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Birmingham.

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Drayton,

Whitchurch, Newport (Salop).

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Asaph, Shrewsbury, Stafford,

Newcastle (Staffs.).

Litchfield [sic].

Leverpool, Stockport.

had the dog on a chain and set him upon the Castle and Falcon : Aldersgate Street.
pig, with the result that after lingering in
pain (languebat) until Mar. 4, which was a
Monday, the pig expired. On this day,
however, Margaret Smith, instead of ex-
pressing regret at what had occurred, added
insult to injury by making use of the
in
following words, in English (Anglice),
"Richard Symons' wife did steal our gander.
This abominable charge was too much for
the old officer, verus et fidelis legens Dominae
Reginae et sic apud omnes graves homines et
fideles subditos ejusdem Reginae a tempore
nativitatis suae et ita inter omnes notos et
vicinos suos acceptus, datus et reputatus,
"the true and faithful liegeman of our lady the
Queen, and among all grave men and faithful sub-
jects of the same Queen from the time of his birth
and among all his acquaintance and neighbours ac-
cepted, allowed and well-reputed,"

who forthwith proceeded to claim damages
in the Court of Record, 13s. 4d. for his pig
and 30s. for his wife.

Three months later, on May 29, Richard Symons in his turn made a serious charge in public against the new resident at New Place.

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You may see," he said, in scorn, "what honesty is in William Bott, that hath taken forty pence of Holloway to be a counsel with him against Rawlins, and now hath made Rawlins play against Holloway, of his own handwriting, and that I will justify." From what we know of William Bott, Symons was not far wrong in his estimate of the Cloptons' agent. On June 1, three days after Symons' speech, Bott was at Snitterfield, making the inventory of the goods of Henry Coles, the village blacksmith, with old Richard Shakespeare.

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ST. PAUL'S CHAPTER HOUSE. THE press has noticed the impending use of this fine house as a bank for the term of 21 years. The well-meant protest by architectural students from University College failed, because it came too late and the lease had already been signed. Notwithstanding this, their endeavour was novel and commendable; it was I believe the first occasion on which a demonstration for such

Alley whereupon William Bolton hath begun to erect buildings and extendeth Eastward to the outside of a Stone Wall standing or w[hic]h lately stood next Paull's Alley soe farre as that reatheth (reacheth] and then towards the South end to an even range w[i]th that Stone wall into a Shopp in the possession of Robert Taylor and another in the possession of Webb and soe abutteth East upon a slipp of ground in Paulls Alley supposed to have been formerly parte of the Wast[e] or Churchway whereupon now stands or lately stood narrow Shopps or Shedds which Shopps or Shedds are in breadth att the North End three foote from East to West and att the South End three foote of assize and Seven Inches and South upon another parcell of the ground alloted and staked out to build houses in Pauls Alley sould also to the said Richard Coysh together with all waies passages Watercourses Lights Easements, &c."

The deed is signed by the Commissioners (Sir) John Wollaston, Thos. Noel, Will. Hobson, John Bellamie, Lawrence BromRichard Vennar, Robert Meade, and has field, James Stowye, Stephen Estwicke, the necessary endorsement and signature of and heire of ye within named Richard Elisha Coysh, Doctor in Physicke, sonne Coysh," surrendering Dec. 29, 1662, all his inheritance of the within mentioned premises acknowledging to have received "full satisfaction for ye pretended purchase.

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a purpose had been held, and if this interest interesting as helping towards the identifiThis description of the site is specially develops it may yet attain to definite suc-cation of the site of the Bishop of London's cesses and the general reformation of the Palace. Printed reference to this are few custody of National monuments. The house is well known and has been the Annals of St. Paul's'), the leading hisand of small usefulness. Dean Milmau subject of several illustrative monographs. Its claims, other than the architecture and decorations, lie in the commemorative importance of the site, which was, prior to the erection of the Chapter House, part of the site of the Bishop of London's Palace.

Useful evidence is provided in an Indenture of Sale by the Commissioners appointed by the Commonwealth to Richard Coyshe or Coyish, "Citizen and Skinner of London on Aug. 15, 1649, for 3007..

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"All that ground or soyle nowe or late parcell of or appurteyninge to the capital messuage or Pallace situate in or neare Paulls Churchyard London late called the Bishopp of London's Pallace conteyninge from East to West thirtyfive foote of assize and from North to South Ninety Nine foote of assize being Two Third Parts of the ground alloted and staked out to be sould to build houses upon in Paulls Alley and abutteth West upon a parcell of ground called in the survey thereof the middle parte of the said Pallace conteyninge Two hundred [and] fiftyseven feete in length from East to West alloted for New buildings and sould unto the said Richard Coysh North upon a parcell of the said ground alloted to build houses upon in Paulls

torian of the Cathedral and its environs has little to say except of Cornelius Burgess who unluckily also purchased Cathedral property from the Parliamentary Committee.

