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 iv. OCT. 7,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 295 Scotland, so the query cannot have come from a Scotsman. JOHN MILNE. Aberdeen. " Thoo kittles, what mun you do with it' Scrat it." This is not very "pure'1 Cum- brian, but it means, " What must you do i) you tickle ] Scratch." MISTLETOE. If ME. HENRY SMYTH will send me his address, I think I can supply an answer to his query privately. MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. Wakefield Grammar School. ROMANOFF AND STUART PEDIGREE (10th S. iv. 108, 157. 197).—The Czar Nicholas II. has seven, not three, descents from King James I. and VI., and consequently fourteen from Henry VII. As the Czarina has also three descents from King James, their children have ten lines of descent from James I. and VI., a Stuart paternally and maternally. See ' The Blood Royal of Britain.' R0VIGNY. Galway Cottage, Chertsey. COPENHAGEN HOUSE (10th S. iv. 205).—The entry in Francis Place's ' Diary' would seem to convey an erroneous impression as to the state of this pleasure resort in 1824. One dead dog, although a promising symptom, does not make a decayed tea garden. In 1815, according to the author of 'The Epi- cure's Almanack,' the house was famous for its ales, " which served as an excellent stimulus to those who halt preparatory to the ascent of Highgate Hill." Then from 1816 to 1830 Copenhagen House was a favourite Sunday tea-garden with the middle classes ('Picture of London' for 1823 and 1829), who flocked there, especially in the summer time, during the hay harvest in the fields around. Although the builders were making their way up to Copenhagen House from London, says Mr. Warwick Wroth in •his invaluable 'London Pleasure - Gardens' (1896), it still commanded an extensive view of the metropolis and western suburbs, with the heights of Hampstead and Highgate "and the rich intervening meadows." In 1841 the tavern and tea-gardens were yet in existence, and the space between them and Highgate was still open fields (plan of Lewis's 'Isling- ton'). Attached to the house at that time was a well-known cricket-ground (J. Hollings- bead's 'My Lifetime,' i. 13, quoted in Wroth's ' Pleasure - Gardens'). This cricket - ground •was between Copenhagen House and Maiden Lane. A correspondent (J. C. P.) of The Builder, 3O October, 1847, seems to mark the then languishing condition of the house and its surroundings. "Recently walking in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen Fields," he says, " 1 was much grieved to see the alteration in ap- pearance of this once delightful spot. Verdure is now almost destroyed, and clamps of burning bricks occupy the spot where the weary citizen, after the toils of the day in the close counting-house, used to refresh himself with a mouthful of fresh air. In a few months it will probably be covered with a parcel of flimsy houses, run up with rubbishing materials ; and the poor, worn-out clerk and artizan will have to walk an additional mile or two to get a sight of a green field Perhaps some may recollect that most delightful rural lane, called Hagbush Lane, which used to run in a northern direction from near Copenhagen House towards Highgate. This lane was an ancient packhorse road, and before the use of vehicles was the great northern road. This thoroughfare was closed some few years since by a system of gradual encroachment, in the most un- justifiable manner, and all signs of its former exist- ence destroyed."—P. 533. Then, according to Tomlins's ' Perambula- tion of Islington,' the Corporation of London purchased Copenhagen House and grounds and the large fields in the front thereof to the southward, about 75 acres in all, and con- verted the same into a cattle market, which was opened" on 13 June, 1855. Hence the present Metropolitan Cattle Market, between the York and Caledonian Roads. The site of the old tea-gardens, says Mr. Warwick Wroth, is approximately marked by the great clock- tower in the market. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Pleasant personal recollections are enter- tained of Copenhagen House in the late forties and early fifties. It was then well known for its tea-gardens, but was^ more famous for its pedestrian matches. Copen- hagen Fields, where the latter were run (the site of the present Cattle Market), adjoined the house, and were enclosed by a high hoarding of deal boards. We schoolboys used to cut holes in these with our pocket knives, the better—as outsiders—to view the tun going on within. Nelson, in his 'History of Islington' (1823), says one story of the origin of its name was there during the Great Plague : and another that in the beginning of the seventeenth entertainment by a Dane, that being about the time the King of Denmark paid his visit to James I. " Coopen-Hagen " is the name given it in the map that accompanies Cam- den's 'Britannia' (1695). In 1812, Nelson remarks, a company was formed for establish- ing a sea-water bathing-place, the salt water
 * hat a Danish'prince, or ambassador, resided
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