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"the rat-trap," and was conducted by the Casanova speaks of visiting a "labySisters of the Institute of Mary. In 1763 rinthe in Richmond Park (Garnier, vi. 528). the Reverend Mother (“la directrice," vide Probably this, was the labyrinth full of Garnier, vi. 474) was Frances Gentil. Un- intricate mazes which Queen Caroline, fortunately the list of pupils does not wife of George II., had constructed in the appear to have been preserved in the Catholic gardens of Richmond Lodge around a Gothic archives, but Casanova is corroborated by building called Merlin's Cave. John Taylor (vide 'Records of My Life,' i. 267), who states that Sophie Cornelys was placed in " a Roman Catholic seminary at Hammersmith."

"M. Leigh," banker, mentioned in Garnier, vii. 63, may have been Mr. Lee, a member of the firm of Brassy, Lee and Co., Lombard Street. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, AND INNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

(See 12 S. vi. and vii. passim; ix. 85, 105, 143, 186, 226, 286, 306, 385, 426, 504, 525; x. 26, 66, 102.)

(An asterisk denotes that the house still exists as a tavern, inn or public-house
-in many cases rebuilt.)

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Upton.

Characters.'

Variegated

Dasent's Piccadilly in Three Centuries,' pp. 104-5.

General Advertiser, March 26.

Larwood, p. 172.

Addison wrote several Spectators

here.

Pulled down c. 1825 and rebuilt as

the "Holland Arms."

Thornbury, v. 90, 91.

Faulkner's

1829, i. 167.

History of Chelsea,"

Larwood, p. 172.

Characters.'

'Life's Painter of Variegated J. PAUL DE CASTRO.

THE CROWN INN, SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCH-electric light in use. The apparatus to WOOD, OXON.-Little seems to be known of supply it was arranged by the occupier of the history of this interesting old inn, which the house-the late Sir William Crookes, possesses a fine Perpendicular gateway. O.M.-in the early eighties, and it is curious The following information from a Chancery to note that the conducting wires were suit in the P.R.O. (Mitford, 316/107) throws insulated in glass. R. B. a little light on its history in the seventeenth century. In 1685 it was conveyed by Arthur Ashfield and three others of Shipton and Milton to Sir Henry Unton of Bruern, Bt., Michael Ashfield and others of Shipton and Milton on trust to apply half the yearly revenue "to for and about the reparacon amending and maintenance of that part of Shipton Bridge under Whichwood which is from the middle of the great bow of Shipton bridge towards the west," and the other half to the repair, &c., of "Stoken Bridge in Milton." With 16 acres of arable and 6 acres of meadow, &c., belonging to it, the value is given at £16 per annum. At that time it was in the occupation of Simon Chamberlain. From Simon C.'s will (proved at Oxford, July 9, 1597) and that of his wife Joane (proved Oxford, Nov. 19, 1597) it appears that the Rev. Bartholomew Chamberlain, D.D., was their eldest son. Foster's Alumni' states that the latter entered Trinity College, Oxford, June 7, 1563, aged 17. He held a number of livings, including that of Burford in his native county. Is anything further known of his history?

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E. ST. JOHN BROOKS.

EARLY DOMESTIC USE OF ELECTRIC LIGHT.In The Times recently a claim was made (by Messrs. Hampton and Sons) that No. 7, Kensington Park Gardens, was the first private house in London to have

JOHN KENDALL (d. about 1501).-The account of this Knight of St. John in the D.N.B.' states that he was appointed Turcopolier in 1477 and succeeded John Weston as prior of the English Hospitallers about 1491, and that he apparently died in November, 1501. About 12 years ago, when reading A. H. Mathew's very bad translation of the Diary of Joannes Burchardts, I remember coming across the name of John Kendall Virgil as Turcopolier in the pontificate of Innocent VIII. (1482-92). Presumably Virgil was his nickname. Is he known to have written poetry? According to Canon Mifsud's English Knights Hospitallers in Malta' (p. 66 n.), Kendall was appointed Grand Prior of England July 20. 1485. In notes on pp. 44, 199 and 200, Canon Mifsud states that, as Prior, John Kendall, with the assent of the provincial chapter, let Hampton Court for 99 years at £46 a year, but that the indenture of a long lease of Hampton Court at £59 a year. entered between the Prior, Sir Thomas Docwra and Cardinal Wolsey,

who had obtained or purchased its cession at the death of the person to whom Prior Kendall ha previously given it, is alluded to in a charter of the L.C., 1517, f. 163, P.R.M.), which may be seen i Grand Master, dated 14 August 1517 (vol. 406, Porter's History of the Knights,' ed. Londo 1883, p. 571.

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On p. 304, Canon Mifsud, after stating that the Order became the statutory heir of the professed Knight of Malta in respect of that part of his estate of which he had not disposed before making his profession in religion," goes on thus :

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This was in virtue of the Canon law Quidquid acquirit monachus, monasterio acquirit. The declaration of expropriation usually made by the Knights was not so much a testament as a statement of assets and liabilities to serve as guide in the framing and checking of their spoils." Thus, the declaration of expropriation made by Sir John Kendall, Grand Prior of England, in the deeds of Notary William Ylton, on the 14th of February 1501, was held by the Council of the Order at Rhodes on the 8th of February 1503 to be null and void, inasmuch as Sir John had acted against the statutes by appointing heirs and making bequests.

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4. He must write as the interpreter of nature (Johnson).

from every object in nature to be its tongue Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you to the heart of men (Emerson).

Emerson, I believe, also went to Fichte for some of his ideas on this subject. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.

The Authors' Club, Whitehall, S.W.

