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HATS. What is the standard work upon hats as worn at different periods ? When did the custom of men wearing hats at meals which was usual in Stuart times, ? Is not the reason that a member of Parliament, before addressing the Speaker or the Chair, puts on his hat, while the Speaker remains bare-headed or bare-wigged, to emphasize the fact that the Speaker is the servant of the House ? G. M.

[For various items of information on this subject, see 4 S. ii. 286 ; vi. 360 ; ix. 444, 517 ; x. 96, 193, 219, 247, 318; 5 S. v. 96 (worn at meals); vi. 306, 309, 334, 359, 397 ; 88. iii. 87 ; iv. 533 ; v. 134 (worn in the House of Commons) ; vii. 148, 338, 391 ; 9 S. i. 267, 395, 495 ; viii. 81, 368, 452 ; ix. 34 ; x. 26.]

CHAINS AND POSTS IN THE CITY, 1648. The rioting on Sunday, 9 April, 1648, in which a party of apprentices marching to Westminster were met and driven back by Fairfax, occasioned the issue of a Proclama- tion by the Mayor, addressed to the Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon Within, requiring

" that for the safety of this city you take care and see that the hookes and stapels which fasten the chaines to the posts within your Ward be forthwith this night pulled out, and that they and the chaines be by you taken and disposed of in some safe and secure place where your Deputy and Common-Counsel shall think most con- venient."

The purpose of this order was apparently to prevent these being made an obstruction by these Royalist 'apprentices against the militia or Fairfax's horsemen. But what was their use in ordinary times ? Did they enclose the approaches to New Gate and Lud Gate or the enclosure of St. Paul's Churchyard, or were they a safeguard for pedestrians from the road traffic ? The local place-name St. Paul's Chain may afford an explanation.

THE STOCKWELL GHOST. A co-collector of Londoniana questions the authenticity of the pamphlets describing the strange hap- penings at the houses of Mrs. Golding and nth. T.H, 6 and 7 Jan., 1 772. The contemporary pamphlet ' An Authentic, Candid, and Cir- cumstantial Narrative of the Astonishing Transactions at Stockwell,' &c., 1772, is now exceedingly scarce. It was reprinted in 1809 for " Mr. Partridge," a schoolmaster, and " sold by him at his academy, Stockwell." ft was, I believe, again reprinted in the '70's, but I have only the two pamphlets named. There is nothing to suggest that the story is wholly fictitious, but I shall be glad to learn if any further matter relating to it is avail - ALECK ABRAHAMS.

GATE STKEET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS. Those who remember Gate Street will no doubt recall the house with the tall memorial cross in front of it. Both are in course of demolition, though I trust the cross will be preserved and set up somewhere else. For many years this house was a school for Roman Catholic children, and the cross was erected in 1839 in memory of Joseph Booker, who was a pioneer in the work of Catholic education. The inscription on it has long since been obliterated, but it may be worth while recording it here :

" Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Joseph Booker, many years honorary secretary of the Associated Charities, whose interest he promoted with the greatest zeal and devotion. This monument was erected by public subscription to his memory. A.D. 1839. Pater. Ave. Amen."

Perhaps some reader of ' NT. & Q.' can tell me whether Gate Street has any interesting associations, literary or otherwise.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

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PEDIGREES OF KNIGHTS. I am seeking the ancestry of the following knights, and shall be most grateful, to any of your readers who can inform me where a printed pedigree of each, or any, of them is to bo found.

Sir Thomas Stafford of Grafton. His daughter Emma = Sir Geoffrie Dethick, living 25 E. III. (Blomefield's ' Norfolk,' vii. 505).

Sir Adam de Kingsley. His daughter Catherine = William Fitz-Gerald, who t 1173, of Castle Kerrin, Carmarthenshire (Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1846 ed., p. 186).

Sir Matthew Walrington. Joan, the daughter of William, son and heir of Sir Matthew = William de Hach (Vivian's ' Visi- tation of Devon," p. 455).

Sir John, or Sir Thomas, Murdack or Mur- doke. His daughter Wenlyan = Robert Hatch. Inq. p. m., 7 Henry IV., No. 69 (Vivian, ibid.).

Sir Andrew Medsted. His daughter Eleanor = John Holland of Thorpwater in 24 E. III. (Vivian, ibid., p. 475).

Sir Walter, or Sir William, Cornwall. His daughter and coheir Mary = James Peverell (Banks, ' Baronies in Fee,' ii. 119).

Sir James Boehay. His daughter and heir Amicia=John Cobham (Banks, ibid.).

Sir Edward St. John, or de St. John = Anastatia de Aton, daughter of William, second Baron Aton, who was summoned to Parliament 44 E. III. (Banks, 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' ii. 15; Banks, ' Baronies in Fee,' i. 109, 136).