Firth's Highways and Byways in Derbyshire' (1908), says :—

"The Green Man still survives. . though, as the sign declares, which projects a long arm towards the opposite houses. it has taken to itself the additional name of the Black's Head'. . the original Black's Head' was an old posting house a little higher up the street, and its business was taken over by the Green Man.''

Hobson's History and Topography of Ashbourn,' 1839, at p. 96, sets out a letter of invitation, Sept. 9, 1741, from Jo. Allsop, Recorder, for the annual feast at the Black's Head, to dine with the mayor, Sir Nathaniel Curzon, and assist in choosing his successor. Ashbourne was never a corporate town; but the holding of the gathering at the inn named suggests its one-time importance. W. B. H.

CHATTERTON'S APPRENTICESHIP TO LAMBERT (12 S. viii. 31).-Homes and Haunts of the British Poets,' by William Howitt (1847), has concerning the above period :

"Here Chatterton's life was the life of insult and degradation....Twelve hours he was chained to the office, i.e., from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, dinner hour only excepted; and in the house he was confined to the Kitchen, slept with the foot-boy, and was subjected to indignities of a like nature, at which his pride rebelled, and by which his temper was embittered."

This corrobates the account in the 'D.N.B.'

W. B. H.

PORTRAIT OF LORD MONTEAGLE (12 S. vii. 509). This portrait is No. 431 in the Catalogue of the first special exhibition of National Portraits to James II., on loan to the South Kensington Museum, April, 1866: painter, Van Somer; lent by Mr. John Webb. Mr. Webb lent three other portraits, the subjects being of somewhat earlier dates. No address appears, nor does the owner's name occur as having lent to the later exhibitions in May, 1867, and April, 1868.

W. B. H.

LORETTO (12 S. viii. 48).-There is a Loretto in Styria, Austria, but it is better known as Maria Zell. It lies in the valley of the Salza amid the N. Styrian Alps. Its entire claim tc notice lies in the fact that it is the most venerated and most frequented sanctuary in Austria, being visited annually

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18 in. high. This was presented in 1157 and is now enshrined in a chapel or loretto lavishly adorned with silver and many costly marbles. The large church of which this shrine or loretto forms part, was built in 1644, and the shrine-chapel was incorporated in it. See M. M. Rabenlehrer Maria Zell, Oesterreich's Loreto (Austria's Loreto),' Vienna, 1900. The name loretto" or "lorets" is bestowed on several places, that in Italy being "The Holy House ("Santa Casa ") said to be the actual house of the Virgin transported thither by supernatural means. All the other lorettos are places where statues (more or less celebrated and visited) of the Virgin are preserved. Maria Zell is the place name and loretto is the title of the shrine or chapel itself.

F. J. ELLIS.

COUNTESS MACNAMARA (12 S. viii. 49).— She was a Scotch lady and generally understood to have been the mistress of Charles X. (of France). Her title of Countess was a

creation" of the King of Naples. She followed Charles X. in his exile after the revolution of 1830, and lived with him at Holyrood. During the early part of the reign of the Orleanist King Louis Philippe it was frequently asserted in the Parisian newspapers that she was secretly married (morganatiquement) to the last Legitimist King of France. There are some of her autograph letters (in English and French) in existence written on behalf of Charles X. ANDREW DE TERNANT.

36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W.

"OVER AGAINST CATHERINE STREET IN

THE STRAND (12 S. vii. 321, 378). Since contributing the note at the first reference I have remarked the following advertisement in The London Journal of Feb. 2, 1722/3 :

"The Cambrick Chamber is removed from St. Martin's the Grand to Mr. Tho. Atkins up one pair of stairs at the sign of the Buchanan Head, a bookseller's shop, the corner of Milford Lane over against St. Clement's Church in the Strand where there is to be sold the finest cambrick.......'

The 'D.N.B.' states that Andrew Millar came to London about 1729. It would seem therefore that Millar not only took the sign with him when he removed to premises west of Somerset House but had acquired it from a predecessor in business.

