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in the life of his wife (vol. Iv. p. 170). He is stated to have been M.P. for Liverpool 1698-1707 and 1713-15. This error is caused by the confusion of two persons with identically the same names.

William Clayton (of the Fulwood family), a prosperous Liverpool merchant (born about 1650, and dying in 1715), had the honour to represent his native borough of Liverpool ; as his epitaph says, in six Parlia- ments.

Probably Lord Sundon was connected in some way with the Fulwood family, but the precise degree of relationship has not hitherto been made plain. The pedigree (see Add. MSS. in British Museum, 19,123, ff. 222-5; 23,710, ff. 177-9) traces to a certain Ralph Clayton (great-grandfather of Lord Sundon), who must have been born about 1560, if we allow thirty years to a generation. There is a certain Ralph Clayton (son of William Clayton and Elizabeth Rigbye, his wife) whose name appears on the Preston Guild Rolls for 1602, 1622, and 1642, and also in the Visitation pedigree of 1664. Probably he was born in 1589. This Ralph is stated to have found his way to the East of Eng- land, and may be the same as Ralph Clayton of Wood Ditton, near Newmarket. Per- haps this identification may be proved if title-deeds, wills, or letters of administration be referred to in the district.

W. STUART WHITE.

Healey Vicarage, Rochdale.

[See 'William Clayton, Baron Sundon,' post, p. 317.]

WILLIAM LEYBOURN. According to the as a printer, but as early as 1648 he appears as joint author with Vincent Wing." Why '' but " ? Surely the two occupations were not incompatible. I have before me a copy of ' The Description and Use of the Uni- versall Quadrat ' (sic), by Thomas Stirrup, Philomathemat, which was " printed by R. & W. Leybourn for Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, 1655." In his ' Compleat Surveyor ' he refers to " my Planometria," which we know was published in 1650 under the anagram " Oliver Wallimby." This is sufficient proof of his authorship to warrant the ' Plano- metria ' being inserted under his own name in the B.M. Catalogue. L. L. K.
 * D.N.B.' he " is said to have begun life

" STICK TO YOUR TUT." This is a common expression to denote unswerving adherence to a purpose, firmness of character. For instance, the ringleader of some refractory paupers boasted in a Pottery police-court

recently that he was the only man who had " stuck to his tut " who had not sub- mitted to the authorities when remonstrated with. B. D. MOSELEY.

HATCHMENTS nsr CHURCHES. The hatch- ment in Swerford Church, Oxon (8 S. xii. 474), is not that to the memory of Lieut.- General Sir Robert Bolton, Kt., G.C.H., who died at Swerford Park in 1836, but one placed there on the death of his daughter and heir, Louisa, of Swerford Park, who married (as his first wife) Samuel Davis, Esq. (d. 1874), and died 8 Aug., 1839, at 31, Wilton Place, Belgrave Square. She was buried in the family vault at Swerford, and left issue a son and daughter.

CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

St. Leonards-on-Sea.

" HAWSER." The earliest quotation for " hawser "=a rope in the ' N.E.D.' is 1338, and for " hawse "=a cable, 1598. In a Chamberlain's Account for Chester and Flint, 1301-2, mention is made of one great rope and one other rope called " a Hausour " for raising timber on the towers of Flint and Rothelan. R. S. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, iu order that answers may be sent to them direct.

THE RHINE A FRENCH BOUNDARY. Will some kindly fellow-reader give me either the words, or a reference to the words, of a French song which must have had a vogue in the summer of 1870 ? They were to the effect that " our fathers held the Rhine boundary, and what they could do, we can do again." J. K. LAUGHTON.

[The reply to ' The Watch on the Rhine ' is " Nous 1'avons eu, votre Rhiu allemaud," by Alfred de Musset.]

TOBACCONIST'S HIGHLANDER : HIS BAT. I have a very neat little, genuine speci- men of the old tobacconist's sign of a 42nd Highlander with his " mull." It is 3 ft. 6 in. high, and it differs from those usually met with in that under the left arm is an imple- ment almost exactly like a cricket bat. This bat has a gilt knob to the handle, and on the shoulder of it are three chevrons in gold, without doubt a sergeant's stripes. On the exposed side of the bat is what would appear to represent a loose strip of wood. This strip is nearly one-third of the width