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held land at Malton in that county. A number of wills of the De Locktons of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are in the registry at York, and a Ralph de Loketon lived at Lockton in 1249. I should be glad of any information which would connect any of the above. WM. LOCKTON.

Jesus College, Cambridge.

LANCASHIRE FAMILIES. Any information respecting the under-mentioned families, not contained in the publications of the various archaeological and antiquarian societies of Lancashire, would be acceptable for inclusion in a series of parochial histories relating to the hundred of West Derby: North Meols parish Coudray, Aughton, and Hesketh ; Aughton parish Walleys, or Walsh, of Walsh Hall ; Litherland, of Poulton in Wallesley, co. Chester ; Bradshagh, of Litherland ; Starky of Aughton Hall ; Atherton and Stanley of Moor Hall ; Gerrard of Gerrard Hall ; and Bickersteth, of Middle wood.

W. FARRER.

Martin House, Skipton.

"CULTIVATION." The eleventh volume of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' was issued in 1880, and since that time, unless I am grossly mistaken, the word " cultivation " has become obsolete in the precise sense that we to-day imply by the word " culture." At any rate, on reading Sir R. C. Jebb's article on Greece I seemed to feel a strong distaste for the word, as being somewhat inappropriate con- textually, and shall be glad if those readers of 'N. & Q.' who possess the 'H.E.D. 1 will tell me whether my surmise is well or ill founded respecting the change in the applica- tion of these words. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

South Hackney.

[The portion of the ' H.E.D.' including cultivation was issued in 1893. The only quotation given in which cultivation is equivalent to culture is from Lecky in 1869.1

RELIQUARY AT ORVIETO. Can any one refer me to an illustrated account of the famous reliquary at Orvieto Cathedral, in connexion with which in 1338 an in- credulous priest, when consecrating the host at the Church of St. Christina at Bolsena, saw drops of blood issue from the wafer ? References to details of this miracle (which led to the institution of Corpus Christi Day in the Roman calendar) will oblige. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. ' Town Hall, Lancaster.

ALFRED JOHNSTON HOLLINGSWORTH. What is known of this author? He is not in the ' D.N.B.' 1 remember, somewhat dimly, read-

ing of his death, perhaps twenty-five years ago, and that he was engaged to a lady who refused him when she knew he was illegiti- mate. The following, on 'Love and Time,' are the only extracts I have from his poems :

Ah ! what can still in me this anxious fear,

This tedious longing after all so dear ?

Ah ! all so nigh in musing, ever seen,

Yet far as though wide oceans roll'd between !

These fetters grieve ; but hope and fear at strife

This pining, yearning love wears out my life !

Lost gold is found : lost hours are lost for aye. Let time, young man, be deem'd thy dearest store. Life is an inn where thou wilt dwell a day, Go soon the long old road, and come no more.

RICHARD HEMMING. Ardwick.

PORTRAITS OF OFFICERS. Could you give me any information as to where I could get likenesses of old officers mentioned in the following list 1 W, means Waterloo.

Specially appointed Commissioners. General Sir Charles Green, Bart., G.C.B., 1805. General Sir H. Burrard, Bart, 1809. Lieut. -General W. Wynyard, 1812. Major-General John Brown, 1812. General Sir R. Darling, G.C.H., 1813. General Earl of Rosslyn, G.C.B., 1816. General Sir John Macdonald, K.C.B., 1818. General Sir A. Hope, G.C.B., 1819. General Sir W. Clinton, G.C.B., 1826. Lieut. -General Sir H. Taylor, G.C.B.,G.C.H., 1831. Lieut. -General Sir J. Gardiner, 1831. General Lord Fitzclarence, G.C.H., 1834. Lieut. -General Sir R. Jackson, K.C.B., 1836. (W.) Field-Marshal Sir H. D. Ross, G.C.B., 1845. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, 1848. General Sir G. A. Wetherall, G.C.B, K.H., 1851. The Right Hon. L. Sulivan, 1852. (W.) General the Hon. Sir H. Murray, K.C.B., 1855. (W.) General Sir James Simpson, G.C.B., 1855. General W. F. Foster, K.H., 1855. General Sir James Freeth, K.H., K.C.B., 1856. (W.) General Sir George Scovell, G.C.B., 1856. Lieut. -General the Right Hon. Sir P. Herbert,

K.C.B., 1861. Brevet-Col. Sir E. R. Wetherall, C.B., K.C.S.I.,

1865. (V.C.) General the Hon. Sir H. H. Clifford,

K.C.M.G., C.B., 1869. Lieut. -General J. W. Armstrong, C.B., 1873.

GEORGE FORREST, Colonel. Royal Military School, Chelsea, S. W.

EARL OF KINNOUL. Prof. Gardiner, in his ' History of the Commonwealth,' vol. i., de- finitely asserts the death of an Earl of Kinnoul in the Orkneys in November, 1649, and of another earl, a brother, on Strath Oykell, when escaping with Montrose after his defeat at Carbisdale, 28 April, 1650. Prof. Gardiner thus boldly vouches for two new Earls of Kinnoul whose names and existence are unknown to genealogists. His authority