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 io- s. ii. OCT. 29. 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER SO, 1901,.

CONTENTS.-NO. 41.

NOTES : Stow's 'Survey': Sir John Pulteney's "Cold Harbour." 341 Webster and Sir Philip Sidney, 342 Shakespeariana, 343 -Charles Reade's Grandmother, 344 Ploughing -"Though lost to sight "Waterloo " Lead- ing Article" : " Leader," 345 Children at Executions, 346.

QUERIES -.Biggs Family Barometer by Marinone Cape Bar Men Louis XIV.'s Heart, 346 General Kuroki Edward Gordon, Sergeant-at-Arms Monmouth Cipher- Coventry Worsted Weavers Corks ' Tracts for the Times ' " I lighted at the foot "American Order of the Dragon Michaelmas Custom " Bonnets of Blue," 347 Ruskin at Neuchatel Leche and Evelyn Families Book- borrowing Governor Stephenson of Bengal Rev. Richard Winter "Hand" Bradlaugh Medal Alms Light " Aching void " " Dobbin," Children's Game, 348 Lousy-low Hazel or Hessle Pears Bottesford The Tenth Sheaf. 349.

REPLIES : Jacobite Verses, 349-H'.lme Pierrepont Pariah Library George SteinmHti Sieinm.an, 350 Poem by H. F. Lyte German Volkslied Northumberland and D'urham Pedigrees " Dago " King's ' Classical Quotations ' " Humanum esterrare" H in Cockney, 351 Whitsunday English Graves in Italy School Company Martyrdom of St. Thomas : St. Thomas of Hereford A. and R. Edgar Italian Initial H. 3.">2-Jowett and Whewell Bales First-Floor Refectories Acqua Tofana Manor Court of Edwinstowe, Notts, 353 Pawnshop Hell, Heaven, and Paradise as Place-names, 354 Humorous Stories Joannes V. Johannes Prescriptions, 355 Tickling Trout I Majuscule, 356 Publishers' Catalogues - Chirk Castle Gates, :{57.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Mr. E. Marston's 'After Work '- D.N.B. Krrata'-Dr. Krttger on English Stvle and Syn- tax -' Book-Prices Current 'Oxford Florin Milton.

Obituary : -Lady Dilke.

STOW'S SURVEY ': SIR JOHN PULTENEY'S "COLD HARBOUR." IT has often occurred to me that an important service would be rendered to London archaeology if the 1603 edition of Stow's * Survey ' (the last published in his lifetime) were thoroughly overhauled by some competent person, and brought abreast of our present knowledge of the subjects treated by the old antiquary. Much of this know- ledge lies buried in the Proceedings and Transactions of learned societies, and is not accessible to the general public. The founder of * N. & Q.,' to whom we all owe a debt of gratitude, made no pretence of bringing the several years ago. Mr. Fairman Ordish than whom there could be no better man for the work once contemplated doing some- thing of the kind, but I believe the project has fallen through. A thorough revision of the * Survey ' would, perhaps, be beyond the capacity of a single expert, but it could be carried through by means of a small com- mittee, each member of which might under- take that section of the work with which he was most familiar. I trust that the scheme may some day be favourably viewed by the London Topographical Society, which is
 * Survey' up to date when he reprinted it

naturally the most suitable body for super- vising the execution of the work.

An instance showing the necessity for an undertaking of this kind may be found in connexion with the "Cold Harbour" house of Sir John Pulteney, which is mentioned by PROF. SKEAT at p. 413 of the last volume (see also 10 th S. i. 341, 49G ; ii. 14, 74). PROF. SKEAT quotes Stow as saying that Pulteney gave to Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Here- ford, "his whole tenement called Cold Har- brough, with all the tenements and key adjoining." Mr. Philip Norman, Treas. S.A.. in the able and interesting paper entitled bir John Pulteney and his Two Residences in London/ which was read before the Society of Antiquaries on 13 December, 1900, con- clusively showed that this statement of Stow's was incorrect.

Sir John Pulteney's will and the proceed- ings of his executors show that he did not part with his proprietary rights in "Cold Harbour," but merely divested himself of certain interests therein. His interest in two-thirds of the property he parted with to Earl Humphrey during the earl's life, while in the remaining third his wife Mar- garet possessed a life interest by way of dower, the earl, if he survived her, possessing for his life a reversionary interest. It was under these circumstances that Sir John Pulteney, by his will, which is enrolled in the Court of Husting, and of which an abstract has been printed by Dr. R. R. Sharpe in his 'Calendars of Husting Wills,' i. 609, 610, directed that the " Cold Harbour " should be sold, Henry Pykard having the refusal of it for one thou- sand marks sterling. Apparently Henry Pykard had reasons for not taking up his option, for another deed, which was also enrolled in the Court of Husting, declares the manner in which the executors carried out Sir John's directions. The Earl of Hereford being still alive, as well as Margaret, the widow of Sir John, who had in the meantime married Sir Nicholas de Loveyne, who is wrongly called Lovell by Stow, the executors could sell only the reversion of the property, which would revert to them after the death of the existing beneficiaries. This they accomplished by selling the reversion of the two-thirds held by the earl and the third held by Margaret to Margaret and her husband, who thereby would become possessed of the whole of the property after the death of the earl.*

Pulteney and to the declaration of the executors are Hustings Rolls 77, No. 180, and 81, No. 107.
 * The official references to the will of Sir John