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i little town called Wyche on the banks of the Salwarp, and near the borders of Faken- ham Forest, where he was born). On 28 January, 1262, at Viterbo, in the church rf the Franciscans, Urban IV., in the presence Uhichester formally canonized (Bliss, *Cal. Papal Letters,' i. 376-7; Wilkins, 'Con- cilia,' i. 743), quoted in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' s.v. 'Richard de Wyche.' See also an exhaustive account in Cardinal Newman's * Lives of the English Saints,' vol. vi. pp. 111-237.
 * > a great assembly, declared Richard of

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

As to the claims of St. Richard of Chichester, is put forward by MR. DODGSON, to be the last Englishman canonized, see the Rev. W. H. Button's Bampton Lectures, 'The English Saints,' 1903, pp. 267-8, where the date of St. Richard's canonization is given as 1262. L. R, M. STBACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

"VINE" INN, HIGHGATE ROAD (10 tl ; S. ii. 327). For two short accounts of this inn see 1 St. Pancras Notes and Queries,' pp. 84, 87.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Does this inn still exist ? I think not, as it does not occur in either the 'London Directory ' or the ' Suburban Directory.' It is found, however, in the former for 1879, when Wm. John Sedgwick was the landlord, and it was numbered 86, Highgate Road. I have often found that the sign of the "Vine" occurs on what was once an extensive private sometimes ecclesiastical estate, where the vine was actually cultivated formerly.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

LISK (10 th S. ii. G8). The name of this family in the Scottish records is spelt variously Lisk, Leak, Leysk, Leisk, Leosk, Leask, but most often the second of these. Probably it is derived from a place of that name in Aberdeenshire, called Nether Lesk. The earliest notice of a person of this name is in the 'Exchequer Rolls of Scotland,' vols. ix. and x., where mention is made of one Alexander Lesk, his name occurring between the years 1484 and 1492. He is spoken of as belonging to the Isle of Sanday, in the Orkneys. There are records, in Latin, of his pension, and of swine, barley, &c., sup- plied by him to the Duke of Ross.

I find no further reference to this name until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when it becomes frequent between the dates 1574 and 1622, all the persons bearing it being residents in Aberdeenshire.

The following occur in the 4 Registers of the Privy Council of Scotland ':

1574, 2 Sept. The barons, landowners, <kc., bind themselves in allegiance to James VI., among them " Williame Lesk of that Ilk."

1594, 13 July. Registration not to harm "Williame Mowat, tacksman in the Kirk- land of Fetterresso," subscribed at Urie and Ferrochie before Andro Hay, Alexander Lesk, &c.

1594, 22 Sept. Registration, fcc., subscribed at Perth before Thomas Lisk, litster (i.e., dyer), burgess there.

1597. Registration, &c., "William Lesk, fiar of that Ilk."

1599. Banff (Registration), " Henry Leask, saddler there"; also in 1606, "Henry Lisk in Banff," a burgess (bis).

1601, 1605, and 1607. Three notices of Alexander Lesk (spelt also Leask), "of Ard- moir," who was a procurator or notary public. In 1621 his name occurs again as a, witness, when he is spoken of as " sometime of Ardmoir."

1607, 11 Sept. Gilbert Leisk, in Fauchside.

1619, 8 July. In a cattle-maiming case George Bannerman, of Asleid, " accompanied by Isobell Lesk, his spouse."

1620. Complaint against Mr. James Leisk, minister at Cushny.

1621-2. William Leask, " elder of that Ilk," called "Laird of Lesk." (A commis- sion to put down theft in the " Baronies of Slaynes, Turreff, Over and Nether Crudenis, Kymond andCremond," belonging to Francis, eighth Earl of Erroll, 14 March, 1622.) All these places are, I think, in Aberdeenshire.

1622, 28 March. Complaint by William Lesk, " fiar of that Ilk," against his servant James Hay. It appears that Lesk was leav- ing his own house in Auchmad to go to his father's house in Lesk, "in the parish of Crudane," on 4 Jan., when he was wounded by his servant, who was lying in wait for him. Afterwards the servant killed a valu- able horse in his (Leak's) stable.

There are further references to this family in 'Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Sco- torum,' in the three volumes which cover 1540 to 1608, the persons named being William Lisk and Thomas his son, Thomas Lesk, Patrick Leysk (in Haddoch), Henry Lesk (in Fechill), M. Jac. Lesk (Rector de- Colesteane), fcc. There appears to have been a William Lesk, who had a son Thomas, the latter's wife being named Barbara, of the family of Mowat. This William had besides a nephew William, whose wife was Elizabeth, her maiden name being Keith.

CHR. WATSON.