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No MAN'S LAND (12 S. vi. 130). There is an earlier instance of the xise of this name in 'Ann. Paulini de tempore Edw. II.' ('Ann. Mon.,' i. 321, in the Rolls Series). A.D. 1326, an apparently Spanish wine merchant, Arnaud by name, had, for some commercial trick of his own, to go bare-footed and naked under a plain tunic to a certain place " apud Nonemanneslonde," where he had his head cut.

The question is whether the name No Man's Land was then, as in our war days, indifferently applied to a number of grounds without any actual possessor or whether it designated the particular spot to which MR. JOHN WAINEWRIGHT alludes in his query. Was there in London at the time a special place reserved for executions, and is it known where it was ? PIERRE TURPIN.

3 Rue des Canonniers, Lille.

UNANNOTATED MARRIAGES AT WEST- MINSTER (12 S. vi. 65, 129). 11. Joseph Damsell and Joanna Kidder, 1690. On April 20, 1702, being then described as " Joseph Damsell, of the parish of Lambeth, Surrey, gent., living near Cupid's Bridge, aged 56 years," he gave evidence in the Chancery suit Squibb v. Nisbett and Buxton. He stated that he lived with William Malthus, late of Bedford Street, Middlesex, merchant, at the time of the death of the said Malthus (Nov. 20, 1700) and for over ten years before that date, &c. (Public Record Office, Town Depositions, Bundle 1,238).

12. Robert Silke and Mary Dowse, 1692. In 1700 Robert Silke, Mary his wife, and John Silke of London, pewterer, were three of the dependants to a Bill of Complaint in Chancery filed against them by Sarah Gregory, wife of Charles Gregory of London, merchant, concerning the personal estate of her late father, John Steventon (Public Record Office, C.5, 210/24).

14. Thomas Crow and Elizabeth Gill, 1896-7. Eight children of Thomas Crow were baptized at Colyton, Devon : Thomas, 1697 ; Elizabeth, 1699 ; Betty, 1701 ; Sack- feild, 1702-3 ; Grace, 1704-5 ; Susannah, 1707; William, 1709; and Sarah, 1710-11 (Publications of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society).

16. William Keylway and Patience Aubery, 1712-3. She was the daughter of Samuel and the sister of Edmund Auberry. There were two children of this marriage, Elizabeth and Patience Keylway. In 1725-6 they were orphans and living in Red Lyon Street. Their father, William Keylway, was an apothecary in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

His widowed mother, Elizabeth Keylway,. survived him and lived at W r eek, Wilts, with her son, Daniel Keylway, gent. William had three other brothers : Turner Keylway, an upholsterer in St. Paul's, Covent Garden ; Charles Keylway, a hatter in the Strand ; and Robert Keylway, a surgeon in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Robert left a widow, Susannah. There was also a sister Mary, who married James Ashe of Mashfield, Wilts, Esq.. (Public Record Office, C.ll, 484/18).

BERNAU & BERNAU.. 20 Charleville Road, W.14,

ST. LEONARD'S PRIORY, HANTS (12 S^ vi. 90). Very few Hampshire books seem, to mention this place. The Hampshire Field Club visited St. Leonards the remains of the great barn of the Abbey (Beaulieu Grange, one of the largest in England, and the remains of St. Leonard's Chapel on Aug. 20, 1890, and an account of these might be found in the local press. There is only a brief notice of the excursion in The Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, vol. ii., p. 11. Murray's Handbook for the County, 1858, refers to St. Leonards,, the ivy-covered ruins of a barn 226 ft. long, the great " spicarium " of the monastery, and' fragments of a small decorated chapel.

It may be worth mentioning that the seal of a Hospital of St. Leonard was exhibited before the Society of Antiquaries on Jan. 19, 1882 place not identified and a description given in the Proceedings, vol. ix., New Series, p. 37. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS : ' WITH NUMBER THREE ' : ' SURGICAL AND MEDICAL ' (12 S. vi. 38; 11 S. ix. 309). These were published in The Daily Mail, not in The Daily Express. The dates were : ' With Number Three,' April 21, 23, 24, 25, 1900 ; ' Surgical and Medical,' May 1, 2, 1900.

In the lists of Kipling's contributions to The Friend (Bloemfontein). given by MR. YOUNG at 11 S. viii. 441, 464, it is not noted that * A Song of the White Men ' was reprinted in a London paper. My cutting has no heading, but it was probably in The Daily Mail between May 2 and June 12, 1900. He also makes no mention of Kipling's heading to the article on G. W. Steevens by Lionel James, which was printed in The Friend of Mar. 24, 1900, and is reproduced in 'War's Brighter Side.' I do not find it in ' Songs from Books,' ' The Years Between ' (Bombay edition, vols. xxiv., xxv.), nor ini ' Collected Verse ' (Hodder & Stoughtoru 1912). C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt.