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this unusual concession, all upon medica grounds. Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood V.C., is an example familiar to the majority of people. In addition to the pioneers a home, soldiers serving in India were allowec to grow beards in former days ; but the regulations having been altered, there ar now no exemptions, either at home or abroad, except for the reason given above The practice had become virtually obsolete a long time before the official cancellation. CHARLES S. BURDON.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MARYLAND PROVERB : * ' SHOE HER HORSE ROUND." In one of the few records stil preserved of a Court Leet and Court Baron held on a manor in the Colony of Maryland is the following :

ss A Court Le ^ and Court Baron of Thomas Gerard Esq r :

there held on Thursday the XXVIIth Oct. 1659,

by Jno. Eyves, gent. Steward there.

" Jtem weep r sent that Clove Mace about Easter last 1659 came to the house of John Shancks one of the Lord of the Manno rs tenants being bloudy & said that Robin Coox & his wife were both vpon him & the said John Shancks desired John Gee to goe w th him to Clove Maces house & when they the s d John Shancks & John Gee came to the said Cloves his house in the night & knocked att the dore asking how they did what they replyed then the s d John Shancks & John Gee haue forgotten But the s d John Shancks asked her to come to her husband & shee replyed that hee had abused Bob in & her and the said John Shancks gott her consent to come the next morning & Robin vp to bee freinds w th her husband & as John Shancks fcaketh shee fell downe on her knees to bee friends w th her s d husband but he would not be freinds W th her but the next night following they vwere friends and Bartholomew Phillipps saith that shee related before that her husband threatened to beate her & said if hee did shee would cutt his throat or poyson him or make away & said if ever Jo: Hart should come in agayne shee would gett John to bee revenged on him & beate him & hee beared the said William Asiter say th c shee dranke healths to the Confusion of her husband and said flhee would shooe her horse round & hee the said Bartholomew Phillips heard the said Robin say if ever hee left the house Cloves should never goe w th a whole face. Jt is ordered that this businesse bee transferred to the next County Co rt according to Law."

The inquiry I would make is, What was meant by the wife saying " Shee would shooe

her horse round " ? This must have been a well-known phrase at that period. Is there any authoritative explanation of it ?

R. F. BRENT. Baltimore.

JOHN LEDYARD, TRAVELLER. Referring to the ' Life and Letters of John Ledyard,' by Jared Sparks (London, Colburn, 1828), I should be glad of the following information :

1. Is anything known concerning a relative of the same surname, " a rich merchant " living in London between 1772 and 1777 ? Pp. 42-3.

2. Is any record known of the marriage of a (John ?) Ledyard (of England, not an American) and a Miss Yarborough between 1690 and 1701 ?

3. Was " the family name " ever placed on a carriage in those days ? or are " family arms " intended when it is said that Ledyard saw " the family name " on a carriage, and thus found the house of his relative ? P. 44.

4. Can anything be learnt of " the Swedish portrait " of John Ledyard which was at Somerset House when he was pre- paring to go to Africa under the auspices of the African Association and Sir Joseph Banks ? (Mrs.) CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD.

Cazenovia, Madison Co., New York.

JOHN BANKES, HABERDASHER. John Bankes (sometimes spelt Banks) by his will gave certain money to charity, and also benefited the Haberdashers' Company.

In his will, which is dated 21 March, 1716, he is described simply as citizen and haber- dasher of London, and he desired that he should be buried " in the Burying ground of Winchester Park in Southwark, near my irst wife and daughter there interred." The last record of his attendance at a meet- ng of the Court of this Company is on 28 November, 1719. Probate of his will ,vas granted by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 26 April, 1720, and he must herefore have died between these two dates.

John Bankes was a man of very con- iderable means, and was probably fairly veil-known in his day, and in the grant f probate of his will he is referred to as

John Bankes, late of the Parish of St. Benedict near Paul's Wharf, London, but n the Parish of Battersea in the County of urry, deceased."

The Haberdashers' Company are desirous, I possible, of ascertaining the date of his death and the place, of his burial, and al- hough a very careful search has been made n the Southwark records, no result has been btained.