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ITI end, when someone Royds of Brasenose, it was said proposed that the Oxford Seven should pull against the Cambridge Kight. The audacious gallantry of the idea took hold ; George Hughes, of Oriel, brother to Tom Hughes, was moved from even to stroke, and his place taken by the bow, Lowndes, of Christchurch."

Then comes a description of the race and of the subsequent rejoicings, not very orderly, of the winners and their friends. In an appendix, Mr. Tuckwell says that the Septem Contra Camum were [ut supra]. Mr. Tuckwell, whose book was published in 1900, adds that " one of the seven, John Cox, of Trinity, who pulled six, is still alive." The boat itself was long preserved, and from such of its timbers as remained sound in 1867 a chair was made for the use of the President of the Boat Club, and was placed on the University barge. B. B.

The details of the celebrated seven-oar race are given by Tom Hughes in his ' Memoir of a Brother' (pp. 68-71, 5th ed., 1873). The event took place in 1843, and the opposing eight were a crew from a club styled " The Cambridge Rooms," a London "body composed of oarsmen who had left, and of the best oars still at, the University.

George Hughes stroked the seven-oared (Oxford) boat, and, writing an account of the race, says :

" Anyone who cares about it will find the names of the Rooms' crew at p, 100 of Mr. MacMichael'a book, and by consulting the index will be able to form a judgment as to the quality of our opponents. We had a very great respect for them. I never attempted to exaggerate the importance of the ' seven-oars' race," and certainly never claimed to have beaten a Cambridge University crew on that occasion."

It would seem from the above that if B. can now trace " Mr. MacMichael's book " he will obtain the information he is seeking. H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX.

[G. F. R. B., COL. FYNMORE, and MR. A. G. KEALY thanked for replies.]

BINNESTEAD IN ESSEX (12 S. ii. 391). The parish referred to is Steeple Bumpstead in Essex, where the Bendishes settled in 1432, and continued in occupation of Bower Hall until the death of Sir Henry Bendish in 1717. Bower Hall is figured in the second volume of the ' History of Essex,' by a " Gentleman," wherein an account is given of the monuments of various members of the family, with the inscriptions on the monu- ments, which are still in the church, and also " some anecdotes re-pecting the Bendish family," Pedigrees of the Bendish family -will be found in ' The Visitations of Essex,'

published by the Harleian Society, vol. i. pp. 316 and '346. The sister referred to was Sarah, who married John Pike of Baythorn House in Birdbrook, an adjoining parish. STEPHEN J. BARNS. Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.

See Fuller's ' Worthies ' (ed. 1811), vol. i. p. 361, ' Essex,' ' Observations ' : " Thomas Bendysh, Ar. Bomsted in this Count y^was, and is, the habitation of his Family."

Bower Hall is in the parish of Steeple Bumpstead, in the hundred of Hinckford, Essex, about three miles south of the Suffolk town of Haverhill.

One would like to think that this place gave its name to the family of that most delightful of curates and good fellows, the Rev. John Bumpstead.

EDWARD BENSLY.

This is no doubt a misprint for " Bume- stead," or, as it is now usually called, Steep le-Bumpstead (formerly Bumsted-ad- Turrim), in which parish the manor of Bowers Hall lies. See Morant's ' Essex,' vol. ii. p. 348, and for the Pyke family, ib., pp. 345 and 401. Canon Thomas White- head, rector for many years of the neigh- bouring parish of Birdbrook, left a small sum for the poor of Bumsted-ad-Turrim in 1548. If F. comes across any particulars as to him not already in print, I shall be much obliged if he will let me know. He (Canon Whitehead) at one time held land at Bumsted. BENJAMIN WHITEHEAD.

Temple.

Undoubtedly a printer's error. Bower Hall, the old seat of the Bendysh family, was situated close to the village of Steeple Bumpstead, also known in former times as Bumpstead-ad-Turrim, and sometimes written simply Bumpstead. Pike is an Essex family name, and Pile is probably a misprint.

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.

4 Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

Binnestead = Bumpsted, known circa 1768 as Bumpsted-Steple, now as Steeple Bump- stead. It lies three miles south of Haver- hill. Bowers Hall lies therein, and was, according to Morant, the county historian, " undoubtedly so named from some noted Bower, or arbour thereto belonging. This Manor is ancient, or at least the house was so, for it went by that name in the year 1323." The Hall seems to have become vested in the Bendish family in 1432, when the next heir to Robert Cooke, the owner and Rector of Little Shelford, released all claim in and