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endow yet more houses, so that the charity may be extended to its fullest needs. A further concession is that " recipients will no longer need to be freemen of the Com- pany, but just workers in the industry and their relations " decidedly a move in the right direction, and one of much import- ance to the poorer members of this ancient and honourable craft, as it will ensure all new pensioners and inmates being persons really associated with the hosiery trade. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

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.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT, E.G. There are two engravings of bosses from the ruins of the East Cloister of this priory, marked in the museum of the late E. B. Price, Esq., F.S.A., pi. 63, vol. iv., and pi. 18, vol. v. Can any one tell me where these are likely to be found at the present time ? E. A. WEBB.

The Vestry, Saint Bartholomew the Great, B.C.

' LE TERZE RIME DI DANTE,' ALDUS, 1502. I possess a copy of this, bought at Sotheby's 11 Dec., 1893. It has, to quote the catalogue, " first page illuminated with elegant border, and a deer with motto ' Noli me tangere, Caesaris sum.' ' Can any reader throw any light ? The deer (a hind) is lying in a green meadow, and the motto is on a label loosely twined round its neck. If the inscription denotes that the book was Caesar's, the Caesar in question must have been Kaiser Max. If it indicates the owner's position, what about Anne Boleyn ? The present binding is called in the cata- logue Padeloup ; it looks to me more like that associated with the name of Derome. In any case, it is much later than the book or the illumination. A. J. BUTLER.

BOSWELL'S LODGINGS IN PICCADILLY. I have just been reading with much interest Mr. G. S. Street's gossiping book 'The Ghosts of Piccadilly.' Mr. Street has managed to call up from the shades a respect- able number of ghosts, but he has omitted two of the most substantial. On Tuesday, 13 April, 1773, Johnson and Boswell spent a happy day. They dined and drank tea at General Oglethorpe's, and during the

progress of the latter meal Goldsmith sang Tony Lumpkin's song 'The Three Jolly Pigeons,' and an Irish song, which was left out of ' She Stoops to Conquer ' because Mrs. Bulkeley could not sing, to the tune of ' The Humours of Ballamagairy.' Dr. Johnson, on his way home, stopped at Boswell's lodgings in Piccadilly, and sat with him, drinking tea a second time, till a late hour.

Where were Boswell's lodgings situated ? One would like to localize the two ghosts as they sit sipping their spectral Bohea, and discussing the respective merits of Fleet Street and Piccadilly, until the bells of St. James's ring into the small hours.

Boswell, who was a bird of passage, had many residences in London. At one time he used to put up with General Paoli in the latter's house in South Audley Street, and at another, with the Rev. Mr. Temple (the grandfather of the Archbishop), in Farrar's Buildings, Inner Temple Lane. In March, 1768, he took lodgings in Half Moon Street, where he entertained Hume, Johnson, Garrick, and other friends, and gave excel- lent dinners and good claret. In 1769 he was lodging in Old Bond Street, where on 16 October he gave a dinner to Johnson, Reynolds, Garrick, Goldsmith, and others, at which the author of 'The Vicar' made his appearance in Mr. Filby's bloom-coloured breeches, which had come home from the tailor's that day. On Tuesday, 31 March, 1772, Johnson and Boswell, after dining with General Paoli, went to Boswell's lodgings in Conduit Street, where they had teabef ore going on to the Pantheon. Whilehewas writinghis ' Life of Johnson' he lived at No. 5 6, Great Queen Street, which seems to have been the first house taken by him in London, he having previously lived in lodgings. His residence in this house was commemorated by the London County Council, who caused a tablet to be affixed in September, 1905. Thence, at the end of 1788, he moved to Queen Anne Street West (now Queen Anne Street), where he finished his magnum opus, and lived till the summer of 1790. I am not sure if this house still remains in its former state ; if so, it seems worthy of commemora- tion. On 19 May, 1795, he died at No. 47 (afterwards No. 122), Great Portland Street, in a house which was subsequently pulled down and rebuilt.

Perhaps Dr. Birkbeck Hill, in his edition of Boswell, may have identified the Picca- dilly lodgings, but I have not that work at hand for reference.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.