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 V.MARCH IT, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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King's ' Munirnenta Antiqua' as being dug up at Rich borough about 1799?

H. P. POLLARD.

WILLIAM DYER : REBECCA RUSSELL. Can any reader give the date of marriage oi Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Russell (and great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cromwell and William Russell, of Fordham Abbey), and William Dyer, of Ilford, co. Essex 1 To which family of Dyer did William belong ?

W.

BAYNE FAMILY. A hundred years ago John Bain or Bayne was master of the High School of Leith, then situated in the Kirk- gate there. He had a son John Bayne, born in 1795, who was admitted as a writer to the Signet on 9 June, 1825, and thereafter prac- tised in Edinburgh ; married Jessie Cassie on 20 July, 1831 ; was Lecturer on Conveyancing to the Juridical Society ; and died, without issue, on 10 May, 1843.. I shall be glad to know if any representative of this Bayne family is alive. JOHN CHRISTIE.

181, Morningside Road, Edinburgh.

ARCHDEACONS' MARKS. When recently visiting a Bedfordshire church I was informed that a number of small, roughly cut crosses pommee, at a point on one of the interior walls of the church, were known as " arch- deacons' marks," the story being that at each pre-Reformation archidiaconal visitation one of these crosses was cut. As similar marks occur in groups in other churches, I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can throw any light on this subiect.

Q. W. V.

DENTON FAMILY. Can any reader supply information concerning William (?) Den ton, a native of Yorkshire, who is said to have been a Government contractor ? To him is ascribed the erection, about a century ago, of several fortifications along the English coast. Among his collateral descendants, some reside in Folkestone, Kent ; some in Chicago ; and some are said to live in (Digby County ?) Nova Scotia. A comprehensive history of the Denton family has long been in course of preparation by Mr. W. B. Denton, 914, Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. (Cf. 10 th S. ii. 417.)

EUGENE F. McPiKE.

CHRISTIAN OF MILNTOWN. John Christian, of Milntown, I.O.M., who died 20 Sept., 1745, married Bridget Senhouse in 1717. In what relationship, if any, did he stand to the two famous Christians, Illiam Dhone and Ed- ward ? The latter was mainly instrumental in securing for the islanders the Manx Magna

Carta. His daughter Mary married Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, grandfather of Edward Law, D.D., formerly chaplain at St. Petersburg.

Bridget Senhouse was indirectly a de- scendant of Joan of Acre, daughter of Ed- ward I. of England. Perhaps CANON SAVAGE can help me. FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Grindleton, Clitheroe.

HAVEL AND SLAIE MAKERS. Amongst the trades enumerated as being carried on in Nor- wich in 1842 occurs the above. Was it peculiar to that city 1 and in what does it consist ? Some persons are stated to be havel makers, others slaie makers, and others "net drawers" as well. Speaking of a certain lane in Norwich, a writer in 1786 says, "A man here makes havels and slaies." I have not come across it in the enumera- tions of trades carried on in other cities. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

[The 'NE.D.' under 'Havel' has "?Ahealdor heddle." See the definitions and quotations under these words.]

MR. BRADLEY'S 'HIGHWAYS AND

BYWAYS IN SOUTH WALES.'

(10 th S. v. 143.)

MR. J. P. OWEN'S remarks require some notice, as they contain suggestions of a per- sonal nature which are superfluous and quite inaccurate.

I might first mention, however, that Pont- rhydfendigeid is not the correct local or geographical spelling, but Pontrhydfendigaid, as the most cursory reference will demon- strate. MR. OWEN is a trifle unfortunate in his tu quoque, as a misspelt Welsh word does not in any case become a North British one. MR. OWEN says I am "slipshod in legends." What does accuracy in legends mean? Half their charm is surely in their variations. Personally I prefer giving a legend, as I hear it in a locality, for what it is worth, to reducing an article by a professor in an archaeological magazine to a paragraph or two. I did not know; Miss Braddon was a predecessor of anybody in the exploitation of Wales. MR. OWEN'S enthu- siasm for that prolific novelist might well serve as a consolation to me for his qualified approval of myself. I am sorry I am too gay for him : I can assure him it is not the result of any effort to win the approval of a frivolous public, but arises, I fear, from mere incorrigiblelight-heartedness, perhaps further stimulated by the air of the Welsh mountains