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lazar-house, of which there were several in the suburbs of London : one without South- wark, in Kent Street ; another between Mile End and Stratford, near Bow ; another at Kingsland, between Shoreditch and Stoke Newington ; and a fourth at Knightsbridge. See Stow's 'Survey,' 1720, Appendix, ch. iv. p. 21. Others were at St. Giles-in-the- Fields, St. James's-in-the-Fields, at Hammersmith, Finchley, and Ilford (ibid.). "Mr. Moser, in his vestiges published in the Europ. Mag., vol. li. p. 331, says that a lazar-house existed in Lambeth Marsh " (Thos. Allen's ' Hist, of Lambeth,' 1837, p. 304). There was a lazar- house at the bottom of Highgate Hill (see John Nelson's 'St. Mary, Islington,' 1811, p. 75 ; and S. Lewis's ' Hist, and Topog. of St. Mary's, Islington,' 1842, p. 288); and another at Norbiton at the beginning of the fifteenth century (W. D. Biden's 'Hist, and Antiq. of Kingston,' 1852, p. 126). In Pest- house Fields the Lord Craven built a lazaretto, which during the plague of 1665 was used as a pest-house, whence the name (Allen's ' Hist, of Lond.,' 1829, vol. iv. p. 298). Pest-House Row, Old Street, St. Luke's, afterwards Bath Street, obtained its name from a building that stood here called the City Pest-house. It consisted of several tenements, and was erected for the reception of distressful persons infected by the plague, as a lazaretto (W. Harrison's 'New Hist, of London,' book v. ch. ii. p. 541 ; and Maitland's 'London,' 1739,

p. 776). J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

181, Hammersmith Road.

As the four names mentioned in the query appear to be all Jewish, the allusion to " the Cemetery " seems to point to that mentioned by Stow as situated on the west side of Red Cross Street. This, till the year 1177, wa:_ the only one allowed to the Jews in England. MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

EGERTON-WARBURTON (10 th S. i. 169). I possess a complete set of the Palatine Note- Book, also a letter from the late Mr. J. E Bailey, dated 8 April, 1885, explaining that the last issue was dated 1 January, and the next would be No. 49, for May, 1885. I never received another, which I think I should have done, as I had paid the subscriptior for the year. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

HORN DANCING (10 th S. i. 5). A full accoun of this old-time occurrence is given in ' Th< Natural History of Staffordshire,' by Rober Plot, LL.D. (Oxford, 168U). The paragrapl quoted by W. B. H. shows that the custom is now celebrated four months earlier than

ormarly (vide Gough's ' Camden, 1 vol. ii. ). 514). In ' The Beauties of England and (Vales,' edited by the Rev. J. Nightingale, 813, vol. xiii. part ii. pp. 876-7, under Abbot's Bromley,' will be found a full de- cription.

This practice seems to have existed at other places besides Abbot's Bromley, for we ind hobbyhorse money frequently mentioned n the old parish books both of Stafford and Seighford. It continued in force till the 3ivil War, when Sir Simon Degge states that saw it often practised. The same author adds, in another part of his work, 'that they had something of the same kind, to get noney for the repair of the church of Stafford, every jommon council [man?] then collecting money from lis friends, and whosoever brought in the greatest mm to the hobbyhorse was considered as the man >f best credit, so that they strove who should most mprove his interest : and as he remembered it was iccounted for at Christmas."

As a Staffordshire man I take an interest n everything pertaining to the county, more especially from an antiquary's point of view; [ should therefore be obliged if any reader
 * ould tell me when the name of this festival

was changed from Hobbyhorse Dancing to Born Dancing.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D., F.R.Hist.S.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

LEPER HYMN-WRITER (10 th S. i. 227). I remember that Heine, either in poetry or prose, mentions this singer ; but I cannot give a particular reference. E. YARDLEY.

"FuLTURE " (10 th S. i. 225). In 1692 a jury for the manor of Holmesfield, near Dronfield, in Derbyshire, gave permission to a widow " to lay her manure in the fold, or any other f ulter what so ever." I gave the whole verdict at 9 th S. x. 501, and said that " fulter " here represented M.E./M<?, filth, with the final e sounded. However, the two extracts from leases given by W. C. B. appear to show that my guess about the final e was wrong. It is interesting to note that Holmesfield, Hans- worth Wood house, and Eckington are in the same neighbourhood. S. O. ADDY.

Would not this word refer to the fixtures added to the property during the last year of the tenant's lease, from the Latin fulturus, a support or prop ; but no doubt, if such be the case, comprising the repairs which the tenant had made of dwelling-house, barns, stables, outhouses, beams, doors, floors, walls, gates, bars, posts, stiles, hedges, ditches, and fences? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

"As THE CROW FLIES" (10 th S. i. 204). The late Dr. Brewer, in his 'Dictionary of Phrase