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may have led to the extension of the name to other parts of England.

MR. MATTHEWS'S investigations have ad- vanced our knowledge of this puzzling subject so far that I feel much pleasure at having introduced it. I trust that further inquiries may be made, and reiterate my hope that the earliest maps and charts of the Caribbean Seas may be consulted.

W. F. PRIDEATJX.

Grand Hotel, Locarno.

Kelly's ' P.O. Directory for Hertford- shire ' shows that " Sidney Solesbury, beer retailer," resides at " Pimlico, Abbots Langley." A. FYNMORE.

Berkhamstead.

TVESDAY NIGHT'S CLUB : MRS. CORNELYS <10 S. xi. 147, 251, 330). There are several references to the Tuesday Night's Club in the Castle Howard MSS. ; see Hist. MSS. Cornm. Fifteenth Rep., Appx., part vi., pp. 266, 451, 555, 580.

George Selwyn writes to Lord Carlisle, 5 Feb., 1774 : " The Tuesday Night's Club dine to-day [at] the corner of Half Moon Street, but I will not venture myself among them." Again, on 30 Jan., 1780, he writes to the same correspondent : " The rump of the Tuesday N[ight's] Club meet at the Duke of Buccleugh's . . . . "

On 29 Dec., 1781, James Hare informs Lord Carlisle that

"' there are two Clubs lately formed, both con- sisting of young men, an<? chiefly of different parties in politics. Gortree's is a small society of young men in Opposition, and they are very nice in their admissions ; as they discourage gaming as much as possible, their club will not do any harm to Brookes's, and probably not subsist a great while ; it seems to be formed on the model of the celebrated Tuesday Night [sic] Club."

Lastly, on 19 ? Feb., 1782, George Selwyn tells Lord Carlisle that " Weltie's Club is going to give a masquerade like that given by the Tuesday Night's Club."

We are given a hint as to the composition of the club in the 'Letters of Lord Malmes- bury,' i. 194, where Mr. Harris tells his son on 20 Feb., 1770, that ''fifteen or sixteen! young men of fashion and fortune give a masquerade on Monday next [i.e., 26 Feb.] At Cornely's, to 800 people."

This particular masquerade, with the exception of that given by the King of Denmark at the Opera House on 10 Oct., 1768, was the most celebrated of any during the last forty years of the eighteenth century, and most of the memoirs of the time contain some reference

to it. There is a description in The Town and Country Magazine, i. 118, and a picture of it on p. 137. ,,

A search amongst the familiar " letters and " journals " of the period would no doubt discover many allusions to the Tuesday Night's Club. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Another account of this masquerade will be found in The Town and Country Magazine, for March, 1770. Several additional charac- ters are named, including, Garrick as " a celebrated Doctor at the Maccaroni," Mrs. Garrick as an Italian shepherdess, the Earl of Upper Ossory as a cardinal, the Hon. Mr. Butler as Don Felix, and the Earl of M t as the Pope.

Another masquerade was held on Monday, 14th May, and is described in the magazine for that month, with the following P.S.:

" It is currently reported that Mrs. Cornelys was some hundred pounds out of pocket by this mas- querade, owing chiefly to the ladies being admitted so cheap [two for 2i guineas] and their swallowing with their mouths and pockets such uncommon quantities of sweet-meats ; and it is said that ip future proper searchers will be appointed of their own sex to prevent scandal, as no lady will be allowed to carry more than one bpnne-bouche for the bon-bons upon these occasions."

R. FREEMAN BTJLLEN.

Bow Library, E. <.

FIELD MEMORIALS TO SPORTSMEN (10 S. x. 509 ; xi. 116, 196, 297). In addition to those named, there is a memorial plate on the Striding Edge, Helvellyn, to a huntsman who fell from the narrow ledge while follow- ing the foxhounds. I cannot from memory recall the name, but I feel sure there is one. I am not thinking of Charles Gough, whose death in the same neighbourhood is immor- talized by both Wordsworth and Scott.

A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

"MARYLEBONE" (10 S. xi. 201, 270, 291, 356). MR. HARBEN has apparently estab- lished the fact (ante, p. 291) that the true form of this place-name was originally " Mariboune," and not " Maryborne," the i being intrusive, as was also the connecting le later. Having regard to the fact that Bishop Braybroke's licence for the removal of the church dates from the year 1400, it seems to me highly probable that the said church was in some way connected with the first wife of Henry IV., Mary Bohun, the mother of Henry of Agincourt, she having died about that date. In the absence of any present data, however, I shall be prepared to hear that weighty authorities like