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Chutia Nagpur is said to describe a method of testing diamonds for flaws by affixing them to the horns of fighting rams (V. Ball, ' Jungle Life in India,' 1880, p. 525).

KUMAGUSTT MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

GOLDSBOROUGH SHIELD. On the tomb of Sir Richard de Goldsborough in Golds- borough Church, near Knaresborough, are rows of shields to his children. The shields to the fifth and sixth sons, Peter and George, contain peculiar charges. All the shields are charged with armorial bearings. Some of the charges are sunk an eighth of an inch below the face of the shield, while other charges are raised. Can any reader suggest an explanation ? Have the charges in the shields of Peter and George reference to a trade guild or to some ecclesiastical con- fraternity ? MISTLETOE.

KAY, CLERK OF THE GREEN CLOTH. In Drake's ' Hundred of Blackheath,' Pre- face, xv, it is said that William Hatcliffe married a daughter of - - Kay, Clerk of the Green Cloth, temp. Elizabeth ; and at p. 219 is the following foot-note :

"Compegio, the Pope's Legate, arrived at Deal in July, 1518. On Thursday, the 23rd, he dined at Lewisham (Rushey Green Place) with Mr. Win. Hattecliffe, one of the Clerks of the Green Cloth."

Who was - Kay ? About this period the Keyes family lived in the neighbourhood. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

KILMARNOCK DOCUMENT OF 1547. The earliest document known is a precept in Latin for the appointment of a priest for the parish in 1547. In McKay's ' History ' (3rd ed.) this is referred to on pp. 4-5, and 100-101 ; but since then (1864) all trace of the document has been lost. Local antiquaries have no knowledge of it, and it is not among the burgh records. Do any of your readers know if it still exists, and if so, where it may be seen ?

WILLIAM GEMMELL, M.B.

Scotstownhill, Glasgow.

ELEANOR, LADY DRAKE OF ASHE, DEVON. The ' D.N.B.' (x. 342), in the account of her son-in-law Sir Winston Churchill, makes this lady the grandmother of the first Duke of Maryborough sister of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. I think this is in- correct, and that she was half-niece of Buckingham. Am I right ?

A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.

LONDON REMAINS. (10 S. viii. 226.)

MR. ABRAHAMS has broached a very interesting subject. May I add a few instances to those mentioned by him ?

Francis Bird's statue of Queen Anne stood in the open space in front of St. Paul's Cathedral until 1886, when it had become so worn that it had to be replaced by the existing copy. A few years later it was found lying in a stonemason's yard by the late Mr. Augustus J. C. Hare, who induced the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the Lord Mayor, who were its joint owners, to give up their rights. Four trucks, four trolleys, sixteen men, and twenty-eight horses were set to work, and the monument was re-erected in the grounds of his residence, Holmhurst, near Hastings.

A great portion of the magnificent rail- ings (cast circa 1710 at Gloucester Furnace, Lamberhurst, Kent) which until 1886 enclosed the same open space was then pur- chased by a man who had made a large fortune in America, because, when poor, he had courted his wife beneath the shadow of the cathedral. The ship bearing the railings was lost at sea, but part of the ironwork, recovered with difficulty, now surrounds the wife's grave at Toronto.

Part of the grand marble staircase which adorned the late Baron Grant's splendid, but short-lived palace at Kensington (where Kensington Court is now), and which origin- ally cost 11,OOOZ., was purchased by the proprietors of Madame Tussaud's Exhibi- tion for 1,OOOZ. at the great sale of building material in 1882, and is now at their hall in the Marylebone Road.

The river face of the Queen's Promenade, parallel with the Portsmouth Road, at Surbiton is built of stone which was formerly a part of old Blackfriars Bridge.

The old white bear, the large sculptured sign of the ancient galleried inn of that name, which stood until 1852 on the site of the Criterion Restaurant in Piccadilly Circus, may now be seen in the garden of " The White Bear " Hotel at Fickles Hall, close to the little Surrey village of Chelsham.

The columns of the portico at the National Gallery were formerly part of the screen in front of Carlton House in Pall Mall ; and the figure of Minerva at the end of the building facing St. Martin's Church was originally intended to represent Britannia