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p. 486. Brooke had stated that Shelley was the first husband and Lyster the second. Vincent's note is that " Shelley was second husband." In the light of the facts as marshalled by MR. WAINE WRIGHT, there can be little doubt that Brooke was wrong and Vincent right. I suppose that Lyster, the first husband, was the Richard Lyster, Esq., who, according to an inquest taken at Here- ford on 14 October, 1559, died on 22 Novem- ber, 1558, leaving a son and heir, Michael, who was aged two years on 7 November, 1558 ('Inq. Post Mort,,' C. vol. 123, No. 83, Record Office). Cf. the late Sir Frederick Maddan's pedigree of Lyster in Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute, at Winchester in 1845, p. 120. H. C.

In the Shelley pedigree article at this reference mention is made of William Shelley's sisters Bridget and Elizabeth. Was Mary Shelley, who married George Cotton, of Warblington, Esq. (born 1539), another sister of the said William Shelley, of Michelgrove (born 1538, died 1597) 1 and is the date of her birth, or marriage, or death known ? JAMES HALL.

Lindum House, Nantwich.

AUDIENCE MEADOW (10 th S. ii. 208). W. H. J. asked where he could find an account of Audience Meadow, the name given to a field in front of Tickwood Hall, near Broseley, Shropshire, where Charles I. is said to have held a conference in 1642. To this inquiry no reply was given. I have recently com- municated with a friend who has lived in the neighbourhood all his life, and is intimately acquainted with Tickwood and its history, and he informs me that Audience Meadow is a fancy name given to the place by the builder of the Hall, Townsend Forester, Esq., and, though Charles I. according to legend was ubiquitous, he does not think he could have ever ventured into the wilds of Tickwood. With this view I fully concur, for there is no record in our local histories of Charles having been there.

WILLIAM PHILLIPS. Shrewsbury.

FLEET STREET, No. 53 (10 th S. iii. 427). MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS has done good service in drawing attention to this interesting site, on which " The Golden Buck " flourished for so many years. Mr. F. G. Hilton Price, Dir.S.A., in his valuable paper on 'The Signs of Old Fleet Street' (The Archaeological Journal, December, 1895), says :

"In 1686 a goldsmith called Sommers was here, and Parker and Cradock, also goldsmiths, were at

this sign in 1712. From 1709 Philip Overton, pic- ture-seller, and John Pemberton, bookseller, were here for many years. It was sometimes called the- ' Golden Buck and Sun,' and once I have seen ib called the 'Roebuck.' In 1711[wasissued] 'The Cries of London,' consisting of 74 copper plates, each figure drawn from the life by the famous M. Laron, etched and engraved by the best workmen. Each* plate is printed on a half-sheet of demy paper for 10*. a set. In 1762 Robert Sayer continued the business, then Robert Laurie and James Whittle. A large quantity of interesting and valuable en- gravings and prints were published here during the- last and present century" (i.e., the eighteenth and nineteenth).

I have in my possession the late T. C Noble's manuscript Fleet Street collections^ as well as his own annotated copy of ' Memo- rials of Temple Bar.' Overton not only sold prints, but also patent medicines a practice common amongst stationers and picture- sellers, which continued till the beginning of the last century. The house of Newbery in St. Paul's Churchyard was, it will be remem- bered, almost as famous for Dr. James's Fever Powders as for its wonderful assortment of children's books. One old advertisement in Mr. Noble's collection, which is cut frono The Tatler of 1710 (exact date not specified), invites the attention of the public to

" The Most Noble Volatile Smelling- Bottle in the World ; which smell'd to, Momentarily fetches- the most dismal Fainting or Swooning Fits, and i a Minute removes Flushings, Vapours, Dulness,. Head-Ach, Megrims, &c.,"

and so on through thirteen or fourteen more lines. This valuable preparation was "only sold at Mr. King's, Picture-shop, Poultry, and at Mr. Overton's, at the Golden Buck, Picture- shop, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street) at 2y. and Qd. each, with printed Directions."

The first of Hogarth's prints issued by Philip Overton at "The Golden Buck " seem to have been the twelve large plates to illustrate- ' Hudibras,' that were published in 1726. By 1735 R. Sayer and S. Bennett were occupying 53, Fleet Street, as in that year they issued copies of 'The Rake's Progress' from thai address, and a few years afterwards Roberfc Sayer was publishing prints there on his own account. I do not know the exact date when Laurie & Whittle took over the business, but it must have been several years prior to 1800, as they published an engraving of Hogarth's portrait of Capt. Coram (third state) in 1794, and I have just come across a caricature in my own possession which was. published by them in 1796.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

I have mislaid my notes on the subject men- tioned below, but I fancy I remember that Samuel & Nathaniel Buck published theLe