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Henry Coles, barrister (called to the Bar in 1847, and not in ' The Law List s after 1876).

His residuary estate he left to the widow of his son Charles James Coles of Port au Prince, Hayti, and their daughters. His nephew Capt. Cowper Phipps Coles, R.N., was appointed by the first codicil executor, in the place of the Haytian consul at Liver- pool, who had died. As is well known, Capt. Coles lost his life, with nearly five hundred others, by the capsizing of H.M.S. Captain in 1870 (see Boase, ' M.E.B., 3 i. 675).

The testator left all his MSS. and such of his books as he might choose to Cecil Nicholson.

If it had not been for Mr. Boase requiring information, and for the doubts of COL. PRIDEAUX (10 S. xii. 204) and MB. E. WALL (10 S. xii. 318), most of these facts would have remained unknown, perhaps to puzzle a future generation. RALPH THOMAS.

KING'S PLACE (11 S. i. 30, 74). King's Place is now known as Pall Mall Place. It is next to the Marlborough Club, between Nos. 51 and 52 (formerly Nos. 58 and 59). It is marked in Horwood's Map of London, 1799. The name was changed to Pall Mall Place in 1864.

In Harris's Map of London, 1783, and Wallis's Map, 1813, the name of King's Place is given apparently in error to an alley further west, which in the earlier maps as well as in Horwood is called Paved Alley or Old Paved Alley. This is now known as Crown Court. H. A. HABBEN.

THBEE CCC COUBT (11 S. i. 31, 74). In Ogilby and Morgan's Map of London, 1677, there is a court called Three Crown Court, leading out of Garlick Hill, nearly opposite to Maiden Lane. This is marked in Rocque's Map, 1761, as 3 Crown Court. In the map of Vintry Ward in Strype's ' Stow,' ed. 1755, vol. i. p. 692, it is called Three Shear Court. Three Crown Court is also mentioned in Dodsley's ' London and its Environs De- scribed,' 1761, in ' The Complete Guide ' of 1758 and 1763, and in ' The New Complete Guide * of 1783. All these guides, however, mention also Three CCC Court, Garlick Hill ; but no court of this name appears to be mentioned in Strype or Maitland, or to be marked in any map in my possession of the eighteenth century. It seems not im- probable that Three CCC Court is an abbre- viation for Three Crowns, and that the name got into Dodsley and ' The Complete Guide ' under both descriptions. H. A. HABBEN.

AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xii. 509). CONSEBVATIVE can find his quota- tion,

I am tired of four walls and a ceiling, &c. as the opening lines of the late Richard Hovey's poem entitled ' Spring,' in ' Along the Trail ' (Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., 1898). I. H. PLATT.

A. L. O. G.'s seventh quotation (ante, p: 50) is to be found in Butler's ' Hudibras,* Part I. canto i. 11. 505-6, and should read

'Tis a dark lanthorn of the Spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it.

ETHEL M. TTJBNER. Esmond, Egham.

[PRINCIPAL SALMON also refers to ' Hudibras.']

BANISHED COVENANTEBS (11 S. i. 9). C. asks if any manuscript by a banished Covenanter is known to exist. In endeavour- ing to reply I may refer to a little bit of personal experience, to some extent bearing on the point. About seven years ago I had an opportunity of looking over several mutilated leaves of a manuscript, recovered apparently from some rag-merchant's store. On examination the sheets proved to be written by a Covenanter, whose name the mutilated condition of the manuscript effectually concealed, who had survived the " killing time," and was living in the earlier years of the eighteenth century. The MS. displayed most of the characteristic features of Covenanting literature of the poorer sort, being absolutely destitute of literary merit, or, as Ruskin phrases it, "of an eternally worthless intellectual quality." A very few facts (sufficient, however, to determine the time of writing) about persons and events emerged painfully out of an overwhelming flood of pious reflections. The writer appeared to have possessed a fatal facility in the quotation of Scripture, and a marked predilection in polemical moments for the language of the *' cursing Psalms." In other respects the MS. was valueless. I mention the matter merely to prove how, under most unfavourable conditions, MSS. may survive even from Covenanting times.

There is no reason to doubt the Rev. Robert Simpson's statement that Covenant- ing MSS. may still be extant. As a rule, the Covenanters were the most intelligent persons in the country districts where they resided. Many, if not the most of them, possessed, or believed themselves to possess, a gift of exhortation, which they were never slow to exercise when pen and paper were convenient. At the same time, it must be