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and indexed), the Fourth Report of the Hist. MSS. Commission, and the will of Secretary Richard Kempe, proved in London 1656 (P.C.C. 455 Berkeley).

I believe that Mr. Gerald Fothergill, a contributor to ' N. & Q.,' recently issued circulars as to a prospective work touching this subject. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP.

6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (10 S. vii. 246). Had not Protector Somerset two brothers bearing the same Christian name as himself ?

C. R. HAINES.

Pulborough.

'THE HEBREW MAIDEN'S ANSWER TO THE CRUSADER' (10 S. vii. 269, 394). This song by Mrs. Crawford was set to music by Mrs. Miller. J. H. PARRY.

WINDMILLS IN SUSSEX : WINDMILLS WITH MANY SAILS (10 S. vii. 149, 214, 276, 397). There was until a few years ago a windmill with five sails near Brigg, on its western side ; but the sails have now been removed. I think, but am not quite sure, that I have seen others in Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

EDWARD PEACOCK,

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

Five- sailed and six-sailed windmills are not uncommon in the Eastern Counties. At Hessle, in East Yorkshire, is a five-sailed mill ; at Alford, in Lincolnshire (I believe), a six-sailed one ; and at other places in Lincolnshire five-sailed ones ; but wind- mills are everywhere becoming extinct. In some parts of Norfolk six-sailed wind- mills are, I am told, the rule, and four- sailed ones almost unknown. There are, or. were, some five-sailed mills at Retford, Notts. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

I have knowledge of an unlovely mill with five sails which stands in a field on the high road betwixt York and Acomb. I should not be surprised to learn that it can be matched many times between there and Sussex. ST. S WITHIN.

I can mention three instances of windmills with six sails.

In a view of Hull printed about 1833 or 1834 in The Saturday Magazine a hex- apterous windmill is shown on the top of a building, apparently a granary or warehouse. I saw myself in 1856 a mill of this descrip- tion in Liverpool similarly placed, near St.. Martin's Church. I can remember a

six-sail mill being built at Bury St. Ed- munds in 1836, out Southgate. It was still there in 1859, the last time I visited that part of the town. Such mills were nearly double the span of an ordinary mill, and consequently three times their horse-power. W. SCARGILL.

I have seen in the Fen country mills with six sails ; and there is (or was when I was there last) an eight-sailed windmill at Holbeach, in Lincolnshire, near the railway station. C. S. JERRAM.

HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST (10 S. v. 483; vi. 52, 91, 215, 356, 497 ; vii. 312). The London County Council has either affixed or is about to affix a tablet to No. 39, Rodney Street, Pentonville, where James Mill and his still more brilliant son John Stuart Mill, sometime M.P. for Westminster, resided. In 1805 James Mill married Harriet Burrow, whose mother, a widow, kept an establishment for lunatics at Hoxton. Upon his marriage he entered into possession of the house in Rodney Street, where his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, was born on 20 May, 1806. The latter always spoke of his great regard for this house ; and I remember that at one of the Committee meetings during his first Westminster election campaign,, the conversation having turned upon the birthplaces of notable men in Westminster and elsewhere, he remarked that he never found himself in the vicinity of Pentonville without going, even if necessary a little out of the way, to see the house where he was born.

The action of the London County Council is in this case certainly to be commended, for few men have deserved better of their countrymen than this enlightened thinker. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

I cannot understand why the London County Council has overlooked the un- doubted claim which Charles Lamb has to similar public recognition and honour. Lamb resided in Shacklewell Lane, a pleasant rural thoroughfare leading from High Road, Stoke Newington, by a winding course, right away to Stoke Newington Common, Amhurst Road intersecting it midway. After retiring from business he likewise resided, for many years, in Cole- brooke Row, Islington. It was there that his friend George Dyer, mistaking his way home, one day walked straight across and down the steep shrubby declivity into the canal. Curiously enough, a few weeks ago I was rambling in that neigh- bourhood, and noticed that this steep bank