2 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 16

Time-Spans

SIR,—I was born at the end of 1874, and can just remember being presented, when a small boy, to my great-grandmother, Eleanor Frewen Turner of Cold Overntin, in this county. She was born in 1786, and saw Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the chapel of the Tuilleries Palace shortly before they were executed. Her father-in-law was born in 1708 and was at the funeral of the great Duke of Marlborough. At Wollaton, in -Nottinghamshire, he saw an old pensioner of the family. then over 100, who in her young days had seen Oliver Cromwell on his knees at his bedside, giving thanks for the downing victory of Naseby in 1645.—,Your obedient servant, R. E. MARTIN. The Brand, Woodhouse-Eaves, Loughborough.