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Rhenish wines known here, Assmannshauser being the most famous. But at Neuweid near Lintz, there was (and probably still is though Vizetelly does not mention it) a good red wine known as Blischert. A com- parison of the price with that of Canary (2s. 4d per bottle) makes it almost certain that Blenkard and Bleahard are merely easily made mistakes for Blischert.

GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool.

A CHAINED CURATE (9 th S. v. 165). After careful inquiries throughout Cornwall, I am satisfied there is no foundation for the late Archbishop of Canterbury's story of a curate being chained to the altar rails in a rural church in that county. No one now resident in the Cornish lands appears to have ever heard of such an occurrence.

HARRY HEMS.

LELAND FAMILY (9 th S. v, 267).-! have condensed the following from " The Leland Magazine ; or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland and his Descendants, containing an Account of Nine Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-four Persons in Ten Generations, and em- bracing nearly every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850. By Sherman Leland, Boston, 1850."

Henry Leland, father of Hopestill Leland, and "progenitor of all who bear the name in this country (with two exceptions), was born in England about the year 1625." He married Margaret Badcock, and emigrated to Ame- rica in 1652. Their first child (also named Hopestill), born during the voyage or soon after, died an infant, in 1653, at Dorchester, Mass. Leland 's reasons for leaving England and "venturing upon a life of hardship in the wilds of America" are not known. He was, however, evidently "a man in character like his comrades in those days, distinguished for firmness, courage, patience, endurance, arid invincible integrity." He settled as a farmer near Medfield, Mass., on the ground where, not long afterwards, arose the town of Sher- burne, where he died 4 April, 1680, leaving his four surviving children well provided for. The names of the latter were : Experience, born 10 Mav, 1654 ; married John Colburn, farmer; died at Dedham, 1708. Hopestill, born 15 November, 1655; married, first, Abigail Hill, second, Patience Holbrook ; died at Sherburne, 1729. Ebenezer, born 25 January, 1657 ; married, first, Deborah, second, Mary Hunt ; died 1742. Eleazar, born 16 July, 1660 ; married Sarah ; died 1703. Hopestill had ten children : Henry, 1679-1732 ; Hopestill, 1681- 1760; Abigail, 1683; John, 1687-1759; William, 1692-1743 ; Eleazar, 1695-6 ; Joseph, 1698-

1776 ; Isaac, 1701-66 ; Joshua, 1705-72 ; Margaret, 1708. All were married except Eleazar, who died young. Isaac was married twice. The boys became farmers ; the girls, farmers' wives. Hopestill appears (to judge from his will, which, with those of his father and brother, is reprinted in S. Leland's work from the Probate Records) to have been a prosperous man ; yet neither he nor his brothers ever did anything " by which they were essentially distinguished from the other worthy citizens of their day and generation. They appear to have been prudent and industrious farmers "

nothing more.

" The whole number of lineal descendants cannot

be definitely ascertained, but from the statistics collected, it cannot be less than fifteen thousand."

Should MR. CHARLES GODFREY LELAND desire to push his inquiries further, I have the names of ten or twelve works upon the subject. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

"JULLABER" (9 th S. v. 228). Jullaber is near Chilham, about six miles south-west of Can- terbury. There are two references to the place in Camden. Camden himself thus ex- plains the name :

"Below this town [Julham] is a green barrow, said to be the burying-place of one Jul Laber many years since ; who some will tell you was a Giant, others a Witch. For my own part, imagining all along that there might be something of real Antiquity coach'd under that name, I am almost perswaded that Laberius Durus the Tribune, slain by the Britains in their march from the camp we spoke of, was buried here ; and that from him the Barrow was called Jul-laber."

The camp here referred to is supposed to have been at Chilham. In the 'Additions to Kent,' in Gibson's edition of 1695, is the fol- lowing note on the above:

" Hence the Stour passes on (by Olanige or Olan- tigh, i.e., an Eight or Island) to Chilham, where our Author thinks that Cassar had his first conflict with the Britains upon his second landing, and that here it was he left his army encamp' t, whilst he return'd and repair'd his Ships, sore shatter'd by a storm ; and that hence it was called Chilham or Julham, i.e., Julius's Mansion ; but I cannot agree with him ither in the one or the other, for Cffisar says ex- ^resly, that the place of this conflict was but twelve Roman miles from his place of landing; whereas Chilham (whether he landed at Deale or Peppernesse) is many more. But here I do believe t was, that in his march from his encampment, in pursuit of the Britains, he lost one of his Tribunes, liaberius Durus, whose monument it is that remains
 * here on the River side by the name of Julaberie's

C. C. B.

The position of this hill is described in Murray's 'Handbook for Kent' as being