Canon Sparrow Simpson ('Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul's ') has considered that it did not help to illustrate made some slight research but evidently the annals of the Cathedral, so relatively the subject has been neglected and it is due House that present-day interest solely to the architecture of the Chapter in its possible change has been awakened.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

"Boss-BENT."-This word, which would seem to be a synonym of "boss-backed," is not recognized in the N.E.D.'

Southey visited Selkirk on Sunday, Oct. 6, 1805, and remarks (Commonplace Book,' 4th Series, p. 529): "The people dismally ugly, soon old, and then boss-bent."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"PARAPET," A STREET FOOTWAY.-In elevated from one foot to eighteen inches, and 1908 a note of mine appeared (10 S. x. 366), in which, after remarking that "parapet was the word generally used in Lancashire (possibly I should have said South Lancashire) for a street footway, I gave a quotation from a 1766 French book in which the word apparently meant footway.

The New English Dictionary' gives this meaning as used "locally," but has nothing earlier than, 1840, and its one quotation is dated 1900. The 'Dialect Dictionary does not give the word. John Chetwode Eustace uses 'parapet apparently for "footway" in his 'Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII. I am referring to the fourth edition, published at Leghorn, 1818, vol. iii. In his description of Pompeii he

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of the soldiers' quarters to the gate is narrow, that is, only about thirteen feet wide, formed like the Via Appia at Itri and other places, where it remains entire of large stones fitted to each other in their original form, without being cut or broken for the purpose. There are on each side parapets raised about two feet above the middle and about three feet wide." (P. 56.)

"The gate has one large central and two less openings on the side, with parapets of the same breadth as the street." (P. 57.)

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The footways in Pompeii were of various heights. There are several plates (6, 11, 51, 85) in Sir William Gell's Pompeiana,' 1837, in which they do not appear to be at all high. In the description of plate 38, vol. ii., viz., ‘Windows of the Atrium (of the house of the Tragic Poet), Gell writes, pp. 101, 102::

"The foot pavement itself is here one foot seven inches higher than the street or vicus.... The vicus, without the footpaths, which are each about three feet nine inches wide, measures only seven feet six inches in breadth."

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A Guide de Pompéi,' by Nicolas Pagano, Surveillant des fouilles d'antiquité, 6th ed., Scafati, 1881, p. 27, says, 'Toutes les rues sont bordées de trottoirs." It is not improbable that meant "footway in Staffordshire where Eustace was at Sedgley Park school, 1767, or thereabouts-1774, according to the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Apparently in his 'Classical Tour he was, on P.

56, referring to an unusually high parapet." I find in 'Pompeii: its History, Buildings, and Antiquities,' by Thomas H. Dyer, LL.D., 1867, pp. 70, 71:

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"The width of the streets varies from eight or nine feet to about twenty-two, including the

separate the foot-pavement from the road. Throughout the city there is hardly a street unfurnished with this convenience. Where there is width to admit of a broad foot-path, the interval between the curb and the line of building is filled up with earth, which has then been covered over with stucco, and sometimes with a coarse mosaic of brickwork."

Perhaps Eustace was not exact in his measurements. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[See also 12 S. i. 190, 319.]

EARLY EFFORT AT FLYING.-Possibly one of the first attempts to use the air was that of Eilmer, or Oliver, of Malmesbury, in the So confident was he reign of King Harold. of success that, after fitting on a pair of large wings, he threw himself off a lofty tower and is said to have skimmed through the air for quite a furlong before he fell, breaking both legs in so doing. He ascribed his accident to having neglected to fit on a tail for the purpose of balancing. R. B. Upton.

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JOHN EGERTON, THIRD EARL OF BRIDGnovel (1646 1701).-A French founded on the fortunes of this earl and his first wife forms Sloane MS. 1009, ff. 360-365. This does not appear to be noted J. ARDAGH. in the 'D.N.B.'

