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runneth to the west end of St. Lawrence Church, as is afore showed."

The derivation of Cateaton is apparently unknown, and the various topographical writers seem to have refrained from guessing at it. The street, in conjunction with Lad Lane and Maiden Lane, its western continua- tions, was denominated Gresham Street in 1845, " to suit the convenience of the postal authorities." WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

Besides Stow, see Wheatley and Cunning- ham, ' London Past and Present,' vol. i. p. 339, where it is also mentioned " that a street of a similar name is at Manchester." Perhaps some Manchester reader can give the origin of the name there. ANDREW OLIVER.

Perhaps it is in the Creed Collection of Tavern Signs (Brit. Mus. Lib.) that I have seen the statement that the "Gresham," No. 58, Gresham Street, was formerly known as the " Cat." Is it not probable, therefore, if this be the case, that the sign gave its name to the street 1

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

AMERICANS IN ENGLISH RECORDS (10 th S. v. 163, 432). Burke's 'Peerage' has the name Custis correctly in the later editions. A family of this name was in Dublin in 1731, carrying on the business of shoemakers, and later trading as saddlers. In a list of twelve Custis marriage licences in Dublin the wife's name also was Custis in four instances.

LEO C.

CHEYNE WALK : CHINA WALK (10 th S. v. 245, 312, 375, 415). I thought MR. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL and MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS had made it sufficiently clear that this name is due not to a village in Buckinghamshire, but to the family who held the manor of Chelsea from 1657 until 1712. I am glad to have the authority of PROF. SKEAT for the etymology of the name, but I am confident that the name of the village is also due to the same family having settled there in earlier times The manor of Cheneys or Iselhampstead Cheneys, as it is properly called passed from the Cheynes as far back as 1494, in accord ance with the will of Agnes, Lady Cheyne the heir taking the manor of Cogenho Northants, in exchange. I fancy, but am not sure, that there was another family whose name was connected with Iselhamp stead before the Cheynes came. MR. MAC MICHAEL is mistaken if he supposes tha Chesham Bois was an older seat of the Cheynes than Iselhampstead. This mano came to them through the marriage of th r of tlie husband of the Agnes, Lad}

Cheyne, mentioned above with the heiress of he Cheshams, and his descendants would lave succeeded to Cheneys but for the family ompact which gave him Cogenho in ex- hange. The Buckinghamshire squire who )ought the manor of Chelsea in 1657, and ies buried in old Chelsea Church, was his direct descendant. R. CHEYNE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND BOOK- IELLING (10 th S. v. 361). MR. JAGGARD gives wo of Ashbee's volumes only : there was a Irird, * Catena Librorum Tacendorum,' pub- ished in 1885 under the same pseudonym and on the same subject as his two other olumes. RALPH THOMAS.

WATCHES AND CLOCKS WITH WORDS INSTEAD OF FIGURES (10 th S. v. 349, 413). I am in my ifty-sixth year, and up to 1877, when I left Bedford, I believe the dial of the clock of St. Cuthbert's Church was of stone ; and as

Cuthbert" has one letter too much, the dial had "Saint Cudbert" instead of figures. But alas ! alas ! the old face has disappeared, and an entirely modern one has replaced it. The original inscription was there between 1852 and 1868, when the Rev. C. Trollope was rector. Some old Bedford boy can per- haps tell me when the present common dial was placed in the tower. M A.

TWYFORD ABBEY (10 th S. v. 430). I think that this place was so named because, when the manor of Twyford was purchased in 1806 by Mr. Willan, the coach proprietor, he erected "Twyford Abbey," in the Gothic style, on the site of the ancient manor house; but the only claim it can have to the title of "Abbey" is apparently in its pseudo-ecclesiastical architecture. There is an account of "Twyford Abbey" in J. Norris Brewer's ' London and Middlesex,' 1816, pp. 352-4, with an engraving of the mansion. See also J. A. Sharp's * Gazetteer,' 1852, and J. Dugdale's * British Traveller,' vol. iii p. 555. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

Consult the references given in 'Abbeys around London,' and various Middlesex his- tories at the British Museum. The house referred to in 'Abbeys around London' is now owned by the Alexian brothers as a convalescent home, the title "Abbey " having come down first to the manor, and thence, on its demolition, to the present house.

JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

1 HOME, SWEET HOME': ADDITIONAL VERSES (10 th S. v. 367). MR. P. JENNINGS calls atten- tion to the fact that Mr. Sterling Mackinlay inserts in his book ' Antoinette Sterling a.nc|