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confused ; but I have never supposed that Wilmcote could give rise to Williamscote, mentioned for the first time at p. 115 ante. Dugdale, in writing of Binton, says that Elias de Woncote " brancht from the house of Wilmcote near Stratford -super- Avon " (p. 498 of the 1765 edition of ' Warwick- shire '). Was Dugdale confusing Wilmcote (in Aston Cantlow) with Wincote (in Clifford Chambers), or was he unaware of the last named ? A. C. C.

The arms desired are : (1) Barry of seven, arg. and az., over all a lion ramp, gu., crowned or. (2) Barry of seven, or and az., a lion ramp, gu., crowned or.

ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

EARLY RAILWAY TRAVELLING (11 S. vii. 109). At what date the practice of tra- velling by rail in a family carriage hoisted on to a truck became extinct I cannot say. I remember, however, in my youth (between forty and fifty years ago) hearing of an eccentric passenger who insisted on going in this fashion to Brighton, and did it. The odd sequel to the adventure was that his truck, the last vehicle of the train, some- how became disconnected in a tunnel, and left the unfortunate gentleman plant?. Id, in horrified expectation of being dashed to pieces by the next oncoming train. He was, I believe, saved from this fate, but the mishap probably cured him of essaying any more rash adventures of the kind. I imagine he must have been one of the last people, if not the very last, who journeyed to Brighton, or anywhere else, in this style. D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus.

The late, and to many people's thinking eccentric, Duke of Portland was in the habit of travelling from Welbeck to London sitting in his carriage, which was placed on a carriage truck provided by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company now the Great Central for the purpose. Shortly before his death he travelled in this way to London, and this was his last railway journey. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

It is not definitely stated that Mr.Dombey's own carriage was taken by train from Euston to Birmingham and thence by road to Leamington. This was possible. The cost would be 31. 15s. if the vehicle was on a truck by itself, plus second-class fare for every person travelling in or on the carriage.

So ** the Native " cost as much to transport as his master, " Major B," They had to be at the station at least a quarter of an hour before the time of departure (vide ' Osborne's London and Birmingham Railway Guide, 1838'). As they could be transported by a first-class train, we may assume they left London at 11 A.M., reaching Birmingham 4.37, and Leamington about 6 o'clock.

This method of travelling was available at least to 1865 :

" Passengers Conveyed in Private Carriages If they consist of the owner, or members of his family, a first-class ticket has to be taken for each passenger ; but if occupied by the owner's servants, second-class fares are chargeable." ' Book of Information for Railway Travellers, &c.,* by B. Bond of the Great Western Railway, 1865, p. 87.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

Your querist quotes a case from a work of fiction. Here is one which occurred in real life. Sarah, Lady Lyttelton, writes on 31 Aug., 1839 :

" Lady Harriet Clive offers to take me

all the way through London by Birmingham by rail road in her own carriage, letting our maids travel by the public first class." ' Corre- spondence,' p. 289.

If I remember correctly, Prince Metter- nich left Vienna in a similar way after his downfall in 1848, travelling in his own covered carriage placed on a railway truck.

L/L. K.

[It may be remembered that the worthy Mrs. Pipchin, having bought Mr. Dornbey's favourite chair at the sale, proposed to travel in that by rail to Brighton.]

RALPH CARR (US. vii. 70, 133). I have abridged the following from a privately printed ' History of the Family of Carr,* folio, 3 vols., 1893-9.

Ralph Carr, second son of Ralph Carr, banker and merchant of Dunston Hill, Whickham, co. Durham, was born there on 25 May, 1768, educated at Beverley School and afterwards at Westminster School, entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1785, was elected Fellow of Merton in 1789, and took his M.A. degree in 1792. In that year he was reading for the Bar in Gray's Inn, afterwards became a member of the Middle Temple, and was in due course called to the Bar; on 16 Dec., 1793, he married Caroline Gregg, daughter of Francis Gregg, formerly M.P. for Oxford. In 1806 he bought the small estate of Barrow Point Hill, Pinner, co. Middlesex, and in 1809 exchanged some property at Long Horsley, Northumberland, for the estate of Stannington, near Morpeth