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Salutation of our Ladie " in St. Christopher the Stocks. George Fornian, citizen and skinner, was seised in his demesne of a messuage and corner tenement which was late a tavern called " The Salutation of our Ladie," wherein he dwelt, situate in the parish of " St. Christopher at the Stockes."

" Salutation " Tavern in Old Fish Street. In 1698 inhabited by John Abbot, and in 1716 by Thomas Saunders.

"Salutation" Tavern, Tower Street. No date given, but presumably between 1650 and 1666, T. E. B. issued a token.

" Salutation " Tavern, 17, Newgate Street. It was mentioned in 1699. It was for- merly called " The Salutation and Cat." In much later times we read that Coleridge and Lamb used to meet here to talk poetry and metaphysics over Welsh rarebits, egg hot, and pipes of Orinoco.

" Salutation," Holborn, near Hatton Garden. 1655, D. Kemp, a bookseller, was there ; and about the same time or a little later Daniel Grey issued a halfpenny token from this house.

" Salutation " Tavern at Holborn Bridge. Mention of it in an advertisement in 1735.

Another " Salutation " Tavern in Tavis- tock Street, Covent Garden. Mentioned in 1744. In the days of the Prince Regent it was known as " Bunch's."

I have also met with a " Salutation " Tavern in Bishopsgate Street. In 1699 Mr. Knap lived there.

F. G. HILTON PBICE.

MB. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL is in error in thinking that the " Salutation " Tavern in Barton Street, Westminster, is still in exist- ence. In ' St. John the Evangelist, West- minster : Parochial Memorials' (1892), by J. E. Smith, F.S.A., at that time the Vestry Clerk of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan- gelist, Westminster, it is stated at p. 404 that " until three years ago the old ' Salutation ' public-house, which stood at the corner of Barton Street and Cowley Street, reminded us that inns in other days used to bear signs of a religiou character."

It will therefore be seen that it ceased to be a house for the refreshment of man after 1889, the last occupant of the licensed pre- mises being, so far as I can remember, a man named Jackson, a pensioner from the Metropolitan Police, who had done much duty at the Houses of Parliament. It has since been occupied as a private residence, and is now known as No. 6, Barton Street In the old days there was a door round the corner in Cowley Street by which admission was obtained to the taproom. That door

still exists, but it is now numbered No. IA,. i.e., Cowley Street, and is marked " Studio,"" so that this part of the premises appears to t>e distinct from the corner house at the- present time. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.

SCOTT'S 'QTJENTIN DURWARD ' (10 S.. di. 508). The " Italian statuary " (sculptor) eferred to in the twenty-fifth chapter of" this work is undoubtedly Bernini. The account is probably authentic, though Bernini, it would seem, never saw Charles I. in person. In order to enable him to make a statue of Charles, Vandyck painted three portraits on one canvas one full face, and

o side face. The original is now at Windsor, and there is a copy at the Victoria and Albert Museum. When this portrait was shown to Bernini, and he had studied the face, he gave the opinion that Charles- was " a man doomed to misfortune." This opinion was probably due rather to- the appearance of inability to read the signs of the times or to stoop to compromise than to the mere fact of a melancholy counten- ance. I have always regarded this account as evidence of Bernini's talent as a physiog- nomist and judge of character as well as of Vandyck' s fidelity. The subject is referred to in a paper by myself on ' The Develop- ment of the Fine Arts under the Puritans/ in vol. v. (New Series) of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Longmans), p. 220. I have never been able to ascertain whether the statue was completed, or whether it is still in existence, and, if so, where it may be found. I should be very glad of any information on these points. J. FOSTER PALMER.

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A statue of Charles I. was " graved by the excellent hand of Cavalier Bermino [Bernini] at Rome," who had never seen the king, but did it "by some draughty of Vandike's excelling pencill." He was " an excellent physiognomist as well as carver, ' r and, " not being at all informed whose face it was, told the messenger that brought the draughts, that he was certain the person which those represented was born to great honour, and as certainly to as great mis- fortune " ('The Civil Warres,' by John Davies, 1661, p. 13). W. C. B.

THE CHILTERN HXTNDREDS (10 S. ii. 441, 516; iii. 18, 114; vii. 238, 291). I must offer my (rather belated) thanks to MR. F. G. HALEY for the exact reference to the official publication on this subject, and to