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occupies a space of about in. deep at the head of the entries for 1645, is in a different handwriting from the rest of the entries, and . apparently of a later character. The fact of . its being an interpolation does not, of course, necessarily invalidate the accuracy of the statement. WM. HENRY ROGERS.

Orleigh Court, Bideford.

'THE THREE WESTMINSTER BOYS ' (12 S. vi. 88). Mrs. Johnstone's story appeared p. 184 (Poole, ' Index of Periodical Litera- ture '). There appear to have been two series, and Poole does not state which vol. iii. is referred to. In any case the date would be about 1830-40.
 * in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. iii.,

J. B. WHITMORE. 41 Thurloe Square, S.W.7.

RAYMOND (12 S. vi. 131). MR. H. R. NIAS might like to have the following further

information, which should put him on the -track of the ancestor of Sir Jonathan Raymond.

Sir Jonathan Raymond was M.P. for Great Bedwyn, 1690-95 ; colonel of the Green Regiment, 1687-89, 1690-94 ; Master of the Brewers' Company, 1679-80. LeNeve

'in his ' Pedigree of Knights,' p. 333, says that Raymond was " a very weak silly man but gott a great estate " (by his marriage). He was one of the few Tories in the Court of Aldermen in William III.'s reign, and his resignation of the aldermanry was said to be due to vexation at having been passed over

' for the mayoralty ; he had been defeated

.at the poll in 1689, 1691, and 1693, and though one of the two returned in 1690 was not elected. (The above details from my friend, the Rev. A. B. Beaven's book.) In the Guildhall (London) Library are the following items relating to Raymond : " Seasonable advice and necessary cautions to

the citizens and livery of London, touching the

- election of Lord Mayor." (Against the candida- ture of Sir Jonathan Raymond, 1693.)

" A vindication of Sir Jonathan Raymond, Alderman of London, from the aspersions cast upon him by two injurious libells " (1692).

Raymond's autograph.

A letter from the Rev. James W. D. Dundas of Kintbury Vicarage, dated Dec. 9, 1841, correcting the statement made by Le Neve that Raymond was buried at Newbury.

I find that Sir Jonathan was a captain at the Honourable Artillery Company in 1679, and was one of the first to sign the " ancient vellum book" of that Company under the heading :

" The names of such Getn. of this Companie as have bene chosen captaines for this Cittie and other places."

He was also a steward and is mentioned three times in this H.A.C. "vellum book." His original signature can therefore be seen (by special permission) at the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company, as well as in the records of the Guildhall Library. OSCAR BERRY, C.C., F.C.A. Monument House, Monument Street, E.C.3.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM AND A FOLK-SONG (12 S. vi. 108). The theme of both poem and folk-song the betrayal and desertion of a young girl is, of course, as old as the hills and as wide as the world. When I was a boy in rural Ulster in the sixties of last century I often heard a folk-song which I always considered the foxmdation upon which Allingham built. The words and the pathetic old Irish air to which it was sung cling to my memory yet. Here are a few stanzas which show a close resemblance to both poem and song :

There is a strange house in this town

Where my true love goes in and sits down,

He takes a strange girl on his kne,

And he tells her the tale that he once told me.

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain, I wish that I was a maid again, A maid I was, but ne'er shall be Till the apples grow on yon ivy tree.

I wish, I wish, now I'm all forlorn, I wish my baby it was born, And sitting on its dada's knee- And the long green grass growing over me.

EDITOR 'IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

The Manor House, Kensal Green, N.W.10.

No MAN'S LAND (12 S. vi. 130, 178, 195). I believe that M. TDRPIN'S " Nonemannes- londe " is to be identified with the particular spot mentioned in my query, which was close to West Smithfield, a place long before the reign of Henry V. connected with the execution of malefactors.

JONH B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JENNER FAMILY (12 S. v. 149, 245; vi. 116, 177). An old note-book of genealogical memoranda in my possession contains several references to the Jenner family. The parish register extracts quoted by COL. FYNMORE are given as taken from the Standish registers. There are several ab- stracts of Jenner wills from the Probate Registry, Gloucester, including the follow- ing :

" Stephen Jenner of Frome Bridge in the parish of Frampton upon Severn : To ". brother Dr. Thomas Jenner and his heirs all freehold and leasehold lands and tenements and to him all goods chattels and personal estate. Dr. Thomas