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MONASTIC CHOIR - STALLS. Why, in
monastic churches, are the stalls in the choii
arranged to face one another north and
south, and not, as would seem more reason-
able, to face the altar ?
I am aware that in our cathedrals and parish churches the choir-stalls are arranged on the monastic plan, but I believe that it was not always so that in pre-Reformation times the choristers were placed in the loft of the choir-screen, facing the altar.
Possibly this use was discontinued when people were taught to disbelieve in the Real Presence ; but why should monks and other religious sit vis-d-vis ?
M. R. KINSEY. Frensham Place, Farnham, Surrey.
A LOST POEM BY KIPLING. Prof. Turner prefaces his book on ' The Influence of the Frontier on History ' with the following lines of Kipling's :
And he shall desire loneliness, and his. desire
shall bring Hard on his heels a thousand wheels, a people, and
a king ; And he shall come back o'er his own track, and by
his scarce cool camp There he shall meet the roaring street, the derrick,
and the stamp.
Mr. Kipling himself has forgotten where the poem was published, or what the rest of it is ! Do your readers know the poem ?
ERIC BATTERHAM. 16 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, N.
MARAT : HENRY KINGSLEY. Had Henry Kingsley any historical authority for making out, in ' Mademoiselle Mathilde,*' that Marat once lived in Dorsetshire ? STUDENT.
WILLIAM CUMBERLAND. According to The Gent.'s Mag., 1792, pt, ii. p. 676, Lieut. William Cumberland, R.N., fourth son of Richard Cumberland, died July 9, 1792. According to the same authority for 1833, pt. i. p. 83, Rear-Admiral Cumberland, youngest son of the celebrated dramatist, died Nov. 15, 1833. The' Book of Dignities' gives William as the Christian name of this Rear-Admiral. Had Richard Cumberland two sons bearing the same Christian name ?
G. F. R. B.
SIR NASH GROSE, PUISNE JUSTICE OF THE KING'S BENCH. According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxiii. 274, he was a son of Edward Grose of London. I wish to learn further particulars of his parentage, the date of his birth in 1740, and the date of his marriage with " Miss Dennett of the Isle of Wight." G. F. R. B.
MALET. 1. Can any reader enlighten me
as to the connexion of the Uffords and Pey-
tons and Dashwoods of East Anglia, with the
Malet family ? I have seen somewhere that
the real name of the Uffords, Earls of
Sussex, was Malet de Ufford ; is this so ?
2. Who were the following, and what connexion have they with the Somerset Malet s? (i.) Sir Hugh Malet, styled first miles and then dominus, who witnessed documents at Salisbury from 1210 to 1223. Is he the same as Hugh Fichet or Malet of Enmore, Somerset, who died early in the century? (ii.) Francis Mallet, Dean of Lincoln during the reigns of Henry VIII. and Mary.
3. Can any one tell me where the Malets of Normanton, Yorkshire, came from, and whether there are any descendants alive to-day ? If not, when did they die out ?
4. Can any one supply me with the pedigrees of (i.) the Malets of Irby. Lincoln ; (ii.) Mallets of Willoughby, Nottingham ; (iii.) Mallets of Berkeley, Gloucestershire; (iv.) Malets of Normanton : Yorkshire ?
G. MALET. 37 Porchester Square, Bayswater.
PAUL FLEETWOOD. I am anxious to ascertain whether a certain Paul Fleetwood (baptized at Leyland, Aug. 9, 1688 ; buried at Kirkham, 1727) had any male descend- ants. He was a son of Richard Fleetwood of Rossall, grandson of Francis Fleetwood of Hakensall, and great-grandson of Sir Paul Fleetwood of Rossall. I have reason to believe that he had a son Henry Fleet- wood, and a grandson Paul Fleetwood (born 1746, died 1808) ; and if any of your readers could help me in the matter, I should be very much obliged.
>H. E. RUDKIN, Major.
MARTEN FAMILY. I should be pleased to receive any information regarding : Edward Marten, Mayor of Winchelsea in 1700 ; W. Marten and Thos. Marten, who in 1753 signed the account book belonging to the Chamberlain of the Winchelsea Corporation ; Edward Marten and his heirs, who in 1716 owned property in Winchelsea called the Firebrand. A. E. MARTEN.
North Dene, Filey, Yorkshire.
OFFICERS' " BATMEN." There has been some correspondence lately in the English papers about officers' " batmen." I under- stand a " batman " is a personal attendant. I have been to India and other places in the Indian Ocean where Indians act as personal attendants. My " boy " or " bhoy " at one place in India was an elderly gentleman
