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COL. NATHANIEL GOBD ON AND STRATFORD. In a petition to the King, of December, 1660 (S.P. Dom. Charles II., bundle 25, p. 42), Adam Gordon of Ardlogie, Aberdeen- shire, says that his father, the well-known Royalist, Col. Nathaniel Gordon (executed 20 Jan., 1646), was

" the first man who did draw his sword at White- hall against the apprentices of London and others of the tumultuous vulgar rabble at that tyme who did crye out for justice against the Earl Strafford."

Is there any corroboration of this ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

DRAGOON REGIMENTS : BAND. Can any of your readers inform me why the bands of dragoon regiments wear a different coloured plume from the officers and rest of the rank and file ? ALFRED GWYTHER.

MARY PUTNAM JACOBI : MRS. ELLIS. The former wrote ' Stories and Sketches,' most of which originally appeared in Put- nam's Monthly between 1860 and 1870. The publisher's note affords clues to the early years of her brilliant career, but tells us little subsequent to her marriage. Who was her husband ? Was he of Jewish origin ?

Mrs. Ellis wrote an instructive volume entitled ' The Beautiful in Nature and Art ' (Hurst & Blackett), 1866, and was the author of many other volumes, including ' The Women of England.' She was also probably the proprietress of a girls' school known as Rawdon House. She seems to have been a most delightful person. Pos- sibly some of her pupils may be willing to tell us something further about her.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

PLACE-NAMES. (See 7 S. xii. 382.) In the list of place-names in Herts furnished by LORD ALDENHAM occur Great and Little Nats, also Breaches. In this parish we have fields bearing the same names. I should be glad to know if they have any special meaning, and whether they occur elsewhere. FREDERIC TURNER.

Eghara, Surrey.

KEIGHLEY : PRONUNCIATION. Can any reader say why Keighley (Yorkshire) is pronounced Keethley ? T. S.

STEPHEN GRELLET. In a recent book called ' Life and the Great Forever,' by E. Chesney, a Stephen Grellet is named as the author of the well-known sentence " I shall pass through this world but once." Who is the Stephen Grellet here referred to ?

S. W.

ASSIGNMENT OF ARMS. Can any of your readers tell me to what family the following arms belong ? They appear on silver plate about 1770 : Ermine, on a chief invected azure, three escallops argent.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Ewell, Surrey.

TORRENS. Who was Torrens, who gave his name to a Housing of the Poor Act passed by one of Disraeli's ministries ?

J. D.

GUSTAVUS HARRISON. Can any one give me any information as to Gustavus Harrison, who fought in the 63rd Regiment in the Crimean War ? ERNEST F. Row.

DIDDINGTON FARM, WARWICKSHIRE. Who built Diddington Farm, Diddington, near Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire ? I believe it was built some time in the six- teenth or early in the seventeenth century, if that will be any guide. During the seventeenth century it was occupied by a family of the name of Whitehouse, whose ancestors, I believe, also dwelt there. Can you tell me when the first Whitehouse family took to the house, and if there were any arms of that family ?

I have looked up several histories of Warwickshire, but up to the present cannot get any satisfaction. I believe, however, there were originally arms of the family.

FRANK C. WHITEHOUSE.

22, Broad Street, Marine Parade, Brighton.

THE STONE'S END, BOROUGH. A coach- ing book in my possession states that Ports- mouth is 71 miles and 7 furlongs from the Stone's End, in the Borough. Where was this, and when and why was it so called ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

PUNCH AND JUDY. Could you tell me what is the derivation of the names Punch and Judy and dog Toby ? Have the first two any relation to Pontius Pilate and Judas? Where could I find a history (not too pro- found for the grasp of a very lay mind) of the play not only in England, but in its collateral forms of Polichinelle and Punchin- ello abroad ? Is there a traditional dialogue for the English form ? If so, is it observed with any strictness by the ordinary street showman of to-day ? and where, if at all, can it be obtained ? FRANCES NOEL.

[For Punch and Judy see 1 S. v. 610 ; vi, 43, 184 ; 2 S. ii.' 430, 495 ; 3 S. ii. 387, 476 ; 5 S. vi. 296, 333, 354 ; vii. 37 ; x. 347, 394, 476, 525 ; 7 S. xi. 3 ; 9 S. v. 513 ; 10 S. xi. 371, 497.J