J. P. DE C.

ST. LEONARD'S PRIORY (12 S. vi. 90, 160, 178; viii, 34).—In reply to MR. O. G. S. CRAWFORD'S query at the last reference the remains of this building are not those of a priory, but of a barn (spicarium) which the Cistercians of Beaulieu erected to store their harvest on this part of their estate. Quite close to the ruins of this great barn are the ruins of St. Leonard's Chapel, which was built for the use of the lay brothers or conversi, who worked this part of the monastic property. The ruins of this chapel have doubtless given rise to the idea that it was a priory. The Cistercians were great agriculturists and employed lay brothers to till their estates. Eventually the lay brothers were done away with and hired labourers took their place. These monastic estates were known as 'granges,' hence this property is correctly described as St. Leonard's Grange. J. HAUTENVILLE COPE, Editor, Proceedings, Hampshire Field Club.

ARMORIAL BEARINGS UPON TOMBS (12 S. vii. 450, 495).-George Canning would appear also to have missed the true meaning of the verb "to blazon. The last two lines of the 'Fragment of an Oration,' on p. 149 of Lyra Elegantiarum,' read thus :— My name shall shine bright as my ancestors' shines, Mine recorded in journals, his blazoned on signs! J. R. H. HAMILTONS AT HOLYROOD (12 S. vii. 110, 172). In The Edinburgh Advertiser, dated Feb. 20, 1789, appears the following notice under deaths :

At Stockholm, Count Gustavus David Hamilton, Field Marshal of Sweden, aged 90. He entered the Army in 1716, and has been in several chief battles, under different powers, since that time."

Was the Countess Margaret Hamilton (the subject of the above references) the daughter of the Field Marshal ? And who were his parents? Burke does not enlighten me. JAS. SETON-ANDERSON.

39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.

FRANKINCENSE (12 S. viii. 29, 72).-The following facts on the use of incense in Ely Cathedral are to be found on p. 87, Cathedrals of England and Wales,' by Bumpus.

Incense was burnt at the High Altar on the great festivals up to the end of the eighteenth century. Dean Warburton discontinued the use of the cope at Durham about 1780, because it discomposed his wig.

Green at Ely persuaded the Dean and Chapter to discontinue the use of incense, the former because he was troubled with asthmatic tendencies and the latter, a finical man," because it spoiled the odour of his snuff, to which titillating compound he had, in common with many of his clerical brethren of that day, an excessive partiality.

Again, the following extracted from Aubrey's Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey,' 1718 (vol. ii. pp. 179–180) is of interest. Aubrey is writing on the monuments in Carshalton Church and says:—

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On the S. wall on a black marble enchas'd in white are arms an urn or, and in capitals is this inscription :M. S.

Under the middle stone, that guards the Ashes of a certaine Fryer, sometime Vicar of this Place, is raked up the Dust of William Quelche, B.D., who ministered in the same since the Reformacion. His Lott was, through God's mercy to burn Incense here about 30 Years, and ended his course, April the 10. An. Dni. 1654, being aged 64 Years.

1. Reg. 13. 31. Quos bifrons templo divisit cultus in uno Pacificus tumulus jam facit esse pares. Felix illa dies, qua tellus semina solvit, Quae placidae fidei regia condit humo. Hic sumus ambo pares, donec cineremque fidemque

Discutiat reddens Christus utrique suum. Those whome a twofac'd service here made twaine, At length, a friendly Grave makes one agayne. Happy that day that hides our Sinfull Jarrs, That shuts up all our shame in Earthen Barrs. Here let us sleepe as one, till Christe the Juste Shall sever, both our service, Faith and Duste.

Perhaps some of your correspondents could say whether this tomb and inscription still exist in Carshalton Church.

CHR. WATSON.

