the Puritans, but after the defeat of the incompetent Earl of Stamford at Stratton it fell into the bands of the Cavaliers. On the death of Charles, the Corporation showed their displeasure by not meeting for three months, and only assembled then for the purpose of paying the city's representatives in Parliament. The mayor threw the proclamation of the republic into the gutter; and his successor, though duly elected, refused to act, and was fined 4002. for disobedience. Several royal letters are extracted from the city archives, the most important relating to the siege of 1549, and a summary is printed of a curious collection of Acts of Parliament (1649-52) preserved in the chapter library. Devonshire sadly wants a new historian; when one does arise his labours will be lightened by the publication of these valuable documents.

should thereby be warranted in supposing the existence of a pre-historic "House of Christie" at the Court of Aidan, king of the Scots, in Dalriada.

MR. H. B. TOMKINS (New University Club, St. James's Street, S. W.) writes: If S. S., who inquired in 'N. & Q' (1st S. iii.) for information about the descendants of Sir Alexander Cumming, of Coulter, is still living, I shall be happy to forward to him a pedigree which sets them out pretty exhaustively."

the Scotch family of Bonar.
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J. BENNETT AITKEN.-The picture represents the wellknown story of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., meeting a robber in the depths of a forest, and throwing herself and son upon the protection of the outlaw: "This is the son of your king-to your care I commit him-I am your queen!" Hume places the event after the battle of Hexham, while other historians think it belongs to an earlier period.

MR. JOHN BATTY's History of Rothwell (Rothwell, pub-address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but lished by the Author) must, we should think, entirely exhaust all that there is to be said on points interesting to Yorkshiremen and others concerning the antiquities, the history, and the manufacturing and mining industry of that portion of Deira. Mr. Batty gives instances from the parish registers of Rothwell of two women who were recorded as centenarians,-"Jane Garon, widow, Oulton," buried Sept. 11, 1805, aged 100, and "Ann England, widow, Royds Green," buried June 29, 1803, aged 103. The story of Jane Garon, or Garrand, is related with some circumstance in a foot-note derived from Taylor's Supplement to Leeds Worthies; both cases may be commended to the notice of Mr. Thoms. The Rothwell registers appear to commence at a very early date, 1538, and still earlier information may exist, Mr. Batty thinks, among the Dodsworth MSS. in the Bodleian, if the Nostell Coucher Book has found its way into that collection-a point on which some of our Oxford correspondents may be able to enlighten us.

IN the compass of a handy book of reference for the office, The Law relating to Trustee and Post Office Savings Banks (Hardwicke & Bogue and Butterworths), Mr. U. A. Forbes, of Lincoln's Inn, has brought together a mass of information, both as to the Statute Law and the decided cases governing the two classes of savings banks, such as cannot fail to be of great practical utility to all who have to deal with these most valuable institutions. -Mr. Edward Preston has published, under the title Unclaimed Money, a Handy Book for Heirs-at-Law and Next of Kin (Allen and Reeves & Turner), a condensed and revised reprint of letters originally written for the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, and which, in this new and more widely accessible shape, will whet the appetite of many a possible heir to untold gold.-From the able propounder of that brilliant vision, "Hygeia, the City of Health," which held a Social Science Congress in rapt attention, we receive with pleasure an earnest pleading for the Future of Sanitary Science, an address delivered before the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, by B. W. Richardson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. (Macmillan).-In his Genealogical Memoirs of the Scottish House of Christie (London, printed for the Royal Historical Society), Dr. Charles Rogers stands on somewhat firmer ground than in his previous publication respecting the family of Burns. We cannot but regret, however, that anxiety to make out a good case should lead him so far astray from the paths of the undeniable Christies of the sixteenth century as to claim for their family tree a "Dominus Cristinus," perpetual vicar of the church of Lochalveth, in Moray, in 1333. We could ourselves present Dr. Rogers from memory with the legend "Hec est crux Cristini," which we remember amid fragments of "a broken chancel with a broken cross," by the shore of St. Brandon's Sound. But we do not consider that we

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