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and proposed the restoration of the church as a memorial. The vicar claimed that his grand- father's pupils included the young Arthur Wellesley."

Accordingly, the church was restored, and a large Wellington monument was set up with a Latin inscription definitely asserting that the great Duke had frequented the church as a young man.

I submit two considerations. MR. WAINE- WRIGHT supplies the fact that during the whole of the great Duke's boyhood the Vicar of Brighton was Henry Michell, M.A., who held the living from 1744 to 1789. Of him and of Brighton, Gleig, the biographer and personal friend of Wellington, says not one single word. Let me refer the reader to Gleig's account of the great Duke's early days. The other consideration is this : in 1817 Arthur Wellesley, Lord Douro, after- wards the second Duke of Wellington, was placed under the care of Mr. Wagner, Vicar of Brighton, with whom he remained for seven years. The boy was 10 years old in 1817. Surely, this must be " the young Arthur Wellesley " referred to by the Mr. Wagner who was vicar in 1853, when the church was restored ; and this must be the boy or young man who naturally attended the church of which his tutor was vicar.

The monument is altogether misleading. It is to be feared that churches have some- times been restored, and monuments some- times erected, for rather unconvincing reasons. B. B.

PARISHES IN Two COT^TIES (US. ix. 29, 75, 132, 210, 273, 317, 374 ; xi. 421 ; 12 S. i. 450, 499, 518). The list could be further augmented. One omission is Llangwstenin, with portions in Carnarvonshire and Den- bighshire. The parish of Ysbytty Ifan extends over three counties, Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire, and a detached township added to it from Merionethshire. Cefn in Denbighshire till 1864 used to be united to St. Asaph, which is in Flintshire.

ANETTRIN WILLIAMS.

CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS (US. xii. 10, 56, 73, 87, 110, 130, 148, 168, 184, 228, 284, 368 ; 12 S. i. 77, 132). Merely the surface has been scratched by me and the other contributors heretofore ; cannot some one, interested in clerical pursuits as I am not. go into the matter more deeply ? The subject is timely, and the material is often to be met ; for instance, S. Gwynn's recent ' Famous Cities of Ireland ' is said to have a complaint, by the Irish King of Vhter, 150 years after Strongbow's landing,

against the Cistercians of Inch " for appear- ing publicly in arms ; they attack and slay the Irish, and yet celebrate their Masses- notwithstanding.' '

The Ecclesiastical Review, April. 1916. liv.. has at pp. 425-35, ' Priests as Soldiers,' an article which deals largely with cardinals as combatants ; it contains this epigram of the time of Richelieu :

Un arch^veque est amiral :

Un gros eveque est caporal ;

Un prelat preside aux frontieres ;

Un capucin pense aux combats ;

Un cardinal a des soldats ;

Un autre est g^neralissime ;

France, je crains .qu'ici-bas

Ton figlise, si magrianime,

Milite et ne triomphe pas.

ROCKIXGHAM- Boston, Mass.

HAYLER THE SCTJLPTOR (12 S. i. 169). Henry Hayler was son of Henry Hayler of 20 Ampton Street, Gray's Inn Road, painter and glazier ; he was a sculptor at 20 Compton Street, 1849-52 ; at 20 Ampton Street, 1852- 1856 ; and at 20 Bloomfield Terrace, Pimlico r 1856-74 ; he exhibited eight sculptures at the R.A., 1849-59. He was also a photo- grapher at 61 PimlicoRoad ; his studies from the nude had a large sale in Europe and America. Collette, the secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, made a raid upon his houses and seized 130,248 obscene photographs and 5,000 slides, March 31 , 1874, and obtained at Westminster Police Court an order for their destruction, April 19 r 1874. Hayler absconded to Berlin.

FREDERIC BOASE.

FORD CASTLE (12 S. ii. 8) was built by- Sir John Heron, 1287. The castle was de- stroyed by a Scottish incursion under the Earls of Fife, March, and Douglas. Before the Battle of Flodden it was taken by James IV., whom tradition reports to have lingered here instead of preparing for battle,, under the fascinations of Lady Heron, whose husband, Sir William, was a prisoner in Scotland. In 1549 the Scotch under D'Esse, a French general, took Ford Castle, but one tower held out successfully under Thomas- Carr, who had married Elizabeth, the grand- daughter of Sir William Heron. In the time of his successor, George Carr, 1557, the right to the castle was disputed by one George Heron, and a deadly feud ensued, when " Robert Barowe, mayer, and Gyles Heron, thresorer of Barwyke, were cruelly slayne." Mary Blake, granddaughter of Thomas Carr, married Edward Delaval, the grandfather of Lord Delaval, from whom the