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Alley (Tufton Street), into which the arm o Black Dog Alley leading into Tufton Stree day have served as an approach.

In an interleaved copy, in the writer' possession, of Allen's 'History of London (London, 1827, 9 vols.), filled with most minute And voluminous annotations begun about 1829 by Mr. William Charles Smith of London, there is inserted a MS. plan of the grounds anc buildings belonging to the Abbey of West tninster in the sixteenth century about the time of the Dissolution, with a transcripi of the letters patent of 32 Hen. VIII. to the Bishop of Westminster for a large portion 01 the same. Though no scale accompanies this plan, it seems quite evident that the ground afterwards the site of Black Dog Alley was .at the period last named a portion of the Abbey gardens, lying between "the great Ditch called the Mill Dam " on the south and yarious large farm buildings or offices belong- ing to the Abbey upon the north, spoken of in the aforesaid patent as " the Barn," " the Long Granary," " the Bruehouse and the Backehouse," "the Blackstole Tower," <fcc.; And it would appear to be possible that the large building spoken of above as being shown upon the De Ram map of 1680 might have been a survival from the conventual period. Information upon this point ought to exist among the records of the Abbey, and would be interesting. j. H. INNES.

Ossining, N.Y.

TEA. AS A MEAL (8 th S. ix. 387; x. 244 ; 9 th S. xii. 351 ; 10 th S. i. 176, 209, 456 ; ii. 17). " I take up my pen every afternoon to write to you as regularly as I drink my tea, or perform any the like important article of my life." Sir Thomas FitzOsborne to " Cleora,"

September, 1719 (from his 'Letters on Various Subjects,' published London, 1748). EDWARD HERON- ALLEN.

FAIR MAID OF KENT (10 th S. i. 289, 374 : ii -59, 118). The Maud quoted by MR. DIXX>N ante, p. 118, was Maud Holland, half-sister of Bichard II. H. H. D.

REV. JOHN WILLIAMS (10 tb S. ii. 68). There is a short sketch of his career, with portrait, in ' Walks and Wanderings in County Cardigan,' by E. R. Horsfall Turner, B.A., which was issued to subscribers in February, 1903. John Williams became head master of Ystrad Meurig School in 1777 on the death of the founder and first master, Edward Richard (1714-77). Williams, who was the son of a blacksmith, was born at Mabws, near Ystrad. He was succeeded in the mastership by his -eldest son, Rev. David Williams, of Wadham,

Oxford. Another son, John, was of Balliol, and took a first in classics, same year as did Arnold, 1814. He afterwards became Arch- deacon of Cardigan. C. S. WARD.

STORMING OF FORT MORO (10 th S. i. 448, 514 ; ii. 93). I quote the following from Cannon's 'Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot ' :

"A detachment of the Royals was ordered to form part of the storming party, under Lieut. -Col. Stuart, of the 90th Regiment. Lieut. Charles Forbes, of the Royals, led the assault, and, ascend- ing the breach with signal gallantry, formed his men on the top, and soon drove the enemy from

every part of the ramparts As Lieuts. Forbes, of

the Royals ; Nugent, of the 9th ; and Holroyd, of the 90th Regiments, were congratulating each other on their success, the two latter were killed by a party of desperate Spaniards, who fired from the lighthouse. Lieut. Forbes, being exasperated at the death of his companions, attacked the lighthouse with a few men, and put all in it to the sword."

The names of the men who composed Forbes's storming party are not given. It is stated that the troops engaged in the assault of Fort Moro were as follows :

Officers Serjeants

Royal Regiment 6

Marksmen

90th Regiment 8

To sustain them : 56th Regiment 17

o 8 o

14

Rank and FU 102 129

150

Total 39 29 431

I have no record of the 90th Regiment. Has Beatson's 'Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783 ' been con- sulted 1 W. S.

GRAY'S * ELEGY' IN LATIN (10 th S. i. 487; ii. 92). In the list of translations in various

anguages given at 1 st S. i. 101, mention is made of " Gray's Elegy in a Country Church- yard, with a translation in French verse, by

L. D Chatham: printed by C. and W.

Townson, Kentish Courier Office, 1806." The question "Who was L. D.T 1 does not appear to have been answered. It is perhaps worth noting that following the translation are some " imitations " in English, viz.,

Nocturnal Contemplations in Barharn Down's Camp. By H." ; " An Evening Con- templation in a College. By D."; "The Nunnery. By J." ; " Nightly Thoughts in

he Temple. By J. T. R." In addition to

he question as to L. D., one may ask who the >ther four were. There is a Latin translation of a few

tanzas of Gray's 'Elegy' in "Anthologia Oxoniensis decerpsit Gulielmus Lin wood,

I.A., Londini, 1846," No. Hi. p. 89. They are

he first three stanzas and the third of the