e heard tradition to the effect
that when Mary Queen of Scots was fleeing towards England, she paused to
rest here. Can any of your readers confirm or contradict this tradition?

And can any of them furnish farther particulars regarding the history of
the same castle, in addition to those given in the ordinary gazetteers, and
in Black's _Guide to Moffat?_

ANNANDALE.

_Right of Refuge in the Church Porch._--In one of J. H. Parker's _Parochial
Tales_, a custom is spoken of as existing at the present time in Norfolk,
by which every parishioner has a right to make the church porch his
temporary home until he can find a lodging elsewhere. Is this a fact? In
the parish register of Flamstead, Herts, is an entry under the year 1578,
of the burial of a child and its father, "w^h bothe died in y^e church
porche."

CHEVERELLS.

_Christopher Lemying of Burneston._--The undersigned would be obliged to
any of the readers of "N. & Q." who would furnish him with the names of the
children and grandchildren of Christopher Lemying of Burneston, nigh
Lemying, in Richmondshire, com. York, who lived about A.D. 1600 and 1640?
And also with any information concerning the births and deaths of the same?
The Heralds' Visitations for the seventeenth century would probably afford
the information, but the writer has no access to them at present.

C. P. L.

_Ralph Ashton the Commander._--Your answer to my inquiry relative to
"Isabella, the wife of Ralph the Commander" (_Ashton_, Vol. ix., p. 272.),
induced me to refer to the work you quoted, Baines's _Lancashire_; but in
the list of her sons I did not find named one who is mentioned in the
ancient document I have spoken of, namely, "_James_, the son of Isabel, the
wife of Ralph the Commander." Did she survive her husband and marry a
second time; and, if so, what was his name? I ask this because, probably,
that would be the name of the son here alluded to. A reply to this Query
would oblige[3]

JAYTEE.

[Footnote 3: We cannot discover that Elizabeth Kaye, the wife of Ralph the
Commander, married the second time. See Burke's _Extinct Baronetcies_, pp.
21. 285., ed. 1838.--ED.]

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Minor Queries with Answers.

_Roman Roads in England._--Whose is the best treatise on the Roman roads in
England?

PRESTONIENSIS.

[Although the credit and fidelity of Richard of Cirencester have
frequently been attacked, still, as {326} Gibbon remarks, "he