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" A list of persons that are dead since my Remem- brance, who had but small beginnings yet dyed rich, which in a great measure I apprehend was occasioned by their Industry and Frugallity."

James Calhvell, Esq 40,000

Michael Atkins, Esq 70,000

John Curtis, Esq^ 35,000

Henry Coombe, Esq 50.000

Henry Tonge, Esq 50,000

James Hillhouse, Esq 30,000

Walter Logher 30,000

Henry Hobhouse, Esq 70,000

David Peloquin, Esq 80,000

Joseph Percival, Esq. 70,000

John Lidderdale, Esq 50,000

Walter Jefferies, Esq. 30,000

John Collet, Esq ... 35,000

Jeremiah Ames, Esq 70,000

Stephen Naish, Esq 40,000

Will Gordon, Esq 30,000

Th s Evans, Esq. 40,000

Ric d Meyler, Esq. 30,000

Henry Bright, Esq 50,000

James Reed, Esq 40,000

John Teale, Esq 7,500

John Andrews, Esq 90,000

Richard Farr, Esq 15,000

Jos. Loscomb, Esq 30,000

Th s Hackett, Esq 20,000

Manasseh Whitehead, Esq 30,000

Th s Easton, Esq 15,000

John Pollard, Esq 20,000

W m Tombs, Esq 15,000

John Turner, Esq 40,000

Sydenham Teaste, Esq 30,000

Paul Fisher, Esq 20,000

Th s Foord, Esq 40,000

Zachary Bay ley, Esq 100,000

Leou- Richards, Esq 40,000

Moses Slade, Esq 15,000

Richard Frampton, Esq 30,000

John James (Skinner) 10,000

Peter Wilder, Esq 30 000

John Brickdale, Esq 100,000

John Haynes, Esq 15,000

Richard Blake, Esq 30,000

rl' 1 Chamberlain, Esq. 40,000

Will" 1 Matthews, Esq. 30 000

Will Miller, Esq 190,000

Gought & Burgess, Drapers 70,000

Will Arnold Taylor 10,000

2,027,500 R. H. C.

[The total is not quite right.]

FLEET STREET, No. 53 The setting back of the south side and the expiration of lease- holds are responsible for the demolition of a number of interesting houses in this thoroughfare. One of the latest to disappear is Xo. 53, long famous as the print ware- house of Messrs. Whittle <fe Laurie. Noble {' Memorials of Temple Bar,' 117) informs us that Philip Overton, "at the Golden Buck," published here some of Hogarth's early plates; and at the commencement of the nineteenth century it " was known by the

print of the Devil and St. Dunstan occu- pying a permanent place in the tenant's window." From here, between 1750 and 1800, Ilobert Sayer and R. Sayer & James Bennett issued many interesting prints. By 1817, when the premises had presumably been rebuilt, Messrs. Whittle & Laurie are the tenants. In 1822 Richard Holmes Laurie is carrying on the business. The building consisted of shop and side entrance, with three upper floors and attic story lit by two dormer windows. The first-floor windows opened to the ground and gave access to small iron balconies. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

"THE NORE." I find no mention of the Xore in the ' Century Dictionary ' or in Webster. I suppose it has been regarded as a place-name.

There is a reference to it in the works of Taylor the Water- Poet. A piece of his, called ' A Discovery by Sea from London to Salis- bury,' is printed in the 'Antiquarian Reper- tory,' iii. 239 (ed. 1808); and at pp. 241-2 he says :

Thus downe alongst the spacious Coast of Kent By Grane and Sheppies Islands downe we went ; We past the Nowre-head, and the sandy shore Vntill we came to th' East end of the Nowre.

That is to say, they passed the estuary of the Medway, which has Grain Island on the west and Sheppey on the east. A long stretch of sand extends from the east of Grain Island, and the far end of it is marked by the Nore light, beyond Sheerness ; and this is, prac- tically, the end of the right bank of the Thames. I understand " the Nowre-head " to mean this very point, which may also be called "the East end of the Nowre," i.e., of the shore.

For it may well be that the Nore is equiva- lent to then ore, dative case of the ore ; where ore represents the A.-S. ora, "a border, edge, margin, bank, mostly in place-names," as in Windsor (A.-S. Windles-Ora), Bognor (A.-S. Bogan-ora); see Toller, 'A.-S. Diet,,' and Kemble, ' Cod. Dipl ,' iii. p. xxxv. The A.-S. ora may very well be a native word, not borrowed from, but cognate with, the Latin ora, with the same sense.

It is well known that JVash arose from atten ash, "at the ash," and that there are many similar cases ; ten being a reduction of A.-S. tham, dat. case masc. of the def. article. The dative is required by the frequent use of at ; and the A.-S. ora was masculine.

WALTER VV. SKEAT.

ISLE OF DOGS. It may be worth recording in 'N. & Q.' that in The Boston Herald (Lincolnshire), 11 August, 18-40, there is a>