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Pembrokeshire.

Kilrhedin. Carmarthen and Pembroke* (now two parishes, East Kilrhedin in Carmarthen and West Kilrhedin in Pembroke).

Radnor. Glasbury on Wye. Brecon and Radnor. t

PARISHES ACROSS ENGLAND AND WALES.

Cheshire. f'

Doddleston. Cheshire* and Flint (detached part). Malpas. Cheshire* and Flint (detached part).

Denbighshire. Llansilin. Denbigh* and Salop.

Herefordshire. Brampton Bryan. Hereford* and Radnor.

Monmouthshire.

Bed was. Monmotith* and Glamorgan. Machen. Monmouth* and Glamorgan.

Montgomeryshire.

Churchstoke. Montgomery* and Salop. Hyssington. Montgomery* and Salop.

Radnor.

Old Radnor. Radnor* and Hereford. Presteigne. Radnor* and Hereford.

Shropshire.

Alberbury. Salop* and Montgomery. Ellesmere. Salop* and Flint. Llanymynech. Salop f and Denbigh. Lydham. Salop* and Montgomery. Worthin. Salop* and Montgomery.

The above list does not include a number of ecclesiastical districts in two counties, formed early in the nineteenth century from portions of old parishes which were in different counties, but lying opposite on each side of county boundaries.

The following cities, municipal boroughs, and census towns were in two counties in 1861 :

Cities.

Bristol (Gloucester and Somerset), Oxford (Oxford and Berks).

Municipal Boroughs.

Cardigan (Cardigan and Pembroke), Great Yar- mouth (Norfolk and Suffolk), Ludlow (Salop and Hereford), Newmarket (Cambridge and Suffolk), Stalybridge (Cheshire and Lanca- shire), Stamford (Lincoln and Northants), Stockport (Cheshire and Lancashire), Sudbury (Suffolk and Essex), Tamworth (Warwick and Stafford), Thetford (Norfolk and Suffolk), Warring-ton (Lancashire and Cheshire).

Other Census Towns.

Redditch (Worcester and Warwick), Tunbridge Wells (Kent and Sussex).

Perhaps to this list London ought to be added as being until lately in Middlesex and Surrey, but the city and municipality was in the former county only.

A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS. 60 Rothesay Road, Luton.

LILIAN ADELAIDE NEILSON (12 S. i. 329, 370). Most persons who read the interesting communication of SIB WILLOUGHBY MAY- COCK will agree with him that the beautiful actress has not been fortunate in her biographers. The best account that I have seen is the late Joseph Knight's monograph in the ' LXN.B.,' but even he does not reveal many things that one would like to know. Without undue curiosity, one may seek for information concerning the " very handsome Spaniard" who was her father, and desire further particulars about Philip Henry Lee,, her husband. According to Mr. Knight it was an " unhappy marriage," and it appears to have spoilt her life just at the period when, according to the late Clement Scott, "her sorrows seemed suddenly to end." The time, perhaps, has not yet come when a biography of Adelaide Neilson can be written, and discreet reticence may have to be observed when the task is undertaken ; but after making allowance for the cruel ex- periences of her early career with the knowledge that any error of her later life was due to her matrimonial, misfortune enough of romance will remain to make her story one of the most fascinating in the history of the stage.

Is Clement Scott wholly fair in stating that it was from her mother that she obtained her "North-Country accent" ? Would it not be more true to say that it was from her youthful environment ? Joseph Knight say that she was " the daughter of a somewhat obscure actress named Brown," but he does not inform us that the mother was a Yorkshire woman. Perhaps Adelaide Neil- son's histrionic gifts were inherited. The account in the ' D.N.B.' tells so much that the obituary notices do not speak of that I will quote a portion of it :

" She was born at 35 St. Peter's Square, Leeds, on March 3, 1848, lived as a child at Skipton,and subsequently worked as a mill hand at Guiseley. Her father's name is unrevealed. Before she was 12 years of age she used to recite passages from her mother's play-books. At the parish school of Guiseley she showed herself a quick child and an ardent reader. She then became a nurse girl, and on learning the particulars of her birth grew restless, and, ultimately, under the name of Lizzie Ann Bland, made her way secretly to London. Her early experiences were cruel, and remain unedifying. During a portion of the time she was behind the bar of a public-house near the Haymarket, where she had a reputation as a Shakespearian declaimer. She was first seen on the stage in 1865 at Margate as Juliet. Lizzie Ann Bland then blossomed into Lilian Adelaide Neilson, a name she maintained after a marriage contracted about this time with Mr. Philip Henry Lee, the son of the rector of Stoke Bruerne, near Towcester, from whom she was divorced in 1877.