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4. Observations on the Number and Misery of the Poor, on the Heavy Rates levied for their Maintenance ; and, on the General Causes of Poverty : including Some Cursory Hints, For the Radical Cure of these Growing Evils. Humbly submitted to Public consideration. Who first, taught Souls enslav'd, and Realms undone, Th' enormous faith of Many made for One ? (Pope.) London Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Handt, in the Strand. 1765. (Price One Shilling.)

5. The Morality of the East ; Extracted from the Koran of Mahommed : Digested under Alphabetical heads, with an Introduction, and occasional remarks. Unto every of you have we given a law, and an open path ; and, if God had pleased, He had surely made you one people ; but He hath thought fit to give you different laws, that He might try you in that which He hath given you respectively. Therefore strive to excel each other in good works ; unto God shall ye all return, and then will He declare unto you that concerning which ye have disagreed (Koran, chap. v. ). London, Printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul's Churchyard. 1766. (Price Two Shillings, sewed.)

6. A New History of London Including West- minster and Southwark. To which is added A General Survey of the Whole ; Describing the Public Buildings, Late Improvements, etc. Illustrated with Copper Plates. By John Noorth- ouck. London. Printed for R. Baldwin, No. 47, Paternoster Row. 1773. (2 vols.)

In his own handwriting Noorthouck has written on the title-page " A Second Edition, with Considerable Improvements " ; but I think that no second edition ever appeared. His copy is interleaved with plain paper, upon which his " improvements " are written.

In a separate thin quarto we have the plates of the above volumes with the same title-page, and a note to the effect that here are " 42 cuts to my ' History of London ' ":

7. A New History of London Including West- minster and Southwark. To which is added a General Survey of the W'hole describing the Public Buildings, Late Improvements etc. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. By John Noorthouck. London Printed for R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater- noster Row. 1773. Plates only.

8. Cursory Reflections on the Single Combat, Or Modern Duel. Addressed to Gentlemen in every class of life. London, Printed for R. Baldwin, at No. 47, Paternoster Row. 1773.

9. Sibylline Leaves Containing A Prophecy of Unknown Antiquity supposed to refer to the Year of Our Lord 1775. London. Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, 1774.

10. An Historical and Classical Dictionary Containing the Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent and learned Persons in every age and nation, from the earliest Reviews to the present time. In two volumes. By John Noorthouck. London Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand. 1776.

11. Outlines of a Ready Plan for Protecting London and its Environs from the Depredations of House-Breakers, Street and Highway Robbers.

London ; Printed for W. Richardson at the Royal Exchange. One Shilling. 1785.

12. Argumentum ad Hominem : A Discourse on the Clerical character and its parochial obliga- tions : Composed under the idea of a Visitation Sermon. Let your light so shine before men r that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Which is in heaven. Matt. vi. 16.

Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of T (Luke ix. 55.) London : Printed for T. Chap- man, 151, Fleet Street.

In addition to these, there is a volume of scraps a kind of commonplace book upon the cover of which is written " Fugitive Pieces by J. Noorthouck." It contains the writer's various contributions to The London Chronicle, The Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals of that epoch. There are, besides, many scraps of manuscript, not one of which would be worth repub- lishing in our day, even as a curiosity. One of them gives the date of Noorthouck's birthday, indicating that he was fourteen years older than is stated in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' : he was born on 12 June, Old Style, 1732. This we learn from a poem entitled ' A Farewell to the World,' dated " Oundle, August 13th, 1807, when 75 years of age." This poem of six- teen foolscap pages is really the most in- teresting of all Noorthouck's efforts. On the cover he has written the words : " Not to be put into the hands of any Priest what- ever." CLEMENT SHORTER.

LONDON: ORIGIN OF THE NAME. IN the review of ' Memorials of Old Lon- don,' ante, p. 219, the following quotation is given from Mr. W. J. Loftie's chapter on ' London in Early Times ' :

"" ' The Welsh Lynn is pronounced lunn. Dun or down has passed into English.' A great autho- rity, Mr. Bradley, is said to have stated that Lynn- in London may be a personal name. 'The ordinary interpretation,' continues Mr. Loftie, ' is so simple that it seems hardly worth while unphilosophical, in fact^-to search for another. Lynn, pronounced Lunn, is a lake. Dun is a down or hill. London, as the first syllable may be taken adjectively, will mean the Lake Hill.' "

At the risk of being thought unphilo- sophical, I must demur to Mr. Loftie'& reasoning. In early times London no doubt consisted in a great measure of marshland, bounded on the north by a low range of hills, from which several streams, confined by more or less rising ground, flowed down to the river. This marshland, by a stretch of the imagination, might perhaps be termed a lake, and as I have said, there were hills, though only the low spurs bounding one or two brooks were included in the old Lon-