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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(204 S, No 20, May 17, °56. 
Replies to Minor Quertes. 
The Rev. Robert Montgomery (2S. i. 293. 
321.) — His grandfather was a nephew of Richard 
General Montgomery, who fell at the taking of 
Quebee, 1775. 
The Rey. 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* 8. xii. p. 448.) — Mr. 
D’Aveney will find, in the Introduction to Allen's 
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. 2 aN 
Freer Family (2°°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 Mr. 
Faser 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°° S. i, 113. 163. 183, 342.) — 
“We (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 Karly 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, —JI 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 Karly Days might secure his reputation for a 
long time to come.”—From The History of a Man. 
Edited by George Gilfillan. London, 1856, p. 169. 
J. M. 
Archbishops’ Degrees (218. 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 Zondon 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. 
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. Aso. 
Clere (2 §S. i. 336.) — This affix signifies a 
royal residence or episcopal palace in the north 
of Hampshire. Kingsclere was a royal demesne 
in reign of Queen Elizabeth; at Burghclere 
the “shops of Winchester resided; and from 
Highclere, William of Wykeham dated his will, 
Macxenziz Watxcort, 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, S¢. Cleere. There is a parish of that name 
in the hundred of West, near Liskeard. H.C. K. 
Tilston or Silston (2° §. i. 292.) —To your 
correspondent H. C. C., who asks for information 
relating to a place called Zilston 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 ealled 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 Lipsecomb’s Buckingham- 
shire. W.J.S. 
Similar Legends at different Places (2"" 8.1. 15.) 
— There is a tradition respecting Roch Castle, in 
the county of Pembroke, which stands in a rar 
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. 
JAYDEE. 
