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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm.jAN.29.i92i. existing monastic records " had already been published. As, however, these lists in the works referred to may not be accessible to members of local archaeological societies I quite agree with MR. CRAWFORD that such lists should be printed in the Journals of these societies. J. HAUTENVILLE COPE, Editor Proceedings Hampshire Field Club. BOTTLE-SLIDER (12 S. vii. 471, 516; viii. 37, 53). A somewhat similar contrivance to that noted by MR. BRADBURY existed in the old Combination Room at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but if I remember rightly the coasters were leathern and the table semi- circular in front of the fireplace. I have frequently admired the coasters (and the port) in undergraduate days when invited by Mr. Henry. Latham (the beloved "Ben " of all Hall men) to "go up after hall." Alas! the coasters must be nearly fifty years older. ARTHUR T. WINN. Aldeburgh. We had at the Royal Artillery Mess, Woolwich, small wagons of silver on wheels, each to take two bottles round the table after mess when the cloth was removed. This was forty years ago, but probably they are still in use. B. C. My grandmother had silver coasters, date, Queen Anne. Inherited by me are some silver-rimmed ones, the coaster itself being made of light-coloured polished wood, date, early 1700. Also I have some in papier mache (?) coloured red and polished. E. C. WIENHOLT. 7 Shooters Hill Road, Blackheath, S.E.3. EDUCATION OF THE FIRST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH (12 S. viii. 50). I have before me a copy of the ' Memoirs of the Duke of Marlboro ugh ' by William Coxe, in a new edition by John 'Wade, and dated 1847. In chap. i. it is stated : " Of the education of a person afterwards so illustrious, we only know that he was brought up under the care of his father, who was himself a man of letters, and author of a political history of England, entitled Divi Britannici.' He was 'also instructed in the rudiments of knowledge by a neighbouring clergyman of great learning and piety. Soon after the Restoration, when his father was established at court, we find him in the metropolis, and placed in the school ot St. Paul's. He did not. however, remain a sum' cent time to reap the advantages afforded by this foundation, for he was removed to the theatre ot active life, at a i period when the ordinary course of liberal education is scarcely more than half completed." Thrc.ugh the interest of his father, Sir Winston Churchill, he was appointed page- of-honour to the Duke of York, and at an early age he manifested a decided inclination or the profession, of arms, which did not escape the notice of the Duke, for he received a Commission at the age of sixteen.. This being so, it would appear that he did not go, as suggested, to a school in France. LEES KNOWLES, Bt. Westwood, Pendlebury. In a Life of John, Duke of Marlborough,. 'sold by John Baker in Pater Noster Row r. 1713," which I happen to possess, the anonymous biographer writes : "No care was omitted on the part of his tender jarents for a liberal and gentle education, for he was no sooner out of the hands of the women but le was given into those of a sequestered clergyman, who made it his first concern to instil sound prin- iplesof religion into him, that the seeds of humane Literature might take the deeper root, &c." Lord Wolseley, in his Life of the Duke y . earmarks this divine as the Rev. R. Farrant, Rector of Musbury Parish, who tutored young Churchill for ten or twelve years. When his father went to Ireland in 1662 young John attended the Dublin City Free School, of which the Rev. Dr. W. Hill, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, was Master. He was, however, only there about a year, for his father returned to London in 1663, and John was sent to St. Paul's School, of which Samuel Cromleholme was at that time head master. He remained there till 1665, when the school was closed owing to the Plague, and with it young Churchill's education appears to have terminated. I can find no allusion in am^ of the "his- tories " to his having been educated in France. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. It is stated in Gardiner's ' Admission, Registers of St. Paul's School,' p. 53, that John Churchill was a scholar of St. Paul's under Samuel Cromleholme, who was high master, 1657-72, and that he left "to enter the household of James, Duke of York, in 1665." G. F. R. B. Thackeray reminds us cf Marlborough's chief place of education by saying that Lord Castlewood and Churchill "had been con- discipuli at St. Paul's School " ('Esmond/ bk. i. ch. 2). The Rev. R. B. Gardiner in his ' Admission Registers of St. Paul's School ' is only able to say that Churchill left the school in 1665 to enter the Duke of