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396 by the late and revered Mr. William Beamont of Orford, and edited by Mr. J. P. Rylands, entitled 'Culcheth Charters.' I possess a copy of these charters.

There is an interesting stained-glass window in the bathrow (originally the west end of the chapel) which contains five shields of arms, the Culcheths, Traffords, and Stanleys, quartered. A motto in very bad French runs, 'Mon Dien prenez garde de moy.' It is not the Trafford or Stanley motto, and no one is aware of there being any motto belonging to the Culcheth family. Can it be that this is the Culcheth motto?

Your last correspondent cannot have looked at the references given in my former reply, namely, 'Victoria History, Co. Lanes.,' iv. 159, note 46, and Lancashire and Cheshire Historical and Genealogical Notes, i. 274, where he will find ample evidence that the Culcheth family owned Culcheth Hall until 1747. Thomas Culcheth, last of the male line, registered his estate as a Papist in 1717, and it included the Hall with 170 acres and the tithes. He left it on his death, in 1747, by his will, to his cousin Thomas Stanley. It is not safe to rely upon the Hearth Tax, &c., Rolls for ownership as the tax was levied on the occupier. Probably the Hall was not then occupied by the Culcheths, who had lost their property in the Civil War and only recovered it towards the end of the seventeenth century. John Risley (not Rushley) was the owner of Risley, and the Holcrofts were the owners of Hurst, both places in Culcheth; hence their appearance in the Rolls referred to by your correspondent.

(12 S. ix. 330). 2. Silver a chevron and three bears' heads erased sable, muzzled gules. Galbraith of Culcruith. (Sir David Lindsay's Book of Arms.)

4. Per bend gold and azure a star of eight points counterchanged. Counts of Sankt Georgen (Austria). (Heraut de Gelre and Arlberg fraternity Books of Arms.)

5. Six pieces azure and silver with three "synettys rows and of sylvyr crownyd and chaynyd of gold dysmemboyd wt goulys." Adam Goodale, Sergeant at Armes. Given later gules and silver, the birds as ostriches. (Fifteenth-century Roll published in The Ancestor and also by J. Foster.)

THE MURRAY-ROBERTS AFFAIR IN NORTH- UMBERLAND STREET (see under ' Bad'. Season : Tragic Occurrence,' 12 S. ix. 359). Under the title of ' A Struggle for Life ' I wrote a fairly full account of this tragic occurrence in the St. Stephen's Review of" Jan. 16, 1886, The Standard of the 2nd of that month having announced the death of Major William Murray, late 10th Hussars, at Monte Carlo. This announcement was, however, unfounded, as the Major Murray who was assailed by Mr. Roberts, a solicitor, did not die till 1907. He was cremated at Woking on April 3 of that year, and an article on the combat appeared in The Daily Telegraph of the following day. I also wrote an account of the incident in The Sporting Times of March 2, 1889. These- papers are now all out of print, though accessible at the British Museum, but the circumstances are fully chronicled in The Annual Register of 1861. The row arose- owing to Roberts having endeavoured to- alienate the affection of a certain Miss- Moodie, who was living under the protection of Murray. When I first came to live in London in the late sixties I remember a lurid coloured print of the combat being on view at a shop in Waterloo Place, which I have frequently endeavoured, in later years, to procure, but so far without success. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. There is a full descriptive account of this frightful tragedy, under date July 12. 1861, in Irving's 'Annals of Our Time, 1837-1871 ' (Macmillan and Co., London), but as it is the evidence of the sole survivor, as given at the coroner's inquest, it can only be accepted with all reserve, as it is a somewhat complicated story to follow, well remember the consternation caused at the time by this tragedy, and fancy coloured prints of the death struggle being sold in the vicinity. It was a sordid story, and better buried with " the dead past." SEPTUAGENARIAN. CHAR-A-BANC (12 S. ix. 329)."! shall hire a beach wagon and borrow Mr. Lau- rence's cherry-bounce (Hannah's pro- nunciation of char-a-banc) " (' Goodwives,' by Miss Alcott, 1871). About 1840 in Ireland there was in use a very long outside car known as a Bian- coni car. The inventor, I believe, was an Italian. C. B. EVANS. Beechcroft, Berwick Road, Shrewsbury.