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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. n. SEPT. 10, 1904.

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 9 March, 1730.

2. Richard, baptized 5 July, 1653 ; died, and was buried 6 Aug., 1655 (? 1653).

3. Richard, baptized 12 Oct., 1654.

4. Susanna, born 11 July, 1656 ; baptized 19 July, 1656.

5. Rafe or Ralph, born 16 Oct., 1657 ; baptized 20 Oct., 1657 ; died young.

6. Sarah, born 5 June, 1660; baptized 17 June, 1660 ; married 1 Oct., 1678, Col. John Churchill, afterwards Earl and Duke of Maryborough, eldest son of Sir Winston Churchill, Commissioner of Court of Claims and Explanations in Ireland, 1662-8. She died 19 Oct., 1744 ; the Duke 16 June, 1722.

7. Barbara, married Griffiths, of

St. Albans, Herts (? issue), and died 1678, aged twenty-seven.

I believe that Frances and Barbara were the only two of Sarah's sisters who married, and that all her brothers died unmarried.

From the fact that the second of her brothers was born in 1654, and was also christened Richard, I conclude that the first Richard died and was buried in 1653, and not in 1655.

The above lineage is partly compiled from Burke's 'Peerage,' and partly from 'Duchess Sarah,' by Mrs. Arthur Colville.

In Mrs. Thomson's 'Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,' the date of Sarah's birth is given as 29 May, 1660.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

PORT ARTHUR (10 th S. i. 407, 457). In No. 10,997 of Ueman's Exeter Flying Post (Saturday, 27 August), a newspaper estab- lished in this city in 1763, there occur reports of the Cambridge University Exten- sion Lectures delivered here during the preceding week. In the one briefly quoted below a speaker records, from personal experience, how. Port Arthur derived its name :

" Paymaster-in-Chief W. Blakeney lectured on Map-making on the Coasts of the Pacific.' He said in 1856 the British Government sent out a ship to chart the then almost unknown coast of Manchuria. He (the lecturer) went out with a chart a hundred years old. When they arrived off the China station he (the lecturer) had not met an officer who had seen, except at a distance, the coast of Japan ; it was a sealed land to Western people. But they dis- covered that Russia had pushed forward eastward and had obtained a port on the Pacific. The Russian officer forbade the English to survey the district, but he (the lecturer) and another officer, at the command of the captain, pursued investiga- tions. Their first acquaintance with Talienwan -Bay, then only known by name, was made under
 * Some Personal Experiences of Exploration and

sealed orders. That was the beginning of British knowledge of the Yellow Sea, the Gulf of Pechili, and the entrance into the Gulf of Liao-tung. He (the lecturer) and one of his messmates were the first to stand at the top of the Kwangtung peninsula. One of his mates was named William Arthur, who- commanded a little vessel, the Algerine. He (the lecturer) reported that when surveying the Kwang- tung peninsula he had seen a snug little harbour on- the other side of the promontory. The Algerine was sent round to survey. When Mr. Arthur returned the captain of the ship said he would call the bay after him, telling the lecturer to put down the word * Arthur ' f9r the port. They were also- the first to go to the city of Niuch wang. They were also the first to proceed up the Yang-tse River for 600 miles, reaching Hankow. Some of the principal harbours were surveyed, and one of the bays was- called after him Blakeney Reach."

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

PILGRIMS' WAYS (10 th S. ii. 129). Has MR. SNOWDEN WARD consulted 'The Pilgrims 7 Way/ by Julia Cartwright (which is a de- scription of the places the road passes through) ; * Collectanea Cantiana,' by George Payne (1893), pp. 125-44; and * Csesar in Kent,' by the late Kev. F. T. Vine ]

4. At Maidstone was a hospital or resting- place for pilgrims, founded about 1261 by Abp. Boniface, and dedicated to Saints Peter, Paul, and Thomas of Canterbury. At Ayles- ford was a bridge over the river, and the Carmelite Friary (founded 1240) for a resting- place.

6. Is MR. WARD thinking of the Stone- Street from Lymne to Canterbury 1

7. The objective points were evidently Deal and Dover. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

Mackie's 'Folkestone and its Neighbour- hood,' ed. 1856, p. 95, states :

"Either side of the camp is guarded by a conical hill, surmounted by a low barrow the storm- trampled tomb of some Saxon chief. That on the left is the familiar ' Sugar Loaf,' round which an ancient platform winds from the Canterbury road to the summit, whence we look down its sheep- trodden sides into the deep dell, where, sheltered by the rank rushes, lie the dark, unruffled waters of 'Holy Well.' Do those raised tracings in the grass cover the remains of some lonely hermitage? The country people tell you something about the

ilgrims to Becket's shrine it is called also t. Thomas's Well resting here on their way to- Canterbury."

K. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

"LANARTH" (10 th S. i. 489). In Lewis's 4 Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 3 1840, there is some information regarding Llanarth, co. Cardigan, South Wales, which may be of assistance to CROSS-CROSSLET in his search