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Count three hides in " Freelestoch," in Devon (Domesday Book. i. 104b.).

The only fact I have noted of him outside that venerable record refers to the last- named place. Robert fitz Ivo gave a carucate in " Fridelakestoc " to the Abbey of Grestain, in Normandy ('Mon. Angl.,' ii. 982), probably after Count Robert's death in 1090, when Count William and his mother the Countess Matildis were making donations to the abbey.

Robert de Beauchamp about 1220 founded a priory of Austin friars at Frithelstoke, so it seems the Abbey of Grestain had relin- quished or sold their land there to the donor's heirs.

Mr. Eyton (' The Somerset Domesday,' i. 97) reasonablv suspected that Robert was Constable of the Count's castle of Montacute.

Beatrix, Lady Corbet, was a daughter of the first John de Beauchamp by Cecily de Vyvon, for when she died s.p. 1348, her great- nephew the last John was fourd to be her heir. Eleanor, wife of Fulk Fitz- warin, wa? another daughter, as she mentions in her will " her sister Beatrix Corbett, Lady of Caux " (see my reply to HERMENTRTJDE so long ago as 1869, 4 S. iii. 230). Joan, wife of John, Lord Cobham, seems to have been a third daughter. A. S. ELLIS. Westminster.

SIB JAMES BTJRROTJGH (10 S. viii. 430). The date of his death is 25 March, 1837 (not 1839), and (according to ' The Annual Register 'of 1837) it occurred in Bedford Square, not Bedford Row. His burial, in his eighty-eighth year, was on 1 April, 1837, in the Temple Church. His will was proved April, 1837, in the P.C.C. I observe that in Foss's ' Judges ' (ed. 1870) the date is incor- rectly given as 1839. In the 'Blue Book' for 1830 his residences are 16, Bedford Square, and Laverstock House, Wilts. At Laverstock there is a monument to him, which may perhaps give further particulars of his career. G. E. C.

In Laverstock Church, near Salisbury, there is this mural monument to Sir James Burrough :

" In Memory of | Sir James Burrough Knight | Late of this Parish and of | Bedford Square in the County of Middlesex | He studied the Law with Industry and practised it for many years with | such Integrity Ability and Success that he was created in 1816 | one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas | In 1828 he retired from that office to a Private Life and enjoyments | arising from Bene- volence Charity and a Cheerful temper increased | by the attentions of his Family and friends and

died on the | 25 th of March 1837 in the 88 th year of his age | His remains were deposited in the vault of the | Temple Church London | This Tablet | was erected by Ann Burrough his only surviving child."

J. J. H.

ARUNDEL CASTLE LEGEND (10 S. viii. 390. 434). The edition of Elyot's ' Governor ' which PROF. SKEAT so justly commends was edited by H. H. S. Croft, and not by (the late) Sir H. Croft. The error is likely to lead to confusion, as both were called to the Bar at the Inner Temple.

J. E. L. PICKERING.

Inner Temple Library.

" PECCAVI " : "I HAVE SINDH " (10 S. viii. 345, 395). The earliest publication of this jest of which I am aware is in George Daniel's entertaining medley ' Democritus in London ' (1852), where Sir Peter Prolix is made to say :

What exclaim'd the gallant Napier,

Proudly flourishing his rapier !

To the army and the navy,

When he conquered Scinde 1 ' Peccari ! ' Until earlier publication can be proved, the credit for this perfect pun must remain with George Daniel. If the story quoted by MR. A. L. MAYHEW (ante, p. 345) be true, the jest must be somewhere in the pages of Punch before 1852, and must have been repeated in the couplet on the annexation of Oude. By the way, Mr. MAYHEW does not give the date of the appearance of that couplet nor does Mr. Spielmann in his ' History.' WALTER JERROLD.

Ham pton-on- Thames.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY : UNROOFED CARRIAGES (10 S. viii. 167, 234, 292, 357, 414). At the penultimate refer- ference MR. HEMS states that " so late as 1863 I rode in the ' stand-up ' thirds that used to run upon the line between Glasgow and Greenock." The carriages referred to, which I remember well, were fourth (not third) class. They had roofs, but no seats, divisions, or windows, being, in fact, long covered trucks, the roofs supported by iron stanchions, and the ends closed in. Wild scenes used occasionally to be witnessed in these luxurious vehicles, especially on Satur- day nights and on holidays. T. F. D.

I have read the various communications under the above heading with interest. Let me add my recollections.

I have lived long enough to distrust my memory, but I travelled between Reigate and London the existence at that time of the Atmospheric Railway will help to fix the date (I should say between 1846 and