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WORDSWORTH AND ' THE CAMBRIDGE HIS- TORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.' There is a curious slip in the article on Burke in vol. xi. of the work named, where (p. 27) Words- worth is spoken of as " Wordsworth the post -master." Wordsworth was a stamp distributor, but in his day the two offices were not combined, as in many cases they are now. It is one of the grievances of provin- cial sub -postmasters that they have to do the work of the old stamp distributors with- out their pay. C. C. B.

MEMORIAL TO SPURGEON. (See ante, p. 303. ) - There is a large bronze statue of Spurgeon in the entrance hall of the Baptist Church House (opened in 1903) in Southampton Tiow, Kingsway. In an angle of the same building, visible from the street, is a statue of John Bunyan. WILMOT CORFIELD.

" DAUD ' ' = GEORGE. A Kossendale corre- spondent tells me that " Daud " is quite commonly used for " George " by the natives of his district. One George Nuttall, son of Robert, is known to his friends and acquaintances as " Daud o' Bob's " ; and George H. Heap as " Daud Harry Yep." One " John Fiz Daude " was a tenant of Thomas Wake, lord of Liddel, in Derbyshire, in 1320 ; " Ralph son of William Daudson " is named in 1321 (' Cal. of Patent Rolls, 1317-21'). W. F.

" DERATIZATION." The following, which appeared in The Standard of 13 Oct., may be worth noting as an example of official imprimatur to what seems to be a newly coined word :

" ' DERA.TIZATION.'

statement recording that the Cuban Quarantine Department has published the withdrawal of a former notice in view of the fact that since the last case of bubonic plague had been confirmed at Havana no infected rats had been found.
 * ' The Board of Trade has issued an official

" The Board of Trade communication gives a translation of the circular, in the course oi which it more than once uses the curious wore ' deratization,' meaning, apparently, the clearing away of rats."

W. B. H.

HOLCROFT : THE COUNTESS DE

MARSAC. The interesting Bibliography oi this author which is running through the present volume of ' N. & Q.' reminds me that there is a story of Holcroft's marriage with Marguerite de Marsac, or the Countess de Marsac, somewhere about 1780, and that the Countess's son, Charles " Marsack,' returning from India about that date wel

provided with money, purchased Caversham Park, Oxfordshire. At 7 S. xii. 409, 478, there are references to Major Charles Marsack of /aversham. I am told that this man is neiitioned in Hazlitt's Life of Holcroft. The Countess is said to have been buried in
 * he old Marylebone graveyard in January,

L785. The "daughter of" Marguerite de Marsac (or Holcroft), named Margaretta, is amily of Yorkshire (see ' Burke's Landed Gentry,' 1905).
 * laimed as an ancestress by the Roome

Thos. Holcroft is stated to have been married four times, but only two of his wives' names are recorded : the second, Matilda Tipler ; the fourth, Louisa Mercier. Was Marguerite de Marsac one of the others ? Perhaps MR. COLBY may have discovered something of interest in this onnexion. G. J., F.S.A.

" FORLORN HOPE " SKIRMISHERS. See Leonard Digges's (the Elder's) ; Stratioticos ' (London, 1579), p, 155. L. L. K.

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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.

THE GREEK CHURCH IN LONDON. I am. collecting particulars relating to the various places of worship used from time to time by the Greek community in London, and am desirous of obtaining the assistance of your readers. Their first church was in Hog Lane, Soho, subsequently known as Crown Street, and now as Charing Cross Road. St. Mary's Church stands on the site. The Greek congregation appear to to have begun the erection of their church in 1677 ; but in 1684 it passed into the posses- sion of the French Protestants. A full account of the early history of this interest- ing building is (I am told) given by the Vicar of St. Mary's, Charing Cross Road (the Rev. R. Gwynne), in The Builder, 2 Oct., 1875, p. 883. It seems to have been the intention of the community to build another church, but I can find no record of this having been done. As far as my present information goes, the Greeks had no settled place of worship until 1838, when they began to assemble at 9, Finsbury Circus. They removed about 1.850 to a permanent church in London Wall; and in 1877 they migrated to Moscow Road, Bayswater, W., where they erected a magnificent building.