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Regent Street. Both had reached a high elevation, .and both sank under the ingratitude of those to whom they had afforded shelter and protection. Already, however, have the destroyers begun to regret their work of devastation, and the unhappy foreigners who once used to nestle under its friendly wing are wandering in damp and wretchedness, cursing the 'perfide Albionium' of those who, in reality, meant ' mort aux Francais,' when they cried out for the destruction of the Colonnade of the Quadrant. It is not, however, without a .struggle that the ill-used foreigners will resign the friendly roof ; and they have reared a shade of .umbrellas, which form a kind of movable Colonnade, obstructing the light almost as completely as before, and thus defeating the very object of those who caused the work of demolition to be performed."

The Act (11 & 12 Victoria, cap. 50) giving the necessary powers for this improvement authorized the sale of the material, and accordingly on Tuesday and Wednesday, 6 and 7 Nov., 1848, Messrs. Eversfield & Home sold at the Cafe de Paris, Vine Street, the columns and plinths. The prices realized averaged 6Z. 5s. to 11. 10s. for each column, and II. 2s. to ll. 4s. for each plinth.

"The names of the purchasers could not be .ascertained, but it was understood that the prin- cipal portion was purchased for the Eastern Counties Railway Company."

From The Sun, 9 Nov., 1848, and The Times, 11 Sept., 1848.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N.

ELL FAMILY. (See 9 S. x. 487 ; xi. 77.) I subjoin a few additional references to this family :-

' State Papers, Domestic, 1655,' p. 169 : "May 21, 1655, London. Levant Company to Spencer Bretton, Consul at Smyrna. We confirm ours of 24th Febry. We are riot satisfied with your vindication of your- self as to Captn. Ell's average."

'Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 16X3-4,' p. 10: "1633. 37 II. Certificate of Thomas Eyll, the High Constable before mentioned."

' Calendar of Border Papers,' vol. ii. 1595-1603 : copy of a letter under date 12 Sept., 1602, George Ell to Robin of Pichell.

Col. Chester's ' London Marriage Licences ' : "Beale, John, of Great Haseby, co. Oxon, Gent., bachelor, and Abigal Ell, of Twickenham, Middle- sex, aged 21, with consent of her father, Richard Ell, co. Surrey, June 19, 1648."

'Catalogue of Ancient Deeds,' Vol. II., Herts: "Grant by Ralph Cressy and Helenysa his wife, "\\ illiam Eyle and Helenysa his wife, and others, of a tenement with a void plot of land in Halliwelle- stret (St. Albans), which they inherited after the death of Robert Albyn of Hemelhamstede.

Witnesses Saturday after St. Vincent,

34 Edw. III."

Amongst a list of lakes given by Dugdale in the Fens appears "Ell Lade" (Miller

and Sketchley's ' Fenland Past and Present,' pp. 149-150).

I shall be grateful to any readers of ' N. & Q.' who can furnish me with any further information, more particularly as to the identity of Thomas Eyll, mentioned in the second extract. Of which place was he High Constable ? Copies of entries in parish registers, &c., relating to persons bearing my name would be thankfully received. H. G. ELL.

Christchurch, New Zealand.

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

" PRACTICE," A RULE OF ARITHMETIC. The earliest example of this which has reached us is of 1650 ; but it is then used apparently as a well-known established term. We shall be glad of examples of earlier date, and especially of any that point to the introduction of the name. It was probably at first a descriptive term, as a method of common practice. Was the Italian pratica ever so used ?

J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

CROPPENBERGH OR COPPENBURGH : BUCKE. I should be glad of any information as to the husband of a Mary Croppenbergh. In her will, dated 20 July, 1652 (proved 1652), she describes herself as a widow, and mentions her son-in-law Joseph Alston, Bt., husband of her daughter Mary ; her brother John Vermuden ; her daughter Ann, wife of George Sherard (married 31 July, 1651, at St. James's Church, Clerkenwell) ; and her grandson William Sherard. She also mentions Thomas Bucke, of the Uni- versity of Cambridge.

A Robert Bucke of London in his will (proved 1620) mentions his wife's sister's daughter Mary Croppenbery (sic), wife of Joseph Croppenberry (sic) ; and Thomas Bucke, youngest son of his cousin Thomas Bucke, of Bullington Hall, now scholar at Caius College, Cambridge.

PEIRCE GUN MAHONY, Cork Herald.

Office of Arms, Dublin Castle.

BROWNING PORTRAIT BY LEIGHTON. I am desirous of finding the whereabouts of a portrait of Robert Browning a vig- netted chalk drawing of head and shoulders