latons', and now the Frewens', remains in the latter family ; but East Laton and Brafferton

Hall and the other manors are alienated. At Rudby, where many Latons were bap- tized, married, and buried, the registers seem to be very confused. A. L. F.

44, Greycoat Gardens, Westminster, S.W.

PETER DRELINCOURT, DEAN or ARMAGH. The ' D.N.B.' states that he was born in Paris in 1644, and died in 1722 ; that he was father of Viscountess Primrose ; and that a fine monument by Rysbrach was erected in Armagh Cathedral to his memory by his widow. It does not, however, state whom he married, and I should be glad of the information. CURIOUS.

" RABBITS " FOR LUCK. My two daugh- ters are in the habit of saying " Rabbits " on the first day of each month. The word must be spoken aloud, and be the first word said in the month. It brings luck for that month. Other children, I find, use the same formula. I shall be glad to know if this is a common and old custom, and what is the meaning of the word " rabbits." A. M.

ST. SUNDAY. The mountain near Ulles- water overlooking Grisedale, called St. Sunday's Crag, is known to tourists in the Lake district. There was a chapel in the parish church of Kendal entitled in the name of St. Sonday. Is there any other record of this saint ? The name does not appear in any of the lists at hand. It may be a local corruption. JAMES WILSON.

I)alston Vicarage, Cumberland.

COL. JOHN HEWSON. The writer will be grateful for any information regarding the Cromwellian cavalry officer Col. John Hew- son, mentioned on p. xi of the Introduction to the Bellingham diary recently published. A descendant of his, Peter Hewson, woollen draper, was living with his wife Catherine in London in the middle of the eighteenth century ; and a son of Peter, John Hewson, resided for a time at Westham in Essex,

R. BALL DODSON.

1, Vicarage Gardens, Brighton.

GAYNESFOBD MONUMENT AT CABSHALTON. In the inscription on the Gaynesford tomb in Carshalton Church, of which Lysons ('Environs,' 2nd ed., vol. i. Surrey, p. 95) publishes a full-page plate, Nicholas Gaynes- ford is described as esquire of the body to Edward IV. and Henry VII., and his wife Margaret as gentlewoman to their queens. Leland mentions both when describing the coronation of Elizabeth of York. Nicholas Gaynesford was Sheriff of Surrey, Knight of the Shire, &c. (Surrey Archaeological