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Gordons of Lochinvar and Kenmure. Both Kennyhill and Whitehill are now absorbed in the Barony Parish, Glasgow. The former property was sold early in the nineteenth century by Nathaniel Gordon's only son John Gordon. Laura Turton is said to have been of a Staffordshire family, but may have been of some other branch. I have her portrait in an eighteenth-century dress. Are there any Turton pedigrees ?

(Mrs.) E. M. FTJLLARTON. Dane Cottage, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts.

ROMAN LEGIONS : THEIR BADGES. Can any of your readers kindly say what the respective badges of the Sixth and Ninth Legions, or of the cohorts of those legions, were, and where pictures of such badges can be seen ? Authorities will oblige.

LEGIO.

HORNCASTLE FAMILY. Can any one give me information about the Horncastle family, resident in Pontefract, Yorkshire ? My great-grandfather, Richard Horncastle, was the possessor of large estates in different parts of Yorkshire ; he lived at Pontefract, and had family pews in Pontefract Church. John Horncastle also had estates in York- shire, and died in 1797. '

Can any one tell me from whom they descend ? The arms are a unicorn and castle with a flag flying.

R. GORDON-SMITH. 2, Manor Road, Brockley, S.E.

CARSTARES OR CARSTAIRS. I should like to know the origin and meaning of the above name. Is it Gaelic, like Carmichael, &c., or is it Scandinavian ?

J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick. '

TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT IN 1701. It is well known that trials for witchcraft in this country continued until the earliest years of the eighteenth century ; but there is a provoking absence of detail concerning some of them. In The London Post of 1-4 Aug., 1701, for instance, it was baldly recorded : " On Thursday [31 July] the Assizes ended at Kingston, and acquitted the Woman, accused of Bewitching a Smith." Is there any further information extant concerning this particular case ?

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

JOHN SEWELL, son of John Sewell of High Cummersdale, near Carlisle, married Wilhelmina, younger daughter of Capt. William Robertson, R.N., of Coldstream, N.B., at Coldstream, but not in church.

Their eldest son, John Sewell, was born there in 1805. Where could I see the register of the marriage ? C. W. RUSTON-HARRISON. Stanwix, Carlisle.

DTJMAS AND SHAKESPEARE. In ' The Son of Porthos ' (Dumas) occurs the following passage :

" As our old Armor-lean song has it, I will prove that danger and I are two lions, born the same hour, but I am the elder and the master."

1. What song is referred to ?

2. Has a similar source been suggested for Shakespeare's parallel passage ( Julius Csesar,' II. ii. 44-7) ?

Danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he : We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible.

EDW. H. AXTON. Rotherham.

RECUSANTS' MARRIAGES. Was it usual for recusants to be married by their own priest, and afterwards according to the Church of England service ? or how did they proceed in Elizabethan times ?

(Mrs.) COPE.

18, Harrington Court, S.W.

ASPIRINE. Why is a certain anti-febrile medicine, much come into notice of late, so named ? The dictionaries do not know the word. A. SMYTHE PALMER.

ST. SIDWELL. I cannot trace St. Sidwell in Butler's ' Lives of the Saints.' Was he a real saint ? is he known by another name ? or is Butler's book deficient in this respect ? JOHN W. STANDERWICK.

Broadway, Ilminster.

" SCROYLES " was used by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson as a term of contempt, derived by Johnson from O.F. escrouelles, scrofula, king's evil. Is scroyles recorded in English in this sense ? E. W.

ETON COLLEGE NAMES. I am under the impression that a list has been published of all the names cut in the Great Hall (? or Schoolroom) at Eton College that are de- cipherable. Am I right or wrong ? If the former, where may the list be obtained ?

D. K. T.

" EARIFE," co. KENT. In a document of 1651 in Chancery, at the Public Record Office, mention is made of " Richard Burney of Earife for Earise], co. Kent, Clerke." How is this place now known ? Is it Erith ?

C. MASON. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.