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In point of fact, he went to the Soho Square Academy in 1743, not 1736 ; and in 1799 his daughters are described by his friend Alexander Stephens ('Memoirs of John Home Tooke,' ii. 158) as " advancing towards puberty," a phrase which from the pen of a barrister, as Stephens was, may imply that they were under twelve, the age at which the law presumes puberty in females. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

In The Anti-Jacobin the name of the "renegado priest " is spelt with no hyphen between the last two names. The pro- nunciation is settled by these lines (5 March, 1798) :

Scarce had sleep my eyes o'erspread,

Ere Alecto sought my bed ;

In her left hand a torch she shook,

And in her right led John Home Tooke.

R. S. B.

"AWAITFUL" (10 S. vii. 510). There is no instance of this needless form in ' N.E.D.' Any one can make up unnecessary words of this character. Let us hope that it will speedily perish, unless it can win from every one an all-commanding respect which I greatly doubt. WALTER W. SKEAT.

"THE PEDLARS' REST" (10 S. vii. 266, 415). The rest formerly standing in the middle of the road near the Holborn Viaduct end of the Old Bailey was a double one. Just above the shelf that faced towards Ludgate Hill, in black block letters, was inscribed : " Rest, but do not loiter." There was also an injunction painted upon the opposite side, but I do not recollect the words. HABRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

CEMETERY CONSECRATION (10 S. vii. 490). In reply to the inquiry respecting the establishment of cemeteries, I may say that the Necropolis at Low Hill, Liverpool, was opened in 1825 ; but I believe the Jews had a cemetery before that at the corner of Oake Street and Crown Street, a new one being opened in 1837 in Deane Street, Kensington, for the Jewish community in this town.

MR. JAGGARD'S remark about the new cathedral at Liverpool is very misleading. So far is it from " now fast approaching completion" that I understand it will be five years before even the first portion, the Lady Chapel, will be ready for use.

A. H. ARKLE.

JUmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

"GRINDY" (10 S. vii. 209, 251, 416) May not the adjective in question be con-

nected with our " der Grind " = scab, scurf, which is related to grind ? G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

IRISH PEDIGREES : SOCIAL CONDITION OF IRELAND TINDER THE TUDORS (10 S. viii. 29). Edmund Spenser's ' View of the State of Ireland ' may be mentioned. A paper on the treatment of the survivors of the Armada in Ireland was printed in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society a few years ago. W. C. B.

Mr. R. Bagwell's ' Ireland under the Tudors,' 3 vols., 8vo (Longmans), 1885-90,. may be useful incidentally.

WM. H. PEET.

COURT LEET : MANOR COURT (10 S. vii. 327, 377 ; viii. 16). Hampstead has also its Court Leet, of which the summer meeting has recently been held. Business procedure would seem to be conducted on much the same lines as that mentioned by MR. J. T. PAGE, not omitting the customary repast, in this instance served at famous " Jack Straw's Castle," adjoining Hampstead Heath. A full account of the quaint observances appears in The Hampstead and Highgate Express of 22 June, from which, amongst other local references, we learn that the " pound " was " still in good repair,'* though " the parish stocks disappeared many years ago." It is to be hoped that the Manorial Society's lists in process of publication will be enriched by much valuable matter from private sources.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

For many years there was a Court Leet of the Manor of Lewisham, Kent, belonging to Earl Dartmouth, held at " The Green Man " Hotel, Blackheath. I can recollect Courts being held there until 1874, but I have- no knowledge since. JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

FIRST RUSSIAN CHRISTIAN MARTYR (10 S. viii. 6). Neither Tur nor Peter is recorded as a Russian martyr in the Old Russian ' Nestor Chronicle' (ed. Miklosich, 1860). But the celebrated brethren Boris and Gleb occur there, and their martyrdom, A.D. 1015, is fully related in chap, xlvii. As M. L. Leger in his excellent chronological and critical Index, added to his French translation of the ' Nestor Chronicle ' (pub. 1884), points out, the names of Prince Boris and his brother Gleb are among the most popular in Russian history (not less renowned in Russia and Bulgaria than that of St. Wen- ceslas, the Christian martyr, in Bohemia). In the history of Bulgaria we meet already