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 10 S. XL FEB. 27, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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vol, xi. (2), p. 84). Condet Mede being th site of the present Bond Street and Condui Street, the close belonging to Eybery mus have covered some part of the Grosveno Square region.

2. In 1439 the Abbot of Westminste granted to the City of London certain spring in Paddington, with the right to lay pipe to carry the water to London, but specially excepting the lands of the manor of Hyd from those through which the pipes coulc be carried, the Abbot being in some anxietj lest his own supply from Hyde should b interfered with (Rymer's ' Fcedera,' vol. xi p. 29). In 1746 the City Surveyor prepared a plan of this line of water-pipes, of whic] there are copies in the Grace Collection (maps xiv., 9) and elsewhere. This plan shows that the pipes ran under what was until 1908, the north-eastern portion o Hyde Park, and continued along the soutt side of Oxford Street. Unless we suppos< that the City engineers in the fifteenth century deliberately went out of their way to infringe the conditions made by the Abbot, for no advantage to their work and at the risk of having it stopped and the grant annulled, we must conclude that the north-eastern corner of Hyde Park and the south side of Oxford Street were not within the manor of Hyde. The obvious inference is that the straight line of Watling Street now partly lost, was the eastern boundary of Hyde.

What I suggest has happened at what we now call Marble Arch is this. Originally there was an open space, as usual, around the cross-roads, and a short cut (what railway engineers call a spur-line) was in use from the southern section of Watling Street, to what is now Oxford Street. When Henry VIII. was enlarging his parks he took the opportunity to enclose this open space, leaving the " spur-line " as the present Park Lane (northern part). I can think of no more probable occasion, between 1439 and the date of the earliest maps, for this extension of the park. The recent improvements (1908) restored to the public thoroughfares approximately what was taken from them three centuries and a half before. A. MORLEY DAVIES.

Winchmore Hill, Amersham.

"GOOD-FOBS" (10 S. xi. 86). " Good- fors " are not unknown here amongst working people. There are many times when a man wants to " sub " draw upon the wages which will be due to him at the week-end. I have known some employers

write an order for so much worth of food, and this order is " good for " the value stated upon it. A man who has got such an order shows it to a mate with the remark that this is " a good-for," and at the same time regrets that he may not slack his " throittle " with it. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

AMERICAN GENEALOGIES (10 S. xi. 49). The following works are much used in reference to the above topic :

' Americana of Royal Descent,' by C. H. Brown- ing. Ardmore, Montgomery Co., Pa.

' A Registry of American Families entitled to Coat Armor,' by W. A. Crozier, F.R.S. Genea- logical Association, 1, East 40 [?], New York City, N.Y.

' Index to American Genealogies.' John Mun- sell's Sons, Albany, N.Y.

HENRY LEFFMANX.

1839, N. 17 Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

' Colonial Families of the U.S.,' by G. N. Mackenzie, New York, Graf ton Press, 1907, is an essay toward such a work as ELS asks for. But when it is remembered that the 56,000 Frenchmen found in Canada at the time of the cession (150 years ago) now number more than 2,000,000 whereas the population of the revolting American colo- nies mostly of British descent, numbered 2,600,000 in 1776 it will be seen what a prodigious task it would be to compile a genealogical record of the descendants of the colonists. AVEHN PARDOE.

Legislative Library, Toronto.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xi. 129). REX will find the verses which

quotes in Harrow Notes for 31 May, 1884. [ believe that they were written by Mr. Herbert Greene, now Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. G. W. E. R,

WONDERS OF THE WORLD (10 S. xi. 87). See Higden's ' Polychronicon,' vol. ii. p. 22, vhere are mentioned both " Stanhenges " Stonehenge) and " Cherdhole " (Cheder- lole), and other marvels. At p. 24 we find a great " ponde," as Trevisa translates it, with 60 islands, 60 rocks, and an eagle's lest on each ; also the salt wells, and so orth. WALTER W. SKEAT.

A curious and interesting list of the Mirabilia Britanniae ' is printed by Hearne n the Appendix to his edition of Robert of Gloucester, pp. 572-8. It is from a MS. nen in the possession of Hearne' s friend lichard Graves, of Mickleton, Glouc., but ow in the Rawlinson Collection in the
 * oclleian Library, MS. D. 358. Short