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Place" (1827, Mackenzie, 4 Hist, of Newcastle,' p. 190). One of the latter houses is now the civic ** Mansion House " of the city.

Shortly after 1821 a street of smaller houses was built connecting the site of the large new Wesleyan Chapel with the main thoroughfare. It was styled Brunswick Place. Thenceforth small rows or terraces were called by the fashionable name. Library Place, built shortly after 1825 ; Villa Place, about 1826; Greenfield Place, about 1827; and, about the same period, Ridley Place, Strawberry Place, and Eldon Place, are examples of a pretentious term applied to terraces and streets of diminishing import- ance. Victoria Place, built about 1838, was a mere street of tenemented houses, and its date appears to mark the period when " place " went out of vogue.

R. OLIVER HESLOP.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

See 9 th S. x. 448; xl 157, 237. "Place '' appears frequently in Holden's ' Directory, 1805, which has under London, "Andrew, Wm., Esq 1 ' 1, 40, Ely-pi, Holborn"; " Ander- son, Mr. Rich, 6, Ely-pi., St. George's Fi," &c.

Under Bath occur "Lee, Lionel, & Co., importers of wine and spirits, Gascoyn- pi." ; "Moger & Nicholson, linendrapers, North- umberland-pi." ; and " Massy, Sir Hugh Dillon, Bart., Sydney-pi."

HENRY JOHN BEARDSHAW.

27, Northumberland Road. Sheffield.

[Further replies next week.]

THE CONDADO (10 th S. v. 47, 77, 114). Since asking about this place, from which figs were being brought to the London market in 1653, 1 have been making other inquiries, and have at last found it in Wagenaer (1585) and in a 1720 (?) map in the British Museum [Spain, 18315 19) J It is the southern part of the province of Huelva, and the figs were pre- sumably shipped at Huelva or Palos.

J. K. LAUGHTON.

"PlGHTLE": "PlKLE" (10 th S. V. 26, 93,

134, 174). Elizabeth, widow of Wm. Jentle- man, and relict of Wm. Suckling, of South- wold, by will dated 16 Sept., 1558, left her "pycktell" there to her son William (J. J. Muskett's 'Suffolk Manorial Families,' pt. 5, vol. ii.). COOKSON.

Ipswich.

REBUS IN CHURCHES (10 th S. v. 188, 250,
 * >97). In an inventory of vestments belong-

ing to the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, com- piled by Hary Lytherland, the treasurer, in 1536, occurs the following :

"Item a coope of greii velvett browdered \v fc lyllyes w fc orfrey of nedyll wark w rt a morse w fc a tonne & a braunch of hawthorn havyng this scriptur yn the morse ORATE PRO ANIMA ROBERTI THORNE- TOX and in the hood this scriptur PATER DE CELLS &c. w 1 the trinite."

I quote the above from the * Lincoln Cathedral Inventories' contributed toArchceo- loffia by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth. They occur in vol. liii. pp. 1-82. The above passage is to be found on p. 34.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

For rebuses in the church of St. Mary-on- the-Hill, Chester, consult the Chester Archi- tectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society's Journal, Second Series, vol. x. p. 53.

H. C. ANDREWS.

13, Narbonne Avenue, Clapham Common, S.W.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

The Age of Justinian and Theodora : a History of the Sixth Century A.D. By William Gordon Holmes. Vol. I. (Bell & Sons.) WE have here the lirst volume of an eminently broad-minded and philosophical history of the Eastern Empire in the sixth century of the Chris- tian era. To judge from the progress that has been made, the entire work will be in three or possibly four volumes. No definite information on the sub- ject is supplied, but the present portion concludes with the origins of Justinian and the p re-Imperial career of his consort. The work is executed with a thoroughness to which little in modern English workmanship corresponds, and the spectacle of Byzantine corruption and disintegration is unfolded with exemplary fullness and accuracy. To a great extent what now appears is preliminary. A singu- larly animated picture of Constantinople is afforded ; its story, from its origin in the dawn of Grecian history to its establishment by Constantine as a rival to Rome, is followed ; the topography is shown ; and, most important of all, what is called its sociology is traced. Of the easy, idle, dissolute life of the citizens who, until the municipal autho- rities had erected drinking booths on the ramparts, could not, in the case of a siege, be rallied to the defence of the walls a very striking account is furnished. The bulk of the populace idled, like the Neapolitans of later days, about the market-place or the wharves, "each one assured of meeting some visitor to whom, for a valuable consideration, he was willing to let his house, or even his wife, whilst he himself took up his abode in the more congenial wine-shop." The long struggle between the pagan and the Christian religion, which renders so pro- foundly interesting to the student the history of the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era, had ended in the triumph of the latter, and per- secution was directed against modern heresy rather than against the old superstition. Still, pagan in- fluences survived, and the worship of the ' ' Megarean sphinxes," as the courtesans were styled, was open. Ribaldry and obscenity, set oil* by lascivious dis- plays, constitute the chief features in the public