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to Fanny Murray, which she ate between two pieces of bread-and-butter.

Thus, if we are to believe Walpole and Casanova's informant, whether he or she was " le maitre de la maison " or " la prox- enete Wals " (probably Mother Welch, see MB. BLEACKLEY'S note at ix. 116), Sir Richard Atkins gave a 2QI. note to Fanny Murray, which she ate ; a thousand-guinea or a 100Z. note to Kitty Fisher, which she ate ; and set fire to the latter's punch with a 100Z. note. That these three forjanteries (the word used by Casanova, according to the Brussels edition) should have been perpetrated or shared in by one man appears very unlikely. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Why should not all the versions of this story be true ? According to Horace Wal- pole, who is a good authority, Fanny Murray did eat such a sandwich ; and it is very likely that both Kitty Fisher and Mrs. Baddeley heard of her performance, and resolved to follow such a good example. When the same anecdote is attributed to several persons, it is a mistake to doubt the anecdote and say that it is a mere invention. Actions and sayings are often copied, and it is only when the imitators are distinguished persons that discussion arises as to who it was that first did or said such a thinp.

M. N. G.

SIR LEWIS POLLARD (10 S. xi. 365, 433, 495). As one of the many descendants of Agnes Moore of Moorehayes, in the parish of Cullompton, Devon, who was a daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard, I have been much interested in the information which has appeared respecting him. He was buried in the parish church of Bishops Nympton, otherwise Nymet Episcopi, near South Molton. Tristram Risdon, who commenced in 1605, and finished in 1630, his ' Survey of Devon,' and whose mother was a daughter of George Pollard of Langley in the parish of High Bickington, says :

" In Nymet Church, judge Pollard lieth honourably interred, having a monument erected to his memory ; a window of which church, whereunto he was a benefactor, sheweth his name, marriage, office, and issue, with his effigies and his lady's figured fairly in glass, he having ten sons on the one side, and she so many daugh- ters on the other, a fair offspring, with this inscription : ' Orate pro bono statu Lodovici Pollard, militis, unius justiciar. domini regis de Banco, et Eliz. uxor, ejus, qui istam fenestram fieri fecerunt.' "

Fuller in his ' Worthies of England ' tells us that Sir Lewis and Lady Pollard had eleven sons and eleven daughters. And it

has been pointed out that Sir Henry Spel- man, in his ' Glossary,' under the term spinster, refers to the fact that Pollard, a judge, was represented on his monument with eleven sons, each girt with a sword, and the like number of daughters with their spindles. Tho window no longer remains, but on the north side of the chancel of Bishops Nympton Church there is an altar-tomb without either inscription or effigy. ALFRED JAS. MONDAY.

"THE NAPIER TAVERN," HOLBORN (10 S. xi. 467). In connexion with MR. HIB- GAME'S note, the following cutting from The Daily Mail of 15 May may be of interest, though I do not vouch for the correctness of all the statements contained in it. The old tavern was burnt out on 14 May, and the damage was estimated at 10,000?. :

" ' Ye Olde Napier Tavern ' thoroughly deserved its name, for, built in the reign of Henry VIII., it was the oldest licensed house in Holborn. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was a house of call for sporting men and boxers, and enjoyed the patronage of Jack Shepherd and Tom Spring. The spacious cellars beneath the tavern and Messrs. Henekey's wine shop adjoining contain the old cock-pit, where until yesterday morning the judges' chair, built into the wall, could be seen. In close proximity to Fagin's Kitchen and Fulwood's Bents, that were pulled down in August last, the house had in the eighteenth century an evil reputation, and was the resort of all the dangerous characters that feared the Bow Street Runners. From the cock-pit ran a subterranean passage to the middle of Chancery Lane, where patrons of the establish- ment could checkmate justice and find a safe and secret exit to Lincoln's Inn Fields. One night in the year of Trafalgar the cock-pit is said to have harboured a hundred and forty men who were unwilling to come into contact with the press gangs. In the eighteenth century gardens fronted the tavern, and the inhabitants used to obtain from its roof a clear and uninterrupted view of the Thames. The tavern is also associated with the literature of the early Victorian era, for Thackeray wrote many of his novels in rooms almost next door, and it must have been as familiar to Dickens as Fagin's Kitchen. The tavern contained a fine carved staircase dating from Tudor tunes, and many relics of the eigh- teenth century. It was one of the few taverns in London that had no frontage."

W. F. PRIDEATTX.

LYNCH LAW (10 S. xi. 445). The sug- gestion of M. takes its place with various other erratic guesses that have been made, some of them in former volumes of ' N. & Q.,' as to the origin of this term. Had M. seen a paper called 'The Term Lynch Law,' printed in Modern Philology (University of Chicago) for October, 1904, ii. 173-95, or J. E. Cutler's ' Lynch Law,' published by