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line, of Aldfield, near Ripon. That they were identical was the very probable suggestion first made by the author of 'The Norman People': but neither he nor Mr. Round ('Feudal England,' p. 518) could have known anything beyond the fact that two brothers of these names, sons of an Aldeline, occurred in different parts of Yorkshire about the same date. The author of 'The Norman People' made further speculations about the descent of William Fitz Aldeline which are ground- less.

The following note by Mr. W. Paley Bail- don in 'Yorkshire Inquisitions,' vol. i. p. 283, now clearly indicates that Aldeline was the holder of Thorpe as well as Aldfield :

"Assize Roll, York, 1245-6. John de Curtenay was summoned to warrant to Alexander de Ledeg one third of a knight's fee in Kirkby which Alan de Aldfeud had claimed against him in the court of Roger de Mubray."

That John de Courtenay was a son of William Fitz Aldeline is a new fact made known by my note. Alan was the grandson

graphing on 22 June a summary of Capt. Slocum's report on his observations while United States military attache with the British forces in South Africa, includes the sentence, " Caution the British have not ; but they just bunt ahead, and take the conse- quences." " Bunt ahead" sounds like English dialect, but "jug-handled" appears distinc- tively American. -POLITICIAN.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

SIR HUMPHERY D'WYVILL. Can any one tell me what authority Sir Bernard Burke has for the statement in his ' Landed Gentry ' that " Sir Humphery D'Wyvill was knight of Slingsby Castle, and appears on the Roll of Battle Abbey as one of the companions in arms

of Ralph. Outside the chartulary of Foun- f the Conqueror"? No such name appears

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tains Abbey I have only met with Aldeline de Aldfeld himself once, witnessing the charter (1135-40) of Earl Alan granting Masham to Roger de Mowbray. The history of Thorpe, however, reveals a previous genera- tion or two.

in Domesday in connexion with Slingsby, and in the Duchess of Cleveland's edition of the Battle Abbey Roll, under the head of ' Viville,' we have " Hugh de Guidville came to England 1066, and 1086 held in Northants and Leicester (D.B.)." The 'Dictionary of Radulph was the name of the Domesday I National Biography ' repeats the statement of

tenant of this Thorpe, who held this manor Sir B - Burke, but gives no authority for it.

of Ilbert de Laci and was, it seems, his butler,

for so styled (Pincerna) Radulph gave two

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the chapel of St. Clement in Pontefract twenty captains (Cavaliers) taken prisoners Tr^ .^ e, 8&m f. e&T} y^ G ^ & ^^^^\})yihe Earl of Manchester on 2 May, 1644, records this donation states that Radulphus O r give a reference to a work containing full

SL i? J?2r gav r *?? S& 8 Stubb l details of the affair? JOSEPH F. CARTER. Hensall ( Mon. AngL,' i. 660). We seem here Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire. to have an earlier Ralph Fitz Aldeline, but named from his mother in this case. Aide- BADGES. In the Retrospective Review, 1827- line was one of those Christian names with a 1828, occurs the A, B, of an alphabet of badges, Latin suffix the Normans gave to daughters probably written by Harris, afterwards Sir as well as sons. A. S. ELLIS. Harris Nicolas. Any information which

Westminster. I would lead to the discovery of the remainder

ever

ARTHUR S. BROOKE.

CIVIL WAR : STORMING OF LINCOLN. Can any one kindly furnish the names of the

merits of American slang, but two u ^v,,i*^ uo recently given in our newspapers in con- nexion with various phases of public affairs deserve to be noted. The New York corre- spondent of the Standard, in a communica- tion which appeared on 1 June, recorded that Mr. Moore, jpresident of the American Pro- tective Tariff League, had observed, "Pre- dent McKinley remains opposed to jug- tumdled or one - sided reciprocity " ; and Keuter'a Washington correspondent, tele-

PICTTJRES OF TAVERNS. Can any of your correspondents tell me where I can find pictures of "The Cheshire Cheese"; "The Crown," in Islington Lower Road ; "High- bury Barn"; "The White Conduit House"; "The Grecian Coffee House"; "The Temple Exchange Coffee House": "The Globe Tavern," in Fleet Street ; "The Chapter Coffee House," in Paternoster Row ; all representing them as they were during the last half of the