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Burn's ' Beaufoy Tokens,' 1855, No. 882). The " Castle" was burnt down in the Great Fire, and what became a usual feature in the more popular resorts of this kind a Long Room was added. Here many of the most eminent musicians and vocalists of the day performed. The following is from the Daily Advertiser of 22 February, 1742 :

" For the Benefit of Mr. Brown, at the Castle Tavern in Paternoster Row, this Day, being the 22d instant, will be perform'd a Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Musick, Particularly an Organ- Concerto by an Eminent Master, a Concerto on the Bassoon by Mr. Miller, a Solo on the German Flute by Mr. Balicourt, and a Solo and several Concertos on the Violin by Mr. Brown. The vocal parts by Mr. Beard and Mr. Lowe. Note, Tickets to be had at Mr. Brown's, in Margaret Street, Cavendish Square : at the Swan Tavern, in Exchange- Alley, Cornhill ; and at the place of Performance." See also ibid., 5 March, 1742.

In 1770 the " Castle" had become the Oxford Bible Warehouse, \yhere the productions of the Oxford University Press were deposited.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL. 161, Hammersmith Road.

ST. DIALS (9 th S. xii. 49, 514). In the seventeenth-century overseers' accounts of Monmouth frequent mention occurs of the hamlet called St. Dials', just south-west of this town. Twice the name is spelt "St. Dynalls." If this n (which is clearly written) is not meant for a u (and I do not think it is), I consider this strong evidence that the place was originally St. Deinioel's. Several parishes in Wales bear the latter designation, under its Welsh form Llan- ddeinioel, and " Dynall " would represent the pronunciation to English eyes. But Teilo in Monmouthshire dialect is " Tillio," as in Llantilio Grosenny.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Monmouth.

JOHN HALL, BISHOP OF BRISTOL (10 th S. i. 9). I think he must have died in 1710 a bachelor, as I cannot find any mention of a wife in the Rev. Douglas Macleane's admirable and exhaustive history of Pembroke, Oxon (1897), of which College the bishop was Master from 1664 until his death. His heir was his nephew John Spilsbury, a Dissenting minister at Kidderminster. His portrait- half-length, full-face, clean shaven, in wig and episcopal robes may be seen in the College Hall. A. R. BAYLEY.

ASH : PLACE-NAME (9 th S. xii. 106, 211, 291, 373). May I ask PROF. SKEAT to reconsider his decision as to the absurdity of the deriva- tion of Asham from eesc, an ash ? He says trees do not live in homes. Just so, but

homes may live in the midst of trees. Why should a homestead surrounded by ashes not be named ^Esc-ham ? You have also Beecham and Oakham, and we have Buchheim and Buchenheim, Eichheim, Berkheim. Elsheim and Elsenheim, and Tannheim. An Eschheim or Eschenheim, it is true, I have not been able to trace in our gazetteers.

G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

BRIGHTLINGSEA : ITS DEPUTY MAYOR (9 th S. xii. 506). I find in my collection of cuttings illustrative of the county of Essex one or two referring to the quaint custom brought to the notice of readers of 'N. & Q.' by MR. COLEMAN. From a descriptive account of the ceremony which appeared in the So^ithend-on-Sea Observer of 4 Dec., 1902, I gather that the oath administered to those elected to the freedom of Brightlingsea is as follows : " I swear to be profitable as I ought to his Majesty the King, his heirs and successors, and the State of the liberty of the town of Brightlingsea." JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

ENGLISH ACCENTUATION (9 th S. xi. 408, 515 ; xii. 94, 158, 316, 475). Perhaps a slip of the pen or printer's error, but, certainly, Antio- quia is wrongly accented by MR. PLATT. I lived some years in the next State to Antioquia (Republic of Colombia), and can assure him no one ever heard the accent placed anywhere but on the o, and no Colombian would know what was meant by Antioquia. IBAGUE.

CROMWELL BURIED IN RED LION SQUARE (9 th S. xii. 486). Enough, and more than enough, has appeared in the columns of ' N. & Q. ' on the subject of the place of burial of Oliver Cromwell. Westminster Abbey, Naseby, Narborough, Newburgh, Tyburn, Huntingdon, Northborough, and Red Lion Square, all claim to be his place of burial. See 1 st S. v. ; 2 n(1 S. viii., xii. ; 3 rd S. iii., iv. ; 5 Ul S. ii., for many articles on the resting-place of this extraordinary man. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

The remains of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw may, of course, have been re- exhumed and reinterred in Red Lion Square, but in 'Mercurius Politicus Redivivus, a Collection of the most Materiall Occurrences and Transactions in Publick Affairs,' vol. i. fol. 257, we are expressly told that " their bodies were buried in a grave made under the [Tyburn] gallows. The coffin that Oliver Cromwell was in was a very rich thing, very