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Striguil in Monmouthshire ? About fortj years ago a book was privately printed which dealt, I believe, with this subject It was reviewed in one of the daily papers, (I believe, the Telegraph) under the heading ' An Old Devonshire Family,' but I do no: know the name either of the book or of its author. Over seventy-one variations o: spelling were cited, including Strogle, Strugu and Strugnell. Can any one afford me a clue to the work ?

Replies should be addressed directly to me

as information is required as soon as

possible. G. KENNETH STRUGNELL.

SOCarholme Road, Forest Hill, S.E.23.

WILSON. Can any correspondent assist me in identifying the following Wilsons who were admitted to Westminster School ?

(1) Archdale, admitted 1742, aged 11 ;

(2) Charles, admitted 1778; (3) Francis, admitted 1727, aged 10 ; (4) Henry, ad- mitted 1742, aged 9 ; (5) Henry Lewis, admitted 1812 ; (6) John, admitted 1721, aged 12 ; (7) John, admitted 1769 ; (8) William, admitted 1724, aged 9 ; (9) William, admitted 1734, aged 7; (10) William, ad- mitted 1744, aged 11. G. F. R. B.

WINDHAM OB WYNDHAM. I should be glad to obtain any information about

(1) Cowley Windham, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1716, aged 13, and

(2) William Wyndham, who was admitted to the same school in 1717, aged 15.

G. F. R. B.

NURSERY RIME. I have lost sight of the following nursery rime :

Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. Had another, didn't love her, Causing instantaneous bother. Can any one tell me its source, and where to be found ? ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

' YOTJBS TO A CINDER." Can any one tell me the meaning and origin of the expression at the end of a letter. " Yours to a cinder " ? I have come across it lately.

WALTER PBICE.

5 Montague Road, Richmond, Surrey.

" SIAM," A GAME. This is played on a board with a bowl and 12 or 13 small wooden pins. The bowl is flattened, and cut in such a manner that, when rolled on its edge, it always makes a circle that gradually diminishes, and it throws down the pins which are set up in a ring. The game is thus explained in a journal of occurrences at the Temple during the confinement of

Louis XVI., by M. Clery, the King's valet- de-chambre, 1798, translated by R. C. Dallas. I have searched -many books of games, but have not found this one. Is it a game that hails from Siam ? M.A.

SIB JOHN WILLIAM KAYE. In 1870 was published a volume by the above, ' The Essays of an Optimist,' a collection of papers written within ten years the latest in August, 1870, and entitled ' Rest,' with this passage towards the end : " It is not good to be stricken down in the midst of a great battle, as was he of whom erst I wrote." Then follow fourteen lines, commencing, His life was one grand battle with old Time,

From morn to noon, from noon to weary night,

Ever he fought as only strong men fight ; and ending, Death came ; upon his brow laid chilly hands

And whispered " Vanquished ! " But he gasped

out, " No, I am the Victor now : for into lands

Where Time's dark shadow cannot fall, I go."

Sir J. W. Kaye wrote much Eastern history, and contributed to periodical litera- ture ; and I should be glad to know what personage was intended in the lines quoted, and where the latter first appeared, if their inclusion in the essay of 1870 was, as seems [ikely, a quotation from print elsewhere.

W. B. H.

PALESTINE : ROMAN REMAINS. A hill called Barbara contains a lot of artificial aves and tombs (which appear to be Roman). Is there any book I can consult as to remains of this sort ? My guide-book makes no mention of them.

M.D., E.E.F.

SIR DAVID GONSON OB GUNSTON, a son of Vice-Admiral William Gonson, Pay- master of the Royal Navy, was received into the Alberge of the Venerable Tongue of England of the Knights Hospitallers in Malta on Oct. 20, 1533. On Sept. 2, 1534, ie was granted leave of absence from Malta 'or a short period. On May 24, 1535, his sroofs of nobility were approved. On Oct. 7 5 L535, he was deprived of the habit and sentenced to nine months' rigorous im- Drisonment at Gozo for having, with Sir Philip Babington and Sir Christopher Myres, ngaged in a fight which led to bloodshed ; but on July 13, 1536, we find him given eave of absence, and on the same day or he next

' it was of grace especiall granted that where . dnvid gronson was dyspensed of his antianitie, he] shoulde retorne unto his estate that he was in before, that is to say, that he shoulde be of the assage of Sir Nycholas Lambert."