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[No. 262. 



Monastery of Nvtcelle (Vol. x., p. 287.)- — 

 Kutshalling (commonly called Nursling) is in 

 Hampshire, being about four miles N. W. of 

 Southampton. It does not appear, however, that 

 there was ever a monastery here ; but, according 

 to the common tradition of the place, there was 

 one at Redbridge (formerly Reodford), a village 

 adjoining Nutshalling. Camden, I believe, men- 

 tions it. Lewis, in his Topographical Dictiormry, 

 speaks of it as a monastery in the infancy of the 

 Saxon church, and relates that, in 687, C^nbreth, 

 at that time abbot, converted and baptized the 

 two brothers of Arvandus, prince of the Isle of 

 Wight, preparatory to their execution by com- 

 mand of Ceadwella, king of Essex. The site of 

 this monastery the Redbridge folk point out as 

 being near where now the Andover canal ter- 

 minates, and about a mile and a half from Nut- 

 shalling. RussELii Gole. 



Col. St. Leger (Vol. x., pp. 95. 175.). — This 

 gentleman formerly lived at Grangemellon, near 

 this : his castellated gatehouse still exists, as well as 



gardens, fishponds, bowling-alley, &c. ; the house 

 as long since been dismantled. He belonged to 

 an extraordinary set of men, who flourished in this 

 kingdom about 1770 to the time of the Union. A 

 most amusing account of them is given in a small 

 work, Ireland Sixty Years Ago. Col. St. Leger (or 

 Sallenger commonly called) was one of the Bucks, 

 and had many confreres in this district, old 

 Bagenal, co. Carlow, — Buck Whaley, Jerusalem 

 Whaley, and many others, who passed their lives 

 in all sorts of extravagance, hard drinking, in fact 

 gave us the natural character of " Wild Irish." 

 Sallenger is principally celebrated as the originator 

 of the "Hell-fire Club." The peasantry here 

 believe that he often drives in a coach and four ; 

 the coachman and footmen are headless, and also 

 the horses ; some of the parties have even seen this 

 cavalcade, and will not pass by Grangemellon 

 after dark. The work before alluded to gives us 

 a glimpse of an extraordinary state of society, long 

 since passed away. I have no doubt but that Sir 

 Jonah Barrington (also a former resident) gives 

 some particulars of the celebrated " Sallenger." 



H. 

 Athy. 



Reckoning by Nights (Vol. x., p. 221.). — As no 

 correspondent has answered this, I beg, though 

 with diffidence, to recall the manner in which 

 Xenophon records the " Retreat of the Ten Thou- 

 sand," viz. by araOfjLol, stages, or day's marches. 

 Possibly some of the commentators on the following 

 passages, viz. Tacit. Germ. II., Hesiod, Theog. 

 724., Caesar, B. G. vi. 18., may furnish M. with 

 references. P. J. F. Gantiixon. 



Water-cure in the last Century (Vol. x., pp. 28. 



written to recommend the medicinal use of cold 

 water, may be added the name of Sir John Floyer 

 of Lichfield. In his book entitled Pseuchrolusia ; 

 or, the History of Cold Bathing, published at 

 Lichfield in 1702, mention is made of many won- 

 derful cures effected by cold bathing in a spring 

 in a garden adjoining Saint Chad's church in that 

 city. N. W. S. 



Slaughtering Cattle in Towns (Vol. x., p. 287.). 

 — The reason why Cambridge is particularised ill 

 the statute 4 Hen. VII. cap. 3. is, that it was not 

 a walled town. 



Why Berwick and Carlisle were excepted I 

 must leave to be explained by those conversant in 

 the history of those places. C. H. Coopbe. 



Cambridge. 



The Ogden and Westcott Families : American 

 Loyalists (Vol. vi., pp. 37. 44. 592.). — Among the 

 Ogdens mentioned in Sabine's American Loyalists, 

 referred to in p. 44., is one thus curtly noticed : 



" Ogdkn, Isaac, Barrister-at-Law, New York. Was 

 also a correspondent of Galloway." 



This gentleman removed to Canada, and was for 

 many years a puisne judge of the Court of King's 

 Bench at Montreal, where he died, about thirty 

 years ago, at an advanced age. Three of his sons 

 are now living, viz. Peter Skene Ogden, a chief 

 factor in the Hudson's Bay Company ; Isaac 

 Gouverneur Ogden, Sheriff of the District of 

 Three Rivers, in Canada; and Charles Richard 

 Ogden, formerly Attorney-General of Lower 

 Canada, and now Attorney-General of the Isle of 

 Man. Eric. 



Hochelaga. 



Words and Phrases at Polperro (Vol. x., pp. 

 173. 300.). — Video is mistaken if he supposes all 

 the words quoted in his list to be peculiar to Pol- 

 perro, or even to Cornwall. I have extracted a 

 score of his instances, one half of which are com- 

 mon in Cheshire, and the other half well known to 

 most residents in Devonshire. Abide, anan, ax, 

 chimley, chap, dish, fuddled, giggle, goold, and grab, 

 have each the same signification in Cheshire as 

 that pointed out by Video ; while anist, ball, chiel, 

 chuff, cloam, crim, drang, drule, greet, and grise, 

 are " familiar in the mouths " of Devonians as 

 " household words." T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



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