ST. DUNSTAN'S, REGENT'S PARK.-It may not be generally known that the house used for his by the late Sir Arthur Pearson training institution for blind ex-service men was once the residence of a noted collector, the late Mr. Henry H. Gibbs. There is in existence his Books and Manuscripts at St. Dunstan's, Catalogue of some printed and Regent's Park, Aldenham House, Berks' (roxburghe binding, 4to; privately printed, 1888). A presentation copy, with photo and autograph letter (lot 3219) was in the Huth collection and sold at Sotheby's, June 6, 1913. ANDREW DE TERNANT.

36, Somerleyton-road, Brixton, S. W.

Queries.

WE must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest in order that answers may be sent to them direct. to affix their names and addresses to their queries

EMERSON AND DR. JOHNSON.-Reading recently Dr. Johnson's description of a poet in Rasselas' I was struck with the general resemblance that parts of it bear to Emerson's exposition of the duties of the scholar in his famous address on "the American Scholar" and in his Literary Ethics,' though there is, of course, an immense difference between the light, delicate, nervous style in which Emerson veils TEMPORARY FORDS: "SAND."-In his ideas and the ponderous, unornamented Inquisition as to the Sewers of Lincolnshire pomposity of the Johnsonian phraseology. of July 2, 25 Eliz., in the possession, in Johnson, like Emerson, is really laying down 1851 (when it was printed: B.M., 8775, rules for the man who, with a high purpose, c. 73), of William Sowerby, Esq., of Messingdevotes his life to the pursuit of knowledge, ham, Lincs, is a provision (p. 12) :— and is not describing a poet in our narrower sense of the word. The following are the points of resemblance that I noted:

1. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age and country (Johnson).

He is one who raises himself from private considerations and breathes and lives on public ad illustrious thoughts (Emerson).

2. He must know many languages and many tiences (Johnson).

He must be be an university of knowledges Smerson).

3. He must disregard present law and opinions
.. content himself with the slow progress of
name, contemn the applause of his own time
hason).

He must) defer never to the popular cry.
him seek the shade and find wisdom in neglect
.in the long period of his preparation he must
ay often an ignorance and shiftlessness in
pular arts, incurring the disdain of the able
shoulder him aside (Emerson).

an

That the Township of Burringham in making their warthes or fordes over the aforesaid dytches

do not cast in more sand then is needfull for

passage of their cattell into the Northmoores.

It seems unlikely that ordinary sand would be available for this purpose-or would be effective. It is possible that some sort of gravel is meant? Are there other instances of temporary fords? How was the "sand" prevented from being washed away immediately? Q. V.

"SOWMOYS."-By a deed of 1500, enrolled on the Roll of the Great Seal of Scotland of the same year (printed 1882, at p. 542), a grantor

concessit annuum redditum 10 librarum de
terris dominii de Cavertoun, vic. Roxburgh, et
duo cotagia proxime adjacentia occidentalem
partem pomarii ejusdem
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(MRS.) MARGARET HOPKINS.

ADDISON'S SPECTATOR.'--There is an printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper "with frontispiece illustrations "F. Hayman delin." and "C. Grignion sculp." What is the date of this edition ? S. HENRY SIDDONS.-I am told that Henry

"THE BALL AND MOUTH." - In one of Siddons (1774-1815), son of the famous Byron's letters, just published, he describes | Sarah Siddons, wrote some poems. If so, the appearance of the superannuated "In- were these embodied in his plays or issued Was he author of a poem fant Roscius," in 1812. 'His face like the separately? ball and mouth on the panels of a heavy entitled The Triumphs of Commerce coach." What was this "ball and mouth," (about 1793)? If so, does it contain any and does it shed any light on the question memorable or poetical passages ? whether the old sign of the "Bull and Mouth" was really a corruption of Boulogne Mouth"? I should be glad if any of your readers can enlighten me.

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FRASER BADDELEY.

RUSSELL MARKLAND.

FRANCIS REDFERN.-Can anyone give biographical particulars of this historian of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, dates of birth and death, &c. He wrote 'Dove Valley Rhymes,' 1875. Does this little book contain any poems of merit ?

RUSSELL MARKLAND.

REFUSAL TO KOTOW.-On two occasions

"THE PARLER WITHIN THE MANOR PLACE."-In a deed of 1535, Anthony Daston obtains from the Abbot of Pershore a lease of certain lands, including “the farm of all ' the houses, buildings, &c., belonging to the I have come across an allusion to an acManor of Broadway with the two Sheepcotes count of an English private who, being and with the Parler and the Chamber to the brought before some Eastern potentate, same adjacent, in the house of the Manor

aforesaid."

In a large corpus of documents in the Public Record Office relating to a lawsuit in the year 1541 about this lease, "the Parler within the Manor place of Broadway and the Chamber thereunto adjoining" are again mentioned.

In the will of Anthony Daston, dated 1572, he devises to Thomas Porter "the house of the Parsonage of Hinton, the Parler and adjacent Chamber excepted."

The phrase "the Parler and Chamber adjacent " is somewhat puzzling. Were these, in pre-Reformation times, expressly reserved for the use of the priest ?

E. A. B. B.

I think the Emperor of China, was told
to enter the presence in the local manner,
refusal entailing death.
The private re-
fused and was killed.
I would be much obliged by being referred-
to the original account of this episode.

F. A. S.

CADBY. A contemporary account of the International Exhibition of 1862 mentions among its features "Cadby's grand piano and Distin's band. Distin's name survived to a later date, but who was Cadby, and was he maker of or player upon the grand piano? Was his career connected with the Hall of that name, now the headquarters of well-known caterers ? W. B. H.

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