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 12 S. IX. JULY 9, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 33 the country people. John. Maxwell, mounted on a good grey horse, escaped from the field, and was carried safely to his home at Monreith, distant between 120 and 130 miles, it is said without a halt. To remain at home would have entailed dire consequences to his family, " harbour of rebels " being an offence visited with very severe penalties. But before leaving he turned the grey horse into the paddock now called Pentland, vowing in gratitude for the good service rendered that the gallant animal should never look through bridle again. Maxwell then went into hiding in various parts of the country, as recorded in the contemporary Session Records of Glasserton parish, finally escaping to Ireland, where he died four years later, leaving his forfeited inheritance to be conferred, with a baronetcy, upon his loyal or more prudent younger brother William. HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith. A well-known huntsman once told me that one should not ask a horse to do more than 16 miles a day for six days, with a rest on the seventh day. M. H. C. W. HIPPOCLIDES will find a list of these records, including particulars of the ride from Berlin to Vienna to which he refers, in Haydn's '.Dictionary of Dates/ under the head of ' Riding.' WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. An account of such records and of one made by the author himself will be found in Pocock's ' Frontiersman.' D. R. WEBSTER. TRANSPORTATIONS AFTER THE FORTY-FIVE. (12 S. viii. 510). I have a note under June 12, 1716, that several prisoners imported by Captain Scarsbrook from Liverpool, from the rebels at Preston, are advertised to be sold. I do not recollect if their names appeared, but further details can be seen in the Minutes of the Council and Assembly of the Island ot Antigua (P.R.O.). After the Monmouth rising it was ordered, on Oct. 11, 1685, by their lordships that all rebels transported must be bound for ten years, but I believe in later times the period was reduced to seven. There is a good de- scription of such convicts in the Jeaffreson papers relating to the island of St. Kitts, pub- lished by J. C. Jeaffreson in 1878, but I do not know of any account of the Jacobite rebels in the West Indies. These white ser- vants were in great request by the planters, as they constituted the backbone of the militia. Special laws were enacted for their protection, and I believe they were more humanely treated than they would have been in England. In the census of the island of Montserrat, made in the year 1730, there is a special column for white menservants, and they numbered 70, but their names were not given. y L OLIVER, F.S.A. DOMENICK ANGELO'S BURIAL-PLACE (12 S.. viii. 491). -In MR. SWYNNERTON'S very in- teresting communication there reappears the statement that George IV.'s early friendship with Sophia Angelo secured her a Dameship at Eton while she was scarcely 18 years of age. As she died in April, 1847, aged 89, she would therefore have had to be a Dame as early as 1776. Apart from the improbability of George IV. being able to secure Miss Angelo such a post, when he was only 14 years old himself, there is no evidence of any kind that I know of to show that she was a Dame till about 1800, though possibly she may have been as early as 1796. One or two misprints occur in the identifi- cation of the names in the poem. Thus "Longford" should be " Langford," and " Regenceau " should be " Ragueneau." Also " B-rbl-ck " can be identified as " Bearblock." R. A. AUSTEN-LEIGH. " BISHOP OF OXFORD'S COINAGE" (12 S.. viii. 512). Bishops do not appear to have " coined money," in any sense, at any period ; and the * odd money ' referred to was assuredly " Maundy coins." These are, or were, a special issue from the Mint for the Sovereign's purses distributed on Maundy Thursday. Until 1731, at least, the Arch- bishops of York were the Lords Almoners, and the Palace of Whitehall the local. I had the reviewing of Canon Ash well's ' Life ' of (Samuel) Bishop Wilberforce, and seem to recall that he was once Almoner or Sub- almoner. Anyhow his son (friend of my earlier days), Bishop Ernest R. Wilber- force, when a Canon of Winchester, held the latter office, and presented my mother with a set of these silver moneys, in duplicate (from a one-penny bit up to a sixpence), and she had them made into a brooch. J. V. FOOTE.