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story from my father, and also that it is very difficult fora person to repeat in exact words an incident told anecdotal! y by some one else. My father had an exceptionally reten- tive memory, and I think it unlikely that he was mistaken in any details.

I should like to add one little touch that does not appear in either account of the affair. The condemned man asked to see my father, who went into his cell unattended, shook hands with him, and said he was very sorry to see a comrade throw away his life in this' manner. My father added that he had no personal feelings about the attempted murder: he was only the officer to whom violence had been offered. The prisoner thanked him, and said he had wished to tell him that he had no grudge of any kind against him, but, feeling he must shoot some- body, had selected him on account of his being the adjutant. He then entrusted my father with a letter for his sister, and my father took a final leave of the man, with much kindness. MELITA KEATE.

High Croft, Winchester.

BIGG, THE DINTON HERMIT (10 th S. iii. 285, 336). Under date 22 April I find the follow- ing paragraph in Hone's ' Year-Book ' :

"There is a folio-sized etching of a whole-length portraitof John Bigg, the Dinton Hermit, in a clouted dress, with the following inscription : [Here follow particulars which have been already supplied.] The print is etched from a picture in the possession of Scroop Bernard, Esq., of Nether Winchendon, Bucks."

JOHN T. PAGE.

W. V. RICHARDSON AND THE RUSSIAN CHURCH (10 th S. iii. 327). The Rev. William Voase (not Voss) Richardson belonged to an East Yorkshire family connected with Anlaby and Hull. He was of St. Bees Theological College, and was ordained by the Archbishop of York, deacon in 1851, and priest in 1853, and was for a time curate of St. James's, Whitehaven. Later he became a confirmed invalid, and went about in a bath-chair. He died at his residence at Bridlington Quay, 20 October, 1881, aged sixty-one. On joining the Greek Church he took the Christian name Athanasius, and as the Rev. Athanasius Richardson he published these two little books :

Service of the divine and sacred Liturgy of our holy father John Chrysostom. Translated fron' the Greek according to the Euchologion, and com pared with the Slavonic. 16mo, pp. 106, London 1866.

The Marriage Service of the Greek Church Translated from the Greek of the EuchologioH 16mo, pp. 34, Oxford, 1874.

W. C. B.

JAMES II. MEDAL (10 th S. iii. 329). The

nitials R. A. on this medal are those of

Arondeaux, a medalist, probably of Flemish

extraction, who was much employed by

William III., and also executed several medals

or Louis XIV. His works are very numerous,

and date from 1678 to 1702. Many of these

are described in Hawkins's 'Medallic Illustra-

,ions,' to which valuable work I am indebted

? or the above particulars.

EDWARD M. BORRAJO.

The Library, Guildhall, B.C.

A full description of this medal will be

bund in ' Medallic Illustrations of the

3istory of Great Britain and Ireland,' issued

)y the Trustees of the British Museum,

vol. i. p. 615. The initials R. A. are those

of R. Arondeaux, a medalist, most likely of

lemish extraction. T. C.

[Reply also from MR. A. R. BAYLEY.]

HASWELL FAMILY (10 th S. iii. 225, 313). The original way of spelling the name is Hessewelle. It is of county Durham origin ; uhere are many grants and confirmations in the Chapter Library at Durham. It is pro- bable the family " trekked " over the border at Carter Fell, not far from Jedburgh, and several tombstones bearing their name remain in the abbey churchyard in that charmingly located town. The representative of the family is C. J. Haswell, of Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol. His father, in 1832, entered the Austrian Imperial Railway service, and only died about ten years ago, aged eighty- one, and was chief engineer of the system, which he may be said to have originated. The whole of the genealogy from 1690 is in my possession, if any one desires the informa- tion. My friend C. J. Haswell has one son, who is, I believe, the sole representative of the name. His great - uncle was a distin- guished captain in the Royal Navy, who for his services in cutting out a ship from a French port was awarded a sword of honour by the underwriters. Unfortunately he died at sea shortly after this event.

Of the Portsmouth branch of the Haswell family I should be glad of any information which your readers can give.

F. R. N. HASWELL.

Monkseaton, Northumberland.

MILLER OF HIDE HALL (10 th S. iii. 325). If the inscription on the stone at the entrance to the Miller vault in Sandon Church is correct, Nicholas Franklyn - Miller was the only child of Nicholas Miller. There is an elaborate monument on the west wall of the south aisle to the memory of this young man,