_Names of Slaves_ (Vol. viii., p. 339.).--I can answer the first of J. F. M.'s Queries in the affirmative; it being common to see in Virginia slaves, or free people who have been slaves, with names acquired in the manner suggested: _e. g._ "Philip Washington," better known in Jefferson county as "Uncle Phil.," formerly a slave of the Washingtons. A large family, liberated and sent to Cape Palmas, bore the surname of "Davenport," from the circumstance that their progenitor had been owned by the Davenports. In fact, the practice is almost universal. But fancy names are generally used as first names: _e. g._ John Randolph, Peyton, Jefferson, Fairfax, Carter, &c. A fine old body-servant of Col. Willis was called "Burgundy," _shortened_ into "Uncle Gundy." So that "Milton," in the case mentioned, may have been merely the homage paid to genius by some enthusiastic admirer of that poet. J. BALCH. Philadelphia. _Heraldic_ (Vol. ix., p. 271.).--On the brass of Robert Arthur, St. Mary's, Chartham, Kent, are two shields bearing a fess engrailed between three trefoils slipped: which may probably be the same as that about which LOCCAN inquires, though I am unable to tell the colours. There are two other shields bearing, Two bars with a bordure. The inscription is as follows: "Hic iacet d[=n]s Robertus Arthur quondam Rector isti' Eccli[=e] qui obiit xxviii^o die marcii A^o d[=n]i Mill[=o] CCCC^oLIIII^o. Cui' a[=i]e ppiciet' de' Am[=e]." F. G. _Solar Annual Eclipse of 1263_ (Vol. viii., p. 441.).--Mr. Tytler, in the first volume of his _History of Scotland_, mentions that this eclipse, which occurred about 2 P.M. on Sunday, August 5, 1263, has been found by calculation to have been actually central and annular to Ronaldsvoe, in the Orkneys, where the Norwegian fleet was then lying: a fine example, as he justly adds, "of the clear and certain light reflected by the exact sciences on history." S. asks, is this eclipse mentioned by any other writer? As connected with the Norwegian expedition, it would seem not; but Matthew of Westminster (vol. ii. p. 408., Bohn's edit.) mentions it having been seen in England, although he places it erroneously on the 6th of the month. J. S. WARDEN.