1 SEPTEMBER 1906, Page 14

AN ANCIENT QUADRILATERAL.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR... J SIR,—In the very interesting paper, "An Ancient Quadri- lateral," in the Spectator of August 18th, the writer has made one slight mistake when he says : "In the Civil War Cavaliers and Roundheads spilt their first blood at 'Martial Elm' on Mendip." This first skirmish was not on Mendip, but at Marshall's Elm, in the parish of Street, named after the family of Marshall, to whom the old house of Ivythorne close by belonged at that time. The whole circumstances of this skirmish are fully narrated in "Kirby's Quest," lately pub- lished by the Somerset Record Society.—I am, Sir, &c.,