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estates near Derby, Vincent Mundy was lord of the manor of Alstonefield in Stafford- shire (Calendar of the Pleadings, Duchy of Lancaster). Alstonefield was formerly a parish fifteen miles long. Vincent Mundy was returned M.P. for Derbyshire, 3 Oct., 1555. At his death his eldest son, Edward, suc- ceeded to his Derbyshire estates. Edward Mundy (armiger) died in 1607, and there is a monument effigy to his memory in Mack- worth Church, Derby. He provided for his younger sons by giving them one or two farms each for terms of ninety-nine years ; while his youngest son, Zaccheus, was to have a pecuniary bequest when he had finished his apprenticeship. To his daugh- ters he gave pecuniary bequests. A long inventory of his personal effects on a strip of parchment or vellum is particularly interesting, including armour and a large number of cattle. For some reason or other he was unable to sign his name. Prob- ably he was too ill to do so.

MONEDEE.

"THE FAITHFUL DUBHAMS " (11 S. viii. 30). This query has not been answered. If BBADSTOW will refer to 10 S. viii. 257, he will find a quotation from The Army and Navy Gazette of 25 May, 1907 :

" The 68th Foot became known as ' The Faith- ful Durhams ' because of their steadfastness in the desultory operations against the Caribs in the West Indies in 1764, when the regiment suffered much hardship."

BBADSTOW was not likely to find this pas- sage, as it appears under ' " Moke," a Donkey : Nicknames of the Army Service Corps.' G. K.'s reply, which I am quoting, concerns the 56th, 58th, and 68th Regi- ments.

The sobriquet "The Faithful Durhams" is given, without explanation, in John S. Farmer's ' Regimental Records of the British Army,' 1901. ROBEBT PIEBPOINT.

CLEMENTINA STIBLING GBAHAME (11 S. ix. 129, 194). The David Grahame of Duntrune who became fourth titular Vis- count Dundee was first cousin to William Grahame of Claverhouse, the father of the celebrated John Grahame of Claverhouse, first Viscount Dundee, and of David Grahame, the third Viscount. Both David Grahame of Duntrune, fourth titular Viscount Dundee, and his cousin William Grahame of Claver- house, were grandsons of Sir William Grahame of Claverhouse, who acted as one of the curators of his kinsman James Graham, fifth Earl and first Marquess ("the Great Marquess") of Montrose.

David Grahame of Duntrune, fourth titular Viscount Dundee, was succeeded by his son William, who was attainted in 1715, and by his grandson James, sixth and last titular Viscount Dundee, who was attainted in 1745, and died without issue.

William Grahame, fifth titular Viscount Dundee (attainted in 1715), had at least two brothers, Alexander and David ; and Alex- ander Grahame of Duntrune, son of the latter, was the father of the Alexander Grahame who died s.p. 1802, and of Anne, Amelia, Clementina, and Alison Grahame, who inherited Duntrune equally. Amelia Grahame married Patrick Stirling of Pitten- driech, and their daughter Clementina took the surname of Stirling-Grahame (or Graham) of Duntrune, and died s.p. in 1877.

Clementina Stirling-Grahame was, how- ever, not the nearest representative of the celebrated John Grahame of Claverhouse, first Viscount Dundee, for Anna Grahame (Mrs. Robert Young of Auldbar), his sister, had a daughter Anna (Mrs. James Barclay of Balmekewan), whose son, William Barclay of Balmekewan, took the surname of Bar- clay- Grahame. The descendants of the latter, known as the Barclay-Grahames of Morphie, are the nearest living representa- tives of the famous first Viscount Dundee. RONALD DLXON.

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TYING LEGS AFTEB DEATH : OTHEB DEATH FOLK-LOBE (11 S. ix. 128, 196). May "an ancient dame inspire a pen," as suggested by ST. SWITHLN, and note a few superstitions as actually beheld by her ? In a long life I have collected many at first hand. Now I record only my own experiences, not as seen amongst the peasantry, but in my own middle rank of life.

I have seen the old English gardener of a wealthy English lady walk into her garden at night, and, tapping on each beehive with the doorkey, say distinctly at each hive : " The mistress is dead." (Had he not done so, he believed the bees would leave the garden.) This was in 1886, and the man was from Dorsetshire.

I have seen in Dublin, when my brother, a lawyer, died there in 1891, his Catholic servants run to stop every clock in the house at the moment of death not to tick again till the funeral had left for the cemetery.

I have seen in Ulster and in the Isle of Wight all mirrors in the room covered, " lest the spirit of the dead be reflected there " ; and in both places I have seen doors left ajar so that it might go in and out freely