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with its escort proceeds in slow, time down the front and up between the ranks of the guards standing at the "Present." As tx the alleged origin, it may be remarked tha the ceremonial is little tie to regimen ta officers, only one or two subalterns havin to be founcf daily for guards in an Englis garrison. H. P. L.

BUTCHER HALL STREET (10 th S. ii. 28). Facts, I am afraid, do not bear out the surmise of MR. J. S. UDAL as to the former name of this thoroughfare. It was so callec because, after the Great Fire, Butchers' Hal] was erected in this street. The name King Edward Street, too, was bestowed upon it after tthe removal of Butchers' Hall to another site, not from any loyal or patriotic motive, but from its historical association with the ad joining Christ's Hospital, the Blue coat School, a foundation usually ascribed not too accurately, to the munificence of King Edward VI. MR. UDAL is probably aware that before the Fire of London Newgate Market was held in the centre of Newgate Street itself, at the north-east end, by Cheapside, close to Butchers' Hall Lane, which street was then known as Stinking Lane, "on account of the nastiness of the place, occasioned by the slaughter-houses in it." A market, especially of such a character, held in the open road, was objectionable in every way, not least owing to the liability of the market people to injury to life or limb from the ordinary traffic of the streets, aggravated on certain days by the herds of frightened cattle driven to the adjacent slaughter - houses ; but it was not until 13 April, 1749, that the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's granted the lease of ground adjoining Warwick Lane, on the opposite (south-western) side of Newgate Street, to the City Fathers, for the purposes of a market, at a rental of 4. per year.

F. A. RUSSELL.

49, Holbeach Road, Catford, S.E.

MR. HUTCHINSON falls, I think, into a slight error when he speaks of "Butcher Hall Street" The thoroughfare was known as " Butcher Hall Lane " until it was changed to " King Edward Street," and derived its name from the fact that the Hall of the Butchers' Company was situated there, built after the Fire of London, before which the street was known as " Stinking Lane," on account of the " nastiness of the place, occasioned by the slaughter-houses in it" (see Thomas Allen's * Hist, of London,' 1828, vol. iii. p. 573). Stow says: "Then is Stinking-lane, so called, or Chick-lane, at

the east end of the Grey Friars' Church, and there is the Butchers' Hall" (p. 118). Simi- larly Blowbladder Street was so called from the bladders sold there (Stow). De Foe, however, seems to derive it from the fact that the butchers were accustomed " to blow up their meat with pipes to make it look thicker and fatter than it was, and were punished there for it by the Lord Mayor" ('Plague Year,' ed. Brayley, p. 342). Certainly this was a fraudulent custom that was apparently well known, for in T. Adams's 'Sermons,' ii. 141, quoted from Nichol's * Puritan Divines,' 1861-2, by the Rev. T. L. O. Davies in his most instructive work 'Bible English,' 1875, occurs the sentence, " Wealth is the quill to blow up the bladder of high-mindedness.'' I do not think there ever was a Butcher Hail Lane in London.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

This lane was never designated a street until a roadway was formed for vehicular traffic from Newgate Street to Little Britain, about the year 1845. Stow (1603) says : " Then is Stinking-lane, so called, or Chick- lane, at the east end of the Grey Friars' Church, and there is the Butchers' Hall," from which it doubtless derived its name. It is also given in Ogilby and Morgan's ' Map of London,' 1677, as " Butcher Hall Lane."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

'RoAD SCRAPINGS' (10 th S. ii. 69). These etchings are by my father, Charles Cooper Henderson, who always signed his drawings and pictures C'H'O. G. B. HENDERSON.

3, Bloomsbury Place.

His name was Charles Henderson, and he always signed his works C'H'O. Amongst the many painters of coaching scenes he is facile princeps. I had the great pleasure of lis acquaintance. His varied experience of coaching in its best time assisted him in depicting incidents in connexion with the road in the most masterly manner.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

ST. NINIAN'S CHURCH (10 th S. ii. 68). Besides the White Church at Durham, there appear to have been several other white churches that have given names to places as Whitchurch, Whitkirk, &c., and Whitechapei n London and in Yorkshire. Is it not pretty ertain that they were so called from being whitewashed, as Candida Casa may also have >een? One of St. Wilfrid's biographers, I hink Eddius, speaking of the churches that he saint built at York, Ripon, and Hex ham, ays with reference to one or more of these, dapting the words of the Psalmist, supra