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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL APRIL 3, im

DOCTOBS WHO BEMAINED IN LONDON DURING THE PLAGUE OF 1665. It is well

known that when the great Plague occurred in 1665, the majority of the medical men then practising in London shared in the general panic, and fled. A few remained at the post of duty. From various sources I have compiled a list (possibly a complete list) of those who remained. This list the editor of The British Medical Journal kindly allowed me to publish in that paper for 5 February. The list, with biographical notes, includes the following physicians and surgeons : Dr. Thomas Allen, Sir John Baber, Dr. Peter Barwick, Dr. Humphrey Brooks, Dr. Alexander Burnett, Dr. William Oonyers, Dr. Elisha Coysh, Dr. Francis Glisson, Dr. John Glover, Dr. Nathaniel Hodges, Dr. O'Dowd, Dr. Nathan Paget, Dr. Samuel Peck, Dr. Thomas Wharton, Sir Thomas Witherley, Mr. John Fife, Mr. Thomas Gray, Mr. Edward Hannan, and Mr. Edward Higgs.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

PAUL'S ALLEY IN 1601. An Elizabethan deed recently found bears sufficient literary interest, perhaps, to be worth recording here. It is an agreement dated 9 Jan., 1601, in which Richard [Archbp.] Bancroft leases for 21 years at 2s. per ann., to John Langley and Thomas Hunt,

" a parcell of waste ground in Pawle's Alley adjoining the shoppe latelye erected by W m Pitt, and abutting on a lardge lybrarye the right rev. father hath of late built in his Pallace, with a faire lardge windowe openinge eastward upon the dead walle in the lane leadinge from the little north dore of Pawles unto Paternoster Howe."

The lessees undertake

"" to erecte certain shopps or shedds against, but not higher than, the dead wall, because at that windowe the right rev. father hath bin often anoyed by uglie and unholsome smels daylye made, as also to prevente the haunte of theeves which.... may breake into the said Pallace or lybrarye."

A clause bars the

4 ' trade of a Smyth, Shoemaker, or Pewterer, or any other. . . .science to the offence of the rev. father .... with knockinge, hammeringe, or any other noyse, or by or with any evill smells, or any manner of chimney."

The land is stated to measure 116ft. by 3Jft.

As the " little North dore " figures in imprints of the time, it is probable that such tranquil tenants as booksellers chiefly occu- pied the new shops, to the ultimate peace of the " Marprelate bishop."

WILLIAM JAGGAKD.

Y SYMBOL FOB TH. The following may be worth noting as an illustration, although taken from a book only a hundred and sixty- one years old, viz., ' A Catalogue of English Heads : or, An Account of about Two Thousand Prints. . . . ' by Joseph Ames, 1748 :

G. CHAUCER. Al yogh his Life be queynt, ye Resemblaunce

Of him hay in me so fresh Liffynesse, Yat to putte other Men in Remembraunce

Of his Persone, I have here his Lykenesse

Do make to yis End in Sothfastnesse, Yat yis yat have of him left yought and Mynde. By yis Peynture may agayn him finde.

P. 35.

GEOFREY CHAUCER.

Althogh hys Lyf be quaint the Resemblance Of hym hath in me so fresch Lyffynesse, That to put othir Men in Remembraunce Of hys Persone I have here hys Lykenesse, So make to thys Ende in Soothfastnesse, That they that have of hym lost Thought and

Mynde, By this Peynture may again hym fynde.

P. 44.

The fifth line begins with " Do " in the first version, with " So " in the second.

On p. 35, after the verses, there are par- ticulars of the portrait of Chaucer, given in Latin, then " G. Vertue sc. Hood, Beard." On p. 44, after the title, is " G. Vertue sc. Hood, Beard, Knife hanging at his Breast, Beads in his Left-hand."

Although G. Vertue engraved both por- traits, they are apparently not identical. I suppose that the verses appear on the margins. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

JOHN AUBBE Y' s M ABBIAGE. The ' D. N. B., ' vol. ii., ed. 1885, says that Aubrey never married Joane Sumner. He must have got very near it, as the subjoined shows :

" Awbry, John, of Easton Peirse, and M ris Joane Sumner of Sutton Benger, sp. Bondmen, William Browne of Sarum, tailor, and Joseph Grwynne of Easton Peirse, yeoman. April llth." Salisbury Diocesan Registry, Bishops' Bonds, 1666.

EDMUND R. NEVILL.

43, High Street, Salisbury.

"BALAAM." (See 6 S. xi. 385, 478.) The earliest example given in the ' N.E.D.' is from Scott, 1826. But James Hogg, in a letter to the reviewer of his ' Jacobite Relics' (Blackwood, viii. 69, Oct., 1820), says :

" I well know that a certain proportion of what is technically called ' Balaam ' must go to fill up the pages of every periodical work, from The Scotsman to The Edinburgh Review inclusive. In setting up a newspaper, for exam- ple, when there is any dearth of public or private ntelligence of interest, the foresman says to editor, ' Well, sir, I suppose we must just