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clockmaker of Pall Mall, the father of Lewis Vulliamy the distinguished architect, and grandfather of George J. Vulliamy, Super- intending Architect of Metropolitan Buildings.

Benjamin Vulliamy, who was a man of considerable artistic taste, designed articles of furniture in metalwork, such as cande- labra, chandeliers, &c. ; and among others a magnificent brass chandelier for Windsor Castle, which was engraved.

Another Benjamin Vulliamy, son of the preceding, and father of George John Vulliamy, presented Lord Brougham in 1850 with a timepiece with the inscrip- tion " Viro honoratissimo Henrico Baroni de Brougham et Vaux." It is preserved at Brougham, near Penrith, the seat of the family, and is described in The World of 20 Jan., 1892, in No. DCCXVI of ' Celebrities at Home : Lord Brougham and Vaux at Brougham.' The timepiece is said never to lose or gain a minute, which is not high praise, for ordinary clocks nowadays do not vary more than one-tenth of a second.

JOHN HEBB.

ARTHUR PITS. The ' D.N.B.,' xlv. 339, says : " On 6 Feb., 1582, he was seized with George Haydock and another priest while dining together .... The three were com- mitted to the Tower." The date is correct according to the ' Concertatio Ecclesise ' ; but if the Tower bill for Lady Day, 1582, is to be trusted, he was arrested on Sunday the 4th. Geo. Haydock had been arrested earlier in the day. The person arrested with Pits was William Jenneson, a law-student. The three were committed to Newgate, where Jenneson remained till he was liberated in the following September. The two priests were sent to the Tower the next day. Pits went on board the Mary Martin of Colchester, with nineteen (not twenty) other priests and one layman (Henry Orton), 21 Jan., 1584/5 ; and was landed at Boulogne 2 Feb. (see Holinshed's ' Chronicle,' iv. 555-6).

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

PARAPET, A STREET FOOTWAY. In Lanca- shire " parapet " is the word generally used for a street footway, or what the Americans call a " side-walk " ; but in that meaning it is unknown I think in nearly all the rest of England. Had the same word in French this meaning at any time ?

In " Recueil des Villes Ports d'Angleterre Tire des Grands Plans de Rocque et du Portuland de 1'Angleterre du S r Belin. A Paris, Chez le S r Desnos," 1766, is a 'Table du Plan de Londres.' Following the alpha-

betical Index contained in this " Table " is a short description of London, which mentions

" un gr. nombre de belles et gr. places et des rues tres-larges avec de beaux parapets qui sont de chaque cote." Apparently these " parapets " were footways.

The * Recueil ' appears to be the third part of " Nouvel Atlas d'Angleterre. . . . A Paris Chez le Sieur Desnos Ingenieur Geographe pour les Globes et Spheres,' 1767.

J. P. Malcolm in his ' Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century,' 2nd ed., 1810, vol. ii. pp. 395-7, quotes an " intimation " by the Commissioners for paving the squares, streets, and lanes of Westminster issued in March, 1763. It has to do with the new paving of Parliament Street, Charing Cross, Cockspur Street, and Pall Mall. The fifth " Proposal " is as follows :

" For paving the footways of the said streets with the best Purbeck pavement, and a curb of Purbeck or Moor stone twelve inches broad, and seven inches thick, leveling the ground, finding all mate- rials and workmanship, according to such levels and such dimensions as shall be directed and appointed by the Surveyor, and under his inspec- tion, as the said Act directs ; as likewise for re-lay- ing such part of the old footways as shall be directed by the Surveyor."

The larger part of this " intimation " con- cerns the carriage-way of the said streets. The " Note " gives the quantities, &c., in which presumably are included the stones for the footways. The material for the car- riage-way was to be " Edinburgh stones, or stones of a like quality."

The stones, apparently including the stones for the footways, were to be delivered " in one year from the 3d of May, 1763, to the 3d of May, 1764," in stated quantities in stated months, April, 1764, being the last.

The sixth " Proposal " is as follows:

" Persons willing to contract may make their Proposals for the whole, or any part, of the said works ; and for keeping the same in repair for the term of ten years ; the said works being to be com- pleted within one year from the 3d of May next."

This, if carried out, would mean that there were improved footways in Parliament Street, &c., about two years before the ' Recueil des Villes,' &c., was published.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

FIRST ENGLISH BISHOP TO MARRY. The following extract from The Newcastle Chronicle of 30 Aug., 1858 (reprinted in The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of 5 Sept., 1908), seems worthy a corner in ' N. & Q.' :

" In the ancient church of Simonburn lie many generations of Allgoods, and more of the old