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 10* S.V.MARCH 24, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH :?/+, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 117.

NOTES: -Westminster Changes in 1905, 221 G. J. Holy- oake as a Lecturer, 223 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Centenary, 224 Lamb Allusion Explained Wilton : the Name, 225 " Bewray " Perils of Literature, 22S "Walker" in Latin-Royal Pedigree in ' Burke' Fleet Street Changes, 227.

QUERIES : Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. 's Coronation, 227 Sir Joshua Reynolds at Le Portel Greek and Roman Tablt- ts " War," its Old Pronunciation Dr. William Mead, of Ware 'The Lustful Fryar 'Writing on Ivorine Forman, Essex Cricketer Unregistered Arms, 228 Female Violinists -Robert Barker: "If I it lose," Ac. Ward ie Pancakes in the Fowl-Pen Winch Family- Astronomy in Fiction "Rose of Jericho" ' The National Instructor.' 229 -Engravings Wanlei -Fencible Regiment African Sloths Heraldic 'John Bull and his Wonder- ful Lamp' George Fall, Artist, 230.

REPLIES : Royal Arms in Churches, 230 -" Sacra; Paginre Professor" Chemists' Coloured Glass Bottles -Grantham of Goltho Family, 231 Richard Kirby, Architect English Spelling : English Culture Sir T. Browne's Daughter and her Descendants Shakespeare and the Musical Glasses Archer of Umberslade "Dumping," 232 Mantegna's House 'Curse of Seaforth ' Doubtful Pronunciations, 233 Laconic Letters, 234 " Pic-Nic," a Carriage Portmanteau Wordf and Phrases Bowes Castle, Yorkshire, 235 Princess Royal's Daughters Adelphi Names, 236 General La Poype Sir Thomas Neviil, 1503-82 Horse-racing in France The German Emperor and Poets Laureate, 237 -Charing and Charing Cross-Oscar WiHe Bibliography, 238-' A Medley Finale to the Great, Exhibition' "Trump " as a Card Term, 239.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Lectures on Early English His- tory ' ' Recreations of a Naturalist '' The Edinburgh Review ' ' Bausteine.'

Obituary : Pe'er John Francis Gantillon, M.A.

Notices to Correspondents.

WESTMINSTER CHANGES IN 1905. IT cannot be said that the changes which have taken place during the past year have been so extensive as in some years gone by ; they have, in the main, only continued changes previously begun. It will be well to begin the notice of them in the Millbank district of St. John's parish, where the work has been continued with more or less vigour during the past twelve months. Within that period a start has been made on the river side of Millbank Street, and towards the end of the year bills were issued announcing a sale of the contents of No. 1, known as Dorset Wharf, in the occupation of Messrs. T. J. Miller & Son, sperm oil merchants and spermaceti refiners ; of 55 and 57, in the occupation of Messrs. William & J. Russell Freeman, stone and granite merchants ; and of 65 and 67, lately known as Allcott's Wharf. In this sale, which was notified to take place on 23 January, 1906, were included many items on the premises of 62, on the other side of Millbank Street, also occupied by Messrs. Freeman. In connexion withthesaleof No. I, Millbank Street, it may be thought worthy of notice that the late Mr. Taverner

John Miller was for many years member of Parliament for Colchester, and churchwarden of St. John's, Westminster, in 1855, but it does not seem that he ever served as over- seer. This also applies to his son, the present head of the firm, Mr. George Taverner Miller; for although churchwarden from 1876 to 1879, and again from 1882 to 1884, lie does not appear in the published list of parishioners who have filled the office of overseer. The family has always been con- sistent supporters of all good works, and the loss, if its connexion with the locality is severed, will be one not easily repaired.

On the river side of Millbank Street, Nos. 71, 39, 33, 31, 29, and 19, are empty, and ready, apparently, for early demolition. No. 33 was a public-house known as *' The Brewers' Arms." The extensive building being erected by the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners progresses towards completion, which is, however, still in the distance ; but distinct advance has been made since 1904.

The two houses in Great College Street, Nos. 14 and 15, have, it is found, nothing to do with the offices of the North-Eastern Railway Company in Cowley Street, but will be devoted to private residences. The well- designed offices of the railway company, numbered 3, 4, and 5, Cowley Street, will, in all probability, soon be ready for use. It will be convenient, perhaps, to continue along Great College Street to its junction with Tufton Street.

The building for Westminster School has been completed, and is being used for several purposes ; the two shops on the ground floor are occupied, one by Messrs. W. <fe J. R. Freeman (** established over a hundred years in Millbank Street") as an office, and the other by Mr. Martin, a boot and shoe maker, who thus comes back to nearly the same spot as he occupied before being disturbed, at the corner of the closed Black Dog Alley. This old - established firm has supplied many generations of Westminster School boys with boots and shoes, and with racket bats and balls and other necessaries for sport. The house at the corner for the Society of St. John the Evangelist, or Cowley Fathers, was also completed in the year just closed. It was on 20 July (St. Margaret's Day) con- secrated by the Bishop of London (Winning- ton Ingram), when he also laid the founda- tion stone of the chapel, which at the close of 1905 was showing some signs of the progress made in its erection

To return to Millbank Street, ib will be found that much improvement has been made in Wood Street. Crawford's old-