_Medal of Chevalier St. George_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. 311.).--With reference to the observations of your correspondents A. S. and H., I would beg to observe that, some time ago, I gave to the Museum at Winchester a medal struck on the occasion of the marriage of Prince James F. E. Stuart and M. Clementina Sobieski: on the obverse is a very striking head and bust of Clementina, with this inscription: "Clementina, M. Britan., Fr., et Hib. Regina." On the reverse is Clementina, driving an ancient chariot towards the Colosseum, with this inscription: on the top-- "Fortunam causamque sequor." at the bottom-- "Deceptis Custodibus. MDCCXIX." This latter inscription refers to her escape from Innspruck, where the princess and her suite had been detained by the emperor's orders. This marriage, to prevent which so many efforts were made, prolonged for eighty-eight years the unfortunate House of Stuart. E. S. S. W. _Shakspeare's Inheritance_ (Vol. ix., pp. 75. 154.).--Probably the following extracts from Littleton's _Tenures in English, lately perused and amended_ (1656), may tend to a right understanding of the meaning of _inheritance_ and _purchase_--if so, you may print them: "Tenant in fee simple is he which hath lands or tenement to hold to him and his heires for ever: and it is called in Latine _feodum simplex_; for _feodum_ is called inheritance, and _simplex_ as much to say as lawful or pure, and so _feodum simplex_ is as much to say as lawfull or pure inheritance. For if a man will purchase lands or tenements in fee simple, it behoveth him to have these words in his purchase, To have and to hold unto him and to his heires: for these words (his heires) make the estate of inheritance, _Anno_ 10 _Henrici_ 6. fol. 38.; for if any man purchase lands in these words, To have and to hold to him for ever, or by such words, To have and to hold to him and to his assigns for ever; in these two cases he hath none estate but for terme of life; for that, that he lacketh these words (his heires), which words only make the estate of inheritance in all feoffements and grants." "And it is to be understood that this word (_inheritance_) is not only understood where a man hath lands or tenements by descent of heritage, but also every fee simple or fee taile that a man hath by his purchase, may be said inheritance; for that, thus his heires may inherite them. For in a Writ of Right that a man bringeth of land that was of his own purchase, the writ shall say, _Quam clamat esse jus et hæreditatem suam_, this is to say, which he claimeth to be his right and his inheritance." "Also _purchase_ is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his deed or by his agreement, unto which possession he commeth, not by descent of any of his ancestors or of his cosins, but by his own deed." J. BELL. Cranbroke, Kent.