294 Worple Road, Wimbledon.

AMONG THE SHAKESPEARE ARCHIVES (12 S. viii. 66).—It may be of interest to mention that I have an inventory dated 1556 of the goods and chattels of Hugh Raynolds, deceased, late of Stratford-on-Avon, appraised by Awdryan Quyney, William Mynse (?), Francis Barse (? Barfe), John Burbage, and Richard Symonds.

The inventory, which is of interest as enumerating the furniture and belongings of a prosperous citizen of the period and the values set upon them, I propose to publish in the Antiquarian column of The Evesham Journal: and afterwards to present it to the Trustees of the Shakespeare house at Stratford-on-Avon.

CHARLES S. TOMES.

"The Green Man still survives. . . . though, as the sign declares, which projects a long arm towards the opposite houses. it has taken to itself the additional name of the Black's Head'.... the original Black's Head' was an old posting house a little

higher up the street, and its business was taken over

by the Green Man'"

Hobson's History and Topography of Ashbourn,' 1839, at p. 96, sets out a letter of invitation, Sept. 9, 1741, from Jo. Allsop, Recorder, for the annual feast at the Black's Head, to dine with the mayor, Sir Nathaniel Curzon, and assist in choosing his successor. Ashbourne was never a corporate town; but the holding of the gathering at the inn named suggests its one-time importance. W. B. H.

CHATTERTON'S APPRENTICESHIP TO LAMBERT (12 S. viii. 31).—Homes and Haunts of the British Poets,' by William Howitt (1847), has concerning the above period :"Here Chatterton's life was the life of insult and degradation....Twelve hours he was chained to the office, i.e., from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, dinner hour only excepted; and in the house he was confined to the Kitchen, slept with the foot-boy, and was subjected to indignities of a like nature, at which his pride rebelled, and by which his temper was embittered."

This corrobates the account in the 'D.N.B.'
W. B. H.

PORTRAIT OF LORD MONTEAGLE (12 S. vii. 509). This portrait is No. 431 in the Catalogue of the first special exhibition of National Portraits to James II., on loan to the South Kensington Museum, April, 1866: painter, Van Somer; lent by Mr. John Webb. Mr. Webb lent three other portraits, the subjects being of somewhat earlier dates. No address appears, nor does the owner's name occur as having lent to the later exhibitions in May, 1867, and April, 1868.

W. B. H.

or

this shrine or loretto forms part, was built in 1644, and the shrine-chapel was incorporated in it. See M. M. Rabenlehrer Maria Zell, Oesterreich's Loreto (Austria's Loreto),' Vienna, 1900. The name "loretto" that in Italy being "The Holy House "lorets is bestowed on several places, ("Santa Casa") said to be the actual house of the Virgin transported thither by superAll the other lorettos are natural means. places where statues (more or less celebrated and visited) of the Virgin are preserved. Maria Zell is the place name and loretto is the title of the shrine or chapel itself. F. J. ELLIS.

COUNTESS MACNAMARA (12 S. viii. 49).— She was a Scotch lady and generally understood to have been the mistress of Charles X. (of France). Her title of Countess was a "creation of the King of Naples. She followed Charles X. in his exile after the revolution of 1830, and lived with him at Holyrood. During the early part of the reign of the Orleanist King Louis Philippe it was frequently asserted in the Parisian newspapers that she was secretly married (morganatiquement) to the last Legitimist King of France. There are some of her autograph letters (in English and French) in existence written on behalf of Charles X. ANDREW DE TERNANT.

36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W.

"OVER AGAINST CATHERINE STREET IN THE STRAND (12 S. vii. 321, 378).-Since contributing the note at the first reference I have remarked the following advertisement in The London Journal of Feb. 2, 1722 /3 :—

"The Cambrick Chamber is removed from St. Martin's the Grand to Mr. Tho. Atkins up one pair of stairs at the sign of the Buchanan Head, a bookseller's shop, the corner of Milford Lane over against St. Clement's Church in the Strand where there is to be sold the finest cambrick......."