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this, otherwise the luck will be spoilt. A person of some education informed me that he attributed a number of misfortunes which befell him last year to the omission of this custom ! FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

[For "first foot" on New Year's Day see 9 th S. i. 87, 249, 351 ; xii.505.]

CASSELL'S * WORKS OF EMINENT MASTERS ' (10 th S. iv. 468). By one of those happy and unexpected accidents which the book- collector sometimes meets with, 1 have been able to purchase the concluding volume of this interesting publication, and so can answer my own inquiry. The title-page of the second volume also bears the date of 1854, but it is much thinner than the first, comprising only 204 pages as against 412 pages. Apparently the venture did not meet with sufficient support to warrant its continuance, and so it was somewhat abruptly terminated. The articles are as well written and as generously illustrated a,s in the earlier volume, the two forming a nost interesting and useful work.

W. KOBERTS. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

COLET ON PEACE AND WAR (10 th S. v. 28, 57). MR. PICKFORD'S quotation from Cicero is from the * Epistolse ad Familiares, 1 Book VI. vi. 5. C. TURNER ROOM.

See Cicero, ' Ad. Att.' Lib. VI. ep. viii. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

LONDON PAROCHIAL HISTORY (10 th S. iv. 288 ; v. 55). I am exceedingly grateful to MR. HOLDEN MAcMiciiAEL for his reply to my expressed thirst for out-of-the-way infor- mation on the City parishes of SS. Anne and Agnes and S. John Zachary. I feel sure that other correspondents could, "an they would," furnish something further. I should be especially glad of references from MSS. in private hands (as old diaries, &c. ), national records unindexed as to places (as Crown Plea Rolls, &c.), or unprinted and uncalendared wills (particularly those in provincial registries). The parishes are both small, and anything which I am not likely to light upon in the ordinary way of research whether relating to the churches, rectors, clerks, or parishioners, &c. will be welcome, more especially if of earlier date than (say) 1700, no matter how trivial it may at first sight appear.

I may observe that I have perused the earlier references at 7 th S. x. 68 -and 174 ; and I hope that MR. MACMICHAEL'S reply may be the first of many. Any one who has any- thing to communicate too lengthy for these

columns will perhaps be kind enough to send to me direct. W. McMuRRAY.

6, Clovelly Road, IS. Ealing, W.

HAIR-POWDERING CLOSETS (10 th S. iv. 349, 417, 453 ; v. 57). Not many years ago there was one of these in a fine old mansion known as Micklegate House, York, which is now the warehouse of a firm of wholesale druggists. I fear the relic has been destroyed. The build- ing dates from George II.'s time; it was the town residence of Mr. Bourchier, of Benin g- brough, who died in 1759. ST. SWITHIN.

At Llangedwyn Hall, near Oswestry, the principal bedrooms have an antechamber, on the landing or staircase side, modernly known as a dressing-room, and the late dowager Lady Watkin-Williams Wynne, upon her attention being drawn to this apparently in- convenient arrangement, informed me that they were " hair-powdering chambers." By this means the privacy of the bedroom could be maintained, and the dressers complete their work. Massinger says : The reverend hood cast off, your borrowed hair, Powdered and curled, was, by your dresser's art, Formed like a coronet, hanged with diamonds And richest orient pearls.

The particular closet I have in mind is the one adjoining the bedroom used by the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, during the 1745 rebellion, which is still pre- served in its original state. From this neigh- bourhood the Prince marched on to, and encamped at, Derby, and was lodged at a house at the bottom of Full Street. Is this the one named by MR. HALL CROUCH ? Our dressing-room ought probably to read "dres- sers' room." GEO. W. HASWELL. Chester.

" FAMOUS " CHELSEA (10 th S. iv. 366, 434, 470, 517; v. 33). Faulkner, in his second edition of the 'History of Chelsea,' does not name the charter of Edward the Confessor alluded to by Lysons in which Chelsea is spelt " Cealchylle " ; but it thus occurs, as I have ascertained, in Cart. Cott. vii. 6 ; and the document is again indorsed with "Ceal- chylle." How is this spelling accounted for ? The lands certainly appertained to " the brothers" of Westminster; but is it certain that "Cealchylle" meant Chelsea? This charter is quoted also in Dart's ' History of Westminster Abbey,' and was printed in Hickes's 'Thesaurus,' in 1705, with a Latin translation. In 1157 Pope Adrian IV. con- firmed by bull the concessions of Edward the Confessor to the church of Westminster, and ratified the possession of the estates. Among these he enumerates "Villa de Chelchefe."