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 12 S. VIII. JAK. 22. 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 71 MAYNE AND KNIGHT. Wanted date and place of marriage of Robert Mayne, M.P. for Gatton, Surrey, with Anne, daughter of John Knight, Esq., I believe of Gloucester- shire. I shall also be glad to know the date of her death. Robert Mayne, born 1724, was a London banker, and he married, secondly, in 1775, Sarah, dau. and co-heiress of Francis Otway of Lincolnshire. I shall be grateful for information about the Knight family. H. C. BARNARD. Yatton, Somerset. STONE HENGE. In the Bristol Museum there was to be seen a few years ago, an old Wiltshire map, illustrating Stonehenge, and shewing nine upright trilithons, dated 1610, by "John Speed." The lettering read as follows : Aurelius Ambrosius buried at Stonehenge anno 500 This ancient monument was erected by Aurelius surnamed Ambrosius of the Brittaines whose nobility in the reign of Vortiger his country's scourge about y e yere of Christ 475 by treachery of y e Saxons on a day of parley were there slaughtered and their bodies there interred in memory of which the- King Aurel caused this trophy to be set up admirable to posterity both in form'and quality. Was this the popular belief in James I.'s reign with regard to the origin of Stone- henge ? There are of course barrows in the vicinity, but probably of an earlier date than the sixth century. Or, is "John Speed " hastily settling to his own satisfaction, the very abstruse problem concerning the origin of Stonehenge ? F. BRADBURY. Sheffield. "WYTYNG." In the Glossary to vol. ii. ' The Stornor Letters e-nd Papers ' (Camden Third Series, xxx., 1919) I read : " Wytyng, wyte, to depart, a sone wytyng a quick going, i. 97." Dr. Bradley 's edition of Stratmann gives no instance of wyten later than 1300 ; so a fifteenth-century survival would be valuable, -and I looked up the original ('Auc. Corr.,' xlvi. 243) only to find tJtiat Thomas Stonor wrote "a sone departyng." Is it possible that the reference is wrong, and that the word occurs somewhere else in the book ? Q. V. ANDREW FORRESTER. Son of Alexander Forrester, minister of Tranent, was minister -of Glencross, and apparently also of Penicuik, in 1588. Two years later, he was translated to Costorphine, and in 1598 was removed to Dunfermline. I seek the name of Andrew Forrester's wife, also the names of his children. A Nell Forrester, of Corstorphine, married James Simpson (born 1746/49, d. Apr. 27, 1819) at Cramond about 1774. Was she a des- cendant of Alexander ? Were these For- resters related to Sir George Forrester who was created a baronet Mar. 17, 1625 and a peer, as Lord Forrester of Corstorphine, July 22, 1633 ? JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. STAPLETON : O' SULLIVAN. Can some one inform me if there exist (and where), any portraits of Prince Charles Edward's two generals Brigadier Walter Stapleton sup- posed to have died after the battle of Cullo- den, 1746, and Coi. John O 'Sullivan, knighted by the Pretender, 1748, who escaped to France after Culloden date of death unknown. (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. Wootton Cottage, Lincoln. T. JONES, AUTHOR OF 'THE HEART ITS RIGHT SOVEREIGN,' &c. Can any particulars be furnished about the author of this book birth, personalia and year of demise ? He also wrote 'Rome no Mother Church,' 1678. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. [The authorities for his life given in the ' D.N.B.' are Wood's ' Athenae Oxon.' ; Wood's ' Fasti Oxon.' ; Burrows's ' Registers of Visitors of the University of Oxford ' ; ' Bye-Gones relating to Wales and the -Border Counties,' Mar. 4, 1874, and Jan. 20, 1875, and Thomas's ' History of the House of St. Asaph.'] JOHN SCAIFE (OR SCAFE), of Tanfield, Co. Durham, born in 1776 ; was a Capt. in 43rd Regt. and was living at Alnwick, Nor- thumberland in 1819-20. Can any one give further particulars, as to date of birth and place of burial ? Have no access to Army Lists so am prevented from getting help in that way. J. W. F. " RIGGES" AND "GRANPOLES." In the Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for 1856, p. 35, Jonathan Couch, F.L.S., &c., mentions a Commission under the Great Seal of Charles II. in which, Nicholas Saunders of Truro, is authorized "to secure, recover, recerise. and regav6 . . . . all fishes Royall, viz., Sturgeon, Whales, Rigges, Por- puses, Granpoles," &c. What was meant in the days of "the Merry Monarch " by " Rigges," and " Gran- poles " ? " W. S. B. H.