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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY n, 1907.

' The Christian Man's

5. Who wrote Vocabulary ' ?

6. Where is to be found the story of the slave who ran for miles with a thorn in his foot, when bringing the news of a victory ?

H. M. F.

HAYMARKET, WESTMINSTER. (10 S. vii. 270.)

IN reply to the query by MR. HOLDEN LIEUT. HENRY CLARKE, R.N., was mar- 1 MACMICHAEL concerning the locality of this ried at the parish church of Oulton, Norfolk, market, I would inform him that the exact to Miss Mary Skepper, of Oulton Hall, on site occupied was in the Broadway, West- 26 July, 1817. Lieut. Clarke died on the minster. Very little appears concerning it following 24 March, 1818, at the age of in the ordinary books of reference. The twenty-five years, and was buried at Oulton. Broadway as we see it to-day appears to be I am desirous of obtaining a certificate of very little different in size from what it was his birth. I am told his father was Osman a couple of centuries or so ago, extending Clarke, Esq. His father seems to have been then, as now, from the west end of Tothill residing in the parish of Sisland, Norfolk. I Street to the east end of York Street. The am also told that the arms of the family of market was held in the open, there being no Clarke are on a monument in Mundam | Market House, the carts or waggons being

placed in the middle of the open space ; the horses were most probably removed, and stabled in some of the numerous inn yards abounding in both Tothill and York Streets. It is not unlikely that the dealers transacted most of their business at the same hostelries, especially in bad weather, when dealing by the roadside would be impossible. This was the case in the East End Haymarket, in

Church. HUBERT SMITH STANIER.

Brooklynne, Willes Road, Leamington Spa.

AMBROSIO SPIERA : HIS ADVENT SERMONS. In the Bodleian Library there is a volume (quarto in eights) with this heading : " Magistri Ambrosii Spiere Tarui sim Ordinis Seruoru Sermoes pu tiles de Aduetu Dm Fe. incipiut." The abbreviations are to be expanded thus :

" Seruorum Sermones perutiles de Aduentu Whitechapel High Street. Domini feliciter incipiunt." There is no The minute-books of the late vestry of mention of the book in the Catalogue of the the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John British Museum. The sermons, " editi & I contain many allusions to this old-wor cumpilati per Reuerendum Sacre Theo. pro fessorem Magistrum Ambrosium Spiera," are assigned in the * Prologus ' to 1447, recommended by Thadeo Tancredo, and approved by Philippo de Favencia, pro- fessors in the convent at Bologna which. "rrr^Th October, 1733. John Lawton and Mark is described as the property of fratrum packer, Esq", from the Committee of Vestry Seruorum dme Marie ordinis sancti Augus- appointed to Solicit for the Grant of a Haymarkett Was the book printed in Bologna, in the Broadway, West r, acquainted the Vestry

that by the particular favour and Interest of the Right 'Honble. Sir Robert Walpole, the Right Honble. Sir Charles Wager, arid the Right Honble. William Clayton, Esq., they had obtained a Patent (with a Remission of the Fees amounting to the

_ TT Naturseltenheiten des ~K6nig- I g ^^f^ft^^^ reichs Ungarn (Pressburg, 1778), records the G at Seal fo e r holding three Marketts in every the fact that in 1737 or 1738 two English- Week Weekly for the Selling of Hay and Straw in men arrived at Pressburg, in Hungary, the Broadway aforesaid for the Term of Thirty One They proceeded to the picturesque old castle Years from the first of October instant, which

m h o e unt n ed ?he B^^T 0*^- ^ 1^^"^^^^^^^^^^ mounted the Berg Ivobel. On its highest Adm and Assigns, in Trust for the Poor of this

point they found a plant, of which they had Parish/ "

brought a picture with them ; they dug it | This excellent report (which was compiled

market, some of which were reproduced in the annual report for 1889, from which I quote as follows :

The circumstances under which the hay- market in the Broadway was established are thus

tini.

and in what year ?

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

HUNGARIAN RARE PLANT. Michael Klein,

in a little book entitled ' Sammlung merk-

wiirdigster

up with its roots, placed it in a box, and returned to England. I have not been able to discover anything further about these enthusiastic British botanists in quest of rare plants, and shall be glad to receive more information. L. L. K.

under the direction of Mr. J. E. Smith, F.S.A., at that time the Vestry Clerk) proceeds as follows :

"It was unanimously

'"Ordered That the thanks of this Vestry be returned to Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Charles