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 io'" s. v. MAY 20, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Bold Square ; Bridge Place, close to the Bridge Gate ; Hamilton Place, beside the General Market ; Oulton Place ; St. Martin's Place; Sidney Place, off Brook Street; and Windsor Place, off Egerton Street.

Your correspondent Mr. G. W. Haswell recently read a paper before the Chester Antiquarian Society on Chester street-names, and he might be able to say when each of the above is first shown on successive maps of the city.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

BALLAD BY REGINALD HEBER: W. CRANE (10 th S. v. 184, 253, 351). In reply to your correspondent J. H. K. I fear I cannot throw much light on the connexion between the brothers Thomas, Samuel, and Joseph Crane, of Chester, and my ancestors in Chester, except that I believe they were probably nearly related.

1. My grandfather Thomas Crane was cer- tainly a bookseller in Chester, and may have been the Thomas of the trio above named.

2. It is supposed that Crane Street, Chester, is named after the family, who in the eighteenth century certainly had property in Chester.

It may be of interest to J. H. K. to know that my great-grandfather was in the Royal Navy a lieutenant on board the Monarch, of 60 guns and fought against the French fleet, as recorded in a letter in The Chester C our ant of the period. So I understand from the letter of an aunt of mine (my father's sister, now deceased).

She also says that Parson Crane was a cousin of Thomas Crane (my grandfather), the bookseller. He had "a collection of coins, and was a learned man. On his death his house was given to Thomas Crane" (my grand- father), "and his collections to Sir John Gerard" a distant connexion on my grand- mother's side.

I find that the Bible with the ex-libris (mentioned ante, p. 253) is dated 1756, arid really belonged to this old clergyman, who must have left it to my grandfather. At the end of the New Testament on a fly-leaf is neatly inscribed :

Thomas Crane

Apothecary and Secret :


 * ary to the General In :


 * firmary in Chester

1756.

And under the ex-libris is a quotation from Erasmus, written in Latin in the same hand. My grandfather was a captain of the old volunteers at the time of the invasion scare in the Napoleonic war, and my aunt recalls

playing with his "cocked hat, sash, and' sword."

By the way, from the same source I see that William Crane died in 1843 ; also that Lady Delamere wrote the little book 'Mr. Piggy and Miss Crane,' which was illustrated and lithographed by T. & W. Crane for a bazaar at Chester, as were also the ' Hunting. Songs.' WALTER CRANE.

There is a short account of the bank kept by Thomas, Samuel, and Joseph Crane in Liverpool in a recent work, * Liverpool Banks and Bankers,' by John Hughes. Mention is- made of the marriage of Samuel Crane in 1777 to Miss Glass. His brothers were grocers in Chester. The banking firm went into- liquidation in 1788, and disappeared by 1800. R. STEWART- BROWN.

10, Water Street, Liverpool.

WATCHES AND CLOCKS WITH WORDS IN- STEAD OF FIGURES (10 th S. y. 349). In 1837 I saw a watch an old-fashioned Clerkenwell silver fusee watch, made to order in which the figures were replaced by the name of Samuel Haslam.

About the same time, and for several years after, there was an illuminated dial over a newspaper office in the Strand, a few doors west of Drury Court, on which the figures were replaced by the name of the paper pub- lished there.

About forty years ago all the most curious* clocks in London and in some country towns- were bought up, to the value of 40.000Z., by- William Snoxell, a revolving-shutter maker,, and deposited iu his private house in Char- terhouse Square. He published a descriptive catalogue of them, a copy of which may be seen in the Guildhall Library. He died about thirty years ago, and they were sold off; but I do not know who bought any of them. WALTER SCARGILL.

MAY MORNING AT MAGDALEN : ITS Music (10 th S. v. 36'8). The hymn sung on 1 May upon the College tower is to be had, words and music, at any music shop or stationer's in Oxford, and is published by Alden & Co, in Cornmarket Street. I forward a spare copy, which is at your correspondent's ser- vice. C. S. JERRAM. [We have forwarded the copy to AYEAHR.]

COLLOP MONDAY, <fec. (10 th S. v. 247, 376). My son tells me that the last four Sundays in each term are observed as Cock days at Heversharn Grammar School, Westmorland (it is a 1613 foundation). On the first of these- Sundays, when they walk to church, they