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and attractive. The scene of the first volume which reminds one of 'The Vicar of Wake field,' is laid in the village of W, in Cum berland ; that of the second at Hampsteac The vicar is more than once described as th "parish priest"; "Deists" and "Jacobins are referred to among contemporary dan gerous classes ; Italian and French word are quoted ; the old spelling " Winander mere" is used, but "Brighton" has alread superseded "Brighthelmstone." The Cum bfrland dialect appears to be used here anc there. E. S. DODGSOX.

SAXTOX FAMILY OF SAXTOX, co. YORK. In compiling some notes on this ancien family I have come across the following names, which would appear to be either variants of or synonyms for the original :

Sexdecim (Vallibus de Ebor') = Sexten or Saxton in the vales of Yorkshire. Nicholas de Sexdecim Vallibus de Ebor' was clerk oi the city of York in July, 1327. On 4 July 1334, his "late wife" Elena was granted a licence for alienation in mortmain of four shops ( " quatuor shopas " ) and nineteen shillings of rent in York, held in burgage by service of rendering Is. 4tZ. yearly to the king as "husgable" (what is this?), by the hands of the bailiffs of the city, at St. James the Apostle (Inq. ad quod Damnum, 8 Ed\v. III.). Sextenedale, alias Sixteendale, alias Sere- vals=Sixteendole, the toll exacted by millers of one-sixteenth of every bushel of corn ground by them. "William de Sextenedale,

als ," &c., was fined 801. in 7 Henry II.,

1160/1 (Madox, 'Hist. Excheq.,' second ed., 17G9, i. 501, and index).

Secu', alias Setu', alias Set vans or Septvans. Sec\i'=secums (Lat.), seac (Saxon), a broad- edged axe or hatchet for hewing stones in the quarries.

Setu'=Seton. See below. Setvans = seven cornfans or winnowers. Arms of "De Septvans, alias..,..." &c., of Milton Septvans, co. Kent, temp. Edward I. and II. : Az., three cornfans or (' Dering Roll of Arms,' fo. 90-1, published in The Reliquary, 1875 to 1878).

Sapy, a nickname for Septvans. Applied to Robert de Saxton in Aug., 1322. late Con- stable of Scarborough Castle, co. York.

Seton, alias Seeton = Saxton, co. York. "Prreliuin de Seton," "Seeton apud Charyng- crosse" ('Three Fifteenth-Century Chroni- cles,' &c., Camden Soc., 1880, pp. 160-2).

Would some more competent authority kindly favour me with an opinion on these names ] I have reason to think it highly probable that the Saxtons were for genera-

tions most extensively interested in corn- milling in Yorkshire and elsewhere.

JAMES TALBOT.

Adelaide, S. Australia.

[W. C. B. pointed out at 9 th S. xii. 186 that the name Sexdecim Valles " is a difficulty to those who are unacquainted with Yorkshire topography." He quoted several instances from publications of the Surtees Society, and added that Sixtedale, Sixten- dale, Sexeudale, Sixendale, &c., were all forms of the modern Thixendale, a village on the wolds in the East Riding. Husgable is house tax ; see 'Gavel' in 'N.E.D.']

ENGLISHMEN 7 HOLDING POSITIONS UNDER FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.

(10 th S. iii. 87.)

THE roll of illustrious English, Irish, and Scotch men who have served under foreign Governments is a splendid record of romance and adventure, as well as a tribute to the overflowing strength of England, but one too long for admission to the pages of N. & Q.' Still more interesting would it be, did space permit, to give the converse picture, and array side by side our gains as well as our losses.

With regard to distinguished Englishmen in the service of other countries, it would be necessary to eliminate those who were at the same time in the service of their own countrj r such as, for example, the first Duke of Marlborough, the first Duke of Wel- ington, Marshal Beresford, or Generals Wilson and Trant, all of whom held foreign ommands.

With the exception, perhaps, of Sir Villiam Stanley, it is almost solely in con- nexion with France that we find the sword drawn against the parent country. To mention a few names at haphazard, of nglishmen or their immediate descendants : The flight of the wild geese and emigra- ion of General Sarsfield's Irish Brigade to ''ranee is well known. So, too, are the names f Generals Hamilton and Kilmaine and General Nugent, who fought against our orces at Oudenarde and Ramillies. The Dillon family gave several generals as well s a regiment named after them to the rench armies of the seventeenth, eighteenth, nd nineteenth centuries, and also an arch- ishop to Toulouse. Another Irishman held ank under the fleur-de-lys, Sir Gerard ally, whose son, the Comte de Lally nd Baron de Tollendal, was Cornmander-in- "hief of the French Army in India. Sir jJerard's grandson, the Marquis de Lally