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 l 12 NOTES AN D QUERIES. [11 s. vn. Fu. 8, mn. instancmbuteveryeditorknowshowdim-p cultitistodetectamisprintofthiskindi bbdltélldét l[l.T. aYxl,from vmgconsul anmcomplete ed.itionofthe‘D|ary,’isunabletoagree withPnor.DUrmastotbehea_;fyof thereferencestothisperson. are tenreferencestohizmcountingtheonein whiehhe6guresas“Drum.’ Hkname isspeltasfollowsinthe‘Diary’:Dun2, I)unnl,Dunne3,andDonne3;thelast spelling probably indicates the correct name. Lord Bratyibrookeb s that themanwasreayThomas ,amas- sengeroftheAdmxralty,seemstebeavery improbable   Donngiarashea trustworthy to epys w was at sea. I?l k to the Dianst s perty from the shipbaniis house in hmm; and he carried out the undertaking satis- factorily. Once more P alludes to Donne when the latter ml at the Navy office and had supper 05 a haunch of venison (14 July, 1662). His name does not occur again in the ‘Diary,’ which looks as if he passed out of Pe&ys’s life, and it is unlikely that he was an o cial of the Navy ohice. Hnmur B. Wrnzxrmr. Mrsusanmc Mxu:s'roNzs (ll S. vii. 30). -These very ancient stones probabl mark tlxekugu,e<Lu:ltol{Romannnl,es' . It passed from ul to Britain. Here it was defined as duodecim quaranteinia, 12 furlongs or mods of 40 rods. This measure survived for a long time in the circumference stated for the verge of the king`s court. This duo- decimal multiple of the furlong was gradu- ally superseded by the mile, originally 5,000 Roman feet, then 5,000 English feet, and in- creased in Tudor times to its present length of 8 furlongs. It is seen, bot in the leuga and in the mile, that these are multiples of the rod and the furlong, the latter not being originally a division of the mile. It would be interesting to know the exact, or the mean, distances between the leuga-stones, whether they corresponded to the Roman mile=l,62l yards, or to the longer mile in English feet. Enwsnn N rcnonsox. Croc de Cagnes, near N ice. Ms. J. I..z~rnrm1m Lucas, at this reference, speaks of the apparently incorrect distances s iown by man of the stones erected by the sides of our old' roads, and which go by the general name of milestones. He refers to their distance apart being in some cases l} miles. Are we to understand that on a road between A and`B, two places L 4§ miles (statute) apart, there would be threeatonesonly,atl}miles,3miles,and gll1il$,0l’f.hl|i8t08¢h0f|'.h§d,i8 would be stones marked 1, 2, uid 3miles! I.ft.hefonner,howwerethe distances marked on the reverse journey, viz.,fromBtoA! Insome couespondene indaily journals sinceMn.Ls1mrxsnLI:csssaysthathe has now been informed by a Devonshire friendthatseveralsuchstonesexistinthe neighbourhood ofPrincetown,andthes£ posedreasonfortheirbeingplaeedat distance am1of2kilome-treswlsforthe benefit of ch prkoners, 1806-ll (circa), on parole,whoweregiven“limi1s”mthe measure to which they were accustomed.. Asonewhohastraxnlpedtheroadsand much of the moorlan in the neighbour- hood of Princetown every year now for many years, and has never before heard of the existence of such so-called milestones, IshouldbegladifMn.LawnrEanLUcAs or his friend would inform me through ur columns at what places in the vicinity txse boumdstones ma be found. Will he abc kindly tell me how much of the exiting road-system across the moor was in exist- ence at the time the Princetown prisons were oticupied ay  prisoners I Also, were e paro pnsonerstelnngexerche confinedtotheroads! W. B. B.H. Wssros Pxrmcx, H.s.N'rs, .mn Knee Fnumns IN Inzemsnn (ll S.  29).--It is perhaps scarce necessary to observe that the surname  is not of Irish orighx. Theearliestbearerofitlcantraceinlreland isaJamesKing,describedasbo'ninDublin in 1498, celebrated as a scholar and author of ‘ Carmina in laudem Henrici Sydnmi ’ and ‘ Diversa Epigrammataf who died circa 1569. He was most probably of the family “ Kinge of Dublin,’ whose arms, copied circa 1606, were “ Azure, 3 lozenges or.” Of the same family, there can be little doubt, were the Kings of Clontarf Castle, near Dublin, whose arms, also copied circa 1606, are the same as the preceding, save that the lozenges are “ voided ” (mascles), probably for a diHerence. They were amongst the English of the Pale who rebelled against the Commonwealth, and had their estate con- fiscated and given to a follower of Cromwell. Of the same stock robabl was the scholar of the surname,  as a native of Connaught, who assisted good Bishop Bedell ln translating the New Testament into the Irish toxic; he was a convert to the Established urch, md appointed by e