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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL APKIL 20, 1907.

dainties." This was apparently an allusion to some old custom, and I had long been curious to hear what it could be. As n notice was taken of my question by any o your readers, I concluded that all were ignorant upon the matter as I was myself It may therefore be interesting to admirers of Keats's poems to hear that St. Augustine in his ' Confessions ' (Book VI. chap. ii. alludes to a custom, which prevailed in the times of the early Fathers, of bringing offer ings on saints' days of cakes, fruit, bread and wine in memory of the saint. These offerings were first tasted by the devotee and then distributed. The custom was a length forbidden by St. Ambrose, on the ground that it gave occasion to excess, anc savoured too much of the rites of ancestor worship as practised by the heathen.

EUSTACE SMITH, M.D.

STUBMY OB ESTUBMY FAMILY (10 S. vii 209). In a foot-note on p. 293 of ' Forty Years in a Moorland Parish ' the late Canon J. C. Atkinson tells us that a farm-house in Danby Dale, which is called Stormy Hall from, as is popularly believed, the shelter i1 gave in stress of weather to King Henry VIII., really owes its name to the fact that the property on which it stands was for long the possession of the Esturmi or Sturmy family. This crumb of information may please, if it do not profit, your pedigree-hunt- ing correspondent. ST. SWITHIN.

ELY HOUSE OB ALBEMABLE HOUSE (10 S. vii. 268). According to Peter Cunning- ham's 'Hand-book of London,' 1850, No. 37, Dover Street, is (1850) Ely House, the London Residence of the Bishops of Ely since 1772 (p. 160). Monk, first Duke of Albemarle, lived, from a little before the Restoration to his death (1669/70), at the Cockpit at Whitehall (p. 133).

Clarendon House was begun in 1664. It stood between Berkeley Street and Bond Street. It was inhabited by the Earl of Clarendon, his eldest son Lord Cornbury, and the great Duke of Ormond. Lord Chancellor Clarendon died in 1674, and in 1675 his sons sold the house to Christopher Monk, second Duke of Albemarle, when it became Albemarle House. The Duke sold it to Sir Thomas Bond, who pulled it down,

chased or built in 1772, out of the proceeds of the sale of the ancient palace of the Bishops of Ely in Ely Place, Holborn.

Albemarle Street was so called after Chris- topher Monck or Monk, second Duke of Albemarle (1653-88), who purchased the mansion of the Earl of Clarendon which stood partly on its site. The street was built towards the close of the seventeenth or beginning of the eighteenth century by Sir Thomas Bond, of Peckham, who bought part of the grounds of Clarendon House, " in order to build a street of tenements to his undoing." Clarendon House was sold by the Duke of Albemarle, when in diffi- culties, soon after he had purchased it. Hatton, in 1708, describes Albemarle Street as a street of excellent new buildings, inhabited by persons of quality, between the fields and Portugal Street.

ALFBED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club.

AUTHOB OF QUOTATION WANTED (10 S. vii. 269). Dr. Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh, wrote the poem of eighteen stanzas which begins with the lines quoted, under the heading ' Is War the Only Thing that has no Good in It ? ' It originally ap- peared in The Times of 29 Oct., 1900. The first stanza runs thus : They say that "war is hell," the "great accursed,"

The sin impossible to be forgiven Yet I can look beyond it at its worst,

And still find blue in Heaven.

STAPLETON MABTIN.

I have a copy of the whole poem, which I shall be happy to forward to any one wishing for it. MABY AUGUSTA HOWELL. 32, Regent's Park Road, N.W.

PEDIGBEE DIFFICULTIES : MABY STAPLE- TON OB STOUGHTON (10 S. v. 87, 155). Regarding my query under this head, published more than a year ago, I should ike to record the assistance since derived from Mr. A. Ridley Bax's valuable '"Allega- ions for Marriage Licences issued by the Commissary Court of Surrey between 1673 and 1770,' lately published. This work confirms the woman's name as Fletcher, ilthough I still lack solution of the puzzle rhy she was married at Epsom one day ater (27 Sept., 1763) under the name of

and raised Bond Street and Albemarle I Soughton or Stoughton. Buildings. The house appears to have had

24 acres of land attached to it (pp. 123-4).

ROBEBT PlEBPOINT.

No. 37, Dover Street, was the town resi- dence of the Bishop of Ely. It was pur-

A. STAPLETON.

158, Noel Street, Nottingham.

HOUSES OF HISTOBICAL INTEBEST (10 S. v. 483 ; vi. 52, 91, 215, 356, 497). It may be well to record that two additional