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poses were lighted in the sacristies, and tliese 

 have generally disappeared. There is a remark- 

 able feature in Tunstead Church, Norfolk. A 

 small space behind the altar, about three feet in 

 breadth, contains a place which seems to have 

 been used for lighting a fire, probably for the 

 purpose above indicated, or chiefly for the char- 

 coal used for the incense. F. C. Husenbeth. 



In addition to the instances already adduced in 

 " N. & Q.," I may mention that of Battlefield, the 

 place where the memorable battle of Shrewsbury 

 was fought. Before I published my recent work 

 upon Fields of Battle in England of the Fifteenth 

 Century^ I several times visited Battlefield, and 

 inspected its ancient church tower. The second 

 floor has a fire-place within the thickness of the 

 wall, and with an opening to let ofi" the smoke 

 outside of the western window of the bell- cham- 

 ber. Richard Brooke. 



Liverpool. 



Leighton Family (2"^ S. x. 124. 230.)— In reply 

 to P. S. C, I would state that upon consulting the 

 pedigree I find that the grandfather of Sir Thomas 

 Leighton (the Captain of Guernsey Island) was Sir 

 Thomas Leighton of Wattlesborough, co. Salop, 

 who married a daughter of Lord Ferrers of Chart- 

 ley, and widow of Sir Richard Corbet, by whom 

 he had issue, John Leighton, Esq., of Wattles- 

 borough, who married Joyce, the daughter of 

 Lord Dudley, and had issue three sons and six 

 daughters; viz. L Sir Edward Leighton, who suc- 

 ceeded to the Wattlesborough estates ; 2. Sir 

 Thomas Leighton, Captain of Guernsey; S.Charles 

 Leighton, a captain in France, with Elizabeth, 

 Katherlne, Jane, Eleanor, Cecily, and Dorothy. 



Katherine, the second daughter, married, first, 

 Richard Wigmore, and afterwards John Dodg, of 

 Kent, although another pedigree makes this lady 

 four times a wife; viz. 1. to Wigmore, 2. to Comp- 

 ner, 3. to CoUard, and 4. to Dodg. 



Sir Thomas Leightou (of Guernsey) married 

 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Francis Knowles, and 

 had issue Thomas, married to a daughter of Lord 

 Zouch, also two daughters, named Elizabeth and 

 Anne. Cl. Hopper, 



In earlier times proper names were written ac- 

 cording to the scribe's notion of their pronuncia- 

 tion or sound : hence arise the various ways in 

 which the same name is found written and spelt. 

 A Shropshire person would pronounce Leighton 

 thus — Laton, or Lay ton; a Worcestershire per- 

 son would call it Liton, or Lighten ; and a Staf- 

 fordshire man would speak it broadly, as Loiton, 

 or Lauton. 1 have collected from old deeds, re- 

 cords, parish registers, and other similar docu- 

 ments, the following variety of ways in which the 

 name has been spelt, and that without any regard 

 to date or time, the same century or period pre- 

 senting variations the most opposite : — Lahtune, 



Lehton, Laighton, Leheton, Lechton, Leahton, 

 Leton, Lestone, Lehtune, Lectona, Letona, Leygh- 

 ton, Leghton, Lectone, Leycton, Laton, Layton, 

 Leyton, Leaton, Letton, Letone, Ijayghton, Leig- 

 ton, Lechton, Lecton, Lecthon, Legton, Lehton, 

 Leyghtone, Lekton, Leocton, Letton, Lethon, 

 Leithone, Leithon, Leheton, Leiton, Leychton, 

 Lechtone, Lawton, Lowghton, Loughton, Lauton, 

 Loiton, Liton, Leycton, Leotun, Leeton, Lectune, 

 Leghtan, Leichtoune, Lichtoun, Lyghton, Ligh- 

 ton, Leighton. W. A. Leighton. 



Shrewsbury. 



Witty Classical Quotations (2"'* S. x. 178., 

 &c.) — An Irishman (?) during the late summer (?) 

 exclaimed " Regnat ubique fides ! " and probably 

 as he thought those who heard him did not under- 

 stand Latin, whereas, in fact, to them it only ap- 

 peared to be mere irony, he gave his rendering of 

 it — " Faitb, it rains everywhere t " Anon. 



The late Dr. Faussett, whose collection of anti- 

 quities the Trustees of the British Museum so 

 unhappily neglected to secure for the nation, had a 

 dinner bell, which he caused to be cast from de- 

 faced and valueless Roman coins discovered by 

 him in the course of his excavations. On this bell 

 was inscribed the line from Claudian, I think : — 



" Audito tibi quod loquitur Romana vetustas." 

 Thus paraphrased by a friend of mine : — 

 " Hearken to old Latinity." 



W. J. Bernhard Smith. 

 Temple. 



The Rolliad (2"^ S. x. 97.)— 



Sacerdos. vvv S' ovSe els 



0uei TO TTapinav oiSev, oiS' slo'epx^Tat 



U\t)v aironaTetrofievoi ye ttKciv r) fjivpioi, 



Chremyltcs. Ovkow to. voixi^oixeva axi tovtui- Aa/A^afei?, 



Flutus, V. 1182. 



The German line is probably taken from some 

 translation of Aristophanes. That of Voss — the 

 only one which I have had an opportunity of re- 

 ferring to here — is : 



" Du versaumet doch niemals deine gebiihr davon zu 

 Ziehen." 



FlTZHOPKIKS. 

 Paris. 



Magnetic Declination (2"^^ S. x. 62. 131. 

 176. 219.) — I beg to correct a strange oversight 

 in my reply on magnetic declination, p. 176. 

 Speaking of the meridian line, I stated that " the 

 right angles to which are of course N. and S." 

 A self-evident blunder. 



Mr. Buckton's method of drawing a meridian 

 line by the shadow of a stick is, I think, quite 

 sufficiently accurate for general purposes, such as 

 fixing the pointers on a church-steeple. I would 

 suggest, however, what seems to me a rather more 

 simple modus operandi, by which attention to the 

 exact time before and after noon would be unne- 



