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Majesty King James I. advanced to the dignity of a Baronet the 25th February, 1618. He added to his possessions the manor of Formark [sic} and a good estate in Derbyshire, by marriage of Jane, daughter and heir of William Frauncys, Esq., nephew and heir to John Frauncys, Esq., of Fore- mark aforesaid, which seat has since that time been the chief residence of this family."

_ Foremark Hall was built in 1755, on the site of the ancient dwelling of the Frauncys family. It is about one mile and a half from Repton. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

According to the 'Topographical Dictionary of England,' by Samuel Lewis (London, 1831), Langley Meynell is a township in the parish of Kirk Langley, hundred of Morleston and Litchurch. The population is returned with the parish of Langley Kirk, where, as in the Census Returns for 1831, it is called Meynell Langley. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

The following extract will, I think, answer the first query :

" Kirk Langley is a parish comprising the town- ships of Kirk Langley and Meynell Langley, 4J miles

west-north-west from Derby In the church are

several monuments to the Meynell family God- frey Franceys Meynell, Esq., J.P., is lord of the manor [of both townships]." 'The Post Office Directory of Derbyshire,' 1876.

M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager.

For particulars of the family of Francis of Foremark for three generations before the reign of Edward I. to Ralph, son of Robert Francis mentioned in the query, see Nichols's ' Topographer and Genealogist,' vol. i. p. 361. It also contains pedigrees of the families of Meignell and Clinton.

The Francis family from Edward II. to 1602 is in the 'Visitation of Derbyshire, 1611,' in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. vii. p. 135. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

MASONS' MARKS (10 th S. iii. 228, 296). Masons' marks of the Early English period are to be seen on some fragments of the church of St. Nicholas in the Hertford Museum. There are some very fine speci- mens, probably of the early Perpendicular period, on the east wall of the used portion of the south aisle at Walberswick. A short time ago a weekly paper Pearson's, I be- lieve gave an illustration of masons' marks at present in use. H. P. POLLARD.

TICKLING TROUT (9 th S. xii. 505 ; 10 th S. i. 154, 274, 375, 473 ; ii. 277, 356). I had thought it hardly worth while to make any addition to the numerous communications on this trivial subject ; but a passage in the life

of that extraordinary member of an extra- ordinary family, William Martin, " the anti- Newtonian philosopher " (1772-1851), has suggested a short addition to the subject. He says, speaking of his childish days spent in the Highlands of Scotland :

"I used to amuse my little mind with climbing the mountains and gathering blue-berries, which grew in great quantities on these mountains ; and down in the vallies the little burns and becks were well stocked with fine trout, which were readily taken by the band. Although young, I was very artful in taking them, under the stones or brow edges, and groping and rinding them under cover ; by kittling them they would lie still until I got a proper hold of them, so I could soon get a fry of fine burn-trout, although a very little boy."

My own youthful experiences were similar to those of Martin. Some sixty years ago I enjoyed this form of poaching in a burn in the north of Yorkshire. All that is needed for the "sport" is a good trout-stream, a warm, sunshiny day, a pair of bare legs, and a light hand. You wade from point to point, and soon form a pretty accurate conjecture as to the probable lie of the trout under the shadow of some projecting stone, and after drawing many of these recesses blank, at last feel the unmistakable satin of the skin. If you happen to touch the head of the sleeping prey he is off without a word, but when you are fortunate enough to distinguish the tail, you have only to titillate the victim as gently as may be, working up slowly towards the head, when finger and thumb enter the gills and he is at your mercy. The procedure is, of course, utterly unsportsmanlike, but, in reply to one of your correspondents, the fish does enjoy the sensation until the supreme moment when he divines your object.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

DATE OF THE CREATION (10 th S. iii. 268). Archbishop Ussher begins his ' Annals of the World ' as follows :

" In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. Which beginning of time, according to our Chrono- logie, fell upon the entrance of the night preceding the twenty-third day of Octob. in the year of the Julian Calendar, 710. Upon the first day therefore of the world, or Octob. 23, being our Sunday, God, together with the highest Heaven, created

the Angels on the very middle of the first day,

the light was created."

And he goes on to describe the events of each day of creation. Speaking of the Fall, he says :

" It is very probable that Adam was turned out of Paradise the self-same day that he was brought into it, which seemeth to have been upon the tenth day of the world (answering to our first day of November, according to supposition of the Julian Period)."