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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XH. NOV. 20, im

' THE AMERICAN IN PARIS.' A book with this title was published in 1838 by H. Colburn, Great Marlborough Street, 2 vols., 8vo. Can any of your readers tell me if a second edition was published, and if the author's name is known ? S. BEALE.

355, Cowley Road, Oxford.

"THE GUILDFORD BARGE,'* LAMBETH. This is the sign of a public-house at the corner of Belvedere Road and Guildford Street, Lambeth. The sign is not in ' The History of Signboards. 1 What, if any, are its associations with this locality ? Does it owe its name in any way to the street at the corner of which it stands ? Particu- lars will oblige, as this neighbourhood is rapidly changing, and many old landmarks will go before long.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

"LE STOPLES."

(10 S. xii. 348.)

THERE are frequent references to " le Stoples" or " le Stulpes in London records. In 1372 a jury of the county of Surrey made presentment that the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commonalty of the City had recently appropriated certain shops near " le Stolpes n in Suthwerk as being in lot and scot of the City, whereas they had always been parcel of the borough of " Suthwerk," and assessed for lot and scot on the burgesses of the said borough ; and in 1375 it was alleged in defence that the property in question had always been within the liberty of the City, and parcel of the Ward of " Briggestrete " which extended as far as the gutter near " le Stulpes " at the end of London Bridge, and had always been liable to lot and scot of the City ('Letter- Book H J p. 93). Other references to the " Stoples," " Stouples,"- or " Stulpes " in Southwark will be found in ' Letter-Book G p. 300 ; in the ' Calendar of Wills, Court of Husting, s vol. ii. p. 591 ; and in Stow's ' Sur- vey,' ed. 1603, p. 213.

Graf ton in his ' Chronicle * (ed. 1809 vol. i. p. 643), describing Jack Cade'i rebellion, says that

" sometyme the Londoners were bet backe to the rfwraat fcaint Magnus corner, and sodainly agayn the rebels were repulsed and driuen backe to th stulpes in Southwarke."

A certain brewery, formerly called " les Stulpes, - and then called " le Swan on the

iop, n opposite " le Tonne " in Cornhull, is mentioned in the Will of Roger Stokton, dated 1419 ('Calendar of Wills, Court of lusting,' ii. 444), and is probably the 5 ame tenement as that referred to in MR. MACMICHAEL'S query.

A tenement in " Watlyngstret " in the parish of St. Mary de " Aldermarichirche," 3alled " le Stulpes," is mentioned in the will >f John Shalyngford, 1397 (' Calendar of Wills, 4 ii. 328).

' The Century Dictionary ' gives " stulp," ilso " stolp," " stoup,'* " stoop,' 1 as meaning ' a short stout post of wood or stone set in ,he ground for any purpose,'* and quotes )he following passage from Palladius's Husbondrie z (Early English Text Society, 3. 39) in illustration of this use of the word : But III foote high on stulpes must ther be A floor for hem.

The word appears to be of Norse origin, and its meaning as set out in ' The Century Dictionary * is corroborated by ' The English Dialect Dictionary/

Whether the form " stoples n is connected with " staple, 51 the Anglo-Saxon stapol,

a post or pillar " ; whether there has been a confusion between the words ; or whether the two forms are merely a case of metathesis of the p and I, perhaps PROF. SKEAT can inform us. H. A. H ARE EN.

Consult PROF. SKEAT'S ' Etymological Dictionary * under stop, where " stople " or " stopel '' is given as a Middle English derivative in the sense of spigot.

FRANK PENNY.

Since putting my query I have found mention in the ' Calendar of Letter-Books l ('Letter-Book H,* p. 93) of another " Stoples'- 1 in " Suthwerk. " In a note upon this on the same page the Stoples, Stouples, Stolpes, or Stulpes are described as

"low stone pillars standing at the Southwark end of London Bridge. Richard Chaucer, by his will, dated 12 April, 1349, and proved and enrolled in the Husting the same year ('Gal. of Wills,' i. 590-1), devised to the parish of St. Michael de Paternoster- chirch his tenement near ' les Stouples ' at the corner of London Bridge towards Southwark."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

PETRE EPIGRAM (10 S. xii. 349). The epigram referred to was made on Patrick Robertson, a famous bon vivant and humorist of the Scottish Bar, who was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1842, and occupied a seat on the Bench under the title of Lord Robertson, 1843-55. He was the author of a large quarto volume of singularly weak