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 11 S. 1. JAN. 8, 1910.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

MONUMENTS TO AMERICAN INDIANS (10 S* xii. 87, 230, 358). The question as to the nationality of Attacks is not so uncertain as MB. ALBERT MATTHEWS thinks (see the second reference). I have in my possession a, copy of The Boston Gazette of 12 March, 1770, containing a full account of the so- called massacre of 5 March, and according to the paper the man was presumably a half-caste negro. The portion dealing with him is as follows :

" A mulatto man, named Crispus Attucks, who was born in Framlingham, but lately belonged to New Providence, and was here in order to go for North Carolina, also killed instantly ; two balls entering his breast, one of them in special goring the right lobe of the lungs, and a great part of the liver most horribly."

Subject to the better knowledge of your American correspondents, I think this is conclusive as to Attucks' s negro blood, as if a native Indian his birthplace and sub- sequent movements would not be so accu- rately known or chronicled, and I under- stand also that the word " mulatto " would not have been used unless one of the parents was of negro race.

The newspaper, which is strongly anti- British, gives a very vivid account of the whole business. A great portion of the issue is taken up with copies of the resolu- tions passed by the towns round Boston, pledging themselves not to use any British goods, and denouncing those who do ; and among the names of the citizens prominent in asserting their rights are those of Hancock, Adams, and others who afterwards became famous. EDWARD STEVENS.

.Melbourne.

CHARTERHOUSE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1515 (10 S. xii. 468). .The Nately from which John Jakys entered New College, Oxford, would be not Netley, but Up-Nately, a parish on the Basingstoke Canal, five miles east from Basingstoke.

JOHN P. STILWELL.

Yateley, Hants.

" MAR " IN MARDYKE (10 S. xii. 310, 475). " Mardyke " would seem to denote the dyke or drain " through the marsh, n that which passes through the three Saltfleetbys in Lincolnshire on the north side of the main road. In St. Peter's parish it is comparatively small, though larger than the field-drains in " The Marsh " ; but, receiving tributary drains all the way, it becomes, in St. Clement's parish, quite wide and deep, a remarkable -looking drain indeed, and might be taken for a river, were it not

absolutely straight. At any rate, it may well be regarded as the " marsh dyke " ; I do not know of another like it in that neighbourhood. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

DEANERIES UNATTACHED TO CATHEDRALS (10 S. xii. 469). I know no work on this subject, but another Irish Deanery not mentioned by R. B. is that of Raphoe, held by the Very Rev. Edward Chichester (sub- sequently 4th Marquis of Donegall) from 1832 till his death in 1889. A. T. B.

BesselPs Green, Kent.

In this county (Durham) there were deans of the collegiate churches of Auck- land St. Andrew, Chester-le-Street, Darling- ton, and Lanchester, and each had its prebends. There are old buildings at each place (except Chester) still known as " the deanery ll ; but on the site of the Deanery at Chester-le-Street a comparatively modern mansion has been erected, which is still called " The Deanery. n

The collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire, had also its dean and prebends.

R. B R. South Shields.

Probably the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott would say in his ' Cathedralia. 4

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SELBY, YORKS : ITS " PECULIAR " COURT AND PARISH REGISTERS (10 S. xii. 409, 475). MR. S. S. M'DOWALL does not quite touch the point of my inquiry. I know that the original registers in a more or less imperfect state are at Selby ; but I want infor- mation about what are known as the Bishops' Transcripts, which one would expect to find at the Diocesan Registry, York. On inquiry I am told that they are not there because Selby was a Peculiar Court. Where are these transcripts now, if they have been preserved ?

It appears to me that the parishes within the Peculiar Court should have sent the copy of their register to the bishop, as re- quired by the ordinance of 1597.

HENRY FISHWICK. The Heights, Rochdale.

Though I cannot give COL. FISHWICK any information as to the registers from 1636 to 1715, it may be worth while to point out, in case he does not know it, that extracts from the registers for many of the years 1728-63 are to be found in the British Museum. They are Add. Charters 45913-33.

H. I. B.