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PAGE FAMILY. The following short pedi- gree occurs in the ' Visitation of London ' under Tower Ward. Does the William Page described as B.A. of St. John's Col- lege represent the William Page who was master of Reading School, and afterwards appointed (on 16 Jan., 1646/7) to the Rectory of East Lockinge, Berks, and who died there 24 Feb., 1663/4 ? I shall be glad to have any notes on this pedigree.

William Page=pElizabeth, dau. of

Citizen and Ironmonger of London.

Thomas Spenee of London.

William Page=f Jane, dau. of Bucke- of London, gent., ridge, in co. Berks,

living 1633.

William Page, Eliz. Page.

s. and h., B.A. of St. John's Coll., Oxon, now living, 1633.

A. STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddinjston.

AYLOFFE. Can any correspondent of Mr. Serjeant Ayloffe,counsellor-at-law, whose daughter Isabella married Sir Edward Bolton of Brazeel, co. Dublin, knighted 2 Feb., 1635, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland ?
 * N. & Q.' give me particulars and lineage of

WILLIAM JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

ABRAHAM WHITTAKER of Stratford in Essex married Penelope, daughter of John Tempest of Cranbrooke in Kent, about the year 1800. Can any of your readers tell me anything about the ancestors of either of these families ? ETHEL LANGHAM.

Tempo Manor, co. Fermanagh.

1. HERODOTUS AND ASTRONOMIC GEO- GRAPHY. Can any reader refer me to any magazine article of as early a date as possible or to any scientific reference to, or logical use of, Herodotus's remark in Book II. sec. 142 :

" The sun, however, within this period of time [eleven thousand three hundred and forty years! on four several occasions moved from his wonted course, twice rising where he now set3, and twice setting where he now rises."

2. MUSICAL NOTATION : ASTRONOMIC SIGNS AND SCALE. Can any of your readers refer me to any old work on musical notation wherein pictures and signs of lutes and flutes, or sun, moon, and stars, or Zodiac signs, are used as symbols of the notes ?

CECIL OWEN. High School, Perth, W.A.

ST. PANCRAS. Where can I obtain par- ticulars of the life and martyrdom of St. Pancras at Rome ? Can any reader tell me how to obtain information as to the history of the old St. Pancras Church in Pancras Road ? It is said to contain traces of a church built over the site of a previous one. The latter is supposed to have been built about 900, but I have no definite information. J. G. W. FARLEY.

St. Mary's, Somers Town, N.W.

[For the history of the saint the 'Catholic Encyclopaedia' might be consulted, and also 1 N. & Q.,' 4 S. xi. 95, 159, 264 ; 5 S. vii. 409 ; viii. 75 ; 78. vi. 123. For the church see 4 S. v. 439 ; vii. 36; 5 S. xi. 148,237; 8 S. vii. 388; viii. 128; ix.91.]

" Two STONES FARM," RICKMANSWORTH. Is it known how this homestead obtained its title ? Were there two large stones on the site possibly masses of Hertfordshire Conglomerate such as are to be found a few miles away ? If so, have they disappeared ? W. B. GERISH.

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD. At what date and by whom were the names ' Ritual of the Dead ' or ' Book of the Dead ' first used to describe the texts found on the papyri of Egyptian mummies ?

W. W. WESTCOTT.

THE MURDER OF A PRIEST NEAR READING.

(11 S. ix. 130.)

THE REV. FRANCIS LONGUET, a priest officiating at the Roman Catholic Church in Reading, was murdered on Thursday, 13 Feb., 1817. Accounts of the affair vary slightly, but in the main they agree. Longuet was in the habit of giving French lessons in the neigh- bourhood, and on the day when he was murdered he had visited friends at Walling - ford and Pangbourne. At the former place he had been paid fees which were owing to him to the amount of thirteen guineas. On his way homeward in the evening, he called at Mr. Morton's house, near Pangbourne, on a friendly visit, and leaving there about 7 o'clock, he was found later to have been murdered near Norcot Lane, a spot which was then well outside the town of Reading, but which is at present on its confines, and is close to where the building of the Pulsometer works now stands.