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13 George III. (1773), c. 64, to be raised by Exchequer bills for the relief of the East India Company.

The third tally is 2 ft. 7 in. long. On one side it bears three notches, on the other six smaller notches and a cut (a half notch), three still smaller notches, and four cuts, the whole standing for 306Z. 13s. 4.d. The in- scription, kindly deciphered for me lately by Mr. Ernest F. Kirk, working in the Record Office, reads, when extended, as follows :

De SummaCCCvj 11 xiij s iiij d de Ednmndo Hopkins pro tantis denariis per ipsum in Curia oblatis pro una tertia parte pretij sive valoris parcelle Plumbi et Panni per Jacobum Finlay tanquam forisfacte seisite arrestate et acceptate ad opus tarn Domini Regis quam Unite SocietatisMercatoruni Anglie ad Indiam Orientalem Negptiantium per Hilarii Ke- corda Anno xxxj regni Regis Georgii JSecundi Middlesex.

ALFRED MARKS.

GRAY'S 'ELEGY' IN RUSSIAN. A transla- tion of the 'Elegy' into Portuguese was mentioned in 1 st S. ii. 306, but I do not think that mention has yet been made in ' N. & Q.' of a Russian version, which is thus alluded to in Ugoni's *Letteratura Italiana,' Brescia, 1822, vol. iii. p. 30 :

" L'Elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna, trad, dall' inglese inlpiu lingue (8 ital., Mainardi 1817. Questo editore, il piu benemerito di Gray, non ha pero potato raccogliere tutte le traduzioni del 'Cimitero.' Fra le altre una ve ne ha in lingua russa, colla quale il sig. Joukovsky die' capo alia sua carriera letteraria. E inserita nel Corriere di JEuropa. anno 1802. Mosca, stamperia dell' Universita."
 * 2 franc., 2 tedes., 4 latine, 1 ebr., 1 greca) pel

The Hebrew rendering in the Mainardi edition, 1817, p. 153, was by Giuseppe Venturi, who, like Giuseppe Torelli, was a 44 Veronese"; and the director of the Mainardi press at Verona was Alessandro Torri, who wrote the prefatory dedication of the volume. W. S.

CLAPHAM WORTHIES. With reference to the great names of Clapham worthies men- tioned by MR. H. W. UNDERDOWN, ante, p. 165, I should like to add that a great many par- ticulars of them and of others whose homes were in this pleasant southern suburb will be found in the reprint of a most interesting lecture, delivered in 1885 at St. Matthew's Church Institute and at the Clapham Hall, by Mr. J. W. Grover, M.Inst.C.E.and F.S.A., upon the subject of 'Old Clapham.' Un- fortunately, it appears to have been reprinted as delivered, and possesses no index, a fault by which its usefulness is much diminished. The author modestly states that his object was only " to awaken an interest in the

place, "and, above all, to remind his Clapham friends of " those great names who once made the name of their parish famous." This is satisfactorily accomplished, and the illustrations are excellent.

W. E. HARLAND OXLEY. Westminster.

"THE COAL HOLE." I notice that this name has been revived by the proprietors of a wine bar in the Strand frontage of the Savoy Hotel. It is applied to a cellar, another part of which has received the old names of " Wine Shades and the Crypt,." The position is not many yards west of the original " Coal Hole." I do not know if the question has previously been discussed, but there appears to be some doubt as to the derivation of the name. Mr. Thornbury ( 4 Haunted London ') makes Rhodes, the first landlord, responsible for it, "from its having been the resort of coal heavers." But the club founded by Britton, the musical and literary small-coal man, is the more probable first use of the name. The Musical Transcript, 12 Nov., 1853, contains an interesting note on the subject, and says :

" At its first institution this concert was held in Britton's own house. On the ground floor there was a repository for small-coal, and over that was the concert-room, which was very long and narrow, and had a ceiling so low that a tall man could but just stand upright in it."

It will be remembered that when the site was being cleared the numerous cellars and sub- cellars were the subject of notice in the news- papers, and indirectly the cause of an accident that might have entailed a heavy loss of life. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

LIGHTSHIP AT THE NORE. In The Gentle- man's Magazine for August, 1731, is the following :

"A vessel with lights was moored at the JVb/'c, for the guidance of ships in safety by night, to keep them off the Nore and upper middle."

This, evidently, was the first lightship placed at the Xore. CLIFTON ROBBINS.

CABOT AND MYCHELL. Some of your readers may be interested in the following abstract from the will of William Mychell, chaplain in 1516, proved in the Consistory Court of London, and may be able to tell us more about his connexion with the famous navigator : u Item, lego Elizabeth filie Sebas- tiani Caboto, filiole mee, iij 9. iiij d ."

HENRY R. PLOMER.

"RENDEZ-VOUS." (See 5 th S. ii. 169, 255, 458.) This is the name of a street in