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44 Stockets," but its later name was derived from the Crows of Norfolk, who from the reign of Richard II. " held it in a continued Track of Succession " until it was sold to Sir Robert Heath, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1642, who was removed from that office by a vote of Parliament in 1645.

"Home's Place" was so called after a family of that name who owned the estate from 1377 to 1570, the last of the name being Anne Home, married to Benedict Guldford, Esq., who fell under the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth, who, on account of his Popish opinions, confiscated his estate under a prsemunire, and granted it to " her faithfull Servant, George Chowt, Esqre."

"Haut's Place" was possessed by Henry de Hauts in 1370, and continued for many generations in the same family.

Maud Hextall,of "Hextall Place," married Henry Ferrers, who was Sheriff of Kent in 1469.

" Hall Place " was in the possession of a family called Athall, the last owner of that name being Thomas Athall, who in 1367 conveyed the estate to Thomas Shelley, of Westerham.

"Roe's Place" was named after a family of that name, one member of which, Sir William Rowe, was Lord Mayor of London in 1592.

Thomas At Town erected the seat called by him "Town Place," apparently about the middle of the fourteenth century.

WM. NORMAN.

Several examples of the early use of this word in London, in the sense indicated by COL. PRIDEAUX, are traceable in the national records. Northumberland House, or Place, in St. Martin's-le- Grand, the mediaeval town mansion of the Percies, is a case in point. This house was standing as early as 1377, certainly, though when it was first styled " Place ' is uncertain. The earliest mention of it thus that I have been able to discover occurs in a Court of Augmentations' petition (Bell. 20, No. 51), temp. Edward VI., in which it is named as "one greate howse lyinge withe in Aldrytche gate withe in the Citye of london, Commenly called Northum- berlande place," &c. In the records of the 'Decisions of the Commissioners for set- ling [sic] the City Estates after the Fire of London 1 (Add. MSS. 5063-5103), it is men- tioned under the date of 1667 as "a Capitall Messuage knowne by the name of Northum- berland House or place " ; and after this date it is no more heard of.

"Salisburie Place" (off Fleet Street]) is

twice mentioned in 1578 in the ' Acts of the Privy Council,' N.S., x. 277 and 282.

I may remark that a chapter of my history of the united parishes of SS. Anne and Agnes with S. John Zachary will be devoted to Northumberland House, which stood in the former parish, and which had an extremely interesting career.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

As showing the date when ** Place " became common in London to denominate a row of houses, the following extracts from a recent series of articles, entitled ' Ancient Street- name Indicators ' in The Home Counties Magazine should prove useful : Moore Place, 1784; Clark's Place, 1784; Heath Place, 1791 ; Upper North Place, 1796 ; Norfolk Place, 1802 ; Jubilee Place, 1809.

To denominate one mansion with outbuild- ings, &c. :

"Then have ye one great house, called Crosbie place, because the same was builded by Sir John

Crosbie deceased in the yeere 1475." Stow's

' Survey,' 1618 edit., p. 331.

I know only one instance in which the word "Place" occurs without any descrip- tive name before it to denote a mansion. The Treffrys' beautiful house at Fowey, Cornwall, has been known for centuries as "Place" certainly as early as 1716, when it is so named in John Treffry's will.

CHAS. A. BERNAU.

Laura Place, at Bath, was built about 1765. This I gather from W. H. Button, 'Burford Papers ' (1905), p. 201.

L. R. M. S.

COL. PRIDEAUX'S instructive article men- tions Duke's Place, Aldgate. In the 'Sheffield Directory,' 1774, there is ' A List of all the London Merchants, &c.,' which has "Mayers <fe Jacobs, jewellers, Little Duke's Place, Aldgate." HENRY JOHN BEARDSHAW.

27, Northumberland Road, Sheffield.

BANKES OF CORFE CASTLE (10 th S. v. 289). I would refer B. W. to Hutchins's * History of Dorset,' third edition, vol. i. pp. 463 and 471, as to the titles of the lord of the manor of Corfe Castle. The charter of the borough of Corfe is given in full on p. 474.

E. A. FRY.

124, Chancery Lane.

Cox's ' HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE ' (10 th S. v. 327). The volume referred to by MR. AVERN PARDOE is part of vol. v. of " Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova; wherein to the topographical account given by Mr. Carabden and the late editors of his
 * Britannia,' is added a more large history