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 io" B. iv. JULY s, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 35 rentals of the " Tempill landis " in the city, in the middle of the sixteenth century; ' Fasti Acad. Mar.' (selections from records of Mariscal College and University), 1889-98, containing particulars relative to Templar property in Kincardineshire ; and Reports of the Burgh Commission in connexion with the Burgh Reform Act. Q. M. FHASER. Public Library, Aberdeen. DICKENSIAN LONDON (10th S. ii. 49; iii. 453). -^See ' The Dickens Country,' by Frederic G. Kitton (A. & C. Black, 1905), for views and descriptions of places, buildings,&c.,connected with Charles Dickens, in London and else- where, many of which are mentioned in his works, under different names and titles. ANDREW OLIVER. MR. MOXHAY, LEICESTER SQUARE SHOW- MAN (10th S. iii. 307, 357, 395, 474).—To the bibliography already given as to Leicester Square add, "The Story of Leicester Square, by John Hollingshead with numerous illustrations by M. Faustin, Howell Russell, Phil May, and Others, and Facsimile Repro- ductions of Rare Engravings, Original Water- Colours, &c." (London, Simpkin, Marshall 4 Co., 1892). Among the illustrations are 'Craven House, Drury Lane,' 'Leicester Square in the Eighteenth Century,' ' A Mapp of the Parish of St. Anns' (1750), 'Staircase of Sir Joshua Reynolds' House, 47, Leicester Square,' 'The Assembly Rooms —Messrs. Puttick & Simpson,' ' The so-called Observatory of Sir Isaac Newton,' ' Leicester Square from Leicester Place, about 1820,' ' Wykle's [tic] Globe, Leicester Square, 1851,' 'The Last of the Old Horse,' from a water- colour by Mr. John O'Connor, the scenic artist, and ' Interior of Wylde's [sic] Globe.' There is an interesting " bull" on p. 16 (are there not two ?):— "When Lord Mohun was killed he was living in Macclesfield House, Gerrard Street, Soho, at the back of Leicester House, a site now occupied by the defunct Pelican Club." ROBERT PIERPOINT. LOVE ALES (10th S. iii. 449).—An ale was quite a general word for a feast. Under 'Ale' in 'N.E.D.' we find help-ale, soul-ale, dirge- nit, Whitson-ale, Maiy-ale, leet-ale, scot-ale, oed-ale. bride-ale. Often they were held on specially appointed days, as at Whitsun-tide, Lady Day, or the occasion of a burial or marriage. I have no doubt that love-ale is merely _short for loveday-ale. Lovedays were were not in good repute; and it may there- fore readily appear that to encourage them by promoting ales was undesirable. WALTER W. SKEAT. The scot-ale, an entertainment given by the lord to his tenants, each of whom was bound to bring his contribution, orscot-peny, was a well-recognized institution of manorial life. The steward or bailiff presiding at these periodical festivities would ensure that they did not degenerate into low revelry. Analogous to these were the church-ales under the supervision of the churchwardens. It seems obvious that Ralph Osbaston and John Scattergood (suggestive name) were of a convivial and generous nature, and, not content with the above official junketings, had " made ales " (love-ales because freely given) on their own account for their neighbours. Possibly at these private drinking bouts due decorum was not observed, and " a sound of revelry by night" led to their presentment and amercement at the manor court. NATHANIEL HONE. Dr. Rock, in his'Church of our Fathers,' first edition, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 103, quoting the Sporley MS., Cotton MS., Claudius A. viii. f. 44, speaks of mead being given to certain monks "ad potum charitatis." ASTARTE. [Reply also from MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.] HASWELL FAMILY (10th S. iii. 225, 313, 376, 477).—For the information of MR. MONTFORT, I may say that I know nothing of Cheshire; but what I wrote about mash was, curiously, from lifelong knowledge of the surround- ings of a stream that flows into the South- ampton Water. H. P. L. PALINDROME (10th S. iii. 249, 310, 375).— To the notes on this may be added the fact recorded in 'Cornish Folk-lore,' published in The Folk-lore Journal for 1887, p. 196, that among the charms against ill-wishing worn by the ignorant there figured " a strip of parchment inscribed with the following words forming a four-sided acrostic : Sator," <feo. ST. SWITHIN. "POETA NASCITUR NON FIT1' (10th S. IL 388; iii. 433).—Audi alteram partem. For a good poet 's made, as well as born. Ben Jonson,' To the Memory of Shakespeare,' 1.64. Harbottle's 'Dictionary of Classical Quota- tions' (Swan Sonnenschein, 1897), p. 31, gives a possible source from Floras, ' De Qualitate Vitas,' Fragment viii.:— Consules fiunt quotannis et novi proconsules: Solus aut rex aut poeta non quotannis nascitur. H. K. ST, J. S,