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 io s. VIIL SEPT. 14, loo?.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

A CAUSTIC SERMON. For wit and viru- lence combined in a pulpit discourse, I think I have not found anything to excel the Rev. Henry Welstead's sermon on ' The Modern Moderation,' preached before Archdeacon ^Nicholas Clagett at Sudbury, 12 April, 1711. Mr. Welstead was rector of Brettenham, in Suffolk. He describes his life there as un- happy. When he rode away, he was the bells rang for joy. To celebrate his exit a purse was made up, and a drinking revel ensued at the sidesman's house, at which the two churchwardens were present. An attempt was made also to burn his hay- stack. The archdeacon evidently did not relish the sermon
 * ' rudely and scornfully hollowed at," and

Following the sermon, which ends with a very orthodox ascription, is a ten-page Letter to Obadiaa Moderation, Gent. The whole tract of 24 pp. was printed for the author, and sold b7 John Morphew of London in 1714. Ii CHARD H. THORNTON.

ELECTION SXJNIAY, WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.

At 10 S. vi. 14t) a query was raised as to

this day, and at p. 213 of the same volume

two replies were gven, one of which was mine.

I made some renarks as to the selection of

the preacher las year being a departure

from the time-ionoured custom ; this

year, I am glad ;o say, the old order was

resumed. The peacher on 28 July was to

have been the lev. H. Montagu Butler,

D.D., Master of ">inity College, Cambridge,

but unfortunatty illness prevented his

appointment beng kept. His place was

taken by the .lev. James Gow, Litt.D.,

Head Master of Westminster School. The

other two dviaes who share the honour

and pleasureof preaching upon this historic

day are the Jeans of Westminster and Chris<

Church, anc I hope that the practice wil.

not again b'departed from.

W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY. Westminstf- " PLACE' IN THE HOUSE. On the proof slip of a rient paragraph in ' N. & Q.' my usage of ' chimney -place " and " house- place " irthe same sentence was queried and this ferns to call for a note on " place ' as assigni to portions of some houses anc cottages Juilt more than a hundred years ago. Gierally the main lower room was called '^he house-place," which served as general^ ving-room, meals-room, and family room \* en the day's work was over. In this room ^as the chimney-place the wid space ithin and behind the chimney-piece the fs-place, holding the fire ; and the

' ass "-place (ashes-place), a receptacle below he hearthstone a square or round hole >eing cut through the hearthstone, covered svith an iron grate, on which the cinders and ashes were raked backward and forward, " ass " falling into the ashes - place >elow. A door from the house-place led nto the kitchen-place, to which adjoined he pantry-place. These were the within- ide places. Outside were the coal-place, dust-place, hen-place or fowl-place, and )ig-place. Although there were so many places in and about the house, the proverb ' A place for everything, and everything in ts place," was not the general rule, though many cottage homes were spick and span to the smallest detail.

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

COL. ROBERT LILBURNE. Many years ago I made the following memorandum in the Guildhall Library concerning two letters on an important matter written by Robert Lilburne :

'' Two letters from Col. Robert Lilborne, the one

to the Hon. William Lenthall the other to

the Lord General, containing particulars of the

total rout and overthrow of the Earl of Derby

in Lancashire on the 25th of August, 1651."

These letters are near the beginning of the fifth volume of Civil War tracts, and, so far as I can ascertain, have not been reprinted. If that be the case, they may be useful to students of the Cromwellian period.

K. P. D. E.

RACE-HORSES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CEN- TURY.

"Extract from a schedule of such goods, chatties, and creditts of the Right Hon bl< William, Earle of Pembrooke and Montgomery, dec d, which are p ish- able, and of which a limitted administration pen- dente lite is granted to John Tregonwell, one ot the executors named in the will of the said deced.

"'Imprimis there are left by the said deced the number of eight Race Horses, which are and must be maintained at a vast charge, or elce they will come to little or nothing, and foure of them are now estimated that they will yield at least one hundred pounds p' horse.' " P.C.C. Admon. Act Book, July, 1674.

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W.

" RESTAURATEUR." According to a para- graph in a newspaper dated early in last century, the origin of this word lies in the fact that in 1765 a French cook established in Paris the first house of the kind, and had the sign over the door inscribed : " Venite ad me, omnes qui stomacho laboratis, et ego restaurabo vos." R- S. B.