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The estate settled in 1685 included, inter alia, 9 acres of pasture, part used as a whiting ground, sometime occupied by William Sherlock, whitster ; 4 acres of garden called Artichoke Ground ; and eleven newly built houses. Among the occupiers were Robert Body and Robert Jerman. Part of the property was near to the manor house of Paris Garden and at the entrance to it, and it was bounded by the way or passage leading to the manor house, and by the moat belonging to it. Other boundaries were the mill-stream, the Black Ditch, the lane leading to Richard Taverner's garden, and the way or alley over Body's Bridge (which bridge may also be found in the old maps). W. C. B.
 * ' Dog and Duck," and to Newington Butts.

" TOP THE CANDLE." I believe the phrase "top the candle," as meaning " snuff the candle," is known in literature ; but it may be of interest to note that, in my very early days, before gas was em- ployed in workshops at least in small country towns it was always the duty of the youngest apprentice to act as "topper" that is, to " top " each candle as it needed to be snuffed. R. ROBBINS. .

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

ENGLISH LITERARY ALMANACS. I should be glad to learn where I could find a complete list of the above, such as ' The Keepsake,'
 * Forget Me Not,' &c. A. J. BARNOUW.

The Hague.

DEFUNCT PERIODICALS. Is there any publication that serves as an index to defunct periodicals, giving list of editors and periods of running ? Who was the editor of The Easy Chair, a good weekly of literary in- terest, published at 115, Fleet Street ? It ran for twenty numbers, and ended on 21 Jan, 1905, being then merged in London Opinion. T. CANN HUGHES.

Lancaster.

WEST LONDON RIVERS. I am engaged in a study of the West London rivers, extant and extinct, with a view of ascer- taining their influence upon the health of the districts through which they pass or passed. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.'

kindly refer me to books or records dealing with the effects of those rivers, in flood or in drought, upon diseases, endemic or epidemic, in the area lying between the western boundary of the City and the western boundary of the county ?

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D. 36, Holland Park Avenue, W.

" IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY." I have often wondered who was the author of that splendid dictum, until I came across it in a Latin form, and ascribed to a certain Dutch divine of the seventeenth century. I should like to know positively whether that dis- tinguished person can claim sole right of invention, or whether it dates back earlier still. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

['Gefliigelte Worte' gives the phrase (20th ed., p. 461) " In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas," and says it appears in the form " Si nos servaremus in necessariis unitatem, in non necessariis libertatem, in utrisque chari- tatem, optimo certe loco essent res nostrae ' in the " Parsenesis votiva pro Pace Ecclesise. Ad Theo- logos Augustanse Confessionis. Auctore Ruperto Meldenio Theologo." This is dated between 1622 and 1625. Of Meldenius, our authority adds, nothing else is known, and his saying has not been traced earlier.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one give me the reference for the follow- ing lines, attributed to Byron ?

I would all men were free

As \vell from kings as mobs, from you as me.

Also for the following, I believe by Shelley ? Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.

CAERLEON.

I am anxious to track the source of the following :

These beauteous forms

Through a long absence have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye ; But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

W. G. BLAIKIE MURDOCH.

DISSENTING PREACHERS IN THE OLD JEWRY. I shall be much obliged if any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' can give me the names of any Scotsmen who were " Dis- senting preachers " in the Old Jewry between 1765 and 1775.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

SCULLY FAMILY OF TIPPERARY. I should be obliged to some reader who would give me information about the origin, &c., of the above family. GENEALOGIST.