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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. MARCH, 1919.

usually known as the 88th Foot ? Another point in the inscription is the spelling of the name " Stewart " ; the family name of the Earls of Moray was written
 * Stewart " ? Also was not the 88th Regt.
 * ' Stuart " at that period.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Bolton.

MARY WATERS, LADY TYNTE (12 S. iv. 178, 205, 313). It would appear pro- bable that Mary Waters on her marriage with Sir Halswell Tynte settled her posses- sions on her husband and his heirs in exchange for a pecuniary settlement on herself ; for we find the following entry under ' Deaths ' in vol. xxviii. of The Gentleman's Magazine :

" 1758, Dec. 17. Hon. Lady Tynte, at Farley, near Winton ; her jointure of 2,OOOZ. per Ann. comes to Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte, Bart."

As this lady survived Sir Halswell Tynte for twenty-eight years, it may be estimated that her possessions (principally land in Brecknockshire) cost the Tynte family the goodly sum of 56,OOOZ. or more.

CROSS-CROSSLET.

COL. A. R. MACDONELL'S DUEL WITH NORMAN MACLEOD (12 S. v. 9, 43). May I be allowed to correct a slight inaccuracy in my reply at the latter reference ? I stated 'that Sabine's ' Notes on Duels and Duelling ' was not in the British Museum Library, but I now find that it is. I looked for it in the Subject Index under the head of ' Duelling,' but, unlike several other works on that topic, it was not entered. I naturally, therefore, concluded it was not in the Library, but I now find that it is, but only indexed under the author's name. The intricacies of these indices, admirable though they are, are not mastered in a day.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

HENGLER FAMILY (12 S. iv. 242, 314). I am greatly obliged to the writers at the second reference, and to Mr. A. W. Samuel, for information. B case's ' Modern Bio- graphy,' vol. i., mentions Edward Henry, son of Henry (1819-65) ; Frederick Charles, brother of Edward Henry (1820-87) ; and the latter 's eldest son Frederick Charles '(1855-89). The maiden name of the mother of the elder Frederick Charles is said to have been Kelly. Frederick Charles sen. had also a son John, who lives at Hoylake, and his sister-in-law Mrs. Hird (nee Sprake) is still alive.

In Dublin Hengler's had a building on the site of the Rotunda Rink (now used by the postal authorities). I have vivid memories of the spectacular pieces there ' Zulu War ' (Dublin Evening Telegraph, Christmas, 1914), 'Water Novelty/ 'Cinderella,' and ' Siberia.' Blondin appeared here, Whim- sical Walker, Yorick the Fool, Willio Templeton (the "singing clown"), and the inimitable Frank Anderson as Handy Andy (suggested by Lover's hero). Perhaps some day the full history of these old friends will be written. J. ARDAGH.

35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

ST. CUTHMAN (12 S. iv. 329). In a paper read by the Rev. Thomas Medland (Vicar of Steyning, 1840-82) in August, 1851, on the early history of Steyning and its church, published in Sussex Archaeological Collec- tions,v. 111-26, he gives a quotation from an ancient life of St. Cuthmann in the ' Acta Sanctorum Bollandi,' Antwerp, 1658, vol. ii. p. 197, Feb. 8, which was kept as his anniversary.

The account of the saint quoted by MR. WAINEWRIGHT from Hare is evidently a condensed form of the passage translated by Medland ; but, as the latter makes no men- tion of the gloves worn by the saint when engaged on building his church, it seems to be an independent version. Medland says :

"In this dilemma he framed a kind of movable couch, which from the description given of it must have been very like a large wheelbarrow, and with its assistance he was enabled to take with him his mother as the companion of his wanderings."

After relating how the " barrow " fell to the ground for the second time, Medland continues :

" This was at Steyning, and the accuracy with which the locality is described inspires a belief in the truthfulness of this part of the narrative, which we should not perhaps so readily accord to some other parts."

He proceeds to give the description, and adds in a note the Latin which he is trans- lating.

St. Cuthmann, Medland tells us, was buried in the church which he built, and quotes as authorities for the statement G. Hickes, ' Thesaurus,' vol. iii. p. 120, and Leland's ' Collect.,' i. p. 96, quoted by Cartwright, p. 169. He states too, on the authority of Asser, that the father of Alfred the Great was buried there, and thinks that the body was afterwards removed to Winchester.

He gives no indication as to the date of the demolition of the priory buildings, but