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students of British antiquities." I shall be glad to be informed if this is the last word that has been said on the question, or whether any attempt to establish the genuineness of the work has been made. QUEBIST.

CTTLLOMPTON BELLS. I have somewhere come across a story that a bell-founder once committed suicide because he could not get Cullompton bells in tune. Is there any foundation for it ? If so, what were the circumstances and the date ?

F. B. H. B.

JEMIMA NICHOLAS. I have a note to the effect that on 22 Feb., 1797, French troops landed at Pencaer, near Fishguard, and that a woman named Jemima Nicholas went out with a pitchfork and put twelve of them to flight. Can any one verify this story, or state where it occurs, and whether any- thing further is known of this heroine ?

HYLLARA.

[Much information on the Fishguard. incident is to be found at 7 S. viii. 147, 235 ; 8 S. ix. 247, 318, 433, 479 ; xi. 226 ; xii. 63. Jemima Nicholas is not, however, mentioned there, but may be referred to in ' The Fishguard Invasion,' pub- lished by Mr. Fisher Unwin in 1892.]

AUTHOR WANTED. Who wrote the fol- lowing stanza ?

Out of the strain of the Doing Into the peace of the Done ; Out of the pain of Pursuing Into the glory of Won.

A. B.

ROBERT WALLER, clerk, was living at Chichester, Sussex, about 1539. To what family did he belong ? and was he vicar or rector of a parish in that city ?

B. L. B.

SITE OF THE GLOBE THEATBE. (11 S. x. 209.)

I HAVE read with great interest Dr. William Martin's letter in The Athenaeum for 9 Oct., 1909, to which the editorial note has kindly called my attention. It very fairly repre- sents the case as it stood at that date, but one of the extracts published this year by Dr. Wallace from the Sewer Commission records has strengthened the case for the north side. I have read also the article in The Athenceum for 30 Oct. of the same year contributed by Mr. Bichard C. Jackson,

F.S.A., which, however, I fear, only clouds the question with ex-cathedra statements and mistakes, such as, e.g., that Globe Alley in ancient times led down to the river. The authority given for this state- ment is the deed of conveyance from Wads- worth to Ralph Thrale in 1732, in which, however, according to all other writers, Globe Alley is stated to have led " in ancient times from Deadman's Place aforesaid to the then Globe Playhouse."

Dr. Wallace and everybody else have been puzzled by the mention of a park on the northern boundary of the parcel of land to the north of that within which the Globe probably stood, but perhaps the following explanation will remove the diffi- culty. In Strype's edition of Stow's ' Sur- vey of London ' (1720) Maiden Lane is men- tioned among the

" new streets made out of Winchester Park seated betwixt the River of Thames on the North, St. George's Fields on the South, and Gravel Lane on the West."

According to this, it is more than likely that the Bishop's park in ancient times extended right up to the river, or at any rate to Bankside, and that a narrow strip of it was left between Nicholas Brend's property and Bankside in 1599. On the other hand, Maiden Lane already existed in this year, and could, therefore, hardly be called a new street in 1720 ; and the oldest maps as, e.g., Pieter vanden Keere's (1593) show a long parallelogram, divided into irregular - shaped fields and dotted with trees, between Bankside and other three streets or lanes which, we may presume, were intended for Gravel Lane, Maiden Lane, and Deadman's Place.

According to Strype, in his days

" Maiden Lane [was] a long straggling place with ditches on each side, the passage to the houses being over little bridges with little garden plots before them, especially on the north side, which is the best for houses and inhabitants ; this lane begins at Deadman's Place and runs westward into Gravell Lane."

" Globe Alley [we are told, is] long and narrow, and but meanly built ; hath a passage into Maiden Lane [at right angles at its western end, according to the map accompanying the ext]."

The bridge from under which " Burbidge and Heminges " were, in 1606, ordered by the Commissioners of Sewers " to pull vp and take cleane out of the Sewar the props and posts," stood on the north side of " May d- Lane," unless the Commissioners' clerk was also wrong about his bearings. If this were the case, and if, as Dr. Martin