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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JAN. 22, 1910.

reissued as ' Modern Characters from Shake- speare,'- 1778, 2 vols., 12mo. A second edition followed in the same year in one vol., 12mo, pp. 80. The third edition, 12mo, pp. 84, was issued by D. Brown, 1778, and another by E. Johnson in 1778, 12mo, pp. iv-88. In 1795 the book was recast, and the title altered to ' Passages selected by Dis- tinguished Personages. . . ., l forming 4 vols. Five other editions speedily followed, making a total of eleven editions, which are fully described in my ' Shakespeare Bibliography 2 now printing, Several of these editions may be seen at the British Museum and the other chief Shakespeare libraries of the world.

WILLIAM JAGGARD. 139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

The work entitled ' Passages selected by Distinguished Personages s is attributed to the Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley. See Halkett and Laing's * Dictionary, 4 vol. iii. col. 1867. W. SCOTT.

" TACKLE - HOUSE ": " TACKLE - PORTER " (10 S. xii. 307, 350, 392). See W. Toone's ' Chronological Historian, 1 1826, ii. 113 :

" 1760, April 18. Between nine and ten o'clock this morning a dreadful fire broke out at the house of Messrs. Barrow and Reynolds, oil-men, in Thames street adjoining to St. Magnus church; which consumed that house, Mr. Bailey's the tackle-porter alehouse," &c.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

COL. GORDON IN * BARNABY RUDGE * (11 S. i. 11). Dickens would appear to have altered the surname. According to Lord Stanhope's * History of England, 1 the speech was made by Col. Murray, " one of Lord George's kinsmen." The exact relationship is not stated. The date of the speech was 2 June, 1780 :

" My Lord George, dp you really mean to bring your rascally adherents into the House of Commons ? If you do, the first man of them that enters, I will plunge my sword, not into his body, but into yours."

G. H. W.

KING'S PLACE, PICCADILLY (11 S. i. 30). To-day this passage would be more correctly described as being in Pall Mall, whence it leads into King Street. It is about thirty doors from St. James's Street, proceeding thence on the left, and is now known as Pall Mall Place, between Nos. 51 and 52, Pall Mall (north side). Quaint remnants of the once more fashionable King Street, where dwelt the statesman and wit Savile, Marquis of Halifax, survive in the four courts which occupy exactly the middle of this thorough- fare, on the south side, and which probably

date from the building of King Street in 1673. Equidistant from each other, or nearly so, their situation remains exactly the same as then, and with that shown in William Rhodes' s Plan of the Parish of St. James's in 1770. They all, with the exception of King's Place (or King's Place Court), now Pall Mall Place, retain their original names, which, beginning eastwards, are Cleveland Yard, Rose and Crown Court, Pall Mall Place, and Angel Court.

It was to King Street, Jermyn Street, Charles Street, and St. Alban's Street that rank and fashion migrated, at the behest of Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Alban, when Covent Garden began to lose favour as a fashionable centre ; and these were the first streets to be developed on the St. Alban's estate, for the reception, as a resi- dential quarter, of the town- dwelling nobility and gentry. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

The passage between King Street and Pall Mall, now known as Pall Mall Place, was formerly called King's Place. The name was altered about forty years ago, when considerable changes were made, in consequence, I believe, of the place having acquired a doubtful reputation. Part of Willis's Rooms, formerly Almack's, extended over the archway leading out of King Street. I never knew of its being referred to as King's Place, Piccadilly, nor can it have had any connexion with Duke Street, which is on the north side of King Street. W. HUGHES. [Reply from MR. H. A. HARBEX next week.]

THREE CCC COURT (11 S. i. 31). In a plan of the Vintry Ward published in 1754 there is shown, on the west side of Garlick Hill, just opposite St. James's Church, a small court, approached by a very narrow passage, called " Three Shear Court.' 1 The " Three Shears " is a very ordinary sign, and three C's is probably a corruption of this. The only other named court leading out of Garlick Hill is slightly to the north of this, and is called " Sugarloafe Court. " It led into Bowling Alley, and is in existence to-day. There is another court a few yards to the north again, and one just opposite to it on the east side. Both these are unnamed.

WM. NORMAN. [Reply from MR. HARBEX next week.]

MICHAEL NEWTON OF BEVERLEY : HIS ARMS (11 S. i. 30). Sir Michael Warton, Kt., M.P. for Beverley, had a sister Susanna who became the wife of Sir John Newton. Sir Michael died in 1725, and his monu- ment in Beverley Minster was erected by his