where insurance offices, bankers, and mer- in its grounds where Sir Henry Meux resided. chants were intended to predominate. Less There is a view, Meux's Brewhouse,' by G. ambitious in design than its contemporaries, Malcolm, 1808 (? in Liquorpond Street), and Princes Street and Moorgate Street, it of the brewery in 1830 in Old and New marked a distinct change in commercial London,' vol. iv. Was it here that the great architecture-an episode in the decline from vat burst in 1814, or at Read's (Egan's 'Real Georgian Renaissance to Victorian plain Life in London,' 1905, vol. ii. p. 106, and brick ugliness. A Lay of St. Dunstan' in Ingoldsby Legends') ? J. ARDAGH. 35, Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin. The Gresham Club was its only social institution, but that is worthy of a special note that I can prepare from the late Mr. Hendricks's papers. The original clearance of the site preparatory to the erection of the buildings now disappearing necessitated the destruction of many interesting houses, and also of St. Michael's Church, Crooked Lane. It was only by inches that St. Clement's was spared, and we may expect to hear of proposals to utilize its site for some more material purpose. Many important finds of Roman and medieval remains were made in 1833, R. Lambert Jones, the so-called founder of the Guildhall Library, being particularly active; but the objects which actually came into the possession of the public bodies were of nominal value and small interest. In the recent excavations some important discoveries were made on the site of No. 36. ALECK ABRAHAMS. Queries. WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. DIBDIN BIBLIOGRAPHY.-There has recently come into my possession a prospectus of an edition of Dibdin's songs of which I had no previous knowledge. I should be glad to know of (and still more to see) a copy of it. The prospectus announces that "On Thursday will be published, To be continued every Fortnight, price Six-pence, the first part of The Songs of Charles Dibdin. With characteristic Embellishments. To which will be prefixed a Life of the Author....Published by Effingham Wilson, junior, 16, King William Street, London Bridge." There is no date, and the only clue is that there are two small woodcut illustrations which appeared in The Songs of Charles Dibdin,' published by John Chidley, London, E. RIMBAULT Dibdin. 64, Huskisson Street, Liverpool. 1839. NEW STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE.Can any one give the exact position of this now demolished thoroughfare ? much. At any rate, we have a contemporary writer asserting as a fact that the life of T. S. Queen Jane Seymour was sacrificed to that of her son. SWEEDLAND OR SWEDELAND Сосвт, BISHOPSGATE.-Can any one say which is the correct way of spelling this name? T. S. THE BIRTH OF EDWARD VI.-The late Major Martin Hume, in The Wives of Henry VIII.,' at p. 306, says : “Ominous rumours were rife in London that her life had purposely been jeopardized in order to save that of the child at birth. They were not true." He adds in a note: "The assertion, almost invariably made, that Bishop Nicholas Sanders, the Jesuit writer, 'invented' the story that the Cæsarian operation was performed at birth is not true. The facts of this time are, to a great extent, copied textually by Sanders from the MS. Cronica de Enrico Otavo,' by Guaras, and the statement is there made as an unsupported rumour only." There are two questions I should like to ask as to this : (1) What is the contemporary evidence that the rumours were not true? (2) What is the evidence that Dr. Nicolas Sander (as he spelt his own name) had ever seen the MS. Cronica' of Antonio de Guaras ? a This There was a MS. which Dr. Sander (who, by the way, was neither a bishop nor Jesuit) had almost certainly seen. was written by Nicholas Harpsfield, LL.D., Archdeacon of Canterbury, late in Queen Mary's reign. a Harpsfield's 'A Treatise on the Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII. and Catherine of Arragon' was first printed (from collation of four MSS.) by Nicholas Pocock, M.A., in 1878, for the Camden Society (2nd Series, vol. xxi.). At p. 280 of this printed edition Archdeacon Harpsfield says: "That she should die, though for the safeguard of the child, in such manner as she did, yea, the child to be born, as some say the adders are, by guawing out the mother's womb." Dr. Harpsfield (who was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, when Edward VI. was born) may well have got his information elsewhere than from Don Antonio de Guaras; and if he got it from Don Antonio, the latter might well have amassed evidence to convert the rumour of his Cronica' into an attested fact. Whether Harpsfield's statement is based on his own researches or from De Guaras's information does not seem to matter very What is the contemporary evidence to the contrary? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. J. M. (1859): ERASMUS.—In ‘N. & Q.," 10 Sept., 1859 (2 S. viii. 203), there is a brief referring to a contribution signed “ J. M.,' work of Erasmus presented by a Scotsman, Florentius Volusenus, to a fellow-countryman, John Ogilvie. As this book contains on the fly-leaf an important MS. letter, I should be greatly indebted to any one who can put me in communication with " J. M.” C. M. MACDONALD. Ardenmhor, Sandbank, Argyllshire. AUTHORS WANTED.—(1) Would any of your correspondents inform me from whom the following quotation is taken? I have looked through many dictionaries of quotations, but cannot find the author. