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 436 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. NOV. 26,1921. others of the family, and from the situation of their abode when he left the town in the year 1838 it is easy to infer that they had j come to occupy a much lower position. I may just mention that many Culcheth j natives to-day pronounce the name of the | village as " Culshaw " and " Kilshay." A. BROTHERS OP THE SAME CHRISTIAN j NAME (12 S. ix. 230, 273, 312, 336, 376, i 415). Twins were given the same Christian I name. In the Rothwell Registers (Yorkshire : Parish Register Society) occur the follow- 1 ing: 1547, Deer. Joh'es et Joh'es fiT gemelli Joh'es Say veil bapt., &c. 1547-8, Jan. Johanna et Johan'a fiT gemelli Radulphi Moore bapt., &c. 1548, July. Johanna et Johan'a fiT gemelli Thome Storre bapt., &c. G. D. LUMB. Two of the best endeavours that I know of to keep a Christian name in a family are : John Southam of Wootton, Co. Oxon, had a son John born in 1696, who died the same year; the next son was named John, he was born in 1697, and died in Jan., 1697/8; the next son, John, born in 1698, died before 1710. The other case is that of Thomas Southam of Bloxham, Co. Oxon, who had three sons named George, each one from 1811 to 1814 being baptized and buried. HERBERT SOUTHAM. BATHS OR SALTING-TANKS (12 S. ix. 310, 374). Probably the following extract from The Leeds Intelligencer of July 18, 1769, will explain the use of some of the tanks : This is to acquaint the Public, That the well known Cold Bath at Weetwood in the Parish of Leeds is now compleatly fitted up; where Ladies and Gentlemen may depend on civil Us'age, by Their most obedient humble Servant, Mary Wilson. See also ' Walks about Wakefield,' p. 261. by.W. S. Banks. G. D. LUMB. THE MACCABEES : THE SPARTANS AND THE JEWS (12 S. ix. 370, 414). One of my Bibles has this note : " Probably because the Spartans, being Dorians, were Pelasgi, who are said to have been derived from Peleg, the son of Eber, the ancestor of Abraham. Cf. Gen. x. 25; xi. 16-26." I can find no support for this statement. C. G. N. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MILITARY SER- VICE : DRAX FAMILY (12 S. ix. 408). Although this is not exactly the informa- tion MR. WM. McMuRRAY is seeking, I think he may possibly be interested in the following reference to the Drax family, which occurs in a letter from Mrs. Sarah Fountaine (youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Chicheley, Master of the Ordnance to- Charles II.) to her brother-in-law, Richard Legh of Lyme, written on Sept. 26, 1682 (Legh MSS. at Lyme) : . . . My Hee Cosen Drax is dead; and buryed this day. He has left my neghbour Shatterdon's eldest son* 6 thousand a year att least to be managed tell he comes att age by trustees for him; and in the meane time a hundred a yeare to breed him and he has left euery body that is related to him good Legaseys. and his wife extreame well; the particulars I shall know when my neghbour returns from London. jj], NEWTON. ST. CHRISTOPHER AND THE CHRIST CHILI> (12 S. ix. 371, 415). The only other brass which I know of showing a figure of St. Christopher, carrying the Holy Child, is that of Sir Thomas Stathum and two wives at Morley, Derbyshire, 1470. In this instance the saint forms only an accessory to the brass and not the main figure as at Weeke. There are many representations of saints on brasses, that at Morley depicts St. Anna teaching the Virgin, also the Holy Mother enthroned and crowned, bearing a sceptre with the Divine Infant on her lap. E. BEAUMONT. DANTE'S BEARD (12 S. ix. 271, 315, 378). After sending my note at the last refer- ence I stumbled upon the following in Lord Russell's ' Memoirs,' &c., of Thomas Moore, which may be added to it as a pen- dant. The passage occurs in his ' Journal,' dated May 11, 1842 (vol. vii., p. 321) : This 1 call fame, and of a somewhat more agreeable kind than that of Dante, when the women in the street found him out by the marks of hell-fire on his beard (see Ginguene). Moore (like Hallam) evidently refers to the ' Histoire litteraire de 1'Italie,' by P. L. Ginguene; but where does that author make the statement assigned to him by Moore? Of course it will not prove that the poet wore a beard, but it may show that he has been credited with such an adorn- ment, and so emphasizes an existing tradition to that effect. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
 * Son of Thomas Shatterdon's sister Elizabeth.