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but apparently with no effect, for it is still repeated. Perhaps the following remarks

m r> i & Q may carr y conviction.

.Frickett, 'Hist, of Highgate,' 1842, p. 75, says :

'li Ari i nd ^ House traditionally said to have been the Bank at Highgate the place of imprison- ment of the Lady Arabella Stuart in 1611."

W. S. Gibson, the writer of the prize essay on Highgate, 1842, p. 58 :

" The site of Lord Arundel's house has not been discovered Mr. Coniers had a house at High-

Arabella Stuart escaped."
 * V at V;r lfc o was from this house that the Lady

J. H. Lloyd, 'Hist, of Highgate,' 1888, follows Prickett with additional matter ; on p. 231 he admits the house to have been Sir William Bond's, and on p. 233 makes Lady Arabella stay at Highgate thirteen months.

What are the facts ?

John Norden, ' Speculum Britannia?,' 1593, says: " Cornewalleys, Esq., hath a laire house at Highgate."

John Arundel of Lanherne addresses his letter from Highgate, dated 16 Oct., 1599, to Secretary Cecil (Cal. State Papers Dom.).

John Povey, Esq. (will proved 1599, P.C.C. 92 Kidd), citizen and embroiderer of London, and Fellow of Barnard's Inn, bequeathed his house at Highgate in which he lived to his "natural" daughter Kathe- rine Bond. This lady was the wife of William Bond, citizen and haberdasher of London, afterwards Sir William.

Now it is morally certain these three bouses were all different. It is proved beyond doubt (see authorities quoted in Lloyd's ' History') that the house at which Lady Arabella stayed was Sir William Bond's.

On 21 March, 1611, the Bishop of Durham writes to Salisbury: "Arrival of Lady Arabella at Barnet," &c. The Bishop also writes to the Council : " After six days' stay at Highgate, Lady Arabella travelled thither, but was very ill on the journey," Ac. (Cal. State Papers Dom.).

I could make a shrewd conjecture as to the approximate site of this house of Sir William Bond's, but, as I am not guessing, will leave the facts to speak for themselves. JOSEPH COLYEB MABBIOTT.

36, Claremont Road, Highgate.

LEAMINGTON-ON-SEA. One has heard of the American in England who was afraid of walking over the edge of the island. He is probably now on the staff of The Globe, and has been taking a morning header in the Atlantic from some vantage ground in

Warwickshire. We are told by The Globe, 2 June, 1908 :-

" The Regent Hotel at Leamington Spa, as a pod centre for Shakespeare's country, offers an excellent seaside resort. It has^arge garage and stables, and ample accommodation for motorists. The roads in the surrounding country are good."

ST. SWITHIN.

" VOTES FOB WOMEN." No politics, please, Mr. Editor. But the following anticipatory lines are so appropriate and so quotable that it is a pity not to repro- duce them :

For though we cannot boast of equal force, Yet at some weapons men have still the worse. Why should not then we women act alone ?

Oh, would the higher powers be kind to us, And grant us to set up a female house !

John Dryden's Epilogue to ' Secret Love,' 1672, ed. Robert Bell, iii. 207.

The " house " was a playhouse, not a Parliament house. W. C. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

KING'S SILVEB : LINCOLN COLLEGE. Will some reader kindly throw light on the following entries found in the accounts of the Bursars of Lincoln College under the years 1525 and 1528 ? In 1525, " payde to the kyng when our church dore of long Combe was sealed up for the kings silver, IQd. "; and in the accounts of 1528, "for oure 3 churches, the Kyng's silver, 9s. 4d., viz. Long Combe, Halhalowys, and Sanct Michael." It may be added that the church of Long Combe, which lay within the ancient demesne of Woodstock Manor, was previous to 1478 in the possession of Eynsham Abbey. In that year it was given to Lincoln College, together with the church of Twyford in Bucks, by Bishop Rotherham of Lincoln just before he became Archbishop of York. These two impropriated churches formed a portion of the increased endowments with which Rotherham ref ounded Lincoln College. St. Michael at the North Gate and All Saints', both in Oxford itself, formed part of the original foundation by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, in 1417. All four churches were served by resident chaplains appointed by the Rector of the College. S. SPENCEB PEABCE,

Vicar of Long Combe, Oxon.