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London, mercer, and Felicia his wife, premises in " Kentissheton," and in the parish of St. Clement Danes, without the Bar of the New Temple, and St. Giles of the Lepers, without the Bar of the Old Temple. In the following year John Spirstoke and Margaret his wife conveyed to John Bosham and his wife premises in the same parishes (' Calendar of Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex,' ed. Hardy and Page, i. 157). On these broad lands Johu Bosham built himself a lordly residence, which was known as Bosham's Inn, and was probably situated on or near the spot on which Drury House was afterwards built. He died in 1393, his wife Felicia having predeceased him. By his will, which was dated London, 8 October, 1393, and proved 25 March following, he directed his rents and tenements in the parishes of St. Michael "de Bassyngeshaugh " and St. Pancras, and in " Sevenhodlane " in the parish of St. Laurence in Old Jewry, to be sold by his _ executors, and the proceeds devoted to pious and charitable uses for the good of his soul, the soul of Felicia his late wife, and others (' Calendar of Wills, Court of Husting, London,' ed. Sharpe, i. 308). The records of St. Paul's Cathedral give some further information with regard to this property.

In 3 Hen. IV. (1401) there was recorded an acquittance from William Causton and John Purchas, vicars of St. Paul's, and guardians of the light of the chapel of St. Mary in the New Work in that church, to the executors of the will of John Bosham, citizen and mercer of London, for one year's rent for a new garden by the great inn of the said John Bosham in Aldewich without the Bar of the Old Temple, in the street that leads to the Hospital of St. Giles (Hist. MSS. Com. App. Ninth Report, p. 52a). Three years later another acquittance of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's is recorded, for rent issuing from a new garden lately belong- ing to John Bosham, adjoining his great inn "in Aldewych extra la Temple Barre," on which three houses formerly stood (ibid., p. 7a). The name of the place did not die with its owner. Mr. H. R. Plomer, in a paper entitled^ '_Some Notes about the Cantlowe Family ' in the Home Counties Magazine for January, 1904, p. 43, cites a deed in the Public Record Office (Ancient Deeds, C. 3154), by which in 20 Henry IV. (1441) Sir Robert Hungerford and others demised to Sir William Estefeld, Henry Frowyk, William Melreth, John Olney, and William Cantelowe, all of them mercers, their meadow adjoining their messuage called "Bosammesynne" on the

west, and their land called " Clementesynne mede" on the north; reserving a sufficient footpath for their servants to go by the said meadow from the gate of the said messuage towards London. It is possible the records of the Mercers' Company might throw some further light upon this property and its later owners. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

CHARLES BERNARD GIBSON. On looking in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' I was surprised not to find the name of the Rev. Charles Bernard Gibson. The following is some account of him. He was minister at Mallow, co. Cork, under the Irish Evangelical Society, 1834-56 ; chaplain to Presbyterian convicts of Spike Island, Cork Harbour ; lecturer of St. John's, Hoxton ; chaplain to Shoreditch Workhouse ; and author of the following publications :

The Last Earl of Desmond. 1854. 2 vols.

Life among Convicts. 1863.

Historical Portraits of Irish Chieftains and Anglo- Norman Knights. 1871.

Philosophy, Science, and Revelation. 1874.

Beyond the Orange River. 1884.

Dearforgil, an Historical Novel.

History of the County and City of Cork. 1863. 2 vols.

The last is sufficient to perpetuate his fame and to establish his worth. He died 12 August, 1885, aged seventy seven, in London.

The above facts are to be found in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeo- logical Society of July to September, 1903.

W. DEVEREUX.

RELICS OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT. As the thirteen-hundredth anniversary of this great apostle of the English is rapidly ap- proaching, a note on this subject will not be deemed out of place.

MR. WARD, under the heading " The Consul of God " (ante, p. 32), says : " In 729 Gregory, who had been buried in the atrium of St. Peter's, was translated within the church." By the "atrium," in this connexion, is meant, I suppose, the portico, i.e., that portion of the arcade running round the atrium which immediately adjoined the church. This portico was a favourite burying-place of the Popes from the time of St. Leo the Great. Is MR. WARD right as to the date 1 Neither Hare (' Walks in Rome,' ii. 187) nor Fr. Barnes (' St. Peter in Rome,' second edition, p. 267) knows of any translation before that effected by Gregory IV. about 840. Hare says that the remains of the saint were then removed " to a magnificent tomb in the church, with panels of silver and golden mosaics "; but as a matter of fact, as Fr. Barnes says, the translation was to a position under the high