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what is amazing, this degradation produced no dis- pleasure in his family, for his mother resided with them."

I am unable to trace trades before 1840, but according to the 'Post Office Directory' for that year there was no tea-dealer in Fleet Street. There was only one in 1855, and one grocer. Now there is not one ; and with one exception (Twinings) there are no tea - dealers or grocers from the Bank to Charing Cross. Wray, the last grocer in Fleet Street, succumbed only last year ; just before him another at 165, Fleet Street, where he occupied a shop and basement, removed because 250. a year more rent was asked. I npay also observe that there is not now a single butcher's shop in these great thorough- fares, at which we can heartily rejoice. I think ghastly sights need not be intruded on us in great public thoroughfares. The butchers' shops in Paris are never objection- able like those in our towns.

RALPH THOMAS.

PARLIAMENTARY QUOTATION (10 th S. iii. 206)' Can the lines be given correctly as MR' GRIGOR assumes 1

There is on earth a more auguster thing, Veiled though it be, than Parliament or King.

The lines, as I remember them when Bright spoke them, ran thus :

There is a yet auguster thing,

Veiled though it be, than Parliament or King.

MR. GRIGOR conjectures that George Wither was the author of the lines if so, it must have been when his grammar had withered in his mind, or he would never have intro- duced a lumbering double comparative into poetry. G. J. HOLYOAKE.

Eastern Lodge, Brighton.

"LAMB" IN PLACE-NAMES (10 th S. iii. 109, 149). The following advertisement is to be found in The Bath Herald of 3 March, 1792 :

" To be let for seven or fourteen years, or the lease to be sold, a house, beautifully situated at Ltanbridffe. near Bath, on the London Road, and

one mile from that city No letters will be

-attended to unless Post-paid."

W. S.

There is a Lamb Lane in Greenwich, one of the oldest thoroughfares, though now blocked up from the High or Church Street. It was the lane leading to a very ancient ferry over the Ravensbourne. I only know of a modern variant of the spelling, viz., Lame due to an ignorant churchwarden, therefore of no value. AYEAHR.

^ Has PROP. SKEAT forgotten Lamb's Conduit Street, opposite the Foundling Hospital, Guilford Street, Bloomsbury ] There is

supposed to be an underground stream, which occasionally causes trouble to adjacent householders, running from King's Cross, under the Foundling Hospital and under Lamb's Conduit Street, towards Holborn.

S. J. A. F.

VERSES : AUTHOR WANTED (10 th S. iii. 70). The first passage quoted by MR. PEACH comes from an old devotional ballad, a copy of which is included in the Roxburghe col- lection ('A Christian's Nightly Care'; cp 'The Roxburghe Ballads,' ed. by Wm. Chappell, vol. iii. p. 188, 1875) :

The hungry flaes (=fleas), that lowp (=leap) most fresh,

To worms I can compare, Which greedily will eat my flesh,

And leave my bones right bear : The leaking cock, that airly crowes

To 'put the nujht away, Puts me in minde the trump that llowes

Before the latter day, &c.

The same idea occurs in Young's ' Night Thoughts,' ii. 3-4 :

This midnight centinel (i.e., the cock), with clarion shrill,

Emblem of that which shall awake the dead ;

and a similar idea is found in ' The Poetical Museum ' (Hawick, 1784), p. 184 : The solemn bell proclaims the midnight hour : Bad prelude of the trump that shall awake the dead.

OTTO RITTER. Halle a. S.

THE ESSAY (10 th S. iii. 148). D. M. may find what he seeks, so far as the Tudor period is concerned, in Gregory Smith's ' Elizabethan Critical Essays,' 1904, 2 vols., Clar. Press.

WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

NELSON IN FICTION (10 th S. iii. 26, 77, 116). Add Blackmore's 'Maid of Sker,' chap. Ix. (the battle of the Nile). H. K. ST. J. S.

" SAX " (10 th S. iii. 186). This is also, and I believe more often, spelt zax. See Gwilt's 'Encyclopaedia of Architecture,' 2209, and the Glossary of Terms at the end ; also the ' Dictionary of Architecture,' published by the Architectural Publication Society.

BENJ. WALKER.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

HALLS OF THE CITY COMPANIES (10 th S. iii. 87, 171). One would almost infer from the quotation given by DR. FORSHAW at the last reference concerning Parish Clerks' Hall that it was not now used by this venerable City company. Having on more than one occasion had the pleasure of dining with the Parish