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REBELLION OF 1715 : THOMAS RAD- CLIFFE. Can any reader inform me whether Mr. Thomas Radcliffe of Dilston, a cousin of the Earl of Der went water, was " out " in the insurrection of 1715 ? Thomas Rad- cliffe married an Agnes Thornborough, and had issue a son Thomas (born 1706). Thomas the elder died in 1737 (vide Corbridge Parish Register). Had he any other children ? and, if so, do any of their descendants still exist ?

GENEALOGIST.

BLIND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, &c. Prof. Henry Fawcett sat in Parliament for years, and became Postmaster-General in 1880, although afflicted with blindness from the age of 25 through an accident. He was from July, 1865, to 1874 M.P. for Brighton.

Sir William Tindal Robertson also repre- sented Brighton in Parliament from Novem- ber, 1886, to his death on 6 Oct., 1889, al- though he had lost his sight in 1873.

Are there any previous instances of blind members of Parliament ?

In ' Speeches of Lord Campbell at the Bar and in the House of Commons,' 1842, p. 137, it is said, with reference to the case Stock- dale v. Hansard : " On that day [23 April, 1839] Mr. Curwood appeared for the plaintiff . . . .concluding with an apology on account of his being afflicted with blindness."

Any details of the life of this learned counsel will be welcomed. F. C. WHITE.

REV. RICHARD SCOTT. I shall be grateful to any of your readers who can give me biographical information concerning the Rev. Richard Scott, M.A., who was appointed Master of King's Lynn Grammar School on 6 July, 1797, and resigned his post about midsummer, 1803. At the time of his appointment he is described as "of Faken- ham." R. S. H.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

I should be glad to obtain any information concerning the following Old Westminsters : (1) Robert Clayton, scholar of Trin. Coll., Camb., 1668. (2) Archibald Cleveland, ad- mitted 1722, aged 8. (3) Joseph Clement, admitted K.S., 1673. (4) Edward Cliff, admitted 1715, aged 9. (5) Richard Cliffe. admitted 1729, aged 15. (6) George Coape^ born 9 May, 1805, admitted 1818. (7) Robert Cobb, born 9 Dec., 1803, admitted 1816. (8) Edward Cochran, admitted 1725, aged 11. (9) James Cockran, admitted 1717, aged 13. (10) Thomas Cockreen, admitted 1739, aged 11. G. F. R. B.

CHARLES I. : JOHN LAMBERT AND LIEUT.- COL. COBBETT. A John Lambert was appointed a Commissioner for the trial of Charles I. in 1649, but did not attend. Was this the well-known General John Lambert ? If not, who was he ? The custody of the King was committed to Lieut.-Col. Cobbett and others. Was this Col. Ralph Cobbett, who in 1655 was employed, probably with his regiment, at Dundee ? F. T.

HERALDIC. Can any one tell me whose the following arms are ? The tinctures are not known. Three boars' heads couped erect, 2 and 1, impaling semee of Latin crosses, three greyhounds courant, on a can- ton a lion passant. For crest, a lion statant on a branch. A. G. KEALY.

13, Cornwall Road, Bedford.

'" STILE " = " HILL." In West Galway (lar Connacht District) I met a shepherd who was looking for lost sheep on top of a lofty hill. He asked me, " Were you on this stile before, to-day ? " I thought it very strange to hear in this Irish-speaking locality a word which seems by derivation (from stigan, to mount) pure Anglo-Saxon. Can any reader say if " stile " for " hill " is used in any English dialect, or if it is in common use in Galway ? Was it in use in literary English ? EALA.

' JOHN GILPIN ' IN LATIN ELEGIACS. I should be thankful to any of your readers who could tell me of a book which appeared some time ago, entitled ' The Story of John Gilpin translated into Latin Elegiacs.' I think the translation was made by a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, but I am unable to recall the name of the translator or of the publisher. H. T.

Dublin.

KILGRIMOL PRIORY. ' The Lost Brother,' one of the stories in Mr. William Canton's ' Book of Saints,' has the scene laid in the Priory of Kilgrimol, the time being the .reign of Edward III. ; but I never heard of any Priory of Kilgrimol except in this story. Did such a priory once exist ?

J. MACDONALD,

Kilgrimol School, St. Annes-on-the-Sea.

MILITARY MACHINES. John Gray in his 'Treatise of Gunnery' (London, 1731), having occasion to refer to the testudo, musculus, vinea, and pluteus of the ancient Romans, states that these machines " ans- wer nearly to our penthouses, mantlets, galleries, and blinds," but does not describe