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Early this year a novel was published by Mr. John Long entitled ' A Fool to Fame,' written by J. E. Harold Terry, a citizen of York. The fact that this book is a great deal more than a novel, and that it con- tains many new facts regarding the lives of highwaymen, may easily be overlooked. I quote the following from the Introduction :

" Ye moste enthrallinge Historic of Ye Life and Deathe of Johnne Nevison, Esquire, of Ponte- fract, ye moste j ustlie famed of Highwaymen .... and doth conclude with ye true and authenticke accounte of his Create Ride from London to Yorke, ye which he did actuallie accomplish upon a single mare between sunrise and sunsette of one day as hithertoe wrongfullie attributed to Richard Turpin."

The author gives a very valuable Ap- pendix of over fifty pages of historical notes, both on Turpin and Nevison, and a long list of authorities. The book is a welcome addition to the literature of highwaymen, and should not be missed by the serious student. HENEY ROGERS.

Eversley, Stanhope Road, Highgate, N.

FULL WOOD AND HALLE Y (11 S. VI. 303).

Richard Halley of Smerellgraunge and Robert Gilbert of Yolgreve, gentleman, were witnesses to a charter of feoffment given at Castleton (co. Derby), 21 Edw. IV., which is now in the MS. Department of the Public Reference Library at Sheffield.

There was a numerous family of Fulwod resident in the Sheffield district in the fourteenth century ; and Fullwood is the ancient name of a west-end suburb of Sheffield. T, WAI/TEH HALL.

Sheffield.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED {11 S. vi. 310). 2. ZOUCH TOWNLEY. He matriculated from Ch. Ch. on 22 Dec., 1618, as "Lanes, arm. f. natu maximus, 17." Wood in his c Fasti Oxonienses,' under 1621, says :

" He is now [1621] esteemed a noted orator and philosopher. . . .he was several times deputy orator of this university .... His oration in memory of Camden was reprinted by Dr. Tho. Smith, at the end of Camden's life before his epistles, and the epistles of others to him."

A. R. BAYLEY. (11 S. vi. 370.)

1. WILLIAM INCE apparently died in 1750, for in that year Henry Cookson was instituted to Patney "per mortem William Ince " (Sir T. Phillipps, ' Wiltshire Institutions,' pt. ii. p. 74). William Ince does not seem to have held any other benefice or preferment.

J. J. H.

2. ALEXANDER INGLIS, LL.B., Trinity Hall, 1726. This was probably the Alexander Inglis, son of Alexander Inglis, Doctor of Medicine, admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 8 May, 1721. He does not seem to have been called to the Bar. S.

3. WILLIAM JAMES. Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ' says :

" William James, b. 1576. Son of William James, Bishop of Durham, at Christchurch : matric. 10 Feb., 1592, aged 16. Student B.A. 6 March, 1595. M.A. 21 May, 1599. Public Orator, 1601-4," &c.

This William James was the eldest son of the Bishop by Katharine, daughter of William Kisby (Kysbie), Mayor of Abing don. The Bishop's wife has a brass to her memory at Kingham (Oxon) Church, on the north wall of the chancel. She died in 1588. The Orator, according to the Heralds' Visitation of Durham in 1615, married Anne, daughter of John Doiley of Overbury, Suffolk, and had a son John, aged 9 in 1615. In the Bishop's will, dated 2 Oct., 1615, acknowledged by the testator 11 May, 1617, and proved at York 4 July, 1617, occurs the following :

" Grandchild John James, son of my son William James, deceased, over and above the interest which he has in the lease of the parsonage of Spelsbury, co. Oxon, which was given to his deceased father by me, lOOi. at 21."

Can anybody give further particulars ?

W. A. JAMES. 22, Norfolk Square, W.

"CLUB WALKS" (11 S. vi. 349). A most interesting article on ' Club Pole Heads in Somerset,' written by Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, appeared in The Con- noisseur for April, 1906. Another, en- titled ' Somerset Club Brasses..' by Mr. Emanuel Green, was published in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association for September, 1909. Still another, entitled ' Head Hunting : a West Somerset Hobby,' by Mr. J. Kelway, appeared in Country Life on 1 Jan., 1910, All these deal with " Club Walks."

I have attended dozens of them in Somerset towns and villages ; and, a few years ago, the local papers frequently contained well- written descriptions of the processions, festivities, and proceedings generally.

ENQUIRER can find a chapter on Club Day ' in ' Rambles, Roamings, and Recollections,' by " John Trotandot,'' pub- lished by Longman, Green, Reader & Dyer in 1870. The writer (the late Mr. G. P. R. Pulman) was the editor and