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as the time of Edward I. 1302-3 (Inq. post mortem), and are thick in Benson Registers but neither marriage nor burial of Ketty Costar is to be found there. What became of her ? GEORGE SHERWOOD. 210 Strand, W.C.2. CULCHETH. -Can any readers of ' N. & Q-' give me any information about the origin /and meaning of the place-name Culcheth ? "We learn that a synod was held at Coel- -chythe (Culcheth) or Chelsea why the latter one is at a loss to discover, for there seem to be no signs of any place where these synods could be held. But at Culcheth we have an "Abbey farm " and moat still in existence, and it is generally believed that there was an abbey there at one time. RONALD DINWIDDIE WHITTENBURY KAYE. Newchurch, Culcheth, Nr. Warrington. GORDON PORTRAITS AT MONCREIFFE HOUSE. Can any of your readers give me information about the subjects of two pictures ? The first is the portrait of a boy of possibly seven years of age. dressed in a red military uniform, with his hand resting on the back of a small greyhound. Beneath the picture is written : " George-William- -Josephus de Gordon, natius d 15 Marti j A s 1747 Styl : nov : " The second picture depicts a younger boy, also with a greyhound by his side, and beneath it is the inscription : " Ludovic- Oollofridus de Gordon, natus d 27 Martij A 1749 Styl : nov : " The pictures are among the family por- traits at Moncreiffe House. Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, second Baronet, had a daughter Margaret, born in 1707, who married in 1740, as his second wife, General Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul, dis- tinguished as a Major - General in the army of Peter the Great, and afterwards -as Commander in Chief of the Chevalier's .army after the battle of Sherifmiuir. It might be supposed that the two boys were "her children, were it not for a statement in the Preface to General Gordon's 'History of Peter the Great ' that the General had no issue by his second marriage, and for the fact that he would have been 80 years of age when the younger boy was born, sup- posing the date of his birth, as given in the preface is correct. (He is said to have 'been born in December 1669.) - Auchintoul' s first wife was a daughter of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries, famous as the Commander of the armies of Peter the Great, and it is said that the children of this first marriage died in infancy. Is it possible that the information in the preface of General Gordon's 'History' is in- correct, and that the pictures represent his children by his second wife Margaret Mon- crieffe, who died in infancy ? If not who are George William Joseph, and Ludovic Godfrey Gordon ? A third portrait at Moncrieffe, of a lady, subject unknown, resembles the children so closely as to suggest the probability that she was their mother. WILLIAM MONCREIFFE. CAMPBELL : TEMPEST. Archibald Camp- bell, bachelor, and Mrs. Anne Tempest, widow, were married Jan. 16, 1713, place unknown. Can any one identify these persons. I. F. CHARLES GRANT (1746-1823) : DATE OF BIRTH. While consulting, for some other purpose, ' Charles Grant,' by Henry Morris (1904), I found that the date of his birth was stated at p. 2 to be " March, 1746." C. E. Buckland in his ' Dictionary of Indian Biography ' (1906), gives quite a different date of birth of this director of the East India- Company. According to him, Grant was " born April 16, 1746, the date of the battle of Culloden, at which his father, Alexander, was severely wounded " (p. 175). Either of these two dates, or perhaps both, might be inaccurate. What is, then, the correct date of birth of this venerable M.P. for Inverness (1802), who " had remarkable moral courage, a masterful hand, a deter- mined will, and a hot temper under control " (Buckland, p. 175) ? R. N. MUNSHI. Turdeo, Bombay. [The * D.N.B.,' (which, however, quotes Morris among its authorities) adopts the date given by Buckland.] COINAGE OF CHARLES II. Were any guineas, or other coins, stamped with the head of Charles II., minted and in circula- tion in England during the years previous to the battle of Worcester ? If any reader could furnish me with this information I should be much obliged. GRAHAM RAWSON, Ph.D. YOUNG OF MILVERTON. I shall be glad to hear any particulars concerning the ancestors of Thomas Young of Milverton (who married Sarah Davis, niece of Dr- Richard Brocklesby, Johnson's physician),