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Lucan, perceiving that the troops were suffering severely from the Russian fire, ordered the recall to be sounded, remarking : " They have sacrificed the Light Brigade : they shall not the Heavy, if I can help it." The Heavies were at this time under the Causeway Heights, on the English right ; the opportune charge of the Chasseurs d'Afrique had previously silenced the guns on the Fedioukine Hills (English left), and thus materially assisted the retreat of the Light Brigade.

Having always taken the keenest interest in the Battle of Balaclava, read all that has come in my way, and for many years corresponded and conversed with survivors of the Light Cavalry, I may be pardoned for entering so much into detail.

E. L. H. TEW. Upham Rectory, Hants.

AN ANTEDATED PATENT OF NOBILITY {11 S. ix. 308). If Defoe had lived in the days of halfpenny newspapers, his journal- istic jottings would have qualified him for a post on afternoon or after-theatre editions. Before attempting to draw conclusions from his statements, it might be as well to inquire whether they are correct. With regard to Cardinal Alberoni, nothing is known as to his having had a daughter. There were no Marquesses of Bracciano, but there were Dukes. In 1697 Livio Odescalchi bought the dukedom of Bracciano ; he died in 1713. His son Baldassare married firstly, in 1712, Flaminia Borghese, and secondly, in 1721, Maria Maddalena Borghese, the sister of his first wife. By the second marriage there were four daughters and two song : Lucio Francesco, born 1725, and Innocenzo, born 1727. The statements cannot refer to the Orsinis, because Bernardo Filippo Orsini, who died in 1734, had by his wife Giacinta dei principi Ruspoli a son Domenico Orsini, Duca di Gravina, born 1719, who married Flaminia Odescalchi.

Unless some more reliable particulars are forthcoming, we seem to be a long way from having established the precedent of ante- dating nobility patents. LEO C.

INWOOD OB INWARD FAMILY (11 S. viii. 208, 277, 295). This name is occasionally met with in Hertfordshire. The following three marriages took place at Rickmans- worth: 26 Sept., 1757, Alex. Inwood and Ann Sale ; 3 May, 1798, Wm. Inwood, w., and Sarah Baldwin ; 7 May, 1803, Chas. Inwood and Hannah Winnett.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

ROBERT PAYNE (11 S. ix. 409). In Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars ' the note to William Ap Rice (p. 121) is practically identical with that to Robert Payne (p. 123). It gives (so far as it goes) Payne's career correctly, but it is wholly inapplicable to William Ap Rice, who became neither Fellow of New College, Oxford, nor Rector of the New College living of Saham Toney. In our Register of Scholars the marginal note to William Ap Rice is now simply " sponte," and was doubtless " re[cessit] sponte " before the margin of the page was trimmed (many years ago) in the rebinding of the book. If William Ap Rice had mi- grated to New College, the note would have been " re. Oxon." He appears neither in the ' Liber Successionis et Dignitatis ' (as to which see ante, p. 466), nor in another MS. book which we have here, containing lists of incumbents of New College livings (down to about 1837).

RALPH PYKERYNG (US. ix. 409). With regard to Pykeryng's place of origin, MR. WAINEWRIGHT has been misled by Kirby (p. 112). The entry in our Register (under 1523) runs thus :

" Radulphus Pyckryng de Charsey xi A[nno- rum] in festo Sancti Martini in hieme [i.e., 11 Nov.] preterite Winton. dioc."

That " Charsey " means, not Chark in Titchfield (Kirby's reading), but Chertsey, appears from the ' Liber S. et D.,' where Pykeryng is described as " de villa Chersey com. Surrise, dioc. Winton."

PETER RUSSELL (11 S. ix. 409) came, according to our Register, from " Wolver- ton " in the diocese of Winchester, which means, not Wolverton in Berkshire (as MR. WAINEWRIGHT suggests), but Wolver- ton in Hampshire, a parish which lies to the east of Kingsclere. According to the ' Liber S. et D.,' Peter Russell was " de villa Sutton com. Southt.," and was Fellow of New College 1549 (24 Dec.)-1552. . " Vicarius de crondal " is the marginal note to him in our Register. H. C.

Winchester College.

GODDARD DUNNING, PAINTER (11 S. ix. 290). We have two paintings by " God- dardus Dunning," which belonged to the Steele -Perkins family of Orton Hall, Ather- stone, Leicestershire, both dated 1672 : one a hunter in scarlet, on a dark horse, blowing a horn ; and the other a gentleman riding a white horse. The frames are of the period, carved wood and gilt.

CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

St. Leonards -on-Sea.