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, RICHARD HARGREAVES. [Shakespeare, Sonnet LII.] (2) Where does the following occur? stanza But what most showed the vanity of life OLD MAP OF THE LONDON-HOLYHEAD ROAD. Could any reader help me to get at an approximate date for an old map in my possession bearing the following title?— "The continuation of the road from London to Holy-head. By John Ogilby, Esq., His Maties Cosmographer. Plate 4th & Last. Commencing at the City of Chester & extending to Holyhead abovesaid." T. LLECHID JONES. Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed. CREST ON A SEAL.-A rough man's head, heavily bearded and moustached, with a cap and open collar-looks like a sailor or navvy. Under that the Under this a pair of scales. motto Utere tuo." Which family does B. C. S. this belong to? 66 MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.-Will any of your readers be good enough to supply the name of the person who first suggested the use of the term Mechanics" to various improvement societies that existed in the early part of the nineteenth century? What was the chief reason in doing so, and what was the character of the knowledge to be pursued in these Institutes ? THOMAS W. HAND. Central Free Public Library, Leeds. CANNEL COAL.-Will some one please say if this variety of coal is still worked in Lancashire, or in any other part of England? If so, to what use is it applied, and is it expensive? G. About the same date were living William McIntosh of Newrow, Dunfermline, roadmaker, married secondly (1810) Elizabeth Aitken, and William McIntosh of Dunfermline, married (1815) Isabel Aitken; and, strange to say, in an old book containing the name of Provost Tosh is scrawled the name Agnes Aitken, who may have been his first wife, or possibly a relative by marriage. William seems to have been a favourite name in this family. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. GOBLINS' GARB.-Can any one tell me how "Master Dobbs," the house-fairy of Sussex mentioned in the Rev. W. D. Parish's "TOBACCO - STOPPERS AND SIR ISAAC Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect,' was, or NEWTON. In the current number of The is, dressed? The same author relates a Antiquary is an article on Tobacco-Stop-story of fairies who fed a carter's horses pers,' with this reference therein : TOSH (MACKINTOSH) OF RUTHERGLEN.Can any correspondent of N. & Q.' give me particulars of the parentage of William Tosh or Mackintosh, Bailie of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, in 1819, 1822, 1824, 1826, and Provost in 1827, contractor and builder, said to have originally come from Dunfermline, Fife? He married first (?) Isabel, daughter of Bailie David Broun of Rutherglen, with whom he was joined in partnership, and secondly (?) a widow named Lydia Lynch, a native of Ireland. What and kept them in thriving condition. was their costume, and that of other fairies haunting farms in the South of England and the Midland counties? S. C. F. JOHN PERRIN.-Can any reader inform me who John Perrin, aged 17 in the year 1786, may have been? Was he, related to the Judge Perrin whose portrait was painted by Gainsborough ? FRANK WARD. EASTER OFFERINGS.-Can any of your readers supply any information as to the origin of the modern custom of presenting the Easter offertory to the incumbent of the parish? Was it always collected in church, or was it formerly usual to make a collection for this purpose from the ratepayers when the annual church rate was called for ? Does it rest on any ancient mandate? Is it alluded to in any work on Church history? ENQUIRER. J. P. KEMBLE AND DALY.-John Philip Kemble, te actor, and Richard Taly, the Irish manager, are said to have fought a duel in Ireland between the years 1781-3. What was the exact date of this encounter? HORACE BLEACKLEY. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.I should be glad to obtain any information about the following Taylors or Taylours who were educated at Westminster School :(1) Cecil Taylor, son of Christopher Taylor of London, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1769. (2) John Taylor, son of Thomas Taylor of York, who matriculated at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1733. (3) Joseph Taylor, son of Dixie Taylor of Woburn, Beds, who graduated M.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1674, and became Rector of Exton, and of Hinton Ampner, Hants, in 1679. (4) Richard Taylor, son of Richard Taylor of Limerick, who was admitted on the foundation at Westminster, 1756, aged 14. (5) John Taylour, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1628. G. F. R. B. LIEUT. JOHN DESCHAMPS, R.A.—This officer published a book in 1845 66 'Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon, by John Deschamps, Esq., from Original Drawings and Notes made by him during a Service of Nine Years, as an Officer of the Royal Artillery, in that Island. Published for the Author by Ackermann & Co., 96, Strand." He was in Ceylon from 1828 to 1837. I should be glad of further particulars about him. Did he leave the service in 1837? In his Preface, dated 20 Dec., 1844, he explains that one of his reasons for publishing the book was "to beguile the tedium of leisure hours, which, for the first time in his life, he found to hang heavy on his hands." husband was Sir Jn. Scrope, from whom no child was shown in the pedigree, though from Burke's Extinct Peerage,' &c., there are probably descendants now living from a daughter Elizabeth, who married Th. Clarel of Aldwark, whose daughter married Sir R. Fitzwilliam. Could any one say if this is perhaps an omission, or if descendants from her second marriage should not be considered coheirs? R. D. G. LACEY AS A PLACE-NAME.