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2nd Salop Militia, 1803 ; and adjutant 3rd (Wisbech) Battalion Cambridge Volunteers, 1807-8. He was on the half-pay list from 1 802 to 1 852 ; and died at Bonningues, near Calais, Feb. 5, 1852, aged 80.

The Wintons were an old Herefordshire family. A pedigree of the Wintons of Thornbury was entered at the Visitation in 1683, but no Philip Wiriton appears to have been baptized there between 1740 and 1750. Perhaps .-some local antiquary can supply the missing Jink. R. G. F. U.

Services Club, W.

"CARDEW" (12 S. ii. 299, 336, 397). In a pedigree among my late father's papers, he being F. B. Garnett, C.B., the descent is described of Dr. Cornelius Cardew (1748- 1831) as seventh from John Cardue, who married Margaret Moore, Aug. 15. 1564 ; together with a communication, dated July 30, 1886, to my father, by Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., British Museum, enclosing a <copy of a singular entry in the Parish Register of St. Erme, county of Cornwall, respecting the death and resurrection of Francis Cart hew, rector in 1699, as follows :

"Francis Carthew, minister of St. Erme, died one night and revived the next morning, by the -operation of the mighty God, and now records this truth. He was not put into a coffin, but died in his bed. And unless thou believes that God can rise the dead, He will damn thee forever. He died lastly in July. 1731."

" Mary Lukey Cardew, daughter of Samuel and Blanch Warren, died at Saint Erme on Sep- tember llth, 1808, in the ooth year of her age, and was inhumed at Truro. her native place. As a memorial of her friendly disposition, unaffected piety, and faithful discharge of her various duties as daughter, sister, wife, and mother this marble was erected by her husband, Cornelius Garde w.D.D., Hector."

This latter was known as the " School- master of the West," and his first wife, Elizabeth Brutton, was an ancestress of mine, as also of Sir Frederic Cardew, K.C.M.G., who has lately compiled a list numbering over one hundred descendants of this union now serving as commissioned officers in the present European war.

From lines written for the anniversary of Tniro Grammar School in 1829, quoted in Polwhele's ' Biographical Sketches in Corn- wall,' vol. i., are these :

And thou, Cardew, dear venerable sage ! O rich in virtue as thou art in age ; Shall we forget from whom instruction came Which pointed thus to fortune and to fame ?

Ah no ! as long as learning shall endure Amidst these walls still classically pure, So long her sons shall own thy dignity, Themselves still honouring while they honour thee.

In my early days, when staying with the late Surgeon-General Turner, who had formerly been the medical officer of my grandfather Sir John Laurie's battery of Bombay Horse Artillery, I used to visit a' his house in Marlborough Buildings, Bath, Inspector-General Cardew, the retired chief of the Indian Medical Service.

Dr. Turner, who was a jocular local character, said Cardew was pronounced as if spelt Cadew, the reverse of " You cad." But this, of course, although true, wa? intended for a joke, as he was a great friend of the Cardew family, which has given so many gallant sons to the service of the State.

I hope my remarks, including several different spellings of this surname, may interest your correspondents and help to elucidate the real meaning of the name.

F. W. R. GARNETT.

The Wellington Club.

NAVAL RECORDS WANTED, c. 1800 (12 S. ii. 330, 375, 398). There exist at the Record Office the following naval records, among others, of the date in question :

1. Steele's (printed) ' Royal Navy List ' to be seen by permission only. Students have no right to it.

2. Royal Navy and Marine Commission Lists.

3. Ships' Muster Books.

4. Ships' Log Books.

The books of the Statira would show when D. B.'s great-grandfather was first borne on her, and when he left, and the names of the ships from and to which he was transferred on those respective occasions.

The Commission Lists would give the date of his first and subsequent commissions and retirement.

I have myself worked out in this way the whole naval career of John Thurtell, the murderer, who was for some years in the Marines, and have been able to show that on the day when San Sebastian fell, he was not there, as was alleged, but his ship was moored in St. Helen's Road?.

ERIC R. WATSON.

JAMES FENTON, RECORDER OF LANCASTER (12 S. ii. 266). John Fenton Cawthome, M.P. Lincoln, January, 1783, till expelled the House, May 2, 1796 '(see Gent, Mag., 1796. part ii. pp.' 839, 928) ; M.P. Lancaster, 1806 to 1807, 1812 to 1S18, and 1820 till he died, March 1, 1831 ; defeated candidate a. Preston, 1780, Lancaster, 1780, 1802, 1807, and 1818; seconded the Address, Jan. 21. 1790; of Wyerside, Lancashire: son of James Fenton, who married Elizabeth