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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY e, 1007.

at the first reference above) from the wardens' accounts of the parish of St. John Zachary, in the City of London :

1684/5. Paid for a Pessock [sic] for the Reader's pew, I 8.

1609-10. Spent with the Dep[uty] and Overseers about Lodgers to give Surety for Servants, 10* 1.

1714-15. Paid for a bask [?] for the reader's desk, 1 s.

1715-16. Gave Wid w Smith to go to her father w th her Children with y e Cp to [?], 5".

1716-17. Paid for a Summons before the Com- mission of payments, I 8.

1717-18. Paid for nails and Mending y e Shade in y e Church Yard, 6 d.

Paid M r Webb for mending v e lock & hinges of Barlow['s] Shade in y e Church Yard, 1 s.

1718-19. Paid for Mending & Sparrabling a Pair of Shooes for Bucknall, I 9 4 d.

[Paid] Expences at y" Coffee House in S* Ann's Lane y" Morning [we] went round the Parish with y e King's Letter & Tounfair [sic, but ?], 2 s 6 d.

1719-20. Paid M r Young y" Upholsf for making the Smobibs in y e Churchwarden s pew, 1" 10*.

1737-8. [raid] To y e Bricklayer repairing y c pear at y e Chu|rch] Yard gate, 1" 10 s 9*.

1755-6. Paid to M rs Sanders for mending the Sqabbs, 2".

The two entries under date 1717-18 pre- sumably relate to the same article, as do those under 17 19-20 and 1755-6 respectively.

W. McM.

[1718-19. " Sparrabling " is derived from sparable or sparrow-bill, a nail used in mending boots and shoes, and so called from its shape. 1719-20. One meaning of squab is a stuffed cushion. Dickens speaks of people " punching the squab of chairs and sofas with their dirty fists."]

REGIMENTAL DISTINCTIONS. I desire in- formation as to customs or equipment peculiar to the officers of regiments in the British army. I do not allude to regimental badges or devices, but refer to details of which the cowrie shells upon the bridles of the 10th Hussars, and the full (levee) dress ivory-hafted scimitar of the llth Hussars, are examples. W. B. H.

SIB GEORGE MONOTJX. There are some almshouses in Walthamstow, dating back to 1527, founded by Sir George Monoux. They were used then as a grammar school What is known of this ancient benefactor ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

BOOK FOB MANY WIVES, c. 1646.

Mercurius Avademicus (26 Feb., 1646) say

that the Parliament,

"having Sir Lewis Dyve their prisoner, though

they have licensed a Book for Many Wives, would

not yet give him leave to have the company ol

one."

What book is referred to not Milton 'Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce,' ]

imagine ?

A. R. BAYLEY.

ORDINARIES OF NEWGATE.

(10 S. vii. 408, 454.)

SINCE contributing my former reply on this subject I have, in the course of investi- ations among the Corporation records for bhe purposes of my parochial history, lighted upon positive evidence of the appointment of chaplains to the London gaols prior to 1698, MB. BLEACKLEY'S earliest date.

On 28 July, 1663, John Welden, clerk, "Minister to the Prisoners in Newgate," was granted, at a meeting of the Court of Aldermen then held, an increase of 40Z. per annum, over and above his then allow- ance of 251. out of the Chamber (i.e., the City treasury) and 10. from St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital. It is mentioned that, with this augmentation, petitioner's annual stipend will be 151., "as is allowed to y e Ministers of the other prisons of this Citty " (Repertory 69, folio 172).

With reference to MB. BLEACKLEY'S remark on this subject under ' The Keeper of Newgate ' (10 S. vii. 466), I will venture to observe that I hardly think the pages of the work he names afford suitable accom- modation for a list of these " ordinaries." For one thing, the volume has already grown to what the publishers doubtless consider almost unmanageable proportions ; and for another, there are many other lists of gaol chaplains, &c., which would have an equal right to insertion if the Newgate list were admitted.

What is, in my opinion, required is a work on the London minor and non-parochial clergy, to contain lists, from as early a period as possible, of the various curates, lecturers, chaplains, chantry priests, &c., who have officiated in the City of London (or within the London diocese, if uniformity with the Rev. Mr. Hennessy's ' Novum Repertorium ' be thought desirable) ; and in the com- pilation of such a work I should, at some time in the near future, be quite ready to assist. WILLIAM MCMUBBAY.

CARDINAL NEWMAN'S BIRTHPLACE (10 S. vii. 489). It would almost seem that there is no actual information to be ob- tained concerning the birthplace of Cardinal Newman. I have in my possession most of the obituary notices issued by the London daily papers immediately after his decease. The Times (12 Aug., 1890) merely publishes