-Can any reader tell me the origin of the word Lacey in connexion with several parishes in England, namely, Holme Lacey, Hereford, the home of the Scudamore family; Kingston Lacey, Dorset, the home of the Bankes family; and Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey, late home of the Farquhar baronets? LEONARD C. PRICE. Ewell, Surrey. Replies. THE SITE OF THE GLOBE. (11 S. x. 209, 290, 335; xi. 447; xii. 10.) IN my reply (ante, p. 10) to MRS. STOPES'S I endeavoured to show, from the Coram note, which appeared at the fourth reference, Rege Roll of 1616 and other documents, that the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare was on the north side of Maiden Lane, and not on the south, as MRS. STOPES contends. In my reply I left unanswered the various quotations from the "Sewars Presentments which she says: which were made by MRS. STOPES, and about Nothing, therefore, in the Sewers Books suggests that the Globe lay north of Maiden Lane." 66 " The quotations, so far as they are applicable, appear to me to indicate that, on the contrary, the Playhouse was on the north side. 66 stated in the Coram Rege Roll as being Here it The next reference made by MRS. STOPES is also helpful as showing that the Playhouse was on the north of Maiden Lane. appears that "Thomas Burte, Dier," is presented in 1594 for not repairing the sewer running between the back of his garden and the Park. "Thomas Burte, Dier,' This " The sewer in question here, which ran at the back of Burte's garden and divided his garden from the Park cottages, lay close on 200 feet to the north of the sewer in Maiden Lane. A reference to this sewer next the Park in support of a theory that the Playhouse was south of Maiden Lane is untenable. In 1603 it was "ordered that the farmers of gardens adjoining the sewer on the south side of Maiden Lane, from George Archer's house until the corner of the park, shall clense every one of them their parts of the same sewer. referred to was on the south side of Maiden After the definite statement that the land Lane, a reference to the park, meaning the was also on the south side of Maiden Lane, Lord Bishop of Winchester's Park, which would be quite legitimate. But this reference in any case appears to me to be entirely mentioned in the Sewers Record is doubt-negative: it supports neither MRS. STOPES'S view nor my own. less the same Thomas Burte, Dier," mentioned in the Coram Rege Roll document. From the Roll, "Thomas Burte, Dier," is shown to be in occupation of one of the garden plots on the north side of the way or Lane (Globe Alley). His garden plot abutted upon a piece of land called the Park on the north.' From the Sacramental Token Books, as previously shown, the Park was the name of the cottages which fronted upon Bankside. The statement in the Sewers Record is, therefore, in entire accordance with the statement in the Coram Reg› Roll, and both statements are compatible with the Sacramental Token Books, which show the Park to have been on Bankside. These three contemporary documents, in fact, support each other in a perfectly natural way. The "Sewars Presentments call upon Thomas Burte to repair the sewer next the Park. The Sacramental Token Books show the Park to have been on Bankside. The Coram Rege Roll states that Thomas Burte occupied one of the garden plots abutting upon the Park on the north. I do not think anything could be much clearer or more definite as showing that this garden plot was on the north side of Maiden Lane, and there can be no denying the fact that this garden plot formed part of the holding on which the Globe was built. It is possible for an error to appear in any document; but it is much more than improbable that three documents, each having been prepared independently of the others, could all make the same error. Perhaps here it may be worth recording that, in the course of excavations which were made some ten or twelve years ago, I came across a set of bowls and the jack on the land lying to the south of Park Street (Maiden Lane). They were found in the black mud, some five or six feet below the surface, on the site of the boiler-house of Messrs. Barclay & Perkins's Brewery, which here abuts upon the south side of Park Street. The bowls were, and are still, I believe, preserved in a glass case in the brewery. 16 Finally, it appears in the Sewars Prein 1605 that sentments "the owners of the Playhouse called the Globe in Maid Lane shall, before the 20th Aprill next, pull up, and take clene out of the sewar, the props or posts which stand under their Bridge on the north side of Mayd Lane." This seems to me to be fairly conclusive. A nuisance was being created by the fact that the owners of the Globe had put their props doubt then, as now, the liability to abate a or posts in the sewer on the north side. No nuisance lies against the owner or occupier of the land where the nuisance exists. abate the nuisance because, in fact, they owners of the Globe were called upon to were the owners of the land under the bridge on the north side of Mayd Lane. The So far as I know, neither the contemporary documents, nor any of the long series of Views of Southwark, support the contention that the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare was on the south side of Park Street. GEORGE HUBBARD, F.S.A. (To be concluded.) |