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 10 s. x. JULY ii, IMS.]; NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The latest promulgation of this error occurs in an article in the June issue of The Bookman. From an article on Daniel De Foe, by George Sampson, I take the following sentence : >

" Poor benefices bless the flourishing fund called <J,ueen Anne's Bounty, and in her reign fifty new -churches were built in London alone. You may tell .them by their surpassing ugliness."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

Nothing like this number was ever com- pleted by the Commissioners. Maitland, writing in 1756, ' History of London,' i. 509, says : " Hitherto there are only ten of the said churches built upon new foundations." These, I believe, were St. Anne's, Limehouse ; St. George - in - the - East ; St. George's, Bloomsbury ; St. George's, Queen's Square ; 'St. George's, Hanover Square ; St. John's, Westminster ; St. John's, Horsleydown ; St. Luke's, Old Street ; St. Matthew's, Bethnal Green ; and St. Mary-le-Strand. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" ENTENTE CORDIALE " (10 S. viii. 168 ; ax. 194, 338, 418, 472). I have at my elbow .a medal, upon one side of which these words ire inscribed : " Definitive treaty of peace signed at Paris May 30, 1814."
 * ind amity between Great Britain and France

The other shows a female draped figure tiolding in her right and left hands respec- tively an olive branch and a horn of plenty, encircled by the quotation, " On earth peace, good will to men." CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

ASKWITH OR ASQUITH (10 S. IX. 461).

'The following references to the Asquith ,nd Ayscough pedigrees, some of which Tiave already been noted in my ' Bibliography of Yorkshire,' appearing in Yorkshire Notes and Queries, may be found of some use.

For the pedigrees of Askwith of Barrowby <Lincs.), see Harl. MS. 1487, fo. 148; of Askwith of Newstead, ibid., 1394, fo. 148 ; 1415, fo. 9b; 1420, fo. 108b ; 1487, fo. 148 ; of Askwith of Osgodby (? N. Riding, Yorks), ibid., 1487, fo. 150b. Ask- with coat of arms, Harl. MS. 1394, p. 344. Askwith of York, vide W. Paver's ' Pedigrees of the Families of the City of York,' p. 8 ; and Foster's 'Visitation of Yorkshire,' 211, 487. Pedigree of Ayscough of York, Wm. Dugdale's ' Visitation of the Co. of Yorks ' (vol. xxxvi. 1859, Surtees Soc.), pp. 147, 153 ; see also Chr. Clarkson's ' History of Rich- mond,' 1821, p. 252 ; W. Paver's ' Pedi- grees,' 1842, p. 10 ; Harl. Soc., iv. 77 ; ^vii.

37, 38 ; viii. 59 ; Foster's * Lincolnshire Pedigrees,' 27, 29, 30 ; Surtees' s ' Durham,' iii. 227, 318; Thornton's 'Nottingham- shire, ii. 253 ; The Genealogist, iii. 342-5 ; v. 189; Fisher's 'History of Masham,' 297; Hasted' s ' Kent ' (.' Hund. of Blackheath,' by H. H. Drake), xv. ; Foster's ' Visitations of Cumberland and Westmoreland,' 3. Pedigree of Ayscough of Skewsby (N. Riding, Yorks), Dugdale's ' Visitation of the Co. of Yorks ' (Surtees Soc., vol. xxxvi., 1859), pp. 342-4.

Ayscough pedigree :

" The Genealogie or Descendent Pedegre of the Ascoughs, sometime Lordes of the Maners of Dalbon, Norrys, Newsam, Burstall, Thornton, Barcloste, New bye, &c., in the Couritie of Yprke, and nowe of Southe Kelsey, in the Couritie of Lincolne, <fcc., drawn up by and in the autograph of William Segar, Garter, with arms emblazoned and in trick." XVII cent.

This is a roll nine feet in length.

J. HOLD EN MACMlCHAEL. Deene, Streatham.

It may be as well to add that the Norse vi$, mentioned at this reference, not merely means " wood," but is the actual equivalent of the A.-S. widu, late A.-S. wudu, Mod. E. wood. It occurs again in Beckwith ; and in Widkirk, the old name of Woodkirk in York- shire. WALTER W. SKEAT.

SECRET PASSAGES (10 S. ix. 490). Exeter is honeycombed with ancient subterranean passages. Some of them possess outlets beyond the city walls, at points where it would probably have been possible to commu- nicate secretly, unobserved by an invading army, with the beleaguered inhabitants. One of these, about a mile long, leads direct from Lion's Holt to the Bishop's Palace.

Some fifteen years ago it was suggested these underground ways should be opened out, as an additional attraction for visitors of an antiquarian turn; but nothing came of the proposition. I remember then being one of a party who explored a passage which has an entrance near to Bampfylde House, the old city residence of the Bamp- fylde family an ideal Tudor building, still in an excellent state of preservation. From there we made our way under the High Street and London Inn Square to an outlet in Longbrooke Street, the latter some little distance outside the line of the old walls. In some parts we were able to walk upright, in others only to crawl upon hands and knees. These Exeter passages run in various direc- tions, but are not continuous or connected. From time to time they have been built