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 362 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. NOV. *, im. will thus be seen on London maps of 1766 ; later it became King's Road, and in our own day it has become Theobalds Road, which latter name, or one similar, was also to be seen on the old maps. These names had had a natural growth as designating the way the Stuart kings took to their royal seat at Theobalds. And though King Edward's faithful subjects are well satisfied that he should be associated with the new route which he has honoured by inaugurating, it cannot be thought that the name of the old road applies with equal meaning to the new, which is not the King's way anywhere. That the name of the old Danish settle- ment should have survived in " Wych Street" is so remarkable that it seems wisely perpetuated in "Aldwych" as the name of the grand new crescent, though some may think that " Crescent" would not have been an inconvenient addition. I find on further reference to the old maps that on that of Ralph Aggas, temp. Queen Elizabeth, there is a gate—unnamed—along the main road through Holborn, at or near the point where is now " Kingsgate Street." Walford. in ' Old and New London' (iv. 549), shows that the street had its name from " The King's Gate " which Pepys, 8 March, 1C69, mentions in his ' Diary." At the gate in Aggas's map branches off a road through the fields in a north - easterly direction towards Clerkenwell, and it is further gathered from Pepys that the king used this road when going to Newmarket. On a map of 1700 the road is bordered by houses, and is called "The King's Way." On apparently a later edition of the same map the road is inscribed "Theobalds Row = King's Way = or Thumball Row." I am not sure that the equation signs are thus meant, but it is evident that the three names (the third probably a corruption of the first) are equally applied to the road intervening between " King Street " (now Southampton Row) and Gray's Inn Road. From the naming it is also clear that this was the king's way to Theobalds, which became a royal seat in 1560. The three names are continued through the eighteenth century, and at the beginning of the last century " Row " and " Way " had given place to " Road." In 1878 the " King's Road '' name was abolished, and " Theobalds Road" suffered to remain. Now we have the old name " King's Way" resuscitated, and given to the grand new avenue which at its north end touches the old route, but does not coincide with it in direction. W. L. RUTTON. 27, Elgin Avenue, W. HENOCH CLAPHAM. A BETTER knowledge of the works of this once popular divine would have easily and greatly improved the account of him in the • Diet. Nat. Biog.,' x. 371. Although he is careful to record that the "North Brittishe forme" of his name is " Cleypam," he was not a Scot, for in his Edinburgh book he signs himself "Angina," and implies that his "duetie" was "chiefly to England." There are traces, indicated below, of a connexion with the great York- shire family Clapham of Beamsley. He does not occur in the printed pedigrees, un- less an undescribed "Henry" has taken his place, a confusion from which he has cer- tainly suffered once, as pointed out in the 'D.N.B.' He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to theMasterand Fellows whereof he dedicates one of his writings, and grate- fully remembers his dear tutor there. Dr. William Jones. On testimonials from Cam- bridge he was ordained " presbyter," some- what informally, by the Bishop of Lincoln (William Wykeham), in the library of his palace at Buckden, about 1591. He'says, "I took upon me the cure of souls before I was sufficient to watch over mine own." At some date before 1596 he kept » " spiritual exercise at Chester-in-the-Street," co. Durham, which won him the affection of " the right worshipful master Thomas My-Iot, Esquier," of whom he is a " poore nnworthie kinsman." This was Thomas Millot, who was buried at Chester-le-Street in 1620, and whose pedigree is given in Surtees's 'Dur- ham,' ii. 153. Clapham agreed with many of his acquaint- ance that ecclesiastical forms were "anti- christian," and therefore, in 1593, he went abroad, apparently to " Midlebrongh in Zelant," where one of his friends was " Maister Abraham Breckman," his epistle to whom is prefixed to 'The Carpenter.' Here, in spite of sickness which brought him nigh nnto death, he composed his (1) 'Theological Axiomes,' with an "Epistle to such in the Church of Englande as vnfeignedly seeke lesus," and ' The Carpenter,' a treatise on our Lord's two natures, dated July, 1597, and printed at Amsterdam ; " my printer was much lacking in letter, and al tog it her in onr language"; and (2) 'Bibliotheca Theologies,' being an analysis and elucidation of "Elohim his Bible," also printed at Amsterdam, 1597. His ' Briefe of the Bible in English Poeay; printed at Edinburgh, 1596, has a dedication dated there in that year. Either the manu- script was sent over, or the author must have