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 io* 8. iv. JCLT 29, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 91 four ancient manors of Bradwell, viz., Battails and East Hall, as being the constituent parts of Effecestre in 1086. The name of Effecestre in its turn gave place to Wall (A.-S. weall), for in fines of 1204-5 and 1207-8 (v.' Feet of Fines, Essex,' pub. Essex Arch. Soc., pp. 34, 42) it •appears as -La Walle and La Waule, and in 1312 ('Testa de Nevill,' pp. 268-9) as Walle .and Walla. It is, I suggest, quite clear that La Waule, St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, and the tpodern name Bradwell (Brdd-weall) refer to the sea-wall, which has its northern ending a.'t the mouth of the Blackwater at St. Peter's. S. H. The reference is obviously to Ythanchester, ih. the parish of Bradwell, Essex. There is in vol. Iviii. of the Archaeological Journal an article by Mr. C. E. Peers on the Saxon church at this place. J. E. NUTTALL. • Enough is left to show the form of the Roman station at Bradwell-juxta-Mare, supposed to have been the Othona of the Romans, afterwards called Ithancester, and the site of Bishop Cedda's church. The chapel "St. Peter's-on-the-Wall " is an ancient building, now used as a barn, but believed to be in part the original Saxon church. I. CHALKLEY GOULD. John Norden, in his ' Description of Essex,' 1594 (Camden Soc.), states :— . " Peters on the Wail, h. 34 [see map accompanying the text], v, IHT some suppose Ithancegter to haue etoode. It appeareth to naue bene a town now [i.e., 1594] greatly deuowred w"1 the sea; and ftuyldings yet appeare in the sea. It is called St. Peter's on the wall, for that it standeth on the wall wch was made to defende the land from the sea." 1 On the 1-inch Ordnance Map of England and Wales it is marked "St. Peter's Chapel," being on the east coast of Essex, close to " St. Peter's Sand " and the sea, and near the •entrance to Blackwater river. W. I. E. V. E. C. may find some archaeological papers on the subject, besides the following: Arcnceo- •ioyia, vol. xli. p. 439. ic.; Gent. Mag., Third Series, xviii., xix. ; Fourth Series, i. EDWARD SMITH. [Ma. A. HALL also refers to Othona.] . PICTURES INSPIRED BY Music (10th S. iv. 9, -57).—Surely in the highest rank of works of art coming under this heading the ' Maitre Wolframb' of Le Mud ought to be found, although it is not properly a picture, being, on the other hand, a lithograph of, as such, very •distinguished merit. I decline to place with so noble and profound a piece as this the •whim of. poor A. Beardsley commended, by MR. BAYLEY. But why should certain great examples by the old masters be forgotten when this subject is in view ? Ought we not to remember the St. Cecilias of Eaphael and Domenichino, pictures of the Heavenly Choir by Fra Angelico, and the ' Concert Champt'tre,' which is in the Louvre, and bears, the name of Giorgione? These are but specimens of a host of fine things. F. G. S. BEGGAR'S OPERA' IN DUBLIN (10th S. iiu 364).— The actual date of Swift's letter is 28 March, 1728. It was printed in full from the transcript in the Oxford MSS. at Longleat by Elwin (Pope's ' Works," 1871, vii. 125-8). A foot-note says that a small portion of the letter was given by Pope in the quarto edition of his correspondence with Swift ('The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose,' vol. ii.), published in 1741. There it figured as part of a letter to Gay, dated 23 Nov., 1727. but made up by the editorial ingenuity of Pope from three distinct letters (cf. Elwin's introduction to vol. i. p. cxii, and the letters themselves, dated 23 Nov., 1727, 26 Feb., 1727/8, and 28 March, 1728, in vol. vii. pp. 104, 116, 125). The discrepancy observed by MR. LAW- RENCE is noted by Elwin in the following terms: "This medley was put together by Pope with so little regard to consistency, that he makes Swift, in November, 1727, descant upon the success of 'The Beggar's Opera,' which was not performed till January, 1728 "(p. 104 n.). Writing from Dublin to Pope on 10 May, 1728, Swift says : " Mr. Gay's Opera has been acted here twenty times, and my lord lieutenant tells me it is very well performed ; he has seen it often, and approves it much." For " houses crammed" (the quarto read- ing in the sentence quoted at p. 364 above) Elwin reads (with the Oxford Mfc>.) " house crammed." LIONEL E. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg, Germany. SWEDISH EOYAL FAMILY (10th S. iii. 409, 456).— Will COL. PRIDEAUX kindly explain how Adolphus Frederick, who ascended the bhrone of Sweden in 1751, was "descended in bhe female line from the great Gustavus Vasa"? So far as I can make out from 3eorge's ' Genealogical Tables," the present representative of the original house of Vasa is the Czar. A. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. i. 148, 197, 335; iv. 16).— May I be per- mitted to answer my third question (by now giving the exact reference) and refresh