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 352 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. OCT. 28.1905. tea gardens and resorts of Islington as he remembered them. "Copenhagen House," he writes, "was very celebrated for walking matches, but ' Deerfoot,' whom you mention, walked or ran at Lillie Bridge." This is not quite correct. Deerfoot frequently took part in matches at Copenhagen House. " The Rosemary Branch, at Hoxton. was used for a walking track round the pond. Most of these E laces had ponds or small lakes." In another itter he records that the cricket matches were very unimportant, and the house was mostly frequented by the lower classes, who occasionally arranged a "milling" contest in the less frequented parts of the field. I have been the recipient of other recollec- tions of the "old (/ope," and all agree that while its disappearance was to be regretted, its last years were very disreputable. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillnmrton Road. WHITCOMBE FAMILY (10th S. iv. 208).—The following stray notes may be of some assist- ance to MR. REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON. There was a lawsuit, temp. Queen Elizabeth, in connexion with Lyme Regis, Dorset, to which a William Whetcombe was a party. From a schedule of deeds penes me relating to the "Lamb and Lark" Inn at Keynsham. Somersetshire, I gather that a former lessee of this inn with a curious sign was one Elizabeth Little, of Bristol, widow, whose daughter Margaretta, or Margaret, was aged about seven years on 10 August, 1762, the date of the indenture of lease. The mother made her will 5 August, 1772, and a further deed of 4 June, 1780, recites that the settle- ment upon the marriage of the daughter with Samuel Whitcombe was dated 2 June, 1779. GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E. CORISANDE (10th S. iv. 247). —"La belle Corisande" was the name given to Diane d'Andouins, the mistress of Henri IV. (Henry of Navarre). She held despotic sway over Henry's fickle affections for many years, but had to yield at length to the more attractive and more famous Gabrielle d'Estrees. Diane, when thirteen years old, married Philibert de Gramraont, Comte de Quiche, and was left a widow in 1580 at the age of twenty-six. The correspondence between the king and " la comtesse de Quiche " has been preserved, and been published in a book called 'Lettres ntimes de Henri IV.,' edited by Dussieux, 1876. The letters are very business-like, mostly on affairs of State and about prepara- tions for war. The name of "Corisande" was given to Diane before her marriage. Her name sometimes appears as " Corisandre." It is so written in Larousse, and by M. Cape- figue in his book on * Gabrielle d'Estrees.' I wonder from what romantic tale or poem Diane's flattering title was taken. A. L. MAYHEW. Corisande is one of the characters in 'Amadis of Gaul.' I may mention that I found the name of Esmeralda in ' Palmerin of England.' It is the Spanish for emerald, and may be commonly used as a female name. But it is certain that Victor Hugo was not the first to use it in fiction. E. YARDLKY. THE GREYFRIARS BURIAL-GROUND (10th S.iv. 205, 253).—In reply to MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS I venture to state that, from evidence I have received as to the discovery of so many skeletons upon the site of this burial-ground, just outside the City wall, they are _the remains mostly, if not entirely, of the friars who had died during the visitation of the Black Death in 1348-9, which carried off such a large number of the population of the City of London. F. G. HILTON PRICE. 17, Collingham Gardens, S.W. SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY (10th S. iii. 409, 456; iv. 91, 1»6, 293). —The MARQUIS DB RUVIGNY is surely wrong in stating that the wife of Frederick IV., Duke of Holstein Gottorp, was the eldest daughter of CharlesX., and sister to Charles XI. Should this not read—daughter of Charles XL, and sister to Charles XII. ? It is strange how inevitable inaccuracies seem to be in accounts of the Swedish succession. A writer in the current number of The Royalist not merely (follow- ing 'The Legitimist Kalendar') makes the Grand Duchess of Baden, Sophia, born in 1801, a daughter of Gustavus III., who died in 1792, but makes King Adolphus Frederick's mother a sister of Charles XIL, instead of his second cousin, confusing her, apparently, with the mother of Charles Frederick of Holstein Gottorp, ancestor of the Russian house, and thus finding the representative of Gustavus Vasa in the Queen Dowager of Saxony, instead of the present Czar. P. J. ANDERSON. 'BYWAYS IN THE CLASSICS' (10th S. iv. 261).—As I noticed that the version of James Smith's lines on ^Eneas given by MR. D. C. TOVEY differed from that quoted by myself from Barbara's ' Life of Theodore Hook,' and as both differed from the version given by Mr. Hugh Platt (see p. 52 of his book), I have thought it worth while to endeavour to trace the original. I have accordingly referred to "Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies,