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Turing, who died in 1743, aged eighty-four, and left a son Alexander, who was minister of Oyne iti 1729, and died in 1782, in the eighty-first year of his age and fifty -fourth of his ministry. He had two sons and seven daughters. A James Turing was appointed minister of Aberdour in 1733, and came to a tragic end in that year.

For the information desired by your querist I would recommend that application be made to the present parish ministers of Forglen and Cargill, and to " the Rev. the Convener of the Church of Scotland's Committee on Records, Croston Lodge, Edinburgh. ' W. S.

' DIRECTIONS TO CHURCHWARDENS ' (10 th S. iii. 264). MR. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY says, with reference to the term "outsetter": "This word has fallen into desuetude, and yet we have no successor or equivalent to describe the class of person referred to."

May I say that in Somerset the terms "indweller " and " outdweller" are in active use to describe the ratepayers or tithepayers of a parish ? The latter pay a small contri- bution in lieu of tithe fourpence an acre in some cases except for houses and curtilages, where the tithes are the same whether used by the tithepayer or not. This frequently leads to evasion where the tithe-collector is not acquainted with the "customs of the country." The "apparent" occupier is not the real one; he "rents the grass" of his father or brother, who is only liable (as " an outdweller") to the smaller rate of tithe.

JAMES R. BRAMBLE, F.S.A.

According to Le Neve's 'Fasti Eccl. Angl.,' by Hardy, li. 477,490, Humphrey Prideaux <'D.N.B.,' xlvi. 352), who was collated Arch- deacon of Suffolk on 21 December, 1698, and was installed Dean of Norwich on 8 June, 1702, continued to hold the archdeaconry until his death on 1 November, 1724, his immediate successor as archdeacon being David Wilkins (' D.N.B.,' Ixi. 206), who was instituted on 19 December, 1724. This seems to be correct, as no intermediate archdeacon is mentioned in the index called ' Liber Institutionum ' at the Record Office.

H. C.

SMALL PARISHES (10 th S. iii. 1-28, 193, 274) I have in my possession two letters which have appeared in the Daily Mail on the subject of small parishes. The first emanated from Ludlow, and bore the initials I. B. L. It appeared in the Daily Mail of 6 May, 1901, and was as follows :

" Ludlow ' Castle ' has been a parish for upwards of 200 years. The present population is five. It

was the same last census. There has been no birth in the parish for upwards of sixty years. It is well lighted with gas, has a good water supply, with a very fine old chapel ; but service is only read about once a year, sometimes not that."

The second letter appeared in the Mail of 22 December, 1903, and in a list of small parishes included the following : " Ludlow Castle (Shropshire) ; one house ; popula- tion, 4."

I do not, of course, vouch for the accuracy of these statements, especially in the face of MR. HERBERT SOUTIIAM'S explicit contra- diction. I merely reproduce them in order to give chapter and verse for the source of my reply. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S 'HISTORIE OF THE WORLD' (10 tb S. iii. 127, 194, 274). After reading MR. JAGGARD'S answer, I think my copy must be the second issue, as it is anonymous, and has the errata of the first corrected. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield.

SHORTER : WALPOLE (10 th S. iii. 269). As I have before now found occasion to refer in your columns to inaccuracies in The Gentle- man's Magazine, I would suggest the pos- sibility of a printer's error having occurred in the entry quoted by MR. VIDLER, and that " Oct. " should read Xov.

John Shorter, of By brook, Kent (born 1659 according to one authority, 1660 according to another), died 19 November, 1734 (Gyll's 'History of Wraysbury,' ifcc., p. 275), and was the father of Catherine, Lady Walpole. May not the entry given by your correspondent
 * refer to this gentleman ?

I have made considerable research into the j lineage of the Shorter family, and, if October I is correct, perhaps the entry may refer to Lady Walpole's eldest brother John, the date of whose decease 1 have not been able to trace. FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Brou<>hton Road, Thornton Heath.

HOUSE OF ANJOU (10 th S. iii. 270). See Mr. Hereford B. George's ' Genealogical Tables illustrative of Modern History," fourth edition (published by the Clarendon Press, 1904), Table XXXIII.

A. R. BAYLEY.

RUSSIAN NAMES (10 th S. iii. 266). MR. F. P. MARCHANT'S statement that Kuropatkin is "pronounced as spelt" will perhaps hardly help the ordinary Englishman, for probably nine out of ten of our countrymen pronounce the name of the Russian general as if spelt Kiuropatkin or Kewropatkin. The letter u should, of course, be pronounced like our oo