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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARYS, 1006.

CONTENTS.-No. 110.

NOTES: -Ivy Lane, Strand, 81 Sir Gilbert Pickering, of Titchmarsh, 82 Robert Greene's Prose Works, S4 -Book- sellers' Catalogues, 85 Joseph Nollekens's Library Long Speeches an Infliction William Blake Colour Transition, 86-Drydeu on the Tekelites Pedigree Diffi- culties : Mary Stapleton or Stoughton, 8".

QUERIES : Canadian College of Arms Owen Manning, the Historian of Surrey, 87 William Etty Sattonstall of Rogerthorpe, York Rev. Richard Holland" Superman " Latin Quotations, c. 1580, 88 Tyrone : its History- Hereditary Usher of the Court of Exchequer Canova's Works in England Nelson Relic in Corsica William Blake and S. T. Coleridge Rose : Robins: Edmonds: B)fsey M.A. and M.P. : Parliament Golden Roof at Innsbruck " Shakkespere " : "Shakstaff," 89 Peg Woffingtori Hell- Fire Club, Edinburgh Municipal Sword-bearer " The Two F.iends," Princes Street, 90.

RKPLIES : Pidgin or Pigeon English, 90" Brown Bees" as applied to a Musket" Photography "Stevenson and Scott: " Hebdomadary " Twizzle-twigs, 91 "James" University "Sjambok": its Pronunciation Authors of Quotations Wanted Sheffield Plate, 92 -' Reliquiae Wot- tonianse' Melchior Guydickens " Pighlle ": "Pikle" Byron and Greek Grammar* 93 Cecil Family Nelson Panoramas Campbells in the Strand New Year Luck, 94 Cassell's ' Works of Eminent Masters ' Colet on Peace and War London Parochial History Hair-powdering Closets " Famous" Chelsea. 95 Open-air Pulpits Cricket -Thomas Pounde, S.J., 9i 'Modern Universal British Traveller 'Enigma by C. J. Fox, 97.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-' The Story of Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbourhood' 'The Political History of England' 'Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions' ' Poems ' ' Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions ' ' Facts and Fancies for the Curious ' ' Starlight Stories ' 'Author and Printer ' ' The Law and Practice of Change of Name ' ' A Guide to Tideswell and its Church.'

Obituary : Everard Home Coleman.

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IVY LANE, STRAND.

MR. P. NORMAN'S volume on * London Vanished and Vanishing,' noticed at 10 th S. iv. 538, was one of the most interesting of the topographical works published during the past year. Many additions to his list will undoubtedly have to be made from time to time, but the interest in any future edition would be materially increased if a chapter on 4 Vanished and Vanishing Streets' were in- cluded. Even narrow passages, into which few or no dwellings opened may have con- tained houses or possessed associations worthy of being recorded. To one of this latter kind I desire to draw attention, viz., to Ivy Lane, Strand, nearly opposite the Vaudeville Theatre. This, after having existed for several centuries, has within the last few years been obliterated, so far as the public are concerned, without any special notice of its loss being taken in any of the newspapers. The extension of the Hotel Cecil westwards absorbed this lane into its precincts, and its entrance is now closed by an iron gate.

Ivy Lane was one of several narrow steep passages which acted as waterways, in transmitting to the river various streams

which descended from the higher ground of Covent Garden and its vicinity, especially on the eastern side. In July, 1607, the supply of water to Durham House is stated to be derived from ** a certain spring head or con- duit situate in the Covent Garden " (Hatfield MSS. Deeds, 226/14). The overflow from this would pass towards Ivy Lane.

These rivulets are thus described in Jesse's 'London ' (1871), iii. 317 :

" These streams were spanned by as many bridges, the remains of one of which, consisting of a single stone arch about eleven feet in length, were dis- covered in 1802, during the construction of a new sewer a little to the eastward of St. Clement's Church. The two others were severally known as Strand Bridge and Ivy Bridge ; the site of both bridges being pointed out by Strand Lane and Ivy Bridge Lane, which anciently formed the channels through which the two rivulets flowed to the Thames."

The earliest account we possess of these structures is thus related by Stow :

"Then had yee in the high street a faire bridge, called Strand Bridge, and under it a lane or way, downe to the landing place on the banke of

Thames Ivie Bridge in the high street, which

had a way under it, leading downe to the Thames, the like as sometime had the Strand bridge, is now taken downe." 'London' (1633), 490-1. Mr. Norman describes the former, but omits all reference to the latter.

Ivy Lane, also known as Ivy Bridge Lane and Ivy Bridge (the last term is used on the Ordnance map of 1894-6), was crossed at its Strand entrance by a narrow bridge, so that foot passengers could travel along the path- way dryshod ; while at the riverside the lane terminated in a landing-place, causeway, or small pier. A similar arrangement existed in the case of the other Strand lanes traversed by streams. Now some of the standard works on London make the singular error of describing these bridges as identical with the landing-places, thereby placing them at the wrong end of their respective lanes, as in the following extract from Cun- ningham's 'Handbook for London' (1849) :

"Ivy Bridge, Ivy Lane, Strand. A pier and bridge at the bottom of Ivy-bridge-lane.'' Vol. ii. p. 419.

" Strand Lane led, in the olden time, to

Strand-bridge (or pier), in the same way that Ivy- lane, in the Strand, led to Ivy-bridge (or pier).' : Vol. ii. p. 787.

Apparently based on these entries, Thorn- bury, in ' Old and New London,' records similar errors (iii. 77, 101) ; although, singu- larly enough, he alludes to "'Strand Bridge/ as applied by Stow and others to a bridge in the Strand " (iii. 77). Cunningham may possibly have been misled by the plan of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields contained