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10, Rowland St., Fitzroy Sq., 3 July, 1802.' A search of the indexes of ' N. & Q.' reveals much about wells and much about Hyde Park, but nothing about this well. Some of your contributors learned in the topo- graphy of London may be able to throw some light on the subject. W. E. B.

" HAMMALS." A witness from North- umberland stated in the Divorce Court the other day that this was the name of a gift which a Northern mother expected those she met to present to her new-born child. Can any one give details as to the origin and nature of this gift ? What is the ety- mology of " hammals " ?

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. HURSTMONCEAUX : ITS PRONUNCIATION

What is the correct pronunciation of the name Hurstmonceaux, Sussex ? I have heard it called " Herst-mon-sew," with stress pretty evenly divided between the first and last syllable. A writer in M.A.P., however, recently stated that " Hurstmon- ceaux should be shortened into ' Her-so.' " Further, Hope's ' Glossary of Dialectal Place Nomenclature ' gives the forms " Hurst- mounceys," " Hossmouncies," and " Hars- mouncy." Are these purely rustic, or are they used by the educated ?

JAS. PL ATT, Jun.

CURIOUS PARISH DOCUMENT. Among the fragmentary sixteenth-century records of the parish of SS. Anne and Agnes, Alders- gate, are four pages of a document in Dutch, " translated from the French language," of the first page of which the following is a literal (modern) translation :

"To all those who shall see these presents, Louis le Beauclere, Advocate of the King in his Council of btate, President, general Judge of the Justice ot Calais, and the reconquered lands, and the great -Bailhou of the Island, Greetings, hereby informs that before Mr. Francois de Bourg and Quentin Genost, public Notaries admitted by his Majesty to the afore-mentioned Town and Lands, hereunder written, has presented himself Jan Guersten, Captain ot the ship formerly from Hamburg and now at present of this harbour of Calais, called the bt. Jan, tonnage one hundred and eighty tons, or thereabouts, provided with sixteen pieces of cannon, tour stone pieces, twenty muskets and

twenty pikes, and other necessary things, with

twenty-eight men, the afore-mentioned Captain included, the same ship well victualled, munitioned caulked, watertight, and ready to sail, also with her anchors, cables, and fit sails, the which from his own free will has acknowledged, and left, sold, ceded, quitted, transferred, and left, according to the contents and the delivery of these presents, promising and promises to keep free from all troubles, free of navigation, letters of bedom- mene [?] debts, mortgages, obligations, and other

such general hindrances in all ports, harbours, and places in which the same may remain, anchor, and?

go. All from now To the honourable Charles

Stolsius, Merchant, living within this Town of Calais here present."

The rest of the document, which breaks off abruptly at the end of its fourth page, is- similarly worded, and contains no reference to St. Anne's parish (or indeed to London or to this country at all). It is written in a foreign hand, upon the ordinary foolscap paper of the period, the reference to the- " reconquered lands " making the possible- date soon after Elizabeth's accession.

The other parish documents of the time (such as they are) contain no reference to- either of the parties named above. Can any one inform me what this singular foreign record is likely to be doing in a City church chest ? WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

WARREN HASTINGS TRIAL : ADMISSION TICKETS. MR. J. B. WHITBORNE in 1857 asked (2 S. iv. 151) whether a complete series of tickets, for each day of the trial, existed. He stated that he possessed two of different types one bearing the name and arms of the Deputy Lord Chamberlain, and the other a view of Westminster Hall, with Burke on his legs addressing the Court. No reply appears to have been made. I possess one ticket for the 126th day, bearing the name and arms of Peter Burrell, Deputy Lord Chamberlain, and signed and sealed G. Lincoln (Geo. P. Tomline, Bishop of Lincoln). I have examined the tickets in the Bankes Collection of the British Museum (some sixty odd), and they are similar in design to mine, though for different days, and none bears the G. Lincoln signature and seal. Each ticket is from an engraved plate.

Can any one answer MR. WHITBORNE'S query, and also say for what day the West- minster Hall view ticket was used ?

F. W. GASFIN. Liverpool.

WILLIAM STANLEY, SIXTH EARL or DERBY. Burke and Collins agree in giving the date- of the Earl's marriage as 26 June, 1594. The 'D.N.B.,' article Edward de Vere,. Iviii. 228, gives 26 Jan., 1594. Fleay in his

Life of Shakespeare ' gives 26 Jan., 1594/5, Which of these is correct ? If the answer January is given, please state whether Old or New Style is meant.

H. PEMBERTON, Jun.

Phila., U.S.A.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE SUFFERINGS OF SLAVES. Is there any doubt as to the genuineness of a passage in the Second