J. Fielding's 'Duke of Newcastle's Police " Smollett's Adventures of an Atom.' Climenson's E.M., ii. 217. Gibbon's Autobiography,' Nov. 24. Birkbeck Hill, v. 386. Stirling's A.Y.H., ii. 136, 160; Besant, p. 323; Larwood, p. 248; Wheatley's London,' i. 439. Middlesex County Records, Sessions Books, 878-901. MacMichael's Charing Cross,' p. 148. MacMichael's Charing Cross,' p. 182.. Sydney's XVIII. Century, i. 194. Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell 1731 Corner of Henrietta Street, 1742 Larwood, p. 239. Fielding's Champion Essays,' title-page. Crown Tavern Sword and Buckler Court Sherrard Street, St. James's Exchange Eagle Tavern Feathers Tavern Feathers Tavern Five Bells Tavern Five Bells Hammersmith, between the Upper and Lower Malls Fenchurch Street .. Essex Street, Strand 1748 - Roach's L.P.P., p. 59. The Connoisseur, No. 19. Dickins and Stanton, p. 69. Smollett's Humphry Clinker.' Roach's L.P.P., p. 59; Thornbury, i. 278; Hardcastle, i. 115; Shelley's Inns,' p. 64; Hare, i. 158; Wheatley's 'London,' i. 510; Cunningham, p. 158. De Saussure's Foreign View of England,' 1902. 6 6 S. Fielding's Familiar Letters,' letter 41; Larwood, p. 94; Wheatley's London,' i. 511; Hardcastle, i. 244; Cunningham, p. 158. Warwick Wroth, p. 221. Robert Bell's James Thomson,' 1855, p. 34; Larwood, p. 219. Wheatley's Hogarth's London,' pp. 273, 281; Shelley's Inns,' p. 43; Hare, i. 337; Dobson's Hogarth,' p. 201. Birkbeck Hill, iv. 253. .. Covent Garden (previously 1774 Besant, p. 333. .. Earl of Oxford's House and still so commemorated) City Road.. Lambeth, opposite Somer- 1752 Shelley's Inns,' p. 136; Warwick Wroth, Fleece Eating House Next the Ship Tavern, 1741 Charing Cross Adjoining the Jerusalem in Exchange Alley Fleece Close to Goodman's Fields Theatre 1741 Macmichael's Charing Cross,' p. 49. N. & Q.,' Flower Pot Inn Flying Horse Tavern Fountain (1) Fountain (2) Corner of Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Streets Moorfields Strand "Had a backdoor into St. Anne's Lane, and was situate near unto Ludgate." Also known as the Mourning Bush - 1791 BLOOMSBURY.-There has recently been some correspondence in The Times relative to the derivation of this place-name. Mr. E. Williams attributed the origin to William de Blémont, brother of Gervase of Cornhill, who flourished about the year 1200; and incidentally remarked that Blémont was probably a French equivalent of Cornhill. However, another writer, Mr. S. O. Addy, showed that in that case the resulting name would have been Williamsbury, and not Bloomsbury; and went on to point out that at Rotherham a prehistoric earth-work exists known as Blue Man's Bower, which tradition says gets its name from a blue, i.e., black, or coloured man of that locality. This fact was taken fully to corroborate Canon McClure's explanation of the first element in Bleomansbury the earliest Saxon form of the word-as denoting the habitation in early times of a man of negroid characteristics. It may be added that the prototype of Bluebeard of the nursery tale must be regarded as a person of Asiatic, or Moorish, physique, an Othello in fact. N. W. HILL. THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY; REVIEW. (See 12 S. v. 335.)-To the quotation from Hood, giving "swim" in the sense of giddiness, might be added, from a poet of the nineteenth century : The arena swims around him, where the word is transferred from the senses to the object of the senses (Byron, Childe Harold,' IV. cxl. on the Dying Gladiator). AETHYIA. The churchyard has been a meagre but pleasant oasis of trees and grass in a wilderness of brick and stone. The adjoining railway station, exceptionally unsightly, enhanced the charm of this tiny patch, and comparing the area of this churchyard with that shown in the eighteenth-century maps it is evident that it had been reduced considerably in all directions. I offer no information as to the history and associations of the church; it is apparently rather barren of memories compared with its GEORGE SHERWOOD, Hon. Treas. The Society of Genealogists of London. 