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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. i. MAY 28, 1910.

Tnonasteriensis," published by him " a( Insignia Collegii Westmonasteriensis Scholam Regiam, ?? 1768. W. ROBERTS.

LONDON : ITS POPULATION IN 1631. " The Privy Council, being apprehensive of an .approaching scarcity, wrote to Sir Rober Ducie, Lord Mayor, on the 30th June, 1631 requiring him to state, in addition to certain other particulars, ' the number of mouths esteemec to be in the City of London, and in the Liberty ' in consequence of which an enumeration ' of th men, women, and children ' in the City wa made."

Subjoined are the statistics of this enumera tion as set out in Schedule C of the * Repor of the City Day-Census, 1881, l giving th figures separately for each ward :

" London within the Walls. Farringdon With in, 8,770 ; Aldersgate Within, 1,797 ; Cripple gate Within, 4,231 ; Bassishaw, 1,006 ; Cheap 2,500 ; Bread Street, 2,568 ; Castle Baynard 4,793 ; Queenhithe, 3,358 ; Vintry, 2,742 Dowgate, 3,516 ; Candlewick, 1,696 ; Cord wainer, 2,238 ; Walbrook, 2,069 ; Cornhill 1,439 ; Coleman Street, 2,634 ; Broad Street 3,503 ; Bishopsgate Within, 3,894 ; Aldgate 4,763 ; Lime Street, 1,107 ; Langbourn, 31,68 Bridge Within, 2,392 ; Billingsgate, 2,597 Tower, 4,248= 71,029.

" London without the Walls. Portsoken, 5,703 Bishopsgate Without, 3,894 ; Cripplegate With out, 6,445 ; Aldersgate Without, 1,797 ; St Bartholomew the Great, 1,388 ; St. Bartholomew the Less, 506 ; Farringdon Without, 20,846= 40,579.

" Old Borough of Southwark. Bridge Without 18,660.

"Total 130,268."

WILLIAM McMuBRAY.

LINEN TABLECLOTHS. Several instances have been given of figured linen tablecloths, but I fancy not of so early a date as the following purports to be :

" There are still preserved in an oak chest a fine linen tablecloth and a set of napkins believed to have been brought into the family through Catharine, a daughter of John Hoskins. The linen, which is still in good condition, has a repeated woven pattern showing a portrait above the words ' Quene Elizabeth.' "

This extract is from the Homeland Hand- book No 36, p. 21, dealing with Barrow Green House, Otford, the seat of Mr. C. Hoskins Master. R. J. FYNMOBE.

[Old linen tablecloths have been discussed at 8 S. vi. 286 ; 9 S. vii. 446 ; 10 S. xii. 408, 451.]

" CLOB.' ? The ' N.E.D.' gives this word for the " cob " walls common in the West of England, but offers no instance earlier than 1880. A Devon inquest, however, of 1651 mentions a " mudde or clobbe wall.'' The modern "cob" is perhaps only a corrup- tion of this. OLD SARUM.

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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.

"TATTING." We should be glad to receive any light on the history and deriva- tion of this term of needlework. Our earliest quotation at present is from Mrs. Gaugain's ' Lady's Assistant : Knitting,' &c., 1842, in which the word is used as a well-known term. Earlier quotations will be welcomed. In appearance the word is the verbal sub- stance of the verb to tat ; but for this, or for its agent-noun tatter, we have no quotation before 1881 ; so that tat may be merely a back-formation inferred from tatting, and this have a different origin. In any case the origin of tat is no clearer than that of tatting. Tatting is said to have been " the rage 3? from 1860 to 1880, when, according to our quotations, every fashionable old maid " talked scandal over her tatting." The first appearance of the word, if it could be found, might throw light on its origin.

J. A. H. MUBBAY.

COLONIAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATION. Can any of your readers refer me to a couple of articles on the above subject which appeared in two of our leading reviews or magazines some few years back ? The earlier one was, I think, by Sir John Bramston, G.C.M.G., and showed the very capable work effected by the higher permanent officials in Downing Street ; and the other by the late Sir A. W. Hemming, G.C.M.G. Both of these writers were at one time high officials in the Colonial service. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Antigua, W.I.

LATIN QUOTATION.

I, pete ccelestes, ubi nulla est cura, recessus. ! presume this line is of Christian origin, and hall be glad to know the author of it.

NEL MEZZO.

HAMPDEN AND SHIP MONEY. 1 am rying to find out the exact Words John BCarmpden used when he objected to pay the hip -money tax. If there is a record of hem, I should be very much obliged if ome correspondent of ' N. & Q. * would upply them. I have tried in many ways o obtain the words, but have so far failed.

I. L. GKIST.