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enormous profit, he bought in supplies of neces- 

 saries, which were retailed at prices which merely 

 covered expenses, his object being the accommo- 

 dation of his men, and not commercial remunera- 

 tion. He farther issued a paper money, which 

 paid the wages, and was received in these shops 

 in payments. 



The Indian railways might adopt this plan 

 with advantage. P- Q. 



LENGTur Incumbencies (2"* S. x. 76.) — The 

 following paragraph, which appeared in the Preston 

 Chronicle of Oct. 6, 1860, is, I think, worth a 

 place in " N. & Q." The two rectories named 

 are in Lancashire : — 



"Long Incumbencies. — The present rector of Cros- 

 ton, the Rev. Streynsham Master, was appointed to that 

 living in 1798, sixty-two years ago. He then succeeded 

 his father, who was inducted to the rectory in May, 

 1759, so that the two rectors, father and son, have pos- 

 sessed the incumbency above a hundred and one years. 

 The Rev. R. K. Rothwell, rector of Sefton, was appointed 

 to that benefice in the year 1801,59 years since. He suc- 

 ceeded his father, who was nominated to the rectory in 

 January, 1763. He and his father have therefore held 

 the appointment ninety-seven years." 



Prestoniensis. 



Several have been named in " N. & Q." The 

 Rev. Benj. Rudge above mentioned is another 

 instance, and the rector of my own parish (Lee, 

 S.E.) has held the living fifty-seven years, and 

 performed part of the service until within the last 

 four or five years. He is now nearly ninety years 

 of age. F. B. Rblton. 



Lee, S.E. 



The following x*emarkable instances of clerical 

 longevity, which I have met with in Walker's Se- 

 lections from the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' vol. iv. 

 p. 299., deserve, I think, to appear in " N. & Q." : 



"1753, Dec. 22. Rev. Mr. Braithwaite, of Carlisle. 

 [died!l aged one hundred and ten. He had been one 

 hundred j'ears in the Cathedral, having commenced sing- 

 ing boy in the year 1652." 



" 1763. Rev. Peter Alley (Rector of Donamow, Ireland, 

 sevent3'-three years), [died] in the one hundred and 

 eleventh year of his age. He did his own duty till within 

 a few days of his death ; he was twice married, and had 

 thirty-three children." 



Abhba. 



Rev. p. Rosenhagen(2"'» S. viii.lO ; x.2I6.)-— 

 The following notice ofthis gentleman, certainly not 

 a flattering one, which I have just-stumbled upon 

 at p. 680. of the Town and Country Magazine for 

 1776, will probably interest your correspondents 

 who have recently been making inquiries respect- 

 ing him : — 



" Extract of a Letter from Paris. 



" We have a phenomenon here, an English parson, 

 the descendant of a German minister. His name is 

 R — s — lin — gen. He was chaplain to an English regi- 

 monl ; but being a very active man and abusive writer 

 on the side of opposition, he found himself under the 

 necessity of retiring, and commenced chevalier d'indus- 



trie at large. He was not unacquainted with the finesses 

 at play, and availed himself of them upon every occasion. 

 However, as this commerce is not the most certain in the 

 world, he found it expedient to extend his credit upon 

 paper to a verj' considerable amount. When the bills 

 became due, he sought refuge in the Verge of the court ; 

 but even here his libert)' became perilous, and he judged 

 it prudent to make a trip to the Continent. He went to 

 the south of France, and sojourned for a considerable time 

 at Lyons; here it was necessary to call his adroitness 

 into play, by which, under the sanction of Mrs. P . . . t 

 (Lady L — g — n — r's mother), who was his patroness, and 

 with whom he lived on the strictest intimacy for some time, 

 his hours glided in ease and luxury. But a disagreeable 

 discovery of an operation at Lansquenette induced him^ 

 to quit that city h. la fourdine, and to repair to this me- 

 tropolis. He had not been here long before he made ac- 

 quaintance with Madame L , who being upon the 



haut ton of demireps, she was caressed by persons of the 

 first rank. Her house is now the belle asserablee of first- 

 rate ladies of her complexion, and wherever they resort 

 the men will go. Cards form the greatest part of the en- 

 joyment of these parties. Deep play is the word every 

 night ; the ladies fleece their male friends with impunity, 

 and the parson has a fellow-feeling. Besides, as he is a 

 scholar, and a man of address, he easily ingratiates him- 

 self with his countrj-men, who think themselves honoured 

 to be introduced to a real marquis and an imaginary 

 countess. Clericus has been very successful in these pur- 

 suits for some time, as an English baronet and a Welch 

 'squire can testifj'. Notwithstanding these nocturnal re- 

 vels, R is seen every forenoon reading his Tacitus in 



the Thuilleries or the Palais Royal, with as much gravity 

 and composure, as if the whole night had been devoted to 

 study." 



R. P. R. 



Waltham Abbey (2°'* S. x. 189. 239.) — For 

 farther information respecting this abbey, Notsa 

 had better consult the Register now preserved in 

 the Brit. Mus. MSS. Harl 3697. It was compiled 

 A.i>. 1371. A. S. 



Caradoc Freichfras, etc. (2""^ S. x. 251.) — 

 I wish I was able to give more satisfactory answers 

 to Ned Alsned's Queries ; but I have little to add 

 to my last communication. Caradoc Freichfras, 

 Earl of Hereford, and one of the Knights of King 

 Arthur's Round Table, was father of Loddoca, 

 whose daughter Khiengar was mother of Tudor 

 Trevor (the extra tribe of Wales). His father 

 was Ynyrap Cadfach, descended from Cadell Deu- 

 rullug. King of Powys. Tudor Trevor married 

 Gwladys, daughter of Howel Dda, who lived in 

 940. Rhys-ap-Maengrech and Nefydd Hardd 

 were of a later date. Nefydd, or the handsome, 

 was chief of N^ant Conwy, and lived 1135. His 

 arms were the same as C. Freichfras, but reversed, 

 and his descendants were reduced to plebeians for 

 the murder of Itwal ap Owen Gwynedd. I can- 

 not find a Price, descended from Caradoc, in 

 Davies's Display of Heraldry, nor do I believe 

 that any genealogy is mentioned in Davies's 

 Welsh and Latin Dictionary. I would refer J!^ed 

 Alsned to Enderbie's Cambria Triumphans for 

 information concerning Belinus, Brennus, &c., as 

 it would require too diffuse a Note to enter upon 



