Their work is here most carefully and critically would be about £650. In present circumstances discussed. On the period of debasement which the committee were not prepared to advise exclosed the eighteenth and began the nineteenth penditure of so large a sum for this purpose, but century Mr. Freeman writes with vigour, but proposed a tablet of similar design, although also with discrimination ; on the revival and executed in painted tile panels instead of in on modern examples and tendencies he is ap- bronze and enamel, which can be provided at a preciative but also ready with suggestive and comparatively small cost. The committee prohelpful criticism. He advises a return to the posed that the inscription placed on the tablet be use of shutters-which would both be useful in the following terms :-to enclose the organ at cleaning times and add a signal opportunity for decoration; and he says all that should be said about the enormity of letting the tops of pipes appear above the wood-work of the case. We have not discovered upon what principle the illustrations are arranged, and there is no index of persons. Moreover, so good a book might, we think, have been more attractively printed. Otherwise we have nothing but praise for a sound and careful piece of work. RATCLIFFE CROSS AND STAIRS THE movement for the restoration of Ratcliffe "This Tablet is in memory of Sir Hugh Willoughby, Stephen Borough, William Borough, Sir Martin Frobisher, and other navigators, who, in the latter half of the Sixteenth Century, set sail from this Reach of the River Thames near Ratcliffe Cross to explore the Northern Seas. "Erected by the London County Council, 1922.” mittee expressed the opinion that it should be As regards the position for the tablet, the comerected on a stone to be placed in the King Edward Memorial Park. With the concurrence of the Parks Committee a site had been selected for the purpose. In this position the memorial will be close to the river and will be well under observation and thus less liable to damage than if placed on the Ratcliffe tunnel entrance in the open street. Moreover, it will probably be seen by more people. An offer to present and fix a suitable stone has been made by Mr. E. C. Hannen, of the firm of Messrs. Holland and Hannen, and the total cost of providing and fixing the panel will, it is estimated, not exceed £60. The London County Council adopted this report, none dissenting, and the Records Committee were empowered to take all the necessary steps in the matter. CORRIGENDA. Mc. 1. ANCIENT BRITISH DYE (12 S. ix. 491, 531).In my communication at the last reference, for Cambridge read Corbridge, and for will not," read would. J. T. F. 2. At 12 S. ix. 527, col. 1, 1. 12, for "1541' read 1542. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Notices to Correspondents. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers "at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4; corrected proofs to The Editor, ' N. & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. Long before the reign of the Tudors-when" men-at-arms and archers were for ever passing to and from the French heritages, fiefs and acquisitions of English kings-the shipwrights of Ratcliffe were building vessels for what was to be, practically, the King's Navy in the making; and the ancient Stepney Vestry had scarcely settled to its functions ere resident Masters, Captains, Brethren, Mariners of the Trinity Guild are found serving actively on the body, with brewers, artificers, craftsmen, gunmakers, powdermakers, cannon-founders, ropemakers, sailmakers, riggers, blockmakers, shipwrights, carpenters, sawyers, shipsmiths, fleshers, victuallers, salters, coopers, &c., upbuilding the Port of London. In the report of the Records and Museums Committee submitted at the last meeting of the London County Council, it was recalled that, in May, 1914, the Committee had under consideration a proposal made by Sir John Benn, Bt., that a memorial to Elizabethan explorers and navigators should be erected at the place" formerly known as Ratcliffe Cross." It was proposed that a bronze tablet with a suitable inscription and a design in enamel of a ship of the Tudor period in full sail should be affixed to the wall of the Ratcliffe entrance of the Rotherhithe Tunnel (which is the actual site of the historic Ratcliffe Cross). The project was estimated to cost £270. It was, however, postponed until after the war, and now it ALL communications intended for insertion in our columns should bear the name and address of the sender-not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. 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