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 io* s. ii. JULY 2, loo*.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

1867.

Waugh (Edwin). Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine. Lon- don, Manchester printed, 1867. 8vo. Includes Mr. Cobden's speech on the formation of the Relief Committee, April '29, 1862. 1868.

Une Solution Prompte ! Congres ou Guerre: pre- cede" d'une lettre de Richard Cobden. Paris, 1868. 8vo. 8026. g.

Government Manufacturing Establishments. Speech of Richard Cobden in the House of Commons, July 22, 1864, &c. London, 1869. 8vo. 8246. ee.4. 1872.

Bishop Berkeley on Money. Being Extracts from his celebrated Querist, to which is added Sir John Sinclair on the Return to Cash Payments in 1819, and Mr. Cobden on the Evils of Fluc- tuation in the Rate of Discount. By James Harvey, Liverpool. London, 1872. 8vo, pp. 40. -This contains at p. 38 Cobden's statement before the Parliamentary Committee on Banks of issue in 1840.

1873

Mr. Cobden on the Land Question. London, 1873. 8vo. C. T. 355. (7.) -Written by Cobden, January 22, 1864, and published in the Morning Star under the signature of R. S. T. See also the next entry.

Ouvry (Henry Aime). Stein and his Reforms in Prussia, with reference to the Land Question in England, and an Appendix containing the views of Richard Obbden, and J. S. Mill's Advice to Land Reformers. London, 1873. 8vo, pp. xii-195. 8277. b. 66. This contains the above letter, which was republished in the Daily Netvs and in the Times (January 7, 1873). It deals with the question of primogeniture and the division of the land.

1876.

Facts for the Present Crisis. Richard Cobden on Russia. Reprinted from the original Pamphlet published in 1836 under the name of "A Man- chester Manufacturer." Third edition. Man- chester, 1876. 8vo. 8094. g. 6. (9.)

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. (To be continued.)

BLACK DOG ALLEY, WESTMINSTER. THIS insignificant, but ancient thorough- fare has been lately forced into something like notoriety. It is truly so insignificant that very few Westminster people have heard of it, and of those who have done so fewer still could say offhand in what part of the city it was situated. It was, as its name states, an alley or court, shaped like the letter L, one end branching from Great College Street, and the other portion leading into that part of Tufton Street which had been until 1869 known as Bowling Street, but of which a still earlier name had been Bowling Alley, which Walcott tells us was erected upon the green where the members of the convent amused themselves at the

game of bowls." Mr. J. E. Smith, in hi* 'St. John the Evangelist, Westminster: Parochial Memorials,' 1892, suggests that the change was brought about ** when the term * alley' began to have a depreciative meaning." Neither of the authorities just quoted affords any clue to the origin of Black Dog Alley or the date when it was- formed, but doubtless it was of a very respectable antiquity, and Walcott notes that the site of it was "Abbot Benson's small garden." When mentioning this fact, he says further that the "hostelry garden, where the visitors of the monastery were entertained, extended over the ground which lay between the bowling green and the river-bank." Stanley, in his 'Memorials of Westminster Abbey,' reminds us that gardens abounded about this spot, for at p. 358 he says that "in the adjacent fields were the orchard, the vineyard, and the bowling alley, which have left their traces in Orchard Street, Vine Street, and Bowling Street"; and further still were the abbot's gardens and the monastery gardens, reaching down to the river.

Dean Benson ruled at the Abbey, as the last of the Abbots and first of the Deans, from 1539 to 1541; but that date cannot be taken as a guarantee of the age of this little court. I have looked at many maps to try to find some particulars about it; but most of them are on so small a scale that it is not shown at all, including a ' New Pocket Map of London,' published by Sayer & Bennet, 1783 ; Sayer's ' London, Westminster, and South wark,' 1791; Laurie & Whittle's 'Pocket Map/ 1792; 'An Entire New Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster,' July 17, 1817 ; ' London and Westminster,' published by Faden, of Charing Cross, January, 1818 ; a map published by Belch, 1820; one by Moggs, 1842; 'The British Metropolis,' by Davies, 1842 ; and Laurie's * Plan of London, Westminster, and South wark,' 1843.

Sir Walter Besant, in 'Westminster,' 1895, at p. 264, tells us that the "excellent map of Richard Newcourt, dated 1658," shows " Great College Street as having no houses," of course, on the side opposite to the wall enclosing the Abbey buildings ; therefore it seems safe to assume that Black Dog Alley could not have been in existence at that time, and may* probably have been formed when Barton and Cowley Streets, its close neighbours, were projected and built by- Barton Booth, the actor (1681-1733), with the growth of "seventeenth and eighteenth century respectability," as the same autho- rity sets forth.