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Sir Peter Leycester, of Tabley, and to have been a Quaker. THOMAS WILLIAMS.

Aston Clinton, Tring.

REGISTER OF BIRTHS ON TOWER HILL. Where shall I be likely to find registered a birth that took place on Tower Hill in 1641 1 DONALD FERGUSON.

Croydon.

SARGENT FAMILY. I want information about Sargent of Wool Lavington, co. Sussex, and Sargent (afterwards Arnold) of Halsted Place, co. Kent. Can any one refer me to a published pedigree of this family, or to any one who possesses a pedigree thereof ?

F. LARPENT.

Sydenham.

A REGIMENT THAT DECLINED TO GO TO INDIA. A curious story is told, in the Rev. John Michie's ' Deeside* Tales,' of the refusal of the 77th Regiment to go to India in 1783 (or is it 1789 1). The regiment declared that If it were to fight with France or Spain, With pleasure we would cross the main ; But for like bullocks to be slain, Our Highland blood abhors it.

The question is said to have been discussed in Parliament, and the regiment was disbanded at Perth. The colonel of the regiment was Charles Gordon, who died in 1789. Where oan I find an account of the incident 1

J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall.

"CANOUSE."

"A pretious water for sores olde or newe. Take canouse that leather neuer came in, a pottle of the best worte, a gallon of lee made of wood ashes togeather ; then take roche allome and of the croppe of mather ana iiij ounces : boile them togeather a little and putt it into an earthen pott ana couer it close and lett it stand till you haue neede thereof it heales all maner of sores olde or newe." This is from ' Arcana Fairfaxiana.' What is " canouse " ? The * H.E.D.' does not help me.

C. 0. B. ["Canouse" is not in the ' E.D.D.']

WILLIAM MOREHEAD, 1637-92. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xxxix. p. 1, states, in the life of William Morenead, author of

'Lachiymae Scotise sub discessum

Georgii Monachi' (London, 1660), that this author was a nephew of General Monck, but does not explain how he was such. Can any reader supply the explanation ? Two autho- rities to which the * Dictionary ' omits to refer at the end of the life are Baker's ' History of Northamptonshire,' vol. i. p. 755, and Foster's ing to the latter, the William Moorhead who
 * Alumni Oxon., 1500-1714, p. 1027. Accord-

in 1657 became student of Gray's Inn, as son and heir of William Moorhead, of Far n ham, Surrey, Esq., was the same person as the above author. H. C.

DUKE OF NORMANDY. Can you or any of your readers inform me which of our English sovereigns dropped the title of Duke or Duchess of Normandy? I have several his- tories in my library, but have failed to find in them the required information. I have a somewhat hazy notion, however, that it was her late Majesty the Queen, who in the early part or in the middle of her reign, out of consideration for French susceptibilities, can- celled this useless and unmeaning " title " from the roll of her numerous affixes.

G. LE M.

FLOWER GAME. Is there any trace left of the pastime to which Scott alludes in 'Quentin Durward.' and from what source could he have drawn his knowledge? " They grow not in the fields like the daffodils with whose stalks children make knights' collars." E. M. WRIGHT.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES : LL.D., D.D., M.D. In some pre - Reformation universities founded by Popes chancellors were nomi- nated by them and empowered to confer the degrees of doctor in the three learned pro- fessions. Do the chancellors now represent the sovereign, and are these degrees conferred in the name of the sovereign ? Is it on this

ground that precedence is given to university octors before esquires ? If the degrees are conferred in the name of the sovereign, are United States and other foreign degrees worthy of respect or recognizable in this country? When did the form LL.D. take the place of J.U.D. ? ONE OF THEM.

[The value of certain American university degrees was discussed at much length, 8 th S. vi. 209, 273, 333, 436; vii. 36, 117, 217, 433: viii. 33, under the heading ' Tusculum University.']

AMBROSE DUDLEY MANN, the diplomatist, has written his 'Memoirs,' which were in 1888 ready for publication, according to Appleton's 'Encyclopaedia of American Bio- graphy.' Have they been published ; and if not, what has become of the MS. ?

L. L. K.

FLIGHT OF KING JAMES FROM IRELAND. There is now exhibited in Sir Henry Tate's noble gift to the nation, the Gallery of British Art, ' A Lost Cause : Flight of James the Second,' by A. C. Gow, R.A. James is repre- sented as descending some steps to take boat to board the French vessel Lauzan had wait-