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND FRANCE A that Charles X. was the first to introduce CENTURY AGO.-It is not generally known Sir Walter Scott's novels into France. The last legitimist King of France during his first exile in Britain resided some time at be the first Frenchman who read Waverley Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and is said to on its first appearance. The King, after his coronation, told the Duke of Northumberland that the happiest time of his life was when he was reading the Vicar of Wakefield' in England and the Lady of the Lake' in Scotland. Armand, Comte de Pontmartin, who afterwards became a distinguished literary critic, as a small boy was one of the pages at the coronation, and four years before his death in his feuilleton of the Gazette de France (July 17, 1886), gives the following account of the vogue of Scott's novels in France a century ago:

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"Quel que soit le talent ou, le génie de Pouchkine, de Gogol, de Tourguénéf, de Dostoïesky, de Tolstoi, quelle que soit leur vogue auprès de la jeunesse lettrée, avide de renouveau, elle n'égalera jamais celle de Walter Scott pendant la phase brillante qui va de 1820 à 1835. Cette fois, ce n'était pas un groupe studieux et curieux, se passionnant pour une littérature étrangère

France tout entière, depuis l'académicien jusqu'au petit bourgeois de province, depuis la grand dame jusqu'à la grisette, qui prenait feu pour les récits de cet Ecossais, plus populaire dans notre pays que dans le sien. Il s'était emparé de nos salons. de nos théâtres, de nos ateliers, de nos expositions de peinture. Il teignait de ses couleurs l'histoire et le roman: il étendait son influence sur les fantaisies de la mode, sur les ameublements, les costumes, sur toutes les variétés du bric-a-brac moyen âge qui date de lui. C'est que l'auteur de 'Waverley arrivait pour nous à son moment; il s'accordait merveilleusement avec une époque où notre école romantique cherchait sa voie, ranimait le culte du passé, renouvelait les études historiques, et rompait avec les Grecs et les Romains en l'honneur des XV et XVIe siècles. Un peu plus tard, aprés les journées de juillet 1830, sa vogue eut encore un regain, grâce à nos imaginations légitimistes et romanesques, qui découvraient des analogies entre les Bourbons et les Stuarts."

Charles X. was again in exile at Holyrood House, when Sir Walter Scott passed away at Abbotsford, in September, 1832.

ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S. W.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring in. formation 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.

'MRS. DRAKE REVIVED.'-The late Col. Vivian in his 'Visitations of Devon,' under the name of Joan, eldest daughter and coheiress of William Tothill, and wife of Francis Drake of Esher, notes that she was the subject of a remarkable memoir bearing this title; and that Katharine, her sister, was the youngest of thirty-three children. Can any reader tell me whether the title is correctly given, and for what the memoir is specially remarkable ? It is not in the London Library. A. T. M.

BAGRATION. I wonder if any reader could give me information concerning the family of the lady who, in 1850, married Prince Alexander Petrovitch Bagration. The marriage took place in London. She was of a Welsa family named Williams.

Prince Bagration was at the time a Russian military officer, and a member of the family who formerly held the throne of Georgia prior to the annexation to the Russian Empire.

I am contemplating an attempt to write a history of the Bagratia Dynasty, which is considerably older than any other in Europe, being, in point of antiquity, only exceeded

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GREEN, OF CO. TIPPERARY.—Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of Major Samuel Green, of Killaghy, co. Tipperary, was the mother of the fifth Viscount Allen.

Can any reader supply me with the name of Major Green's wife, and any particulars P. D. M. of this lady?

PAUL MARNY.-I should be glad to know something of the life of tnis water colour artist. A recent notice of acquisitions by the British Museum gave two colour prints after De Marny. Is this the same artist ? C. G. N.

THE BRITISH IN SARDINIA.-The following taken from 'England's paragraph is Artillerymen,' by J. A. Browne, published in 1865

"Detachments of Royal Artillerymen were sent to the Mediterranean to serve on board the bombvessels of Admiral Mathews's fleet. In 1744 the King of Sardinia applied to the admiral to allow these artillerymen to take charge of the most important ports and batteries on his frontiers. Onecaptain, four lieutenants, and twenty-four bombardiers were accordingly landed, and served with distinction at the defence of Montalban and Montleuze. These two fortresses being assaulted and taken by the French and Spaniards in April, the detachments were made prisoners." Where were these fortresses situated ? Does any account exist of their capture in 1744 ? J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Col.

ZELLA TRELAWNY.-I have been unable to trace the history of Zella, the daughter of Edward Trelawny, the friend of Shelley and Byron.

Trelawny mentions Zella in letters to Claire Clairmont circa 1829, but not later ; perhaps some reader of N. & Q.' may kindly afford information.

E. M. S.

VOLANS.-I shall be pleased if any genealogist can inform me of the source of the family name Volans. It is found chiefly in Yorkshire, being fairly common around Selby and York. J. R. VOLANS. 41 Norwood Road, Shipley, Yorks.

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