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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. 29, im

OXGATE MANOR, WILLESDEN (10 S. ix. 403). The subjoined pedigree shows the heirs of Frideswide Cheney at the time of Sir Thomas's death. The survivors who became entitled to the lands held by him in right of his wife were Anna Crowmer (J of $) Anna Kemp ($ of ), Alice Kemp (1 of i)> Frances Cheney, and Thomas Parratt. But a partition of the rever- sionary interests had been made on 8 March, 3 Edward VI. (1549), whereby the sole interest in Oxgate Manor appears to have become vested in Anne, afterwards mother of Thomas Parratt. This manor, held of

Master Braband, clerk, Prebendary of Ox- gate and Willesden, in socage, at the rent of \l. per annum, was worth, beyond reprises, 131. 6s. 8d. It had formerly been held by Bartholomew Willesden, and after by Thomas Willesden, his son.

The above information is derived from a contemporary office copy of Sir Thomas Cheney's Inq. P.M., and the pedigree also is based entirely on the same document, which is in our possession. Hennessy,

E. 42, gives the Prebendary as John Bra- ant, cl., who died 1564 ; will 21 Coade. W. McB. AND F. MABCHAM.

Frideswide, dau. and h. of=pThomas Cheney, Sir Thos. Frowyke, Kt., &c.,

d. before 1528-9. d. 18 Dec., 1558.

Katherine,= d. 20 March, 3 Edw. VI.

pThomas Kemp, Kt., living 1558.

Frances, ^Nicholas Crispe, b. living 1558. about 1528.

Anne,= d. 2 Sept., 1553.

pJohn Parratt. Kt., living 1558.

Margaret, =i d. 25 Oct., 1557.

=William Crowmer, living 1558.

Anna, b. 1543.

1 Alice, b. 1550.

Thomas Parratt, b. 1553.

Anna, b. Oct., 1557.

ST. MABGABET'S HOSPITAL OB GBEEN COAT SCHOOL, WESTMINSTEB (10 S. x. 129). The old house was photographed by Mr. Stiles of Kensington High Street. Mr. Stiles is no longer on the same site, but I think he transferred his business not far away. It is unnecessary to tell MB. HABLAND- OXLEY that there is a brief account of the Green Coat Hospital and of Dacre's Alms- houses, or Emmanuel Hospital in West- minster (but to note the reference may be useful), in Cunningham's ' London ' and in Wheatley's ' London.' The Green Coat School was merged in the United West- minster (Endowed) Schools, under schemes issued in 1873 and 1878. See also The Daily Telegraph, 2 Sept., 1890, a long article on Emmanuel Hospital ; and The Pall Mall Magazine, April, 1895, ' The Green Coat

Boy.' J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

JACOB PHILADELPHIA (10 S. x. 89). His fame had reached Hungary in the sixties, where as a boy I heard many of his tricks described by a young manservant in our college, who had served in Italy as a soldier. He called him " Philadelphi." One of the tricks was that he left his head in a barber's shop and called for it later on, as he had no time to wait. L. L. K.

EDWABD SHABPHAM (10 S. x. 21). PBOF. MOOBE SMITH states that Sharpham's remains, " if they have not been disturbed, must now be lying in St. Margaret's Church- yard." It must be observed that there is no record in the burial register, or elsewhere at the church, as to the position in the ground where the interment took place. Few, if any, changes are noted as having taken place here until the formation of the Underground (District) Railway, when a considerable slice of the burial-ground, at the north-west corner, was cleared of human remains (which were reinterred at Woking Cemetery), and the ground thrown into the public highway. If Sharpham should have been laid to rest at this spot, it is probable nay, almost certain that his remains (if any then existed) were disturbed with the others.fc^Jj

There is a plan of the churchyard, with a list of all inscriptions then legible, made at the time of the improvements therein (see 10 S. i. 23, 62), 1881-3. I have searched through these, and cannot find a trace of the name ; and besides, if there had been a stone originally, the probability is that it would have been broken and removed, for it must be remembered that for about two centuries and three-quarters there had been a public way for traffic across the