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were "computed," the difference between computed and measured miles being remark- able. For example :

Computed. Measured.

London to Aberystwyth 145 199 '2

Bar wick 260 339 "2

Bristol 94 115'2

Bridgnorth 105 142

Dover 55 71 '4

Holyhead 208 269'2

and so on, the computed always being pro- portionately less than the measured miles. As the postmasters were paid " by the mile," it is difficult to understand why they accepted the computed measure, when they must, or might easily, have known the actual mileage. Ogilby's maps are on the scale of one inch to a mile and very minute ; but though they give his miles as measured, they show no milestones, nor are milestones once men- tioned in the printed description of the roads. We know the Romans had milestones, but they appear to have come into modern use, with Turnpike Acts, in the early part of the eighteenth century. In an Act relating to the Great Post Road from London to Chester (1744), the trustees are empowered to measure the roads and " erect milestones." An earlier Act (1727) relating to the same road contains no such power.

W. H. DUIGNAN. Walsall.

COCKAYNE FAMILY (9 th S. v. 267, 345). Your correspondent at the latter reference states that a second volume of the ' Cockayne Memoranda' is promised to complete the work. The same was, however, issued long since. Of this "scarce" book, by Andreas Edward Cockayne, the first volume appeared in 1869, and the second in 1873, only forty- five and one hundred copies, respectively, being printed for private circulation. There is a copy of both volumes, presented by the author and so inscribed by him, in the British Museum (9903 bb. 20), the present appearance of which indicates that they have been frequently called for. 1 do not remember to have met with another. W. I. R. V.

CLIFFORD : BRAOSE (9 th S. v. 355). Walter de Clifford, the first, of Clifford, a town in the hundred of Huntingdon, co. Here- ford, was son of Richard Fitz Punz and grandson of William Fitz Punz, who came into England with the Conqueror and was Earl of Angus in Normandy. Walter the first lived temp. King Henry II., and held the manor of Corsham in co. Salop of the king. He married Margaret de Toney, daughter and heir of Ralph de Toney, by

whom he had two sons (Walter, his heir, and Richard de Clifford, lord of Framptpn, co. Gloucester) and two daughters (" 1 air " Rosamond and Lucia : the latter married Hugh, Lord Say, Baron of Richard's Castle, co. Hereford).

Walter the second it was who married Agnes de Condy, daughter and heir of Roger de Condy, lord of Coventry and Glentham, co. Lincoln. Walter the second lived through the reigns of Richard I., John, and Henrv III. His five sons were Walter, Roger, Richard, Simon, and Gyles. I find no mention of daughters.

Walter the third, eldest son and heir, mar- ried Margaret Braose (vide Collins's ' Peerage of England '), lady of Cantrescliff, and had by her one daughter, Maud, who married William de Longespee, third Earl of Salisbury. Walter the third died in 1263, leaving Margaret, his wife, a widow, who, dying soon after him, was buried at the Priory Church of Aconbury, co. Hereford. I should like to know MR. HUSSEY'S authority for the mar- riage of a John Braose to a Margaret Clifford, and whether he has ever come across any connecting links between Wykes of Kent and Wykes of Devon.

(Mrs.) C. LEGA-WEEKES.

"KlDCOAT": "KlTCOTE" = A PRISON (9 th S.

v. 376). In 1594 there was at York a prison called the Ousebridge kidcote (Athenwum, 27 Jan., 1877, p. 112).

The lock-up or town prison at Wakefield was called the Kidcote. A new one was built a century ago, and continued to be " used down to the advent of the new police in 1848" ('N. & Q.,' 7 th S. iii. 194).

In former days (I have not a note of the date) there was a kidcoat at Malton (* West Riding Sessions Rolls,' vol. iii. p. 17)

In a survey of Bridlington Priory, made late in the reign of Henry VIII., we read, " In the northe syde of the same gatehouse ys there a prison for offenders within the towne called the kydcott " (Archceologia, vol. xix. p. 271). EDWARD PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

Much has been gathered up about "kid- cote " in ' N. & Q.,' 7 th S. ii. 229, 312 ; iii. 194 ; v. 497.

In the 'Associated Architectural Societies Papers,' ii. 290, a derivation is suggested from "quit-court." See also Burton and Raine's * History of Hemingbrough,' p. 318, n.

W. C. -t>.

POLITICIAN (8 th S. x. 333, 444, 517; xi. 76, 333 ; xii. 237, 433). Further reading in various directions adds to the number of