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to, however, by H. P. P. is still extant a Marks Tey, this must be incorrect. No mention is made of it in 4 Illustrations o Baptismal Fonts,' q.v. (the 'Introduction,' by F. A. Paley, 1844, p. 23).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

There is a very roughly hewn wooden fon( in the church at Doddiscombleigh, Devon.

LINO.

I have a note to the effect that several wooden fonts are referred to at 4 th S. i. 305 I do not possess that particular volume, bul I believe my information is correct.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

[The instances mentioned are "Evenchtyd" (for Evenechtyd or Efenechtyd), Denbighshire, and Clay- don, Oxford. MR. E. H. COLEMAN and CANON SAVAGE also thanked for replies.]

MOLLY LEPEL'S DESCENT (10 th S. iii. 127' 172). I do not think the celebrated Molly Lepel was descended from the Norman family of Le Pelley or Pele'e, of the island of Guernsey and Sark. It would be interesting to discover what the arms of her family were. The arms of the Guernsey family of Le Pelley are, A chevron, three fusils arranged in chief. T. W. C.

There used to be a fine portrait in oils of the beautiful Mary Lepel at Coldham Hall, in the parish of Stanningfield, near Bury St. Edmunds, the ancient seat of the Roke- \vodes or Hook woods.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

COMPTER PRISON (10 th S. iii. 168). The Poultry Compter, a Sheriffs' prison, was taken down in 1817, and Poultry Chapel was built upon the site. In 1806 the prison was in a ruinous condition.

Persons committed by the Lord Mayor used to be sent there, and the prisoners fed on the broken victuals from the Mansion House tables. " Doctor Lamb," the conjurer, died in this prison, 13 January, 1628, after being chased and pelted by the mob across Moorfields ; also six Separatists, who had been sent here by Bonner, died within its walls. The debtors were allowed to walk upon the leads with the gaoler. It was the only prison in England which had a ward set apart especially for Jews.

CHR. WATSON.

Malcolm in his 'Londinium Redivivum,' vol. iv., says that in 1785 the Wood Street and Poultry Compters "were declared by surveyors to be dangerous and ruinous": and it appears that in 1804 the old Poultry

Compter had become too much out of repair to be used any longer as a prison, although the night charges were still taken there.

It was not actually pulled down until 1817, when a chapel was erected on its site. This chapel was removed in 1872 to the City Temple, and the site was purchased by the London Joint-Stock Bank for 50.200.

J. G.

The Poultry Compter was the only prison spared in the Gordon riots of 1780. The last slave imprisoned in England was confined (1772) here, says Mr. Wheatley. There is an inside view of this Compter in 1813, Smith del. et sculp. (See Exhibition Catalogue of the Gardner Views, Prints, &c., at the Guild- hall in 1872- ; and ' Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, Engravings, &c., belonging to the Corporation of London,' 1868.)

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

The Poultry Compter is stated in ' N.E.D.' to have been taken down in 1817. Possibly some of the books there cited may give further particulars, or the 'Annual Register' about that date. There are very good con- solidated indexes to the latter. Q. V.

The Poultry Compter was taken down in 1817. It occupied the site of Nos. 31 and 32, and stood a little to the west of St. Mildred's Church, Poultry, which was pulled down in 1872. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

It is stated, both in ' Old and New London ' (i. 420) and Timbs's ' Curiosities of London ' (628), that the Poultry Compter was de- molished in 1817. In the first-mentioned volume (421) is an engraving of the Poultry Compter " from an old print."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

[MR. J. RADCLIFFE also refers to ' Old and New London.']

LONDON STREET-NAMES (10 th S. iii. 181). [n reply to COL. PRIDEAUX, the Pamlico Sound and River are named after the Pamlico tribe of Indians, now extinct. They

re undoubtedly Algonquins, being the southernmost branch of that family. Their anguage was allied to that of the Virginian Indians, and there are at least two English words, roanoke and tornahaivk, which may 'ust as well have come to us from the Pamlico brms ronoak and tommahick, as from the Virginian raivrenock and tomalwLck. There is i curious fluctuation between I and t in the arious spellings of this name. Thus we ind on the one hand Pamlico and Pamplico, ind on the other Pamptico and Pantico. I