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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. APRIL i, 1905.

possibly give some information to MR. P. MONTFORT; but I do not know his present address. E. A. FRY.

Birmingham.

"GALAPINE" (10 th S. ii. 447, 531). Au XVII. siecle on appelait galopinet jeunes gargons occupes dans les menus travaux de cuisine.

_ Voici a ce propos, avec son style par- ticulier, ce que disait Francisco Martinez Montifio, chef de cuisine du roi Philippe IV., dans son livre 'Arte de Cocina, Pasteleria, Vizcocheria y Conserveria ' :

"Si fuere posible, no tengas picaros sin partido, y si los tuvieres, procura con el Senor que les de algo, 6 con el limosnero, porque puedan tener canoisas limpias que nmdarse, porque no hay cosa mas asquerosa que picaros rotos y sucios ; mas como es una simiente que el Rey Don Plielipe II. (que Dios tieae) con todo su poder no pudo echar esta gente de sus cocinas, aunque mando anadir mozos de Cocina y otra suerte de moxos de Cocina que se Ilaman yalopines, todo porque no hubiese picaros, y nunca se pudo remediar: solo en su cocina de boca no entran mas de un oficial y un portador y un mozo de cocina y un galopin, y estos estan una semana con el Cocinero mayor, y el Domingo se nmdan & la cocina de Estado y vienen otros tantos por sus semanas."

Les references a ce sujet que je trouve dans les livres espagnols de 1'epoque sont tres-nombreuses, et si elles peuvent interesser Q. V., j'aurai beaucoup de plaisir de les lui indiquer, bien soit par 1'intermediaire de ' N. & Q.' ou bien particulierement.

FLORENCIO DE UHAGON.

4, Calle Benito Gutierrez, Madrid.

FARRELL OF THE PAVILION THEATRE (10 th S. iii. 188). Farrell was manager in 1834, the year of the engagement of the late Mrs. Stirling (Lady Gregory), when she appeared as Miss Fanny Clifton. Her future husband, Mr. Edward Stirling, was at that time stage manager. John Farrell is mentioned in Oxberry's ' Dramatic Chronology ' as having been born 1791, in Berwick Street, Soho. He first appeared at the Regency 1815, and died 1848 at Boulogne. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

The Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel Road, was under the management of Messrs. Wyattand Farrell in 1826, &c. Mr. Farrell was sole proprietor from 1832 to 1836. During that time many stars appeared : Messrs. T. P. Cooke, O. Smith, G. Bennett, Freer, Elton, Cobham, T. Matthews, Conquest, Madame Celeste, Miss Fairbrother, &c. most of them graphically delineated in Skelt's theatrical characters, to the great delight of us juvenile Thespians, who used to rig them out in satin, velvets, tinsel, &c., according to the dictates

of our artistic imaginations. Many hours and pennies have I spent in this innocent amusement. I inquired in the Print- Room of the British Museum, but without success. They are as scarce as the flint, steel, and tinder-box of the same period.

Here in 1833 was produced ""A new local Melo-Drama on the history of an eccentric individual well known in the eastern part of the metropolis, called Dirty Dick of Leaden- hall Street " (time 1804). This will perhaps interest your contributors on 'The Dirty Old Man,' 9 th S. ix. 428, 512.

It may be news to playgoers that in 1810 there was a Pavilion Theatre in Newcastle Street, Strand ; and in 1832 another of the same name in Church Street, Portman Market.

These particulars are to be seen in a collec- tion of playbills in the British Museum, N. R. 65 and 66. CHAS. G. SMITHERS.

47, Darnley Road, N.E.

" MONMOUTH STREET OF LITERATURE " (10 th S. iii. 188). Monmouth Street, afterwards Dudley Street, Soho, is the subject of a chapter headed 'Meditations in Monmouth Street ' in ' Sketches by Boz ' : " A Monmouth Street laced coat was," says Dickens, "a byword a century ago, and still we find Monmouth Street the same." In ' The Pro- gress of Error' Cowper bids the cassocked huntsman

Go, cast your orders at your bishop's feet, Send your dishonoured gown to Monmouth Street.

LI. 120-1.

And I think other writers than Gay, Cowper, Dickens, and Macaulay have mentioned the street. In a sermon on 'The Robe of Righteous- ness,' Daniel Burgess, a well-known Non- conformist minister, said : " If any one of you, my brethren, would have a suit to last a twelvemonth, let him go to Monmouth Street ; if for his lifetime, let him apply to the Court of Chancery." J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

MARTELLO TOWERS (10 th S. i. 285. 356, 411, 477 ; iii. 193). The date queried in the editorial note is certainly copied as 1706 in my note-book. Above it on the gun are the initials A. R., which I presume are intended for Anne Regina. I fancy these old guns were in some way used in the construction of the towers, and not for firing purposes.

JOHN T. PAGE.

At the first reference I alluded to former explanations of this term which I thought had been given in 'N. & Q.,' though, being in Corsica at the time of writing, I was unable to give chapter and verse. I find that the subject has been dealt with at the following