5 Bloomsbury Square, W.C.I. WAR AND PAPER-SUPPLY. Dependence on imported supplies of paper for book-printing during peace, and consequent shortage in war-time, appears to be no latter-day problem to face and fight. Dr. Edmund Gibson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, writing from Lambeth to Ralph Thoresby, historian of Leeds, on June 14, 1709 remarks: "While the treaty of peace was depending I could letter; because of late very little paper has been not tell what to say to the contents of your last imported upon a prospect of peace; and all printing, except of pamphlets, is at a stand for the present. The thoughts of peace being now over. the question is, whether you will think fit to put of a scarcity and dearness of paper, or will wait till your work to press. under the present inconvenience it pleases God to open a way to peace, and with that a trade to France......As to the charge, when I know the number of sheets and plates, I can get it exactly calculated for you; but at present the printer need not be put to that trouble, if you resolve to wait for paper from France, which will very much lower the charge, and be an encouragement to undertake it at your own expense." The coarser-fibred paper suitable for pamphlet-printing, like the looser-textured paper used in modern newspaper-printing, appears to have been a less restricted market. 1 Essex Court, Temple. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. FATHER OF THE CHAPEL.-A curious link that connects the modern Press with the Church is preserved in this quaint appellation. It appears that it originated in the LOUIS NAPOLEON IN LANCASHIRE.-It was stated in The Times, May 6, 1919, that certain relics of the exile of Napoleon III. had been sold by auction. "The Emperor, after the Franco-Prussian War, found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lancashire, as the guest of Lord Gerard. Some old French furniture of the Louis XIV. and XV. periods has ever since been preserved by the Gerard family in the suite of rooms the Emperor occupied. Garswood Hall, the Lancashire seat of Lord and Lady Gerard, where this furniture of Napoleon III was stored, has been used as a military hospital during the war, and for the purposes of re-arrangement, after military occupation, Lord Gerard decided to sell the surplus appointments at the Hall. Most of the furniture used by the Emperor had by the lapse of time and storage, become dilapidated." 66 It is surprising to read that Napoleon III. found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lancashire" after the Franco-Prussian war. I have lived all my life in South Lancashire and never knew of this before! Did the Emperor ever set foot in Lancashire after 1870 ? I should like to know. As to the date of Louis Napoleon's visit to Garswood Hall, it was before the period of the Second Empire, not after. In a pamphlet on the Gerard Family, published at St. Helens in 1898, the author (Mr. J. Brockbank) says :— "It was in 1847 that the memorable visit of Napoleon to Garswood took place. A relic of this almost religous care in the Napoleon room, i.e. the chamber in which he who a short time afterwards became Emperor of the French slept; with all the still remaining intact exactly as he left them. costly hangings, carpets, pictures, decorations, etc. This argues that the high hopes of the then refugee were not the less shared by Sir John than by the man of destiny himself. Many are the anecdotes told of Sir John and his distinguished visitor, many of them apocryphal, others perhaps containing a modicum of truth." 66 Sir John Gerard, Bt., Louis Napoleon's host, was born in 1804 and died in 1854. Не was succeeded by his brother Sir Robert Gerard, who was created Baron Gerard of Bryn in 1876. There was thus no Lord Gerard" till three years after the death of Napoleon III. Although Mr. Brockbank, in the passage just cited, gives the year of the visit, he mentions no month, or even season. I have recently looked through the file of The Liverpool Mercury for 1847, but failed to find any reference to the Prince's visit to Garswood Hall. News from St. Helens is frequently given and a dispute between Sir John Gerard and his servants is recorded. Can any of your readers supply the correct date? 66 F. H. CHEETHAM, ST. STEPHEN AND HEROD. (See 12 S. v. 315).-It is commonly said of Ireland that there are no snakes there"! Is it a fact that there is either? no furze I ask because, in the English boy's version of the lines sung on St. Stephen's day, the second line runs "On St. Stephen's day he was caught in the furze,' and the following Word in a bracket (lurch) seems here a very far-fetched explanation of the word "furs in the version given by MR. MACSWEENEY. W. S. B. H. ST. MALO.