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 72 NOTES AND QUERIES. [l0“‘ S- IV- JULY 22. 1905- yvhich the word “lonnin” appears as mean- mg a lane. RICHARD Wsuronn. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Yes, “1onnin’ ” is a synonym for lane about Durham. There is “Pelton lonnin”’ near Chester-le-Street; and I think that a lane was usually called a “lonnin”’ at Houghton-le-Spring about 1861. J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster. Halliwell, in his ‘Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,’ and Thomas Wright, in his ‘Dictionary of Obsolete Words,’ explain this word to mean in the north of En(gland a lane or by-road. The latter also ad s that a place for milkin cows is called a “loaning.” Evmzann I~§>M1n COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. “Lonning” is a well-known synonym for lane in Westmorland and also in Durham county. In St. Oswald’s Churchyard at Durham, Lane Head, Middleton, Teesdale, appears as Lonnin Head ; and in several Westmorland title-deeds a lane boundinga close of land is described as a “ lonninégfh The quotation would be more correctly written, “He joost ganged doon t’ lonnin tappey lappey.’ To say a thing has “gaen doon t’ read lonnin” is a jocular form of saying it has been swallowed. M. N. [R. B-R, V. B. H., SIR HERBERT MAX\'ELL, MISTLETOE, Ma. J. PLATT, Sr. Swrrmrr, and MR. J. H. STBPHENSON also thanked for replica] Mason MoNno (10“‘ S. iii. 487).-There is an interesting account of this duel in Miller’s ‘St. Pancras, Past and Present,’ pp. 269-73. The combatants were Lieut.-Col. Fawcet-t, C.B., of the 55th Regiment, and his brother- in-law, Lieut. Munro (not Monro), of the Royal Horse Guards. Both were officers of some distinction, and Lieut. Munro, who had enlisted in the Blues nineteen years pre- viously, had as a reward for his meritorious service received a commission in 1829, and was appointed adjutant of his regiment. The two gentlemen had married sisters, daughters of the principal medical ofiicer at Jamaica, and at the time of the duel Col. Fawcett had one surviving daughter, while his oppo- nent had five children. The cause of the iuarrel was a reflection by the Colonel on ieut. Munro’s judgment in the management of some property entrusted to his care by Col. Fawcett while he was abroad. A chal- lenge ensued, and the duel took lace on 1 Jul§, 1843, in a field near Maiden Lane (now recknock Road), leading from Camden Town to Highgate. Col. Fawcett fell mor- tally wounded, and was carried to “The Camden Arms,” Randolph Street, where, not- withstanding the skilfu attention of the two most distin uished surgeons of the day, Brodie and I.iston, he died two days later. An in uest was held immediately after- wards (liy Mr. Wakley, the coroner-Mr. John Cumberland, the friend of George Cruikshank, and publisher of Cumberlan 's ‘British Theatre,’ being the foreman of the jury. A verdict of wilful murder was re- corded a ainst the parties to the duel, but Lieut. lllunro fled the country and was believed to have entered the Prussian service. Four years afterwards he surrendered himself to justice, and on 14 August, 1847, he was found guilty of wilful murder and sentenced to the capital penalty, which, on a strong recommendation to mercy, was commuted to twelve months’ imprisonment. Lieut. Cuddy, one of the seconds, was tried in 1843, brt discharged, as the evidence was not held io be suflicient for a conviction. The uufcr- tunate widow of the deceased oflicer was deprived, by a Government which was le- termined to put down duelling, of the penson which, under the rules of the service, she would have received, and these stringent measures seem to have had the desired elect, as this was the last militar;` duel to cake place in England. W.. PRIDEAIX. The history of the Munro-Fawcett dxel is iven in Walford and Thornbury, ‘Oli and New London,’ v. 376, and in ‘ N. dz Q.,’8"‘ S. ix. 230. The ‘Report of the Trial,’Jy_M. Strang, was printed in 1847, and thee 18 a notice of it, with portraits, in The Illvstrated London News, 21 August, 11 Septegerbg 1347- Lieut. Munro is probably identical vith the Major James St. John Munro, of the 3st Foot, who is stated in Walford’s ‘ County '8-mllles ' (1865) to have been the eldest son 0 G6I1€l‘&l John Munro, E.I.C., of Teaninich,by Char- lotte, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. St. John Blacker. He was born inl8l0. J. HOLDEN MACIICHAEL. }J. R.. F. G. refers to ‘ Annals of our fimef lDd€l' 1 ul, 1843; Mn. R. L. Momsron to Te Illustrated L07ll2'0‘ll lVews of 8 July, 1843. M R. Ed. COLEMAN Ma. C. S. Wann, and Ma. J. WATJN also send replies.] ~ PILLION: FLAILS (l0°*‘ S. iii. .67. 338, 3:15, 433).-I have seen the observat0D§ 011 68118, though rather late in the day, and If y0� fmre to hear the voice of the Hai from Little England beyond Wales, I can by WWD088 £0 the truth of the statement the ln 0�ff0f°bh0°