4 OCTOBER 1924, Page 10

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I wonder if any

of your readers can tell me where Chandos was. The name has long been acclimatized in England, but it must have been originally the site of some old French battle- field, for Chandos is champ d'os, " field of bones," just as Chanteloup (Seine et Oise) is " field of the wolf," and Chantilly, near Paris, is presumably champ title,. " stripped field." There was a knight "de Chandos," who came over with William the Conqueror, so probably it would be in Normandy.—I am, St. Andrew's Manse, Falkirk.