-Up to the end of the eighteenth century the Etats de Bretagne claimed the right of giving to a child of any seigneur whom they presented for baptism the name of Malo without prefix. The second son of the Marquis de Lameth was one of the last so presented. It does not appear at what date the custom originated, but probably as far back as the eleventh century. It would in any case appear that for many generations such was the name of the town which had eclipsed Aleth (now known as St. Servan) and Dinard, which was little more than a fishing village. When Malo was changed to St. Malo is a matter of conjecture. Hagiographs and legend-writers have made assumptions, but produced no evidence from contemporary St. Maclou, and St. Machutus (the last is preserved in the English Prayer Book Calendar) as one and the same person, and concur in identifying him (or them) with a Welsh priest who in the sixth century escaped from his own country to avoid being made a bishop. He found safety at Aleth, | and apparently overcame his scruples, and subsequently took the lead in national affairs and when elected bishop, claimed temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. L. G. R. EARLIEST CLERICAL DIRECTORY.-Can any one tell me the title and date of the first Clerical Directory or General Clergy List. I. F. MICHAEL DRUM took the degree of B.A. at Cambridge in 1524/5, and subsequently joined Cardinal Wolsey's College at Oxford, where he became B.A. in 1527, M.A. in 1530/1, and B.D. in 1540, in which year he suffered imprisonment at Oxford as a Lutheran. He was one of the Six Preachers in Canterbury Cathedral in 1541 and 1543, and is said to have died a Catholic. (Strype, Mem.' i. 1, 569; Cranmer,' iv. 153, 154, 158, 159; 'Parker i. 10; also Wood, Fasti' (ed. Bliss), i. 72, 84, 85, 112; Cooper, Ath. Cantab.,' i. 83; Foster, Al. Ox.,' i. 426.) Is anything further known about him? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 66 'THE CHESS-BOARD OF LIFE.'-Who was Quis," author of this humorous and entertaining little book, 8vo, 159 pp., bound blue cloth boards, and published by James Blackwood, Paternoster Row, in 1858 ? "To H. C. K. [he says] these pages are inscribed as a memorial of the friendship and regard entertained for him by the author. "Quis" gives the initials "D.E." at the foot of his preface; but who was he? I have tried most, if not all, of the usual indexes and catalogues, but can get no information of this amusing "Quis." JAMES C. RICHARDSON. 2 Aliwal Road, S.W.11. THE SIXTH FOOT (WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT). Where was this regiment serving under Harrison in the early summer of 1710 ? Was it one which marched into Douai on the surrender of that town to the Allies or not? Many military books have been searched in vain for a definite answer to this simple question. The Sixth was reorganised in 1710 after its hard times in Spain. Douai and Foot Scarpe surrendered June 27 of Lediard, in his Life of the former, says only that one Saxon and five Dutch battalions entered the town as soon as the French were gone: that is, on June 29. The next day the two Commanders-in-chief and the Deputies of the States were received in Douai, and were welcomed by the University. Is it ascertainable whether an English regiment escorted them? and whether that regiment was the Sixth Foot ? L. I. GUINEY. SILVER PUNCH LADLE. I have in my It unpossession a silver punch ladle. questionably belonged to my to my maternal great grandfather, Capt. Gibson, who commanded the Fox, a small frigate or gun boat which was lost in Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz. The ladle which bears no marks is in scribed "Success to the Tartar," and has set in the bottom of it a Spanish dollar of the year 1773. Family tradition alleges that the dollar formed part of a treasure which Capt. Gibson recovered for the British Government by running a blockade. But it was rarely in those days that a British ship ran a blockade, the boot was usually on the other foot. Tradition of this sort usually has some foundation in fact, but is apt to be incorrect as to details. If any naval historian among your readers knows anything of the incident I should be CHARLES R. HILES. greatly obliged. 15 John Street, Bedford Row, W.C. METHAM.-Who were the parents of Anne Metham, b. 1716, d. Aug. 6, 1751, bur. at Kneveton, co. Notts, wife of John Story of East Stoke, co. Notts, High Sheriff of that county, who d. Oct. 19, 1768. Her son Philip, bapt. at East Stoke, Mar. 25, 1747, was M.A. (1773) of Jesus College, Camb., and Rector of Walton on the Wolds, co. Leics, from 1776. He d. May 25 and was bur. June 1, 1819, at Lockington, co. Leics, having m. Oct. 6, 1778, Martha, dau. of the Rev. Richard Stevens (M.A. 1749, St. John's College, Camb), Rector of Bottesford, co.. Leics, 1752-71. H. PIRIE-GORDON. R S CONINGSBY OF SALOP. The Coningsbys are a well-known family in Hereford, but the above gentleman writes himself as of " 'Salopius.' The Christian name begins with an R and ends with an "s," and the three intermediate letters look like “ion," buu they do not seem to fit any name I can giess at. The signature is on |