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entirely rebuilt the property ? Stow (ed.

Kingsford, i. 176) complains that

"a faire foote way, leading by the west end of the

Augustine Friers church straight north had

gates at either end, locked up every night, and now

the gates are closed up with stone, whereby the

people are forced to go about by Saint Peters Church."

In 1643 Pawlet's property, would be known as Winchester House, and the court in which the old church stood was as late as 1677 (Ogilby and Morgan) called " Austine Fryers."

Another suggested identification is the gate

"by Sainte Augustine's Church which entereth the south churchyeard of Saint Paules, which arch or gate was builded by Nicholas Faringdon about the yere 1361." Stow, ed. Kingsford, i. 313.

This has been named Powle's Gate (Stow) ; but as the church at a much earlier date (1345, vide Riley, 'Memorials,' 228, &c.) was called " St. Austin," the gate adjoining might by common usage have been so named.

Some more definite identifications can probably be provided.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

ROBERT HINGESTON. Sir Philip Courtenay, son of Sir Philip Courtenay by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Walter, Lord Hungerford, K.G. (Admiral of the Fleet, Steward of the Household to Henry V. and Henry VI., and one of the executors to the will of the former), married a daughter of Robert Hingeston. I shall be glad to be informed where I can find a printed pedigree of the said Robert, and to learn the name of his daughter who married as above.

Communications direct will be much appreciated. FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

J. ASPILON : R. GILT.E : J. STURDY. I am seeking a church or convent in England of which these men were the rectors, vicars, or priors. They all belonged to the same establishment, whatever it was. John Aspilon died 7 Jan., 1445 ; Robert Gille, 10 Sept., 1448 ; and John Sturdy, 20 Oct., 1452. E. H. D.

^ KEMPESFELD, HAMPSTEAD. Mr James Kennedy, while making researches for addi- tions to his ' History of Hampstead Parish and Manor,'- has discovered the field-name Kempesfeld in an inventory of the goods and lands of Belsize which Roger le Bra- bazan bequeathed to the monks of St. Peter in 1317. This field containing about twelve acres was, he believes, near the present

Belsize Square. He states that no Kempe is mentioned in the Extenta of 1312, and therefore ^it seems evident that the name existed long before that date. There was at this period a house at Fulham known as KempeshaWe, afterwards Well known as a property under the name of " Kemps," or " Kemps Cottage," in Bear Street. At Hampstead a line of Kempes were repre- sented in 1423, the will of a Richard Kemp of Hampstead being proved in 1441, from which time the family were parishioners in Hampstead and Hendon down to the last century. Further light on the origin of the names of Kempesfeld, KempeshaWe, and similar Middlesex place-names will be wel- comed by FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 51, Vancouver Road, Forest Hill, S.E.

NOTTINGHAM EARTHENWARE TOMBSTONES : HOLT, COADE, AND

ARTIFICIAL STONE. (HS.i. 189,255,312,356.)

THE inquiry of L. A. W. about the statues and other works connected with the family of Coade opens up a topic of much interest.

A patent for ' ' compound liquid metall, by which artificiall stone and marble is made by casting the same into moulds of any form, as statues, columns, capi tails, n was granted to Thomas Ripley presumably the architect whose life is described in the ' D.N.B.' and Richard Holt, esquires, on 31 May, 1722. A second patent to Richard Holt and Samuel London, gentlemen, was issued on 13 June, 1722, "for a certain new composic'on, or mixture (without any sort of clay) for making of white ware," formed and moulded in a new method.

Eight years later, in 1730, Richard Holt, gent., published 'A Short Treatise of Artificial Stone as 'tis now made and converted into all manner of curious embellishments and proper ornaments of architecture * and pre- fixed to it a dedication to Richard, Earl of Burlington, which is dated "from the Artificial- Stone-Ware-House, over against York-Buildings-Stairs, and near Cuper's Bridge in Lambeth, SURREY, 1730."

These documents show that the artificial - stone business was established in Lambeth early in the eighteenth century. Holt says (pp. 12-13) that he made a " most laborious search, upon the tedious Tryal of many Experiments,'* to find out the " Old Tye, the Fixt Cement of the Ancients. 11 When