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The Rev. Robert Montgomery (2 nd S. i. 293. 321.) His grandfather was a nephew of Richard General Montgomery, who fell at the taking of Quebec, 1775.
The Rev. Robert Montgomery was born 1807 at Bath, and his father is still living at Bath. He was acquainted with the late Rev. William Jay, Minister of Argyle Chapel, Bath, and attended that chapel. His first living in the Church was St. John the Baptist Church, Whittington, Shrop- shire ; then St. Jude Church, Glasgow ; last Percy Episcopal Chapel, Fitzroy Square, St. Pancras.
His literary labours he wholly devoted to the service of religion, the truth of which he so elo- quently expounded in the pulpit. W.
Sir Wm. Stanley (1 st S. xii. p.^448.) MR. D'AvENEY will find, in the Introduction to Aliens Defence of Stanley, published by the Chetham Society, a full and curious account of the inter- ment of Sir Wm. Stanley in the Lady Chapel, Mechlin. P. P.
Freer Family (2 nd S. i. 75. 261. 342.) As I bear, Gu. between two flaunches or, as many leo- pards' faces in pale of the last ; crest, out of a ducal coronet gu. an antelope's head ar. armed or, I cannot claim any relationship with the Perth- shire Freers. Nor do the bearings given by Ma. FABER agree with those of the Oxfordshire Freres, nor with those of the Freers of Stratford-on-Avon, Bishopstone, co. Hereford, Essex, or Charlton, co. Salop. GEO. E. FRERE.
Royden Hall, Diss.
William Kennedy (2 nd S. i. 113. 163. 183. 342.)
" He (Dugald Moore) aimed at the honours and immu- nities, but shirked the responsibilities of genius. It was much the same with a more brilliant man, William Ken- nedy, the author of Fitful Fancies. I had met with this gentleman's Early Days in my native village, and read it with great delight. The picture of his father's and mo- ther's death; that of the character and drowning of Gerald ; the beautiful descriptions and the fine snatches of poetry, charmed me, I classed it with some of the tales in the Lights and Shadows, but thought it superior in naturalness and variety. I met afterwards with some of his minor poems and relished them much. I learned that his career was very chequered. He was the son of an Irish Presbyterian minister. He studied at Dr. Law- son's seminary for Dissenting students in Selkirk; but ultimately resigned thoughts of the ministry, became an editor, first in Paisley, then in Hull ; went as Consul to Texas, and has ended, I am told, poor fellow, in an asy- lum in Paris. In Paisley he was a prodigious favourite as a frank, clever, social Irishman, the life of every com- pany. His Early Days might secure his reputation for a long time to come." From The History of a Man. Edited by George Gilfillan. London, 1856, p. 1G9.
J. M.
Archbishops' Degrees (2 nd S. i. 319.) H. B. may perhaps be interested in seeing a list of those
members of the medical profession in England and
Wales who have obtained degrees at Lambeth. I
find the following names in the London and Pro-
vincial Medical Directory for 1856. The date ap-
pended to one of them may serve as an answer to
the question, whether these degrees still continue
to be conferred. Some names may have escaped
my notice, and probably several other possessors
of a Lambeth degree may have thought it prudent
to suppress the title :
Bayes; Grindrod, 1855; Hull;
Julius, 1851 ; Oke, 1828 ;
Ramsbotham, 1851. JAYDEE.
DR. GAUNTLETT is mistaken in saying that there is no examination for the higher faculties, at least at Oxford. In these are examinations both for the degrees of B.D. and D.D., B.C.L. and D.C.L., unless they are honorary, or con- ferred by diploma. There is not one for an M.A., which I believe is the only degree now given for which there is no examination. W. A. H.
Clere (2 nd S. i. 336.) This affix signifies a royal residence or episcopal palace in the north of Hampshire. Kingsclere was a royal demesne in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; at Burghclere " the bishops of Winchester resided ; and from Highclere, William of Wykehani dated his will.
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
Your correspondent T. E. B. will probably find on further inquiry that the termination of these names of places is simply the name of the Cornish saint, St. Cleere. There is a parish of that name in the hundred of West, near Liskeard. H. C. K.
Tilston or Silston (2 nd S ; i. 292.) To your correspondent H. C. C., who* asks for information relating to a place called Tilston or Tylston, in Buckinghamshire, I would beg to suggest the pos- sibility that he has mistaken the letter S for T. There is on the borders of Bucks and North- ampton a hamlet called Silverstone, frequently abridged into Silston, or Silson. In that place formerly stood the Priory of Luffield, of which I believe there are still some few visible remains. The site is now occupied by farm buildings, which stand in both counties. See Dugdale's Monasti- con, last edition, vol. iv. p. 345. ; Baker's History of Northamptonshire, and Lipscomb's Buckingham- shire. W. J. S.
Similar Legends at different Places (2 nd S. i. 15.) There is a tradition respecting Roch Castle, in the county of Pembroke, which stands in a very isolated and commanding position, that it was built by Adam de Rupe, or De la Roche (who came into Pembrokeshire with Arnulph de Montgomery), in consequence of his wife having been warned in a dream, that the child .with {which she was then pregnant would die from the bite of a viper.
