_Te Deum._--We read frequently of this hymn being sung in the Russian Church after victories. Can any of your correspondents inform me in what language it is used in the Eastern Churches? It is, I believe, generally admitted that it was originally composed in Latin for the use of the Western Church; but if the Emperor Nicholas, in his famous manifesto (vide Vol. viii., pp. 585. 655.), quotes from this hymn and not from the Psalms, the one being quite as likely as the other, it would almost appear that the Latin version is the one with which he is the most familiar. HONORE DE MAREVILLE. Guernsey. _Mary Queen of Scots at Auchincas._--Auchincas is an interesting ruin on the bank of the Evan in Dumfriesshire, the residence of Randolph, Earl of Murray, Regent of Scotland in 1329. I have 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.] * * * * *