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for " nearly forty years," so if he started at twenty that would make him now about eighty years of age. I should be glad of any particulars. RICHARD HEMMING.

Ardwick.

[General Forlong is, we believe, still living. He was so two or three years ago, and we have had no news of his death. The fact that his name does not appear in ordinary works of reference shows how little cognizance is taken of serious workers. While every man who, by self-advertise- ment or otherwise, pushes temporarily into a place in the front of letters obtains insertion, the genuine seekers after truth escape a form of recognition which, happily for them, they are as a rule indis- posed to seek. General Forlong was, we believe, at one time a contributor to our columns.]

ANCIENT BOATS. I have been very much interested in visiting the museum at Glaston- bury and inspecting the relics so excellently shown there from the British village excavated by Prof. Boyd Dawkins and Dr. Bulleid, and especially the remains of the ancient boat. Has any exhaustive account been prepared of the various boats found in the United Kingdom? The following occur to me in addition to that at Glastonbury :

1. A fine boat found at Giggles wick Tarn in June, 1863, and now in the museum of the Leeds Philosophical Society.

2. A boat found at Blea Tarn, near Lan- caster, and housed in the Storey Institute in this town.

3. A boat found on the banks of Lough Derg, and exhibited (in 1898) in the orna- mental grounds opposite the Portland man- sion.

4. Another found in Lough Ree, and pre- served in the museum at Dublin.

5. Canoe found on 7 October, 1887, in the Kibble Valley, near Preston.

6. Canoe found in 1869 at Buckfield Farm, Rufford, Lancashire.

7. Eight canoes found in Marton Mere, Lancashire.

8. Canoes found in Marton Lake, Lan- cashire; m Dumfriesshire; in Maidstone and at North Stoke, Sussex (Archceologid, vol. xxv.).

9. Canoe found in excavating for the Man- chester Ship Canal at Bar ton-upon-Ir well and now preserved in the museum at Owens College.

^ Can any one send notes of ancient canoes in other parts of the British Isles? An in foresting paper, with illustrations, might be compiled on this subject.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. Lancaster.

THE CROWNING OF DRAMATIC AUTHORS in his essay upon the question "Whether

actors ought to sit in the boxes," Hazlitt says : " It was a bad custom to bring authors on the stage to crown them." When was this custom practised, and are there any descrip- tions of it to be found ?

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

Replies.

SIR FRANCIS JONES, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1620-21.

(9 th S. viii. 65, 190, 309.)

THROUGH the courtesy of the Rev. A. S. Batson, rector of Welford, Berks, and his wife (an able antiquary), who have in the kindest possible manner responded to a request for any information in their power relating to this Lord Mayor and his family by furnishing certified copies of entries in the parish register, c., I am in a position to add to my previous replies on this subject at the last two references some important and interesting particulars. I would, how- ever, first state that the place of residence of the grandfather of Sir Francis, called "Lueston" in the Stowe MS. (Brit. Mus.) 624, as previously referred to, is properly Ludstone, a township of the parisn of Claverley, co. Salop, the register of which, dating from 1568, is rather too late to supply the date of baptism of Sir Francis ; and also that the arms (Az., a lion passant between three crosses patee fi tehee or ; a chief of the last) and crest (a lion rampant or, supporting an anchor az.) of the latter appear to have been granted by William Camden, Clarenceux, 10 November, 1610.

It will be seen by the extracts from the Welford register, as below, that (mirabile dictu) not only is Sir Francis described in hia burial 0.1 try as "armiger" ( = esquire) instead of "miles" ( = knight), but also that the dates of such burial and of that of his eldest son Abraham do not at all coincide with those of death as given in their Inq. p.m. ; nor does the age of the latter's son and heir George, as appears in the father's Inq. p.m., agree with the date of baptism. We find also from such extracts that Susanna, the relict of Abraham, was married at Welford, 8 August, 1635, to William Hinton, her second husband, Me ilaXi 1 issue by him at least two sons and a Jaughter,* and that she was buried there tjune, 1675. This Hinton, who was, if I remember ivjhtly, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I., appears from Richard Symonds's 'Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War ' to have owned