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' SABRING COROLLA' (12 S. ii. 149, 197). The editors of the first edition, 1850, and the second, 1859, were B. H. Kennedy, William George Clark, and James Riddell. See the lives of the first two in the ' D.X.B.,'* and the preface to the third edition of ' Sabrinae Corolla,' 1867.

Riddel! died in 1866, and in the third edition H. H., i.e., Henry Holden (see under the life of Hubert Ashton Holden'in the First Supplement to the ' D.N.B.'), was associated with the two surviving editors. W. G. Clark died in 1878, and Dr. Kennedy in 1889. The fourth edition, 1890, was edited by Henry Holden and R. D. Archer-Hind.

The British Museum Catalogue is curiously defective, giving, under Benjamin Hall Kennedy, the editors as " B. H. K. ? J. Riddell and another," and under Shrews- bury Royal School : " B. H. Kennedy. J. Riddell, and another."

EDWARD BENSLY.

The three editors were Dr. Benjamin Hal^ Kennedy, William George Clark, and the Rev. James Riddell.

HERBERT WHITE.

CALDECOTT (12 S. ii. 107, 195). The place-name of Ogford in Huntingdonshire, mentioned bv O. A. E., I do not know; should it not be Offord ?

I have a scarce little tract by a Cawcutt of Huntingdonshire, which may be one 'of this family ; and as it is little known and rather an interesting account of two persons, mother and son, I give the title :

ticulars | of a remarkable I Manifestation | wit- nessed by | Ann Cawcutt, | of Stirtloe, Hunts, | on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th | February 1865, I as narrated by herself. | D. R. Tomson, Printer, ISt. Neots." 8vo, 8pp.
 * ' A | Mother's Prayer Answered. | Being | Par-

Two other variations of the name in Huntingdonshire are Robert Calcott of Waresley 'will proved 1589), and John Cawcot of Great Staughton (will proved 1608).

Outside the county I may mention : The Musters in Nassaburgh, 1536, contain "' bylmen " amongst them a Henry Cal- cote ; and inscriptions in Bourn Abbey Church include, on floor of north aisle : Anns, Parled per pale, in chief three

in 'N. & Q.,' 5 S. x. 400, 438, by A. J. M., are stated in Leslie Stephen's life ot W. (i. C. to be by A. J. Munro, is corrected in the ' D. N. B.' vol. of Errata. They are by Arthur Joseph Munby, author of 'Dorothy,' who was a frequent contri- butor to ' N. & Q.
 * The error by which the notes on VV. G. Clark

leopards' heads ; Crest, a bird, perhaps a falcon. " In Memory of John Caldecutt who died | the 7th of April, 1755, aged 67


 * years." HERBERT E. NORRIS.

Cirencester.

THE REMOVAL OF MEMORIALS IN WEST- MINSTER ABBEY (12 S. ii. 189). The memorial window to Robert St ephenson has been recently removed, and will probably be placed in some other position, either in the Abbey or its precincts, in due course. The bust of Major James Rennell is, however, still to be seen, on a ledge immediately over the recently erected bust of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.

It is obviously necessary to shift these memorials about or reduce them from time to time to make room for others, but the number of occasions on which any have been ejected altogether is irifinitesimally small. The Dean is solely responsible for any changes, they being effected only by his 'authority, and it is his invariable practice to consult the family interested when any move of importance is contemplated. For example, when the late Dean Stanley moved the statue of John Kemble, he consulted Miss Fanny Kemble before doing so. MR. COR- FIELD will find the whole subject and procedure exhaustively set out in Dean Bradley's evidence before the Royal Com- mission .appointed to inquire into the want of space for monuments in Westminster Abbey. This Report was presented to Parliament in 1890 in a, Blue-book (C. 6228) which, in every sense of the word, is a monumental work, embellished with ela- borate plans of the Abbey and its precincts. The extremely courteous and obliging officials of the Abbey are always very ready to furnish visitors with information respecting the position of statues and memorials, and this, with the aid of the excellent ' Deanery Guide,' should surely satisfy all reasonable requirements, without the necessity of a notice in The London Gazette announcing that the bust of A. has been shifted a few feet to make room for the bust of B., or that the monument of the Earl of Chatham had been reduced in height and width as in fact it was to meet the requirements of space. WILLOUGIIBY MAYCOCK.

THE HORSE - CHESTNUT (12 S. ii. 172). The horse - chestnut (sEscultis hippocas- tanum) derives its popular name, not from any legendary reason, but from the miniature horseshoe-like scars which mark the twigs at the point where leaver have fallen.

F. A. RUSSELL.