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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JUNE 29, 1907.

COWPER'S JOHN GILPIN (10 S. vii. 407). Your correspondent will be aware of the little book on ' Collier's Water,' published in 1862. The farm-house was cleared away in 1892.

I take the opportunity of mentioning the latest translation of ' John Gilpin.' It is in French, by Paul Bailliere, in a volume ' Poetes allemands et Poetes anglais,' Paris Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, pp. 227-39, and tells of the ride " a Ledmonton."

W. C. B.

The name Gilpin or Kilpin was not un- common in North Bucks during the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries ; it appears in several registers of parishes near Olney. W. BRADBROOK. Bletchley.

EPITAPHS AT STRATFORD-TJPON-AVON (10 S. vii. 423). I printed the epitaph on the Hands family at 7 S. ii. 446. Why " Glou- cester " dialect ? W. C. B.

HAYMARKET, WESTMINSTER (10 S. vii. 270, 370). The hay-carts were probably loaded with hay from the south-western suburbs, and were going by Westminster Bridge to Cumberland Market. The wide thoroughfare of the Haymarket was found a convenient " pull-up " for about half an hour, free from police interference, where the men could regale themselves on some- thing toothsome in the shape of stewed eels and whelks, or cheap oysters (then three a penny), to be had at street stalls in the neighbourhood. These hay-cart men were of a gregarious nature, and it was a common occurrence in those days to see three or four loaded hay-carts standing in a line, in the middle of a broad thoroughfare, en route for the market, particularly in the vicinity of cheap refreshment stalls.

CHARLES SHELLEY.

' The Epicure's Almanack ' (London, 1815) gives the following information :

"Tothill Street, since the demolition of the Westminster Market to make room for the New Sessions House, has become almost a market, since nearly one half of the houses in it may be said to victual the numerous inhabitants of the lower Liberties of Westminster."

Although not strictly relevant to the query, perhaps I may be permitted to add that the information given in the useful little work I have quoted from seems to indicate that at the date of publication some of the markets, including Grosvenor Market between South Moulton Street and Davies Street ") and St. George's Market in Oxford

Street, were not in a very flourishing con- dition :

"Chelsea Market, near Sloane Square, was established to supply the genteel and improving neighbourhood of Sloane Street and Hans Town,, but it has hitherto been poorly encouraged."

It appears, however, that

''St. James's Market, situated between St. James's Square and the Haymarket, is in high repute for good meats, and can boast within its precincts several first-rate fishmongers, poulterers, fruiterers, and greengrocers. From hence the households of most of the branches of the Royal Family are supplied."

G. E. WEARE.

Weston-super-Mare.

" BAWMS MARCH " (10 S. vii. 188, 230). The original reference for the quotation from ' A New View of London,' 1708, cited by MR. MARRIOTT, may be useful. It .is ' A New View of London,' Introduction,, p. xxxviii, col. 2. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

' THE HEBREW MAIDEN'S ANSWER TO THE CRUSADER ' (10 S. vii. 269, 394, 413). I should be very grateful if either of the correspondents who have so kindly sent replies to my question could tell me in what book or collection this poem appears in print. Am I right in supposing the author's; name to be Isabella Valancey Crawford (1851-87) ? JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

" SCIVROOGH " (10 S. vii. 470). I have asked a Mahratta friend about this word,, and he says he never heard it before. I think it will probably turn out to be a " ghost- word," or error of the press. What the Mahratta lady wrote was doubtless simoorgh,. which is the Persian name, well known throughout the East, of a fabulous bird, of great size and beauty, something like our phoenix. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

SHAKESPEARIANA AT DOUAI (10 S. vii. 421). Mr. Falconer Madan, the Sub- Librarian of the Bodleian Library, points out that the Life of St. Thomas of Canter- bury mentioned by MR. AXON appears to be that which is numbered 861 on p. 613 of the " Catalogue General des Manuscrits des Bibliotheques Publiques des Departe- ments : Tome VI. Douai " (Paris, Impri- merie Nationale, MDCCCLXXVIII.) ; and also that instead of " aule Oxen " we must read Exon. The manuscript belonged, then, to Exeter College, in Oxford. Mr. Madan proves this by referring to article xxxii on p. 12 of the ' Catalogus Codicum MSS. Collegii Exoniensis,' in Pars I. of the